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Critical Thinking is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, and as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and lover. Discover the core skills of effective thinking; then analyze your own thought processes, identify weaknesses, and overcome them. Learn how to translate more effective thinking into better decisions, less frustration, more wealth Q and above all, greater confidence to pursue and achieve your most important goals in life.
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Critical Thinking is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, and as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and lover. Discover the core skills of effective thinking; then analyze your own thought processes, identify wea
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Not fit for critical thinking.......2007-09-11
Although the authors have plenty of authority in this field, the book comes across to me as marketing or propaganda. They have focused on what they view as the essence of critical thinking which they call "fairmindedness." However, their intent seems less about teaching people how to apply logic to life's situations and more about an agenda of promoting liberal, Humanist philosophy. They eschew emotion as counterproductive to "fairmindedness," yet the text is replete with emotionally charged words, symbols, and examples. I was very disappointed, and I struggled to find the nuggets of truth in the sea of philosophical pondering.
Food for "THOUGHT".......2007-08-06
--You will see (in private) the assets and liabilities of your own personal thinking - as well as the the assets and liabilities in how your family, friends and associates think.
--Highly readable - very informative - absorbing and engrossing presentations - the art of critical thinking made user-friendly, enjoyable, and magnetic. A book worth using to learn or to teach "how" to think - as well as to employ for reflecting upon "how" we think.
Decent Book.......2007-07-06
I think that the book was really good and gave me a couple of new ways to think. I would recommend this book to anyone that is looking to examine how they think.
Great for teachers of critical thinking classes.......2007-05-20
I use this book as a college professor for courses in ethics in addition to courses based primarily on critical thinking skills. Easy to follow, good chapter separation, and each chapter building upon the previous one, make this an excellent choice for these types of courses.
If you want to get smart, especially in today's chaotic world..., get hold of this book quickly!.......2006-10-28
Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life
by Richard Paul & Linda Elder
One of the hallmarks of strategic thinking, whether it is for business or for personal application, is the ability to think critically. This is also the expressed contention of Michel Robert in his series of well-known strategic thinking books for CEOs & senior managers.
In this particular book, which also happens to be one of my personal favourites, the two authors argue that everything you do in life is determined by the quality of your thinking. I fully concur with the authors. The two authors are principal leaders of the Center for Critical Thinking, a well-respected research & professional development organisation among the critical thinking community.
What I like about this book is that the authors help the reader to become a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, & as a consumer, a citizen, a friend, a parent, & even a lover. They also help the reader to analyze your own thought processes so you can identify your own weaknesses & overcome them. To be more precise, they actually show the reader how to "take thinking apart" & assess it for quality.
In a nutshell, readers will learn how to improve all the three core components of thinking:
- analysis;
- evaluation;
- re-thinking;
The authors have also provided practical metacognitive exercises for honing your thinking skills every day.
These are the powerful & beautiful features of this wonderful book!
In the end analysis, thinking strategically is actually using effective critical thinking to achieve your goals & enhance your life. This also applies in the business realm.
I want to compliment both authors for crafting this excellent guide & field book on critical thinking. Their writings are clear, succinct & concise. Personally, I have enjoyed working on their exercises in the book.
If you want to get smart, especially in today's chaotic world where you're at the mercy of everyone else - from dishonest politicians to aggressive, stop-at-nothing ad agencies - get hold of this book quickly.
Readers who are interested to explore further the two authors' masterwork are welcome to check out their corporate website. They have a lot of other good stuff e.g. Thinker's Guides.
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Features:
• Keyed to four leading Hebrew grammars (Pratico/Van Pelt, Futato, Ross, Seow)
• Frequency numbers on every card
• Unusual forms included
• Cards numbered for easy assignment
• Cards 1–979 contain all words that occur 30 or more times (except proper names)
• Cards 980–1,000 contain select proper names and words occurring less than 30 times
• Internet support site: www.basicsofbiblicalhebrew.com
Old Testament Hebrew Vocabulary Cards is part of the Zondervan Vocabulary Builder Series. Basics of Biblical Greek
Vocabulary Cards is also available, keyed to Mounce.
Customer Reviews:
Must for Hebrew Students.......2007-06-08
Just got them today! And I realize how desperately I needed a memory study tool like this. Perfect.
Excellent for any biblical Hebrew student.......2007-03-14
These cards are great for any student of biblical Hebrew. The only thing that I wish were different is that I wish they were in alphabetical order rather than the order of the book associated with these cards. But the print is very readable, the paper is sturdy, they are the perfect size, and basically everything about the cards themselves is great. You won't be disappointed with the cards themselves, but like I said it would be easier for those of us not using the related book if they were in alphabetical order.
very goog.......2007-01-10
Do you want to learn biblical hebrew ? buy thoses card.
PO FAURE ( France)
In addition you can buy an interlinear bible and the Main concordance of Mr Strong ( i. e. Strong main concordance )
Success.......2006-11-06
Last year I attempted to learn Hebrew on my own vollition without these cards. This year I actually have learned the Vocabulary. Though they are strangely organized at first you can easily place them in better order with their numbering system. Very good purchase.
Is it best or second best?.......2006-07-24
This is one of the two big (about 1000 cards/words) sets of pre-made Biblical Hebrew flash cards readily available for purchase on Amazon. Recently I reviewed the other set, the Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary Cards by Dillard, which sell on Amazon for $12.95. The Old Testament Hebrew Vocabulary Cards by Van Pelt and Pratico (part of the Zondervan product line) sell for $17.95, a bit more. As I noted in my review of the Dillard set, if I were still a starving college student, the five dollar difference alone might have inclined me toward Dillard. Now that I've got a real job in the real world, I sprung for BOTH of them. I have been using both of them in my personal study of Hebrew and I like them both, though each is a little different from the other with different strengths.
In my review of the Dillard set, I stated that I liked it the best. I still think I do, but I might have been reacting a bit to what I thought was an unfairly negative review of the Dillard cards by one reviewer. The same reviewer in a shorter review of the Van Pelt and Pratico cards says the Dillard set is "plain awful." I strongly disagree. Basically, the two sets are quite similar: Hebrew on one side and English on the other. There would not be many people who could learn from one but not from the other. But in this review, I will highlight the advantages of the Van Pelt and Pratico set, which I will call Van Pelt for short.
Van Pelt cards are keyed to four Hebrew grammar texts: one by Van Pelt and Pratico themselves, and the others by Futato, Ross, and Seow. I'm not using those at the moment, but if I were that would be very helpful. Some of the cards have some ancillary information such as alternative spellings and irregular plurals (but in smaller print). The Van Pelt cards are a little larger overall. Their length is a little less than the Dillard cards (which are the same length as many standard business cards) but the width is greater than the Dillard cards (not quite the width of a standard business card). And the paper is a little thicker and stiffer than the Dillard set. To me this makes no difference but perhaps the Van Pelt set will last longer because of the thicker paper. The print on the Van Pelt is a regular Hebrew word processor font. The Dillard uses hand calligraphy. What I consider an unfair review of Dillard states that the Dillard calligraphy was not well done and that it was difficult to read. I think the Dillard calligraphy is excellent and quite readable. But if you are myopic and need very big print, the Van Pelt will be better for you (but as I noted, it has some ancillary information in smaller print; the Dillard cards have even more ancillary information in smaller print. But even the smallest print on either card is larger than newprint).
The Van Pelt set advertises an "internet support site" but really this is just an advertisement site for other Van Pelt and Practico products as well as some other Biblical language products. What is not mentioned on the box is that there is a audio CD by a different author "Old Testament Hebrew Vocabulary: Learn on the Go" by Jonathan T. Pennington, as part of the same Zondervan product line, in which the most frequent Hebrew Bible words are pronounced. These are not in the same order as the numbered Van Pelt cards, but one can rearrange the cards and put them in the same order. I recently bought the audio CD but I haven't worked with it yet. I cannot attest that the words are exactly the same, but since both sets claim to have about 1000 of the most common Hebrew words in the Bible, there should be a very significant overlap. One could actually use the CD with either the Van Pelt or the Dillard cards though I might expect that they would match the Van Pelt set better. Also, there is a book on Hebrew vocabulary, which I don't own, called The Vocabulary Guide for Biblical Hebrew by Van Pelt and Pratico, which probably parallels the Van Pelt cards quite well.
If you look up the Amazon listing for the Dillard set, which is part of the huge Vis-Ed line of study cards, you can see the reasons why I prefer Dillard. To be honest, they are all weak reasons except for the fact that the Dillard cards frequently have a lot of ancillary information such as related grammatical forms and derivations that I find interesting and useful. In deciding which set to buy I would recommend consulting your teacher, if you have one. Also, if you are using one of the books cross referenced by Van Pelt, then Van Pelt is probably better for you. If you can afford it, do what I did---buy both.
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"Questioning" is a skill rarely taught in school, but doing it well - that is, asking the right questions of the right people - can radically transform attitudes, actions, and results. Change Your Questions, Change Your Life provides easy-to-learn tools that can make a significant and immediate difference in people's business and personal lives. Written as an engaging fable, it inspires readers to take charge of their thinking in order to accomplish goals, improve relationships, advance careers, investigate new territories, and in general gain greater life satisfaction. This book explains how to "be your own coach," outlines the author's QuestionThinking Model, and lists the top 12 questions for change. Real-world examples provide practical models for applying the principles in a variety of situations, while a Choice Map is a useful visual tool that demonstrates that everyone has a choice in every situation, even if it is not immediately apparent.
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questions are more important than answers.......2007-07-16
If given a difficult problem and 20 hours to solve it, I would spend 19 hours framing the question. This is a paraphrase from Albert Einstein. The way a person approaches life truly defines the outputs that they get out of it. Can 3-5 hours with a book change your life?
A new way to ask what's going on.......2007-03-30
Marilee G. Adams found that she could generate positive changes in her behavior and productivity by changing the defensive questions that she previously asked in the face of adversity. Analyzing those protective questions showed her that she took setbacks and criticism too personally. Asking different questions enabled her to reframe each moment and create growth opportunities. Adams illustrates the problem-solving power of honest curiosity. Her "QuestionThinking" method generates practical ways to change your mind, literally. These are great ideas; however, their repetition within a fictional storyline may annoy some readers, while others may like this allegorical approach to telling the tale. The self-questioning techniques are easy to employ, and will help you examine situations from different points of view, which can come in quite handy. We recommend adding this set of tools to your interpersonal communication toolkit.
Interesting but I felt it was not what I expected but I did learn a thing or two........2007-01-25
I was looking forward to reading the book. I have always thought that questions, or as the book states, great questions lead to great results were important. At first, I thought the way the book was written as a story was unique. Something like , The Richest Man in Babylon, one of my favorite books regarding financial independence. And yet, I was waiting for the great finale that never came. It was said , the main character, Ben and the company became succesful and it was because of the questions and they gave some examples, I expected more, more details, more information.
That said, it gave some practice exercises that made sense especially the one about the phone ringing, do you answer it , do you wait. When something happens , use the same technique, observe before you do something. And switching from judge to learner was valuable. Ask the right question and switch role which can make a big difference.
There was some great insights regarding questions. And the role you take , as one of Judge or learner was good. I was asking myself during this time, I am judging , how can I change that. How is the person I am interacting with feeling, what are their wants.
I do recommend it , if anything you will be aware of the questions you ask yourself during important decisions and thru out the day.
A MUST Read!.......2007-01-10
This book was easy to read, yet hard to put down. The author does an excellent job bringing you through Ben's journey - you can see the shift in his thinking and how his way of being impacts those around him. The examples of how simply shifting your perspective (or in this case, Question Thinking) can shift your attitude and your experiences are useful personally and professionally. The Judger/Learner concept is a simple yet powerful distinction that I have referred to for coaching clients stuck in moving forward due to living on the Judger path.
Open versus closed.......2006-11-23
The storyline- Ben's crisis - is a very useful means of conveying the message - how we show up at work is how we show up at home. This reinforces the mindset that we are the same person wherever we are - albeit circumstances may dictate variations on the theme.
The Learner vs. Judger model is remniscent with the 90's theme of open thinking vs. closed thinking....however, I see the value of choosing the words Judger and Learner. The charts and graphs were very helpful in making this a useable process to shift thinking in ourselves, at work and at home.
I particularly focused on the questions provided regarding Great results begin with great questions. Will use this premise with my clients.
Thank you, Ms. Adams, for sharing your insight and inspiration.
Susan Bock
Susan Bock Solutions
Susan@SBockSOlutiona.com
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Pastors are among the most educated people at work today, but their training is naturally more attuned to matters of the spirit than matters of business. The Minister's MBA gives ministry leaders more confidence and ability to manage and grow their churches and organizations. The book will also make them more conversant with the businessmen and women who serve on their various boards and committees.
Easy-to-follow sections include "The Admissions Exam: Test Your MBA-Q," "Core Curriculum, "Electives," and "Graduation Day."
Customer Reviews:
Every good idea eventually boils down to hard work.......2007-01-24
Erwin McManus said, "There comes a time when you have to stop being full of potential and be potent."
In my experience (I'm pretty young - 38) but I've noticed that stuff just doesn't happen. Annointing, you must have. Submission to his leading - what else? Prayer - much prayer - without a doubt. But pencil to paper. A lot of talking with your voluntter staff. Dreaming. Critical thinking. Arguing. Sacrificing and driving for a mission. Living for people beyond your generation ...
The Minister's MBA has been an awesome catalyst for spiritual growth of a different kind for me.
IF you are more vision than manager; IF you are great in ideas, but short on practicality; IF you need a "legend" for the map ... get this book.
Strategic Excellence in a Book.......2006-11-28
Drs. Babbes and Zigarelli's text is a wonderful read and an excellent source of information for strategists. It was written for ministers but the content is useful for any organization be it profit, non-profit, military, or education. The language is understandable and easy to follow. Yet, the information is substantial for any person seeking to make their organization a strategically better one. Each "semester" build on the other so the reader can master the strategic points all the way to "graduation." This is truly a worthwhile read.
It's Not an M.B.A. for Dummies, It's a Toolbox for Ministry Success.......2006-11-02
Most of my colleagues are long past the so-called divide between sacred and secular (which is not biblical), especially as it relates to ensuring effectiveness in ministry. Should churches use "Madison Avenue" techniques to "market" to their communities? The book quotes A.W. Tozer, "It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything."
The Minister's MBA is long overdue. The book features 12 "courses" (chapters) including: your mission, creating a high performance DNA, retaining great people, leading with shrewd stewardship, and how to use the balanced scorecard for measuring strategy.
The "Strategy Map" chapter is excellent and every pastor, staff member and key church volunteer must read it. You'll learn how to get beyond lagging indicators (past performance) and onto leading indicators like member satisfaction (where you're headed).
After reading this, I have a suggestion for pastors. Every Sunday afternoon, email 100 church members (a different group each week) and ask them to complete an anonymous three-minute online feedback survey about the service, the sermon and their faith journey. SurveyMonkey.com is an easy and excellent online survey tool to use for this.
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12 Step Spiritual Journey.......2007-08-01
This 12 Step Spiritual Journey has been a very help tool for me to be productive in recreating parts of my childhood and healing from issues of abuse. It is a workbook that takes you step by step through the healing process if you are truly willing to work and be honest with yourself. Along with this workbook I have also found the the Recovery Bible to be of great valueThe Life Recovery Bible: New Living Translation Version (Nlt)
This is geared towards Christians, but that's okay if you are a Christian.......2007-05-11
When I first got into recovery, I was afraid of anything that was not Christian, becuase I was so religous. The Bible says "don't listen to the counsel of the ungodly". I interpreted this to mean that if it wasn't from MY church, it was ungodly. I needed the 12 steps, but my Christian friends said I only needed the Bible, more prayer, and more church attendence to solve my problems. This book was extremely helpful becuase it put the "secular" 12 steps into my Christian world. This book has Bible verses to back up each of the 12 steps, which made me less suspicous of them. I see now that the first three steps are about admitting that you are a helpless sinner (alcholic or whatever) and you need God, the next bunch are about how to repent (more than "I'm sorry", but life-changing repentance), then the last few are about ministry (having empathy and brining a message of hope to others). I needed to see that as religous as I was, I was still powerless, and I still needed to turn my life over to God daily. I needed to see that as "perfect" as I was, I still needed to take a moral inventory and make amends to people I had hurt (wow, it really wasn't "all their fault", I had something to do with it too). I needed to see that as many years I had been in the church, I was still as weak and vulnerable as a new Christian to temptation (pride is a good one), and I needed to live the 12 steps every day. I worked through the book, one month per step each year, doing each year in a different color ink. I could see where I was growing, and where I was still stuck. I don't need Bible verses any more to know that the 12 steps are not anti-Christian. I finally have 15 years of sobriety, a healed inner child, and a healthy, happy life. The 12 steps work, with or without Bible verses, but this book makes them accessable for wary Christians.
Where is the Spirituality?.......2007-03-15
The truth is that a newly-sober alcoholic named William Griffith Wilson -- a down-on-his-luck former Wall Street hustler who put on airs of having once been a prosperous stock broker -- just sat down, in December of 1938, and wrote up twelve commandments for the new religious group that he and fellow alcoholic Doctor Robert Smith had started. Those commandments were simply a repackaged version of the practices of a cult religion that was popular at that time, something called "The Oxford Group", or "The Oxford Group Movement", and later, "Moral Re-Armament" -- a religious cult that was created by a deceitful fascist renegade Lutheran minister named Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman -- a nut-case who actually praised Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler. Buchman uttered, "I thank God for a man like Adolf Hitler!" This is the basis of your Cult! Niebhur could not stand Buchman. The author of the serenity prayer wrote a nasty gram criticizing Buchman. AA then decided it was time to perhaps distance themselves too, but the damage had been done.
Has helped 100's.......2006-07-27
We have been using this book for at least 10 years in dozens of groups. We have used it in home based small groups and also at our church. We don't do the activities, but do discuss all the questions and read it aloud in the group. We will be starting at least two new groups in the fall using this book. We have seen lives change by going through the questions. It is wonderful and I highly recommend it!
12 Step Process.......2006-07-25
As an AOD counselor, I routinely suggest 12 step process to my clients. For those with a Christian background, the Spiritual Journey Workbook, combined with the Recovery Bible, is a very effective path, and many clients have benefited from this pprocess.
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Technology today allows the collection of biological information at an unprecedented level of detail and in increasingly vast quantities. To reap real knowledge from the mountains of data produced, however, requires interdisciplinary skills-a background not only in biology but also in computer science and the tools and techniques of data analysis. To help meet the challenges of DNA research, Data Analysis Tools for DNA Microarrays builds the foundation in the statistics and data analysis tools needed by biologists and provides the overview of microarrays needed by computer scientists. It first presents the basics of microarray technology and more importantly, the specific problems the technology poses from the data analysis perspective. It then introduces the fundamentals of statistics and the details of the techniques most commonly used to analyze microarray data. The final chapter focuses on commercial applications with sections exploring various software packages from BioDiscovery, Insightful, SAS, and Spotfire. The book is richly illustrated with more than 230 figures in full color and comes with a CD-ROM containing full-feature trial versions of software for image analysis (ImaGene, BioDiscovery Inc.) and data analysis (GeneSight, BioDiscovery Inc. and S-Plus Array Analyzer, Insightful Inc.). Written in simple language and illustrated in full color, Data Analysis Tools for DNA Microarrays lowers the communication barrier between life scientists and analytical scientists. It prepares those charged with analyzing microarray data to make informed choices about the techniques to use in a given situation and contribute to further advances in the field.
Customer Reviews:
Get a solid foundation for microarray data analysis........2007-02-18
I'm more than 2/3 through the book and I've never encountered a topic that I feel could have been better presented. My definition of a Great book is that I can understand and follow it, and this definitely is a Great book! Thanks to the author for writing such readable text. This text has not made it to my bookshelf at work, it stays on my desk.
a great book to read about microarray data analysis.......2006-08-07
I have entered the area of microarray data analysis three years ago, having an engineering/machine learning background which includes good knowledge of statistics. After reading many journal papers about particular algorithms for microarray data analysis, I felt the need to read a book so that I could get the big picture of the field. At the beginning I was skeptical about reading Draghici's book because it was recommended to me as "excellent" by a biologist. I was pretty sure that given my background I will get bored of it quickly. My intuition failed me in this case because after reading it, I found it too as being far from ordinary, and answering my needs as well.
The book is an easy-to-follow introduction to the area of microarray data analysis covering areas from image analysis and preprocessing, to differential expression, clustering, and high level analysis such as ontological analysis. The book is particularly useful in underlying common pitfalls with microarray data. Examples include failing to correct for multiple testing in microarray experiments and the misuse or overuse of the clustering algorithms. Abounding examples and clear illustration are given to support every single aspect treated in the text. In my opinion, graduate level students in biology, bioinformatics and statistics can greatly benefit from the lecture of this book.
Another positive aspect is the fact that, with the exception of one chapter about the available commercial software, this book was written by just one author. This gives a continuity of ideas and a consistency of notations and terms throughout the entire book. This is usually not found in many other books on this topic as they are sometimes just edited collections of chapters written independently by different authors (see for instance the text by Berrar et. al which has about 40 contributors).
A great incentive for me in writing this review was reading an overzealous critique to this book, written by Eric Wu in this webpage. I found some of his comments to be particularly misleading and out of context. For instance he says "the book only deals with the bare minimum of data analysis". Compared with other books in the field, the topics about data analysis covered in the book are not only more numerous but much more thoroughly explained. This book does not expedite the reader to some references but cares about explaining the things. If this book is the "bare minimum" at 500 pages, how is Mr. Wu going to characterize the other well known books in the field such as Knudsen, Simon, Speed, Baldi, etc. which have at most half as many as this book has. Knudsen, for instance, takes the reader from absolute measurements to and including ANOVA in 17 pages. Draghici covers the same topics in 7 chapters or about 250 pages, and that would be without counting the chapters on the basic statistics or image analysis. Another example of biased assessment is when Mr. Wu says "Exploratory data visualizing and data mining algorithms are not covered thoroughly in this book. For example, principal component analysis (PCA) is presented as a subsection of a chapter." The PCA description in the book is more than just fine to me. The book is not supposed to be an encyclopedia of statistics. What the reader needs to know is how PCA can help with the visualization of these multidimensional data sets and not necessarily give all the details about PCA.
A last example I give of superficial judgment in Mr. Wu's view is the so called "inflation of Type I error rate". Mr. Wu says: "... if the probability of making a correct conclusion excludes the probability of making Type II errors, 1 - p should be stated as the probability of not making Type I errors".. In general, this statement would be true. However, the paragraph from the book to which Mr. Wu is referring to actually starts by saying: "When the t statistic for a gene is more extreme than the threshold..." etc. If the observed statistic is more extreme than the threshold, the statistical reasoning requires us to reject the null hypothesis. In this case type II errors (false negatives) CANNOT occur. Hence, in this case, the probability of drawing the correct conclusion is indeed 1-p, exactly as stated in the book.
Overall, I find that the value you get per dollar spent when buying this book is high, and thereby I would strongly recommend it.
Dr. Adi L. Tarca, Windsor (CANADA)
Simple Great.......2006-05-16
This book is a must to understand fundamental statistical analysis of microarray data. Must have it.
Excellent book. Highly recommended!.......2006-04-04
Being a book worm, as soon as I started working with microarrays I bought a bunch of books on the subject. After six months working with this technique and reading chapters on all the books I've bought I can say with certainty that Draghici's is the best introductory book on microarrays. Other books around are better at describing protocols or explaining the math involved in microarray data analysis but Draghici's book does a very good job at explaining how to analyse microarray data for the biologist (and maybe for other publics but statisticians). Everytime some friend ask me for hints on chapters or books to read for learning (or re-learning) statistics I suggest this book. The first chapters are an excellent review of the basics of statistics necessary for day to day practice. The only complain I have is that the shareware software that comes with the book does not work anymore (it's trial period has already expired and therefore it is not possible to install it even if you get a brand new book). I read this book from cover to cover and I think that, considering how readable it is, anyone could do it.
Introduction to Statistical Data Analysis of Microarrays.......2004-09-28
The targeted audience of this book is biologists who are eager to get an understanding of the analysis tools they use for microarrays. The book does an excellent job addressing this tier of audience.
The book has plenty of examples. Almost all the examples, whether fake or real, are microarray-related. Whenever needed, figures or charts are provided to illustrate ideas. A few chapters that introduce basic statistical concepts provide solved problems and exercises. All these efforts are worthwhile making difficult statistical concepts easy to understand in the context of microarrays and making the book especially valuable for biologists who do not have strong background in statistics.
This book has an emphasis on major statistical aspects of microarray data analysis. There are 17 chapters in this book. About 8 of them are directly related to statistics. Especially, there is one whole chapter devoted to multiple hypothesis testing, one chapter for ANOVA, and one chapter for experimental design. The above subjects are presented in a thorough, yet easy-to-follow style. Statistical issues are often not well addressed in published papers using microarrays. This book on microarray data analysis does an excellent job emphasizing this aspect.
The title of the book indicates "data analysis". However, since this is not a clearly defined term, you should be aware that the book only deals with "the bare minimum" of data analysis. That is routines, such as normalization, transformation, statistical testing, and clustering, that have to be carried out each and every time. Exploratory data visualizing and data mining algorithms are not covered thoroughly in this book. For example, principal component analysis (PCA) is presented as a subsection of a chapter. It does not provide explanations on concepts such as loading factors nor scree test. Series data (e.g. time series) are on two pages only and there is no mention of Fourier transformation. Support vector machine (SVM), which is widely used today as a supervised classification method, is not presented at all.
As I mentioned at the beginning, the targeted audience is biologists. If you are a statistician or a bioinformatician who wants to mathematically explore data analysis algorithms, you should look somewhere else. You may be disappointed that many concepts are not rigorously or accurately defined in this book. For example, the book uses capital letters to denote random variables. But the concept of random variables is not rigorously defined in the book. One of the consequences is the weak definition of mathematical expectation. Another example is the inflation of Type I error rate. On page 220, the author claims that the probability of "drawing the correct conclusion" is 1 - p, where p is the calculated probability of a statistic versus a parameter. However, if the probability of making a correct conclusion excludes the probability of making Type II errors, 1 - p should be stated as the probability of not making Type I errors.
In summary, this is a good book on microarray analysis tools for biologists using microarrays. However, people who are seeking in-depth descriptions of these algorithms should look somewhere else.
Book Description
This resource helps Christians evaluate their beliefs, practices, and virtues in order to develop a plan for spiritual growth in a small group setting. Includes catalogue of additional resources.
Customer Reviews:
Great Resource.......2007-03-29
The most powerful part is the end of the process when you get to put it all together in a group context.
Customer Reviews:
school work.......2007-02-13
had to get this book for college class i love the class but i hate this book luckly we dont take tests for this class just have to write papers about it and we can argue it and diss it as much as we want so that helps its just really hard to understand but some chapters do what there suppost to.
Physician, heal thyself!.......2006-12-01
This book is woefully inadequate as a text for a critical thinking course. What are we to make of a critical thinking text that says almost nothing about objective truth, the central role of argument in critical thinking, the distinction between inductive and deductive arguments, the distinction between truth and validity, or which does not even mention any of the standard deductive forms of argument?
Furthermore, the authors do not seem to know how their "Standards for Thinking" apply to their own work. Just a few examples should suffice: (i) One of their standards is fairness. Yet in the chapter entitled "Develop as an Ethical Reasoner," the authors spend three pages laying out the arguments of PETA against the use of animals in medical experimentation, but barely a paragraph presenting the argument in favor of such experimentation. This hardly seems fair-minded to me. It would seem that, for them, being "fair-minded" involves closely arguing one's own position, but ignoring the arguments of your opponent. (One wonders if they themselves are members of PETA. But, if they are, shouldn't they admit this for the sake of honesty and complete disclosure? Or is it only bias when someone else does it?) (ii) Another of their standards is that of depth. The problem here is that they do not seem to have read the individuals whom they quote so approvingly with any depth. They repeatedly quote William Graham Sumner as an advocate of critical thinking, but seem oblivious to the fact that he is best known for his ethical relativism---a position that they themselves seem to repudiate in their chapter on ethical reasoning. Perhaps they would have discovered this for themselves had they read beyond the first 20 pages in Sumner's book, Folkways. (iii) The authors present contradictory positions in space of a few page, and do not seem to even notice. On the one hand, they embrace the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as morally binding because "every nation on earth has signed the declaration." However, four pages later they condemn such practices as slavery since they were justified solely in virtue of "social convention." What they do not seem to realize is that their justification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is itself based solely on social convention. Simply because it was signed by every nation on the face of the earth does not make it morally right or morally binding.
As a critical thinking instructor, I would be loathe to recommend this book to anyone as anything other than an instructive failure. As a useful alternative, I would suggest Moore and Parker's Critical Thinking. It is much more comprehensive and more in keeping with representative views in the field.
Loss for Words.......2005-07-20
Unfortunately, this book ranks with the worst books I ever tried to read. How someone in college could understand anything written here is beyond me.
I'm not sure if it just because the book is poorly written or what, but I would have to re-read paragraphs over and over again and I still had no idea what they were trying to say.
I skipped to various chapters and it was all the same.
My education goes beyone college and graduate school and I thought this book could add to my thinking process and make me a "smarter" person. If I could get only positive thing from a bokk, then it would all be worth it. I got absolutely nothing from this book. What is worse, is that it is the only book I ever read that was just incomprehensible.
Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning.......2004-06-11
Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life is a real eye opener.
This is where integrity begins. I consider Tools to be one of the most significant exposes on the human condition ever written.
Whether you are a teacher, a student, a parent, a professional developer, a curriculum designer, a lawyer, a scientist, a politician, a reporter, a business person, or a citizen at large, understanding the intellectual standards and best practices by which quality integration of ideas, concepts, and principles come together -- in teaching, in learning, in life -- is the fundamental prerequisite for all other information processing, understanding, problem solving and decision making. This foundation for learning is also pivotal to understanding, updating, reconciling, and validating individual belief system. Our intellectual integrity defines not only our beliefs but also our character as learners, integrators, visionaries, leaders, followers and doers throughout life. Tools is the best place I've found to start this journey of discovering and validating what I think as I think.
Dr Elder and Dr Paul have provided us with a masterful anthology of thought. Tools dissects, defines and lays out the fundamentals for self-examination as a basis for overcoming our irrational tendencies. It explains the stages of development, elements of thinking, universal intellectual standards that govern quality constructs for critical thought within which all ideas, concepts, beliefs, positions, and decisions are examined, understood, and validated and reconciled. It emphasizes the inherent humility, openness and independence of the critical thinking process as it leads readers through a matrix of self examination, demonstrating techniques for self-evaluation, for asking essential questions, for assessing their learning, and for ultimately taking charge of their irrational tendencies. This is also a book of discovering - clearly - the components of thought and for examining everything one thinks they think and believe. As ambiguity and self-deception clouds what we believe, critical thought clarifies, elevates, and leverages our ability to learn better, deeper, and faster. Personal integrity demands critical examination of clear, accurate, diverse, ideas and dialectic constructs. Left to the consequences of our natural, human, non-critical tendencies, we all have a lot to learn. In my opinion, there is really no better place to start than here. I recommend Tools to anyone and everyone with a conscience. I will tell you, this is the one book that everybody -- no matter who they may be -- needs to read next.
Well-intentioned but unfocused.......2004-04-06
I paid hard money to fly this book from the USA and wish I had got it from the library. This topic does not lend itself to un-putdownability, but repeated attempts got me only to Chapter 3. I finished it in annoyance by speed-reading key paragraphs of each chapter and put it on the shelf.
Good points: literate and covers a breadth of good ideas, plus some nice-sounding exercises and challenges. I like the intellectual values chapters.
Bad points: No AHA! moments. No argument mapping. Diagrams that do not pull their weight and text that should be diagrammed. Woolly, wordy discussions of social conditioning and Milgram studies, that don't go near Cialdini's 'Influence' for impact. Exercises and quotes that speak of Noam Chomsky's idea of fairness.
This book's intention is to open a new (presumed redneck) student's mind so wide that the wind blows through, dusting it with the enlightened prejudices of his college environment.
Customer Reviews:
The best guide........2006-10-29
Life insurance planning is a very complicated issue. Must people think that is just a matter of buying an insurance from an agent, but there are many other considerations like: survivors needs, estate tax issues, compensation and benefits, business succession and wealth transfer.
The Tools & Techniques of Life Insurance Planning is the best guide for any insurance or financial planning professional. Also is very easy to understand for today consumers.
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Will it work?.......2007-01-04
As we all know, dealing with peers is one of the most difficult - but essential - skills our children need to learn. In a search for material that could be used for teaching effective problem-solving, assertive communication and negotiation skills, I discovered this book and ordered a copy. I found some of the ideas a bit silly-sounding but figured it might work with young children, so I have developed small "plays" using the book's dialogues to set up the scenarios for my kids to enact. They love it! Now I am expanding this activity to include all students from 1st-6th grade with the hope that learning these skills will help reduce bullying and enhance their communication skills. My only criticism is that the material presented in the book is a bit disjointed and hard to read. I'm not sure what audience the author was writing to, but I felt it too childish to be taken seriously as an adult and too abstract to hold the attention of a child; however, the basic principles are sound and the imagery of the language does appeal to the child in all of us.
Important information for all kids.......2006-02-17
I agree with Dr. Ross's editorial review that "everything about this book is perfect for children." Speak Up and Get Along is a great resource to help kids survive and succeed especially in their social worlds at school. It is clear and easy for them to read. The best thing about it is that there are a lot examples of how to actually deal with bullying and teasing, arguments, peer pressure and making and keeping friends. Each chapter has easy tools for kids to use and the illustrations help.The chapter on talking back to negative thoughts was really helpful. It gives very specific ways that kids can do this. I really recommend this as a gift for the children in your life.
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- Doing Qualitative Research: Circles within Circles (The Falmer Press Teachers' Library)
- Ending The Search For Mr. Right: How to Be Found by the Man You've Been Looking For
- Every Man's Battle: Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Time (The Every Man Series)
- Experience Yoga Nidra: Guided deep relaxation
- Five Minds for the Future
- Flashman: A Novel (Flashman)
- For Women Only: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men
- Glorious Appearing: The End of Days (Left Behind #12)
- Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
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