Baseball tells its story as one of progress. But what if that story is incomplete?In PLAYING BALL WHILE JEWISH, Prejudice and Silence in Major League Baseball*,* Robert L. Hirsch takes on a question few have been willing to ask directly: if antisemitism in Major League Baseball is a thing of the past, why does the data tell a different story?For 125 years, Jewish representation in Major League Baseball has remained strikingly low with litt...

Sabina Mazer's life is shattered when her husband, Dr. Amir Mazer, a respected medical genius, is arrested for committing heinous crimes linked to terrorism. Once a devoted housewife and a covert fundraiser for extremist organizations, Sabina's carefully constructed world is torn apart. With her husband behind bars and her own criminal past now exposed, she must flee for her life.Using a new identity, Sabina escapes with the help of her trusted Imam, but her path to safety is fraug...

Learn the secrets and steps to living a more meaningful lifeSuccess is what happens to you; significance is what happens through you. Do busy schedules at home and at work sometimes leave you feeling overwhelmed and uninspired? Maybe you feel stuck in a rut, going through a treadmill of the same routines or bored at a job you don't love. If you want to get more out of life, this book will show you how. The authors' approach has been used successfully by many thousa...

Hirsch, Devaney, and Smale's classic Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and an Introduction to Chaos has been used by professors as the primary text for undergraduate and graduate level courses covering differential equations. It provides a theoretical approach to dynamical systems and chaos written for a diverse student population among the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering. Prominent experts provide everything students need to know about dynamical systems as student...

The latest edition of this pioneering book allows students to acquire an essential foundation for digital photography. Fully updated, it clearly and concisely covers the fundamental concepts of imagemaking, how to use digital technology to create compelling images, and how to output and preserve images in the digital world. Exploring history, methods, and theory, this text offers classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators, approaches for analyzing, discu...

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the logic behind hypothesis testing. This updated edition covers frequentist (classical) and Bayesian approaches to interpretation of the results of a statistical hypothesis test. In a new chapter, nonparametric hypothesis testing is also discussed. The author describes the most commonly used statistical tests and provides instructions for how to perform them using Microsoft Office Excel. Readers will learn how to interpret P-values under a v...

The long-awaited new edition of this seminal text features clear, reliable, step-by-step instructions on innovative alternative and traditional photographic processes. Over and above a full update and revision of the technical data, there are new sections on digital negative making, electrophotography, and self-publishing. Foremost practioners, including Edward Bateman, Dan Burkholder, Tom Carpenter, Mark Osterman, France Scully Osterman, Jill Skupin Burkholder, Brian Taylor, and Laurie Tü...

Robert Hirsch’s Exploring Color Photography is the thinking photographer’s guide to color imagemaking. Now in its sixth edition, this pioneering text clearly and concisely instructs students and intermediate photographers in the fundamental aesthetic and technical building blocks needed to create thought-provoking digital and analog color photographs. Taking both a conceptual and pragmatic approach, the book avoids getting bogged down in complex, ever-changing technological matter...

This issue of Profession contains Sidonie Smith’s introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2011 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants Hillary Chute, Marianne Hirsch, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Françoise Lionnet, Nancy K. Miller, David Palumbo-Liu, Brian Rotman, Leo Spitzer, Robert Warrior, and Gillian L. Whitlock. The issue also features a section on evaluating digital scholarship. Introduced by Susan Schreibman, Laura Mandell, and Stephen Olsen, the section i...

The definitive history of photography book, Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography delivers the fascinating story of how photography as an art form came into being, and its continued development, maturity, and transformation.Covering major events, practitioners, works, and social effects of photographic practice, author Robert Hirsch provides a concise and discerning chronological account of photography, drawing on examples from across the world. Th...

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the logic behind hypothesis testing. Readers will learn to understand statistical hypothesis testing and how to interpret P-values under a variety of conditions including a single hypothesis test, a collection of hypothesis tests, and tests performed on accumulating data. The author explains how a hypothesis test can be interpreted to draw conclusions, and descriptions of the logic behind frequentist (classical) and Bayesian approach...

This book addresses the description and analysis of occurrence data frequently encountered in epidemiological studies. With the occurrence of Covid-19, people have been exposed to the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological data. To be informed consumers of this information, people need to understand the nature and analysis of these data. Effort is made to emphasize concepts rather than mathematics. Subjects range from description of the frequencies of disease to the analysis of ass...