Methodology category: 1297 books
by John Locke
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a work by by John Locke concerning the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. It first appeared in 1689 with the printed title An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate filled later through experience....
Disaster Deferred
A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
In the winter of 1811-12, a series of large earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone-often incorrectly described as the biggest ever to hit the United States-shook the Midwest. Today the federal government ranks the hazard in the Midwest as high as California's and is pressuring communities to undertake...
Wittgenstein
A Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A brief preface attacks modern scientific methods and icons of science such as Newton and Einstein. The scope of the essay is made. Chapter 1 suggests that gestalt observation of the problem is the best way to get undistorted test results. It is virtually impossible not to distort data results when...
Academic Writing
Selected Topics in Writing an Academic Paper
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The textbook concentrates on selected topics and problematic aspects in preparing a cohesive and well-organised academic paper, such as: the relation between thinking and writing, establishing arguments, using logic and appropriate language in argumentative writing. The author considers writing as...
Malestar
Los investigadores ante su evaluación
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Esta obra es una suerte de serena discusión por escrito entre los distintos actores de la comunidad académica en relación a un tema delicado entre los profesionales: la evaluación científica y el tedio que suele generar entre los investigadores. Si bien sus ejes fundamentales son las propias...
Understanding Communication Theory
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This book offers students a comprehensive, theoretical, and practical guide to communication theory. Croucher defines the various perspectives on communication theory—the social scientific, interpretive, and critical approaches—and then takes on the theories themselves, with topics including interpersonal...
by Hans Blumenberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
What role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking and clear expression, rhetorical flourishes that may well help to make philosophy more accessible to a lay audience, but that ought ideally to be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or...
by René Descartes
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
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Title: A Discourse on Method, Author: René Descartes.Translator: John Veitch
DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON,
AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES.
Philosopher and mathematician René Descartes is regarded...
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
Discourse on the Method of Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal rules of the Method which the Author has discovered, in the third, certain of the rules of Morals...
Resiliency Enhancement
Putting the Strength Perspective Into Social Work Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2000
This book bridges the gap between theory and implementation to illustrate how resiliency enhancement enables social workers to put the strengths perspective successfully into practice for their clients. Contributors to this volume show how social workers can use interventions to enhance those resiliency factors.
by Victoria Foster
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book provides a thought-provoking guide to conducting collaborative arts-based research. Focusing on ways that social inquiry might be conducted with marginalised groups to promote social justice, the text offers chapters on:
Telling ‘alternative’ stories through a variety of methods...
Feminist Ethnography
Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
What is feminist ethnography? What is its history? How can its methods be applied? How is feminist ethnography produced, distributed, and evaluated? How do feminist ethnographers link their findings to broader publics through activism, advocacy, and public policy? Investigating these questions and...
by Sir Joshua Reynolds, L. March Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016