Book Reviews

Abstract

How to Think About Statistics by John L. Phillips, Jr. New York: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1992, 256 pp., $23.95 (hardcover), $14.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Michael M. Meyer

News from the National Research Council. Reviewed by Michael M. Meyer

Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions: The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling Vol. I Review and Recommendations, Vol. II Technical Papers edited by Constance F. Citro and Eric A. Hanushek. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1991, two volumes, 346 and 351 pp. Reviewed by Michael M. Meyer

On Combining Information: Statistical Issues and Opportunities for Research Panel on Statistical Issues and Opportunities for Research in the Combination of Information. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1992. Reviewed by John E. Rolph     

Forecasting Baseball Games

Abstract

The Assessment Challenge in Statistics Education edited by I. Gal and J.B. Garfield, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press, 1997. Reviewed by Lawrence E. Jones

Cognition and Survey Research edited by Monroe G. Sirken, Douglas J. Herrmann, Susan Schechter, Norbert Schwarz, Judith M. Tanur and Roger Tourangeau, New York: Wiley, 1999. Reviewed by Seymour Sudman     

Book Reviews

Abstract

Assessing Evaluation Studies: The Case of Bilingual Education Strategies edited by Michael M. Meyer and Stephen E. Fienberg. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1992, 128 pp. Reviewed by Joel B. Greenhouse     

Seven Days in May: The Teacher in Apocalypse

Abstract

Point: “A balanced, well-rounded, meticulously documented account.” Reviewed by Nathan Glazer

Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus by Dinesh D'Souza, New York: The Free Press, 1991, x, 319 pp., $19.95.

Counterpoint: “A sulphury vision of higher education Hell.” Reviewed by Michael A. Olivas     

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences,Quotations, Volume 19

Abstract

The Drummer Was the First to Die by Liza Pennywitt Taylor. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992, 309 pp., $19.95 hardcover. Reviewed by Sally C. Morton

Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage by William Rathje and Cullen Murphy. New York: HarperCollins, 1992, 250 pp., $23.00 (ISBN 0-06-016603-7). Reviewed by Stephen E. Fienberg     

How to Choose Winning Lottery Numbers—Secret Ways to Win Big Money

Abstract

The New Bookstore in Town—Books Found on the Shelf

Reasoning with Statistics, Third ed. by Frederick Williams. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1986, 224 pp., $16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-03-019536-5). Reviewed by Michael M. Meyer

Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte, Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press, 1990, 126 pp., $48., hardcover (ISBN 0-961-3921-1-8). Reviewed by William F. Eddy     

Book Reviews

Abstract

The Mathematical and Computational Sciences in Emerging Manufacturing Technologies and Management Practices by Avner Friedman, James Glimm, and John Lavery. Philadelphia: Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1992, 86 pp., free (ISBN 0-89871-307-2). Reviewed by Michael M. Meyer

The Physics of Chance by Charles Ruhla. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1992, 222 pp., $55 (hardcover), $27.95 (paperback) (ISBN 0-19-853960-6). Translated by G. Barton. Reviewed by Michael M. Meyer

The Future of the Survey of Income and Program Participation edited by Constance F. Citro and Graham Kalton. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1993, 284 pp. Reviewed by Michael M. Meyer     

Seeing through Statistics

Abstract

Introduction to Graphical Modelling by David Edwards, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995, 274 pp. Reviewed by Garry Robins

Introduction to Graphical Modelling by David Edwards, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995, 274 pp. Reviewed by Garry Robins

Graphical Models by Steffen L. Lauritzen, Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, 1996, 298 pp. Reviewed by Garry Robins     

Book Reviews

Abstract

Intelligence, Genes, &; Success: Scientists Respond to The Bell Curve edited by Bernie Devlin, Stephen E. Fienberg, Daniel P. Resnick, and Kathryn Roeder, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1997. Reviewed by Peter B. Imrey     

Adjustments of Minority Group Test Scores Used in Employment Referrals

Abstract

Looking for the Last Percent: The Controversy Over Census Undercounts by Harvey Choldin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994, x + 264 pp. Reviewed by Daniel Scott Smith

Modern Applied Statistics With S-Plus® by W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994, 462 pp. Reviewed by John I. Marden     

Book Reviews

Abstract

An Introduction to the Bootstrap by Bradley Efron and Robert J. Tibshirani. New York: Chapman and Hall, 1993, 436 pp. Reviewed by Michael A. Martin     

Transforming the Physical Environment for Learning

Abstract

Everything Looks Impressive by Hugh Kennedy. New York: Doubteday, 1993, $10.00.

Generation X: Tales For An Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991, $13.95.

Also Cited: Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures From The End Of The Eighteenth Century To The Present by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Coming Of Age In New Jersey: College In American Culture by Michael Moffatt. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989.

Stover At Yale by Owen Johnson. New York: Collier Books, 1968 (originally published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912).

The Plastic Age by Percy Marks. New York: Grosset &; Dunlap, 1924.     

Book Reviews

Abstract

Housing America in the 1980s by John S. Adams. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 1988, 352 pp., $65 hardcover (ISBN 0-97154-003-7). Reviewed by Michael M. Meyer     

The Search for the Ultimate Baseball Statistic

Abstract

The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century by David Salsburg. New York: W. H. Freeman and Co., 2001, pp. xi + 340, $23.95. Reviewed by Todd E. Bodner

Statisticians of the Centuries by C. C. Heyde and E. Seneta (Eds.). New York: Springer-Verlag, 2001, pp. xii + 500, $45.95. Reviewed by Todd E. Bodner     

A Profession at Risk Using Post-Tenure Review to Save Tenure and Create an Intentional Future for Academic Community

Abstract

The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Education Opportunity in America, 1900–1985 by Steven Brint and Jerome Karabel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, IX, 312 pages, $24.95 Reviewed by Richard C. Richardson, Jr.     

Teachable Moments,Teachable Places: Education Beyond the Classroom

Abstract

A Long Way Together: A Personal View of Ncte's First Sixty-Seven Years by J. N. Hook. Urbana, III.: National Council of Teachers of English, 303 pages, $9.50.

Children's Secrets by Thomas J. Cottle. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 273 pages, $10.

The Paradox of Progressive Education: The Gary Plan And Urban Schooling by Ronald D. Cohen and Raymond A. Mohl. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 216 pages, $15.

Organization Without Authority: Dilemmas of Social Control in Free Schools by Ann Swidler. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 199 pages, $12.50.

Legislated Learning: The Bureaucratization of the American Classroom by Arthur E. Wise. Berkeley: University of California Press, 219 pages, $10.95.

Families and Communities as Educators edited by Hope Jensen Leichter. New York: Teachers College Press, 246 pages, $11.95 hardcover; $7.95 paperback.     

Books in Brief

Abstract

Paradigms Lost: Reflections on Literacy and its Decline by John Simon. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 222 pages, $12.95.

Fire Watch by Alan Dennis Burke. Boston: Atlantic—Little, Brown, 386 pages, $11.95.

Understanding Student and Faculty Life: Using Campus Surveys to Improve Academic Decision Making by Leonard L. Baird, Rodney T. Hartnett, and Associates. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 299 pages, $14.95.

A Program for Renewed Partnership: The Report of the Sloan Commission on Government and Higher Education. Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 309 pages, $18.50.

What is an Educated Person? The Decades Ahead edited by Martin Kaplan. New York: Praeger, 195 pages, $22.95.

Outward Bound: Schools of the Possible by Robert Godfrey New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 273 pages, $16.95 (58.95 paper).     

Statistics: Decisions through Data

Abstract

Regression Graphics: Ideas for Studying Regressions Through Graphics by R. Dennis Cook, New York: Wiley, 1998, xviii + 349 pp. Reviewed by William G. Jacoby

Misused Statistics: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by H.F. Spirer, L. Spirer, and A.J. Jaffe, New York: Dekker, 1998. Reviewed by Arnold Barnett     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Cold-Blooded Animals A Guidebook for Teaching Algebra Terry A. Goodman, John Bernard, Martin P. Cohen, and Joanne E. Meldon Interregional Air Pollution Modelling: The State of the Art edited by S. Zwerver and J. van Ham Andy Bear: A Polar Cub Grows Up At the Zoo. Ginny Johnston and Judy Cutchins. Astrophotography for the Amateur Michael Covington New York: Cambridge University Press Adolescent Psychiatry, Volume XI Developmental and Clinical Studies Learning From Children: New Beginnings for Teaching Numerical Thinking     

Visual Revelations

Abstract

Berger Statistical Superhero: A Review Reviewed by Albert Madansky

A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos, New York: Anchor Books (Doubleday), 1996: xi + 212 pp. Reviewed by Thomas L. Moore