Taking the Fear Out of Data Analysis

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This text is aimed at students who may not like statistics but who need to understand the subject in order to complete their course or gain employment. It is a comprehensive but digestible introduction to statistics, guiding the reader through the number crunching of data analysis without memorising formulae. It is designed to help students understand the theory of data analysis. The text is divided into three parts - understanding data, preparing data for analysis and carrying out analysis - which link the stages of the data analysis process. Examples are used throughout and hints and warnings emphasise key points. This text is suitable for all students studying quantitative methods.

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It is real!!!.......2003-01-22

You can now understand how to perform all these difficult statistical tests, which in the past did not allow you to slip at nights!!!! A book that is essential reading for any young student or researcher who wants to get started.

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Taking the Fear out of Economics
John Curran
Manufacturer: Int. Cengage Business Press
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ASIN: 1861524749

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Taking the Fear Out of Economics provides a comprehensive yet simple introduction to microeconomics, assuming no prior knowledge. The text attempts to take the fear out of microeconomics by recognising that there is a fear factor. This fear is addressed by using real world examples to enrich the theory. Each section finishes with at least one practice session. The wealth of examples and the emphasis on practice makes this text the ideal learning tool for introductory courses on economics..

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Peccato che in Italia c'è un totale censura su questi temi.......1999-07-08

Ringrazio Bellofiore per avermi dato la possibilità, con l'organizzazione del convegno da cui trae origine la pubblicazione, di conoscere autori rigorosamente censurati nel panorama editoriale italiano. A proposito: quant'è vera la considerazione marxiana che i proprietari dei mezzi di produzione determinano anche la produzione delle coscienze! E' sorprendente per un Italiano, che nel proprio paese può al massimo arrivare fino ai neoricardiani, scoprire che c'è una puntuale ricostruzione del pernsiero di Marx ed una piena rivalutazione della teoria del valore lavoro, della teoria della moneta, della leggge sulla caduta tendenziale del saggio del profitto ecc. Nel libro viene evidenziato che il dibattito sul problema della trasformazione è stato la conseguenza di un'assurdo equivoco durato più di mezzo secolo. In particolare emerge con la massima evidenza che il modello di Sraffa a) ponendo uguali tra loro i prezzi degli input (risultato del periodo di produzione precedente) e quelli degli output, elimina il tempo dal discorso economico; b) ponendo una merce come numerario, non risolve il problema della determinazione dei valori assoluti e non ha una teoria della moneta; c) ponendo i salari come paniere di beni, tratta gli stessi come il foraggio per il bestime e giunge a determinare i salari reali prima di quelli monetari, proprio al contrario di come avviene nell'economia reale. Al contrario "l'errore" di Marx scompare semplicemente presupponendo che il valore del capitale costante trasferito in quello della merce prodotta è esattamente, com'è naturale, il costo effettivamente sostenuto dal capitalista, cioè un valore già "trasformato". Da qui vengono recuperate tutta una serie di intuizioni di Marx mandate frettolosamente al macero dai "marxisti" alla Ricardo. Credo che, partendo da questa ricostruzione, sia possibile spiegare anche molte delle recenti evoluzioni del sistema economico mondiale e molte delle "nuove" contraddizioni.

Pressochè tutti i contributi del volume, riferiti agli argomenti più vari affrontati nel terzo libro del Capitale, sono di eccezionale interesse. A quando una edizione per il pubblico italiano?

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A Reference for the Rest of Us!

Author Marsha Collier is a recognized eBay expert, thanks to her bestselling books, appearances as an instructor at eBay University events, and appearances on NBC's Today Show, ABC's The View, and numerous print and radio interviews
Topics include: getting a user name, making first bids, completing transactions, selling items, and what to do if anything goes wrong
An ideal resource for everyone from corporate customers to mom & pop retailers, as well as individuals who are cleaning out their closets and garages

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eBay is the world's #1 online shopping destination and can be a bit intimidating for first-time users. Thankfully, though, the latest edition of eBay For Dummies addresses all the issues a first-time or inexperienced eBay user will confront. Readers will be up to date in no time on the latest changes in the eBay interface, fee structure, and methods for buying and selling. Readers will quickly be on the path that makes bidding, buying, and selling the fun it should be!
A Reference for the Rest of Us!(r)
* Author Marsha Collier is a recognized eBay expert, thanks to her bestselling books, appearances as an instructor at eBay University events, and appearances on NBC's Today Show, ABC's The View, and numerous print and radio interviews
* Topics include: getting a user name, making first bids, completing transactions, selling items, and what to do if anything goes wrong
* An ideal resource for everyone from corporate customers to mom & pop retailers, as well as individuals who are cleaning out their closets and garages

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eBay for Dummies.......2007-09-29

Excellent book and just what I wanted. It arrived quickly and in great condition.

Ok but incomplete.......2007-08-27

I read the Dummys Guide several months ago. Since then I have read a number of other books and watched the Dont Bid On It eBay video. I also read the Simplified Tips for ebay, Schills and Sharks, and several others. After going through everything I am ready to pass along my opinion. I will mainly compare and contrast the Dummys guide with my top choice.

The information in the Dummys Guide was outdated and incomplete. The information was good but there was a lot of important things that were left out. Pages are filled with cute cartoons instead of details ebay users really need. Lots of filler to make the book longer but when compared to newer books, the actual information was thin. It barely comments on snipe bidding but the like Don't Bid On It book(which is also available here at amazon), has a detailed article on snipe bidding plus a chapter on bidding strategies that explains how it works along with other bidding strategies. The Dummys guide only quickly mentions fraudulent sellers and feedback with little explination of how to check it. Dont Bid has an extensive chapter explaining how feedback really works, how to prevent bad buyers from leaving you negative feedback, how to use feedback to spot hijacked or fake accounts, a full chapter on feedback and how it works, it also has a full section on identifying honest buyers and what to do if you do have a problem with a buyer or seller, and much more than I can list here.

Did you know that any seller who says "I am not responsible for loss or damage if you do not buy insurance" is WRONG, they are legally responsible even if the buyer does not pay for insurance.
Did you know that if you select the wrong option when filing a PayPal complaint, your complaint will be automatically rejected and you will not be able to re-file? That is pretty important to know and both of these were in the Dont Bid book but not in Dummys Guide as well as many similar tips.

The Dont Bid book also has a demonstration video. Many of the pages in the Dummys guide were filled with explinations about what webpage to go to and what to do, it was much easier to see it demonstrated in the Dont Bid video than it was to read the step by step in the dummys guide. Some of the Dummy's Guide information was not useful, for example, they explain how to research a bidder by seeing when they return to re-bid every day, but in the Dont Bid book they explain that you should not be bidding against such an inexperienced bidder in the first place because that only runs up the price unnecessarily. By simply waiting until the last minute or using snipe software you can avoid this bidder running up the price. This was not part of the dummys strategy and as far as I can remember, that was the only strategy they had. The Dont Bid book had several bidding and several more buying strategies.

The Dummys Guide gives you enough information to get started on eBay, but not enough to trade safely or enough to buy/sell and obtain the best prices. The Dummys guide is not expensive so give it a read but dont use eBay before you read the Don't Bid On It series, only then will you really know how to use eBay safely and correctly.

Great beginning book.......2007-06-17

I hadn't done much with eBay before, so there was more explained in this book than what I had imagined eBay had. Very informative and easy to read.

Not only for Dummies...........2007-06-14

A Gotta Have book if you are planning on starting an eBay business in your home. Great reference for the experienced eBayer.

Great Buy.......2007-05-16

Great book for the beginner in Ebay buying and selling, I found it very informative.

Investing Online for Dummies, Fourth Edition

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Investing Online for Dummies, 5th edition
You don't have to buy this.
Good Concise Overview to Get One Started
Get Up To Speed With New Strategies, Tools and Resources
A great guide for online investing

Investing Online for Dummies, Fourth Edition
Kathleen Sindell
Manufacturer: For Dummies
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Binding: Paperback

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Investing Online for Dummies is an invaluable resource for those who want to take advantage of the timely nature of the Internet for online investing. Author Kathleen Sindell covers all the bases for the online investor including setting up stock screens, selecting mutual funds, fishing for IPOs, and online banking and trading. This book is loaded with links to investment resources on the Internet and also includes a CD-ROM with demos of various investment tools and popular shareware programs. Highly recommended for online investors.

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Online investing has gone mainstream. Worldwide, thousands of investors are opening online trading accounts. Investors want to take control of their investments; stop paying full-service commissions; and research and trade securities when it’s convenient for them.

Whether you are a new investor or an experienced trader, Investing Online For Dummies, 4th Edition, will guide you to Internet-based resources that can help you make better, more informed investing decisions than ever before. This fact-filled reference guide is for online investors who want to

Take advantage of all the timely investment information available on the Internet.
Get some work done with the Internet. (Online selecting, evaluating, and monitoring of investments can be time consuming. Online investing really is work.)
Partner with the Internet in making your money work harder for you.

The Internet offers an astounding amount of financial information, and Investing Online For Dummies, 4th Edition, provides clear instructions and ample illustrations so that you don’t get lost in cyberspace. With help from this guide, you can find up-to-the second stock quotes, historical financial data on public companies, professional analyses, educational materials, and more:

Building your own online investment information system
Using the Internet to simplify your financial planning
Selecting the online brokerage that meets your individual needs
Finding personalized trading platforms from major online brokerages
Working with Internet tools for analyzing and selecting stocks and bonds
Trading online or going wireless and paying the lowest commissions possible
Keeping track of your portfolio and knowing exactly how your assets are allocated (even the holdings in your mutual funds)
Discovering direct stock purchase and ShareBuilder plans that let you become an online investor for as little as $25 a month
Uncovering how stock options work and determining the value of your employee stock option plan

Investing Online For Dummies, 4th Edition, puts you in the driver’s seat on the information superhighway. This easy-to-use resource provides the Internet knowledge you need to get the edge on investors who rely solely on newspapers and magazines.

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Everybody talks about it - how much you can save , and earn, when you start an online investment program. If you¿ve decided you¿re ready to find out what all the excitement¿s about, you¿re in luck. Investing Online For Dummies has been completely revised and updated with the latest tools, Web sites, rule changes, and tips that can make online investing easy and profitable. To be a successful online investor, you need to know your way around the Web and you also need to understand something about investments. Investing Online For Dummies can help you make sound financial decisions by: Outlining basic investment fundamentals Explaining how stock options work and helping you determine the value of your employee stock option plan Pointing out costly traps and ways to avoid them Directing you to resources that provide information you need and helping you make sense of it Showing you how to use the Internet to become a savvy investor

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Investing Online for Dummies, 5th edition.......2007-01-10

The delivery was on time. The book is good for me

You don't have to buy this. .......2007-01-03

I came here to write a review for this book, and found that a reviewer below, "A reader", had already written what I was going to write. This book provides a reader with no information, but with long lists of websites to look at. You can access those websites most often just wasting time (like "A reader" already said). Using search engines like Google/Yahoo is much better than thumbing through this book.

Good Concise Overview to Get One Started.......2005-05-15

You can't watch television these days without getting bombarded with ads for on line brokerage companies. What's been missing has been a centralized source for information about the whole thing. This book provides that source. It's not complete - if it were it would be so big that you couldn't carry it around - but it's a great start.

You can read this book from cover to cover in just a few hours. That is, just a few hours if you don't take the time to go out on the web looking at the things she suggests. And that right there is the key to this book. Here is a good start that covers the whole field from A to Z, and at nearly each and every point along the way she points you to web sites for more information about specific points.

The problem with going to the web for more information, of course, is that web sites appear, go away, merge or whatever. She admits this, but accepts this risk and gives you multiple sites (you couldn't possibly visit all that she mentions) or suggests ways to find a missing or dead site.

This is a great way to get the basic information you need before getting started with selecting a broker and deciding what to buy.

Get Up To Speed With New Strategies, Tools and Resources.......2005-04-07

This newest edition of "Investing Online for Dummies" reflects the latest changes and improvements to online investing Web sites. Addresses building an online information system, setting up a basic investment strategy, determining how much to invest, selecting an online broker and trading online, finding the right investments, performing Internet transactions securely, saving on commissions, managing a portfolio, and much more.

A great guide for online investing .......2005-03-22

As I surf the Web, I often feel that it's like visiting a library where all the books have been spilled on the floor. The information is there but I don't know where to begin my search. "Investing Online For Dummies" explained how to get started, steered me to free or low cost online services, pointed out the important parts of Web sites, and showed me the process of online investing.

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The best textbook for MIS majors that I've seen
Alot of good information, but not what it should be
Nothing but an e-commerce glossary...
A Good Ecommerce Textbook
Best and Most Current Textbook Available

Electronic Commerce, Fourth Edition
Gary P. Schneider
Manufacturer: Course Technology
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ASIN: 0619159553

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A complete introduction to the world of electronic commerce, including balanced coverage of technical and business topics. Case studies and plentiful business examples complement conceptual coverage to provide a real-world context.

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The best textbook for MIS majors that I've seen.......2006-12-07

First let me disclose that I have been a programmer for years (and for some of the businesses described in the book).

In general the book is good.

Pros:
It summarizes the business end of ecommerce very well.
The book covers most of the technical aspects of ecommerce from a high level.
The book is not about abstract, useless business theory that is common in many university business courses; the book is a collection of good case studies of ecommerce.

Cons:
The book chews more than it can swallow given the pace it needs to set for a normal class. Since it needs to stay at certain length, the book doesn't always do a good job explaining the technical aspects of ecommerce with enough detail from a layman's point of view. At times it is more of a review for people already with the knowledge. So unless your technical background is strong and deep (eg you are either a programmer or systems administrator for web servers), there may be a lot of jargon in some areas that will confuse and bore you. Consequently this is probably a senior year book

(The author should take notes from the HeadFirst series of technical books.)

Alot of good information, but not what it should be.......2005-08-04

My heart goes out to Ben Matthews (below) who had this thing for a level 4700. That's nuts. I had this book for a level 222 and it was a complete joke. There's a lot of good information and stories about what makes a good e-commerce site, I'll give it that. But there's nothing in here to really give you an edge as far as this stuff goes. The entire point of this book can be summed up in this statement:

"Look at amazon, look at google and look at yahoo. Look for reasons why they're successfull and take note. Do the same practices in your online sites".

This book is an interesting read, but for a bunch of stories and business jargon it's not worth the money.

Nothing but an e-commerce glossary..........2004-02-03

This book serves as an introduction to e-commerce terms and principles. To me, it reads like a shallow glossary of a large number of e-commerce terms.

Do not get the impression that this will teach you how to carry out e-commerce. Instead, this book merely introduces you to e-commerce terminology. For that, the book serves its purposes, but for anything else, you may be better off looking elsewhere.

I thought it was very expensive considering the fact that all of the information could be found in e-commerce summaries for free on the internet.

A Good Ecommerce Textbook.......2003-04-17

I teach ecommerce at the undergraduate level. I plan to use this book as the backbone for the class. The objectives are tied to the e-Biz+ certification exam from CompTIA, which is a nice feature since CompTIA does a bang-up job on researching the skills needed for entry level employment.

I like the book mainly because it offers the primary business concepts needed by my technical students before they enter the IT job market. My students can't take a lot of business classes, but they still need to know the business side of things. This book gets them the essentials in a one semester format.

Ecommerce is rapidly changing, so it will be tough for a book to keep up. I haven't seen the web site that accompanies the book yet. Hopefully it will be a good supplement to help stay current in a rapidly changing field. The book has a lot of web sites as examples, which can be a mixed blessing since web pages change constantly.

Teachers - the book says it has the usual instructor supplements for classroom teaching as well as online teaching, but I haven't seen them yet. I am using the stuff from the 3rd edition to prepare for my summer class - you will probably need to choose wisely as you review these supplements since they are of mixed quality. I am giving the book 4 stars instead of 5 since I can't vouch for the supplemental materials at this point.

Best and Most Current Textbook Available.......2000-11-06

This is, without a doubt, the best and most current textbook on electronic commerce that is available today (and I understand these authors are planning to have a second edition of the book completed by February 2000 - which should be even MORE current).

The book offers a balanced business-technology approach to the subject of e-commerce and include a great overview of both relevant technologies and business/revenue models. The book includes important issues like legal and international concerns and even has a great little section on managing and staffing Web development projects in the last chapter.

This is the only book on e-commerce that I have seen that actually creates and uses a theory-based organizing framework (they build on Porter's work on value chains). Even though the book was clearly designed to be used in the classroom (it has problem assignments, exercises, and an extensive list of references at the end of each chapter), I think this book would be an excellent resource for a business manager that wanted to learn what all of this e-commerce stuff was all about OR for a techie that wanted to learn something about the business end of e-commerce.

The book is a very easy read and is remarkably interesting (even the chapter on security theories is pretty hard to put down... and that is some dull stuff, usually). The book includes bolded company names throughout and each of those names is included on the book's Web site as a hyperlink to the company site. This is very useful because you can see the examples that the book mentions come to life (if you can read the book while you're in front of your computer)...

I would recommend this book to any reader that wants to learn more about electronic commerce than you would find in a light overview book. This book gets into details, but in a very readable way.

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Some Good Ideas

Variety of Good Marketing Ideas

WOW!! Really Unique Marketing Ideas.

Money-Tree Marketing: Innovative Secrets That Will Double Your Small-Business Profits in 90 Days or Less
Patrick Bishop , and Jennifer A. Bishop
Manufacturer: AMACOM
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ASIN: 0814470556

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* Use a competitor's money to increase business * Get paid to run an ad in Time or Newsweek magazine--and never pay for a radio or television ad again * Send out more than 100,00 direct-mail pieces for free--and get an above-average response rate * Discover which labor unions, credit unions, and associations are begging to send their companies' business * Get as many free Yellow Pages advertisements as they want * Develop nonprofit alliances that will provide a steady stream of customers.

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Money does grow on trees -- if you tap into the high-results techniques revealed in this powerful marketing primer. With even the tiniest budget, anyone can exponentially increase sales by implementing the authors' techniques that have been tested time and time again. Money-Tree Marketing gives readers detailed advice on how to: -- Use a competitor's money to increase business -- Get paid to run an ad in Time or Newsweek magazine -- and never pay for a radio or television ad again -- Send out more than 100,00 direct-mail pieces for free -- and get an above-average response rate -- Discover which labor unions, credit unions, and associations are begging to send their companies' business -- Get as many free Yellow Pages advertisements as they want -- Develop nonprofit alliances that will provide a steady stream of customers.

Customer Reviews:

Some Good Ideas.......2002-05-30

As the book title implies, the text is truly geared toward the small business. I found that the ideas were most applicable to the more common small businesses (e.g. restaurants, insurance agencies, etc.) than mine (engineering consulting). However, the book still had some unique suggestions that I had not thought of. Overall, worth reading.

Variety of Good Marketing Ideas.......2000-10-24

I just opened a business and this is the third book I've bought on how to market my business. The other two had a few good ideas, but nothing like this one. This book has a wide range of ideas on how to market your business and some of them you can even make money while you're doing it. I'm recommending this book to a couple of friend who are going into business together after the first of the year.

WOW!! Really Unique Marketing Ideas........2000-10-21

I have reviewed a lot of books over the last several years and considering that I also own a small business, I am always interested in new marketing books that come out and promise new strategies. Most of them just make me yawn. They usually rehash old material from other books and don't have any thing new. This book promises unique ideas and it delivers!

The stories at the beginning of each chapter are very entertaining and I could relate to several of them, but what really impressed me is the amount of material about ideas I have never heard of or read about any where before.

Who would have thought that you can get free yellow page ads, or get paid to promote a business on TV or radio, get free ads in national magazines, license a celebrity to promote a business, get labor unions to send their members to a business, start a 3rd party association that will refer business or send out direct mail for free. These are all ideas I have never seen in any other marketing book.

Then to top it off, the Bishop's are giving away a free small business. WOW!! Do they know how to promote or what? They get my vote for marketers of the year.

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