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Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (Introducing Statistical Methods series)

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by: Andy Field

2005-03
Although i may appear biased as i have been fortunate enough to have been lectured (stats lecture) by Andy Field I honestly beleive that this book is a MUST for all psychology students around the world who will be using SPSS at some point in their psychology careers! It is simple, witty, funny, and makes stats easy to understand. Brilliant book! =]

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Engineering Mathematics 6th Edition

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by: K.A. Stroud, Dexter J. Booth

January 25, 2007
I have been out of education for 10 years before I started my degree so I was very apprehensive about the maths. This book works wonders especially the DVD you get with it to help problem solve. This is such a well structured book with lots of worked examples.

A must have for Engineering students

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The Selfish Gene

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by: Richard Dawkins

March 16, 2006
Dawkins is excellent while he sticks to biology
however he may have lost the plot in the last chapter
as he has in thinking promoting science involves attacking
religion
If an evangalist is someone who does not leave people to work
it out for themselves but pushes his point of view Dawkins is one
Nutty Baptists and Dawkins looked similar on channel 4 for example
ie they both spin world events too far to promote a point of view

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Mathematics for Economics and Business

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by: Ian Jacques

March 09, 2006
For a student it is worth it buying as it starts with some basic stuff that can refresh the Maths knowledge needed to understand what will come afterwards. It covers all the Maths topics that they will have during their degree, except for Statistics. It can always be a reference to have in a bookshelf in case something comes up in the near future. For a Maths teatcher it is usefull as it has examples to apply the theory we want them to learn.

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Maths the Basic Skills Curriculum Edition - Student Book (E3-L2) (Levels 1 and 2 and 3)

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by: June Haighton, Bridget Phillips, Veronica Thomas, Debbie Holder

July 02, 2004
I bought this book on the back of Kathryn Wood's review, as I was taking the National Certificate in Numeracy Level 2 exam under similar circumstances to her. I used it for home-study over several weeks and today I passed the exam first time! I am thrilled!

I would highly recommend this book.

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Passing the Numeracy Skills Test (Achieving QTS) (Achieving QTS)

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by: Mark Patmore

September 15, 2003
Before buying this book I attempted the online practice test (and failed!) after going through the book it highlighted areas I needed to work on. The book also provides example questions which are very similar to the test questions. I would not have passed first time without this book.

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Foundation Maths

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by: Anthony Croft, Robert Davison

May 25, 2006
The first time I've bothered to leave my thoughts on a book. But this one is well worth a recommendation. A must if you wanna recap or bridge knowledge from GCSE level onwards

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The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers

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by: Michael Blastland, Andrew Dilnot

July 10, 2008
While the topic of this book is interesting and the authors do well in presenting each type of analysis / data fallacy with interesting examples anyone who can remember any maths from school should find this very basic and really not worth their time.

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Core Mathematics 1 (Heinemann Modular Mathematics for Edexcel AS & A-level)

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from: Heinemann Educational Publishers

June 22, 2004
This book is good for AS maths, with good layout.
Also, on the topic of mistakes, those books were renewed after the massive amount of mistakes were found. We saw loads of mistakes at the start of the year, and our teachers complained. New ones were posted to us, renewed, and now all the answers (for questions that I have done anyway) are right, and I found my exam, which was on monday, a breeze with the help of this book, and the revision book that's also made by heinemann for edexcel, which I would HIGHLY recommend for people next year.

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Modern Engineering Mathematics

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by: Glyn James

August 16, 2007
I was recommended by my lecturers to buy this book for my maths module in the first year of my physics degree. I found that the book is not intuitive, has an ugly appearence (which doesnt motivate the reader to work at the subject) and, most importantly, explains the methods in question very poorly. As an example, I spent three hours trying to figure out how the book had worked through an integration question, only to find later that the problem had arisen simply because the book had skipped an important step, that wasn't at all obvious. This was the day before an exam to really rub salt in the wound.

I found that the book makes a song and dance of obvious ideas, and simply skims over the more complicated steps in new ideas.

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