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Geographies of the New Economy (Regions and Cities)
by Peter (edt) Daniels  Synopsis "Geographies of the New Economy" explores the meaning of the 'new economy' at the global scale from the perspective of advanced post-socialist and emerging economies. Drawing on evidence from regions around the world, the book debates the efficacy of the...
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The Elements of Social Theory
by Barry Barnes Publisher Comments Over the past quarter century, social theory has moved in diverse and often seemingly incompatible directions, exaggerating differences of approach that existed even in earlier periods. In a strikingly original book, Barry Barnes uses this intellectual...
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The Case Study Anthology
by Robert K. (edt) Yin Publisher Comments Rather than descriptions of cases or short three paragraph samples, this book provides readers with full cases drawn from a variety of disciplines that illustrate different case study techniques (descriptive, explanatory, cross-case and methodological...
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How It's Done : Invitation To Social Research (3RD 08 Edition)
by Emily Stier Adler Publisher Comments How It's Done is the realistic, fascinating book that helps you practice and think just as a social researcher would. This updated new edition guides you through the stages of social research--from selecting a researchable question and designing a study...
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Action Research (Action Research)
by Ernest T. Stinger Publisher Comments Thoroughly revised and updated, the scope of the Third Edition has been broadened to include the literature and theoretical movements that have taken place since the previous edition. Updated web links and expanded appendices provide cutting edge...
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Power & Resistance: Critical Thinking about Canadian Social Issues
by Les (edt) Samuelson Publisher Comments Examining at a wide range of issues such as violence, poverty, feminism, racism, and privatization of healthcare, the contributors to this collection use a variety of analytical approaches to posit that the social, economic, and political issues...
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Business Analysis Using Regression (98 Edition)
by D. P. Foster Publisher Comments This book provides a set of case studies that can supplement any text on regression analysis. Developed at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, it is used for the second semester of a beginning statistics course for MBA students. The...
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Reliability and Validity Assessment (79 Edition)
by Edward G. Carmines Publisher Comments This guide explains how social scientists can evaluate the reliability and validity of empirical measurements, discussing the three basic types of validity: criterion related, content, and construct. In addition, the paper shows how reliability is...
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Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences #31: Mobility Tables
by Michael Hout Synopsis Explains the most widely used methods for analyzing cross-classified data on occupational origins and destinations. Reviews classic definitions, models, and sources of mobility data, as well as elementary operations for analyzing mobility tables....
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Evidence-Based Policy: A Realist Perspective
by Ray Pawson Publisher Comments In this important new book, Ray Pawson examines the recent spread of evidence-based policy making across the Western world. Few major public initiatives are mounted these days in the absence of a sustained attempt to evaluate them. Programmes are tried...
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Beyond Common Sense
by Fred (edt) Wulczyn Publisher Comments Helping vulnerable children develop their full potential is an attractive idea with broad common-sense appeal. However, child well-being is a broad concept, and the legislative mandate for addressing well-being in the context of the current child welfare...
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Documents of Life 2: An Invitation to a Critical Humanism
by Ken Plummer Publisher Comments Documents of Life was originally published in 1983 and became a classic text, providing both a persuasive argument for a particular approach and a manifesto for social research. As a critique of anti-humanist methodology in the social sciences, it...
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Hard-pressed Researcher: a Research Handbook for the Caring Professions (UK Edition)
by Robin Talbot Synopsis Provides practical guidance on how to undertake a research project. The text covers the major modes of research and places emphasis on the relationship between research and practice....
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Sage University Papers Series #11: Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies
by George W. Noblit Synopsis How can ethnographic studies be generalized, in contrast to concentrating on the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a new method for synthesizing from qualitative studies: meta-ethnography. After citing the criteria to be used in comparing...
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Research Methods for Community Change : a Project-based Approach (05 Edition)
by Randy Stoecker Publisher Comments With an engaging, friendly style and numerous real world examples, author Randy Stoecker shows readers how to use a project-based research model in the community. The four features of the model are * Diagnosing a community condition * Prescribing an...
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Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analys #17: Dynamic Population Models
by Robert Schoen Publisher Comments Dynamic Population Models is the first book to comprehensively discuss and synthesize the emerging field of dynamic modeling, i.e. the analysis and application of population models that have changing vital rates. Incorporating the latest research, it...
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Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences #32: Measures of Association
by Albert M. Liebetrau Publisher Comments Clearly reviews the properties of important contemporary measures of association and correlation. Liebetrau devotes full chapters to measures for nominal, ordinal, and continuous (interval) data, paying special attention to the sampling distributions...
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Qualitative Methods for Family Studies and Human Development
by Kerry J. Daly Publisher Comments Qualitative Methods for Family Studies and Human Development serves as a step-by-step, interdisciplinary, qualitative methods text for those working in the areas of family studies, human development, family therapy, and family social work. Providing a...
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Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences #147: Fuzzy Set Theory: Applications in the Social Sciences
by Michael Smithson Publisher Comments This book introduces fuzzy set theory to social science researchers. Fuzzy sets are categories with blurred boundaries. With classical sets, objects are either in the set or not, but objects can belong partially to more than one fuzzy set at a time. Many...
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Qualitative Methods in Social Research
by Kristin G. Esterberg Publisher Comments This accessible, engaging introduction to qualitative research methods covers a wide range of qualitative methods including ethnography, observation, interviewing, content analysis, and unobtrusive measures. The text also includes well-chosen research...
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