Biomedical Data Science: A Step-by-Step Guide to Analysis and Interpretation is a practical roadmap for transforming complex biomedical data into reliable insights. Designed for readers at the crossroads of biology, medicine, and computation, the book walks readers through the entire lifecycle of analysis, from formulating clear questions to designing robust studies, quantifying uncertainty, building and validating models, and interpreting results responsibly.Instead of overwhelmin...

High performers aren’t burning out—they’re breaking down. The Executive Condition exposes how modern leadership accelerates biological decline and then shows executives how to turn health into their next strategic advantage.Leadership performance is built on biology—and that foundation is failing. Sleep debt becomes personality. Stress hardens into culture. Decision quality narrows even as résumés grow longer. Boards notice it late. Teams ...

RELIVE QUEEN'S ICONIC MAGIC TOUR - AND FREDDIE MERCURY'S POIGNANT FINAL PERFORMANCE - 40 YEARS ON, WITH MORE THAN 200 PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE TOUR'S OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER.INCLUDES MANY IMAGES WHICH HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE NOW.Marking 40 years since their iconic Magic tour and Freddie Mercury's final performance with the band, Queen : Forever is a glorious tribute to a band like no other.In 1986, legendary ...

The next chapter in the continuing adventures of Everett and Naomi may be their most difficult yet. The world is at the brink of all-out war and each warring faction seems to believe that Everett and Naomi hold the key to turning the tides of victory to their own favor. Along with the help of their new ally, the long-time spy Hector, the group must evade capture by Japanese, Russian, and German forces looking to exploit the duo’s strange connection to the Obscure Technologies, which may pr...

Now a major motion picture starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones–coming to Netflix on November 21!A New York Times Notable Book for 2011One of The Economist**'s 2011 Books of the Year**One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes

"A superb and well written book, highly recommended as a true account of one man's war from Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic during WWII." —The ArmourerAlthough strictly forbidden to keep diaries, Denis Edwards managed to record his experiences throughout nearly all his time in Europe in 1944–45. He brilliantly conveys what it was like to be facing death, day after day, night after night, with never a bed to sleep in nor a hot meal to go home to. This is warfare in the ...

From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West.Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2.3 million. Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, Nobody Move is at once an homage to and a variation on literary form. It salutes one of our mo...

Charming Coraline is hired as the private tutor to the young son of rich landlords. Her mission is to entertain her too studious pupil, Vernère. He is only a child, but one with a brilliant and indefatigable mind solely focused on books and inventions. To top it off, he is quite unpleasant. Coraline nonetheless tries to understand him while gradually discovering the strange and surprising universe of the mansion, whose nocturnal ambiance seems so amenable for very strange dreams… Muse is a...

An extensively illustrated look at what daily life was like for a regular American soldier fighting in this major World War II battle.On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched operation Wacht am Rhein in the Ardennes, an all-out gamble to regain the initiative in western Europe. American troops and the local population were caught completely unprepared. Over the following month, a million men and thousands of tanks and aircrafts set southern Belgium and Luxembourg ablaz...

The New York Times–bestselling collection of essays on the power of ordinary people to effect lasting change—from the host and cofounder of Democracy Now!Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan began writing a weekly column, "Breaking the Sound Barrier," for King Features Syndicate in 2006. This timely new sequel to Goodman's New York Times bestseller of the same name gives voice to the many ordinary people standing up to corporate and government ...

Sultan Mangogul of Congo is bored of court life and suspects his mistress Mirzoza of infidelity. Happily for him, a genie presents him with a magical ring with unique properties. When the ring is rubbed and pointed at the genitals of any woman in the vicinity, the genitals ("discreet jewels") begin speaking of their past amorous experiences to the confusion and consternation of their owner. In the book, the Sultan uses the ring in this manner about thirty times—usually at a dinner or a soc...

This award-winning science history explores our evolving image of the globe—and how it has shifted our relationship to the world.Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from space—to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apollo—images of the earth as a globe had captured popular imagination. In Apollo's Eye, geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a ...