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Book Review: Wounded I Am More Awake: Finding Meaning after Terror

teaching nontraditional students who are currently in the workforce as their familiarity with Excel can be maximized. Disappointingly, within the text itself I found few references to Excel, with minimal exercises using Excel in later chapters. Thus if you are looking for a textbook that integrates Excel, then you must look elsewhere. The text touts the available companion website. Being a professor who utilizes many companion sites, I began with the instructor resource area. On the companion website’s instructor resource page, a master list of all files provided a quick guide to what additional materials were available for download. The available materials vary a little from chapter to chapter. All chapters have Microsoft Word files of the figures in the chapter and a test bank. Additional resources for chapters do include preset Excel spreadsheets that demonstrate specific statistics, but disappointingly again, no real reference on how to use Excel to create such spreadsheets for oneself. Additionally, matching PASW files that duplicated the Excel spreadsheet examples are available as well. PowerPoint presentations provide basic figures with some “animation.” Overall, the additional tools are helpful but sadly are not as extensive as other statistics authors provide. Furthermore, if this is the first time you are teaching statistics, the instructor support appears at best minimal. The student area of the website provides two useful tools. First are links to the American National Election Studies and the World Values Survey data used for exercises within the book. Each link leads to a download of the data already formatted into PAWS-ready files, a definite bonus for students already afraid of the topic. (Note, the file sizes are 324 KB and 26.8 KB, respectively.) Five sample social science research articles represent the second resource for students. For each article, Linneman comments on the statistics and helps students understand how/what they are learning is used in “real” social science projects. For instructors, additional exercises could be created to build off this resource to allow students to try their own explanations of additional articles. No sample exam questions or other study guides are offered on the website, which may disappoint some students used to such resources provided by other authors. Overall, Social Statistics: The Basics and Beyond provides an engaging read for students with relevant examples and data to use for exercises. Through humor, Linneman challenges students while explaining statistics in a clear manner. Like many textbooks, Linneman relies on PASW, with minimal Excel use, a challenge if one’s students do not have ready access to the statistical package of PASW. The text lends itself to both undergraduate and graduate students but also has the flexibility with the advanced chapters to be used in two courses, not just one, a boon given the rising cost of textbooks. Instructors receive some resources but must create their own lectures and additional exercises. Generally, students can survive the much feared statistics courses if one uses this book instead of just fearing statistics. As an instructor, I would use Linneman’s book as it would allow students to do more than survive statistics but possibly enjoy the topic.