It reads as though someone is sitting next to you conversing with you & taking you through it.. . It has a reassuring tone. Julie Pallant writes in a kind & inclusive way which students appreciate
- Sue Thorpe Lecturer in Research Methods Department of Psychology University of Surrey UK. Its key strengths are clarity clear English clear explanations & clear examples. What this book does well is to provide easy straightforward explanations
- Martin Lea Senior Lecturer School of Psychological Sciences University of Manchester UK. An excellent introduction to using SPSS for data analysis... It provides a self-contained resource itself with more than simply (detailed & clear) step-by-step descriptions of statistical procedures in SPSS. There is also a wealth of tips & advice & for each statistical technique a brief but consistently reliable explanation is provided
- Associate Professor George Dunbar Department of Psychology University of Warwick UK. Julie Pallants SPSS Survival Manual" throws a lifeline to students & researchers grappling with this data analysis software. In this thoroughly revised edition of her bestselling text now covering up to version 18 of the SPSS software Julie Pallant guides you through the entire research process helping you choose the right data analysis technique for your project. From the formulation of research questions to the design of the study & analysis of data to reporting the results Julie discusses basic & advanced statistical techniques. She outlines each technique clearly with easy to follow step-by-step procedures for performing the analysis a detailed guide to interpreting data output & an example of how to present the results in a report. In this fourth edition all chapters have been updated to accommodate changes to SPSS procedures screens & output. A number of additional techniques (Mc Nemars Test Cochrans Q Test) have been included in the Non_parametric Statistics chapter. For both beginners & experienced users in psychology sociology health sciences medicine education business & related disciplines the "SPSS Survival Manual" is the essential guide. Illustrated with screen grabs examples of output & tips it is supported by a website with sample data & guidelines on report writing."


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Its 1990. Apartheid is crumbling Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison & thirteen-year-old Spud Milton is about to start his first year at an elite boys-only boarding school. Cursed with embarrassingly dysfunctional parents a nutty granny & a dormitory full of strange characters Spud has his hands full trying to adapt to his new home. With only his wits & his diary he takes readers on a rowdy boarding school romp full of illegal midnight swims catastrophic cricket matches ghostbusting escapades girls & disastrous holidays. South African comedian John van de Ruit invites the reader into the mind of a young boy whose eyes are being opened to love friendship & complete insanity! ...

More creative knitted animals from the fertile imagination of Susan Anderson. The 13 projects in this book follow Spud an irascible pet sheep & Chloe his perky owner as they travel to a farm & meet the inhabitants of the barnyard. Full colour photographs from Liz Banfield (who has done all the ltty-Bitty books) present the finished projects at their best while the story of Spud & Chloes visit to the farm is told through witty line drawings presented throughout the book. ...

Otis takes babies & money off desperate mothers promising to deliver them to the Coram Foundling Hospital in London. Instead he murders them & buries them by the roadside to the helpless horror of his mentally ill son Mish. When Melissa beloved of Alexander Ashbrook & daughter of his governess becomes pregnant by him her mother arranges for the Otis to take the child telling Melissa it was stillborn. Alexander not knowing Melissa's condition has fled his home for a career in music. But Mish manages to save Melissa's baby Aaron & he grows up with Toby the son of an African slave inseparable friends. Toby is a plaything at the house of rich Mr Gaddarn who is in fact Otis. When Mish sees Aaron & Alexander together & realises the family link he takes Aaron & Toby to Otis who rejects them. A way must be found to rescue them but a great friend must die before the family can be reunited. ...

A vivid recount of the little known exploits of 17 courageous Special Operations Executive (SOE) officers in Italy during World War II In this inspiring new study of the SOE & Italian Resistance 17 extraordinary stories of individual SOE officers illustrate the many & varied tasks of SOE missions throughout the different regions of Italy from 1943-1945. Through their gallantry ingenuity & determination a small handful of SOE missions were able to arm & inspire thousands of Italians to fight the occupying German army after 1943 & in the process give invaluable support to the advancing Allied armies as they pushed north towards Austria. ...

Spurs On This Day is a diary style log of events that happened on each calendar day of the year. If something happened that was important in Spurs life youll find it in here. Who could forget January 22 2008 when Spurs beat the Gunners 5-1 in the semi-final of the Carling Cup? Or March 1 1995 when Spurs came back from 2-0 down at half-time to beat Southampton 6-2 in the FA Cup? & what about May 6 1961 when Spurs won the FA Cup & became the first team in the 20th Century to do the double? But its not just the glorious triumphs that youll find in On This Day
- July 13 2001 might not mean that much to the general football world but it holds a special resonance for Tottenham fans
- it was the day Stefan Freund scored against Stevenage Borough in a pre-season friendly
- his only goal for the club & a long-awaited one at that! From the day Ricky Villa signed to the day Harry Redknapp arrived at The Lane plus vital matches shock transfers cup matches & unforgettable moments that have shaped Tottenham into the club it is today.


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Sputnik trawler is a nickname given to two classes of series-built side trawlers. In the mid to late 1950s & early 1960s these new & revolutionary boats were intended to replace ageing steam trawlers. The little workhorses had to combat the inevitable prejudice against something ground-breaking & also the torrid economic state of the trawling industry in the 1960s. Inevitably there were casualties. However removed from their intended role as mini-side trawlers based at the main trawling ports the sputniks began to turn in some fine performances for skippers belonging to the inshore ports. Sputniks became successful seine netters pelagic trawlers & scallop dredgers their performance often enhanced in later years by extensive rebuilding which left fifteen-year-old vessels looking like brand new boats. Against the odds of the 1960s trawling depression some of the sputniks even did well as side trawlers & spawned the larger Spinningdale trawlers. The Spinningdales proved an exceptional success as side trawlers & their design was every bit as capable of being adapted to other forms of fishing as the sputniks. Some of the Spinningdales were built as outstandingly successful seiner/trawlers for inshore fishing where they were later joined by many sister vessels following the demise of the trawling industry. This book is a memorial to the sputniks & Spinningdales with brief histories & photographs & some fine fishermens anecdotes about the multitude of things these boats did during some of the best years the fishing industry will ever know. ...

The Spy" is the third of Clive Cussler's brilliant historical thrillers. 1908 & American engineering geniuses are being killed off one by one... When a brilliant battleship gun engineer commits suicide his disbelieving family turn to legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency. Quickly on the case Isaac Bell establishes that the clues point not to suicide but murder. So when further deaths connected to a top-secret project follow Bell realizes that this is sabotage. With the world plunging towards war it's clearly a spy at large. But which of the many foreign agents he has encountered is responsible? Or is there a more sinister explanation? In a blistering story featuring dreadnaught battleships & railroards criminal gangs & beautiful women " The Spy" is a breathtaking thriller that just happens to have at stake the fate of the world. Bestseller Clive Cussler
- author of the " Dirk Pitt" novels " Arctic Drift" & " Crescent Dawn"
- & co-author Justin Scott place hero Isaac Bell at the centre of a mysterious espionage conspiracy in the third novel of historical thriller series " The Isaac Bell Adventures" " The Spy". Praise for Clive Cussler: " Cussler is hard to beat". (" Daily Mail"). " The guy I read". (Tom Clancy). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept readers on the edges of their seats for four decades with his thrilling action novels. As well as the " Isaac Bell" series there are also the "NUMA" & " Oregon Files" series the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) & the " Fargo" series. Other titles in Cussler's first historical series
- " The Isaac Bell Adventures"
- include " The Chase" " The Wrecker" " The Race" & " The Thief" which are all available from Penguin."



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Sailing up the furthest reaches of the Amazon on assignment for the British Secret Service Alex Hawke is captured by a brutal tribe of indigenous cannibals. Forced into slave labour he witnesses the unimaginable: vast armies are being recruited & trained deep within the Amazonian jungle. Possessing weapons only dreamed of by the Western allies their aim is to launch a vicious jihad that will unite one continent
- & destroy another. Somehow Hawke must escape his captors & live to tell the tale. From black magic poison-tipped arrows & blowguns to an awesome arsenal of the most advanced military hardware Hawke faces insurmountable odds as he searches for a river with no name in a quest to seek out & destroy a lawless mastermind who threatens the West's very existence.
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