In Dog We Trust Review

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(More customer reviews)I loved this book! I started it over lunch yesterday and could hardly bear to put it down. The first person protagonist (Steve) is a computer hacker on parole, trying to reestablish his life after some prison time, a divorce, and a move across the country. Out walking one night, he finds his next door neighbor shot to death, her Golden Retriever beside her. Steve has one good friend in town, a police detective, so he calls him and is asked to take the dog home until something can be decided. He's not a dog person, but the dog quickly inserts himself into his life and he's soon besotted. He decides he has to help solve the murder of his neighbor, a tricky deal as he's not supposed to do anything but work related business on his computer. There are multiple layers to the plot and lots of great stuff with the dog, Rochester--named after the character in Jane Eyre. I loved the book and hope there will be more stories with Steve and Rochester in the future.

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After a bad divorce and a brief prison term for computer hacking, 42-year-old Steve Levitan has returned to his home town of Stewart\'s Crossing and taken a part-time job as an adjunct professor of English at his alma mater, Eastern College. While walking around his gated community, he becomes friendly with his next-door neighbor, Caroline Kelly, and her golden retriever, Rochester.When Caroline is shot and killed while walking Rochester, Steve becomes the dog\'s temporary guardian. Together, these two unlikely sleuths work to uncover the mystery behind Caroline\'s death.

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Statistics for Business and Economics Review

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(More customer reviews)I teach Stats 201 (Introduction to Business Statistics) and for years I used the textbook by Wiers, which I feel is the best in it's field. After numerous obsrvations by my colleagues in the department, we hope that will be going back to the previous author's book after the current stock of this one runs out.
I find this book to be confusing, and it tends to jump around a lot rather than give a structured look at the process of learning Statistics. It pays little or no attention to the use of random numbers and the terminology is confusing.
Perhaps the biggest drawback with this book is the price- almost 150 bucks for a textbook is outrageous. Buy the previous edition used- the difference is minimal, the price difference is significant. Better still- buy the book on the same subject by Wiers. Don't just take my word- compare the two....it's just my opinion.

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This market leading text offers a solid, comprehensive, applications-oriented approach. Written by authors who are well-known and highly regarded in the field, the text provides sound methodological development. The discussion and development of each technique is presented in an application setting, with the statistical results providing insights to decisions and solutions to problems. Statistics for Business and Economics, 8e offers proven accuracy that has led instructors to adopted it simply for its superior examples and exercises alone.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights Review

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(More customer reviews)This edition of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights is, without question, where my lifelong love of books and English literature was born. As a child, I would pore over the Fritz Eichenberg wood engravings in my mother's set and long for the day when I would be old enough to read the books. Unlike anything before or since, the Eichenberg illustrations dramatically convey the atmosphere of the Bronte novels--dark, cold, sad, and haunting. I have purchased these sets for students who also have grown to love the Brontes, so my only reservation in urging people to buy these books is that I will need a few remaining copies to buy for future students, I am sure! It would be wonderful if a publisher would undertake a re-issuing of this edition of the novels.

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JANE EYRE is the classic story of the young girl who falls in love with her dark, dashing and handsome employer, but does he harbour a deep dark secret, a wife she doesn't know about? Are they really meant for each other in the end?
WUTHERING HEIGHTS is the passionate and turbulent love-story of two people who cannot be together, a love which is all-encompassing yet thwarted, an unresolved passion which eventually threatens to destroy them and many around them.
These two novels are among the most stunning romantic tales in any language, and here they are both under one volume. A definite must-have for all true romantics at heart.

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Lilacs: A Gardener's Encyclopedia Review

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(More customer reviews)As the title states - it is an Encyclopedia. Within its pages you will find all that is possible to know about lilacs to publishing date. You will find therein, answers to any lilac question. If your answer is not there it is probably unknowable - lost in the mists of time - but that too is explained. There is an impressive 15 page(2 columns per page) list of "Literature Citations" at the end of the book. Freek Vrugtman has meticulously researched and verified all information and he gives us a most satisfying, complete, comprehensive story of lilacs.
Vrugtman revised John L. Fiala's book "Lilacs The Genus Syringa" published in 1988, and added to it the subsequent 20 years of development and progress of the lilac world which spans the globe in temperate climates. He has written in a very readable formal style and treated professionally all information pertaining to lilacs. Fiala himself would be proud to see how his own accomplishments in the first version provided the basis for this excellent new book.
Who could possibly know lilacs better than Vrugtman? He has been the 'International Lilac Registrar' since 1975. Since that time he has worked on the growing 'International Register and Checklist of Cultivar Names in the Genus Syringa'. He presently enjoys Curator Emeritus status. He was curator of two important gardens in Canada,the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, Ontario (home to the world-renowned Katie Osborne Lilac Garden) and the Botanical Garden at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver BC. He served on editorial committees for the 'International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants' and he was awarded in 2002 the ISHS Medal by the 'International Society for Horticulture Science'. His vast knowledge and experience are shared in this book.
This volume will be treasured by anyone who enjoys lilacs and gardens. The five hundred plus tantilizing color photographs add enormously to the reader's enjoyment and/or perhaps torment as the images create a longing for the fragrance of lilacs.

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First published in 1988 by award-winning American hybridizer Reverend John Fiala, this unique reference quickly became known worldwide as the lilac lovers' bible. The latest revision combines Fiala's passion for lilacs with the expertise of Canadian plantsman Freek Vrugtman, the international lilac registrar.

The new book provides up-to-date information on the 21 known lilac species and 10 natural hybrids, as well as hundreds of the 2000 named cultivars. Five hundred color photos have been added, including some which show the newest introductions from Russia and Poland. The text addresses practical concerns of selecting, growing, propagating, and using lilacs in the landscape, alone or with companion plants. It also provides fascinating details of the history, origin, and discovery of the species and of the people behind the development of the cultivars. A new chapter on lilacs in art and crafts and an updated list of places where lilacs can be viewed and celebrated complete this rich resource.

Packed with 580 gorgeous color photographs, most of them previously unpublished, Lilacs: A Gardener's Encyclopedia tells the story of a classic spring-flowering shrub cherished for its reliable masses of colorful flowers and sweet fragrance.

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Jane Eyre (Townsend Library Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)This review is aimed more toward the Norton edition than to JANE EYRE. We all know this is a classic. Bronte was simply a genius and a harbinger of romantic, dramatic, gothic, and horror writing. (However, it still irks me that she couldn't end a simple sentence with a period. Every declarative statement, it seems, must be qualified with a colon or semi-colon. Oh well. Sign of the times.)
As for the Norton edition, it's the only one to buy. Bronte makes the assumption that you have read the Bible cover-to-cover a zillion times, and for those of us who have not read it through once, Norton's annotations are more than helpful---they're essential to understanding the novel's Christian allusions. This edition also provides the reader with critical essays, contexts of Bronte's life, Bronte's reactions to critics of her day, etc.
Bottom line: you can get the Dover Thrift edition for a couple bucks, but, if you are interested in giving this classic more than a cursory read, this edition is worth the extra money.

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This Townsend Library classic has been carefully edited to be more accessible to today's students. It includes a background note about the book, an author's biography, and a lively afterword. Acclaimed by educators nationwide, the Townsend Library is helping millions of young adults discover the pleasure and power of reading.

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