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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:00:57 -0400
From: "Pere M. Parés-Casanova" <peremiqu...@prodan.udl.cat>
Reply-To: "Pere M. Parés-Casanova" <peremiqu...@prodan.udl.cat>
Subject: Re: book announcement
To: morphmet@morphometrics.org
Good evening!
Could you send us more details of the book (such as ISSN), in order to
order it for our universitary library?
Thanks a lot!
Pere M. Parés-Casanova
On Ds, Març 15, 2014 17:25, morphmet wrote:
> Dear morphmetters,
>
> A few of you may remember that way back in December 2009 I began
> to write a book, "Numbers and Reasons," based on my teaching notes since
> 1986 across all of statistics (not just morphometrics). Things have a
> way of taking more time than you expect, and it wasn't until the 28th of
> last month that the book, now entitled "Measuring and Reasoning:
> Numerical Inference in the Sciences," was finally published by Cambridge
> University Press. And just today Amazon.com finally lists it as "in
> stock" in the US (and complains they have only 4 copies left -- perhaps
> that was out of 5?). For a book of nearly 600 pages Cambridge priced it
> quite attractively, at less than 68 dollars, 59 euros, or 45.01 pounds.
> It has a gorgeous color cover with a picture of what must be construed
> as a German statistician circa 1818.
>
> Feel free to buy or borrow a copy and then start arguing with
> me about the role of numerical reasoning in anthropology, evolutionary
> biology, medical imaging, or any of the other sciences
> that articulate with this morphometric community of ours.
>
> Fred Bookstein
>
>
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Pere M. Parés-Casanova PhD
Part-time Lecturer
Dep. of Animal Production
University of Lleida
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