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Qualitative Methods in Public Health
A Field Guide for Applied Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Qualitative Methods in Public Health: A Field Guide for Applied Research, 2nd Edition provides a practical orientation to conducting effective qualitative research in the public health sphere. With thorough examination and simple explanations, this book guides you through the logic and workflow of...
Infancy and Culture
An International Review and Source Book
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Infancy and Culture: An International Review and Source Book provides a cross-indexed, annotated guide to social and behavioral studies of infants of color. Derived from five major data bases of published scientific literature, this volume was designed to elevate the scientific study of infants of...
Defining Sport
Conceptions and Borderlines
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Defining Sport: Conceptions and Borderlines is not about the variations of usage of the term “sport.” It is about the concept, the range of activities in the world that we unite into one idea—sport. It is through the project of defining sport that we can come to understand these activities better,...
Brown Skin, White Minds
Filipino / American Postcolonial Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Filipino Americans have a long and rich history with and within the United States, and they are currently the second largest Asian group in the country. However, very little is known about how their historical and contemporary relationship with America may shape their psychological experiences. The...
by V. Santiago Arias, Megan Bassick, Jennifer L. Bevan
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
The Impact of Social Media in Modern Romantic Relationships is the communication field’s most major, comprehensive volume of the study of social media and romantic relationship development. It is the first volume in the discipline of communication studies intended to provide an overview of romantic...
Unconventional, Partisan, and Polarizing Rhetoric
How the 2016 Election Shaped the Way Candidates Strategize, Engage, and Communicate
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The rhetoric and political communication of the 2016 Presidential Election was arguably unconventional, partisan, and polarizing—becoming a defining characteristic of the tone and feel of the campaign. In this volume we examine how rhetoric and various political communication strategies influenced...
by Charles E. McLure Jr., John Mutti, Victor Thuronyi
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
“Over the years Colombian tax officials have received the benefit of first-class advice of leading foreign scholars. In return, these scholars—and indeed everyone concerned with development policy—have gained a great deal both from the unusual willingness of Colombians to consider new ideas...
Church and Ministry Strategic Planning
From Concept to Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Spiritual management is required for spiritual organization, and yet a ministry’s master plan should be the Master’s plan for that ministry. Church and Ministry Strategic Planning assists readers in developing a Biblically based blueprint for carrying out the many activities in which the church...
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Concepts and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The fourth edition of Cost-Benefit Analysis is an authoritative, market-leading textbook that provides a practical introduction to cost-benefit analysis through problem solving. The text uses a consistent application of a nine-step framework for interpreting a cost-benefit analysis. This edition has...
by Gábor Hofer-Szabó, Miklós Rédei, László E. Szabó
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The common cause principle says that every correlation is either due to a direct causal effect linking the correlated entities or is brought about by a third factor, a so-called common cause. The principle is of central importance in the philosophy of science, especially in causal explanation, causal...
by K.R. Hornbrook, C.F. Jr. Meier, J.M. Carney
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
More than ten years ago, the faculty members of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine developed a review book of medical pharmacology in response to requests from our second year medical students who were preparing to sit for the Part I examination of the...
by R. Jennifer Cavalieri, BSN, RN
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This guidebook provides research professionals with a deeper understanding of strategic planning, financial management, and regulatory implementation. This book demonstrates a strategy for managing your portfolio of clinical trials, provides tactics and real-world examples, and helps the reader adapt them to their own research site.
Sustainability Matters
(In 2 Volumes)Volume 1: Asia's Green ChallengesVolume 2: Asia's Energy Concerns, Green Policies and Environmental Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Sustainability Mattersis a compilation of some of the best research papers by students from the National University of Singapore's inter-disciplinary graduate programme in environmental studies, the MSc in Environmental Management [MEM]. This collection is for the period 2009/10 to 2011/12.
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by E.Allan Lind, Tom R. Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
We dedicate this book to John Thibaut. He was mentor and personal friend to one of us, and his work had a profound intellectual influence on both of us. We were both strongly influenced by Thibaut's insightful articulation of the importance to psychology of the concept of pro cedural justice and...