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Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
Author Name: Joshua P. Howe Publisher: University of Washington Press Publishing Date: February 26, 2014
MPN: 33bee0c59e7bbd45efca6665c6e852a3
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Systems of Reason and the Politics of Schooling: School Reform and Sciences of Education in the Tradition of Thomas S. Popkewitz
The 1980s were an important decade for educational inquiry. It was the moment of the linguistic turn, with its emphasis on the role of language as a constructor of reality, a structuring agent for institutions such as schools, and a medium for translating knowledge into elements of power for processes of social regulation. Drawing on the work and insights of educational researcher Thomas S. Popkewitz, this book shows how the linguistic turn provided an alternative to both mainline educational research groun...
MPN: c7bcdc5cb3a5a70dada38055ebeb550d
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Philosophies of Social Science: The Classic and Contemporary Readings
This book will certainly prove to be a useful resource and reference point. a good addition to anyone's bookshelf." Network "This is a superb collection, expertly presented. The overall conception seems splendid, giving an excellent sense of the issues. The selection and length of the readings is admirably judged, with both the classic texts and the few unpublished pieces making just the right points." William Outhwaite, Professor of Sociology, University of Sussex.". an indispensable book for all of us in ...
MPN: b2cd44533a049e60117b7dd80ed280a4
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Grand Theories and Ideologies in the Social Sciences
In this survey, contributors examine issues of women's rights violations in Mediterranean countries as represented in politically engaged films of the region.
MPN: a87512a824f9e43c1df8ebcbf02c462a
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New Thinking in Complexity for the Social Sciences and Humanities: A Generative, Transdisciplinary Approach
The underlying idea and motive for the book is that the notion of complexity may humanize the social sciences, may conceive the complex human being as more human, and turn reality as assumed in our doing social science into a more complex, that is a richer reality for all. The main focus of this book is on new thinking in complexity, with complexity to be taken as derived from the Latin word complexus: that which is interwoven. The trans-disciplinary approach advocated here will be trans-disciplinary in two...
MPN: 103a148795e5f13719d10b73d3b43abd
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Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences
Qualitative Research Methods - collection, organization, and analysis strategies" This text shows novice researchers how to design, collect, and analyze qualitative data and then present their results to the scientific community. The book stresses the importance of ethics in research and taking the time to properly design and think through any research endeavor. Learning GoalsUpon completing this book, readers should be able to: Effectively design, collect, organize, and analyze data and then to present res...
MPN: 7c07b1aac1b43bf9433ea4727bf76e3f
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Applied Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences, Expanded Edition
Applied Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences, Expanded Edition" provides a sound, intuitive understanding of the basic concepts students need as they pursue careers in business, economics, and the life and social sciences. Students achieve success using this text as a result of the author's applied and real-world orientation to concepts, problem-solving approach, straight forward and concise writing style, and comprehensive exercise sets. More than 100,000 students worldwide ha...
MPN: d7bd3b5b49f05398740c9d66f5e6672f
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Dynamic Process Methodology in the Social and Developmental Sciences
All psychological processes like biological and social ones are dynamic. Phenomena of nature, society, and the human psyche are context bound, constantly changing, and variable. This feature of reality is often not recognized in the social sciences where we operate with averaged data and with homogeneous stereotypes, and consider our consistency to be the cornerstone of rational being. Yet we are all inconsistent in our actions within a day, or from, one day to the next, and much of such inconsistency is of...
MPN: f3626d1946665ef519b380d28bb2c332
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Stochastic Methods: A Handbook for the Natural and Social Sciences
This classic text and reference collects, in simple language and deductive form, the many formulae and methods that can be found in the scientific literature on stochastic methods. To be useful to students and practioners as a practical tool, the book is written without excessive mathematical rigour, yet restricted to those methods and approximations thereof, that can be systematized and controlled in a quantitative way. Over time, new editions have been expanded in scope for a widening readership that now ...
MPN: b2783b1fcee6b25686dd3b86de1cd25d
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The Science of Social Vision
The human visual system is particularly attuned to and remarkably efficient at processing social cues. We can effectively "read" others' mental and emotional states and make snap judgments about their characters and dispositions, simply by watching them. Given what is clearly a close relationship between vision and social interaction, it has become increasingly clear to social psychologists seeking to better understand the functional and neuroanatomical mechanisms underlying social perception that vision pl...
MPN: 759413d789d8c823d4b1fb62ac6a39a1
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Environmental Social Sciences: Methods and Research Design
The relationship between human communities and the environment is extremely complex. In order to resolve the issues involved with this relationship, interdisciplinary research combining natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities is necessary. Here, specialists summarise methods and research strategies for various aspects of social research devoted to environmental issues. Each chapter is illustrated with ethnographic and environmental examples, ranging from Australia to Amazonia, from Madagascar to t...
MPN: 448a3511503802a56ab9fda722099466
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Team-Based Learning in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Group Work That Works to Generate Critical Thinking and Engagement
Team-Based Learning (TBL) is a unique, powerful, and proven form of small-group learning that is being increasingly adopted in higher education. Teachers who use TBL report high levels of engagement, critical thinking, and retention among their students. TBL has been used successfully in both small and large classes, in computer-supported and online classes; and because it is group work that works, it has been implemented in nearly every discipline and in countries around the world. This book introduces the...
MPN: 854a77d3a24b93e6598e1755a30e2c0c
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