Author: James P. Stevens
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Keywords: applied, multivariate, stats, sciences, statistics, social
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0805837760
ISBN-13: 9780805837766

This best-selling text is written for those who use, rather than develop, advanced statistical methods. Dr. Stevens focuses on a conceptual understanding of the material rather than proving results. Helpful narrative and numerous examples enhance understanding, and a chapter on matrix algebra serves as a review. Printouts from SPSS and SAS with annotations indicate what the numbers mean and encourage interpretation of the results. In addition to demonstrating how to use the packages effectively, the author stresses the importance of checking the data, assessing the assumptions, and ensuring ad

Author: Don Heider
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Keywords: news, color, lea, communication, people, cover, local, programs, don
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2000-03-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0805834753
ISBN-13: 9780805834758

Is TV news racist? If the purpose of local news is to cover individual communities and to present issues of interest and concern to local audiences, why are local newscasts so similar in markets around the country? These are the questions that motivated Don Heider’s research, leading to the development of this book. Recognizing that local news is the outlet through which most people get their news, Heider ventured into two local television newsrooms in two moderate-sized, culturally diverse U.S. markets to observe the news process. In this report, he uses his insider’s p

Authors:David M. Messick, Roderick M. Kramer,
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Keywords: organization, management, series, lea, volume, research, leadership, new, perspectives, psychology
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2004-08
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 080584094X
ISBN-13: 9780805840940

In this book, some of the world’s leading scholars come together to describe their thinking and research on the topic of the psychology of leadership. Most of the chapters were originally presented as papers at a research conference held in 2001 at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. The contributions span traditional social psychological areas, as well as organizational theory; examining leadership as a psychological process and as afforded by organizational constraints and opportunities. The editors’ goal was not to focus the chapters on a single approach

Authors:George A. Morgan, Nancy L. Leech, Gene W. Gloeckner,
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Keywords: interpretation, statistics, introductory, spss
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-04-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0805847898
ISBN-13: 9780805847895

Designed to help students learn to analyze and interpret research data using basic statistics, this new edition features SPSS 12.0, but can also be used with earlier versions. Each chapter introduces several statistics and provides instructions on how to run them and interpret the output. The authors describe the use and interpretation of these statistics in user-friendly, nontechnical language. The authors demonstrate how to choose the appropriate statistic based on the research design, how to interpret SPSS outputs, how to use SPSS to answer research questions, and how to write about the out

Author: Richard A. Lippa
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Keywords: nurture, nature, gender
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2005-03
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0805853456
ISBN-13: 9780805853452

This engaging text presents the latest scientific findings on gender differences, similarities, and variations--in sexuality, cognitive abilities, occupational preferences, personality, and social behaviors. The impact of nature and nurture on gender is examined from the perspectives of genetics, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, neuroanatomy, sociology, and psychology. The result is a balanced, fair-minded synthesis of diverse points of view. Dr. Lippa’s text sympathetically summarizes each side of the nature-nurture debate, and in a witty imagined conversation between a personifi

Author: Manuel London
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Keywords: feedback, improvement, applied, psychology, performance, using, giving, seeking, job
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0805844953
ISBN-13: 9780805844955

This book demonstrates how managers can be more effective in gathering and processing performance information about subordinates, making ratings on performance appraisals and multisource feedback surveys, and feeding back this information in a way that is nonthreatening and leads to productive changes in behavior. It also shows how employees can gather, accept, and use meaningful performance information from appraisals, surveys, and informal discussions to change their own behavior. In doing so, the volume suggests how human resource practitioners and training professionals can help managers g

Author: Chris Roush
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Keywords: communication, mass, lea, series, stories, economics, money, writing, business, show
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2004-04-20
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0805849556
ISBN-13: 9780805849554

Show Me the Money is a business reporting textbook offering hands-on advice and examples on doing the job of a business journalist. Author Chris Roush draws on his own business journalism background to explain how to cover businesses and industries, and where to find sources of information for stories. He includes examples of business stories demonstrating how reporters take financial information and turn it into relevant facts that explain a topic to readers. With numerous examples of documents and stories in the text, it is an essential guide for doing business journalism. This definitiv