Research category: 4571 books
by W. Richard Dukelow
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
While research has enabled us to better understand the nonhuman primates, they have repaid that by repaid that by providing medical scientists with important tools for the study of human biomedical problems. This book is about those research tools. The book was designed by identifying areas of human...
by Deborah Finfgeld-Connett
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
A Guide to Qualitative Meta-synthesis provides accessible guidelines for conducting all phases of theory-generating meta-synthesis research, including data collection, analysis, and theory generation. It is a research methodology that is designed to generate evidence-based theory by extracting, analyzing,...
Researching the Unconscious
Principles of Psychoanalytic Method
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Researching the Unconscious provides an exposition of key issues in the philosophy and methods of the social sciences that are relevant to psychoanalysis, both as a clinical practice and as a human science.
These include the debates initiated by Thomas Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolutions,...
Leading Edge Marketing Research
21st-Century Tools and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
This book explores new and leading edge marketing research approaches as successfully practiced by visionaries of academia and the research industry. Ideal as either a supplementary text for students or as a guidebook for practitioners, this book showcases the excitement of a field where discoveries...
Research Methodologies of School Psychology
Critical Skills
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Research Methodologies of School Psychology is a comprehensive, actionable resource that offers graduate students and school psychologists the knowledge and skills to apply key scientific techniques in practice.
A volume in the Foundations of School Psychology Research and Practice Series,...
by Dr. Jay Polmar
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Speedread.org is our organization. We've been online for almost 14 years, and teaching reading improvement for 34 years at major colleges and Universities.
Our courses are used worldwide by over 100,000 in several languages in many parts of the globe. We've researched just about every course...
Corrupt Research
The Case for Reconceptualizing Empirical Management and Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Addressing the immensely important topic of research credibility, Raymond Hubbard’s groundbreaking Corrupt Research proposes that we must treat such information with a healthy dose of skepticism. This book argues that the dominant model of knowledge procurement subscribed to in these areas—the...
Beliefs and Mathematics
Festschrift in honor of Guenter Toerner's 60th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Beliefs and Mathematics is a Festschrift honoring the contributions of Günter Törner to mathematics education and mathematics. Mathematics Education as a legitimate area of research emerged from the initiatives of well known mathematicians of the last century such as Felix Klein and Hans Freudenthal....
The Body Hunters
Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Hailed by John le Carré as an act of courage on the part of its author” and singled out for praise by the leading medical journals in the United States and the United Kingdom, The Body Hunters uncovers the real-life story behind le Carré’s acclaimed novel The Constant Gardener and the feature...
The Power of Rare
A Blueprint for a Medical Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
"The Power of Rare is equal parts science and inspiration. In her urgent drive to help her daughter, Victoria Jackson not only transformed the competitive world of biomedical research, but also created a new medical model for generations to come." —Arianna Huffington
Victoria Jackson revolutionized...
Analyzing Quantitative Data
From Description to Explanation
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2003
What basic knowledge and skills do novice researchers in social science require? How can students be helped to over-come `symbol phobia' or `figure blindness'?
This generous and constantly insightful book is designed for social researchers who need to know what procedures to use under what...
Brand Intimacy
A New Paradigm in Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
From Patagonia to Apple, Whole Foods to New Balance, we love our favorite products--and, by extension, the companies that provide them. The emotional connections we form with our beloved brands and services are important relationships--relationships that are potentially worth billions.
In the...
Applications of Systems Thinking and Soft Operations Research in Managing Complexity
From Problem Framing to Problem Solving
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
This book captures current trends and developments in the field of systems thinking and soft operations research which can be applied to solve today's problems of dynamic complexity and interdependency. Such ‘wicked problems’ and messes are seemingly intractable problems characterized as value-laden,...
Models and Applications in the Decision Sciences
Best Papers from the 2015 Annual Conference
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
NEW ADVANCES IN THE SCIENCE OF DECISION MAKING:
Practical and relevant research from DSI, the field’s leading organization
14 OUTSTANDING PAPERS APPLYING RIGOROUS RESEARCH METHODS TO IMPORTANT SOCIETAL AND BUSINESS DECISION ENVIRONMENTS
NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE IN STRATEGY,...