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Caroline Bryan has commented on (3) products
Visual Display of Quantitative Information 2nd Edition
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Edward R Tufte
Caroline Bryan
, January 28, 2014
I came across this book many years ago completely by accident, and it was very helpful in graphing data in the course of my job. Now I use techniques from it to track my investments, and very handy those techniques are, too, to impress the *#* out of my financial advisor. Clear explanations and examples make this an excellent book to add to any course in statistics or accounting. I expect Powell's to run out of it really fast as it's mentioned in Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore!
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Mystery At The Inn
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John Vaszko
Caroline Bryan
, September 03, 2012
I have to hope this is a vanity publisher with no editor. Bad punctuation, bad grammar, run-on sentences, and infelicitous phrases. I hoped that he was writing like this to mimic 3 construction guys who'd barely squeaked thru high school, but no, this is the author's narrative writing. He calls one character a "privately-owned cattleman": privately-owned humans have been illegal in the US since the Emancipation Proclamation. The ideas of the mystery (see publisher blurb above) sound very amusing, but I couldn't get through the first few pages before my cringe muscles wore out.
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Garden Spells
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Sarah Addison Allen
Caroline Bryan
, January 02, 2010
This book is lovely magic. Relationships clarified, healed, and strengthened by the insight provided by magic herbs, or maybe by maturing hearts, who can tell? I re-read this book maybe 2ce a year and have also roped my book club into reading it. Every time I read it I find something new in it. On the surface it's lightweight, but -- well, maybe the magic affects the book, too!
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