Our motivation for writing this book was a dissatisfaction with the many books with titles hke Foundations of Statistics. These books provide a needed description of the subject with examples of various statistical methods; but they do not satisfy the discerning reader because they do not explain why certain conclusions may be drawn from certain data and they do not discuss how statistics, the subject, meshes with the scientific process. We naively set out to fill in these gaps, but the situation is not so simple. What is desired is a tool the one true statistics which can be applied to data...

Seventeen-year-old Nate Dax sometimes asks himself if a person can die who's never been alive. He's an Outcast - he doesn't have a government chip so the authorities don't know he exists. But if they find him he'll be put to death immediately. Today it's 2094 and Nate hides in what used to be called Colorado when the United States was a country. Everything that's wrong now started with the disastrous presidential election of 2016, when most Americans didn't like either candidate. Four years later the people revolted, tossing out the incumbent and voting for a social democracy that lasted for...

Chasing Jubal expands your imagination On the flimsy premise of joining his brother to fight beside him in a war he knows nothing about, Jubal Early Simpson takes a journey that challenges and changes his concept of who he is. It is a coming of age story set in the early 1950s in Virginia and North Carolina told by his best friend, Raymond. They meet a diverse cast of fellow sojourners whose personalities will change the boys' perception of what is real and what is fantasy.