Research Books

Nardi provides clear and understandable information in regards to research designs and methods. I would suggest this book.

In spite of being a person with a Ph.D., research has never been my strongest suit. That is why I enjoyed this book; it brings research down to earth and makes it easy for me to analyze data related to my work. I wish I had this book for my survey research class when I was in college!

I'm a graduate student conducting a survey for my thesis. The Nardi book is, by far, the single best text that I've come across for doing survey research. It combines good chapters on survey design, but it really shines in providing a primer on key statistical methods for analyzing survey data. I don't have a strong stats background, but Nardi's text is very accessible and to the point. It clearly discusses the various stats options for examining survey data and points you in the right direction for more detailed inquiry, if necessary. After plowing through countless dry, mind-numbing stats texts this book was a god-send!

This is one of the most actionable book on Analytics I have seen in the market. Lots of specifics around scenarios which tell a layman how interplay between recency , frequency across various industries can be used to derive simple insights. One word of caution though. The RFM metrics have to be seen in the context of the business process cycle and the different rhythms of the industries they apply in. In short Jim makes the complex , simple .

I have to say...I already started bragging to my marketing friends about this book. Most books about CRM are boring and hard to digest, but this book continually makes sense...the notes I am making and the information that I am carrying with me is priceless.

Julie

This is truly a great guide. The author assumes no prior knowledge and walks you through many examples about how to do Recency and Frequency (RF) scoring, hurdle rates, Lifetime value and how to apply it to your direct marketing campaigns. I got a lot out of this book as is deals with the scientific nature of transaction and customer analysis.

A little pricey, but you can get the pdf from the website...

There are very few people who are brilliant at understanding statistics (really understanding it deeply) and gifted at explaining it to others. Kenny and his colleagues are such people. He brought us the distinction between moderators and mediators and developed the "gold standard" test for mediation. Now, he and his colleagues point out the problems inherent in analyzing dyadic data and explain how to analyze such data. If your data include 2 or more people who interact with one another, this book is a must have for data analysis.

I really found this book accessible and very useful, and I hate statistics. The first 3 chapters do a great job of laying out the basic concepts and theories and the following chapters give great detail on the practical application of the various methods, includes SPSS code and instructions for many operations. Very useful to any researcher.

I am very pleased with this book. It helps pull together the concepts I have read in articles written by Kenny

In Eamon Grennan's Still Life with Waterfall, agitated swoops and scuttlings of animal life are stilled in a language as sensuous as the bright colors of Bonnard's "Sunset" (on the book's cover). Grennan's observations of the natural world are inextricably bound to the ineluctable experiences of death and loss, resulting in a poetry that gnaws its way toward basic realizations about what it means to be a human animal. On a primal level, we identify with the rage for survival in the plights of the carnivorous marsh hawk and sparrowhawk (in the book's first and last poems respectively), as well as the pathos of the "stopped robin" in "Detail," and the flight instinct of the deer in "Grid," who "stares till he sees what you are, then... he's dolphining green waves/ to a safer distance." Grennan also contemplates animal instinct in search of a model for more complex human behaviors. For example, "Up Against It" is a poem that functions on both a literal and metaphorical level, in which frustrated bees who "cannot understand the window... fling their bodies against... [the] fact of glass--and can only go on/ making the sound that tethers their electric/ fury to what's impossible."

So many of these poems speak to the way in which fundamental human impulses are felt and remembered not only by the brain, but by the body. Weather fluctuations are experienced both internally and externally. "To Grasp the Nettle" treats the speaker's hands almost as the subject of the poem, endowing them with their own memory of lost love, "the way they burned/ to find the cool indented shell of flesh/ at the base of her spine, how they cupped themselves/ to hold her head, feeling its weight and bones." In keeping with his deeply sensual consciousness, Grennan's long sentences, rich with assonance and consonance, give his poetry a slow, lulling, lyrical quality, so that language is eroticized no less passionately than the human body.

A palpable sense of loss haunts the text; rather than write around it as some poets might, Grennan writes through and about the pain of loss, even adopting a lexicon in which words like "asunder," "amputation," and "silence," recur throughout the poems. In addition, there is a formal recurrence of 13-line sonnets, each a kind of truncation, coming up short in the same way life and so many of its elements end prematurely. In the throes of such emptiness where speech fails to compensate for abandonment, and "there is this void, a space filled with mourning/ in silence," Grennan persists with courage and eloquence to contemplate the "'Soul,' [as] something like... a space/ that has shaped itself to the shape of what's gone/ and not returning."

Eamon Grennanfs gStill Life With Waterfallh is a gallery of lush musics. Themes of grief, wounding & healing, and multiedged memory haunt many works, but many more are chiefly concerned with astonishment in the lights and lives of the world. And we are viscerally in the world on every page, never heaving confusedly through the endless tarpit of language. Rural and wild scenes tend to dominate Grennanfs landscape, but these descriptively masterful poems never lapse into the merely painterly, are instead animate with an emotive intensity formed of equal parts sensing, thinking and feeling. He is a consistently formal poet, but the crackle of thought and image in his work leads one through fluidly, so that the formal properties only grow obvious after something electric has been transmitted.

Some poems aim at a verbal rendition of experience, the words themselves, as sonic bodies, more prominent than image, metaphor, or philosophy (gCold Morningh, gGifth, gIn the Dunesh): gNothing to be seen or heard, the sea / not making the slightest ripple, vacant acres of glass / paving a way to islands that are light blue chimera / adrift on rafts of white mist. . . .h Others employ Grennanfs superbly tuned ear to find a way into and through the no-manfs-land of grief (gWhy?h, gMan Making the Bedh, gAshh): gLying alone. . .he will dream / a wilderness of tents in moonlight: asleep, / they will be shivering a little, as if they felt the stars / press their chill rivets in, or the future / with red eyes whispering to rouse them.h

Particularly interesting are Grennanfs thirteen-line poems, some of the most effective and powerful in the book, by dint of the linguistic compression that is one of his strongest gifts, and of a sustained examination of one or two resonant images (gPulseh, gWindowgraveh, gEnoughh): ghaving seen his real presence / ignite like that\the beautiful slow burn of it / as he steps from my sight into his own tangle of shadows\ / and not having to content myself with the marks only / of his absence: the smell of him, his neat prints filling with sand.h There is a wonderful movement from the intensity of description in the first poem (gAt Workh) to the consciousness of larger relations in the last (gDetailsh), as though Grennan were teaching us, through attention, how to let the least event in the outer world foster inner meaning.

The description of sighting a fox in gEnoughh describes well the overall project of the book: to fill with sensual connections the absences and nothings that come to pervade a life. Violence and death are always inherent to this process, but never unbeautiful: gsilk-spurt of bloodh, gThe sheep skeleton in the stream / resembles the inside of a small harpsichord.h To paint over yin with the brightness of yang is to set foot on sentimentalityfs slippery, and psychically terminal, slope. There are times when Grennan approaches this precipice, but in the end insists that he means to sing it all, for gThereness / is all: that burn of chance, quickened breath of appetite / adding up to all that this world offers\ / glitter and shadow, pang of absence, the way / this day keeps coming on: we meet; we disappear.h

Eamon Grennan is one of those academicians (he is currently a Professor of English at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie and the winner of the 2002 Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University) who is particularly gifted with an ability to spin and weave a poetry that is at once elegant, romantic, original, and linguistically subtle -- a memorable kind of literary music. Still Life With Waterfall is a welcome and recommended compendium of Grennan's unique and adroitly written verse. Windowgrave: The dead bee lies on the window-ledge, a relic,/its amber-yellow body barred in black and it head//tucked in, dust gathering on every follicle/and on the geodesic dome of the head--all rucked in//and tucked away, so near is death. And the many/flies too, all sizes, lying on their sides as if//asleep, just a quick nap and they'll be up and off/about their business. Souls, we used to say://bees, butterflies, moths, wasps, all sorts of flies,/the air crowded and loud with left over angels--/but not the spider in its complex web, fallen/from grace but walking on air, vigilant in ways//that harden the heart, getting its appetite back.

If you are sick of all the Frommers, Lonely Planet Guides etc, - or you have absorbed all they have to give you, have a look at this gorgeous little guide. Great photos, brief but informative and personal narrative. I have been to Paris several times, but plan to take this guide with me next time - just to find those little shops that you might not go into without a nudge, and actually ALL of the cafes look good!!

Beautiful photography, concise writing, enticing descriptions---I already have the basic travel guides telling me how to exchange money and get around on the train, this guide tells what to do to have a truly Parisian experience. If you love locally owned restaurants and boutiques, this is like pornography. Absolutely yummy.

On a recent trip to Paris, this was the only "guide book" my husband and I used...and each recommendation was a pleasant surprise. Unique locations in each arrondissement and a variety of meal options from traditional French dinners to low-key drinks. The shops were unique and interesting as well. This book fills a void for those looking for something off the beaten track and with a strong dose of French flair. I will highly recommend this book to my friends traveling to Paris!

Amazing book connecting all the dots you know in asset pricing, macro, general equil'um, etc. You come out of it refreshed, feeling you are a different person.

This book presents an excellent summary of the toolbox that students and professionals must manage in order to understand the numberless amount of modern contributions on asset pricing. All recent advances in the use of risk and uncertainty are presented with simple and direct language, and without useless mathematical sophistication. A needed help for asset pricing courses intended to graduate students.

Gollier has written a book that not many others could have written. It is VERY complete, it is full of deep insights, and, for me, it is a pleasure to read. Don't be mistaken: this is a research book, not a textbook. But for those of us doing research in decision theory, general equilibrium, finance, or macroeconomics, it is simply a must. How could you afford NOT to buy it?

Fabulously informative, both from the author's perspective and of course the great Edgar Cayce healing and historical knowledge. Beautiful pictures. Clear and large print, nicely layed out, lovely book.

I really enjoyed this book and found it filled with loads of useful information. As a designer of chakra-balancing jewelry, this well-written book will help me tremendously.

The Edgar Cayce Guide to Gemstones, Minerals, Metals, and More, is an excellent source guide for those interested in this area. The book has quality pages, colorful photographs, and terrific insights on the various stones, minerals, and metals. I have gone back to the book more than a few times and have recommended it to my friends and family. Ms. Kaehr certainly knows what she is writing about.

This text was required for a class in School Administration in my post grad class at Seton Hall University. The author is easy to follow along with as he presents theories along with examples of organizational life in the education system. An excellent chapter on the Culture and Climate of Schools can be used by administrators in any field to better recognize these characteristics, as well as organizational health, before taking steps to change the culture or climate. Another very good chapter deals with Leadership in Schools and helps to identify the various theories of leadership and the strengths and weaknesses associated with each type. A great book for administrators in either the private or public sector.

Very quick receipt, well packaged, and fairly priced for the excellent condition of this book. Thank you so much for the great service.

This book was and is the best introduction to school administration available. I was the foundation for my doctorate program.

"The educational and Occupational Attainment Process," which was written by Yukiko Inoue, is an experiment study of factors influencing status attainment in the United States. The purpose of this study is to define educational attainment and occupational attainment among adolescents. In addition, the author intended to find the process, which women attain their status in this research. This study did focus on women's status attainment as well as men's. Therefore, the author stated three interesting points, which are 1) women in American Higher Education, 2) the status attainment process between men and women, 3) impacts of marriage and children. The result of this study would apply to today's adolescents, because 1) the attainment process is found to be similar for men and women, 2) the importance of educational aspiration is still the determinant of educational attainment for American adolescents. This study makes its results so clear that American adolescents today can seek their way of attaining their status by reading this book. This study can be used for counseling adolescents, who are in the transition from high school to the occupational world. In addition, this study will help both schoolars and students in the different countries to compare own country to the U.S. I enjoyed reading this study a lot, because I have all my educational background in Japan, so it caught my attention in a great deal. It gave me a chance to get to know American adolescents, who are attaining their education and occupation. From my experience, I found out that the reason why educational attainment will guide students in the U.S. to occupational attainment is that American students tend to major, of which they can make use, for their occupation. That means that whatever they study in college will apply for jobs that they are interested in. This is a big differences between Japanese students and American students. People in the U.S. seem to enjoy their occupation and make full use of what they learned in college. I understood that people in the U.S. and Japan have different way of attaining their status. In the last, I was glad to have a chance to read this study, which made me think about the differences between American educational attainment system and Japanese educational attainment system. This book is highly recommended for those who want to succeed in the near future.

"The educational and Occupational Attainment Process," which was written by Yukiko Inoue, is an experiment study of factors influencing status attainment in the United States. The purpose of this study is to define educational attainment and occupational attainment among adolescents. In addition, the author intended to find the process, which women attain their status in this research. This study did focus on women's status attainment as well as men's. Therefore, the author stated three interesting points, which are 1) women in American Higher Education, 2) the status attainment process between men and women, 3) impacts of marriage and children. The result of this study would apply to today's adolescents, because 1) the attainment process is found to be similar for men and women, 2) the importance of educational aspiration is still the determinant of educational attainment for American adolescents. This study makes its results so clear that American adolescents today can seek their way of attaining their status by reading this book. This study can be used for counseling adolescents, who are in the transition from high school to the occupational world. In addition, this study will help both schoolars and students in the different countries to compare own country to the U.S. I enjoyed reading this study a lot, because I have all my educational background in Japan, so it caught my attention in a great deal. It gave me a chance to get to know American adolescents, who are attaining their education and occupation. From my experience, I found out that the reason why educational attainment will guide students in the U.S. to occupational attainment is that American students tend to major, of which they can make use, for their occupation. That means that whatever they study in college will apply for jobs that they are interested in. This is a big differences between Japanese students and American students. People in the U.S. seem to enjoy their occupation and make full use of what they learned in college. I understood that people in the U.S. and Japan have different way of attaining their status. In the last, I was glad to have a chance to read this study, which made me think about the differences between American educational attainment system and Japanese educational attainment system. This book is highly recommended for those who want to succeed in the near future.

What motivates young adults to go to college and to choose a career? This scholarly research study examines the multiple and interrelated variables which influence the educational and occupational aspirations of American high school seniors during the transition to college, their attainment levels in early adulthood, and the economic, psychological and social influences on educational attainment and early occupational attainment. The research involved surveying more than 2,100 high school seniors (Class of 1972) who responded five times between 1972 and 1986, from approximately age 18 to age 32. The complex multivariate methodology process analyzes the dynamics of the variables of: socioeconomic status, gender, ability, academic performance, significant others' influence (parents, teachers and peers), educational and occupational aspirations, marital status and number of children, and educational and occupational attainment.

The study finds that the level of educational attainment is determined, in order of significance, by: ability, academic performance, significant others' influence, and socioeconomic status. Further, the author posits that occupational attainment is a consequence, in order of magnitude, of: ability, academic performance, educational aspiration, socioeconomic status, occupational aspiration, sex, significant others' influence, and the number of children. In addition, the process of aspiration and attainment is consistent for men and women.

Includes five figures, eleven tables, an excellent bibliography and an index.

Recommended for teachers, school counselors, educational administrsators, school board members and parents.

EG 2 is a good read: it's packed with information, references from literature, scientific papers, and data from a variety of sources. Valone effectively demonstrates that the Biefeld-Brown Effect IS a real, valid reactionless-propulsion methodology.

If you're looking for another "Hunt for Zero Point", then this book isn't for you. However, if you want a resource that provides both a comprehensive view of the historical efforts in this area along with detailed technical descriptions of the actual experimental work, then you've come to the right place.

PhD Tom Valone deftly weaves the reader through a journey that's part history & part science while maintaining an easily comprehensible approach to both that few authors could manage.

Succeeding to the book by T.Valone, "Electrogravitics systems", this is a nice pack of discovories on the Biefeld-Brown effect, which also contains the scientific validation conducted by different research teams in the world. It might be very helpful for reserchers to make further investigations on the electro-gravitic effect.

Interesting and scientific explanation of the electrokinetic force which also predicts why and how most electrogravitic devices will move. The historical articles are also intriguing, besides the testimonials. More compelling and convincing than first book in the series - Electrogravitics Systems. Maybe the discovery of pulsed electrokinetics will now be declassified as a result of the publication of this book.