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Intended for a two-term applied calculus or finite mathematics and applied calculus course, Mathematical Applications, 8/e, presents concepts and skills in an approachable way for students of varying abilities and interests. The Eighth Edition retains the features that have made this text a popular choice, including applications covering diverse topics that are important to students in the management, life, and social sciences. This edition broadens the represented applications by adding a number of environmental science applications. The use of modeling has also been expanded, with modeling problems now clearly labeled in the examples. ... Read more

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The reach is so broad, some of the goals slip through their fingers
The attempted reach of this book is so great; nearly every goal appears to slip through their fingers. The first section of the book (577 pages) is roughly equivalent to a book in finite mathematics and the second (approximately 400 pages) to a book in business calculus. With such a broad mathematical swath being applied, the effectiveness is limited. The college where I teach mathematics and computer science recently added a course in basic mathematical modeling, so I examined this book as a possible text. I cannot envision any circumstances where this book will satisfy our needs for the reasons listed above. While the coverage is wide and to some depth, there is so much that only a fraction of the material could be covered in a semester.
The chapter headings are:

*) Algebraic concepts
*) Linear equations and functions
*) Quadratic and other special functions
*) Matrices
*) Inequalities and linear programming
*) Exponential and logarithmic functions
*) Mathematics of finance
*) Introduction to probability
*) Further topics in probability; data description
*) Derivatives
*) Applications of derivatives
*) Derivatives continued
*) Indefinite integrals
*) Definite integrals; techniques of integration
*) Functions of two or more variables

To go from the basics of algebra all the way to partial differential equations in one book is quite a feat, certainly something that cannot be done in a single semester. Therefore, this is a book that would only be suitable for a two-semester course sequence. The only such sequence that I can see where this book would be appropriate is one covering "Mathematics for business." The chapter on the mathematics of finance and the majority of the application examples being from business and economics would almost force this to be the only possible area of application.
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Culture has returned to the poverty research agenda.

Over the past decade, sociologists, demographers, and even economists have begun asking questions about the role of cul­ture in many aspects of poverty, at times even explaining the behavior of low-income populations in reference to cultural factors. Unlike their predecessors, contemporary researchers rarely claim that culture will sustain itself for multiple generations regardless of structural changes, and they almost never use the term “pathology,” which implied in an earlier era that people would cease to be poor if they changed their culture. The new generation of scholars conceives of culture in substantially different ways.

In this latest issue of the ANNALS, readers are treated to thought-provoking articles that attempt to bridge the gap between poverty and culture scholarship, highlighting new trends in poverty research.

This volume is vital reading, not only for sociologists but also for researchers across the social sciences as a whole.

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Agresti and Finley present statistical methods in a style that emphasizes their concepts and their application to the social sciences rather than the mathematics and computational details behind them.

Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences, 4e presents an introduction to statistical methods for students majoring in social science disciplines.  No previous knowledge of statistics is assumed, and mathematical background is assumed to be minimal (lowest-level high-school algebra).

This text may be used in a one or two course sequence. Such sequences are commonly required of social science graduate students in sociology, political science, and psychology. Students in geography, anthropology, journalism, and speech also are sometimes required to take at least one statistics course.

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FTCE study guide
This book was somewhat helpful. However, this is the second XAM book that I've used and they are full of typos and errors.It makes me nervous to use a guide with typos and errors since I don't know if I can trust the information. The book is also very expensive, especially for the quality.However, it was the only Social Science 5-9 study guide that I could find anywhere.

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Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences, Brief Edition introduces calculus in real-world contexts and provides a sound, intuitive understanding of the basic concepts students need as they pursue careers in business, the life sciences, and the social sciences.The new Ninth Edition builds on the straightforward writing style, practical applications from a variety of disciplines, clear step-by-step problem solving techniques, and comprehensive exercise sets that have been hallmarks of Hoffmann/Bradley’s success through the years. ... Read more

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Inexcusable
This is easily one of the worst textbooks I've ever read, which makes my current class of calculus infinitely more difficult as a result. I've never taken calculus before, but I've enjoyed other math classes due to the easy, accessible texts and a good teacher to complement them. The book is simply not user-friendly to anyone outside of those who have taken calculus in some form beforehand, or even those who have.

The chapter examples are predominantly where most of the action goes down, and the authors often use simple examples (never mind giving explanations on how they solved the problem, often my classmates and I had to take too much time to diagnose what the author did from one step to the next due to a lack of a step-by-step process), and not only that, but they save the easy stuff for themselves to explain away and save the headachers that need explaining for the reader! Even my professor from time to time had to take too much classtime to try and reason out the author's muddled intentions rather than teaching the planned lesson.

In short, this was an easy paycheck to some of the laziest group of Ph.Ds I'll ever see.

Practical Calculus
Having returned to school for another degree, I was forced to take yet another calculus class or write a paper about calculus so, I figured a little review never hurt and I'd get a good grade.

I have decided that out of all of the calculus, differential equations, etc., that I took in college getting that engineering degree, I like this book the best.Good examples of practical applications for economics and social sciences without a lot of "prove thats..."

My only beef would be for first time calculus students who are weak in algebra as some of the problems lack examples within the text.

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Ethnography in Social Science Practice explores ethnography’s increasing use across the social sciences, beyond its traditional bases in social anthropology and sociology. It explores the disciplinary roots of ethnographic research within social anthropology, and contextualizes it within both field and disciplinary settings.

The book is of two parts: Part one places ethnography as a methodology in its historical, ethical and disciplinary context, and also discusses the increasing popularity of ethnography across the social sciences. Part two explores the stages of ethnographic research via a selection of multidisciplinary case studies. A number of key questions are explored:

• What exactly is ethnographic research and what makes it different from other qualitative approaches?
• Why did ethnography emerge within one social science discipline and not others?
• Why did its adoption across the social sciences prove problematic?
• What are the methodological advantages and disadvantages of doing ethnographic research?
• Why are ethnographers so concerned by issues of ethics, politics, representation and power?
• What does ethnography look like within different social science disciplines?

The book is aimed at social science students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and each chapter has pedagogic features, including reflective activities and suggested further readings for students.

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A team of highly respected scholars and teachers collaborates to create a fully integrated coverage of social studies content and teaching methods. Teaching the Social Sciences and History in Secondary Schools seriously addresses the topic of content in the social studies curriculum. Content-specific chapters are written by discipline experts; numerous teaching and learning activities are adaptable for use with secondary students. ... Read more

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A unique and important book
This book offers secondary social studies teachers useful, classroom tested, techniques for teaching the social sciences and humanities.A critical perspective is cast on key ideas that relate to engaged citizenship in our representative democracy. ... Read more

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This review of the accomplishments and future agendas of comparative historical research in the social sciences explores its strengths in explaining important worldwide outcomes (e.g., revolutions, social provision, democracy). It includes sections on substantive research accomplishments, methodology, and theory, and features essays by some of the most important political scientists and sociologists currently working. ... Read more

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Necessary, with mitigation
Dr. Malina's commentary on the Johanine gospel is indispensable. Face it, nobody is engaging the New Testament in this way, his commentaries are powerful and are ushering in a new era of Biblical scholarship. As to not engaging text criticism, Malina explicitly states in the introduction that the commentary will not do it and that the commentary is supplemental to other good commentaries that do engage the technicalities of the text. As for original meaning of the text, look no farther, you have found your commentary. I have one complaint about this book: the characterization of the Johanine writer as a community astral seer is dubious. I don't think Malina makes any attempt to explain or elaborate why this is the case, however it taints the commentary very little as it is only important to the prologue of John.

Excellent, but...
As I said on the review of the Synoptics: I enjoyed the book that, with its companion "on the synoptic gospels", form a source of "inside" information that otherwise I woudln't have access to.The book is structure according to a regular commentary with additional "notes" or "reading scenarious."Unfortunately, there are no footnotes; therefore, when they tell you abuot a particular custom of that time, there is no direct reference to a primary source. Therefore, you have to take their words for it. There is a bibliography, which can help a bit, but still you're left with no way to further a specific point.

Less than Standard.
This commentary on the fourth gospel by Malina & Rohrbaugh could by used by the critical reader for some insights into the author's social setting. Yet this method should be allowed only so much of a foothold on acommentary and should not dominate the landscape. Into this trap haveMolina & Rohrbaugh fallen into.

Moreover, there is virtually noTextual critical questions addressed at all. No interaction with opposingcommentaries. Narrative and theology are barely given weight. And finally,the historio-religious method permeates Malina & Rohrbaugh'sconclusions time and again.

Malina & Rohrbaugh's all to frequentreconstructions are torturous and hard to follow. Somehow it seems that asthe commentary progresses verse-by-verse M&R get farther and fartherfrom John's intended meaning.

A much better critical read of the fourthgospel remains Herman Ridderbos, or Rudolf Schnackenburg.

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Indespensible tool for studying the Gospel of John
Bruce Malina and Richard Rohrbaugh show that the Christian community of John's Gospel was an "anti-society", that is, a consciously alternative society consisting of exiles, rebels, or ostracized deviants.(They note parallel examples of anti-societies, such as reform-schoolstudents in Poland, members of the underworld in India, and vagabonds inElizabethan England.)As such, it had developed its own"anti-language", that is, a resistance language used to maintainits highly sectarian religious reality.This accounts for many of thestrange expressions found in the gospel.For instance, the Christians ofthis community referred to all outsiders as people of "thisworld".They believed that all members of wider society -- especially"the Jews" -- lay outside the scope of redemption and werecompletely beyond the pale.Like all anti-societies, they overlexicalizedtheir language, which basically means that they used redundant euphemisms. Thus, "believing into Jesus", "abiding in him","loving him", "keeping his word", "receivinghim", "having him", and "seeing him" all meant thesame thing.Likewise, "bread", "light","door", life", "way", and "vine" wereall redundant metaphors for Jesus himself.This anti-language served tomaintain inner solidarity in the face of pressures (or perhaps evenpersecutions) from wider society.Unlike the religious language found inthe Synoptic Gospels or Paul's letters, John's language would have beenmeaningless in the context of wider Judeo-Christian society ("thisworld").

Understanding this social background is crucial forinterpreting the gospel as a whole and controversial passages inparticular.........................

Fine Work
Dr. Malina asked me to read and review an early form of this book a few years back, of which I did not realize at the time was the first reading of this fine work.As a personal friend and past student of Dr. Malina, I cansay with full sincerity that Dr. Malina's work is some of the mostunder-acknowledged scholarly writing of our time in this area of study. This fine volume carries on the Malina tradition of scholarly excellence inchasing down and capturing with pure mind-blowing enlightenment themulti-dimensional, historical truth behind the creation and content ofJohn.This volume is an absolute necessity for anyone even halfwayattempting to respectfully comprehend John in its rightful, historicalcontext.This book is so wonderfully researched and executed that I canhardly recommend it enough.I urge anyone who has reached this review toorder this book and all others by Dr. Malina for an extremely interestingand educational look at the world of Jesus, and furthermore, a look at howmuch the modern Church has distorted and twisted hardcore Biblical truth(for one of thousands of examples, check out Dr. Malina's 1995 book onRevelation and compare it to the feeble and cheap trash put out byjokesters and ill-educated fundamentalists such as Hal Lindsey).You willnever look at John the same after reading this book, but I promise yourlife will be changed through the deep and meaningful questioning this andother Malina volumes will bring about.Do yourself and Biblicalscholarship a favor and read this great book and pass the word on. ... Read more

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Univ. of Florida, Coral Gables. Examines ways behavioral and social sciences have been applied to public health concerns. Shows examples of successful integration and challenges professionals to meld their work in effective ways. ... Read more

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Writing for All Scientists
Howard S. Becker, the author of "Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article", is a social scientist. Of course, no respectable scientist, social or non-social, would dare generalizing to other fields of knowledge the findings laboriously made in his own field. So, Becker conservatively addresses his book just to "social scientists". Writing is, however, an essential aptitude for any scientist. In fact, it is no less crucial to the survival of the scientist, as a scientist, than his or her own aptitudes to read or think logically. So, what Becker writes in his book is just as important to social scientists as it is to any other kind of scientist. Quite paradoxically, most scientists initiate and develop their scientific careers without devoting a single minute of their time to specifically learning how to write. Anyone would agree that it is impossible to play good tennis without proper training, and whoever wished to become a professional tennis player by just playing along would very likely be regarded as downright naive. This is, however, what most scientists do when it comes to writing. Becker's book does not fall in the category of the so called "how-to" books. It is, rather, a personal reflection written in a very entertaining and conversational style by an academic who addresses his fellow academics, not from the top of a pulpit, but from the cultural standpoint of the beliefs, traditions, aspirations and rites of their common academic life. It covers, in this way, a remarkably diverse collection of central aspects of scientific writing, such as the crucial role of editing and rewriting (and rewriting, and rewriting), the fear of scorn, the encounters with writer's block, or the urge to produce pompous and obscure texts. As the book progresses, the readers notice that they are being faced with the main fallacies of traditional scientific writing and that they are being helped to build their own opinion on how these fallacies can be properly handled. One such fallacy resides in the belief that there is only one right way of putting things down on paper. In fact, most less experienced writers tend to believe that to write well is to get the text right the first time. So, they stumble in the beginning of their text, unsuccessfully trying to work out the best beginning (and believing that, if they don't, they will not be able to proceed). Often, they also stumble when trying in vain to get the best plan for their text. Indeed, they seem to ignore that a significant part of our knowledge is built through experimentation, and that experimentation begins inside our own minds, as we tentatively combine ideas and try to make sense out of them.

Great Author, Great Work
Howard Becker is indispensable to any student of the social sciences. This book, which provides insight into how to work efficiently as a scholar in the discipline, is an excellent resource. Read it while you're writing so you don't lose sight of the goal of finishing your work.

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Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

Good, but the second edition has few changes
I bought the first edition of this book about 20 years ago and found it very helpful.I long ago misplaced my copy and so was happy to order the new second edition.On reading the book again, I found Becker's advice to be as good as I remembered, but I was disappointed that he had made so few changes in the "second edition."Essentially, the first edition has been reprinted verbatim--even typos weren't corrected--with a relatively few pages of additional material added to the last two chapters.Chapter 9 now contains Becker's general thoughts on recent software that he considers useful to writers.This discussion would have been more helpful if he had been willing to mention specific programs.I guess he decided not to either to avoid giving free advertising or to avoid dating the discussion.The last chapter gives some interesting, if brief, observations on the place of writing in modern academic life.

In short, if you already have the first edition, there's not much point in buying the second edition.If, on the other hand, you haven't encountered this book before and you would like some useful tips on academic writing, it's well worth the price.

Becker on Writing
This was the best $10 I've ever invested.The book is wonderful; clear and concise.It's made a big difference with my papers through understanding that writing is a process that mostly begins with angst, that there are a few quick tricks that can make any paper much better and that big words in scientific papers don't make the paper scientific (or readable).BUY THE BOOK!!! ... Read more

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Market-leading APPLIED MATHEMATICS FOR THE MANAGERIAL, LIFE, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 5th EDITION, is a traditional text with a slightly modern feel. This new edition incorporates technology in such a way that both traditional and modern practitioners find the support they need to teach effectively. Continuing its tradition of mathematical accuracy, the new fifth edition teaches by application and uses real and realistic examples to motivate students. It combines solid theory with innovative learning tools, includes a robust supplement package, and offers unmatched flexibility that makes the course easy to teach. Accessible for majors and non-majors alike, the book uses an intuitive approach that introduces abstract concepts through examples drawn from common, real-life experiences to which students can relate. It also draws applications from readers' fields of interest. In addition, insightful Portfolios highlight the careers of real people and discuss how they incorporate math into their professional lives. Numerous exercises ensure students have a solid understanding of text concepts before advancing to the next topic. Bringing powerful resources to students' fingertips, the text's exciting array of supplements?including Enhanced WebAssign, Solution Videos, and Personal Tutor?equips students with extensive learning support to help them maximize their study time. ... Read more

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Math For Managerial life

This is the kind of book I have been looking for!It is great and deliverly was within time.Presented in away that is easy to read and understand without a teacher.Next time I need a book, I know where to go.

Keep up the good work.

A Terrible Book, Not Worth the Money
Even at Amazon's $160.00, so-called deal, this book is not worth the money.Why colleges and universities even consider to use this text is beyond me.The chapters come in non sequitur groups of 2 and 3.For a book focusing on current applied mathematical problems, it is a travesty that no bibliography or references pages exist!This gives me the impression that many if not all of the examples and exercises in the book are fabricated.

Any single-semester university course centered around this textbook will likely come across as an extremely low-brow course on finance (fixed and continuous interest rates) and optimization (simplex method) or a low-brow course on probability.In either event, there are far more suitable texts for such classes.It is plain that the topics are hardly covered in a way to be useful for any academic or practitioner in the "Managerial, Life and Social Sciences."

For example, in the section on Bayes' Theorem (Section 7.6) the statement of Bayes' Theorem followed by 30 so-called "real-world" problems, each indistinguishable from the next save only in the numbers used in the problem.We are given 'statistics' of males and females.At the end of the problem one finds the following:Source: Department of Justice.Really?So much time supposedly spent collecting and surveying real-life sources and the problem ends up looking any other made-up problem in a probability book.Again, why use a book that cannot back up claims to have interwoven real-life with classroom mathematics and pay so damn much for it?

Shame on the publishers for making a ninth edition practically identical to the 8th edition.See for yourself, buy the 8th edition used for under $20 and borrow a copy of the 9th edition.The text, exercises and examples are exactly the same.This is a huge problem in my eyes, not only are universities continually using this book, they are (not doubt, delightfully) forcing students to buy this dubiously "new & improved" edition at a ridiculous price.

Ironically, on the back cover of the instructor's edition, Brooks/Cole offers 5 easy ways to keep the price of textbooks down.Presumably, this is only seen by the instructor after the book is chosen for the course.I offer easy-way-to-save number 6: avoid this book altogether.Encourage your students to buy the 8th edition for a fraction of the price.

I hope students and those in charge of coordinating curriculum alike will take notice and allow this book to fade in to oblivion.

Lastly, it is knee-slapping hilarious to note that it is not the author's picture located inside the cover of the book.Upon the first and second glances, one thinks that since Chris Shannon's picture is on the front cover AND the inside cover along with a short biography that she must be other.Nope.Not even close, as the school she teaches at is in California and S.T. Tan teaches in Massachusetts.In case you were wondering, you have to flip past the publisher's pages, title pages and table of contents to find Professor Tan hiding in the corner.

While pointing out these pictures is indeed funny, we come to another sad feature about this book.Though it tries to focus on mathematics used in the real world, as in settings outside of academia, the only people 'featured' in the book are university professors.

If you are even thinking about using this book, please please please, I implore you, pick another.

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Very well written math book for a college student.Would like a answer guide to all questions not just the odd numbered questions.I think the CD is a very good idea; why not include all the answers on the CD with a a special code to unlock the even numbered answers. ... Read more

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Each volume of the HANDBOOKS OF AGING Series represents one of the three main influences on aging: the Handbook of the Biology of Aging, Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, and Handbook of Aging andthe Social Sciences. Each of the Handbooks presents critical comprehensive reviews of research knowledge, theories, concepts, and issues by the foremost scholars in the field. Chapters are selected to portray discrete units of research study, long-standing areas of research, and new developments. ... Read more

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Popular in previous editions, this Third Edition continues to help build students' confidence and ability in doing statistical analysis by slowly moving from concepts that require little computational work to those that require more. Author R. Mark Sirkin once again demonstrates how statistics can be used so that students come to appreciate their usefulness rather than fear them. Statistics for the Social Sciences emphasizes the analysis and interpretation of data to give students a feel for how data interpretation is related to the methods by which the information was obtained.

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Comprehensive textbook
This is a comprehensive book covering all the major topics that a student would need for the statistics modules in various social science courses. Managers need to have an understanding of statistics so that they are able to manipulate the numerous masses of data that come their way into meaningful and useful information that they can employ in making decisions in organisations.

The author presented the material in the book in a clear and in-depth manner, making it suitable for social science students studying statistics or carrying out research required statistical manipulations. The author also provided several examples and exercises that should assist the reader in consolidating his/her understanding of the concepts described in the book.

Most managers are consumers rather than producers of statistical information. This book equips you with the expertise to enable you to be an informed consumer who knows the right questions to ask and the kind of information to request from those who produce the statistical information in the organization.

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In the past twenty years, the field of science and technology studies (S&TS) has made considerable progress toward illuminating the relationship between scientific knowledge and political power. These insights are now ready to be synthesized and presented in forms that systematically highlight the connections between S&TS and other social sciences.

This timely collection of essays by leading scholars in the field meets this challenge. The book develops the theme of 'co-production', showing how scientific knowledge both embeds and is embedded in social identities, institutions, representations and discourses. Accordingly, the authors argue, ways of knowing the world are inseparably linked to the ways in which people seek to organize and control it. Through studies of emerging knowledges, research practices and political institutions, the authors demonstrate that the idiom of co-production importantly extends the vocabulary of the traditional social sciences, offering fresh analytic perspectives on the nexus of science, power and culture.

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Known as the gold standard of research methods texts, THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH, 12th Edition, is a comprehensive, straightforward introduction to the field of research as practiced by social scientists. This best-selling book emphasizes the research process by demonstrating how to design research studies, introducing the various observation modes in use today, and answering questions about research methods--such as how to conduct online surveys, and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data. THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH provides all the tools researchers and consumers need to apply social research. ... Read more

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Social Research at its best
Although several reviews critized the author. I believe the author has gone the extra mile to present social research analysis with a more simplistic method from other authors such as Cresswell. Do not worry about the jokes the author makes, not the best ones, however, but if you stick to the reading and forget about the jokes, you will be amazed to how much you will be able to grasp about social research.

The Practice of Social Research
Book didnot arrive when expected. Followed up on status response was "Book lost in mail."Had to scramble to buy another book. The process time for my full refund took bout 3 days.Found another book thru a much reliable site NOT thru amazon.

Great Product
The book actually arrived early and is in better condition than advertised...No problem ordering from this seller in the future.

Warning: International Edition
This is the international edition. Marked not for sale in US. Says there are differences from US text.

The Practice of Social Research
First time taking a research methods course and this textbook is chalk full of information! Sometimes the reading is tedious (technical jargon) but has very interesting case studies and like how it lists links to find more information on certain topics. I will keep this textbook for future reference. ... Read more

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This is the first comprehensive anthology in the philosophy of socialscience to appear since the late 1960s. Covering all of the major areasin the discipline, it will serve as the standard source for scholarshipin the field and could be used as the basis for an entire course.Sections cover: Explanation, Prediction, and Laws. Interpretation andMeaning. Rationality. Functional Explanation. Reductionism,Individualism, and Holism. Objectivity and Values. Problems of theSpecial Sciences. ... Read more

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This book covers mediation analysis-the examination of whether an effect of one variable on another is direct or indirect or both. Author Dawn Iacobucci offers thorough coverage of introductory and advanced material as well as conceptual and statistical information. The book begins by introducing arguments of causality, and proceeds to examine current options for analyzing data patterns purported to exhibit meditational structures. Iacobucci shows direct and indirect paths via causal paths, regression, and structural equations models. She also grounds readers in a popular structural equations modeling approach so they can implement the statistical methods discussed in testing for evidence of mediation in a variety of empirical contexts.

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· Explores even the fundamental assumptions underlying mediation analysis

· Describes options for analyzing mediation data

· Provides syntax for a widely available and popular computer program so users can begin implementing mediation ideas immediately on their data

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This book is appropriate for any course in regression and correlation, sociological research methods, quantitative research methods, quantitative techniques in Business & Management, Psychology, Political Science, or Public Policy departments.

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Concise overview, includes newer developments and applications
This is a very readable, brief, and accurate introduction to mediation testing.

The book's notable strengths include: (1) integration of recent methodological developments beyond the now-dated Baron-Kenny approach, (2) one of the most readable introductions to the rather complex and often-misunderstood notions of moderated-mediation and mediated-moderation, and (3) frequent examples of how to conduct particular tests in structural equation modeling packages such as LISREL. The book also discusses how different types of variables should be dealt with (dichotomous, continuous, etc) in using each of the described procedures. All of these make 69 "real" pages of the book densely packed with contemporary methodological details.

The strengths of the book readily outweigh its weaknesses, which are two-fold.

First, the book's discussion of moderated-mediation and mediated-moderation models is rather simplistic. In particular, there are different classes of models (Type 1 through Type 5) that are not touched on here. Since you are reading this, the missing details can be found in the following two papers. (Please recognize that one of these papers might have appeared after the book was finished, and the author is unlikely to have a crystal ball specialized in forthcoming papers.)

Edwards, J., and Lambert, L. 2007. Methods for Integrating Moderation and Mediation: A General Analytical Framework Using Moderated Path Analysis. Psychological Methods. 12(1) 1-22.

Muller, D., Judd, C.M., and Yzerbyt, V. 2005. When Moderation Is Mediated and Mediation Is Moderated. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 89(6) 852-863.

Second, the author emphasizes SEM to a fault while discouraging the use of OLS regression. She also implies (page 49) that averaged construct scores are preferable for creating product terms in tests. This is a strong statement since this issue is still being debated in 2008.

Overall, I would highly recommend this book to anyone who uses mediation tests in their research and wants to break out of the 1980s mode of thinking that mediation testing stopped with Baron Kenny (1986). Notwithstanding its _minor_ weaknesses, this is well worth the seventeen bucks. ... Read more

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Like earlier volumes in the Social Science Commentary series, this volume situates Acts squarely in the cultural matrix of the first century Mediterranean world, elaborating its codes of patron and client, mediatorship, honor and shame, healing and sickening, wizardry and witchcraft accusations, and the understanding of the Spirit of God as well as deities and demons as personal causes of significant events.

Part 1: Jesus First Command to the Twelve Their Activities Among Israelite Majority Populations (Acts 1:4-12:25)

Part 2: Jesus Second Command to Saul/Paul His Activities Among Israelite Minority Populations (Acts 12:25-25:31) ... Read more