"This book covers the nuts and bolts of SPSS usage and data entry for students learning SPSS, with a significant emphasis on managing and manipulating data. This book contains three parts. Part I provides an introduction to SPSS, discusses navigating SPSS, and contains a section on knowing your data. Next, Part II covers creating and understanding your data. In this part, readers learn how to get data into SPSS, how to manipulate the data, and also...

A "recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a struggle between old power hierarchies and new social networks"--Dust jacket. Ferguson believes that hierarchical institutions create the archives that historians rely on, and historians are missing the informal, less well documented social networks that are the true sources of power and drivers of change. From the cults of ancient Rome to the dynasties...

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on political science turned conventional wisdom on its head. They started from a single assertion: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don't care about the "national interest"--or even their subjects--unless they must. Newly updated to reflect the global rise of authoritarianism, this clever and accessible book illustrates how leaders amass and retain power. As Bueno de Mesquita...

"The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarization is personal too-and it is making us miserable. Surveys show that Americans have become more fearful and hateful of supporters of the opposing political party and imagine that they hold much more extreme views than they actually do. We have cordoned ourselves off: we prefer to date and marry those with...

"A book for young readers about how to read different kinds of charts and graphs."--

Most people will experience psychometric testing at some time or another when applying for a job & many fail to make the best of the opportunity to showcase their talents. 'Brilliant Psychomatric Tests' seeks to turn this around by providing practical help to anyone undertaking formal assessment procedures at interview.

"In BATTLING THE BIG LIE, bestselling author Dan Pfeiffer returns to lay out how the Right Wing built such a robust and successful disinformation machine, how they have used it to amass power despite representing a dwindling share of the country, and how readers can fight back against disinformation with step-by-step guides on spotting fake news, becoming their own fact checker, and talking to their conspiracy theory-obsessed relatives. Over the last...

The Anahuac Journal Business and Economics es una revista académica publicada en forma conjunta por la Facultad de Negocios de la Universidad Anahuac-México Sur y LID Editorial Mexicana en los meses de enero y julio. Incluye articulos de investigacion y estudios con resultados originales que tratan problemas de economia y negocios. Esta edicion presenta una seleccion de cuatro de los articulos mas destacados publicados por el journal en los ultimos...

This much needed book is the first to show how dominant forms of masculinity are implicated in the traditions of social theory that have emerged since the Enlightenment. The author shows how an 'unreasonable' form of reason has emerged from the separation of reason from emotion, mind from body, nature from culture, public from private, matter from spirit - the dualities that have shaped our vision of modernity. The book argues that men need to explore...