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  • New Approaches to Death in Cities during the Health Transition

    Edited by Diego Ramiro Fariñas, Michel Oris ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents recent efforts and new approaches to improve our understanding of the evolution of health and mortality in urban environments in the long run, looking at transformation and adaptations during the process of rapid population growth. In a world characterized by large and rapidly evolving urban environments, the past and present challenges cities face is one of the key topics in ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course

    Edited by Michel Oris, Caroline Roberts, Dominique Joye, Michèle Ernst Stähli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book details tools and procedures for data collections of hard-to-reach, hard-to-survey populations. Inside, readers will discover first-hand insights from experts who share their successes as well as their failures in their attempts to identify and measure human vulnerabilities across the life course. Coverage first provides an introduction on studying vulnerabilities based on ... Read more

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  • Practising Social Work Research

    Case Studies for Learning

    by Rick Csiernik, Rachel Birnbaum, Barbara Decker Pierce ...
    Research is as critical to social work practice as individual and group counseling skills, policy analysis, or community development. Using an approach similar to those adopted in direct practice courses, this book integrates research with social work practice and in so doing, promotes an understanding and appreciation of the research process to social work students.Sixteen case studies adapted ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Researching Resilience

    Edited by Linda Liebenberg, Michael Ungar ...
    While categorization has always been one of the primary focuses of the social sciences, recent trends within these disciplines have tended to categorize various behaviours as disorders. Researching Resilience challenges this tendency to pathologize, and marks a profound shift in research methods from the study of disorder to the study of well-being.This collection assembles qualitative and ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Practising Social Work Research

    Case Studies for Learning, Second Edition

    by Rick Csiernik, Rachel Birnbaum ...
    Research skills are as critical to social work practitioners as skills in individual and group counselling, policy analysis, and community development. Adopting strategies similar to those used in direct practice courses, this book integrates research with social work practice, and in so doing promotes an understanding and appreciation of the research process.This second edition of Practising ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Population-Based Survey Experiments

    by Diana C. Mutz ...
    Population-based survey experiments have become an invaluable tool for social scientists struggling to generalize laboratory-based results, and for survey researchers besieged by uncertainties about causality. Thanks to technological advances in recent years, experiments can now be administered to random samples of the population to which a theory applies. Yet until now, there was no self ... Read more

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  • When to Use What Research Design

    by W. Paul Vogt, PhD, Dianne C. Gardner, PhD, Lynne M. Haeffele, PhD ...
    Systematic, practical, and accessible, this is the first book to focus on finding the most defensible design for a particular research question. Thoughtful guidelines are provided for weighing the advantages and disadvantages of various methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods designs. The book can be read sequentially or readers can dip into chapters on specific stages of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Empirical Legal Research

    A Guidance Book for Lawyers, Legislators and Regulators

    by Frans L. Leeuw ...
    In 1788 John Adams created a sublime ambition for all nations - 'a government of laws and not of men'. In the intervening years we have come to learn that legislation itself works through the interpretations of the many men and women who work on the inside and the outside of the law. Effective regulation thus depends not only on scrupulous legal analysis, with its appeal to precedent, conceptual ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by François Champagne, Louise Lemieux-Charles ...
    At the clinical, management, and policy levels, the use of knowledge and evidence in health care has become a worldwide priority. The contributors to Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care seek to broaden our understanding of the complexity involved in health care decision-making by integrating social science knowledge and exploring some of the challenges and limits of evidence in different ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Research Methods for Environmental Psychology

    by Robert Gifford ...
    Covering the full spectrum of methodology, the timely and indispensible Research Methods for Environmental surveys the research and application methods for studying, changing, and improving human attitudes, behaviour and well-being in relation to the physical environment.The first new book covering research methods in environmental psychology in over 25 years. Brings the subject completely up-to ... Read more

    $54.00 USD

  • IAAP Handbook of Applied Psychology

    Edited by Paul R. Martin, Michael C. Knowles, Michael Kyrios, Lyn Littlefield, J. Bruce Overmier, José M. Prieto, Fanny Cheung ...
    The IAAP Handbook of Applied Psychology, an up-to-date and authoritative reference, provides a critical overview of applied psychology from an international perspective.Brings together articles by leading authorities from around the worldProvides the reader with a complete overview of the field and highlights key research findingsDivided into three parts: professional psychology, substantive areas ... Read more

    $199.00 USD

  • Concept and Design Developments in School Improvement Research

    Longitudinal, Multilevel and Mixed Methods and Their Relevance for Educational Accountability

    Edited by Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg, Tobias Feldhoff, Katharina Maag Merki, Falk Radisch ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book discusses challenges in school improvement research and different methodological approaches that have the potential to foster school improvement research. Research on school improvement and accountability analysis places high demands on a study’s design and method. The potential of combining the depth of case studies with the breath of quantitative measures and analyses in a ... Read more

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