Bøger af Alan Miller

The revolutionary story of a 10-year sprint to reduce 'super climate pollutants', cut global warming in half, and avert catastrophe.

Now available in paperback?a provocative new look at biology, evolution, and human behavior ?as disturbing [as it is] fascinating? (Publishers Weekly).Why are most neurosurgeons male and most kindergarten teachers female? Why aren?t there more women on death row? Why do so many male politicians ruin their careers with sex scandals? Why and how do we really fall in love? This engaging book uses the latest research from the field of evolutionary psychology to shed light on why we do the things we do?from life plans to everyday decisions. With a healthy disregard for political correctness, Miller and Kanazawa reexamine the fact that our brains and bodies are hardwired to carry out an evolutionary mission? an inescapable human nature that actually stopped evolving about 10,000 years ago.

This book explores how social order is produced and maintained in Japan and explains why social order is high in Japan. It presents a wide range of scholarship on Japan, ranging from studies by criminologists to religious studies to the most current social psychological studies.

Originally published in 1990, Subset Selection in Regression filled a gap in the literature, and its critical and popular success endured for more than a decade. The second edition continues that tradition and remains dedicated to the techniques for fitting and choosing models that are linear in their parameters and to understanding and correcting the bias introduced by selecting a model. The author thoroughly updated each chapter, added material that reflects recent developments in theory and methods, and included more examples and references. The presentation is clear, concise, and as the Journal of the American Statistical Association reported about the first edition, goes "straight to the guts of a complex problem."

This book explains the emergence of social order in Japan as an unintended consequence of institutionalized group conformity, and then traces out how that conformity affects a wide range of social characteristics from religious behavior to crime rates.

Full Length, Drama / 1m, 2f / InteriorBased on the short novel by D.H. Lawrence, two English women in their 30's are struggling to run an isolated farm, but the hens have stopped laying and the hen house is being raided by a fox. Enter a young soldier who is such an engaging and capable fellow that he is invited to stay on as a hired hand. Who is this mysterious man who eventually dominates life on the farm? "This is the rare adaptation that honors its source while having the guts to depart fro

Deals with the techniques for fitting and choosing models that are linear in their parameters and to understanding and correcting the bias introduced by selecting a model. This title includes a chapter on Bayesian methods and an example from the field of near infrared spectroscopy. It emphasises on cross-validation and focuses on bootstrapping.

Human influences create both environmental problems and barriers to effective policy aimed at addressing those problems. In Environmental Problem Solving, Alan Miller reappraises conventional analyses of environmental problems using lessons from the psychosocial disciplines.