University Of California Press: 1479 books
Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research
How to Do Open Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Recently, social science has had numerous episodes of influential research that was found invalid when placed under rigorous scrutiny. The growing sense that many published results are potentially erroneous has made those conducting social science research more determined to ensure the underlying...
Critical Thinking
Tools for Evaluating Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
*Critical Thinking *prepares students to thoughtfully interpret information and develop a sophisticated understanding of our increasingly complex and multi-mediated world. Peter M. Nardi’s approach helps students sharpen their critical thinking skills and improve their analytical reasoning, enabling...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
The Evolution of Phylogenetic Systematics aims to make sense of the rise of phylogenetic systematics—its methods, its objects of study, and its theoretical foundations—with contributions from historians, philosophers, and biologists. This volume articulates an intellectual agenda for the study...
The Comparative Method
Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Charles C. Ragin’s The Comparative Method proposes a synthetic strategy, based on an application of Boolean algebra, that combines the strengths of both qualitative and quantitative sociology. Elegantly accessible and germane to the work of all the social sciences, and now updated with a new introduction, this book will continue to garner interest, debate, and praise.
by Linda L. McCabe, Edward R.B. McCabe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
This new edition of How to Succeed in Academics provides up-to-date mentoring on all aspects of a successful academic career, particularly a career in the sciences. Linda L. McCabe and Edward R. B. McCabe bring decades of expertise and experience to such topics as marketing your ideas through posters,...
by Jonathan Bendor
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
In Bounded Rationality and Politics, Jonathan Bendor considers two schools of behavioral economics—the first guided by Tversky and Kahneman’s work on heuristics and biases, which focuses on the mistakes people make in judgment and choice; the second as described by Gerd Gigerenzer’s program...
Generation Priced Out
Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America. Randy Shaw tells the powerful stories of tenants, politicians, homeowner groups, developers, and activists...
Invisible Nation
Homeless Families in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
"By the second or third day that you’re homeless, in the car with all your clothes, your pots and pans, everything, having to wash yourself in a public rest room, you logically start to feel dirty. You prefer to use the drive-through [at fast-food restaurants] where no one will see you. You...
The Real School Safety Problem
The Long-Term Consequences of Harsh School Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Schools across the U.S. look very different today than they did a generation ago. Police officers, drug-sniffing dogs, surveillance cameras, and high suspension rates have become commonplace. The Real School Safety Problem uncovers the unintended but far-reaching effects of harsh school discipline...
Cohabitation Nation
Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
“We have fun and we enjoy each other’s company, so why shouldn’t we just move in together?”—Lauren, from Cohabitation Nation
Living together is a typical romantic rite of passage in the United States today. In fact, census data shows a 37 percent increase in couples who choose to...
Journeys
Resilience and Growth for Survivors of Intimate Partner Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
More than one in three women in the United States has experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime. Luckily, many are able to escape this life—but what happens to them after? *Journeys *focuses on the desperately understudied topic of the resiliency...
Selling Women
Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
This book traces the social history of early modern Japan’s sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, it describes how the work of "selling...
The Green Leap
A Primer for Conserving Biodiversity in Subdivision Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Written for anyone interested in green development—including policy makers, architects, developers, builders, and homeowners—this practical guide focuses on the central question of how to conserve biodiversity in neighborhoods and to minimize development impacts on surrounding habitats. The Green...
Unsung Heroines
Single Mothers and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2006
This compelling book destroys the derogatory images of single mothers that too often prevail in the media and in politics by creating a rich, moving, multidimensional picture of who these women really are. Ruth Sidel interviewed mothers from diverse races, ethnicities, religions, and social classes...