Research methods: general

Today's library is still at the heart of all university activities, helping students and faculty become better learners, teachers, and researchers.

This thoroughly practical and engaging textbook is designed to equip students with the skills needed to undertake sound regression analysis without requiring high-level math.

Research in public administration and public management has distinctive features that influence the choices and application of research methods.

Media Management: A Casebook Approach provides a detailed consideration of the manager's role in today's media organizations, highlighting critical skills and responsibilities.

Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography is the first critical autoethnography compilation from the global south, bringing together indigenous, non-indigenous, Pasifika, and other diverse voices which expand established understandings of autoethnography as a critical, creative methodology.

This book firmly positions lived experience-led expertise as a unique and compelling form of knowledge in decolonising and disrupting research, teaching and advocacy.

Every three years, researchers with interest and expertise in transport survey methods meet to improve and influence the conduct of surveys that support transportation planning, policy making, modelling, and monitoring related issues for urban, regional, intercity, and international person, vehicle, and commodity movements.

This book addresses the ethical and methodological issues that researchers face while conducting cross-cultural social research.

How can we assess the ability of a place to respond to challenges like migration, recession and disease?

Software is cut-and-dried - every button you press has a predictable effect - but qualitative analysis is open-ended and unfolds in unpredictable ways.

Writing high quality grant applications is easier when you know how research funding agencies work and how your proposal is treated in the decision-making process.

This book presents, compares, and develops various techniques for estimating market power - the ability to set price profitably above marginal cost.

Discover a new and hopeful path forward as you consider your family's approach to social media, screen time, and technology.

Statistics in Plain English is a straightforward, conversational introduction to statistics that delivers exactly what its title promises.

How do you use social media platforms, search engines, and other forms of digital media to explore the key issues of our time?

This book offers insight into the use of empirical diffusionist models for analysis of cross-cultural and cross-national communication, translation and adaptation of the United Nation's (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This volume of plenary addresses and other key presentations from the 2013 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry shows how scholars convert inquiry into spaces of advocacy in the outside world.

Later Life views older age as a valuable stage of life and argues for the centrality of self-making to the quality of later life.

This collection brings together researchers and scholars from across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences who are actively exploring the many different ways in which time might be understood, imagined and used in qualitative research.

Imagining Windmills presents a compilation of scholarly chapters by selected authors of global standing in the arts therapies.

Handbook of Warning Intelligence: Assessing the Threat to National Security was written during the cold war and was classified for 40 years.

The words of 100 prominent TED Conference speakers will help you achieve your personal and professional goals.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

Four laws of party seats and votes are constructed by logic and tested, using physics-like approaches which are rare in social sciences.

This completely updated and revised Second Edition of the popular Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates provides an important foundation for understanding dispersion modeling as it is being practiced today.

The internet has launched the world into an era into which enormous amounts of data aregenerated every day through technologies with both positive and negative consequences.

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.

The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first centuryThe Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries.

This textbook explores practices, first-hand experiences and emerging ideas within organizational ethnography, providing a toolkit that prepares ethnographers for the uncertainties and realities of fieldworking.

This book presents theoretical discussions and practical examples of Action Research from Scandinavia, Latin America and Africa, primarily dealing with how to combine nature conservation and management with local democratic community development, seeing the renewal of Commons as a way to transcend the present dichotomy between these two dimensions.

This practical and accessible textbook provides an overview of the key principles for conducting ethnography in healthcare settings.

A jargon-free introduction for students and researchers looking to interpret the practical significance of their results.

David de Vaus' classic text Surveys in Social Research provides clear advice on how to plan, conduct and analyse social surveys.

This book provides undergraduates with a step-by-step guide to successfully carrying out an independent research project or dissertation.

Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluation and university rankings.

How important are social networks to daily life?

Challenging the critique of autoethnography as overly focused on the self, Tami Spry calls for a performative autoethnography that both unsettles the "e;I"e; and represents the Other with equal commitment.

The book investigates the experience of ethno-racial discrimination in France and the forms that resistance takes in a colour-blind context.

This annual volume from the Worldwatch Institute gives prominence to key trends that often escape the attention of the news media, world leaders and economic experts.

Software is cut-and-dried - every button you press has a predictable effect - but qualitative analysis is open-ended and unfolds in unpredictable ways.

This book aims to guide researchers who are engaged in social science and built environment research through the process of testing the reliability and validity of their research outputs following the application of different methods of data collection.

This book brings much needed attention to disabled anthropologists, making clear that "e;disabled"e; and "e;anthropologist"e; belong together.

Youth librarians and early literacy educators will find this book a helpful tool for making storytimes more inclusive and better representative of their community and the world at large.

In a very understandable, practical, and accessible manner, this book applies recent groundbreaking findings from behavioral neuroscience to the most complex and vexing challenges in organizations today.

Originally published in 1985 Urban America Examined, is a comprehensive bibliography examining the urban environment of the United States.

This collection brings together researchers and scholars from across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences who are actively exploring the many different ways in which time might be understood, imagined and used in qualitative research.

In recent decades, the historical social sciences have moved away from deterministic perspectives and increasingly embraced the interpretive analysis of historical process and social and political change.

This is a selected, annotated list of some 2,000 books on Asia in English and French currently in print, chosen with the aim of providing a long-term historical perspective for the general reader.