Andy Grieve @AndrewPGrieve@mstdn.social Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Grandpa - thrice, 47 years as a Statistician in Pharma , over 40 yea promoting Bayesian approaches, 4 years as hobby academic King's Coll London, Cerevisaphile.
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
Ronald Aylmer FisherAndy Grieve @AndrewPGrieve@mstdn.socialAn interesting take on Fisher in The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection "..Fisher, discussing the difference between the biological and mathematical viewpoints, suggests that the mathematician's distinctive characteristic is the development of the imaginative faculty"
Paperback, 2022
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress
George SantayanaAndy Grieve @AndrewPGrieve@mstdn.social@lakens "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana, The Life of Reason.
Paperback, 2023
$41.82$20.91 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Prime Minister
Anthony TrollopeAndy Grieve @AndrewPGrieve@mstdn.social@d_spiegel I like this from Anthony Trollope's "The Prime Minister" from the Palliser Series. "Mr. Boffin was a gentleman who had belonged to the late Ministry, but had somewhat out-Heroded Herod in his Conservatism, so as to have been considered to be unfit for the Coalition."
Paperback, 2011
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Life of Reason
George SantayanaAndy Grieve @AndrewPGrieve@mstdn.social@lakens "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana, The Life of Reason.
Paperback, 1998
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Highwayman: Cantata for Baritone Solo, Chorus of Mixed Voices and Orchestra, op. 8
Alfred NoyesAndy Grieve @AndrewPGrieve@mstdn.social@ThatEricAlper The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes.
Paperback, 2022
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The Prime Minister
Anthony TrollopeAndy Grieve @AndrewPGrieve@mstdn.social@d_spiegel I like this from Anthony Trollope's "The Prime Minister" from the Palliser Series. "Mr. Boffin was a gentleman who had belonged to the late Ministry, but had somewhat out-Heroded Herod in his Conservatism, so as to have been considered to be unfit for the Coalition."
Paperback, 2017
$14.53$7.26 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The God Particle Trilogy: Adam
David B. JacksonAndy Grieve @AndrewPGrieve@mstdn.socialHere's a paragraph from "An Introductory Lecture to the Institutes of Medicine" of the University of Philadelphia in 1827 by Samuel Jackson MD on 'observation', 'experiment', 'false facts' 'false theories'. William Cullen was David Hume's physician and a friend of Adam Smith. https://t.co/c2FvclJeJv
Paperback, 2015
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book