Sara L Van

The Boy Who Loved Ants: Edward O.Wilson

As a boy, famed scientist Edward O. Wilson spent his happiest days outdoors hunting for fish, snakes, and bugs in Florida and Alabama. Drawing from Wilson's autobiography "Naturalist," author Sara van Dyck shows how the shy boy who loved ants grew into the man who became a world leader in nature con...

Sara Van Der Heide - 24 European Ethnographic Museums

Second Life: The Official Guide

In this fully revised and updated Second Edition, you'll discover the very latest information about living in Second Life-from how to enter the world, get started, and get around, to the many exciting new ways you can earn real-world incomes, meet other residents, and enjoy all there is to do. Autho...

Historie van Mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart (Dutch Edition)

Historie van Mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Agatha Deken is in the Dutch language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Agatha Deken then we highly recommend this pu...

Daffodils in American Gardens, 1733-1940

Since their earliest identification in the mid-1500s, more than twenty-eight thousand hybrid daffodils have been named and registered with the Royal Horticulture Society of England. Daffodils began as wildflowers in the Mediterranean basin, then spread and flourished in Europe's alpine and coastal e...

Watchmen as Literature: A Critical Study of the Graphic Novel

Watchmen has been hailed as the quintessential graphic novel and has spawned a body of literary criticism since its 1986 initial appearance in installments. This work explores the graphic novel's reception in both popular and scholarly arenas and how the conceptual relationship between images and wo...

Empirical Processes in M-Estimation (Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics)

The theory of empirical processes provides valuable tools for the development of asymptotic theory in (nonparametric) statistical models, and makes it possible to give a unified treatment of various models. This book reveals the relation between the asymptotic behavior of M-estimators and the comple...

Statistics for High-Dimensional Data: Methods, Theory and Applications (Springer Series in Statistics)

Modern statistics deals with large and complex data sets, and consequently with models containing a large number of parameters. This book presents a detailed account of recently developed approaches, including the Lasso and versions of it for various models, boosting methods, undirected graphical mo...