This latest edition has been fully updated to accommodate the needs of users of SPSS Releases 17 18 & 19 while still being applicable to users of SPSS Releases 15 & 16. As with previous editions Alan Bryman & Duncan Cramer continue to offer a comprehensive & user-friendly introduction to the widely used IBM SPSS Statistics. The simple non-technical approach to quantitative data analysis enables the reader to quickly become familiar with SPSS & with the tests available to them. No previous experience of statistics or computing is required as this book provides a step-by-step guide to statistical techniques including: Non-parametric tests Correlation Simple & multiple regression Analysis of variance & covariance Factor analysis. This book comes equipped with a comprehensive range of exercises for further practice & it covers key issues such as sampling statistical inference conceptualization & measurement & selection of appropriate tests. The authors have also included a helpful glossary of key terms. The data sets used in Quantitative Data Analysis with IBM SPSS 17 18 & 19 are available online at http://www.psypress.com/brymancramer; in addition a set of multiple-choice questions & a chapter-by-chapter Power Point lecture course are available free of charge to lecturers who adopt the book. ...

This book expertly guides the reader through all stages involved in undertaking quantitative psychological research from accessing the relevant literature through designing & conducting a study analyzing & interpreting data & finally reporting the research. This third edition

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- & expands on original topics such as choosing sample sizes & how to test for mediation effects. It also contains increased coverage of tests & further detail of techniques & terms which psychologists will meet when working with those in the medical professions. As the chapters focus on choosing appropriate statistical tests & how to interpret & report them (rather than the detailed calculations which appear in appendices) the reader is able to gain an understanding of a test without being interrupted by the need to understand the complex mathematics behind it. In addition for the first time the book is accompanied by an online bank of multiple choice questions. The book helps readers to: locate reports of relevant existing research; design research while adhering to ethical principles; identify various methods which can be used to ask questions or observe behavior; choose appropriate samples; display & analyze findings numerically & graphically to test hypotheses; & report psychological research in a variety of ways. As such the book is suitable for psychology students & professionals at all levels & is particularly useful to those working in Health & Clinical Psychology.



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This second edition of the Quantity Surveyors Pocket Book is fully updated in line with NRM1 NRM2 & JCT (11) & remains a must-have guide for students & qualified practitioners. Its focussed coverage of the data techniques & skills essential to the quantity surveying role make it an invaluable companion for everything from initial cost advice to the final account stage. Key features include: the structure of the construction industry cost forecasting & feasibility studies measurement & quantification with NRM2 & SMM7 examples estimating & bidding whole life costs contract selection final account procedure. This text

Includes:: recommended formats for cost plans developers budgets financial reports financial statements & final accounts. This is the ideal concise reference for quantity surveyors project & commercial managers & students of any of the above.

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The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any other. In The Quantity Theory of Insanity we learn amongst other things the dark & terrible secret of Ward 9 why you are right to think that London is full of dead people & that each & every human being is caught up in a colossal balancing act between the sane & the insane.. . The Quantity Theory of Insanity is acerbic satirical hilarious & most of all utterly unique in imaginative vision. ...

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Quantum mechanics underpins modern science & provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. & yet it has been said that if you're not shocked by it you don't understand it. But is quantum physics really so unknowable? Is reality really so strange? & just how can cats be half-alive & half-dead at the same time? Our journey into the quantum begins with nature's own conjuring trick in which we discover that atoms -- contrary to the rules of everyday experience -- can exist in two locations at once. To understand this we travel back to the dawn of the twentieth century & witness the birth of quantum theory which over the next one hundred years was to overthrow so many of our deeply held notions about the nature of our universe. Scientists & philosophers have been left grappling with its implications every since. ...

Everyone knows that sub-atomic particles have some very strange qualities. Light sometimes behaves like a particle sometimes like a wave. Objects separated by vast distances interact faster than the speed of light
- what Einstein called 'spooky action at a distance'. Most strangely the behaviour of objects somehow seems be determined in retrospect depending on what the observer is looking for. In this ground-breaking work the authors show how these quantum properties are being observed in larger & larger objects. They set out carefully & cautiously exactly what quantum theory might mean for us. Quantum physics presents an unanswerable challenge to our common sense understanding of the universe & the final explanation might not come from physics at all but from the equally strange world of cognitive neuro-science
- the mysteries of mind & matter might be one & the same.

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Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss himself a theoretical physicist & a best-selling author offers a unique scientific biography: a rollicking narrative coupled with clear & novel expositions of science at the limits. From the death of Feynman s childhood sweetheart during the Manhattan Project to his reluctant rise as a scientific icon we see Feynman s life through his science providing a new understanding of the legacy of a man who has fascinated millions. Physics Worlds Book of the Year 2011 ...

For more than 25 years Alastair Raes Quantum Mechanics" has been one of the most highly regarded textbooks in this area. From elementary atomic physics & mathematics to angular momentum & time dependence to relativity & quantum computing the text shows how cutting-edge research topics of quantum mechanics have been applied to various disciplines. Retaining the clarity of its predecessors this fifth edition presents revised & updated material throughout the text. It offers a clear exposition of fundamental ideas additional worked examples of the application of quantum mechanics principles to a range of physical problems & more information on modern quantum information technology. This text was one of the first to include a substantial discussion of the conceptual & philosophical implications of quantum mechanics which has been revised & extended in the fifth edition. Other topics covered include one- & three-dimensional Schrodinger equations angular momentum time-independent perturbation theory time dependence scattering & relativity. Cementing its reputation as an exceptional introductory textbook " Quantum Mechanics Fifth Edition" fully covers the concepts of quantum mechanics taught in an undergraduate physics course & provides the foundation necessary for other specialized courses." ...