This book is written for anyone who needs or wants to know how statistics work. It assumes no expert knowledge & teaches through words & diagrams rather than through figures formulae & equations
- providing the perfect approach for the non-mathematical reader. Written as a tutorial in print" Derek Rowntree

Includes:: questions in his argument; readers can answer them as they go enabling them to measure their performance & judge how far they have mastered the subject."


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This classic book uses words & diagrams rather than formulas & equations to help readers understand what statistics is & how to think statistically. It focuses on the ideas behind statistics only; readers are not required to perform any calculations. ...

A friendly hands-on guide to the dreaded field of statistics Competence in & understanding statistics is important to success in such fields as business & science & is often a requirement for college students in a variety of programs. This handy guide complements author Deborah Rumseys Statistics For Dummies by presenting exercises & fully worked solutions that let students & professionals practice & sharpen their statistical skills & understanding of the subject. Offering a simple straightforward examination of the process & products of statistical computation-as well as a wealth of tips & tricks-Statistics Workbook For Dummies is an invaluable resource for reinforcing the concepts & practice of statistics. ...

Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Now shes got two kids a perfect husband a house with a picket fence & a growing sense of dissatisfaction. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer but at the age of forty he finds himself in a dead-end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrity-obsessed rich kids. Broome is a detective who cant let go of a cold case
- a local husband & father who disappeared seventeen years ago
- & spends the anniversary every year visiting a house frozen in time the missing mans family still waiting his slippers left by the recliner as if he might show up any moment to step into them. Three people living lives they never wanted hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect will find that the past never truly fades away. Even as the terrible consequences of long-ago events crash together in the present & threaten to ruin lives they will come to the startling realisation that they may not want to forget the past at all. & as each confronts the dark side of the American Dream
- the boredom of suburban life the thrill of temptation the desperation that can lurk behind even the prettiest facades
- they will discover the hard truth that the line between one kind of life & another can be as whisper thin as a heartbeat...



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A suburban wife & mother of two
- with a dark & dangerous past. A promising photographer who now panders to celebrity-obsessed
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Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human & the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal inhuman & hollow. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity helping us stay alive to the world & stay true to ourselves. Many people turn to poetry only at unreal times whether for consolation in loss or affirmation in love or when facing other extremes & anxieties. Staying Alive

Includes:: many of the great modern love poems & elegies but it also shows the power of poetry in celebrating the ordinary miracle taking you on a journey around many of the different aspects of everyday life explored in poems. A strong poem is not just for crisis. Such a poem is there for all times helping us face or embrace daily change & disruption. It will also speak to us when nothing seems to be happening when the poems importance is in helping us stay alive to the world & stay true to ourselves. Staying Alive has reached a wider readership than any other anthology of contemporary poetry. It is a landmark in the history of literary publishing. A sequel Being Alive (2004) & a companion anthology Being Human (2011) complete this poetry trilogy"."

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An irresistible novel from bestselling author Jill Mansell about a country house hotel where anything can happen... Daisy Mac Lean runs the country house hotel owned by her flamboyant father Hector. When she hears who's about to get married there she isn't worried at all
- her friend Tara absolutely promises there won't be any trouble between her & ex-boyfriend Dominic whom she hasn't seen for years. But Dominic has other ideas... Meanwhile Hector's getting up to all sorts with...well that's the village's best kept secret. & then Barney turns up with a little something belonging to the husband Daisy's been doing her best to forget. That's the thing about hotels you never know who you're going to meet. Or whether they're going to stay...
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Written with the same sensitivity insight humour & compassion that marked the record-breaking self-help guide Im OK Youre OK leading psychiatrists & pioneers of the revolutionary psychological Transactional Analysis approach Amy & Tom Harris reveal how you can stay that way & get the most out of every day of your life. ...

Tusker & Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker once a Colonel in the British Army retired they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot with its eccentric inhabitants & archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyranny of their landlady the imposing Mrs Bhoolabhoy threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days. Both funny & deeply moving Staying On" is a unique engrossing portrait of the end of an empire & of a forty-year love affair." ...

Glasgow 1961. It is ten years since we last visited the close at 18 Dalbeattie Street in Maryhill. The stalwarts are still there... Ella Drena Rhea & ' Granny' Thomson (86). Irma the German war bride speaks fluent Scots nowadays. Well ' Fluent' if you were brought up in the same close as the Broons & Oor Wullie. Glasgow's beloved trams still run on the Maryhill Road. But not for long. There will not be a tramcar left in Glasgow by the end of next year. The new tenant Frank Galloway knows all about this
- he's a driver. The other new arrival is Ruby Baxter who impresses no one with her attitude
- as Granny Thomson says ' She's no better than she ought to be that yin!' Robert Douglas brings his usual blend of laughter & tears to this latest novel & his many fans will not be disappointed.

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