Methodology category: 1297 books
Zoobiquity
What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
In the spring of 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. While examining the tiny monkey’s sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme emotional stress....
Digital Research Confidential
The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
Behind-the-scenes stories of how Internet research projects actually get done.
The realm of the digital offers both new methods of research and new objects of study. Because the digital environment for scholarship is constantly evolving, researchers must sometimes improvise, change their plans,...
by W. Paul Vogt, PhD, Dianne C. Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Systematic, practical, and accessible, this is the first book to focus on finding the most defensible design for a particular research question. Thoughtful guidelines are provided for weighing the advantages and disadvantages of various methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods...
The Project
Developing a Career in Global Project Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
It’s September 2009, one year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and Colin has just lost his job. Luckily, he is soon hired as a project manager in a big international investment bank, but quickly finds himself dealing with office politics, dodgy vendors, hostile project sponsors and the difficult...
Mixed Methods Research
Merging Theory with Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
This accessibly written book is ideal for use in graduate courses or by practicing researchers and evaluators. The author puts the research problem at center stage, showing how mixed methods designs can fruitfully address different types of research questions. She illustrates the discussion with examples...
by Serie McDougal III
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Research Methods in Africana Studies is a major contribution to the discipline of Africana studies and social science involving people of African descent in general. This textbook is the first of its kind, offering instruction on how to conduct culturally relevant critical research on Africana communities...
Sourcebook for Political Communication Research
Methods, Measures, and Analytical Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The Sourcebook for Political Communication Research will offer scholars, students, researchers, and other interested readers a comprehensive source for state-of-the-art/field research methods, measures, and analytical techniques in the field of political communication.
The need for this Sourcebook...
First Contact
Teaching and Learning in Introductory Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The Introduction to Sociology course is usually the first contact that students have with the discipline of sociology. This course can determine whether students take other sociology courses or learn to use sociology in their lives as adults and citizens.First Contact identifies important issues facing...
Institutional Ethnography
A Sociology for People
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2005
Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the...
by Barbara A. Purdy, Robert J. Austin
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
With more than 50 years of field experience between the two authors, this highly regarded volume reveals how responsible archaeologists locate, excavate, and analyze sites, middens, and remains. This second edition contains new, emended, and greatly expanded chapters about recently discovered sites...
Public Anthropology
Engaging Social Issues in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Contemporary anthropology has changed drastically in the new millennium, expanding beyond the anachronistic study of "primitive" societies to confront the burning social, economic, and political challenges of the day. In the process, anthropologists often come face to face with issues that...
by Huon Wardle, Paloma Gay y Blasco
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
How to Read Ethnography is an invaluable guide to approaching anthropological texts. Laying bare the central conventions of ethnographic writing, it helps students to develop a critical understanding of texts and explains how to identify and analyse the core ideas in order to apply these ideas to...
by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
This Kindle book indeed has more than 12 illustrations within.
A complete book on the Greek and Roman Gods. The perfect companion for anyone interested in Greek mythology and for those who enjoy Rick Riordan's, "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" book series.
Survivor Café
The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
**Named a Best Book of the Year by The San Francisco Chronicle
"Survivor Café...feels like the book Rosner was born to write. Each page is imbued with urgency, with sincerity, with heartache, with heart…. Her words, alongside the words of other survivors of atrocity and their descendants...