The Workflow of Data Analysis Using Stata Long - I wish I had found this book years ago...it takes you through the pre-analysis steps and adds simple programming. Could be used as the format for a protocol book for a team of researchers in charge of data management for a project...lays out all the best practices.
Applied Survey Data Analysis Heeringa, West and Berglund - The authors take your hand and walk you through complex sample design analysis. My only criticism is their handling missing data in complex surveys - it's always a sign when the authors place the missing data chapter last, when missing data should be dealt with before the analysis.
Poor Economics Banerjee Duflo with a hip-interactive-website - Self-proclaimed to be between Dambiso Moyo's Dead Aid and Jeffrey Sach's End of Poverty, the authors use their studies, as well as cite other economic studies to explain interesting phenomena (well, interesting for economists perhaps) about the way poor people, the bottom billion, manage their money. Interesting evidence from decision making studies in health lead the authors to advocate for more paternalism (people won't boil and treat their water, clean water has to be easily available), rewards (increasing incentives for each round of childhood vaccinations leads to better vaccination coverage), and well placed subsidies for preventative healthcare but stop short in advocating for regulation of health professionals. The poor spend a lot of money on healthcare in an unregulated system (i.e. it is difficult to verify credentials and scope of practice if just anyone can hang a shingle). The authors state that such regulation is beyond most poor countries (my take: if India can build a particle accelerator, it can regulate its healthcare professionals).
