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This is a suitably vast book for a vast subject. It covers every aspect of the application of human genetics to medicine, and the reviews are not only an ideal introduction to a genetic disease, but are heavily referenced as well. This makes it ideal as a guide to the most recent literature on the subject. The introductory chapters are essential reading as well.

Several books have been published to introduce their own meta-analysis methods. However, some books have turned out to overestimate or underestimate scientifically important construct-level relationships by simulation studies. Mis-estimations can lead to a very wrong decision. To this effect, the right choice of a method or reference for meta-analysis is significant yet simple. Just take this book! The book is impressive, because it is the only book available to introduce the most accurate method for meta-analysis with lots of insightful and detailed information and with lot of new findings. Further, this book also provides very useful examples and questions for better understandings of meta-analysis methods.
For those who have some knowledge in measurement and statistics... this book is based on the enhanced and refined random-effects methods to correct for sampling error, measurement error, and other statistical errors like range restriction and dichotomization. Only this book has this correction. If your fields are I/O psychology, HRM, or OB, you must choose this book over alternatives, because this book provides lots of examples based on I/O psychology research. What is more important is that most meta-analysis research in those areas has been carried out using this method. What else you need? The co-author of this book, Dr. Frank Schmidt also provides the Windows-based software based on equations in the book. With the software, you can do your own meta-analysis very easily. This book will be your life-time reference. You won't regret.

I don't know why this printing also appears as "Say What You Mean!" by the same author, the content and layout is identical.

Do you know the difference between "deism" and "theism"? Or "logogram" and "ideogram"? Do you know the proper use of "comprise", "consist", "compose", and "constitute"? Linguist and professor Trask lays it out for you. If she had read this book, Octopussy would have said, "My father became a leading authority on OCTOPUSES." Not "octopi." If they had read this book, a major advertising company would not have written me asking if I was "interested or disinterested" in their product.

Arranged like a dictionary, here are 288 pages of the most misunderstood, misused, abused words in English. Trask also throws in a handful of style and usage guide, making this book useful to have at arm's reach. However, a minor quibble. The author has strong opinions on post-modernist writing in general, and some words specifically. Woe if you should use "hegemonic", "hermeneutic" or "non-linear" in your writing because it marks you immediately as a content-free post-mod moron. Trask may be on to something here, but I'm not sure opinions belong in a book such as this. Take another example, if you use the word "permissiveness", I quote here verbatim: " ... you're obviously fulminating about something. Maybe you should calm down." In the author's world, you don't make mistake in writing, you commit "blunders", you create "howlers", you appear "illiterate", your writing appears "idiotic" and you will be "immediately dismissed" by your readers for writting "nonsense."

This is the book form of a semester study with a smart, eccentric, curmudgeon-ly but beloved writing prof. If Trask weren't so saltily opinionated, the book wouldn't have been so fun to read, or stuck with me long after I read it. For that I suppose I could forget the quibble. There is one glaring error under the entry "Vietnamese Names", though. Trask got it backward, Vietnamese write their surname first. This shocking error is delivered with the same cocksure attitude about everything the author cares to opine on throughout the book making me wonder what else he's so certain about that's wrong.

I highly recommend this book, either to augment your style guides or to thumb through once in a while and make notes to yourself. There is one word which I have misspelled for years, "restaurateur" is correct, not "restauranteur." Professor Trask died in 2004, but I hope someone takes up this book and publish a second edition.

The highly skilled and experienced linguist R.L. Trask offers no-nonsense vocabulary advice Say What You Mean!: A Troubleshooter's Guide To English Style & Usage.. Structured like a dictionary, Say What You Mean! is specifically a compendium of English words that are all-too-often misused or confused - such as "sped" vs. "speeded", and the proper usage of "Sir" or "Dame" - these titles may be used with the full name or just first name, but using them with the last name only is improper! Although particularly useful for British English speakers adjusting to American English spellings and definitions and vice-versa, Say What You Mean! is an utterly invaluable reference and serious-minded writers of all formats are enthusiastically recommended to peruse Say What You Mean! cover to cover in order to avoid common mistakes and misconceptions.

This book is a homely extension of an article of the same name by Everett C. Hughes. In fact, Hughes' article is appended to the book chapters. It is intended to show that mistakes at work are common and to be expected and do not have to be explained as deviations. It also takes up issues of the way mistakes are typically handled by workers, under what circumstances they are most likely to occur, when the workers know mistakes are being made, the control of the definition of mistakes, and who pays for mistakes. The book makes no effort to cover the literature on mistakes at work, but selects only those tales which illustrates given points. -- from book's back cover

WE WILL PROBABLY NOT BE TOLD WHO REALLY KILLED JFK. THAT BEING SAID, I FOUND THIS INDEPENDANT BALLISTICAL INVESTIGATION (WRITTEN AND READS LIKE A HARD BOILED DETECTIVE NOVEL) WAS HONESTLY PERFORMED BASED ON THE PREMISE OF PROVING THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT CORRECT. JUST AS THIS INVESTIGATOR, HOWARD DONAHUE, WAS OVER HALF WAY IN PROVING THIS PREMISE, FACTS OF THE WARREN REPORT STARTS TO UNRAVEL. IN INVESTIGATING THE PRESIDENT'S HEAD SHOT MORE, DONAHUE WAS SURPRISED TO FIND THAT THE EVIDENCE SHOWED THE TRAJECTORY DID NOT COME FROM THE BOOK DEPOSITORY, NOR FROM THE GRASSY KNOLL. DONAHUE'S INVESTIGATION SHOWED CONCLUSIVLEY THAT THIS SHOT CAME FROM "HALFBACK". THIS WAS THE SECRET SERVICE CAR WHICH WAS DIRECTLY FOLLOWING THE PRESIDENT'S CAR. DONAHUE ALSO FOUND THAT THIS BULLET WASN'T EVEN THE SAME TYPE AS WHAT OSWALD WAS USING. I FOUND THIS TRUELY HONEST INVESTIGATION TO BE LIKE FRESH AIR SLAPPING ME IN THE FACE AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IT REALLY MADE ME FEEL THAT OUR GOVERNMENT WAS NOT ALWAYS TO BE TRUSTED IN WHAT THEY TELL US. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE, I FEEL I FINALLY HAVE THE TRUE STORY ON WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR 35TH PRESIDENT IN DALLAS ON THAT FALL DAY IN 1963. BUT, IT WAS A HORRABLE MISTAKE, RIGHT? I EVEN HAVE THE TRIGGER MAN'S NAME BUT, I WON'T TELL YOU SO, YOU WILL HAVE TO READ THIS GREAT BOOK. THANK YOU MR. MENNINGER AND THANK YOU EVEN MORE MR. DONAHUE.

"...So that night began and continued to the end, in nothing but confusion and errors; whereupon it was ever afterwards called the Night of Errors." (Gesta Grayorum, 1594)

One of the most surreal butlers in all of mystery inhabits "Night of Errors (1948)." His name is Swindle and his conversation consists mainly of the croaked "Urrr" sound and displeasing snuffles through his nose. Most of the really amusing episodes in the book consist of Swindle's monosyllabic interactions with the long-suffering family whom he serves. Naturally, he is one of the suspects in this classical British manor house mystery.

Sir Oliver Dromio is found burnt to a crisp in his own fireplace, but this wasn't the first suspicious fire on the Dromio estate. Forty years earlier, Sir Oliver's infant brothers (he was one of a set of triplets) were supposedly burned to death in a suspect blaze in the nursery.

Sir John Appleby, recently retired from his august position at New Scotland Yard, has had his fill of burnt baronets. But he lets the local constable talk him into a midnight drive in his big yellow Bentley over to the neighboring estate of Sherris, home of the Dromio family since the seventeenth century.

There are a multitude of suspects in addition to the Neanderthal butler: Lady Dromio, whose two infant sons had died so horribly four decades past, and whose baronet husband had died mad; Lucy, her adopted daughter who might have been Sir Oliver's mistress; the Reverend Mr. Greengrave who sometimes drank a glass of wine too many, in order to overcome his shyness; Sebastian Dromio, the black sheep of the family, who was supposed to be in America; the rich, reclusive Mrs. Gollifer, who might be Lucy's natural mother; and her son, Geoffrey who is in love with Lucy.

Appleby and his sidekick, Inspector Hyland set out to solve the homicide in a night of errors compounded by several arsons, multiple corpses, mistaken identities, all sorts of motives (from blackmail to hereditary madness), and an over-full cast of suspects.

Including one very odd butler.

"...So that night began and continued to the end, in nothing but confusion and errors; whereupon it was ever afterwards called the Night of Errors." (Gesta Grayorum, 1594)

One of the most surreal butlers in all of mystery inhabits "Night of Errors (1948)." His name is Swindle and his conversation consists mainly of the croaked "Urrr" sound and displeasing snuffles through his nose. Most of the really amusing episodes in the book consist of Swindle's monosyllabic interactions with the long-suffering family whom he serves. Naturally, he is one of the suspects in this classical British manor house mystery.

Sir Oliver Dromio is found burnt to a crisp in his own fireplace, but this wasn't the first suspicious fire on the Dromio estate. Forty years earlier, Sir Oliver's infant brothers (he was one of a set of triplets) were supposedly burned to death in a suspect blaze in the nursery.

Sir John Appleby, recently retired from his august position at New Scotland Yard, has had his fill of burnt baronets. But he lets the local constable talk him into a midnight drive in his big yellow Bentley over to the neighboring estate of Sherris, home of the Dromio family since the seventeenth century.

There are a multitude of suspects in addition to the Neanderthal butler: Lady Dromio, whose two infant sons had died so horribly four decades past, and whose baronet husband had died mad; Lucy, her adopted daughter who might have been Sir Oliver's mistress; the Reverend Mr. Greengrave who sometimes drank a glass of wine too many, in order to overcome his shyness; Sebastian Dromio, the black sheep of the family, who was supposed to be in America; the rich, reclusive Mrs. Gollifer, who might be Lucy's natural mother; and her son, Geoffrey who is in love with Lucy.

Appleby and his sidekick, Inspector Hyland set out to solve the homicide in a night of errors compounded by several arsons, multiple corpses, mistaken identities, all sorts of motives (from blackmail to hereditary madness), and an over-full cast of suspects.

Including one very odd butler.

Thielen's book not only gives the reader a workable method for delivering (relatively) error-free code, but if taken as metaphor, gives good methods for making a more error-free world in general. Well written, small, concise.

This is an excellent novel that tells history like it really was. This is probably the first book I read that was educational. Dick Gregory is a black comedian who makes reading fun. Seriously, I would have never have finished this book (and learned all about American history) if it didn't have Gregory's humor. Recommended for anyone who wants to learn about history without taking a class or reading something dull.