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Animated adventure featuring the voice of Freddie Prinze Jr. When
Pi (Prinze Jr), an ordinary fish from Boston, arrives at the exotic
reef to live with his Aunt Pearl (Fran Descher), he is immediately
attracted to Cordelia (Evan Rachel Wood), the fish of his dreams.
There's just one problem - Troy (Donal Logue), the meanest shark in
the ocean, who not only patrols the reef keeping its community in
fear of becoming his next meal, but also has his eye on Cordelia
and wants her for himself. Pi must join up with his new group of
friends and try and outwit Troy and his henchmen, save the reef and
win Cordelia.
For nearly two - thousand years courageous men and women have been
tortured and killed because of their confessions of Jesus Christ as
Lord and Savior. This updated edition of Foxes Book of Martyrs
contains stories of persecution up to 2001. Stories of heroic
courage and overcoming faith. Stories of love of God and Christ.
Stories of the amazing grace of God that enabled men women and
children to endure persecutions and often horrible deaths.
Manchester has the largest and most active consular corps in the
country outside London, and this book represents the first ever
detailed history of consuls and their activities for any region of
the United Kingdom. Consuls look after the interests of foreign
powers, and the first appointments in Manchester coincide with its
emergence as the first city of the Industrial Revolution, and the
financial and commercial hub of northern England. Virtually every
country in the world, from Argentina to the former Yugoslavia, from
the Ivory Coast to the Sandwich Islands, has provided consuls based
in Manchester: no fewer than about 800 consuls have served in
Manchester over the last 200 years. Some have been honorary
consuls, others career diplomats; some have been nationals of the
country they represent, others have been British, most with a
personal association with the state they serve. Their
responsibilities and privileges vary widely, and many have played a
significant role in the life of the region. The new international
context of a shrinking world gives the present role of consuls an
increasing importance. In this important new book, David John Fox,
himself a serving consul - for Chile - charts the fascinating,
varied and, to many Mancunians, perhaps surprising role which these
consuls and their missions have played in the wider history of the
region.
"The Ball" takes us to the farthest reaches of the globe and the
deepest recesses of our ancient past to answer a question asked by
every child on Earth: Why do we play ball? Inspired by the
curiosity of his sports-obsessed 8-year-old son, anthropologist
John Fox sets off on a global adventure to explore the untold
history of our favorite ball games, investigate their origins and
evolutionary tracks, and discern how one of humanity's simplest
inventions - the humble, ubiquitous ball - has staked an unrivaled
claim on our history, our passions, our money, and our lives. From
the jungles of Mexico to the farm country of Ohio, from the courts
of the ancient Pharaohs to the virtual playing fields of Second
Life, Rolling Heads and Pigskins puts us center court for the
gritty, ritualistic, violent, bizarre, primal drama of ball games
as we've played them across the centuries. Part history, part
travelogue, and part sportscast, "The Ball" spins tales of the ball
itself as actor and instigator, a player who taps our human urge to
hit, kick, throw, and tackle. In the end, "The Ball" removes us
from the scandals, corruption, and commercialism of today's sports
to uncover the true reasons we play ball, helping us reclaim our
fundamental human connection to the games we love.
This book provides a general introduction to the R Commander
graphical user interface (GUI) to R for readers who are unfamiliar
with R. It is suitable for use as a supplementary text in a basic
or intermediate-level statistics course. It is not intended to
replace a basic or other statistics text but rather to complement
it, although it does promote sound statistical practice in the
examples. The book should also be useful to individual casual or
occasional users of R for whom the standard command-line interface
is an obstacle. tinyurl.com/RcmdrBookThe site includes data files
used in the book and an errata list.
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/RCommander/Writing-Rcmdr-Plugins.pdf
Writing R Commander Plug-in Packages
John Foxe (1516-1587) es reconocido como uno de los mas importantes
historiadores cristianos. Exilado por las persecuciones habidas en
Inglaterra durante el reinado de Maria la Sanguinaria, a su
regreso, despues de la muerte de la reina, publico su famoso Libro
de los martires, una obra que causo tal impacto en la sociedad
inglesa de la epoca, que, hasta la aparicion de El peregrino de
Bunyan en 1678, los puritanos no tenian otra lectura que la Biblia
y el Libro de los martires. Muchos autores, como Douglas Campbell y
Henry Morley, creen que sirvio para moldear el caracter nacional y
el espiritu de libertad en America, calificandolo como 'un
monumento que marca el creciente poder de un deseo de libertad
espiritual, de desafio a todas aquellas formas que apagan la
conciencia y que encadenan el pensamiento'. El libro ampliado
despues de la muerte de Foxe es un testimonio historico de las
persecuciones desencadenadas contra los verdaderos cristianos. La
edicion espanola presenta una recopilacion completa de la vida y
testimonio de los mas insignes martires primitivos y de los
martires protestantes, desde los tiempos de los apostoles hasta las
misiones de finales del siglo XIX."
This book provides a general introduction to the R Commander
graphical user interface (GUI) to R for readers who are unfamiliar
with R. It is suitable for use as a supplementary text in a basic
or intermediate-level statistics course. It is not intended to
replace a basic or other statistics text but rather to complement
it, although it does promote sound statistical practice in the
examples. The book should also be useful to individual casual or
occasional users of R for whom the standard command-line interface
is an obstacle.
This book is a practical guide to building computational models of
high-level cognitive processes and systems. High-level processes
are those central cognitive processes involved in thinking,
reasoning, planning, and so on. These processes appear to share
representational and processing requirements, and it is for this
reason that they are considered together in this text. The book is
divided into three parts. Part I considers foundational and
background issues. Part II provides a series of case studies
spanning a range of cognitive domains. Part III reflects upon
issues raised by the case studies. Teachers of cognitive modeling
may use material from Part I to structure lectures and practical
sessions, with chapters in Part II forming the basis of in-depth
student projects. All models discussed in this book are developed
within the COGENT environments. COGENT provides a graphical
interface in which models may be sketched as "box and arrow"
diagrams and is both a useful teaching tool and a productive
research tool. As such, this book is designed to be of use to both
students of cognitive modeling and active researchers. For
students, the book provides essential background material plus an
extensive set of example models, exercises and project material.
Researchers of both symbolic and connectionist persuasions will
find the book of interest for its approach to cognitive modeling,
which emphasizes methodological issues. They will also find that
the COGENT environment itself has much to offer.
An R Companion to Applied Regression is a broad introduction to the
R statistical computing environment in the context of applied
regression analysis. John Fox and Sanford Weisberg provide a
step-by-step guide to using the free statistical software R, an
emphasis on integrating statistical computing in R with the
practice of data analysis, coverage of generalized linear models,
and substantial web-based support materials. The Third Edition has
been reorganized and includes a new chapter on mixed-effects
models, new and updated data sets, and a de-emphasis on statistical
programming, while retaining a general introduction to basic R
programming. The authors have substantially updated both the car
and effects packages for R for this edition, introducing additional
capabilities and making the software more consistent and easier to
use. They also advocate an everyday data-analysis workflow that
encourages reproducible research. To this end, they provide
coverage of RStudio, an interactive development environment for R
that allows readers to organize and document their work in a simple
and intuitive fashion, and then easily share their results with
others. Also included is coverage of R Markdown, showing how to
create documents that mix R commands with explanatory text. "An R
Companion to Applied Regression continues to provide the most
comprehensive and user-friendly guide to estimating, interpreting,
and presenting results from regression models in R." -Christopher
Hare, University of California, Davis
For nearly two-thousand years, courageous men and women have been
tortured and killed because of their confessions of Jesus Christ as
Lord and Savior.
This updated edition of Foxes Book of Martyrs, contains stories
of persecution up to 2001. Stories of heroic courage and overcoming
faith. Stories of love of God and Christ. Stories of the amazing
grace of God that enabled men, women, and children to endure
persecutions and often horrible deaths.
Jane Whorwood(1612-84) was one of Charles I's closest confidantes.
The daughter of Scots courtiers at Whitehall and the wife of an
Oxfordshire squire, when the court moved to Oxford in 1642, at the
start of the Civil War, she helped the Royalist cause by spying for
the king and smuggling at least three-quarters of a ton of gold to
help pay for his army. When Charles was held captive by the
Parliamentarians, from 1646 to 1649, she organised money,
correspondence, several escape attempts, astrological advice and a
ship to carry him to Holland. The king and she also had a wartime
'brief encounter'. After Charles's execution in 1649, Jane's
marriage collapsed in one of the most public and acrimonious
separation cases of the seventeenth century. Using crucial
evidence, John Fox provides a detailed biography of this
extraordinary woman, a forgotten key player in the English Civil
War.
A Mathematical Primer for Social Statistics, Second Edition
presents mathematics central to learning and understanding
statistical methods beyond the introductory level: the basic
"language" of matrices and linear algebra and its visual
representation, vector geometry; differential and integral
calculus; probability theory; common probability distributions;
statistical estimation and inference, including likelihood-based
and Bayesian methods. The volume concludes by applying mathematical
concepts and operations to a familiar case, linear least-squares
regression. The Second Edition pays more attention to
visualization, including the elliptical geometry of quadratic forms
and its application to statistics. It also covers some new topics,
such as an introduction to Markov-Chain Monte Carlo methods, which
are important in modern Bayesian statistics. A companion website
includes materials that enable readers to use the R statistical
computing environment to reproduce and explore computations and
visualizations presented in the text. The book is an excellent
companion to a "math camp" or a course designed to provide
foundational mathematics needed to understand relatively advanced
statistical methods.
'Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this
day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as, I trust,
shall never be put out.' Hugh Latimer's famous words of consolation
to Nicholas Ridley as they are both about to be burnt alive for
heresy come from John Foxe's magisterial Acts and Monuments,
popularly known as the Book of Martyrs. This vast collection of
unforgettable accounts of religious persecution exerted as great an
influence on early modern England and New England as the Bible and
the Book of Common Prayer. It contains many stirring stories of the
apprehension, interrogation, imprisonment, and execution of alleged
heretics. The narratives not only attest to the fortitude of
individuals who suffered for their faith not many years before the
birth of Shakespeare, but they also constitute exciting tales
filled with graphic details and verbal wit. This modernized
selection also includes some of the famous woodcuts that
illustrated the original text, as well as providing a comprehensive
introduction to Foxe's life and times and the martyrology
narrative. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
This book builds on John Fox?s previous volume in the QASS Series, Non Parametric Simple Regression. In this monograph readers learn to estimate and plot smooth functions when there are multiple independent variables. While regression analysis traces the dependence of the distribution of a response variable to see if it bears a particular (linear) relationship to one or more of the predictors, nonparametric regression analysis makes minimal assumptions about the form of relationship between the average response and the predictors. This makes nonparametric regression a more useful technique for analyzing data in which there are several predictors that may combine additively to influence the response. (An example could be something like birth order/gender/and temperament on achievement motivation). Unfortunately, researchers have not had accessible information on nonparametric regression analysis, until now. Beginning with presentation of nonparametric regression based on dividing the data into bins and averaging the response values in each bin, Fox introduces readers to the techniques of kernel estimation, additive nonparametric regression, and the ways nonparametric regression can be employed to select transformations of the data preceding a linear least-squares fit. The book concludes with ways nonparametric regression can be generalized to logit, probit, and Poisson regression.
Foxe's Book of Martyrs has been an invaluable addition to the
libraries of faithful Christians for almost five centuries.
Chronicling the suffering and brutal deaths of those who have
sacrificed their lives for the sake of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
John Foxe captured the God-given, Spirit-inspired courage of these
noble souls. Though sometimes difficult to read because of the
inhumane cruelty depicted in its pages, the images which truly
endure are the ones which portray the victorious faith, through the
grace of God, of these Christian martyrs.
Why should you read this book? The stories within these pages
are supremely inspiring accounts of those who gave their lives
defending the truth of the Gospel. Much can be learned not only of
their fortitude but also of an apostate false church that
persecuted them. The powerful witness of these martyred saints will
stir your hearts, as it has the true church through the centuries,
to be that loyal bride of Christ, strong and pure.
Published early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, of England, only
five years after the death of the Roman Catholic Queen Mary, the
work is an affirmation of the Protestant Reformation in England
during the ongoing period of religious conflict between Catholics
and Protestants. Since the English monarchs also asserted control
over the Church in England, a change in rulers could change the
legal status of religious practices. As a consequence, adherents of
one religion risked judicial execution by the State depending on
the attitudes of the rulers. During Mary's reign, common people of
Christian faith were publicly burned at the stake in an attempt to
eliminate dissension from Catholic doctrines. Foxe's account of
Mary's reign and the martyrdoms that took place during it
contributed very significantly to the belief in a distinction from
the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope as a central aspect of
English national identity. By compiling his record, Foxe intended
to demonstrate a historical justification for the foundation of the
Church of England as a contemporary embodiment of the true and
faithful church, rather than as a newly established Christian
denomination.
Combining a modern, data-analytic perspective with a focus on
applications in the social sciences, the Third Edition of Applied
Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models provides in-depth
coverage of regression analysis, generalized linear models, and
closely related methods, such as bootstrapping and missing data.
Updated throughout, this Third Edition includes new chapters on
mixed-effects models for hierarchical and longitudinal data.
Although the text is largely accessible to readers with a modest
background in statistics and mathematics, author John Fox also
presents more advanced material in optional sections and chapters
throughout the book. Accompanying website resources containing all
answers to the end-of-chapter exercises. Answers to odd-numbered
questions, as well as datasets and other student resources are
available on the author's website. NEW! Bonus chapter on Bayesian
Estimation of Regression Models also available at the author's
website.
"I picked up this book soon after making a commitment to Christ. At
first I was shocked by the images of Christians suffering and dying
for their faith. But soon I was drawn into the accounts of how
these ordinary men and women--no different from you or me--could
face every kind of opposition rather than deny their Lord. Reading
their stories marked me and helped me resolve to follow Christ no
matter what the cost."
--Mark Mittelberg, Executive Director of Evangelism for the Willow
Creek Association and author of Becoming a Contagious Church
From the first-century stoning of Stephen through his own perilous
time--Reformation-era England--John Foxe recounts the lives,
sufferings, and triumphant deaths of dozens of Christian martyrs.
Some were people of rank and influence. Some were ordinary folk.
Some were his friends.] Four centuries later, these deeply moving
accounts of faith and courage mark a path for modern Christians to
measure the depth of their commitment.
This edition, edited by William Byron Forbush (1868-1927), contains
Foxes original material as well as some later additions (see
chapters 5, 6, & 10 particularly).
Hendrickson Christian Classics is planned to include all the
timeless books that generations of believers have treasured. Each
volume in the series is freshly retypeset, while thoughtful new
prefaces explore their spiritual and historical contexts. For
contemporary readers, here is an essential library of Christian
wisdom through the ages.
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