Research category: 4571 books
Qualitative Marketing Research
A Cultural Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2006
Aimed at both graduate and undergraduate students majoring in business administration and in other fields of social sciences, Qualitative Marketing Research unpacks the emerging cultural approach in the field of marketing and consumer research and provides an interesting and informed study for anyone...
Annual Review of Nursing Research, Volume 32, 2014
Military and Veteran Innovations of Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Presenting a state-of-the-art annual review of the most significant military innovations in health care research, this new volume focuses primarily on health care innovations that have been developed in response to injuries sustained during the conflict in Iraq and the nearby region. It addresses...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Based on the premise that when students do something instead of simply reading about it, they understand it better, this book is composed of 29 hands-on, active learning activities for use in research methods courses in the social sciences. Research Methods can be a daunting class for students and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Methodological Issues in Aging Research is the first volume in the "Notre Dame Series on Quantitative Methodology." This new series provides practical training on the latest quantitative methods used in social and behavioral research. Each volume features contributions from leading experts in state-of-the-art...
Operations Research
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Students with diverse backgrounds will face a multitude of decisions in a variety of engineering, scientific, industrial, and financial settings. They will need to know how to identify problems that the methods of operations research (OR) can solve, how to structure the problems into standard mathematical...
by Jeasik Cho
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Qualitative researchers read journal articles, serve on masters' and doctoral committees, make careful decisions on whether conference proposals, manuscripts, or large-scale grant applications should be accepted or rejected; yet, best practices on how to do this work thoroughly and efficiently have...
Research in Nursing and Health
Understanding and Using Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
This book offers the reader a synopsis of research, appreciating both the science and art of inquiry. It is designed to present the basic elements of conducting and understanding nursing research using an expeditious and useful reference format.
This updated new edition offers the reader a...
Annual Review of Nursing Research, Volume 24, 2006
Focus on Patient Safety
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Designated a Doody's Core Title!
Supporting the urgent need for new patient safety guidelines and practices, Focus on Patient Safety, provides the most current and authoritative research and review to help decision makers develop new and much-needed standards and practices in nursing. With...
by Dr. Paul J. Lavrakas
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
In conjunction with top survey researchers around the world and with Nielsen Media Research serving as the corporate sponsor, the Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods presents state-of-the-art information and methodological examples from the field of survey research. Although there are other "how-to"...
Introduction to Action Research
Social Research for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2006
The Second Edition of Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change makes social science matter! It focuses on how it is possible to combine practical problem solving with generating new theoretical insights. Authors Davydd J. Greenwood and Morten Levin combine a thorough discussion...
Looking for Information
A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The 4th edition of this popular and well-cited text is now co-authored, and includes significant changes from earlier texts. Presenting a comprehensive review of over a century of research on information behavior (IB), this book is intended for students in information studies and disciplines interested...
Consumption, Psychology and Practice Theories
A Hermeneutic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Practice theories of our equipped and situated tacit construction of participatory narrative meaning are evident in multiple disciplines from architectural to communication study, consumer, marketing and media research, organisational, psychological and social insight. Their hermeneutic focus is on...
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Research challenges and solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Interest in the field of neurodevelopmental disorders has grown exponentially in recent years across a range of disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, education and neuroscience. The research itself has become more sophisticated, using multidisciplinary methods to probe interdisciplinary questions....
by Paul Ten Have
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
Understanding Qualitative Research and Ethnomethodology provides a discussion of qualitative research methods from an ethnomethodological perspective. Detailed yet concise, Paul ten Have's text explores the complex relation between the more traditional methods of qualitative social research and the...