Bruno Books

This apparently is a book in the Opposing Viewpoints series that has been discontinued, as the latest version I have seen was written in 1986, before the fall of the USSR. Thus, virtually all of the essays in the book are pointless and obsolete. One of them is simply an excerpt from the writings of Karl Marx in 1848. While the majority of the books in this series are very informative and well worth reading, this one, unfortunately, is not.

This is a volume with definitions of most statistical
terms. Some are missing, such as:

Definition of chutzpah:
someone who asks 4000 dollars for a 9000-page encyclopedia which was obtained
by asking hundreds of statisticians to volunteer sections for
free.

Definition of mensch:
someone who writes surveys on his field of expertise and
places it on some web site for the whole world
to enjoy.


Luc Devroye, Montreal

I took this book out from my local library two days ago. I gave up in frustration half-way through. Intelligent debate this is not. The editors do a poor job of selecting well-reasoned essays and articles, and instead go for pieces that are often nonsensical and illogical. Generalizing from watching your own child's behavior? Invoking "the 1950's" as an cheap way to smear some opposing view without actually debunking it? There's too much BS in this book to make it worth your money.

too many type errors in the book...about one every page...seriously...
the worst book i ever encountered
the only thing good about the book was that it was really thin so it was easy to carry around and the font size was large so i can read easily
if the type errors were fixed...especially with the equations and formulas it could be one of the best books