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This book provides a non-technical overview of the science and tools behind geographic information systems and geographic information science for researchers, students and academics who do not have a GIS or Geography background. The book covers the...

Even today, many people think of 'social problems' as involving poor and powerless individuals in society. "Research in Social Problems and Public Policy" seeks to improve the balance by adding a focus on important and powerful institutions...

Grounded theory (GT) is a research methodology and various procedures designed to systematically generate a theory grounded in data or results. Inaugurated at the end of the 1960s, thanks to its methodological rigour as well as its flexibility, in the...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.The massive expansion of the internet into every aspect of our lives creates a challenge for social researchers: can they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915500069Author Cole DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 335Imprint Vor PressPublisher Vor Press

This volume covers such topics as varieties in governance reform and political constraint and policy choices in the field of research in consumer behaviour.Book InformationISBN 9781559384971Author Janeed Arnold CostaFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint...

The last decade has witnessed a considerable increase in research that could be broadly described as ethnographic, qualitative or a case study among investigators working within such disciplines and areas of study as sociology, criminology and education,...

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This is the 13th volume in a series on research in finance. This volume covers such topics as liquidity and market microstructure, predictability and time-varying risk in world equity markets and the structure of price discounts on private equity...

This first volume in a series on research in human social conflict covers such topics as demography and ethnic conflict, racial and ethnic conflict, psychological perspectives on inter-racial and inter-ethnic group conflict, and attitudes related to...

This fifth volume in the series discusses such topics as the effects of relationships and context among relative equals, paranoia and distrust in organizations, and perspective competition in a collaborative context.Book InformationISBN...

While the concept of integration or an interdisciplinary curriculum has been around for decades, the purposeful practice of integration is a relatively new educational endeavor. Though classroom teachers often say they "integrate," there generally seems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915500014Author Cole DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 465Imprint Vor PressPublisher Vor Press

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Introducing key ideas of narrative inquiry, this is the first book to explore in depth the theoretical underpinnings of the methodology. The authors open up ways of thinking about people's experiences and their lives, which are situated and shaped by...

Research in Community and Mental HealthBook InformationISBN 9781559384414Author James R. GreenleyFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint JAI Press Inc.Publisher Emerald Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 643g

In this volume of "Research in the Sociology of Health Care" a variety of topics concerning patients, consumers, providers and caregivers are covered.Book InformationISBN 9781559388948Author Jennie Jacobs KronenfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639040586Author Signe Marie Cold-RavnkildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 204g

This work looks at critical issues in social studies teacher education. It covers such topics as: what social studies teachers need to know; social studies teacher education in an era of globalization; social studies teacher education for urban...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639300659Author Adrian Van BredaFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 785g

Differential Equations: A Modeling Approach introduces differential equations and differential equation modeling to students and researchers in the social sciences. Key Features: - The text is accessibly written, so that students with minimal...

This unique book is the first comprehensive guide to the discovery, analysis, and evaluation of natural experiments - an increasingly popular methodology in the social sciences. Thad Dunning provides an introduction to key issues in causal inference,...

Survey research is in a state of crisis. People have become less willing to respond to polls and recent misses in critical elections have undermined the field's credibility. Pollsters have developed many tools for dealing with the new environment, an...

Designed for the nontechnical researcher or generalist, this text provides the reader with a good understanding of sampling principles. The author gives a detailed, nontechnical description and guidelines with limited presentation of formulas to help...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639152258Author Andrew KirbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 304g

This book discusses the growing interest in realism in social sciences of the twenty-first century. The first part of this book provides recent discussions on realism in philosophy. The second part describes specific problems that have returned to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783844302356Author Masuma BillahFormat PaperbackImprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639168235Author Bojana BericFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358725391Author Sadulla OtamuratovFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer Publications

Rapid ethnographies are used in a wide range of fields to speed up research quickly and effectively. This book is the first practical guide to rapid ethnographies, helping readers to improve skills in the design, implementation, dissemination and use of...

Action! Film is a common and powerful element in the social studies classroom and Cinematic Social Studies explores teaching and learning social studies with film. Teaching with film is a prominent teaching strategy utilized by many teachers on a regular...

This book aims to fill this gap in the scholarship on social education by drawing on the research findings and/or experiences from scholars in eight East and Southeast Asian societies. In this regard the editors of this book hope that it will be a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637986622Author B HettingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Trivium Test PrepPublisher Trivium Test PrepWeight(grams) 767gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Over the past decade, the world has experienced a major economic collapse, the increasing racial inequity and high-profile police killings of unarmed Black and Brown people, the persistence of global terrorism, a large-scale refugee crisis, and the...

The book is unique in that it mixes theory and practical applications in rethinking traditional social studies education. It focuses on essays integrating media, popular culture, and alternative texts for teaching and learning in social studies and...

This volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship on social studies education by providing thoughtful reflections on research methods in the field. It is not a "how to" guide but an exploration of key issues related to the design and implementation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039174399Author Marion EndicottFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195445381Author Gary D BoumaFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 413g

A Brief History of Knowledge for Social Science Researchers outlines a history of knowledge from Ancient Greece to present day, in Europe and the Western world. This outline provides the basis for understanding where various research methods originate,...

In one of his final works, Stephen Jay Gould spoke of the human race "as a wildly improbable evolutionary event well within the realm of contingency." Drawing on his personal knowledge of fifty figures from the world of twentieth-century social science,...