Because estimation involves inferring information about an unknown quantity on the basis of available data, the selection of an estimator is influenced by its ability to perform well under the conditions that are assumed to underlie the data. Since these conditions are never known exactly, the estimators chosen must be robust; i.e....

Down Under has been written in response to the questions that Dave Andrews, the world renownedAustralian community worker, has been asked again and again by community workers all over the world....

The Methodists and Revolutionary America is the first in-depth narrative of the origins of American Methodism, one of the most significant popular movements in American history....

Found in our archives, the Black\'s Sketchbooks are a series of books produced in the early 20th century by a group of well-known artists. Each book contains pen sketches of iconic English and Scottish cities and counties. There are also some books on famous Continental cities such as Paris and Venice....

An insightful, viscerally emotional memoir, Sons of Suicide relates the story of a young man\'s life after losing his Mother to suicide—and succeeding, in spite of experiencing one of the most devastating tragedies known to man. At eleven, Dan Andrews was abandoned by his Mother....

This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field....

A unique contribution to our understanding of Manchester United in particular, and, perhaps more significantly, of contemporary sporting and popular culture in general....

Sport-Commerce-Culture makes a significant contribution to the growing body of literature on the critical analysis of today\'s highly mediated and commercialized sport spectacles. David L....

The effective governance of global money and finance is under enormous stress....

Stunning rumours of a fabulous hidden treasure convulse the Caribbean as a long forgotten terror \'Pegasus\' returns. Determined to escape the rat race, Brett Wrelton is offered the yacht of his dreams in return for six months work....

Meg Lanslow, maid of honor for three impending weddings, returns to her Virginia small-town home for the summer in order to arrange the details. Amidst the near disasters, truculent brides-to-be, screwball relatives, and minutiae-filled days, someone kills the rudely annoying sister of her mother\'s fiance....

Meg Langslow and her boyfriend Michael want to be alone, but fate\'s conspired to make it all but impossible. Meg takes her aunt Phoebe up on an invitation to spend an Indian summer weekend at Phoebe\'s supposedly empty cottage on the coast of Maine....

What a lighthearted gem of a juggling act!...

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