Methodology category: 1297 books
Quantifying Measurement
The Tyranny of Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Measurements and experiments are made each and every day, in fields as disparate as particle physics, chemistry, economics and medicine, but have you ever wondered why it is that a particular experiment has been designed to be the way it is. Indeed, how do you design an experiment to measure something...
by Aleandro Nisati, Vivek Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
The recent observation of the Higgs boson has been hailed as the scientific discovery of the century and led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics. This book describes the detailed science behind the decades-long search for this elusive particle at the Large Electron Positron Collider at CERN and at...
Conversations About Group Concept Mapping
Applications, Examples, and Enhancements
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
**Conversations About Group Concept Mapping: Applications, Examples, and Enhancements **takes a concise, practice-based approach to group concept mapping. After defining the method, demonstrating how to design a project, and providing guidelines to analyze the results, this book then dives into real...
The Structural Approach to Direct Practice in Social Work
A Social Constructionist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
This classic text introduces students to the structural approach of social work practice, which assumes that many clients' problems arise from harmful social forces. By focusing on the construction of such realities as poverty, racism, and domestic violence, the structural approach counters the focus...
by Gini Graham Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A short introduction to the major concepts and approaches used in the social sciences, especially in sociology, anthropology, and leisure, recreation, and tourism. It's an ideal supplement to a more detailed text on research methods, as a guide to help choose which research methods to use in a study,...
Remote Sensing and GIS for Ecologists
Using Open Source Software
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
This is a book about how ecologists can integrate remote sensing and GIS in their daily work. It will allow ecologists to get started with the application of remote sensing and to understand its potential and limitations. Using practical examples, the book covers all necessary steps from planning...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Over the past decade there has been a remarkable flowering of interest in food and nutrition, both within the popular media and in academia. Scholars are increasingly using foodways, food systems and eating habits as a new unit of analysis within their own disciplines, and students are rushing into...
Deadly Contradictions
The New American Empire and Global Warring
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
As US imperialism continues to dictate foreign policy, Deadly Contradictions is a compelling account of the American empire. Stephen P. Reyna argues that contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems,...
Administrative Data Sources for Compiling Millennium Development Goals and Related Indicators
A Reference Handbook on Using Data from Education, Health, and Vital Registration Systems Featuring Practices and Experiences from Selected Countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The handbook is one of the outputs of the Asian Development Bank regional technical assistance on Improving Administrative Data Sources for the Monitoring of the Millennium Development Goals Indicators. It serves as a reference tool for data producers on improving administrative data sources for compiling...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce. Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring...
by Robert B. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book analyzes practical and moral influences on voting decisions. Undermining the widespread assumption that economic self-interest is the key determinant of voting choices, it discovers that moral considerations rooted in religious traditions are often the more decisive. This finding is confirmed...
Multilevel Modeling of Social Problems
A Causal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
Uniquely focusing on intersections of social problems, multilevel statistical modeling, and causality; the substantively and methodologically integrated chapters of this book clarify basic strategies for developing and testing multilevel linear models (MLMs), and drawing casual inferences from such...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The importance of social studies assessment is beyond question. The National Council of the Social Studies’ C3 Framework recognizes the importance of high?quality assessments—its major objective, a “deep understanding of the sociocultural world,” has as its underpinning the idea that students...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
This leading-edge study focuses on the latest techniques in analysing and representing the complex, multi-layered data now available to geographers studying urban zones and their populations. The volume tracks the successful results of the SPANGEO Project, which was set up in 2005 to standardize,...