The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less The 80/20 Principle - that 80 per cent of results flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people and organizations. In one of the decade's most original, provocative and powerful books, The 80/20 Principle shows how you can achieve much more with much less effort, time and resources, simply by concentrating on the all-important 20 per cent. Astonishingly, though the 80/20 Principle has greatly influenced today's world, this is the first book which shows you how to use it in a systematic and practical way. The pattern of predictable imbalance underlying the 80/20 Principle was first stumbled upon a century ago by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto - roughly 80 per cent of the wealth went to 20 per cent of the people.
God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
"Marshalling converging arguments from physics, astronomy, biology, and philosophy, Stenger has delivered a masterful blow in defense of reason. God: The Failed Hypothesis is a potent, readable, and well-timed assault upon religious delusion. It should be widely read."
Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (Second Edition)
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Features of the book * Explains how data mining algorithms work. * Helps you select appropriate approaches to particular problems and to compare and evaluate the results of different techniques. * Covers performance improvement techniques, including input preprocessing and combining output from different methods. * Shows you how to use the Weka machine learning workbench.
BBC Radio 2006 - The Radio Detectives - As My Whimsy Takes Me
Broadcast on BBC7 - Thu 24 Aug - 18:00 - Approximately 30 minutes of high quality MP3.
Jeffrey Richards investigates Lord Peter Wimsey with help from Ian Carmichael, Simon Brett (original radio producer),and Jill Paton Walsh (novelist who completed Sayers "Thrones, Dominations" fragment).
THE RADIO DETECTIVES is a radio series that looks back in time at the many detectives whose cases have graces the airwaves in the United Kingdom and the United States. They are the product of Professor Jeffrey Richards and were presented as three series of five programs each series. Each show covered the history of one detective, not only discussing the radio shows, but the detective's origins, printed works and films, where applicable. Excerpts from radio shows or film soundtracks were frequently included.
This book presents the history of English from its obscure Indo-European roots to its twenty-first century position as the world's first language. It shows how English evolved in the British Isles and how it spread to the United States and through the old British empire to every corner of the world. It examines the different versions and roles of the language in every part of the globe and shows how English rose to international pre-eminence.
With approachable but impeccable scholarship fourteen experts chart the history of written and spoken English in all its rich and protean variety. Their accounts are made vivid with examples drawn from an immense range of documentary evidence including letters, diaries, and private records. They explore and explain the mixture of gradual and rapid change in the words, meanings, grammar, or pronunciation of English at different times and in different places. They examine the three-century rise of standard English and received pronunciation and consider their current status and wellbeing.
This book will appeal to everyone with a keen interest in the English language and its development.
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