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The Mountain Bike Way of Knowledge is the first compendium of mountain bike 'insider' knowledge ever published. Between the covers of this incredible book you will discover the secrets of wheelie turns, log jumps, bar hops and dog evasion techniques - to name a few. And you will laugh while you're learning. William Nealy has been falling off mountain bikes for over a decade. He shares his hard-earned wisdom with beginner and expert alike in his unique cartoon style. Whether you're just thinking about buying your fist mountain bike or you're a full-blown mountain bike racer-head, you're sure to enjoy The Mountain Bike Way of Knowledge.
Customer Reviews:
Funny Light Hearted Book.......2006-07-17
Great funny read. I was expecting more hard useful mountain biking information. Would be a great book for a gift to a mountain biker.
The book is a collection of very funny cartoons on biking, most just funny and some with serious advice.
this book is funny!.......2000-01-27
This book is great! it is so funny and involes alot of serious information and also alot of jokes . Every mountain biker should have this book in there home.
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Back after a four–year hiatus, New York Times bestselling author Scott Adams presents an outrageous look at work, home and everyday life in his new book, Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel.
Building on Dilbert's theory that 'All people are idiots', Adams now says, 'All people are idiots. And they are also weasels.' Just ask anyone who worked at Enron.
In this book, Adams takes a look into the Weasel Zone, the giant grey area between good moral behaviour and outright felonious activities. In the Weasel Zone, where most people reside, everything is misleading, but not exactly a lie. Building on his popular comic strip, Adams looks into work, home and everyday life and exposes the way of the weasel for everyone to see. With appearances from all the regular comic strip characters, Adams and Dilbert are at the top of their game – master satirists who expose the truth while making us laugh our heads off.
Customer Reviews:
Nothing new to say?.......2006-12-28
After doing a pretty good to great job in The Dilbert Principle and The Dilbert Future and an ok job in Joy of Work Adams stumbles here with Way of the Weasel.
The strips are as funny as ever, but you'll have seen them before in the strip compilations and the daily paper. The trouble is that where he had actual insight, philosphy and something to say in his previous books he doesn't here. We either have the same old saws about management cleverly called "Management Weasels" as if it were new insights or what comes down to prose versions of the strips. The actual strips themselves are better than the prose versions.
The book does have its moments. But the start is fairly bad and you'll spend a lot of time thinking "Why am I reading this."
However if you have missed his previous Dilbert prose offerings you probably will enjoy this. If you have read Principle, Future and Joy of Work then you can safely give this a pass. You've seen it before!
A book by weasels for weasels.......2006-11-22
If I was as big a weasel as Mr. Adams assumes I am (by his own admission!), I wouldn't have bothered reading his book before writing this review. Apparently, I have a thing or two more to learn about being a weasel. The first part of this book is so over the top that it seems forced, and doesn't exactly tickle the funny bone. However, as Mr. Adams moves out of the office and begins to discuss weasels in other areas of life, it improves, and there are both good laughs and some scarily accurate descriptions of weasel behavior. As ususal, the comic strips are generally the funniest bits, proving yet again that Mr. Adams talents are best packaged in that format.
Required Reading .......2006-11-04
Scott Adams's Way of the Weasel should be required reading for all office drones/cubicle slugs etc as a survival guide in the business world.
Adams's dead-on interpretation of living in the corporate swamp is his usual fine effort in humor and sarcasm. It will be tough to take notes since the reader will be laughing all the time.
Dilbert & the way of the weasel.......2005-09-19
Prompt delivery, and in great condition. Extremely funny CD's; anyone who has worked for a large company will be laughing out loud.
Laughed So Hard I Cried: IT'S ALL TRUE!!!!.......2005-01-02
I couldn't even get past the first 2 or 3 pages without sobbing in utter hilarity, not only because the writing and wit are exceptional, but the insight is DEAD ON. I've worked for a major financial services technologies division for 14+ years, and in data processing for nearly 30, and Mr. Adams' skewering of what goes on in any company is so on the mark it's uncanny - I SWEAR he has a webcam in my office building and is rehashing what goes on on a daily basis. The flip side of this is that he IS dead on, and it's a sad, sad commentary on the state of the business world as we know it in 2005. I began my career as an eager to learn & produce programmer, and progressed to frustration, disbelief, cynicism, apathy and, now, I guess in all honesty: weaselhood. Wish it weren't the case, but the odds are so stacked against being a responsible, committed, caring professional in this psychotically mismanaged world of ridiculous rules and obstacles - to say nothing of increased outsourcing (decisions made by executives who never have to worry about THEIR jobs being sent overseas...). It is to a point where you can't survive to retirement without weaseling. And what ==is== the point of holding on to shredded values of yesteryear that would result in a precarious suite of 'golden years' when nothing and no one around you cares or supports your sense of integrity and honor? Sad, but true.
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I love Dilbert but I will stick with the comic books.......2007-05-10
I really enjoy Soctt Adams' "Dilbert" cartoon. I have a daily cartoon desktop calendar and I think I have most of his anthologies.
That said, I have to say I find the Dilbert books a bit much for my tastes. What comes across as sardonic wit in a short 3 panel strip weighs much more heavily in paragraph form.
This book may be best taken in really short doses - perhaps as "throne" reading. As it was, I received the audio version as a gift and listened to it straight through over a few days of commuting and Scott came off as being bitter and vindictive rather than as pithy and ingenuous.
Also, I have to say, I think the audio format would benefit from the use of someone other than the author reading it. While it was most interesting to hear what Mr. Adams sounds like, I don't think he does his own work justice by trying to present it as well. I'm not sure if this would make much difference of my opinion of the content, but it certainly couldn't hurt.
Laugh your way through your struggles with others.......2003-05-16
This tape is hilarious in the truest sense of the Dilbert comic strip. The best humor has roots in reality, and all of us can find elements of the strip that relates to our jobs, unless of course you are a pointy haired manager. A weasel is someone who takes as long as possible to do as little as possible, will always engage in CYA, will kiss a lot of A, and always agree with anyone in a position of superiority. Having this many different characteristics, the weasel can take on many forms, so it is difficult to ferret out who is a true weasel versus someone who just appears to be one. This tape will not help you identify one, but it will help you to tolerate one.
I enjoyed the tape, occasionally laughing, but often grimacing at humerous stories that simultaneously hit my funny bone and other sensitive spots.
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Wry Martinis is the perfect title for this intoxicating volume--though Christopher Buckley pretends he had a hard time coming up with it. But as his fans know, effortless superiority is Buckley's main m.o. In this collection of 20 years' of occasional pieces for such magazines as the New Yorker and the New Republic, he ranges from deadpan parody to devastating takes on all manner of American preoccupations, from celebrity to fly fishing to the Times bestseller list. (No. 2 in Advice, How-to, and Miscellaneous: "Becoming God, by Beepah Doolik. Self-deification in a single afternoon.") Usually all it takes is a single sentence to set Buckley off. In 1994, when USA Today announced the expected launch of a 24-hour conservative cable network, he happily riffed on morning, afternoon, and nighttime programming. Suffice it to say that between 9 and 11 a.m., Phyllis! With Phyllis Schafly will hold the screen. That day's episode? "Pacific tuna fishermen explain how dolphins commit suicide by hurling themselves into the nets; also: how to tell if your son is queer." (Please head straight to page 12 for further listings.)
Not that our provocateur doesn't have his serious side, too. It shows up in his explorations of his own military envy, asthma, and cluster headaches, but also in some unlikely zones--including a sympathetic profile of Eppie Lederer, better known as agony aunt Ann Landers. (When Eppie tells Buckley that her husband left her, "an eyebrow arches, the right dimple deepens like a Florida sinkhole.") And then there is "My Own Private Sunday School," two pages on talking to his 6-year-old daughter about belief and death. Of course, even here the mischief-maker shines through, since the beginner's Bible Buckley buys is sorely lacking in verbal panache: "The chapter about the Roman discovering Jesus' empty tomb is titled 'Surprise!'--which is sort of cute, even if it does make a pretty crucial New Testament event sound a bit like a panel from Where's Waldo?" Buckley is ever on the hunt for our foibles and endless absurdities; and despite his seemingly straight-up hilarity, his method requires the utmost skill, imagination, and--oddly enough--affection. --Kerry Fried
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"Fifty years ago, the three funniest writers in the English language were named Shaw, Mencken and Muggeridge. Today, they're named Thompson, O'Rourke and Christopher Buckley.Read this book and you'll die laughing. But as Wrong-Way Kennedy said, 'What a way to go.'"
-- Tom Wolfe
"Funny and devastating."
-- Entertainment Weekly
"Clever, erudite, sophisticated, funny and flip. Buckley shows that his antennae are ever alert to the absurdities in our world."
-- Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Buckley's comic muse -- and as Wry Martinis attests, he is one of the rarest specimens in his generation of that endangered species, the authentically inventive comic writer -- adorns the Benchley-Thurber line of social observation. He is probably the most versatile practitioner of that tradition today.... Wry Martinis has an astonishing range, all the way from the history of the miniskirt to the language of the New American Bible."
-- Boston Globe
Customer Reviews:
Better than most books, but ho-hum for Buckley.......2002-09-26
Chris Buckley is my favorite author, having written masterful satires like "Thank You for Smoking" and "Little Green Men." This is not a novel, as I was dismayed to learn, but just a collection of Buckley essays. Each is cute and funny, and the set makes for nice, lite, magazine-style reading. The essay about George Bush (Sr.) and martinis is hilarious -- I still refer to an extra-dry martini (just wave the vermouth bottle over the glass, not opening it) as the "George Bush" martini. Get this book if you have read everything else Buckley has written.
I'm not bitter.......2002-07-26
A collection of essays and other little bits by the scion of William F. Buckley. You know, Christopher probably hates the fact that his family connection is constantly brought up in reviews, and I would be a touch more sensitive to his feelings, but, frankly, I think he's profited from it and why not give credit where it is due? I'll admit it--I'm envious. Here was a boy born with a golden dictionary in his hand and money to boot. And then he gets to go to Harvard, work on the Lampoon, be an editor at Forbes (and do a little junket travel as detailed in one of the more nauseatingly sycophantic articles here), write speeches for the Vice-President, and then he becomes a best- selling humorist. I'm so green with envy I'm sitting here looking a bit like the Incredible Hulk.
It wouldn't be quite so bad except that he even sounds like a nice guy, someone that I could be friends with (if I was wealthy or a politician or a fashion designer or the owner of my own company or you get the picture). Even his politics don't rub me quite the wrong way as his fellow conservative humorist, P.J. O'Rourke. I liked these little essays so much that I probably won't be able to resist something else by Buckley, most likely his satire on the tobacco lobby, Thanks for Smoking. Damn--I wish I had written that.
Humorous, Insightful, and a Little Snobby.......2001-11-04
Although I truly enjoyed this book, by the time I finished I really had a good sense of East Coast life, especially those who mix in circles where royalty is called by their first names while on a cruise down the Amazon! Some chapters in this collection of essays are laugh-out-loud funny, such as 'Hemlines of History'; others taught me a lot about aircraft and aircraft carriers; still others had me bored and wondering if the essay was supposed to be poking fun at the elite, or written in complete seriousness about a world I know nothing about, nor really care about. Maybe its because I live on the West Coast, and we are more informal, but some of Buckley's concerns and gripes don't seem all that important to me. However, I do recommend this book because it is well written and a wonderful example of the lost art of essay writing.
truly funny collection.......2001-04-04
American conservatives are doomed to suffer in squaredom for a simple reason (besides weak hair): their stance of Permanent Moral Disapproval. Whatever virtues this state may possess, hipness is not one of them. Fred MacMurray may be an admirable paterfamilias and a model of bourgeois rectitude, but he will not win the dance contest on Soul Train.
The Right has a serious fun problem. Like evil runes possessed of a curious power, the words carved on the id of every teenager worth her salt -- sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll -- send conservatives into a howling, medieval fury. The inconvenient fact is that all hipness contains a spice of nihilism, a tiny but flavorful soupcon of who-gives-a-****, that is anathema to the Right. To the degree that conservative writers embrace Cool Style, they simply cease to be conservative. -REVIEW : of "Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing," edited by David Brooks (GARY KAMIYA, Salon)
That statement is, I suppose, fairly typical of how the Left views conservatives, and may in fact be largely true. But it misses two extremely salient points : (1) those who do embrace Cool Style cease to be humorous, after all, if you think it's perfectly fine to engage in wildly varied sexual experimentation, then 99% of the jokes ever told in the history of man, particularly those with sheep in them, no longer have punch lines; (2) no the Right isn't out having this sort of fun, we're home with our wives making jokes about the hipster doofuses that think that such behavior makes them cool. [Recall the hilarious Republican response to Ted Kennedy's 1988 Democratic convention speech, where he used the tagline "Where was George ?" Answer : Home in bed with Barbara, sober.] Humor, particularly satirical humor, by its very nature, requires you to take a pretty jaundiced view of humankind; it practically requires the stance of Permanent Moral Disapproval, which Kamiya finds so offensive. The natural result is that almost all of the humorous political writing in America today is being done by conservatives. The collection that is panned above, for instance, includes an embarrassment of riches, including Joe Queenan, PJ O'Rourke, Andrew Ferguson, and Christopher Buckley.
Wry Martinis meanwhile is a collection of twenty years worth of the writings of Christopher Buckley--an editor at Forbes FYI, regular contributor to the back page of The New Yorker, former speech writer to Vice President Bush, and the son of William F. Buckley. The book contains many funny pieces ranging from travel essays to book reviews. Among the funniest are his NY Times review of Tom Clancy's novel Debt of Honor, which is so scathing that it provoked a mini-feud between the two. It starts by citing Mark Twain :
Somewhere, if memory serves, Mark Twain said of one of Henry James's books, "Once you put it down, you can't pick it up." "Debt of Honor," the eighth novel in Tom Clancy's oeuvre, is, at 766 pages, a herniating experience.
And things get really ugly thereafter. One of Buckley's favorite devices, especially in his New Yorker bits, is to take one seemingly innocent item out of the news and then spin a comedic scenario around it. Among the factoids that get this treatment :
* 'They both come to my house. We serve them a Martini. And we have an exchange between the two.' -Tom Brokaw in The New York Times, proposing an alternative presidential-debate format
* A group of conservative political operatives is expected to announce today the launching of the Conservative TV Network, a 24-hour pay cable-television channel expected to debut in early 1996. -USA Today
* To save money, airlines in the United States are circulating less fresh air into the cabins of many airplanes. -The New York Times
These brief essays are generally very funny, but even better, the modus operandi set him up to perpetrate a terrific hoax. In Forbes FYI, he started out a piece with a seemingly similar blurb :
It has come to our attention through private channels that the Soviet government is preparing to make a very unusual, indeed unprecedented, offering : the embalmed remains of V. I. Lenin.
The following fabrication proved so successful that the Soviet government was deluged with bids and Peter Jennings reported, and later angrily retracted, the story on ABC News.
These and the many other pieces make for a truly funny collection. It belongs on your shelf, in the midst of the collected works of H. L. Mencken, Tom Wolfe, Andrew Ferguson, and P.J. O'Rourke, and the other equally funny curmudgeons who have so masterfully turned the Human Tragedy into a Human Comedy.
GRADE : A-
Someone wicked this way comes........2000-09-19
I found a good illustration of Christopher Buckley's sense of humor while reading of one of the ocean crossings that he had taken with his Father. Buckley the Elder routinely sailed an ocean every 5 years or so, and his Son was often part of the crew. All the ship's members had tasks, and on this trip Christopher was in charge of bringing along projects for fun and diversion during the extended voyage. The one I will remember was the model he brought for the group to construct, of course a ship, and for him it could be no other, The Titanic.
His is not low brow cheap shot humor, although you may be surprised by how inept some other Authors are when engaging him in written debate. He writes within this book on a variety of subjects guaranteed to make you laugh, and for those that take themselves, or a given subject too seriously, he will annoy you. Even if the latter group is the one you find yourself in, if only to yourself, you still cannot deny the wit, and the intellect that is behind his thoughts.
So if The Pope appearing on Oprah selling his new book intrigues you, or perhaps Johnnie Cochran writing a letter of recommendation for the squeezed fruit who was his client piques your interest, this read is for you. If the two topics I mention do not suffice, there is always his written feud with Tom Clancy, satire on Star Trek, or perhaps the "How I went 9 G's in an F-16 and Only Threw Up Five Times", there is something here that will cause you great pain in your sides, as he is the cause of pain for his adversaries in their nether regions.
The stories I mentioned are a tiny fraction of what awaits the reader, for I have not touched upon the selling of Lenin's embalmed corpse.
Buckley the Younger is wonderful, or as the Author Tom Wolfe states "Fifty years ago the 3 funniest writers in the English language were named Shaw, Mencken and Muggeridge....today they're named Thompson, O'Rourke, and Christopher Buckley..."
If you have not tried this man's work, this is a great place to start.
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This book explains how players can use this dynamic opening to attack their opponent from move one.
Customer Reviews:
Everything you need to know about the Nimzo-Larsen.......2006-06-08
Why should you play 1.b3 on your first move? Here's why.
1) It avoids theory and you will not have to keep up with the latest developments... unlike most people who have to constantly look up the new theory one the English or Reti or find out new ideas against the Sicilian.
2) You can use it positionally or with the most aggressive intention by opting for a quick f4 (positional players would play a quick c4)
3) There is absolutly no defense against this opening. Black has no opening moves to rely on. He is probably so used to playing is little "pet" defense against 1.e4 or 1.d4..that he will be bewildered when you play 1.b3 and will have know idea on earth what to play against it.
4) Since this opening is rare and odd there hasn't been any theory on it leaving you to find new and creative ideas.
Excellent work.......2003-08-01
"Nimzo-Larsen Attack" by Byron Jacobs and Jonathan Tait. In a clearly very thoroughly researched book the Nimzo-Larsen is explored in detail in almost 200 packed pages. There are a couple of nice features of this book which are rare in modern publications. Firstly at many points in each illustrative game, as well as sub-games and variations there are objective comments assessing the position or possible plans which definitely helps guide the student through the material. Although to be expected from CCIM Jonathan Tait, it is nevertheless pleasing to see so many correspondence games included. Often these are critical to the evaluation of particular variation featuring new ideas or more accurate assessments of known position but are often ignored by opening books which largely concentrate on over-the-board games. The authors are also objective in their statement that there is no theoretical advantage for white in this opening but clearly opening 1. b3, or 1.Nf3 followed by b3, is a sound and solid way to begin the game and one which is too easy to underestimate. I would expect to see many players attracted to playing this opening and this book should finally remove the taint associated with this opening that remained for years following Larsen's spectacular defeat by Spassky in the USSR-Rest of World 1970 Match.
Miraculous.......2003-08-01
This book, "Nimzo-Larsen Attack" by Byron Jacobs and Jonathan Tait, is, in a nutshell, one of the most beautiful chess books I have ever seen (I don't say this lightly, as I have 450+ books). There are a handful of books that sort of "stun" me with how brilliant they are. "Pawn Power in Chess" and "The Amateur's Mind" come to mind. Although this Nimzo-Larsen book is not an instructive manual like those classics, it is equally classic and equally stunning. If you see it on the shelf at a bookstore, it just looks like another Everyman opening book. But when you pull it off the shelf, the first thing you notice is its weight. It is 193 pages long, not 144 or 160 pages like nearly all other Eveyrman books. With its double-column format and dense print, it seems like about 500 pages worth of material. But of course length does not equal quality. What distinguishes this work is the incredible depth of its research and information, and its passion. These authors wrote as if they were being paid great sums of money for this work. In a note, they will compare a line to another game. But instead of just saying, "white/black was better," they say, "the remaining moves of the game were..." and give all the remaining moves, with important annotations. This is incredibly helpful, because in the Nimzo-Larsen you will frequently arrive at an equal middlegame with perhaps a slight plus for white, and your endgame skills will decide the day. So, it is essential that the authors did this. Consequently, you have hundreds and hundreds of complete games in the notes. You absorb and learn the opening. But do not get the impression that this is a data-dump. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is a labor of love, that has to be seen to be believed. The annotations are insightful and meaningful, with constant note of transpositions (also huge in the N-L), and constant verbal evaluations of moves and positions and references to other sources (the bibliography is the largest I have ever seen). These games were put under a microscope, and we get to savor the results. I flipped forward to the end of the book, thinking, it can't be this good for 200 pages! Yet the quality and depth never lags, through all 69 main annotated games and all the others in the notes. I somehow feel that I cannot do justice to this book. It is so important to the aspiring chess player. It is so packed that I will never exhaust its tresures. The Nimzo-Larsen (1. b3 or 1. Nf3, 2. b3) is a great versatile opening to study. One reason for this is that it offers innumerable opportunities for transposition, such as to the English, the Reti, and the Queen's Gambit. It thus has flexibility, which is a key to success in modern chess. But, opening aside, this is a uniquely wonderful opening work. These authors treat every game like it is their one and only chance to teach, enlighten, and to bring out all they can about the game in question. The annotations are as good a blend of text and variations as I have ever seen. Spend some time with this book, and its qualities grow larger and larger, to the point that I am practically in disbelief to how amazing it is!
... If combined with other openings..........2003-01-04
This is a very complete book on the Nimzo-Larsen. The book consists of 69 games with a lot of different variations from beginning to end. Each game is very well explained in great details. When I began analysing this book I skipped the first 20 pages with the 5.f4 play. I went directly with the 5.c4. Why ? I just didn't like the position in which the 5.f4 gave me. Then I went on to learn all the other black openings against the ever strange 1.b3. The book also gives you games analysis with the 1.Nf3 ... 2.b3 ... This book is very well produced but it is not intented for beginners. PART one are games with the 1. b3, e5 openings. PART two is for games with 1. b3, d5 and 1. Nf3, d5 2. b3 openings. PART three convers all the other lines by black after White b3 or Nf3-b3. I also beleive that the Nimzo-Larsen opening should be used very carefully by White because there is a lot of traps. In quite a lot of games, White doesn't castle at all. So if you don't mind to protect your King, if you are a positional player and if you are good at improvisation in middle game this book is for you. If you absolutely want to protect your King at the most, if you are not a positional player and if you like to memorize hundreds of different openings this book is not for you. For myself I am not an attacking player, I am more of a positionnal player. So did I like this book ? Yes, an a lot, because I also like to play non-orthodox games. I recommend this book for lovers of Games analysis with a very different approch.
Interesting opening, but complicated.......2002-08-08
The book gives a very detailed description of the variations in the Nimzo-Larsen attack. This opening allows for a lot of improvitations, and therefore the variations are endless. I (as a beginner) was slightly disapointed in that the book is of an encyclopedic nature rather than a simple introduction to ...-book. This comes naturally from the nature of the opening, so simply consider this as a warning, if you are not looking for an opening encyclopedia on the Nimzo-Larsen attack.
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Succeed in econometrics with INTRODUCTORY ECONOMETRICS and its accompanying resources! Easy-to-read and student-friendly, this economics text places an emphasis on examples that give a concrete reality to economic relationships. With study tools found throughout the text, exam preparation and class projects have never been easier. Coverage of important knowledge used for empirical work and carrying out research projects in a variety of applied social science fields gives you a solid foundation for social science research.
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Great Exposition, but Poor Notation.......2007-09-27
Great introduction to the subject, but the notation is poor. By presenting the material without matrix algebra, the multiple regression analysis becomes a convoluted mess of summation notation. Additionally, matrix notation is adopted in more advanced texts, making in beneficial to learn from the start.
A very good book.......2007-02-26
Wooldridge's explanations are clear and useful. After a semester hacking my way through the dense brush of matrices in Greene's book, I realized I needed some help. Now I go to Wooldridge's treatment first, to make sure I understand the main concepts. Then I go to Greene for the detail, if I need to.
Great for Self-studying.......2006-12-04
This books is excellent read. It builds good intuition, and is well suited for self-studying. It is also not too mathematical, no matrix notation, good for undergraduate students or as a review for graduate students. I can truly recommmend it.
Excellent for cross-sectional but needs complements for time series.......2006-12-01
As the author says, the book is "aimed at undergraduates but it is adaptable to master's students". It will provide you with excellent and extensive real life explanations. What is better about this book is that you can redo every example in the book by using the online data that it provides with. This was it is easier what happens by experimenting. In that sense this book is superior to many others where you cannot see how the results of estimations came about.
There is only one thing to take into account. Although there are three parts to this book, the shortest one is time series. Its coverage will is therefore not very comprehensive if you want basic explanations like the VAR, GARCH models etc...
In that case, I would recommend the book New Directions in Econometric Practice by Wojciech W. Charemza.
Wooldridge is best.......2005-10-03
Wooldridge is best (review refers to 2nd edition).
You don't need any other book to start intermediate econometrics or indeed econometrics at all once you know a little first-year statistics; the Amazon reviewers who prefer Gujarati or others are living in the dead past: W is better and easier and leaves very little out that G covers.
Ignore the tempting "dumbing down" implications of the publishers' advertising material whether filtered by Amazon or not; they don't need to sell the book because it's used all over the world in the best places and just walks out of the store. He dumbs down not at all or else, occasionally, very successfully.
The only possible alternative at this level (in fact well below) is Stock and Watson but they don't make you do exercises on data, which I assure you is essential fun.
Of course if you don't like exercises you can also read Peter Kennedy's Guide and philosophise. I imagine that the next step up is Greene's semi-encyclopedia or Davidson and MacKinnon's newer or older books, unless you choose to jump into the literature as W helps you to do.
All of these books just introduce Time Series too slowly and too late: try Terence Mills' several books on various aspects: he has the rare talent of simplicity AND brevity. Perhaps W's next book will be on Time Series (on which he has published).
By the way, it is easy and great fun to find inappropriate analyses in almost any econometrics book if you use a good package: David Hendry's PcGive suite etc is especially quick for this purpose: a few clicks and the graphs show the nonsense. I sometimes think that the popularity of EViews with students is precisely because inappropriate analyses are easily hidden. More expert people than me use Stata, but I don't know ....
I loved Streakieblondie's review, but I must tell her and you all that the Schaum book (I spare the author's blushes) is a stinker, useful only for getting through bad exams set by lazy lecturers, though many Schaum books in well-established areas are excellent. Both W and S&W are high-class professionals who happen to know how to write text-books, and they have all three collaborated with Nobel Prizewinners: so go for quality. Why don't the publishers' reviews and materials say this rather than implying that they've made good new stuff trivially easy? In my view W has judged it better than S&W.
If you're VERY keen, Wooldridge's other book on panel data is just terrific (but some matrices Streakieblondie, though with lots of clever help).
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- The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt: The Body of the Public
- The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
- The Ultimate Drawing Course: A Comprehensive, Easy-To-Follow Guide to Drawing
- The World of Wade Figurines And Miniatures (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
- The Yellowstone Handbook: An Insider's Guide to the Park: A Related by Ranger Norm
- Tolkien's Middle-Earth and Monsters Postcard Book: A Book of 40 Postcards
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