JANE MILLER

Ever since I have inhabited old age, I have looked and listened, mostly in vain, for news of what it is like for others who inhabit it too. Naturally, Im interested in its well-known depredations, the physical and mental ones that people in their forties and fifties so publicly dread. And who would not delight in the theatrical props of old age - the pills and sticks, the shrieking hearing aids and the tricks for countering the loss of names and threads and glasses. But thats not all. I have a fond hope that in old age there may be new kinds of time and of pleasure, perhaps even new kinds of vitality, and that, though we forget and muddle and fail to hear things, there may be moments when we truly understand whats going on for the first time. But then Ive always been a late developer.Deeply thoughtful, wry and resilient, this fascinating and absorbing book about growing older is a life-enhancing look at what all of us - if we are lucky - can aspire to.

For the past four years Jane Miller, author of Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old, has been writing a column for an American magazine called In These Times. Her beautifully observed pieces about life, politics and Britain open a window to her American readers of a world very different from their own.Her erudition is both dazzling and lightly borne, the personal often illuminating the political . . . Millers is a welcome, necessary voice - readable, informative and entertainingTimes Literary SupplementJane Miller, author of the acclaimed Crazy Age, has for the past few years been writing a column for an American magazine based in Chicago called In These Times. Now, these beautifully observed pieces about life, politics and Britain, which opened a window for Americans on a world rather different from their own, are collected and published for the first time for her British readers.Miller is a fantastic companion Viv Groskop, Telegraph

Este popular libro de texto ofrece una clara y lúcida penorámica de los principios subyacentes en los métodos estadísticos. En todas las ediciones anteriores los autores han empleado una metodología que se ha demostrado eficaz para guiar a los quimicos analiticos en la comprension de esta ciencia de caracter altamente cuantitativo.

Poor Bob House. A private investigator with nothing to investigate hes nearly out of options. His business associates are drunks and perverts and even his shell-shocked drinking buddies wont bother with him. Its 1978 and times are tough in the Motor City. Now, even the bodies of dead children start to seem like good news to him.

In this remarkable book, Jane Miller writes about the experience of being a daughter and a sister, about the intensities of family life and the illuminations that come from the last days of parents. Relations describes a record-keeping kinship and offers portraits of her parents long marriage, its mysteries and incompatibilities, of her grandfather, the scientist Redcliffe Salaman, and of her great-aunt Clara Collet, one of the first women civil servants. It is a story in which Karl Marx and George Gissing have parts to play.Here are the tensions of belonging and yet not belonging to an English middle-class at once hospitable to difference and internally divided. More than two hundred years of English history are present in these portraits, which show the dawning emancipation of women and the effects of empire on family life. It is the story of an evolution, of a move out of trade towards public service and the professions, and towards the dramas and family romance of recent times.