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Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
by Howard S. Becker  Publisher Comments Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of the Trade will help students learn how to think about research...
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Understanding Regression Analysis (86 Edition)
by Larry D. Schroeder Synopsis Teaches the beginner how to read and understand material containing regression analysis. It does not teach the reader how to do regression analysis; rather, it walks the reader through elementary material using few equations or specialized jargon. The...
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The Number: What Do You Need for the Rest of Your Life, and What Will It Cost?
by Lee Eisenberg Publisher Comments Describes how the author successfully secured his family's financial future by changing jobs and moving halfway across the country, sharing the stories of numerous baby boomers that offer insight into achieving key financial goals. By the author of...
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International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, 9 Volumes
by William A. (edt) Darity Publisher Comments This 9-volume study of social sciences is a successor to the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (ESS, 1930-1935) and the initial set of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (IESS, 1968) -- two groundbreaking MacMillan works that...
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Research Conversations and Narrative: A Critical Hermeneutic Orientation in Participatory Inquiry
by Ellen A. Herda Publisher Comments This book portrays how participatory inquiry in a critical hermeneutic tradition moves the research process for social scientists from an epistemological place to an ontological event. Part One offers a critique of the technical, intellectual, and...
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Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences #09: Time Series Analysis: Regression Techniques
by Charles W. Ostrom Synopsis "The text gives a good basis for understanding the ideas of the time series models and estimation, without overwhelming readers with the complexity of the subject." --Journal of the American Statistical Association Completely revised and updated, this...
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Qualitative Research Methods #37: The Active Interview
by James A. Holstein Synopsis The book provides an academic basis for discussion and development of active interviewing methods. . . . The ideas raised. . . will be interesting and valuable to those involved in developing new methodologies in qualitative research and interviewing...
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Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences #50: Multiple Regression in Practice
by William Dale Berry Synopsis The authors provide a systematic treatment of the major problems involved in using regression analysis. They clearly and concisely discuss the consequences of violating the assumptions of the regression model, procedures for detecting violations, and...
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Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences #102: Typologies and Taxonomies: An Introduction to Classification Techniques
by Kenneth D Bailey Publisher Comments How do we group different subjects on a variety of variables? Should we use a classification procedure in which only the concepts are classified (typology), one in which only empirical entities are classified (taxonomy), or a combination of both? Kenneth...
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The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media (Leonardo Book)
by Peter Lunenfeld Publisher Comments The Digital Dialectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms....
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Autoethnography as Method
by Heewon Chang Publisher Comments This methods book will guide the reader through the process of conducting and producing an autoethnographic study through the understanding of self, other, and culture. Readers will be encouraged to follow hands-on, though not prescriptive, steps in data...
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Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn
by Adele E. Clarke Publisher Comments This book provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to situational analysis of qualitative data. Adele E Clarke personally created the situational analysis approach, no other book currently deals with it. She carefully situates herself and the...
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Survey Research Handbook 3RD Edition
by Pamela L Alreck Publisher Comments The Survey Research Handbook, 3/e by Alreck and Settle has been a proven favorite for years. The book is conceived and written to appeal to the common business reader, not just the academic: concepts are presented in clear everyday language, and the book...
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Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization
by David Coghlan Publisher Comments `A complete and well rounded approach to the subject' - Action Learning: Research and Practice</p> <p></p> <p>`This book, like the first edition, is indispensable reading for students however; the second edition will also be ably...
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Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology: A Nontechnical Guide for the Social Sciences
by W. Paul Vogt Publisher Comments `Have you ever sat in a meeting//seminar//lecture given by extremely well qualified researchers, well versed in research methodology and wondered "what kind of language are these people using"? Well, W Paul Vogt has the solution to your problem with the...
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Multilevel Analysis: An Introduction to Basic and Advanced Multilevel Modeling
by Tom Snijders Publisher Comments The main methods, techniques and issues for carrying out multilevel modeling and analysis are covered in this book. The book is an applied introduction to the topic, providing a clear conceptual understanding of the issues involved in multilevel analysis...
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Heuristic Research
by Clark E. Moustakas Publisher Comments Well-organized and well-referenced, this book gives a clear presentation of heuristic methodology as a systematic form of qualitative research. Investigators of human experiences will find this book invaluable as a research guide. The author illustrates...
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Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences #16: Exploratory Data Analysis
by Frederick Hartwig Synopsis An Introduction to the underlying principles, central concepts, and basic techniques for conducting and understanding exploratory data analysis - with numerous social science examples....
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Statistics : a Spectator Sport (2ND 90 Edition)
by Richard M. Jaeger Publisher Comments Popular in its first edition with researchers and practitioners and widely adopted for undergraduate courses, the new second edition of Statistics: A Spectator Sport continues to give readers a conceptual understanding of statistics without complex...
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Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches
by John W. Creswell Publisher Comments The Second Edition of this bestselling text once again explores the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of each of five qualitative inquiry traditions: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study...
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