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Criminological Skills and Research for Beginners, Third Edition, is a comprehensive and engaging guide to research methods in Criminology, and the skills required for academic success.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive and critical review of what we know about military service and the life course, what we don't know, and what we need to do to better understand the role of military service in shaping people's lives.

In the last few decades, the media, academics, and the general public have put considerable focus on Muslim culture and politics around the world.

Due to the recent global financial crises, academic business schools have come in for much criticism, having, in the eyes of the public, failed in their responsibility to society by teaching future managers only how to increase their personal gain without any consideration as to their actions' social and cultural consequences.

Finally, a single volume that comprehensively introduces and addresses the most pressing issues and opportunities in young adult (teen) library services.

Statistical Power Analysis explains the key concepts in statistical power analysis and illustrates their application in both tests of traditional null hypotheses (that treatments or interventions have no effect in the population) and in tests of the minimum-effect hypotheses (that the population effects of treatments or interventions are so small that they can be safely treated as unimportant).

It is refreshing to see a book such as this which is both broad in its conceptualization of the field of child research and deep in its focus.

This fully photocopiable resource offers a flexible framework for the assessment and measurement of the communication skills of children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs).

Data Analytics for the Social Sciences is an introductory, graduate-level treatment of data analytics for social science.

This book offers a rich and detailed empirical account of children's play and interaction in the school playground.

Now issued as part of the Routledge Education Classic Edition series, The Qualitative Manifesto provides a "e;call to arms"e; for researchers from the leading figure in the qualitative research community, Norman Denzin.

This book discusses (auto- )ethnographies of accountability, undertaken (in close collaboration) by a multinational group of accounting and organization theory researchers over a period of three years.

The title is an effective, manualized parent education programme'- Educational Book ReviewThis ground-breaking training programme has been developed in response to a real need for evidence-based early interventions for very young autistic children.

If you are working in a time-sensitive context, need to deliver research findings so they can be used to inform decisions, or are finding it difficult to access research funding for long-term qualitative research, this book will help you.

Transnational Black Feminism and Qualitative Research invites readers to consider what it means to conduct research within their own communities by interrogating local and global contexts of colonialism, race, and migration.

This unique book offers a comprehensive introduction to field studies as a research method in social psychology, demonstrating that field studies are an important element of contemporary social psychology, and encourages its usage in a methodologically correct and ethical manner.

Is society possible without accounting?

This book engages with the writings of W.

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This groundbreaking collection explores the complexities of researching the lives of lesbian and queer women.

In this book, Laurence Armand French frames the emergence of medical, clinical, and legal ethical standards within the long history of institutional and systemic racial and gender biases in the United States.

Dissertation Practice: A Journal for Learning is an interactive resource that promotes journaling to engender key dissertation practices, through activities and exercises.

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

This book offers a candid and unflinching account of the PhD experience in a sector marked by precarity, insecurity, and intense competition.

This accessible and engaging textbook helps students to get to grips with key concepts, issues, and practices in social science research through the use of fun and informative illustrations and examples.

Quantitative and Statistical Research Methods This user-friendly textbook teaches students to understand and apply procedural steps in completing quantitative studies.

Critical Qualitative Health Research seeks to deepen understandings of the philosophies, politics and practices shaping contemporary qualitative health related research.

Analysing Talk in Educational Research is the go-to guide for all educational researchers collecting data in the form of talk.

Research shows that racism affects the working lives of nurses and nurse academics, as well as healthcare service delivery and outcomes.

Routledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives is a landmark volume providing students, university lecturers, and practitioners with a comprehensive and structured guide to the major topics and trends of research on counter-narratives.

This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment.

Learn how to write a successful research proposal with this user-friendly, step-by-step guide.

This is not a standard guide to writing a dissertation, thesis, project report, journal article or book.

Item response theory (IRT) is widely used in education and psychology and is expanding its applications to other social science areas, medical research, and business as well.

Tami Spry provides a methodological introduction to the budding field of performative autoethnography.

What is interviewing and when is this method useful?

This book offers an efficient set of step-by-step tips and overarching lessons about how to gather useful, meaningful, and socially-informed data about clients' and other stakeholders' experiences in architecture and interior design professions.

Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and extensive international Transport and Society series.

A comprehensive introduction and teaching resource for state-of-the-art Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R software.

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In an attempt to cope with the profusion of tools and techniques for qualitative methods, texts for students have tended to respond in the following two ways: "e;how to"e; or "e;why to.

An overview of evolutionary rates, analyzing data from laboratory, field and fossil record studies to extract their underlying generation-to-generation rates.

Max van Manen offers an extensive exploration of phenomenological traditions and methods for the human sciences.

The third edition of the Student Study Guide With IBM(R) SPSS(R) Workbook for Research Methods, Statistics, and Applications by Kathrynn A.

This book guides you through designing and implementing an online experiment in social science research in a clear and straightforward manner.