Marking fifty years since the democratic transitions in Greece, Portugal, and Spain, this book traces how three countries that broke free from authoritarian rule in the mid-1970s have navigated consolidation, crisis, and the enduring tension between structural constraints and political agency to become, and remain, democracies.
The Renaissance in Florence was not only a time of extraordinary artistic and philosophical creativity; it also marked a pivotal moment in the invention of new organizational forms that reshaped the city's economic, political, and social life.
This textbook introduces invariant measurement in the human sciences based on the principles of Rasch measurement theory and presents explanatory Rasch models that integrate item and person covariates that can deepen the understanding of item response processes.
Using Statistical Methods in Social Science Research, Third Edition is the user-friendly text every student needs for analyzing and making sense of quantitative data.
This textbook introduces invariant measurement in the human sciences based on the principles of Rasch measurement theory and presents explanatory Rasch models that integrate item and person covariates that can deepen the understanding of item response processes.
Apostles of Development recounts the work of six individuals, all former classmates at Cambridge University, who helped make international development--the effort to reduce poverty and inequality around the world--into a juggernaut of the second half of the twentieth century.
Apostles of Development recounts the work of six individuals, all former classmates at Cambridge University, who helped make international development--the effort to reduce poverty and inequality around the world--into a juggernaut of the second half of the twentieth century.
The Data Analytics Advantage is a comprehensive guide that equips readers with the essential skills to analyze and leverage social media data for strategic decision-making.
The Data Analytics Advantage is a comprehensive guide that equips readers with the essential skills to analyze and leverage social media data for strategic decision-making.
Foreword by Charles Wheelan, author of New York Times bestseller Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the DataWhat makes some evidence strong, some evidence weak, and some evidence total nonsense?
Probably the UK s greatest living statistician TelegraphFrom the UK s statistical national treasure , a clever and data-driven guide to how we can live with risk and uncertaintyWe live in a world where uncertainty is inevitable.
This clear, student-friendly text offers a step-by-step introduction to the use of SPSS - easily the most widely used data analysis computer package in the social sciences.
From an award-winning writer at The New York Times Magazine comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll that racism takes on individuals and the health of the nation.
This clear, student-friendly text offers a step-by-step introduction to the use of SPSS - easily the most widely used data analysis computer package in the social sciences.
An authoritative review of the long history of federal responses to state and local budget crises, from Alexander Hamilton through the COVID-19 pandemic, that reveals what is at stake when a state or city can't pay its debts and provides policy solutions to an intractable American problem.
An authoritative review of the long history of federal responses to state and local budget crises, from Alexander Hamilton through the COVID-19 pandemic, that reveals what is at stake when a state or city can't pay its debts and provides policy solutions to an intractable American problem.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sports Analytics, ISACE 2026, which took place in Vancouver, Canada, during June 1-2, 2026.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sports Analytics, ISACE 2026, which took place in Vancouver, Canada, during June 1-2, 2026.
This book explores how young adult migrants in Scotland navigate everyday life through processes of ontological security-seeking, revealing how identity is negotiated in relation to experiences of uncertainty, perceived difference, and political narrative.
This book explores how young adult migrants in Scotland navigate everyday life through processes of ontological security-seeking, revealing how identity is negotiated in relation to experiences of uncertainty, perceived difference, and political narrative.
This festschrift honours the work of Liz Stanley, whose scholarship has been highly influential in opening new paths in feminist research across the human sciences.
This festschrift honours the work of Liz Stanley, whose scholarship has been highly influential in opening new paths in feminist research across the human sciences.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of research and publication ethics and guides young researchers on how to conduct ethical research and publish their work responsibly.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of research and publication ethics and guides young researchers on how to conduct ethical research and publish their work responsibly.
Visual Methods of Inquiry: Images as Research presents qualitative researchers in the social sciences with the benefits, applications, and forms of visual research methods.
Originally published in 1977, Open Prisons presents research carried out in a number of prisons in the UK both 'open' and 'closed' intended to compare their effectiveness.
Originally published in 1977, Open Prisons presents research carried out in a number of prisons in the UK both 'open' and 'closed' intended to compare their effectiveness.
Visual Methods of Inquiry: Images as Research presents qualitative researchers in the social sciences with the benefits, applications, and forms of visual research methods.
