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Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification by Dr. Christopher Newfield
Booksplease Price: $48.36This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health. Numbers are both controlling and fragile. They drive public policy, figuring into everything from college rankings to vaccine efficacy rates. At the... -
Doing Document Analysis: A Practice-Oriented Method by Kristin Asdal
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $64.70Uniting methods from disciplines across the social sciences and humanities, this hands-on guide develops a novel approach to doing document analysis. The authors present a framework for studying documents that enables you to conduct a rich and systematic... -
Constructing Questions for Interviews and Questionnaires: Theory and Practice in Social Research by William Foddy 9780521467339
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $57.47The success of any interview or questionnaire depends upon good question design, yet most of the available literature has been devoted to interview techniques, rather than question formulation. This practical book provides a coherent, theoretical basis... -
RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints by J. Michael Bamberger 9781544318783
RRP: $222.30Booksplease Price: $216.04RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints addresses the challenges of conducting program evaluations in real-world contexts where evaluators and their clients face budget and time constraints. The book is organized... -
Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies: Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science by David Collier 9781538166154
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $63.28Over the past 50 years, scholars across the social sciences have employed critical juncture analysis to understand how social orders are created, become entrenched, and change. In this book, leading scholars from several disciplines offer the first... -
Qualitative Comparative Analysis: An Introduction to Research Design and Application by Patrick A. Mello
Booksplease Price: $71.39A comprehensive and accessible guide to learning and successfully applying QCA Social phenomena can rarely be attributed to single causes-instead, they typically stem from a myriad of interwoven factors that are often difficult to untangle. Drawing on... -
Doing Digital Methods by Richard Rogers 9781526487995
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $57.49Get 12 months FREE access to the Digital Methods Manual (the abridged, interactive eBook that provides handy step-by-step guidance to your phone, tablet, laptop or reading device) when purchasing ISBN: 9781526487995 Paperback and & Interactive eBook*... -
Purposeful Evaluation: A Practical Guide to Design, Development and Delivery David Parsons 9781447376125
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $122.62This book offers a practical guide for those transitioning from research to systematic evaluation. With growing demand for reliable evaluation across government, charities and other institutions, many new evaluators lack necessary knowledge and skills... -
Purposeful Evaluation: A Practical Guide to Design, Development and Delivery David Parsons 9781447376132
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $45.42This book offers a practical guide for those transitioning from research to systematic evaluation. With growing demand for reliable evaluation across government, charities and other institutions, many new evaluators lack necessary knowledge and skills... -
Handbook of Developmental Research Methods by Brett P. Laursen 9781462513932
Booksplease Price: $128.08Appropriate for use in developmental research methods or analysis of change courses, this is the first methods handbook specifically designed to meet the needs of those studying development. Leading developmental methodologists present cutting-edge... -
Rasch Models for Solving Measurement Problems: Invariant Measurement in the Social Sciences by George Engelhard 9781544363028
Booksplease Price: $74.90This book introduces current perspectives on Rasch measurement theory with an emphasis on developing Rasch-based scales. Rasch measurement theory represents a paradigm shift in measurement theory away from classical test theory and creates a framework... -
Research Methods in Africana Studies by Serie McDougal III 9781433124617
RRP: $259.94Booksplease Price: $230.26Research 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... -
Program Evaluation: Embedding Evaluation into Program Design and Development Susan P. Giancola 9781071918289
RRP: $222.30Booksplease Price: $215.07This text aims to build evaluation capacity by increasing knowledge about evaluation and improving skills to conduct evaluations. The Second Edition adds topics suggested by users of the book, incorporates content that the author has added to her own... -
101 Golden Nuggets for Preparing a Qualitative Dissertation Linda Dale Bloomberg 9781071978603
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $71.04The 101 "nuggets of understanding" that comprise this book shed light on the required content of a qualitative dissertation. They help readers navigate through the iterative, recursive, and often messy dissertation process, from its inception to a... -
Just the Facts: Untangling Contradictory Claims Joel Best 9780520421318
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $124.64Why can't we seem to agree on facts? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best turns his inimitable eye toward the social construction of facts. He evaluates how facts emerge from our social worlds-including our beliefs, values, tastes, and norms-and... -
Spatial Data Analysis With R Danlin Yu 9781071862353
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $157.03This is an introduction for social science students to the growing field of spatial data analysis using the R platform. The text assumes no prior knowledge of either, beyond the contents of an introductory statistics course. It uses the open-source... -
Qualitative Diary Methods Laura Radcliffe 9781071950517
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $70.45Qualitative diary methods (QDMs) are a versatile range of multi-modal data collection methods that involve participants recording events and experiences, and emotions and reflections, as they happen, on multiple occasions and over a particular time... -
Approaches to Mixed Methods Research Lisa D. Pearce 9781544339788
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $70.45Approaches to Mixed Methods Research focuses on the choices social scientists make when designing a study that mixes quantitative and qualitative data. Authors Lisa D. Pearce and Jessica Halliday Hardie explore ways to weave together strands of research... -
Using Co-Production for Physical Activity for Health Research Sarah Morton 9781032611211
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $90.85This is the first research methods book on the application of using a co-production approach for physical activity for health research. When used for research, co-production has potential to be hugely impactful. The underpinning ethos of co-production... -
An Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis and Mapping Chris Brunsdon 9781529687514
RRP: $259.35Booksplease Price: $217.39The ever-expanding availability of spatial data continues to revolutionise research. This book is your go-to guide to getting the most out of handling, mapping and analysing location-based data. Without assuming prior knowledge of GIS, geocomputation or... -
Making Liveable Worlds: Revisiting Reflexivity as Value and Practice Sarah R. Davies 9781529244878
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $47.50Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can we nurture more liveable worlds in today's neoliberal academia and beyond? This collection revisits the notion of reflexivity from a science and technology studies (STS) perspective,... -
The Evaluation Handbook: An Evaluator's Companion Debra Rog 9781462537341
Booksplease Price: $168.50This pragmatic evaluator's companion from leaders in the field provides essential guidance for designing, implementing, and managing exemplary evaluations using established and emerging methods, designs, and analyses. With contributions from skilled... -
Recurrence-Based Analyses Sebastian Wallot 9781071872338
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $70.45This book introduces techniques developed in physics and physiology for characterizing and analyzing patterns in time series data to a broad audience of social scientists. The authors illustrate concepts and techniques with relevant social science... -
How to Think Like a Realist: A Methodology for Social Science Raymond Pawson 9781035354801
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $64.14How to Think Like a Realist is Ray Pawson's seminal book on realist social inquiry, boldly linking social research to clinical and physical science and challenging many methodological shibboleths.This unique book pairs outstanding clarity of detail with... -
Poetic Inquiry as Research: A Decolonial Guide Heidi van Rooyen 9781447373247
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $27.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Introducing Research Methodology: Thinking Your Way Through Your Research Project Uwe Flick 9781529680577
RRP: $237.90Booksplease Price: $196.44New to research? This book helps you understand, think about and interpret each stage of the research process before you dive in. The holistic coverage helps you 'think through' each step, from formulating questions, to selecting methods, collecting data... -
Introducing Research Methodology: Thinking Your Way Through Your Research Project Uwe Flick 9781529680560
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $68.41New to research? This book helps you understand, think about and interpret each stage of the research process before you dive in. The holistic coverage helps you 'think through' each step, from formulating questions, to selecting methods, collecting data... -
Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit Karen O’Reilly 9781447372158
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $43.93Whether you're a student, academic, or practitioner working in an applied setting, this text will lead you through the complex terrain of contemporary qualitative research methods. Written by renowned sociologist Karen O'Reilly, the book distils decades... -
Sandboxing in Practice: Qualitative Interviewing with Sand, Objects and Figures Dawn Mannay 9781447372912
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.49This is the essential guide to the innovative qualitative research technique of sandboxing. Originating from play therapy, sandboxing enables children, young people and adults to create three-dimensional scenes using miniature figures and everyday... -
Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit Karen O’Reilly 9781447372141
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $127.80Whether you're a student, academic, or practitioner working in an applied setting, this text will lead you through the complex terrain of contemporary qualitative research methods. Written by renowned sociologist Karen O'Reilly, the book distils decades... -
Poetic Inquiry as Research: A Decolonial Guide Heidi van Rooyen 9781447373230
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $91.53Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sandboxing in Practice: Qualitative Interviewing with Sand, Objects and Figures Dawn Mannay 9781447372905
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $91.53This is the essential guide to the innovative qualitative research technique of sandboxing. Originating from play therapy, sandboxing enables children, young people and adults to create three-dimensional scenes using miniature figures and everyday... -
Finding Philosophy in Social Science by Mario Bunge 9780300066067
Booksplease Price: $122.27Written by an eminent and original thinker in the philosophy of science, this book takes a fresh, unorthodox look at the key philosophical concepts and assumptions of the social sciences. Mario Bunge contends that social scientists (anthropologists,... -
Realist Evaluation: Principles and Practice Ana Manzano 9781032599786
RRP: $263.25Booksplease Price: $230.78Realist Evaluation: Principles and Practice offers a comprehensive exploration of contemporary realist evaluation, showcasing how skilled practitioners navigate diverse fieldwork contexts.Authored by experts spanning academia and evaluation backgrounds... -
Research Methods for African Scholarship: Applying Qualitative and Quantitative Socio-cultural Methods in African Countries Kehbuma Langmia 9781032657905
RRP: $263.25Booksplease Price: $230.20This book spotlights and demystifies under-researched elements of research design to support successful research initiatives undertaken by students in African universities.This volume marks a significant and important departure from research design books... -
The Beginnings of Scholarly Economic Journalism: The Austrian Economist and The German Economist by Jurgen George Backhaus 9781461429746
Booksplease Price: $220.78The twin journals, Der OEsterreichische Volkswirt (The Austrian Economist) and Der Deutsche Volkswirt (The German Economist) were created by Gustav Stolper, godfather of Joseph Schumpeter, first in Vienna and then after the First World War, in Berlin... -
Evaluation Essentials, Third Edition: From A to Z Marvin C. Alkin 9781462555437
Booksplease Price: $92.35Beloved for its conversational style and reliable advice, this text is now in a revised and updated third edition, reflecting key developments in evaluation. It includes expanded coverage of equity and social justice issues, values and cost analysis,... -
The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project Zina O′Leary 9781529672237
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $149.29Doing a research project or dissertation can be daunting. This practical book will help you dive straight in, driving each step of the process with confidence. Packed with features to support your learning, this guidebook gives you invaluable advice at... -
Evaluation Essentials, Third Edition: From A to Z Marvin C. Alkin 9781462555444
Booksplease Price: $139.00Beloved for its conversational style and reliable advice, this text is now in a revised and updated third edition, reflecting key developments in evaluation. It includes expanded coverage of equity and social justice issues, values and cost analysis,... -
Transcribing and Editing Oral History by Willa K. Baum 9780910050265
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $54.29Willa Baum once again shares her enormous knowledge of oral history in her second AASLH book, focusing this time on what to do when ending interviews, how to decide whether or not to transcribe, how to process data, and how to transcribe. Also provided...