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For nearly a millennium, universities have searched forknowledge, understanding and truth. Internationally renowned neuroscientist,Professor Maxwell Bennett, evaluates the work of 20 of the greatest scholars inthe University of Sydney’s history and shows how this university’s search hasbenefitted society in manifold ways. The Search forKnowledge and Understanding demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach, asBennett crafts short but insightful biographies of some of the most significantscholars that have worked at Australia’s oldest university over the past halfcentury, in medicine, the life sciences, the physical sciences and thehumanities and social sciences. Bennet provides a striking account of how this particularscholarly community has flourished by nurturing scholars and allowing them withthe intellectual freedom to pursue their passions. The book clarifies thenotion of understanding as it holds in different disciplines and depicts thebenefit the world of scholarship can have on the wider community.
Like many other scientists, I have long been interested in history. I enjoy reading about the minutiae of its daily unfolding: the coinage, food, clothes, games, literature and habits which characterize a people. I am carried away by the broad sweep of its major events: the wars, famines, migrations, reforms, political swings and scientific advances which shape a society. I know that historians value autobiographical accounts as part of the basic material from which the stuff of history is distilled; this should apply no less to statistical than to political or social history. Modem statistics is a relatively young science; it was while pondering this fact sometime in 1980 that I realized th...
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A comprehensive architectural guide encompassing three centuries of metropolitan growth spanning an area from Georgian St Marylebone and the riverside terraces of Chelsea and Chiswick to Heathrow Airport and the outer fringes of Middlesex.
A complete introduction to discriminant analysis--extensively revised, expanded, and updated This Second Edition of the classic book, Applied Discriminant Analysis, reflects and references current usage with its new title, Applied MANOVA and Discriminant Analysis. Thoroughly updated and revised, this book continues to be essential for any researcher or student needing to learn to speak, read, and write about discriminant analysis as well as develop a philosophy of empirical research and data analysis. Its thorough introduction to the application of discriminant analysis is unparalleled. Offering the most up-to-date computer applications, references, terms, and real-life research examples, th...
1902/04-1910/12 include also the Report of the state Hygienic Laboratory, 1903/04-1911.