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A Conceptual Guide to Statistics Using SPSS

By: Elliot T. Berkman,Steven P. Reise

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A Conceptual Guide to Statistics Using SPSS

By: Elliot T. Berkman,Steven P. Reise

This book helps students develop a conceptual understanding of a variety of statistical tests by linking the statistics with the computational steps and output from SPSS. Learning how statistical ideas map onto computation in SPSS will help students build a better understanding of both. For example, seeing exactly how the concept of variance is used in SPSS-how it is converted into a number based on real data, which other concepts it is associated with, and where it appears in various statistical tests-will not only help students understand how to use statistical tests in SPSS and how to interpret their output, but will also teach them about the concept of variance itself. Each chapter begins with a student-friendly explanation of the concept behind each statistical test and how the test relates to that concept. The authors then walk through the steps to compute the test in SPSS and the output, pointing out wherever possible how the SPSS procedure and output connects back to the conceptual underpinnings of the test. Each of the steps is accompanied by annotated screen shots from SPSS, and relevant components of output are highlighted in both the text and in the figures. Sections explain the conceptual machinery underlying the statistical tests. In contrast to merely presenting the equations for computing the statistic, these sections describe the idea behind each test in plain language and help students make the connection between the ideas and SPSS procedures. These include extensive treatment of custom hypothesis testing in ANOVA, MANOVA, ANCOVA, and regression, and an entire chapter on the advanced matrix algebra functions available only through syntax in SPSS. The book will be appropriate for both advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in statistics.

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SAGE

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1412974062

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9781412974066

Item Response Theory for Psychologists

By: Susan E. Embretson,Steven P. Reise

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Item Response Theory for Psychologists

By: Susan E. Embretson,Steven P. Reise

This book develops an intuitive understanding of IRT principles through the use of graphical displays and analogies to familiar psychological principles. It surveys contemporary IRT models, estimation methods, and computer programs. Polytomous IRT models are given central coverage since many psychological tests use rating scales. Ideal for clinical, industrial, counseling, educational, and behavioral medicine professionals and students familiar with classical testing principles, exposure to material covered in first-year graduate statistics courses is helpful. All symbols and equations are thoroughly explained verbally and graphically.

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Psychology Press

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1135681473

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Bonds of Wool

The Pallium and Papal Power in the Middle Ages

By: Steven A. Schoenig

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Bonds of Wool

The Pallium and Papal Power in the Middle Ages

By: Steven A. Schoenig

The pallium was effective because it was a gift with strings attached. This band of white wool encircling the shoulders had been a papal insigne and liturgical vestment since late antiquity. It grew in prominence when the popes began to bestow it regularly on other bishops as a mark of distinction and a sign of their bond to the Roman church. Bonds of Wool analyzes how, through adroit manipulation, this gift came to function as an instrument of papal influence. It explores an abundant array of evidence from diverse genres - including chronicles and letters, saints' lives and canonical collections, polemical treatises and liturgical commentaries, and hundreds of papal privileges - stretching from the eighth century to the thirteenth and representing nearly every region of Western Europe. These sources reveal that the papal conferral of the pallium was an occasion for intervening in local churches throughout the West and a means of examining, approving, and even disciplining key bishops, who were eventually required to request the pallium from Rome.

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CUA Press

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0813229227

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9780813229225

Essays on Literature and Music (1967-2004)

By: Steven Paul Scher

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Essays on Literature and Music (1967-2004)

By: Steven Paul Scher

The present volume meets a frequently expressed demand as it is the first collection of all the relevant essays and articles which Steven Paul Scher has written on Literature and Music over a period of almost forty years in the field of Word and Music Studies. Scher, The Daniel Webster Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA, is one of the founding fathers of Word and Music Studies and a leading authority in what is in the meantime a well-established intermedial field. He has published very widely in a variety of journals and collections of essays, which until now have not always been easy to lay one's hands on. His work covers a wide range of subjects and comprises theoretical, methodological and historical studies, which include discussions of Ferruccio Busoni, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Judith Weir, the Talking Heads and many others and which pay special attention to E. T. A. Hoffmann and German Romanticism. The range and depth of these studies have made him the 'mastermind' of Word and Music Studies who has defined the basic aims and objectives of the discipline. This volume is of interest to literary scholars and musicologists as well as comparatists and all those concerned about the rapidly expanding field of Intermedia Studies.

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Rodopi

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904201752X

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9789042017528

Blood and Diamonds

Germany’s Imperial Ambitions in Africa

By: Steven Press

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Blood and Diamonds

Germany’s Imperial Ambitions in Africa

By: Steven Press

Diamonds have long been bloody. A new history shows how Germany’s ruthless African empire brought diamond rings to retail display cases in America—at the cost of African lives. Since the late 1990s, activists have campaigned to remove “conflict diamonds” from jewelry shops and department stores. But if the problem of conflict diamonds—gems extracted from war zones—has only recently generated attention, it is not a new one. Nor are conflict diamonds an exception in an otherwise honest industry. The modern diamond business, Steven Press shows, owes its origins to imperial wars and has never escaped its legacy of exploitation. In Blood and Diamonds, Press traces the interaction of the mass-market diamond and German colonial domination in Africa. Starting in the 1880s, Germans hunted for diamonds in Southwest Africa. In the decades that followed, Germans waged brutal wars to control the territory, culminating in the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples and the unearthing of vast mineral riches. Press follows the trail of the diamonds from the sands of the Namib Desert to government ministries and corporate boardrooms in Berlin and London and on to the retail counters of New York and Chicago. As Africans working in terrifying conditions extracted unprecedented supplies of diamonds, European cartels maintained the illusion that the stones were scarce, propelling the nascent US market for diamond engagement rings. Convinced by advertisers that diamonds were both valuable and romantically significant, American purchasers unwittingly funded German imperial ambitions into the era of the world wars. Amid today’s global frenzy of mass consumption, Press’s history offers an unsettling reminder that cheap luxury often depends on an alliance between corporate power and state violence.

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Harvard University Press

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0674259491

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Brothers and Strangers

The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness, 1800–1923

By: Steven E. Aschheim

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Brothers and Strangers

The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness, 1800–1923

By: Steven E. Aschheim

Brothers and Strangers traces the history of German Jewish attitudes, policies, and stereotypical images toward Eastern European Jews, demonstrating the ways in which the historic rupture between Eastern and Western Jewry developed as a function of modernism and its imperatives. By the 1880s, most German Jews had inherited and used such negative images to symbolize rejection of their own ghetto past and to emphasize the contrast between modern “enlightened” Jewry and its “half-Asian” counterpart. Moreover, stereotypes of the ghetto and the Eastern Jew figured prominently in the growth and disposition of German anti-Semitism. Not everyone shared these negative preconceptions, however, and over the years a competing post-liberal image emerged of the Ostjude as cultural hero. Brothers and Strangers examines the genesis, development, and consequences of these changing forces in their often complex cultural, political, and intellectual contexts.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299091139

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9780299091132

Foreigners in Their Own Land

Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic

By: Steven M. Nolt

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Foreigners in Their Own Land

Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic

By: Steven M. Nolt

Historians of the early Republic are just beginning to tell the stories of the period&’s ethnic minorities. In Foreigners in Their Own Land, Steven M. Nolt is the first to add the story of the Pennsylvania Germans to that larger mosaic, showing how they came to think of themselves as quintessential Americans and simultaneously constructed a durable sense of ethnicity. The Lutheran and Reformed Pennsylvania German populations of eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the Appalachian backcountry successfully combined elements of their Old World tradition with several emerging versions of national identity. Many took up democratic populist rhetoric to defend local cultural particularity and ethnic separatism. Others wedded certain American notions of reform and national purpose to Continental traditions of clerical authority and idealized German virtues. Their experience illustrates how creating and defending an ethnic identity can itself be a way of becoming American. Though they would maintain a remarkably stable and identifiable subculture well into the twentieth century, Pennsylvania Germans were, even by the eve of the Civil War, the most &"inside&" of &"outsiders.&" They represent the complex and often paradoxical ways in which many Americans have managed the process of assimilation to their own advantage. Given their pioneering role in that process, their story illuminates the path that other immigrants and ethnic Americans would travel in the decades to follow.

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Penn State Press

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0271021993

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9780271021997

Making Identity on the Swahili Coast

Urban Life, Community, and Belonging in Bagamoyo

By: Steven Fabian

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Making Identity on the Swahili Coast

Urban Life, Community, and Belonging in Bagamoyo

By: Steven Fabian

A re-examination of the historical development of urban identity and community along the Swahili Coast.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108492045

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A Bibliography of Ant Systematics

By: Philip S. Ward,Barry Bolton,William L. Brown,Steven O. Shattuck

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A Bibliography of Ant Systematics

By: Philip S. Ward,Barry Bolton,William L. Brown,Steven O. Shattuck

This bibliography is a comprehensive compilation of the literature on ant systematics. Covering the period 1758 to 1995, it contains entries for approximately 8,000 publications on the taxonomy, evolution, and comparative biology of ants. Most of the literature citations have been carefully verified and precisely dated. An introductory chapter discusses the problems associated with dating a citation of taxonomic literature. A list of all serials cited (more than 1,300 titles) and their abbreviations accompanies the bibliography.

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Univ of California Press

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0520098145

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9780520098145

Transnational Cinema

An Introduction

By: Steven Rawle

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Transnational Cinema

An Introduction

By: Steven Rawle

This core teaching text provides a thorough overview of the recently emerged field of transnational film studies. Covering a range of approaches to analysing films about migrant, cross-cultural and cross-border experience, Steven Rawle demonstrates how film production has moved beyond clear national boundaries to become a product of border crossing finance and creative personnel. This comprehensive introduction brings together the key concepts and theories of transnational cinema, including genre, remakes, diasporic and exilic cinema, and the limits of thinking about cinema as a particularly national cultural artefact. It is an excellent course companion for undergraduate students of film, cinema, media and cultural studies studying transnational and global cinema, and provides both students and lovers of film alike with a strong grounding in this timely field of film studies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137530146

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Facts about the Presidents

By: Joseph Nathan Kane,Steven Anzovin,Janet Podell

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Facts about the Presidents

By: Joseph Nathan Kane,Steven Anzovin,Janet Podell

For both general readers and researchers, this popular reference, cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed., presents information current as of June 2001. (The jacket shows the subtitle as From George Washington to George W. Bush; the title page shows A Compilation of Biographical and Historical Information.) It presents an overview of the US executive office and data concerning the biographical backgrounds and terms of the 42 presidents to date. Also detailed are their elections, inaugurations, congressional sessions, Vice Presidents, Supreme Court and cabinet appointments, and administration highlights. A portrait/photograph and a list of books for further reading are provided for each (so far) man. The previous edition was published in 1993. Kane, an expert in the field of American history was joined by editors Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell for this edition. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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H. W. Wilson

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0824210077

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9780824210076

Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century

By: Leonard S. Klein,Steven Serafin,Walter D. Glanze

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Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century

By: Leonard S. Klein,Steven Serafin,Walter D. Glanze

V.1 A to D. -- V.2 E to K. -- V.3 L to Q. -- V.4 R to Z. -- V.5 Supplement and index.

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New York : Ungar

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0804431353

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9780804431354

Item Response Theory for Psychologists

By: Susan E. Embretson,Steven Paul Reise

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Item Response Theory for Psychologists

By: Susan E. Embretson,Steven Paul Reise

Item Response Theory (IRT) is, increasingly, the psychometric method used for contemporary psychological tests. The goal of this book is to explain IRT. The book is especially useful to psychologists and social scientists familiar with small-scale cognitive and personality measures, of those who want to use IRT to analyze scales used in their own research. It is also useful for graduate students and practitioners who want to understand the contemporary, psychometric foundations of the tests they administer. Familiar psychological concepts are used to help explain various IRT principles. The book develops an intuitive understanding of IRT principles through its use of graphical displays and analysis of psychological principles."--Jacket.

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Psychology Press

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0805828184

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Book's by Steven Paul Reise

A Conceptual Guide to Statistics Using SPSS

A Conceptual Guide to Statistics Using SPSS

Item Response Theory for Psychologists

Item Response Theory for Psychologists

Bonds of Wool

Bonds of Wool

Essays on Literature and Music (1967-2004)

Essays on Literature and Music (1967-2004)

Blood and Diamonds

Blood and Diamonds

Brothers and Strangers

Brothers and Strangers

Foreigners in Their Own Land

Foreigners in Their Own Land

Making Identity on the Swahili Coast

Making Identity on the Swahili Coast

A Bibliography of Ant Systematics

A Bibliography of Ant Systematics

Transnational Cinema

Transnational Cinema

Facts about the Presidents

Facts about the Presidents

Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century

Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century

Item Response Theory for Psychologists

Item Response Theory for Psychologists

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