Methodology category: 1297 books
by Immanuel Kant
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
The Critique of Judgement
by Immanuel Kant
In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seeks to establish the a priori principles underlying the faculty of judgement, just as he did in his previous critiques of pure and practical reason. The first part deals with the subject...
by Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2004
An anecdotal guide for the perplexed new investigator as well as a refreshing resource for the old pro, covering everything from valuable personality traits for an investigator to social factors conducive to scientific work.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a mythic figure in science. Hailed as...
Research with People
Theory, Plans and Practicals
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Whether analyzing attitudes, measuring opinions or observing habits, researchers who investigate people's behaviour need a wide range of techniques at their disposal. Research with people provides a unique introduction to these methods that is both clear and accessible.
Through a series of...
by James Boswell, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
This collection includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.
Contents
Boswell's Life of Johnson by James Boswell (1791) 887
The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by John Gibson Lockhart (1906)
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1853)
Essays of Francis Bacon or Counsels, Civil...
Burning Galileo - The Vital Question
The Rules of Rhetoric, The Socratic Method, and Critical Thinking, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
What would happen if Galileo were alive today?
Would he survive Western Civilization and the Politically Correct Thought Police?
This SHORT STORY is a brisk and refreshing walk through the Socratic Method as applied to Global Warming and Climate Change (e.g. AGW- Anthropogenic Global...
The Value of Science
Essential Writings of Henri Poincare
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
More than any other writer of the twentieth century, Henri Poincaré brought the elegant, but often complicated, ideas about science and mathematics to the general reader. A genius who throughout his life solved complex mathematical calculations in his head, and a writer gifted with an inimitable...
Dangerous Science
Issue Beta: Method Research and the Risk Matrix
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
How Method Research hones risk-taking behaviour toward gaining knowledge in the real-world.
About the Author
Alexandra Kitty is a dangerous woman who is the author of Don’t Believe It!: How lies become news, OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s war on journalism, and Consumer-isms in 12...
by Manuel Peláez
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Each paragraph of my books contains a mixture of philosophy, psychology, biblical passages, romance, spirituality, suspense, and all human emotions in a rap. It is poetic dialogue meant for readers with intellectual and gifted minds. There is a true revelation of untangling the hidden messages from within each paragraph.
New Thinking in Complexity for the Social Sciences and Humanities
A Generative, Transdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
The underlying idea and motive for the book is that the notion of complexity may humanize the social sciences, may conceive the complex human being as more human, and turn reality as assumed in our doing social science into a more complex, that is a richer reality for all.
The main focus of this book...
Quantitative Intelligence Analysis
Applied Analytic Models, Simulations, and Games
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Quantitative Intelligence Analysis describes the model-based method of intelligence analysis that represents the analyst’s mental models of a subject, as well as the analyst’s reasoning process exposing what the analyst believes about the subject, and how they arrived at those beliefs and converged...
Social Work Methods and Skills
The Essential Foundations of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Theories, methods and skills are the bedrock of all social work practice; yet how they are used varies according to the needs of the client and the practice context.
In this brilliantly systematic and comprehensive text, Karen Healy provides an integrated approach to social work methods and...
Ethics in Ethnography
A Mixed Methods Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
This is Book 6 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.
Ethics in Ethnography explores the burgeoning field of research ethics and addresses how both formal and informal ethical considerations underpin good ethnographic research.
Coming from the position that no particular...
Narrative Research in Practice
Stories from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
This book directly addresses the multiplicity and complexity of narrative research by illustrating a variety of avenues to pursuing and publishing research that falls under the umbrella of narrative work. The chapters are drawn from a wide range of disciplines including education, literary studies,...
by James C. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
This book is an annotated bibliography with more than 680 references. The primary purpose of the book was to gather relevant literature from databases with comprehensive coverage. The references cited herein address the design of shiftwork schedules and the effects of shiftwork on safety, health and...