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Questions in which books play a key-role, such as questions on antique books, e-books, difference between various editions of a book, etc. For questions asking for recommendations of books on some subject the tag textbook-recommendation is often more suitable.
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Why do so many textbooks have so much technical detail and so little enlightenment?
I agree that sometimes authors present a concept simply because it's a standard example in the subject, but then spend a single page on it and just move on to other things. One example that comes to m …
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Book on Convergence Concepts in Probability without Measure Theory
Grimmett and Stirzaker's Probability and Random Processes fits the bill:
http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Random-Processes-Geoffrey-Grimmett/dp/0198572220
It covers everything up to stochastic calc …
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