Methodology category: 1297 books
Climate Change Adaptation and Human Capabilities
Justice and Ethics in Research and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Climate Change Adaptation and Human Capabilities explores learning, health, mobility, and play as climate capabilities and produces new insights into the depth of climate change impact on social life.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
In the second half of the twentieth century, significant changes were occurring within the agricultural industry, including an increase in efficiency and government intervention, as well as expanded and more complicated patterns of trade. This comprehensive volume, first published in 1986, reflects...
The Digital Practices of African Americans
An Approach to Studying Cultural Change in the Information Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
How do social scientists study the impact of social networking sites on racial identity formation? How has the Internet impacted the accumulation of social and cultural capital? By synthesizing insights across a variety of disciplines, this book builds an original theoretical perspective through which...
A Question of Physics
Conversations in Physics and Biology
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
This book contains interviews with physicists, biologists, and chemists who have been involved in some of the most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought. The conversations—with Bohm, Pattee, Penrose, Rosen, Rosenfeld, Somorjai, Weizsäcker, Wheeler, and Nobel prizewinners Heisenberg,...
by Rod Martin, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
“With a certainty that startled even me, I knew that I had tapped into the source code of the physical universe itself.”—The Science of Miracles, ch.3
What is a miracle? It is an action that either bends or breaks the laws of physical reality.
Using scientific method, researcher...
The Ethnographic Experiment
A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought...
Research & evaluation for busy students and practitioners 2e
A time-saving guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Research doesn't exist in a bubble but co-exists with a multitude of other tasks and commitments, yet there is more need for people to save time than ever before. Brilliantly attuned to the demands placed on researchers, this book considers how students, academics and professionals alike can save...
by James H Cauraugh
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Teaching research methods for 28 years provided the author with insights into effective ways to engage both enthusiastic and reluctant students in the games that scientists play. Students are challenged to learn a new language dedicated to communicating and interacting on research method topics with...
by Martin Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Fearless Tennis uses tennis asa metaphor for developing courage and confidence and controlling anger anxiety etc. in sports and in life in general
Mapping the Sociology of Health and Medicine
America, Britain and Australia Compared
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
This book studies the sociology of health and medicine across three different countries, the USA, UK and Australia, examining the nature of disciplines and their specialties and posing sociological questions about the formation of intellectual fields and their social relations.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
This book gives a general view of sequence analysis, the statistical study of successions of states or events. It includes innovative contributions on life course studies, transitions into and out of employment, contemporaneous and historical careers, and political trajectories. The approach presented...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Have you noticed there is a burgeoning take up of visual research in education? Are you considering using visual research as part of your next research project or revitalising your research methods course? For researchers who are new to the field of VRMs in education there is little critical literature...
Big Data?
Qualitative Approaches to Digital Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
This volume seeks to address the emerging relationships between qualitative research and digital data. At the present time, ubiquitous digital data is altering the foci of research, the contexts in which research takes place, and the methods and tools available for qualitative research. Alongside...
Reflexivity in Criminological Research
Experiences with the Powerful and the Powerless
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
This comprehensive collection contributes to, advances and consolidates discussions of the range of research methods in criminology through the presentation of diverse international case studies in which contributors reflect upon their experiences with powerless and powerful individuals or groups.