Have you ever read a book and said to yourself, “Boy I wish I had that backthen?” In the area of data handling and manipulation, this is that book. Davidson hascompiled 30 principles by which one can effectively handle data. The audiences for this text are:“(a) graduate students and novice researchers who want to expand their knowledge of theuse of computers in the social sciences, including education, and (b) educators who want toimprove data gathering in their teaching institutions” (p. x). Davidson offers this book asa companion to statistical texts. If you are looking for the equation for a dependentt-test or want to review the assumptions for ANOVA, this is not the book you arelooking for. If you want to know how to efficiently handle information, for instance, researchdata, this is the text for you.