Methodology category: 1297 books

We tend to think of sleep as a private concern, a night-time retreat from the physical world into the realm of the subconscious. Yet sleep also has a public side; it has been the focal point of religious ritual, philosophic speculation, political debate, psychological research, and more recently,...

Phylogenomics is a rapidly growing field of study concerned with using genome-wide data—usually in the form of DNA sequence loci—to infer the evolution of genes, genomes, and the Tree of Life. Accordingly, this discipline connects many areas in biology including molecular and genomic evolution,...

This collection discusses and illustrates how educational research is affected by the economic, institutional and physical contingencies of its time, and in our time even increasingly is driven by them. It is argued that the antidote to this is, however, not to aspire to ‘thought itself’, but...

The fact is that war comes in many guises and its effects continue to be felt long after peace is proclaimed. This challenges the anthropologists who write of war as participant observers. Participant observation inevitably deals with the here and now, with the highly specific. It is only over the...

Often in their careers, social workers will encounter clients who are either legally required to attend treatment services or are otherwise coerced or pressured into those services. Practitioners in settings from prisons to emergency rooms to nursing homes to child protection agencies will find themselves...

This book is intended as a detailed guide to hexagram prediction method using the ancient Chinese classic Book of Changes (Zhou Yi). This writing provides explanations of most of what is called hexagram prediction using the six lines of a hexagram. The author gives information on methods of casting...

Look at males of any species. It is not difficult to see that the areas they monopolize are, invariably, careless attitude, unprofessional approach or aggressive behavior. Most, who acknowledge such gender based preferences in behavior, readily attribute this to evolution. How? Why? leading to more...

Principles of Philosophy was written in Latin by René Descartes. Published in 1644, it was intended to replace Aristotle's philosophy and traditional Scholastic Philosophy. This volume contains a letter of the author to the French translator of the Principles of Philosophy serving for a Preface and...

What are all the levels of reality? This book guides the reader who is seeking the source of underlying reality by providing mental tools and detailed research methods to answer the ancient question, What does God, Brahman, and Tao communicate to the Universe? Howard describes how the three...

La investigación en Ciencias Sociales: estrategias de investigación presenta de forma comprensiva las aproximaciones metodológicas más comunes de las que se valen los investigadores de las ciencias sociales para aproximarse a sus preguntas de investigación y desarrollar sus proyectos. Además...

El tercer libro de la colección. Las discusiones sobre la filosofía de las ciencias sociales han estado tradicionalmente ligadas a las que se han suscitado en las ciencias naturales y en tiempos más recientes a su reconstrucción como disciplinas independientes. Las preguntas que se han discutido...

The book sees to show that the present discussion so unfolds as to show that ultimately Reality’s inherent impetus to lawful order serves also to account for its existence. The ultimate explanation of its order is as something that also provides for its reason for being. Step by step, a train of...

Commonly perceived as a direct threat to the practice of liberal democracy, the global reemergence of theocratic claims to political rule is a misunderstood development of twenty-first-century politics. Analyzing the relationship between religion and politics throughout the Middle East, Africa, and...

These essays were placed by the order of publication, unlike my three prior collections. They start with a preface of intent. The first essay calls for a third constitution for the United States that is federal, republican, democratic and autocratically administered. No independent judiciary or legislative...