Gloria writes in a straight-forward, heart warming, style. It's a powerful book that will seem as innocent & approachable as chocolate chip cookies & milk. Lessons are taught on multiple levels, depending on what the reader wants from the book.

It can entertain, make you smile, make you wonder, and open up areas in one's mind to the possibilities within. Like a pebble tossed into the universal "pond" of the mind, the words ripple out to touch other thoughts within the reader. And within the next reader. It is sent out into the world with the hopeful promise of sharing--planting the seeds for possible inner change.

If is offered to the world like a smile--if one person smiles and causes 2 others to smile, and those two cause 2 others to smile, the effect is exponential. This book makes me smile.

This book is a beautiful spiritual chronicle of an ordinary person who received divine gifts and how she came to terms with understanding and living her life mission. Her wonderfully inspiring book is peppered with family anecdotes with a down-home spin yet she manages very expertly to present profound material in a very understandable way.She believes we all have the ability to self-heal and gives us helpful exercises and new ways to look at our everyday lives. For the reader on a spiritual path, this book is very significant, maybe even life-transforming.

If you are looking for a book that will teach and train you in the concepts and mechanics of biostatistics, don't buy this one. The lay-out of the text is too cramped. The definitions and explanations are often poorly worded. The sections within a chapter seem to be presented in an anti-logical manner. If you really want to learn biostatistics, try Rosner's Fundamentals of Biostatistics. Check out this one from your college library (if you really want to look at it) but please don't spend your money on it.

A hard plus if your looking for pregrad. introductory clinical biostatistics. However I agree with other reviews that the layout or format could be arranged more powerfully, and the mechanics explained with more and better examples with a little more detail. Some of the examples in the book are excellent. I, especially, liked the Methods for Analyzing Survival. I disliked the explanations on statististical power as well as calculating sample populations necessary (n=?)to obtain clinical significance. This book is a good bone to start knawing on, however, the meat is found in other supplemental texts; therefore, reference footnotes are needed which- nowadays- should include, reference books, journals and webpages.

1. Huge breadth: covers topics of interest to clinicians and plenty of material (see below) for aspiring researchers. Algorithms and lay-out keeps the big picture easily in view. 2. Solved problems: methodical answers, clear, instructive. 3. Appropriate depth: is mathematically correct -- not oversimiplified at the cost of accuracy -- while introducing the key formulas and concepts. Much explanatory text makes the ideas clear rather than esoteric derivations. 4. Includes statistics software: menu-driven so "user friendly," has basic and advanced functions. 5. Practical approach: sample problems and exercises are modelled around cases rather than just theory. These cases have data-base directly on the accompanying software so readers may 'learn' and then 'do' immediately. 6. I learned a lot from this book :-)

I certainly expected the software to be a reduced feature version of the Visual Studio IDE. However, Microsoft crippled it so much that even some very basic functionality has been removed. In fact, some of the code in the INCLUDED book won't work! For example, you can't even create .DLL files with the included version of the IDE.

I recently read another review for this book on this page and the author of the review complained how the book does not teach C++. Well I would like him to know that of course it doesnt... the title of the book is Microsoft Visual C# .NET Deluxe Learning Edition, therefore it teaches C#!

The version of Visual C# that's included with this software/book combo is so crippled that you can't actually do many of the examples in the book! This is pretty aggregious in my mind, but I've found a way around it:

After installing the Visual C# Learning Edition software, get a copy of Microsoft's Visual Studio Professional Demonstration DVD. Microsoft hands these things out like cookies at events, so you shouldn't have any problem finding one (I've got four at this point). Replace the VC# folder on your hard drive with the one from the DVD (they are both down a few folders). Turn off the Read-Only property of all the newly copied files and you now have a much fuller version of C#, including all the Project Wizards you'd get in the Professional version. These are neccesary for completing many of the examples in the included book, so don't feel too guilty.

The legality of this solution beyond the 60 days you are legally allowed to license the Demo software is a bit hazy, obviously, so you're on your own after that. However, this solution will at least allow you to actually USE the book Microsoft sold you.

By way of a review (other than the above problem): the book is actually pretty good for beginners, and is a nice way to ease into the world of managed code. And even with the omissions discussed above, the software is quite good considering the price paid. The Visual Studio .NET environment is by far the nicest IDE I"ve ever used. I only give this product three stars because I think it's pretty reasonable to assume that the bundled software will be compatible with the book, and it was very frustrating that such wasn't the case (at least until I discovered the fix above).

This book provides an overview of items to consider when creating a software application. This book is an easy read that talks about many usability topics, however it doesn't really go into much detail on any of them. It will not teach you how to do usability evaluations or design any experiments. I would recommended this book to people that want to get vaguely familiar with usability. I would not recommend this book to someone that wanted to learn how to do usability evaluations or learn indepth details on designing usable interfaces.