Essential Mathematics for Political and Social Research addresses an educational deficiency in the social and behavioral sciences. This 2006 book was the first of its kind to specifically address the comprehensive introduction to the mathematical principles needed by modern social scientists. The material introduces basic mathematical principles necessary to do analytical work in the social sciences, starting from first principles, but without unnecessary complexity. The core purpose is to present fundamental notions in standard notation and standard language with a clear, unified framework...

What Works is a concise methods text that represents a new approach for policy program analysis. The authors, Meier and Gill, combine statistics with normative concerns. They consider how things might be, and they focus on subsets of cases that differ from the norm. Their approach uses regression and methods in a qualitative, yet rigorous manner.In What Works, the authors address questions such as the following: why do some agencies learn to perform missions faster than others? What factors influence this learning? In which states do criminal justice policies based on deterrence...

This book is a poem. But don't worry. It's not one of those frilly poems that say things like, 'my love is like a honey-dipped cloud of trembly ferns'. It's more like the poems that Dr Seuss and Roald Dahl wrote. It's a story. The star of the story is a boy who has some pretty terrible things happen to him. He literally falls to bits. (That's the way life goes sometimes.) Fortunately, some kind birds arrive to help him out. I'm not sure they know what they are doing though. I hope your life is nothing like this boy's life. Even though he does have a happy ending, he's got a rough journey to...