Research methods: general

Water in a Dry Land is a story of research about water as a source of personal and cultural meaning.

This forward-thinking handbook integrates philosophy of science, study design, and contemporary quantitative methods in clinical psychology.

History reveals countless attempts by great minds to solve life's paradoxes.

When conducting research in developing countries, an ability to negotiate a bewildering array of cultural and logistical obstacles is essential.

Complexity theories gained prominence in the 1990s with a focus on self-organising and complex adaptive systems.

Presents the first ethnographic study of al-Muhajiroun, an outlawed activist network that survived British counter-terrorism efforts and sent fighters to the Islamic State.

Computers and telecommunications have revolutionized the processes of scientific research.

This book addresses common questions from HCI researchers when trying to do statistical analysis on their data.

This book uses social network analysis to explore the various effects that social networks have on religious belief and practice.

Affective Movements, Methods and Pedagogies invites readers to think with affect about performance, pedagogies and their inherent activist, embodied and collective natures.

The third edition of this classic, best-selling textbook presents an authoritative introduction to the scientific study of politics.

Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current experimental physics in action, describing the disciplinary orientation of lab work and exploring the discipline in its social order, formal stringency and skilful performance - in situ and in vivo.

How do children get their own way in arguments?

A greatly expanded and heavily revised second edition, this popular guide provides instructions and clear examples for running analyses of variance (ANOVA) and several other related statistical tests of significance with SPSS.

First published in 2004.

Recently, Black women have taken the world stage in national politics, popular culture, professional sports, and bringing attention to racial injustice in policing and the judicial system.

Within the spatial design disciplines, research through design as a tool and practice has often been neglected.

This book provides research assistance for 99 current and provocative issues students can use to write a brief argumentative paper.

First published in 1998, this book sets out to shed sociological light upon the much under-researched realm of day-to-day child care practice.

Finally, a parenting book which demystifies the latest thinking on neurobiology, physiology and trauma and explains what the research means for the everyday life of parents of children who hurt.

This book is the first of its kind to apply social contextual analysis to the issue of poverty.

Methods in Educational Research Methods in Educational Research is designed to prepare students for the real world of educational research.

Carolyn Ellis is the leading writer in the move toward personal, autobiographical writing as a strategy for academic research.

Teaches students how to use R to conduct the statistical analyses most commonly used in political science.

Pedagogical Tact describes how teacher-student relations possess an improvisational and ethical character.

'Practical, useful counsel emanates throughout.

Grants and fellowships are increasingly essential to an academic career, and competition over federal and foundation funding is fiercer than ever.

Preschoolers tend to be social beings.

Thoroughly updated, more concise than the previous edition, and available for the first time in paperback, "Research Methods for Political Science" is designed to help students learn what to research, why to research, and how to research.

Changing Art into Research: Soliloquy Methodology presents a research methodology that enables inquiry into one's personal experiences in an endeavour to reveal essential commonalities of human experience.

Focussing on the phases of qualitative research which precede and follow fieldwork - design, analysis, and textualization - this book offers new theoretical tools to tackle one of the most common criticisms advanced against qualitative research: its presumed lack of rigour.

First published in 1986, this collection of essays brings together ethnomethodological studies from key academics of the discipline, including the renowned scholar Harold Garfinkel who established and developed the field.

This book covers a wide range of topics within enviromental engineering and technologies including:* General environmental engineering* Clean energy and sustainability* Water and wastewater management* Public health and environment.

Based on research from more than 10,000 surveys from children and parents of divorce, Collateral Damage presents parents with an overview of the negative impact that divorce has on their children and offers ways to better serve their needs at this critical time.

In today's fast growing digital world, the web, mobile, social networks and other digital platforms are producing enormous amounts of data that hold intelligence and valuable information.

Now in a thoroughly revised and refreshed fourth edition, Research Methods in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management is beloved by students and professors alike for its exceptional clarity and accessibility and plentiful illustrations.

This book describes the lives and personalities of 20 remarkable people from the past, who may well have had Asperger's syndrome (AS).

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to statistics in corpus linguistics, covering multiple techniques of quantitative language analysis and data visualisation.

This book has been replaced by Action Research in Education, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4161-4.

This book reports on one of the largest co-ordinated efforts to survey the theatrical audience experience: the City Study of the Project on European Theatre Systems, which conducted over 7000 surveys and dozens of interviews and focus groups with audience members from four mid-sized cities across Europe.

First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What are Community Studies?

The Nexus of Practices: connections, constellations, practitioners brings leading theorists of practice together to provide a fresh set of theoretical impulses for the surge of practice-focused studies currently sweeping across the social disciplines.

Raising to the challenge of how to grasp such forms of inequalities that are mediated affectively, Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships focuses on subtle inequalities that are shaped in everyday affective encounters.

Qualitative researchers read journal articles, serve on masters' and doctoral committees, make careful decisions on whether conference proposals, manuscripts, or large-scale grant applications should be accepted or rejected; yet, best practices on how to do this work thoroughly and efficiently have gained little attention over the last few decades.

Based on research on the European Human Capital and Mobility Programme, this book provides an overview of the evolution of middle management in Europe, including:* comparative analysis of their changing role* analysis of the evolution of managerial practices* a study of the consequences of Quality Management on middle managers.

This book should be viewed as a primer for any new or aspiring CMO, C-suite peer to marketing, or marketer looking to 'up their game', and as such it provides a range of ideas, concepts, approaches and considerations from a wide range of CMOs who are driving significant transformation within their organizations.

A ''user''s guide'' to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and the methodological family of set-theoretic methods in social science.

Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Scientific Research Costs details the development of the free and open-source hardware revolution.

Scientometrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences is the first ever book on scientometrics that deals with the historical development of both quantitative and qualitative data analysis in scientometric studies.

To what extent do Western political and economic interests distort perceptions and affect the Western production of research about the other?