The book covers most necessary areas of stats, but does it not in a brilliant way: 1)In persuit of making stats simple, the author seems to have left out crucial information in some places so that it leaves the reader confused - you understand HOW to make calculation, but not WHY you should do them. 2) Writting could have been clearer and consise. Examples aren't really well selected - some much more lucid and compelling ones could be brought up to illustrate the points made. 3) The book promises "a wide range of student resources" on its web site - in fact there is nothing there except a review of elementary math. 4) The lay out of the book isn't bad, but this merit is outweighted by the mess in referencing. E.g. Index indicates that info on t-distribution is on p.46 - there is not a single word about t-distribution there, whereas all the info is on pp. 197-199, which is not mentioned in the index at all; etc.

In general, if you just want to pass an exam in elementary stats and can do with rudimentary knowledge of the subject, go with this book. For real understanding of statistics look at different books.

I have done poorly in statistics before but this book seems to be laid out with good clarity and is better than the first book I used.

This book is part the required texts for Sociology 210 at Loyola Marymount U. in Los Angeles.

This book has a handy layout map that allows the person learning or teaching to circumvent areas of the topic that are not of significant bearing to the class.

I am just starting so take my 5 star rating with the caviat that I am not too familiar with the text yet. Amazon is cheaper than my School book store though!!

All in all I have to say I found this book a little bit disappointing. It felt like I was merely re-reading ideas I've seen countless times before, presented in a way, that made them look new. If you're new to NLP and want to see some appications of NLP to business it might be worthwhile, but there are much better NLP sales books out there.

As you can read on the cover, this book translates NLP-concepts in a language directed to persons who need to do some selling. If you have some NLP training and some sales experience, this book won't teach you many new things. If you don't have both, or you are looking how to apply NLP skills is a sales context, this book can give you some directions. Part 4 ("Sales management") some stuff that does not directly relate to sales itself, but it is useful if you are a salesperson, or if you want to be come one. (extracted from my website: www.7EQ.com/books )

I've hated this book. It makes fun of the poor downtrodden souls,it laughs at the helpless struggle of poor unfortunate men and women waiting hopelessly to exhale. Cruel and uncharming.

Connolly disects the British class system with a hilarious examination of snobbery, greed and jealousy wrapped into a farcial summer holiday. This is laugh out loud funny made all the better because I read it on a beach in Tahitit - about as far removed from the British coastal holiday described in the book as you can get.

When a religion book tries to be a science book, the result is torturous for thinking readers. This book is that. I happen to agree that we have multiple intelligences. Ms. DeBeauport does not pretend that any of them are unnecessary, yet she plays footloose with the rational intelligence when she traipses over logic and integrity. (In this I regard her book as common.) Her deductive reasoning is wonderful to follow in the introduction. To paraphrase, "I started with research, and I wanted to support my findings, and I found the usual rationalistic paradigm would not render them indisputable. So, I looked to the new physics and a lot of what follows is perceptible along non-rational pathways." Sounds a lot like medieval deductive reasoning to me--just a different axe to grind. The scholastics would feel right at home with this book.

In Three Faces of Mind Elaine De Beauport has beautifully combined research, years of observation and her own experiences to expand current theories on intelligence. She has taken the three parts of the physical brain and attributed to them 10 separate types of intelligence. Each type has its own chapter combining exercises and insight. Excellent!!!!

As a longtime fan of "El Rey," I enjoyed reading about Tito Puente. He is not only a Latino icon but an American institution, even if English-only America refuses to recognize his cultural and musical contributions. The author does a workman's job in exploring Puente through various interviews with musicians, dance promoters, writers, and friends who know Puente well. The book offers good insight into how Puente developed his great sound and establishes the fact that he is a true musical genius like Gershwin and Ellington before him. While the book is the first true biography of Puente, I'm disappointed that it will not reach more people than it should. Unless the reader has an established grasp of Afro-Cuban music and is familiar with musicians in the field, my fear is that the general reader will get lost and lose interest in the book. It's not an accessible book for those who know little to nothing about the music. Still, it's a vital contribution to our understanding of Puente, Afro-Cuban music and the critical role that Latinos have played in developing America.

I loved this book! Admittedly, I am a huge fan of Tito Puente, so my opinion may be a little biased. However, in light of his many achievments and the joy his music has spread throughout the world, it is only fitting that we honor Tito Puente while he is still with us. Thanks to the author, Steven Loza.

The book gives us an overview of Tito's life then proceeds to zero in on various aspects of Tito's career through interviews with Tito and various musicians who have shared the spotlight with him.

I was particularly impressed with Joe Conzo's honesty. Joe Conzo is a historian, close friend of Tito's and his "curator." Many of the musicians interviewed are able to speak volumes about Tito's awesome musical talent. However, Joe Conzo manages to humanize Tito and show us a side of the man we rarely see.

Perhaps the most significant aspect of this book is that one cannot read it without being in awe of Tito Puente's many accomplishments. From the Palladium era in the 50's to Salsa in the 90's, Tito has done it all. As he often says, he has been there and back.

The author's closing thoughts dwell on the spiritual aspects of Tito's music and the joy his music brings. Tito's music brings people together regardless of race, color or creed. It has been said that the Mambo has done more for race relations in this country than our government!

This book is an important part of Latin music history. Also, it is now an essential part of Tito Puente's legacy. We all know Tito Puente's music, or at least we all should! Allow Steven Loza to introduce you to the man.

Tito Puente recently celebrated his 76th birthday and is going strong. Palante Tito!

A fascinating and socially important case, but yikes, this is a dry and wordy book! Amazingly, the author never tells us what happened to the "heroine" after the trial--did she die? When? How? Is she still alive, and some 160 years old? Get it out of the library and skim it if you're interested in French political history, but this is not a book you can buy to read over and over.

If you think the O.J. trial was "The Trial of the Century" and said a lot about 1990s America, you should read Edward Berenson's study of 1914 France. I have used this book for class assigned readings and students, beyond the O.J. comparison, have, like myself, found this book to be a compelling, fascinating account of why, on the eve of WWI, the French found more to be at stake in this case. That a society woman defends herself in charges of murder by using mainstream assumptions of gender, that she was too feminine to have intended to kill, will cause many to question the use and significance of gender constructions. Does Madame Caillaux deserve her fate? Berenson lets you be the judge. It's defintely a thought-provoking, enjoyable read. A well-crafted work of microhistory, where the proceedings of the trial form the external structure, but a longer history of the Belle Epoque informs our understanding of each day's events and our assessment of the "star" of the day. This book can be savored by a wide audience, which is why I have had community college students read it.

The book is well layed out and relatively comprehensive.

If you are just getting started with Tribes 2, you will find the manual is pathetically small. Much of the functionality of the game cannot be figured out without trial and error or by reading this book.

However, don't look for advanced strategies or techniques. You will find much better articles on the Internet relating to specialized areas such as ariel combat etc.

The maps are helpful but the symbols are difficult to understand.

This book and the game are amazing both have extraordinary text ad graphics I hope it helps you like it helped me

I read most of Fr. Rahner's "Trinity" during research on a graduate term paper in Catholic theology. He very clearly and systematically presents his rationale for his famous maxim, "The immanent Trinity is the economic Trinity, and the economic Trinity is the immanent Trinity." Fr. Rahner's chief "complaint," the practical neglect of the mystery of the Trinity in theological reflection on the mystery of salvation, is an important criticism of "neo-scholastic" theology (the adaptation of classical scholasticism to defend orthodoxy against modernistic attacks in the 18th through mid-20th centuries). However, Fr. Rahner seems entirely uncritical of his "solution," esp. in failing to acknowledge the obvious conundrums of strictly identifying the eternal Persons with Their respective temporal manifestations in salvation history.

This book is an important read on the Trinitarian meaning of salvation, as well as a landmark in "resourcement theology" (renewal of Christian theology based on "revisit" of its patristic and biblical roots). One need not totally agree with Fr. Rahner's conclusions to benefit from his comprehensive "meditation" on the subject.

This is an excellent edition of Rahner's "The Trinity." Included is an informative introduction by the late Catholic Trinitarian scholar Catherine Mowry Lacugna (to be read both before and after finishing the main book itself). An extremely valuable glossary is also included along with a rather short index of topics. The 6 page glossary is probably worth the price of the book itself.

Rahner maintains that the bulk of religious literature would remain virtually unchanged if the doctrine of the Trinity was deemed false. This slim volume is designed to rectify this situation. Ironically Rahner rarely returns to the subject of the Trinity in his writings after this volume; even his magnum opus "Foundations of Christian Faith" has few references to the doctrine. Regardless, this volume is important as it sounds the trumpet that the Catholic Church believes this doctrine is important and necessary. The 20th Century is replete with theologians from both the Protestant and Orthodox segments of the Christian faith attempting to give prominence to the Trinity. Rahner, one of the Catholic Church's better scholars joins this thrust.

The book is divided into 3 parts. The first deals with the state of the Trinity in Catholic scholarship when Rahner wrote this treatise (1967). Rahner states his method and structure of how he will confront the Trinity with what has become known as Rahner's Rule: "The economic Trinity is the immanent Trinity, and the immanent Trinity is the economic Trinity." This first part has two important aspects. The first is a discussion of whether the Father could have done the part the Son played in salvation and vice versa. This is emphatically denied by referring to the rule stated above. The second discussion worth noting is one which discusses how medieval scholarship (scholasticism) chose to begin a discussion of the Trinity by referring to the unity before it spoke of its multiplicity (One God, then three Persons).

The second section illustrates the doctrine of the Trinity from the viewpoint of the Magisterium. This represents the main lines of the Catholic teachings. This is important for Rahner as he must incorporate his own teachings on the Trinity within this overarching framework and illustrate how it further illuminates the doctrine without overstepping its boundaries.

The third section is Rahner's own synthesis of the doctrine. The best part of this section is Rahner's discussion of the use of the word 'Person' to describe a member of the Godhead. There is talk of switching to more descriptive terms such as 'distinct manner of subsisting' (contrasted with Karl Barth's 'manner of being'). Rahner argues that there is too much individuality (and a sense of duality) read into our use of the word 'Person'. I found this discussion to be the most illuminating of the entire book.

Rahner's dry but informative treatise is important in that it reflects Catholic scholarship on the doctrine of the Trinity. A good follow-up for a current Catholic understanding would be Catherine Mowry Lacugna's excellent 'God for Us.'

This CD may have had a lot of good practice questions, but I'll never know since I couldn't stand the format. Answers to the questions are provided, but they are long-winded and address a whole block of questions (not just the question you are working on). The display is too small to display all the choices, making it difficult to compare answers. If you're looking for a practice CD that simulates Step I conditions, this isn't it.

i LOVED STUYING FROM THE PROGRAM BETTER THAN ANY BOOK

With a subtitle of "soul in sapphire" this is a playful fling into a world where intelligent software agents and brilliant hackers thrash it out to the bitter end

A self-aware program that is more human than most humans.