Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials

Understanding Basic Statistics. Charles H. Brase and Corrinne P. Brase. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. xviii + 576 pp. $48.50. ISBN: 0-669-39812-8. Reviewed by Elizabeth Low

Statistics for Management, 7th ed. Richard I. Levin and David S. Rubin. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. xvi + 1026 pp. $77.00. ISBN: 0-13-476-2924. Reviewed by Tom Obremski

Statistical Computing Environments for Social Research. Robert Stine and John Fox (eds.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1997. iv + 250 pp. $49.95 (P). ISBN: 0-7619-0270-8. Reviewed by Jonathan Nagler

Modern Engineering Statistics. Lawrence L. Lapin. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1997. xv + 583 pp. $66.95. ISBN 0-534-50883-9. Reviewed by V.A. Samaranayake, Jagdish K. Patel

Elements of Engineering Probability and Statistic. Rodger E. Ziemer. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1997. xiv + 322 pp. $77.00. ISBN: 0-024-31620-2. Reviewed by V.A. Samaranayake, Jagdish K. Patel

Applied Statistical Methods for Business, Economics, and the Social Sciences. William L. Carlson and Betty Thorne. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997. xxiii + 1021 pp. $77.00. ISBN 0-13-570847-8. Reviewed by Marjorie E. Bond

Statistics for Managers: Using Microsoft Excel. D.M. Levine, M.L. Berenson, and D. Stephan. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Reviewed by Marjorie E. Bond

The Ultimate Resource 2. Julian L. Simon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. xlii + 734 pp. $35.00. ISBN: 0-69104-269-1. Reviewed by Thomas Wonnacott