Scientific descriptions of the climate have traditionally been based on the study of average meteorological values taken from different positions around the world. In recent years however it has become apparent that these averages should be considered with other statistics that ultimately characterize spatial and temporal variability. This book is designed to meet that need. It is based on a course in computational statistics taught by the author that arose from a variety of projects on the design and development of software for the study of climate change, using statistics and methods of...

"Science and Fear (Slaves Do Not Repent)" is a mixture of memoirs, journalism, and storytelling in the form of a novel. It is an artistic representation of the life of scientists during last years of the Soviet regime. Deep professional depiction of the psychological, intellectual, and social status of the researchers has not anything equal in the world of modern literature. The final chapters portray the exodus of Russian scientists and the features of their adaptation to the U.S. academic world. The reader is immersed in the workaday activity of geophysicists studying climate change, in...

"Science and Fear (Slaves Do Not Repent)" is a mixture of memoirs, journalism, and storytelling in the form of a novel. It is an artistic representation of the life of scientists during last years of the Soviet regime. Deep professional depiction of the psychological, intellectual, and social status of the researchers has not anything equal in the world of modern literature. The final chapters portray the exodus of Russian scientists and the features of their adaptation to the U.S. academic world. The reader is immersed in the workaday activity of geophysicists studying climate change, in...

This book is a unique description of the Stalin's Children's Gulag. It is Russian original of the book with the same title in English. It contains several narratives. The first one, "Orphans of Communism," is a historical overview of the orphan's GULAG. Described are the barbaric laws, the scales of the catastrophe, the Russian criminal environment as a bearer of a special folklore-the song and musical culture of the prisons and concentration camps. English translations some of these songs are provided. The second narrative is a translation of the twenty most popular Russian street's and...