Dr. Urdan was a professor of mine, and he always made Stats very, very easy to understand. Good teacher, good book. Definitely worth buying.

This book is for all students who suffer any sort of statistics-anxiety and yet must take a statistics course in high school or college. Of course, it would also be of value for anyone simply interested in statistics. As college students well know, most statistics texts are typically impossible to make sense of. This book explains quite complex concepts and analyses in ways that professors are often unable to do. The examples are clean and crisp. Difficult material is brought down to earth with prose that is both user-friendly and often humorous. Well worth purchasing.

I really enjoyed this book. It's all about a fourteen-year old girl named Julie Weiss, a kinda non-practicing Jewish girl who lives in Vienna, Austria, in 1938. Julie's family aren't serious practicers of the Jewish faith, so Julie doesn't really seem to think about being Jewish until one day, Hitler seems to be everywhere! Radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, even books about Hitler, like "Mein Kampf," his story. But suddenly Julie's life seems to be taken over by this man. Her mother, sensing the war ahead, commits suicide, and her brother wants to escape to Palestine, where Jews would be peaceful and safe. Finally, Julie's father sends Julie to America to live with her aunt and uncle in New York. I thought this was a good book, but it was missing something. I think it would be more powerful if Julie had stayed in Vienna, and maybe had to go into hiding, like Anne Frank, or was sent to a concentration camp but survives to tell the tale, and doesn't go to New York until maybe the very end of the book. But no, Julie goes to New York halfway through the book, and gets involved in acting, which I though took away from the real plot of the story. Overall, it was a good book, but if I would've written it a little differently.

I was fortunate enough to obtain an advanced edition of this wonderful book. Barry Denenberg is a wonderful author. He brought a wonderfully human viewpoint to this tragic time in history. Twelve-year-old Julie Weiss is the daughter of a wealthy Jewish couple in 1938 Vienna. She has a comfortable life, until Hitler's army invades Austria. Her family is the target of violence, and her mother sinks into depression, eventually commiting suicide. In spite of the bleakness of the first half the book, there is hope in the second half. Julie's father, desperate for her safety, arranges for her to go to New York City to live with her aunt and uncle, but decides to stay behind and help others. She is full of loneliness and despair at first, but finds comfort in her relatives and in a career in acting. I highly reccomend this to historical fiction fans. The author did an excellant job of bringing the time period to life.

Jewish Julie Weiss is 12 and a half and lives a luxurious, comfortable life in Vienna until Hitler invades Austria and the Jews are discriminated. The Weiss family suffers rejection and spite from friends and neighbors turned pro-Hitler, even though they are non-practicing Jews. Nazis come to the Weiss home one night and all of Julie's family BUT herself is taken outside. They come back unharmed but changed. This event forces her older brother Max to leave the country and her mother to later commit suicide. Her father still tries to keep a positive outlook on everything, and says Julie must go to America, where she will be safe with her mother's sister and her husband. In Part 1, Julie's entries are at first mostly about her school life and worries that a girl her social status might have, but are emotional and full of descriptions of violence against Jews. In the beginning of Part 2 she is still afraid, sad and frozen but things get brighter for her in New York, especially when she lands a part in a stage play. Overall a very good read and a big improvement from Mr. Denenberg's other DA books.

detailed review of emergency thou suffers from a lack of information on certain key areas.can be verbose at times thou is a generally a good read

The book comes in 3 hardback volumes, well worth the price. I am a practicing Paramedic with a desire to know more about the how's and why's of patient care. The book is well organized, with a reading level of college sophomore. The section on resucitation takes ACLS just a little bit further. I consider this book recommended reading for Paramedics who want to stay on top

I have a special shelf for cookbooks in my living room...right next to the kitchen, as should be. For some reason, "How to eat" by Nigella Lawson, has been lying around the floor in my bedroom, or on the sofa in the living room, or wherever else apart from the kitchen, for the last couple of years since I bought it. What I'm trying to say is that this book is not just a simple cookbook, but more a description of the pleasure of good eating, & of preparing good food for yourself & for people you love.

On the other hand, the actual recipes (at least the ones I've tried so far, which are quite a few) seem to work, even from the first time you try them. I mention this because I've heard & read all sorts of comments about whether N.Lawson's recipes work or not. Maybe this is because Nigella Lawson has become a celebrity in England--imagine: she writes well, cooks well, & to top all that, she's beautiful too! How can you beat that? This is why 2 camps seem to have emerged--a "pro-Nigella" camp & an "anti-Nigella" camp!! This is all ridiculous, of course. The point is that Nigella Lawson has written, at least in my opinion, one of the best cookbooks of recent years. Down to earth, with good & long-winded explanations, written in a direct, friendly style, with such love for good food that even reading the book makes you want to rush to the kitchen & start creating a feast. "How to eat" is about comfort-eating at its best, & for me at least, it serves as comfort-reading too...

I bought this several years ago - before the current Nigella "it girl" phase (which I find more than vaguely annoying), and this cookbook gets far more use than anything else I own. This remains true despite the fact that I a) don't eat a lot of red meat and b) don't go in for rich desserts - both of which abound in her books. However, her writing is so compelling, and her recipes are so clear and inevitably successful that cooking one of her recipes is more like a warm chat with an old friend than effortful kitchen work. The measurements are for the most part forgiving, her style relaxed, and the focus of the book truly is on "how to eat" - not "how to make high-style restaurant food".

Winners: spiced prunes with barbados cream; Anna's chickpea and pasta soup; beef braised in beer; cod with parma ham over lentils; pasta carbonara; cinnamon-hot rack of lamb... All of these I make on a regular basis, and they always turn out amazingly well.

Plus, it's a great read. What more could you want!

I have a special shelf for cookbooks in my living room...right next to the kitchen, as should be. For some reason, "How to eat" by Nigella Lawson, has been lying around the floor in my bedroom, or on the sofa in the living room, or wherever else apart from the kitchen, for the last couple of years since I bought it. What I'm trying to say is that this book is not just a simple cookbook, but more a description of the pleasure of good eating, & of preparing good food for yourself & for people you love.

On the other hand, the actual recipes (at least the ones I've tried so far, which are quite a few) seem to work, even from the first time you try them. I mention this because I've heard & read all sorts of comments about whether N.Lawson's recipes work or not. Maybe this is because Nigella Lawson has become a celebrity in England--imagine: she writes well, cooks well, & to top all that, she's beautiful too! How can you beat that? This is why 2 camps seem to have emerged--a "pro-Nigella" camp & an "anti-Nigella" camp!! This is all ridiculous, of course. The point is that Nigella Lawson has written, at least in my opinion, one of the best cookbooks of recent years. Down to earth, with good & long-winded explanations, written in a direct, friendly style, with such love for good food that even reading the book makes you want to rush to the kitchen & start creating a feast. "How to eat" is about comfort-eating at its best, & for me at least, it serves as comfort-reading too...

An interesting collection of essays by different historians,this book does an excellent job of introducing the beginning university student to a number of issues related to Stalinism and historical methodology(somehow unconsciously);however,the lack of footnotes/endnotes makes this undertaking less credible and useful for more advanced readers.