Books in Brief

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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).     

Transforming the Physical Environment for Learning

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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.     

Books in Brief

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Prisoners of Silence: Breaking the Bonds for Adult Illiteracy in the United States by Jonathan kozol. New York: Continuum, 113 pages, $8.95.

Happier by Degrees by Pam Mendelsohn. New York: E.P. Dutton, 302 pages, $13.95 ($7.95 paperback).

The Kent State Coverup by Joseph Kelner and James Munves. New York: Harper and Row, 305 pages, $15.00     

Books in Brief

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Cyril Burt, Psychologist by L. S. Hearnshaw. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 370 pages, $19.50.

The Great American Writing Block: Causes and Cures of the New Illiteracy by Thomas C. Wheeler. New York: Viking Press, 189 pages, $8.95.

Scholarly Communication: The Report of the National Enquiry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 176 pages, $3.95

The Impersonal Campus by Virginia B. Smith and Alison R. Bernstein. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 137 pages, $10.95.

Howard Mumford Jones: An Autobiography. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 292 pages, $17.50.     

Teachable Moments,Teachable Places: Education Beyond the Classroom

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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.     

Seeing through Statistics

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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     

In Short

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The Great Transformation in Higher Education, 1960–1980 by Clark Kerr, Albany; State University of New York Press, 1991, xxii + 383 pages, notes, index.

Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide by Sharon B. Merriam and Rosemary S. Caffarella, San Francisco, Oxford: Jossey-Bass, 1991, xx + 376 pages, references, indices.

Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading Since 1880 by Carl F. Kaestle, et al. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1991, xxiii + 338 pages, appendix, bibliography, index.

Major American Higher Education Issues and Answers in the 1990s by Richard I. Miller, London: Jessica Kingsley, 1990, 219 pages, references, index.     

Visual Revelations

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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     

Books in Brief

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Empty Pages: A Search for Writing Competence in School and Society by Clifton Fadiman and James Howard. Belmont, Calif.: Fearon Pitman, 166 pages, $7.95.

Mean Things Happening in This Land: The Life and Times of H. L. Mitchell, Co-Foudnder of The Southern Tenant Farmers Union by H. L. Mitchell. Mont-clair, N.J.: Allanheld, Osmun, 358 pages, $10.95.

US and UK Educational Policy: A Decade of Reform by Edgar Litt and Michael Parkinson. New York: Praeger, 161 pages, $19.95.

Impurely Academic: The Letters, Memos, and other Humorous Pieces of William J. Keefe, Political Scientist edited by Alan Rosenthal. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 88 pages, $3.95 paperback.     

Adjustments of Minority Group Test Scores Used in Employment Referrals

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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     

Statistics: Decisions through Data

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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     

Dispensable Statistics

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Handbook of Statistical Modeling for the Social and Behavioural Sciences edited by Gerhard Arminger, Clifford C. Clogg, and Michael E. Sobel. New York: Plenum Press, 1995. Reviewed by Paul Dudgeon

Modeling the AIDS Epidemic: Planning, Policy, and Prediction edited by E.H. Kaplan and M.L. Brandeau. New York: Raven Press, 1994. Reviewed by Michael Altmann     

Random Ranking of Hospitals is Unsound

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Randomness by Deborah J. Bennett. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998, 238 pages. Reviewed by Karen E. Feasel

Understanding U.S.A. Edited by Richard Saul Wurman, Newport, RI: TED Conferences, Inc., 1999, 324 pp.; illustrated; $25. Reviewed by Howard Wainer     

Book Reviews

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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     

Seven Days in May: The Teacher in Apocalypse

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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     

Guest Commentary

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Clustering and Classification edited by P. Arabie, L. J. Hubert, and G. De Soete, River Edge, New Jersey: World Scientific, 1996, 490 pp., $109 hardcover, $61 paperback. Reviewed by Jon R. Kettenring

Statistics as Principled Argument by Robert P. Abelson, Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995, 221 pp. Reviewed by Edward J. Shoben     

Scientific Inferences and Environmental Health Problems

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Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables by J. S. Long, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997, xxx + 297 pp. Reviewed by Ulf Böckenholt

Visual Revelations: Graphical Tales of Fate and Deception from Napoleon Bonaparte to Ross Perot by Howard Wainer, New York: Copernicus, 1997, xi + 180 pp. Reviewed by James O. Ramsay     

A Capital Place for Dining

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An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis : Alan Agresti, New York: Wiley, 1996, 312 pp. Reviewed by Carolyn J. Anderson     

Window on Washington

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Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference by Judea Pearl, Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Reviewed by Roderick P. McDonald     

Spectra of degrees of some structures

We argue for the existence of structures with the spectrum {x : x ≰ a} of degrees, where a is an arbitrary low degree. Also it is stated that there exist structures with the spectrum of degrees, {x : x ≰ a} ⋃ {x : x ≰ b}, for any low degrees a and b. Supported by RFBR grant No. 05-01-00605. __________ Translated from Algebra i Logika, Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 729–744, November–December, 2007.