Research methods: general

The Causes of Tropical Deforestation (1994) is an analysis of the problem of deforestation, using statistical technique - a form of 'environ-metrics' - to discover the true causes of an issue whose basis is hotly debated, and attributed to causes as varied as poverty, external debt, multinational logging companies, government corruption, the IMF, population growth, and non-sustainable agriculture.

Help Your Child or Teen Get Back on Track offers specific self-help interventions and a wide-ranging, practical discussion of the types of professional help available for a child or adolescent with emotional and behavioral problems.

The National Research Council of Canada is a unique organization, internationally known and regarded.

This unique text covers the core research methods and the philosophical assumptions that underlie various strategies, designs, and methodologies used when researching cultural issues.

Multimodal Methods in Anthropology develops several goals simultaneously.

Women and Sustainability in Business: A Global Perspective, brings together original research from a dozen countries, concerning the issues and challenges facing women in sustainable business.

Informed by original ground-breaking research, this book "e;shifts the lens"e; of study, identifying how Indigenous Australian values and principles have influenced and contributed to an evolving non-Indigenous mainstream Australian culture.

A Childs History of England is a book by Charles Dickens.

Featuring in-depth coverage of categorical and nonparametric statistics, this book provides a conceptual framework for choosing the most appropriate type of test in various research scenarios.

As an ethnographic method walking has a long history, but it has only recently begun to attract focused attention.

Those who work in allied health professions and education aim to make people's lives better.

The rapidly expanding population of youth gangs and street children is one of the most disturbing issues in many cities around the world.

A comprehensive survey of computational aspects of collective decisions for graduate students, researchers, and professionals in computer science and economics.

Originally published in 1974, this book evaluates and compares three important styles of sociological research: positivism, symbolic interactionism and critique.

Focused on understanding the key underlying group processes that contribute to youth sport experiences, The Power of Groups in Youth Sport provides an innovative and expansive overview of the research in group dynamics within youth sports.

What does graffiti reveal about social behaviour?

The shift to a neoliberal agenda has, for many academics, intensified the pressure and undermined the pleasure that their work can and does bring.

Latent Variable Models: An Introduction to Factor, Path, and Structural Equation Analysis introduces latent variable models by utilizing path diagrams to explain the relationships in the models.

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

This book demonstrates the power of poetry and the ways in which academics can utilize poetry to go beyond the scholarly realm and create works of art which, unlike traditional academic works, problematize and question reality rather than simply describe it.

This book proposes a new philosophical theory of scientific explanation by developing and defending the position of explanatory pluralism.

Unlike other volumes in the current literature, this book provides insight for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary researchers and practitioners on what doesn't work.

In this remarkable volume, a multinational team of scientists catalogs the stressors and benefits for combat-trained soldiers deployed on missions where they are told to hold their fire and assume the role of peacekeeper.

This collection, which can serve as an introduction to the field of populism, provides an array of interdisciplinary approaches to populist mobilizations, theories, meanings, and effects.

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This book provides new insights into contemporary betting shops, with a particular focus on the manner in which losing bets are dealt with by customers.

This comprehensive textbook is designed to equip researchers, academics, and students with the essential tools and knowledge needed to conduct advanced research across various disciplines.

In Pulling Back the Curtain on Qualitative Research, the authors maintain that for sociologists the entire world is a laboratory.

The Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology presents a comprehensive and contemporary treatment of research methodologies used in clinical psychology.

The global financial crisis has demonstrated the impact and implications of late capitalism and its bedfellow, globalisation.

Research demonstrated some years ago that there is a strong positive correlation between 'play', 'fun' and organisational performance.

Are you worried about doing your classroom-based research project?

This book examines how the voluntary organisations engaged with development programmes work with the approach of conscientisation to empower Adivasis.

Organized around a metaphor of an academic journey, D.

This third edition of Causal Analysis with Event History Data Using Stata provides an updated introduction to event history modeling along with many instructive Stata examples.

Interpretive Description: Qualitative Research for Applied Practice has established itself as the key resource for novice and intermediate level researchers in applied settings for conducting a qualitative research project with practical outcomes.

Bayesian Statistics: The Basics provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to Bayesian statistics, specifically tailored for any researcher with an interest in statistical methods.

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Albert Einstein said we can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

The purpose of The Ethical Professor is to provide a road map to some of the ethical dilemmas that doctoral students and newer faculty members are likely to face as they enter a career in academia (the Academy).

Exploring the cultural history of surveillance practices of the Securitate, Romania's secret police during its communist period, the book blends biographical details in a historical inquiry to establish the concepts of psuchegraphy, dossierveillance, and banalization of evil in the study of Securitate Archives.

Research Methods in Linguistics guides the reader through the key issues, principles, and contributions of core methods in linguistic research.

Music can act as a powerful means of communication.

In our difficult time, or at any time, knowing how to find a great job is a necessary skill.

After fleeing homophobia and threats to her life in her native El Salvador, 'Carla' was detained for two years inside the Buffalo Federal Detention Center.

Writing and Other Familiar Things: Autoethnographic Possibilities puts on display a number of distinct ways of structuring essays that can be used in qualitative research and creative writing.