Research category: 4571 books
Behavioral Intervention Research
Designing, Evaluating, and Implementing
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This unique text provides comprehensive coverage of one of the most neglected—yet vitally important--areas of public health research: developing, evaluating, and implementing novel behavioral interventions in service and practice settings. Written for Masters- and Doctoral-level courses, the book...
Doing Qualitative Research
A Practical Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
In the fourth edition of his best-selling textbook, David Silverman provides a step-by-step guide to planning and conducting qualitative research. Using real examples from real postgraduate students, the book makes it easy to link theory to methods and shows how to move from understanding the principles...
Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design
Choosing Among Five Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
In the revised Fourth Edition of the best-selling text, John W. Creswell and new co-author Cheryl N. Poth explore the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of five qualitative inquiry approaches: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study. Preserving...
Appreciative Inquiry
Research for Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Appreciative Inquiry: Research for Change is the first book to explore in depth the issues that arise when appreciative inquiry is used as a research framework, rather than an organizational development tool. Author Jan Reed draws upon her own experience of using Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as a research...
by Paul C. Rosenblatt
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Written for researchers and graduate students writing dissertations, Restarting Stalled Research is a unique book that offers detailed advice and perspective on many issues that can stall a research project and reveals what can be done to successfully resume it. Using a direct yet conversational style,...
Ontario Genealogical Society 12-Book Bundle
Conserving, Preserving, and Restoring Your Heritage / Genealogical Standards of Evidence / and 10 more
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
For over fifty years, The Ontario Genealogical Society has been working to encourage, bring together, and assist people interested in the pursuit of family history, and the society is recognized as the authority and leader in all aspects of Ontario-related family history research, preservation, and...
Observing Children in Their Natural Worlds
A Methodological Primer, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book shows readers how to conduct observational methods, research tools used to describe and explain behaviors as they unfold in everyday settings. The book now uses both an evolutionary and a cultural perspective. The methods presented are drawn from psychology, education, family studies, sociology,...
by Donald P. Schwab
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This revision of a best selling research methods textbook introduces social science methods as applied broadly to the study of issues that arise as part of organizational life. These include issues involving organizational participants such as managers, teachers, customers, patients and clients, and...
Service Science
The Foundations of Service Engineering and Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Features coverage of the service systems lifecycle, including service marketing, engineering, delivery, quality control, management, and sustainment
Featuring an innovative and holistic approach, Service Science: The Foundations of Service Engineering and Management provides a new perspective...
by Tom Barone, Elliot W. Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Arts Based Research isideal for students, researchers, and practitioners. This unique book provides a framework for broadening the domain of qualitative inquiry in the social sciences by incorporating the arts as a means of better understanding and rethinking important social issues. In the book's...
by Immy Holloway, Lorraine Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Have you been working toward a qualitative doctorate without a guide? Immy Holloway and Lorraine Brown are here to help. Breaking down the process step by step, this book gives essential advice on navigating the whole program. You’ll first get some tips on selecting a research topic and writing...
Nonparametric Statistics for Health Care Research
Statistics for Small Samples and Unusual Distributions
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
What do you do when you realize that the data set from the study that you have just completed violates the sample size or other requirements needed to apply parametric statistics? Nonparametric Statistics for Health Care Research by Marjorie A. Pett was developed for such scenarios—research undertaken...
by Andrey Davydov, Olga Skorbatyuk
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Among ancient Chinese monuments Russian researcher Andrey Davydov discovered the Catalog of human population. The title of this ancient source is Shan Hai Jing (translated from Chinese as the Catalog of Mountains and Seas). Official science still does not know for certain the dating of Shan Hai Jing...
Research Ethics and Integrity for Social Scientists
Beyond Regulatory Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Ethics and integrity in researchare increasingly important for social scientists around the world. We are tackling more complex problems in the face of expanding and not always sympathetic regulation. This book surveys the recent developments and debates around researching ethically and with integrity...