After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and edited Catch-22 and The American Way of Death, among other bestsellers. At Knopf, Gottlieb edited an astonishing list of authors, including Toni Morrison, John...

"This book emphasizes the collaborative analysis of data that is used to collect increments of time or space. Written at a readily accessible level, but with the necessary theory in mind, the author uses frequency- and time-domain and trigonometric regression as themes throughout the book. The content includes modern topics such as wavelets, Fourier series, and Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC), which is not typical of current-day "classics." Applications...

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In its first five years of existence, The Perl Journal ran 247 articles by over 120 authors. Every serious Perl programmer subscribed to it, and every notable Perl guru jumped at the opportunity to write for it. TPJ explained critical topics such as regular expressions, databases, and object-oriented programming, and demonstrated Perl's utility for fields as diverse as astronomy, biology, economics, AI, and games. The magazine gave birth to both the...