CREATESPACE The Illustrated Latin-English Parallel Text

Lavishly illustrated in full color, this textbook consists of three parts. The opening part, Orbis Pictus, based on Medieval text of Comenius, presents vocabulary from many ways of life, has section on anatomy, and no grammar, as the rest of the book, which wants to teach you how to read Latin, not how to speak it. The second part of the book, the Magic Arts, contains nine portals which must be passed to obtain working knowledge of Latin. It contains songs, Goliardic poetry, excerpts from Petronius, Reginadelti, Boethius, Pliny, and others. The third part, Sapientia, contains ancient sayings, quotes from Roman authors, and inscriptions discovered in Pompeii tavern, where a visitor is making fun from Caesar's veni, vidi, vici, scribbling on the wall of a tavern veni, vidi, futui. If you don't know what futui means, you should definitely buy this book. About the Author David James Krus, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Measurement, and Methodological Studies, published over 100 scientific articles introducing rotation of canonical components, k-fold cross-validation of multiple regression and canonical analysis; new category of suppressor variables, new method of convergent and discriminant item analysis, new matrix algebra operations for obtaining skew asymmetric matrices adjacent to ordered graphs. Among his interests is study of logical relationships among variables, and quantitative history with focus on cycles of war. He is also interested in the methodology of social sciences and visualization of abstract structures. Among his computer algorithms, the algorithm for continuous updates of basic parameters of the normative databases facilitated development of computerized tests. His algorithm for autocorrelation analysis allowed for abstraction of more precise amplitudes from longitudinal data. He wrote a textbook on the assembly language programming and his assembly language routines, complementing Microsoft compilers, are embedded in computer programs including these of the U.S. Navy, the Armco Steel Corporation, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration. English is his second language, among Latin, French, Russian, German, and Chinese. His textbooks Elements of Statistics and Structure of Statistics are complemented by the Cruise Scientific Visual Statistics Studio, a suite of computer programs for data analysis and visualization. Professor Krus has taught or done research at universities in California, Minnesota, Arizona, China, Taiwan, Japan, Germany, and France. He was listed in Who's Who in America.