Research category: 4571 books
by Professor Dawn Iacobucci
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
This book covers mediation analysis—the examination of whether an effect of one variable on another is direct or indirect or both. Author Dawn Iacobucci offers thorough coverage of introductory and advanced material as well as conceptual and statistical information. The book begins by introducing...
Dialogues with Ethnography
Notes on Classics, and How I Read Them
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
This book persuasively argues the case that ethnography must be viewed as a full theoretical system, rather than just as a research method. Blommaert traces the influence of his reading of classic works about ethnography on his thinking, and discusses a range of authors who have influenced the development...
Fertility and Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART)
Theory, Research, Policy and Practice for Health Care Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
The first publication of its kind, this book on assisted reproductive technology (ART) is a globally focused, authoritative guide to state-of-the-art information about ART for nurses and other health care professionals. Encompassing theoretical, clinical practice, research, and policy aspects of ART,...
by Morley D. Glicken
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Straightforward and concise, the second edition of A Guide to Writing for Human Service Professionals offers students and professionals practical tools to improve their writing. In his animated and highly accessible teaching voice, Glicken presents the rules of punctuation, grammar, and APA style...
by Matthias Otto
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: 1,3, Cologne Business School Köln, language: English, abstract: The work 'Feasibility Study and Future Projections of Suborbital Space Tourism at the Example of Virgin Galactic' deals with the topic...
A Survival Kit for Doctoral Students and Their Supervisors
Traveling the Landscape of Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
A Survival Kit for Doctoral Students and Their Supervisors offers a hands-on guide to both students and supervisors on the doctoral journey, helping make the process as enjoyable as it is productive. Drawing on research from peer learning groups, contributed narratives, and their own programs, authors...
Marketing
A Relationship Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Marketing: A Relationship Perspective is back for a second edition and continues to set a benchmark for achievement in introductory marketing courses across Europe. It is a comprehensive, broad-based, and challenging basic marketing text, which describes and analyzes the basic concepts and strategic...
by Dr. Michael Ray Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1993
Historical and biographical work is becoming a more common type of qualitative research done by social scientists and usually requires the extensive use of formal archives housed in universities, governments, museums and other institutions. This practical and concise book provides an introduction...
Family Observational Coding Systems
Resources for Systemic Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
CODING MANUAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE FROM THE CHAPTER AUTHORS, AND THEIR E-MAIL ADDRESSES CAN BE FOUND ON PAGE XV OF THE BOOK.
Family studies is an area that has enjoyed the benefits of conceptual and methodological advances in recent years including the widespread adoption of observational research...
Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Critical theory has much to teach us about higher education. By linking critical models, methods, and research tools with an advocacy-driven vision of the central challenges facing postsecondary researchers and staff, Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education makes a significant—and long...
Qualitative Analysis Using MAXQDA
The Five-Level QDA™ Method
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Software is cut and dried—every button you press has a predictable effect—but qualitative analysis is open-ended and unfolds in unpredictable ways. This contradiction is best resolved by separating analytic strategies—what you plan to do—from software tactics—how you plan to do it. Expert...
Multiple Criteria Decision Aid
Methods, Examples and Python Implementations
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Multiple criteria decision aid (MCDA) methods are illustrated in this book through theoretical and computational techniques utilizing Python. Existing methods are presented in detail with a step by step learning approach. Theoretical background is given for TOPSIS, VIKOR, PROMETHEE, SIR, AHP, goal...
by Izabela Zych, David P. Farrington, Vicente J. Llorent
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This compact resource synthesizes current research on bullying in the schools while presenting strengths-based approaches to curbing this growing epidemic. Its international review of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies unravels the complex dynamics of bullying and provides depth on the range...
The Capability of Places
Methods for Modelling Community Response to Intrusion and Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can we assess the ability of a place to respond to challenges like migration, recession and disease? Places which seem similar can respond very differently, and with varying degrees of success, to external threats and to the interventions designed to manage them.
In this magisterial work,...