![]() This prompts me to re-introduce some of these, to highlight their considerable flexibility and ease of use, and to update them. Surprisingly-or possibly not-they overlooked classical estimators developed in earlier decades. An epidemiologist-statistician pair recently proposed a new estimator that is easily applied to data from individually-matched series with a 2:1 ratio (and no other confounding variables) using just a hand calculator or spreadsheet. To many, however, conditional logistic regression, commonly used to estimate the incidence density ratio parameter, is somewhat of a black box whose output is not easily checked. Now, with Big Data, individual matching becomes an economical option. This design was costly, and the data sometimes mis-analyzed. With greater access to regression-based methods for confounder control, the etiologic study with individual matching, analyzed by classical (calculator) methods, lost favor in recent decades. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() "Is the emphasis in the novel's title on the pronoun or the noun, or, to put it differently, is this Ántonia's story or Jim's?" Quite honestly, I don't think that's the point at all. ![]() The introductory notes to my edition make a fairly big deal of the possessive "my" in the title. The novel is divided into five books that roughly follow the stages of Ántonia and Jim's lives and ends with Jim's return to Nebraska to visit Ántonia one more time. Jim and Ántonia form a strong bond somewhere between friendship and siblings and first love-later in the book Jim will admit that he loves Ántonia, but she will not accept his declaration. On the same train are the Shimerdas-the Bohemian family who have come over from the old country to take possession of land which they have bought sight unseen. ![]() Jim's parents have died and he travels by train to Nebraska where he will live with his grandparents. The novel consists, primarily, of Jim Burden's memories of life on the Nebraska prairie and his interactions with Ántonia and her Bohemian family. My Ántonia by Willa Cather is the final book of her "pioneer trilogy" of novels.and I must confess that I haven't read the other two. April Vintage Mystery Challenge Reviews. ![]() Murder at the Museum of Natural History: Review. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It continues a lot of the strong points of Every Day. I was really taken by Every Day, which develops a lot of suspense at the end very suddenly, so I’ve been waiting a while for this sequel. Once in contact, they find the evil and dangerous Poole (also known as X) is holding their friends hostage as a way to get to A. But A is starved for affection, and when they find a message to them on Rhiannon’s Facebook page, they are drawn back to her like a moth to a flame. ![]() They delete their email address and flee the Northeast for the Denver area. This leads to wild accounts of demon possession and the arrival of the fundamentalist Reverend Poole, who turns out to be an evil version of A. ![]() They fall in love with the girl Rhiannon, and as a result, reveal too much of themself. The protagonist, who calls themself A, is a non-binary consciousness that wakes in a different body each day. This novel picks up where Every Day leaves off. It was recently made into a motion picture which is also available for rent/purchase. It follows Every Day and Another Day, novels with the same characters, a prequel “Six Earlier Days” and the short story “Day 3196.” The novel Every Day was a New York Times Bestseller and nominated for a Lambda Award. This is young adult fantasy romance novel published by Knopf and runs 392 pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a stand-alone read, but if you would like to discover more about Narnia, pick up The Horse and His Boy, the third book in The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis' classic fantasy series, which has been captivating readers of all ages with a magical land and unforgettable characters for over sixty years. Open the door and enter a new world! The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the second book in C. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change. Four adventurous siblingsPeter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensiestep through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. This edition features cover art by three-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator David Wiesner and interior black-and-white illustrations by the series original illustrator, Pauline Baynes.įour adventurous siblings: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie, step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. A beautiful paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m going to be reckless and moody but I’m a hero so you’ll love me for it’ vibe. One long cycle of grief and anger and confusion.Īnd of course because she’s the brooding teen and tends to play the somewhat self-righteous victim, she’s a bit insufferable in this book with her- ‘I’m going to save him and no one can stop me or give me any logical or practical advice. Really the entire first third or half of the book is a constant reminder that Orion is “ dead and screaming.” El is determined to figure out how to get back there and save him (by killing him and ending his misery). ![]() How could he have stayed behind?! They had done it! What was he thinking?! The Golden Enclaves begins with the reveal that Orion stayed behind at the school, inevitably devoured by the maw-mouth and now in eternal torment. They are the last ones to leave and Orion pushes El out the door. But at the last minute Patience, the biggest maw-mouth ever, is right on El and Orion’s heels. They’ve lured all the mals from around the world to the school and are going to send the school off into the void. We leave book 2 ( The Last Graduate) as the students are escaping the school. Then we got more action and movement, a new conflict, but at times it was hard to follow and I’m not sure if I liked the ending. The first half was repetitive and annoying. But I felt disappointed by this last installment. I was excited about this series when I read the first book, A Deadly Education. ![]() ![]() This is the final book in The Scholomance trilogy and also my least favorite. ![]() ![]() ![]() As committed internationalists and Marxists, the Georgian social democrats initially viewed the political future of Georgia within a reformed Russia. ![]() While the Georgian social democrats had for years shared a lot in common with Bolsheviks ideologically and in terms of tactics of struggle (known as the "most Bolshevik of the Mensheviks") they found themselves in a peculiar situation, after splitting with Lenin and the Bolsheviks (who had achieved revolution after October 1917, but now were embattled in Civil War) by 1918. Under the control of veterans of the decades long social democratic movement both in the South Caucasus and the Russian Empire at large, these Georgian social democrats led by Noe Jordania were allied with the Menshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. The Democratic Republic of Georgia - also known as the First Republic - existed between 1918-1921. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I picked the book up again last week and finished it in only two days because I changed the way I read. Steven Erikson throws you in at the deep end and you have to claw your way up to the top of the learning curve through the first third of the book, but if you still end up not remembering or understanding the basics of the story, you will never enjoy the book. When I first read Gardens of the Moon, I put it down after 200 pages and thought that I might not ever bother trying again. Esslemont, there is massive potential for readers to become obsessed with a new fantasy world and story. With a series as long as Malazan Book of the Fallen, and all of the extra trilogies and books written by both Steven Erikson and Ian C. They quickly begin wondering how to read Gardens of the Moon! There are many readers, myself among them, who begin reading Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson, hoping to find themselves whisked into a huge, epic fantasy world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As he is hanging from the Owl Creek Bridge, the rope snaps and Farquhar falls into the river below. ![]() The third and final part of the story describes Farquhar's hanging, and the sensations he feels. However, the final sentence of the passage reveals the man to be a Union scout, unbeknowst to Farquhar. A passing soldier says that Farquhar can destroy the Owl Creek Bridge, in order to help stop the Northern advance. The second part of the story is a flashback to the man, now named Peyton Farquhar, as an Alabama planter longing to aid the Confederate army in whatever way possible. The man considers the possibility that if the rope snapped, he could escape death by swimming in the river below him. In the moment's before the man's death, time seems to distort and slow down. The first part of the story begins with a description of a man about to be hung from Owl Creek Bridge by two soldiers. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a Civil War-era short story written by Ambrose Bierce in 1886. ![]() ![]() Dick Award), Finder (a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award), and (with Stephen Brust) Freedom and Necessity the collection Double Feature (with Will Shetterly) and the picture book The Princess and the Lord of Night. ![]() Other books by Emma Bull include the novels Falcon, Bone Dance (second honors, Philip K. War for the Oaks won the Locus Magazine award for Best First Novel and was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Society Award. Now she struggles to build a new life and new band when she might not even survive till the first rehearsal. ![]() Eddi isn't interested-but she doesn't have a choice. The two creatures are one and the same: a phouka, a faerie being who has chosen Eddi to be a mortal pawn in the age-old war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. ![]() Intelligent and skillfully written, with sharply drawn, sympathetic characters, War for the Oaks is about love and loyalty, life and death, and creativity and sacrifice.Įddi McCandry has just left her boyfriend and their band when she finds herself running through the Minneapolis night, pursued by a sinister man and a huge, terrifying dog. Bull's concept, War for the Oaks is well worth reading. Unlike most of the rock & rollin' fantasies that have ripped off Ms. ![]() Emma Bull's debut novel, War for the Oaks, placed her in the top tier of urban fantasists and established a new subgenre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most notably, Coleman has devised an ingenious system for extending the fresh harvest season for vegetables to well beyond what we normally expect – he covers his crops with mobile greenhouses. Winter Harvest Handbook describes the crops, the tools, the planting schedules, and the techniques he uses to manage his Four Season Farm. When he’s not writing books ( The New Organic Grower, Four Season Harvest), Eliot Coleman is a working farmer in Maine with over 40 years of experience in all aspects of organic farming. There’s a good reason that so many professional writers, TV hosts, and food industry experts have raved about The Winter Harvest Handbook. ![]() Eliot Coleman is one of the guiding lights in teaching the world how to grow organic food. ![]() |