How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It | Tinderbox

Author Craig Timberg, Daniel Halperin, PhD,

With this groundbreaking narrative, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of methods Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and after that fanned its rise. Applying remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the traditional wisdom around the origins with this deadly pandemic as well as the guidelines on how to fight it today.

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Clinical Trial Design: Bayesian and Frequentist Adaptive Methods

A balanced treatment of the theories, methodologies, and design issues involved in clinical trials using statistical methods. There has been enormous interest and development in Bayesian adaptive designs, especially for early phases of clinical trials. However, for phase III trials, frequentist methods still play a dominant role through controlling type I and type II errors in the hypothesis testing framework.

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The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists [Imitation Leather]

Neil Strauss (Author)

Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. This is not fiction. These men really exist.

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Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence

Author : Judith D. Singer , John B. Willett 

Change is constant in everyday life. Infants crawl and then walk, children learn to read and write, teenagers mature in myriad ways, the elderly become frail and forgetful.

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Fourth Edition

American Psychiatric Association (Corporate Author)

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Color Atlas of Fetal and Neonatal Histology

Linda M. Ernst (Editor), Eduardo D. Ruchelli (Editor), Dale S. Huff (Editor)

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