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.Doing Your Research Project: A Guide for First-Time Researchers in Education, Health and Social Science (4th Edition)
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by: Judith Bell

June 01, 2005

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.Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (Introducing Statistical Methods series)
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by: Andy Field

2005-03
If you are needing to learn both SPSS and statistics at the same time and intimidated at all by the math, this is a great book to help take you through the quagmire of both the SPSS software, the principles of statistics and make sense of it all too! Andy Field has done an excellent job at taking much of the mystery out of how and why to use the various tests. The book is comprehensive but the analysis of my research and study is focussed primarily on correlation, t-tests and regression. There are chapters in the book I will probably never read as I cannot foresee ever needing to read them. But, the book is very useful for referencing particular areas and providing a tutorial as you are working.

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.Research Methods for Business Students
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by: Mark Saunders, Adrian Thornhill, Philip Lewis

August 15, 2006
I'm doing an M.Sc. in Operational Research by distance learning. I didn't have much of a clue about how to go about organising the research for my dissertation, and this book (out of all that I've bought) has been the best, providing a clear workflow from start to finish. Some really helpful references too.
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.Real World Research: A Resource for Social Scientists and Practitioner-researchers
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by: Colin Robson

January 18, 2002
I went to Madagascar to conduct my MSc dissertation research with a tent, this book and no existing knowledge of social science methodologies. I read it from cover to cover (a fairly easy read), made notes on the relevant sections, drew up my questionnaire using a mind map then conducted my interviews. I returned with loads of useful data which I managed to analyse with a few more resources available. I highly recommend this book for postgrads who need a coherent, logical bible to guide them through their research. I started out knowing nothing about methodology and ended up with a reasonable understanding... enough to get me a distinction!
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.The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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by: Edward R. Tufte

January 31, 2001
I think I made Tufte very rich. If I didn't it was not my fault. I was a Displays Manager with IBM and used his book to illustrate how colour & pixels could enhance information. I developed a presentation that used his work to exploit data and its visualisation. As a result I sold one hell of a lot of screens (IBM 3279 colour screens - the first ever colour screens - and at £3,000 a crack I sold 6,000 in the first year alone). I also sold a lot of Tufte's books. The quite brilliant example of Minard's graph of Napoleon's campaign in Russia (contained within the book) would keep an audience occupied for 2 hours - and not a yawn - so if ever the Good Professor decides to make a Will, he should remember me and I hope he predececeases ... Read More:
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.Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (Published in association with The Open University)
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by: Christopher Hart

November 06, 1998
I decided to buy this book having read all the fantastic reviews on here, but was sorely disappointed. I am in the process of writing a postgrad literature review for my CIPD and have to say, this book was absolutely no help whatsoever. Maybe it works for academics, but for business students, I would avoid this like the plague. If you're after a book that gives you practical hints on how to get started with your literature review, don't buy this. I found the content and writing style to be largely theoretical and abstract, which made it difficult to follow or glean any quick pointers from. Having trawled through the whole sorry dirge I was left none the wiser by the end of the book and found much more useful and practical tips online.
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.SPSS Survival Manual
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by: Julie Pallant

August 01, 2007
Can anyone suggest the matching software for this book on the Amazon site please? Help would be very much appreciated!
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.Social Research Methods
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by: Alan Bryman

April 08, 2004
It's comprehensive covering all you would need whilst studying social science research methods. I've found it extremely helpful in my studies.
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.Social Research Methods
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by: Alan Bryman

March 06, 2008
It's comprehensive covering all you would need whilst studying social science research methods. I've found it extremely helpful in my studies.
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.Case Study Research: Design and Methods: 005 (Applied Social Research Methods)
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by: Robert K. Yin

February 18, 2003
Yin provides an essential baseline for the active researcher using the case study method.
If you are involved in researching live projects then this work is invalauble. Yin's background in case studies of political, social and economic projects of the 1980s still proves useful in the 21st century.
It is not often that one comes across methodological works that are so accessible, informative and directive.
This work can also act as a practical fieldwork guide as it methodiccally takes you through each step of the process.
Well written with many poignant examples, it is a book I go back to, again and again, thinking...
"Mmmm...I wonder what Yin said about that!".
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