WILEY-INTERSCIENCE PAPERBACK SERIES

The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists.

From the Reviews of A User’s Guide to Principal Components

"The book is aptly and correctly named–A User’s Guide. It is the kind of book that a user at any level, novice or skilled practitioner, would want to have at hand for autotutorial, for refresher, or as a general-purpose guide through the maze of modern PCA."
–Technometrics

"I recommend A User’s Guide to Principal Components to anyone who is running multivariate analyses, or who contemplates performing such analyses. Those who write their own software will find the book helpful in designing better programs. Those who use off-the-shelf software will find it invaluable in interpreting the results."
–Mathematical Geology

A FASTPITCH SOFTBALL BOOK FOR GIRLS or THE GIRL IN YOU The crack of the bat creates drama on the diamond, but in a girls fastpitch softball league, the drama bleeds off the field and into the lives of the players, coaches, parents, and fans. With fast-paced G-rated action, the umpire screams "PLAY BALL" and the games begin, merging the real world of young 10 - 13 year old females with the competitive spirit and passion for winning fastpitch softball games. Imagine the emotional excitement as egos fly and dust settles. Feel their pain and their joy as this beautiful story unfolds into an unforgettable ending. A beautiful fastpitch softball book for girls or the girl in you.

A BASEBALL BOOK FOR BOYS or THE BOY IN YOU The crack of the bat or the pop of the mitt after the "hey batter batter" ryhme of the infield, can you hear it? Michael, the new team captain, knows there are bumps in the road. Though Josh, their pitcher, has a fastball that sings, Carlos the catcher and Jake the right fielder want to clash when they should be clicking. The coach feels this talented group of boys has a chance to win a lot of games, but they could very easily end the season with a whimper and the parents are starting to whisper. Young, passionate, and courageous 10 -13 year old boys are taught valuable lessons in a magical season that interjects into their personal lives this wonderful game we call baseball. In the intersection of our lives with the game of Little League baseball, Little League Heroes stands up as a must read, with a beautiful story and an unbelievable ending in this baseball book for boys or the boy in you.

For five weeks - from April 14 to May 21, 1927 - the world was rapt by the story of fourteen aviators, who took to the air to win the $25,000 that would be awarded to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping. In Atlantic Fever, Joe Jackson delves into the lives of the big-name competitors - the polar explorer Richard Byrd, the millionaire Charles Levine, and the enigmatic Charles Lindbergh, the race's eventual winner - as well as those whose names have been forgotten by history. Atlantic Fever is a spellbinding book that opens a new window into a moment when the nexus of technology, innovation, character, and spirit captured the imagination of the world.

The amazing tale of one of history's most daring acts of biopiracy-and how it changed history
In this thrilling real-life account of bravery, greed, obsession, and ultimate betrayal, award- winning writer Joe Jackson brings to life the story of fortune hunter Henry Wickham and his collaboration with the empire that fueled, then abandoned him. In 1876, Wickham smuggled 70,000 rubber tree seeds out of the rainforests of Brazil and delivered them to Victorian England's most prestigious scientists at Kew Gardens. The story of how Wickham got his hands on those seeds-and the history-making consequences-is the stuff of legend. "The Thief at the End of the World" is an exciting true story of reckless courage and ambition that perfectly captures the essential nature of Great Britain's colonial adventure in South America.

Since the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality as a composer and his notoriously independent stance toward music-business fashion. He has also been a famously private person, whose lack of interest in his own celebrity has been interpreted by some as aloofness. That reputation is shattered by A Cure for Gravity , Jackson's enormously funny and revealing memoir of growing up musical, from a culturally impoverished childhood in a rough English port town to the Royal Academy of Music, through London's Punk and New Wave scenes, up to the brink of pop stardom. Jackson describes his life as a teenage Beethoven fanatic his early piano gigs for audiences of glass-throwing skinheads and his days on the road with long-forgotten club bands. Far from a standard-issue celebrity autobiography, A Cure for Gravity is a smart, passionate book about music, the creative process, and coming of age as an artist.

Like Charles Seife's "Zero" and Dava Sobel's "Longitude," this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen in the late 1700s. That breakthrough changed the world as radically as those of Newton and Darwin but was at first eclipsed by revolution and reaction. In chronicling the triumph and ruin of the English freethinker Joseph Priestley and the French nobleman Antoine Lavoisier--the former exiled, the latter executed on the guillotine--"A World on Fire" illustrates the perilous place of science in an age of unreason.