behavioral science books

	Test Equating, Scaling, and Linking: Methods and Practices (Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences)
	By: Michael J. Kolen, Robert L. Brennan ISBN: 0387400869 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 25 August, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 497220
	Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences
	By: Bruce M. King, Edward W. Minium ISBN: 0470134879 Publisher: Wiley Release Date: 01 May, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 529650
	Fundamental Statistics for Behavioral Sciences
	By: Robert B. McCall ISBN: 0534577806 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Release Date: 03 August, 2000 Bioscience book rank: 474188	Although it is a rare segment of the human population who could claim to find scientific statistics "enjoyable", Robert McCall has somehow managed to take some of the pain out of what is generally deemed a horrifying experience. I thank Mr. McCall and the hands-on approach of his book for enabling me to make it through Stats this time with a passing grade! It would have gotten the full five stars if it weren't for the rediculous price... Although it is a rare segment of the human population who could claim to find scientific statistics "enjoyable", Robert McCall has somehow managed to take some of the pain out of what is generally deemed a horrifying experience. I thank Mr. McCall and the hands-on approach of his book for enabling me to make it through Stats this time with a passing grade!
	Data Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences Using SPSS
	By: Sharon Lawner Weinberg, Sarah Knapp Abramowitz ISBN: 0521635616 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Release Date: 15 April, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 357479
	Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
	By: Joan Welkowitz, Barry H. Cohen, Robert B. Ewen ISBN: 0471735477 Publisher: Wiley Release Date: 23 June, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 498226	i love the way stats is explained in this book. it really makes life easier for me and helps me to grasp the theory and concepts behind ANOVA's , t-tests, etc.... <br /> <br />i find myself constantly going back to this book for reference when my grad stats books were confusing... <br /> <br />really wish grad level books were this good... <br /> Now that we have heard from the instructors, let's hear from the students. This book it utter drivel. (If I thought I could get away with a couple other choice words, I'd use them!) <br /> <br />This book is being used in a doctoral level course. It is overly complicated, unrelenting in its overblown examples and does NOT explain statistics the way anyone needs to use them! <br /> <br />Additionally, this book could use a tutorial on SPSS. NO ONE calculates by hand anymore. (Or if they do, they are nuts and wasting good grant money!) The study guide that was put out with this book is complicated in the extreme, abysmal, explains nothing and assumes much. <br /> <br />Many other books do a better job at explaining Statistics for students who are paralyzed by the mere mention of the word. Instructors who use this book are doing their students a disservice. I would NEVER burden my students (yes, I teach undergrad and graduate level courses!) with any book so deadly. It's only too bad we can't sue the writers of these books and get our money back from them! <br /> <br />(FYI for all who are wondering: I figure I will finish the class with a B and take it gratefully after enlisting the help of a statistician, my husband and several other better reference books.) <br /> I have been using this book in my statistics classes since 1990. It is so easy to understand for undergraduate students. Authors give really good examples to explain some complex subjects of statistics. These examples make the book more readable..
	Borderline Patients: Extending the Limits of Treatability (Basic Behavioral Science)
	By: Otto F. Kernberg, Michael Stone, Diana Diamond ISBN: 0465095607 Publisher: Basic Books Release Date: 30 May, 2000 Bioscience book rank: 258712
	Injury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Science Theories, Methods, and Applications
	By: Andrea Carlson Gielen, David A. Sleet, Ralph J. DiClemente ISBN: 0787977640 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Release Date: 24 March, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 349454	I've been in the injury prevention field a long time, and was pleasantly surprised by how much I learned from reading this book. The focus is on using behavioral science to help understand and prevent both unintentional and intentional injuries. The book is readable and extremely well-edited (almost forty authors). <br /> A useful text that integrates behavioural science methods to violence and injury prevention. It provides a helpful balance to other texts in the are which have a more engineering or legalistic focus.
	Conducting Research: Social and Behavioral Science Methods
	By: Lawrence T. Orcher ISBN: 1884585604 Publisher: Pyrczak Publishing Release Date: December, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 265356
	Using and Interpreting Statistics: A Practical Text for the Health, Behavioral, and Social Sciences
	By: Eric W. Corty ISBN: 0323035930 Publisher: Mosby Release Date: 25 September, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 574057	I teach a college course in basic statistics at least once a year, so I am always on the lookout for a better statistics book. That is therefore the context within which I examined this book. After looking it over, I would not consider adopting it. The reasons for my decision are: <br /> <br />) The coverage is not what I feel is appropriate for a basic statistics class. In particular, there is no chapter devoted to probability, there is no mention of Bernoulli trials, and there is no testing of proportions. <br />) There are very few worked examples in the text. My students need this, in fact they regularly ask for more. It has been documented to death that people learn mathematics by seeing it done and then doing it. <br /> <br />As a secondary point, there are a large number of footnotes; a cursory examination indicates that they appear on the majority of the pages. My experience with students is that they never read the footnotes. <br /> The author tries to be amusing and he must be given credit for occasionally succeeding. However, people don't read statistics books to be amused, they read them to learn statistics and my students could not do that from this book. <br /> <br /> I would have to say that Dr. Corty has an excellent way with teaching statistics. I have the 2005 edition but I still reference it whenever I even have to think about statistics. (Brandy)
	Children in Danger: Coping with the Consequences of Community Violence (Jossey-Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series.)
	By: James Garbarino, Nancy Dubrow, Kathleen Kostelny, Carole Pardo ISBN: 0787946540 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Release Date: 11 September, 1998 Bioscience book rank: 221666	Children in Danger is a good book to read. It is very interesting and it talks about children who saw someone get hurt.These children are the ages of two and up. They been in the middle of accidents and around them.I really like this book because it talks about children that are in danger and it explains there problem that they have. Who they saw get hurt. I didnt like that the children were tramitized and they had to go through what happend. <br />I feel like this book is a good book for everyone to read because it was very interesting. It caught my attention and it inspired me to keep reading the book. It made me feel good that the children were the ones who told some of the story. This is a good book. <br /> <br /> <br /> Eileen Gonzales <br /> Baldwin Park CA. 91706 <br />