Methodology category: 1297 books
Social and Political Science
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Psychological cognition; The social question; The social question and theosophy; Memoranda of 1917; The metamorphosis of intelligence; Culture, law and economy; Central Europe between East and West.
by Confucius, K'ung Fu-Zi, Mencius
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Table of Contents
The Analects of Confucius
The Analects of Confucius II
The Sayings of Mencius
The Shi-King
The Travels of Fâ-Hien
The Sorrows of Han
Confucius (aka K'ung Fu-Zi) (c. 551 BC – c. 479 BC) was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher whose book, The Analects of Confucius guided...
Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry
Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 1994
MacIntyre's project, here as elsewhere, is to put up a fight against philosophical relativism. . . . The current form is the 'incommensurability,' so-called, of differing standpoints or conceptual schemes. Mr. MacIntyre claims that different schools of philosophy must differ fundamentally about what...
The Study of Philosophy
A Text with Readings
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This seventh edition of The Study of Philosophy presents a comprehensive treatment of the major fields and figures of philosophy alongside primary readings by seminal thinkers to fuel debate and further study.
New features of this edition include
a substantive account of philosophical...
The Forest and the Trees
Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
New Third Edition!
If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist's response to the hypothetical-the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to it.
This Third...
Rigor Mortis
How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
An essential book to understanding whether the new miracle cure is good science or simply too good to be true
American taxpayers spend $30 billion annually funding biomedical research, but over half of these studies can't be replicated due to poor experimental design, improper methods, and...
The Stem Cell Dilemma
The Scientific Breakthroughs, Ethical Concerns, Political Tensions, and Hope Surrounding Stem Cell Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Today’s scientists are showing us how stem cells create and repair the human body. Unlocking these secrets has become the new Holy Grail of biomedical research. But behind that search lies a sharp divide, one that has continued for years. Stem cells offer the hope of creating or repairing tissues...
Through a Window
My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
The renowned British primatologist continues the “engrossing account” of her time among the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania (Publishers Weekly).
In her classic, In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she continues the story, painting...
by Edzard Ernst, Simon Singh
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
The truth about the potions, lotions, pills and needles, pummelling and energizing that lie beyond the realms of conventional medicine.
Whether you are an ardent believer in alternative medicine, a skeptic, or are simply baffled by the range of services and opinions, this guide lays to rest...
Evolution
The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
“I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking.” So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle, bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would arguably become the greatest and most controversial discovery in scientific history. But the theory...
Culture & Truth
The Remaking of Social Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
Exposing the inadequacies of old conceptions of static cultures and detached observers, the book argues instead for social science to acknowledge and celebrate diversity, narrative, emotion, and subjectivity.
Videography
Introduction to Interpretive Videoanalysis of Social Situations
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This book provides an overview of the current state of video analysis, including the most recent developments in this rapidly growing field. It covers various methodological approaches. The authors address practical and technical questions and potential problems arising during the research process....
by Samuel Noah Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Sumerian Mythology
by Samuel Noah Kramer
The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums...
by Asa Gray
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
This vintage book contains Asa Gray’s 1889 collection of essays on the subject of Darwinism. The articles champion the theory of evolution from a botanical standpoint, but also seek to reconcile Darwin’s theory with religion, which Gray did by making a case for theistic evolution – a marriage...