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Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings

3 reviews
Thomas D. Cook, Donald T. Campbell

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979

Essential for Evaluation Research
"Quasi-Experimentation" carries on the work begun by Campbell and Stanley in "Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research." Beginning with a discussion of the positivist origins of science and evaluation research, it details a range of quasi-experimental approaches suitable to "real world" research, together with statistical techniques applicable to each. The book includes a ...

The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 (Best American Crime Reporting)
Jonathan Kellerman, Otto Penzler, ...

Harper Perennial, 2008

Thieves, liars, killers, and conspirators—it's a criminal world out there, and someone has got to write about it. An eclectic collection of the year's best reportage, The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 brings together the murderers and the masterminds, the mysteries and missteps that make for brilliant stories, told by the aces of the true-crime genre. This latest addition to the highly acclaimed series features guest editor ...

Mastering Import and Export Management
Thomas A. Cook, Rennie Alston, ...

AMACOM, 2004

The last two years have seen drastic changes in the import/export arena, due to a combination of world developments, economic changes, and technological advances. Mastering Import and Export Management is a definitive resource for keeping up to date with the latest laws, regulations, and opportunities in international trade. This invaluable, authoritative volume offers complete, timely, and practical hands-on information on: * Import/export ...

The Best American Crime Reporting 2007 (Best American Crime Writing)

1 review
Linda Fairstein, Otto Penzler, ...

Harper Perennial, 2007

Fascinating from start to finish
I have read all the books in this series since 2002 and this is one of the best. All of the "true-crime" stories here are extremely well-written, taken from various magazines throughout the year, and provide background information that you will never get from the news headlines. The book begins with the story of Sal and Mabel Mangano, the New Orleans nursing home owners who were accused of ...

Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference

7 reviews
William R. Shadish, Thomas D. Cook, ...

Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001

Excellent for doctoral students
I am a doctoral student in public health and recommend this book to my fellow doctoral students out there. It is a thorough and comprehensive text on research methods. I have gone through quite a few texts with similar titles and this stands out as the best.

Master of the Delta

10 reviews
Thomas H. Cook

Harcourt, 2008

The usual: Black, no sugar
Thomas H. Cook revisits familiar territory in Master of the Delta: The very first paragraph tells you this will be a tragedy of Greek melodramatic proportions. He does not disappoint. In this beautifully written novel, Cook again explores his well worn themes of family conflicts, lost love, tortured souls, misunderstanding with devastating outcomes, winding down to the appropriate somber ending. ...

European Rail Timetable Summer 2008: Rail Schedules - June to December (European Rail Timetable)
Thomas Cook Publishing

Thomas Cook Publishing, 2008

The Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable is the only comprehensive guide to rail and ferry services throughout Europe. This Independent Traveller’s Edition appears twice yearly and is a specially extended version of the monthly European Rail Timetable, based on the June and December editions. As well as detailed train and ferry timetables (also some buses where trains are sparse), this extended edition has invaluable additional ...

The Chatham School Affair

51 reviews
Thomas H. Cook

Bantam, 1997

Classic Thomas H. Cook
For reasons like The Chatham School Affair, Thomas H. Cook is my favorite author. This book, unlike some of his others, does not have the wrenching plot twists we have come to expect from Cook. It does have more subtle character twists. It does bring that that big payoff at the end, which fits very well into this story. The last page changes our minds about the main character. Very smoothly ...

Red Leaves (Otto Penzler Book)

36 reviews
Thomas H. Cook

Harvest Books, 2006

Cooking With Suspense
Thomas H. Cook in unquestionably my favorite writer and Red Leaves may be my favorite of his books. He is the undeniable master of character development, forcing the reader to draw from his own bank of life's characters. Reading his books is more than reading a novel, it is taking an adventure. It takes a little while to shake off the reality woven into the pages. Very well done.

Rail Map Europe, 16th (Thomas Cook Rail Map)

2 reviews
Thomas Cook Timetables Team

Thomas Cook Publishing, 2007

Excellent map of the Continent.
Folds out to be about 3 feet wide and 2.5 feet tall, with maps printed on both sides. The large orange box in the middle of the greater-Europe side (which shows the area printed on the opposite side of the map) is a bit annoying, but that seems to be the worst of it. The map's heavier-duty cover is built to not mutilate the paper map inside when folding and unfolding, and the legends are clear ...

The Best American Crime Writing 2006 (Best American Crime Reporting)

2 reviews
Mark Bowden, Otto Penzler, ...

Harper Perennial, 2006

One of the best of the crime writing series
The Best American Crime Writing 2006 rocks! I have enjoyed this series since the first one came out in 2002. If you enjoy short true crime pieces this series is for you. This is the best one in the series since the first volume came out. The stories range from tales of the mob to tales of high prices prostitution and murder. My favorites include: Skip Hollandsworth's "The Last Ride of ...

The Best American Crime Writing 2005 (Best American Crime Reporting)

9 reviews
James Ellroy, Otto Penzler, ...

Harper Perennial, 2005

True-life crime Journalism at its best-A pleasing assortment
As fan of non-fiction with a leaning towards true life mysteries; I was thrilled to find the 2004 edition of Best American Crime Writing on my library shelves- I ate the whole book up in a few days. I was thrilled to learn that there were additional years of "Best' books, right now I am finishing the 2002 compilation ... I decided to dash off a review before I had forgotten.What is so much fun ...

Into the Web

12 reviews
Thomas H. Cook

Bantam, 2004

Prickly Suspense
This offering from my favorite author is another work of great writing and rich characters. This book reads as if Roy Slater was sitting across form you, sipping coffee and spinning the tale himself. It begins with an unrelated but no less shocking death, which becomes the reason for the story. Roy is the sleuth, a suspect, and the victim. So very well written.

The Interrogation

25 reviews
Thomas H. Cook

Bantam, 2002

Must read - not a wasted word.
To describe this as a crime story understates the depth of character development and the motivations in what is a dark story richly told. It is the subtle and sometimes not so subtle ways that the motives for the characters behaviors are revealed. Thomas Cook manages to bring you into the minds and souls of his characters with all their hidden strengths and flaws. It is also a period piece ...

The Cloud of Unknowing (Otto Penzler Book)

15 reviews
Thomas H. Cook

Harvest Books, 2007

The Game of Writer and Reader
Thomas H. Cook is at the top of his game as he writes The Cloud of Unknowing. A well thought out mystery which ended surprisingly yet somewhat predictably. I guess that when reading a mystery novel, you are playing a game with the writer, a game you would rather lose. In The Cloud of Unknowing, I think I won, or at least tied. It is an amazingly written story that, though I could predict the ...

The Roaring Girl (New Mermaids)
Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker

Methuen Drama, 2007

New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes: • The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards • Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant readings • Glossing notes explaining obscure words and word-play • Critical, contextual and staging notes • Photographs of productions where ...

Places in the Dark

30 reviews
Thomas H. Cook

Bantam, 2001

A reader's reward
Reading books is a wonderful and, at times, a boring process. It seems that one must read so many books that fail to move, that are well thought out, excellently written but at the last page you are left with perhaps a smile, ocassionaly a mild comment, "oh, that was a good book". But, just every so often one happens upon a book that reaches deep down beyond the surface of the maundane and leaves ...

Instruments of Night

47 reviews
Thomas H. Cook

Bantam, 1999

It seems strange to give a book 5 stars and then ...
say that you never want to read another book by the author again, but that is my position after reading this exquisitely-crafted, beautifully written, devastating and disgusting thriller. I just don't have space in my beautiful mind for the wretched, ghastly thoughts that Cook renders in such perfect prose. I feel like this novel was so disturbing that I just don't want to face another one ...

Introduction to Statistical Methods for Clinical Trials (Texts in Statistical Science)

1 review
Thomas D. Cook, David L DeMets

Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2007

great introduction but not elementary
The author are very accomplished statisticians with many years of clinical trial experience and research. DeMets along with Gordon Lan is famous for the alpha spending function approach that allowed added flexibility to group sequential trials. In addition to authoring several chapters of the book, Cook and Demets edited the book and invited other prominent researchers to contribute to the ...

Drive Around Canadian Rockies, 2nd: Your guide to great drives. Top 25 Tours. (Drive Around - Thomas Cook)
Thomas Cook Publishing

Thomas Cook Publishing, 2008

Drive Around Canadian Rockies offers a journey into the wilderness and majesty of Canada’s great Rocky Mountains taking in the cultural and historical highlights of Alberta and British Columbia. No touring holiday is complete without one of these essential guides. The Drive Around series holds a range of 23 titles offering an extensive list of destinations for you to choose from.

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