My kids loved this book. It's written by real kids who have gone through their parent's divorce and it opened a dialogue with my children that I would have never had if we hadn't read this book together.

I am a recently divorced mother of two young boys, ages 8 and 9. I could tell the divorce upset them, but I couldn't get them to talk about it--until we read this book together. It is written by kids and they talk about how they felt when their parents divorced. My boys could relate and it helped them start talking about their feelings. I recommend this book to any divorcing parent with kids between the ages of 8-12.

I was looking for a book to give to my nieces because my sister-in-law was getting a divorce and the kids were having a difficult time. This book was recommended by a therapist. The book did the trick--helped the kids talk about what was bothering them. I asked the kids why they liked the book and they said because it was written by kids like them. They thought it was great. That's the best testimonial out there.

This book was a great way to understand where fibre channel isnow and where it is going. As an integrator. . . of fibre channel and SANs it helped me gain perspective on how my designs today will be applicable tomorrow.

Jan Dedek's book is an excellent resource for readers wanting to start learning the basics of Fibre Channel technology. The drawings and diagrams are very clear and to the point. This book does not have the depth of other books in this area, but depth is not its goal. It is an excellent primer written by an expert in the field. I started my own education in this industry by reading this book several years ago.

I found this book to be very boring. I bought it because I had seen it referanced in a lot of magazine articles. It may be good for looking up useful information on heart disease, but not really a preventative book. The diet recommended in this book is unrealistic to me and seems like a diet that would be recommended to a person who was diagnosed with heart disease and had to change their lifestyle.

I bought this book because I had seen a lot of people referance from it in magazine articles so I assumed it would be very informative. While it is informative it is very much like reading a text book for me. I have had to read it in small portions at a time because so much information at one time gets pretty boring. I find myself taking notes while I read it so that I can remember key points that I felt were important. The "Mediterranean" diet that this book recommends for a healthy heart is really unrealistic in my opinion. It basically cuts out most foods that people enjoy eating and leaves a very bland diet. I love eating and I do try to eat healthy,but this diet is just too much. I would recommend this book as an informative book for women who have a family history of heart disease and enjoy reading very educational books on women's health.

This book belongs in the hands of every woman and every man who knows a woman. Heart disease kills women more and faster than any other disease. Women have to smarten up about this. Dr. Sinantra is THE person to listen to when it comes to women's hearts. He is a compassionate, caring, and uniquely skilled physician who loves women, understands what makes women tick (literally and figuratively), and he wants to help keep women healthy and happy. Please buy it. Even if you and yours have no history of heart disease. If you are not so inclined don't let the word "natural" in the title throw you. This is bona fide medical information. Heartbreak and Heart Disease is also great....

This is a wonderful resource for students that are considering Music as their major. It gives a good broad spectrum of where their major can be utilized. This book gives examples "outside of the box".

I don't have a lot to say about this book, but since no other ordinary purchaser has reviewed it here, I thought it better to throw in a few comments than to leave you, the potential buyer, with no guidance whatsoever. First of all, this is a collection of over 40 essays by that many different authors. Some are clearly for more gun control, some are firmly against, and some writers focus instead on what the gun issue says about our culture, generally. Some of the works are very scholarly, like a shortened version of a master's thesis--chock full of historical detail and deep analysis. Some of these deep writings do not lend themselves to casual pleasure reading. Some essays go in the other direction, giving you plenty of passionate rhetoric but few factual details to support the writer's position. All in all, this collection of 43 essays by some of the biggest names in the gun control debate today is very useful for almost anyone. I would not say that it's a "must-have" for someone who has read several other books about gun control, because you've probably seen most of these ideas before. But for someone familiar with the gun control issue who does not already have a library full of books on the subject, this is one you should get. You will find yourself refering to it over and over again.

An excellent reference book for physical therapists beginning to practice in the area of pediatrics. Good comprehensive general information on a variety of pediatric disabilities and disorders, as well as available orthotics. Good reviews of current assessment tests used, including information on interpretation, reliability and validity. Not recommended for the physical therapist who already has expertise in the pediatric field, content appears to be geared for those just entering the specialty field.

If you do not know the topic already at the authors' level, then do not buy this book. You need a towel to get thru. I had impression that the book had been cut down by the editors to save space - some explanations (or should I say - lack of) just drive you crazy.
Cochrane is much much better (but it is only about asset pricing).

This book fits in the market niche defined by Huang and Litzenberger and Ingersoll, and it fits well, despite some peculiar lapses into the extremely--and not needed--formal. For example, the authors present their main derivation of the Capital Asset Pricing Model via the Riesz Representation Theorem in Hilbert space (!). There are better ways.

Despite such idiosyncracies, the book's good and well worth its surprisingly low price.

LeRoy and Werner give a clear and concise walk through main issues in financial economics. Models are kept simple, so complex concepts can be understood more easily.

It is an great introduction to the field and an excellent source for students interested in developing skills for modeling financial problems in an economic context. However, since it is not aimed for undergraduate/MBA students, it lacks intuitive explanation of the subjects - which for the target user is not really needed.

So if you are an undergraduate/MBA student, I would suggest you not to buy this book. However, if you are Phd student in economics and finance, this is a must buy.

Although three years have past since the third edition there is very little difference in the fourth edition. There is a new second author but the first 7 chapters are virtually identical.

The biggest change appears to be the expansion of Chapter 8 from 6 sections to 16 with p-values introduced and explained in various contexts and type I and type II errors introduced one chapter earlier. The introduction of hypothesis testing along with estimation occurs in Chapter 8. This may be helpful to instructors if they tend to strictly follow the order in the text. Chapter 9 is somewhat shorter. These two chapters are now organized by one and two sample problems rather than by estimation and testing. It is not clear to me that this is a better way to organize and introduce the material.

In the end, the text is only 15 pages longer than the third edition and there are no new chapters. There seem to be fewer exercises overall.

Although there are noticeable differences in Chapters 8 an 9, there is very little difference in the other chapters. Most of the exercises are the same (with a few deleted from the new edition).

The authors claim to put more emphasis on the use of computers to solve problems. But this is not easily discernable. I only noticed some brief mention of SPSS version 9 in the ANOVA chapter.

The book is well organized from start to finish, and builds well on the topics as they are presented. Unfortunately, it often makes assumptions about the reader's knowledge of the topic, usually around formula usage that is confusing and difficult.

As a primer for statistics, this one falls a little short.

Kuzma's book provides a good non-mathematical treatment of introductory biostatistics for health science majors. The book is at the right level for my undergraduate students in the Health Science Department at Cal State Long Beach. Kuzma's experience at Loma Linda Hospital has given him a good sense of the appropriate topics and level for these students. I have supplemented the book with my own materials on bootstrap methods and have also considered including topics on epidemiology and problems requiring meta analyses.

The downside to the book is that Kuzma is not a professional statistician and hence there are occasional technical errors and poor exposition of techniques.

Even given these shortcomings, it is the best currently available book at this level. At a slightly higher graduate level, I would recommend Altman's book "Practical Statistics for Medical Research".

i am just learning asl, but i was very dissapointed with this book's approach because i find signing to be so beautiful. The book is set up like a regular kid's book, with written text underneath a picture. The signed english is off in a box by itself, partly covering the picture. There is a ugly line drawing of the sign for each word of the text, with the word again written under it. The signs look out of place, and were the last thing my eye wandered to. I would not read this book to a deaf child, because i felt like it made the signs look like afterthoughts, or intrustions on english, rather than important events of their own. The signs are presented as isolated from the story and colorful illustrations, and they are very small and unattractive looking. i want any book i share with a child to convey the beauty and integrity of signs, and give the child pride in his culture. i would have liked it more if the signs were at least nicely drawn, or if the text was only shown once, as a key to the signs. I also wonder about the choice of translating a rhyming story like the night before christmas into a visual language like sign where rhymes carry no meaning. While i did learn a few new signs from it, i would recommendend buying a child's sign langauge book with pictures and signs for common words, or buying a children's book and drawing signs next to its text; your sign illustrations will probably look more inviting and send a better message about the importance of sign langauge

This is a wonderful series of children's books, using simplified versions of classic stories that families can enjoy together, especially if the deaf child has hearing parents. The signing technique used is Signed English, as opposed to ASL, so there a sign for each part of every sentence. S.E. was developed to teach kids about communication through the English language as well as through sign. A great resource for learning and literacy.

One of the very few cytology books dealing with the normal cytology of various body sites. It is very well known fct that to learn abnormal things you have to know normal things first. I found the book very useful when dealing with cytology slides from breast lesions suspicious of malignant cells, especially when the differentiation of malignant cells from normal cells was difficult. Also useful were chapters on salivary glands and female genital tract.