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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...
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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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Rethinking Social Epidemiology: Towards a Science of Change
To date, much of the empirical work in social epidemiology has demonstrated the existence of health inequalities along a number of axes of social differentiation. However, this research, in isolation, will not inform effective solutions to health inequalities. Rethinking Social Epidemiology provides an expanded vision of social epidemiology as a science of change, one that seeks to better address key questions related to both the causes of social inequalities in health (problem-focused research) as well as ...
MPN: f9330f857089d0b426cd48208dfa388f
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Getting to the Core of Literacy for History / Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects, Grades 6-12
Literacy-it's not just for English teachers anymore. The new Common Core English Language Arts Standards aren't just for English teachers. Fluent reading and writing are critically important to the study of history/social studies, science, and technical subjects, too. What's more, the progress your students make is directly tied to their ability to process information they read and to express their ideas in writing. So how do you make literacy a focus of your teaching. without taking time away from essentia...
MPN: 9eba0d00dbe938383d475edcfcf9ee0a
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Applied Calculus for the Managerial, Life, and Social Sciences: A Brief Approach
APPLIED CALCULUS FOR THE MANAGERIAL, LIFE, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES: A BRIEF APPROACH, Tenth Edition balances modern applications, solid pedagogy, and the latest technology to engage students and keep them motivated in the course. Suitable for majors and non-majors alike, the text uses an intuitive approach that teaches concepts through examples drawn from real-life situations from students' fields of interest. In addition, insightful Portfolios highlight the careers of real people and discuss how they incorpora...
MPN: 4e4d4533331681b7e9bae870e5f97305
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Humanizing Big Data: Marketing at the Meeting of Data, Social Science and Consumer Insight
Between tweets, likes, comments, blogs, videos and images, today's customer is estimated to generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day. How can marketers utilize the ever-increasing amount of data to better understand and interact with their customers? This book offers advice on how to interpret and incorporate data into an organization's overall marketing strategy. It is designed to help marketers improve customer relationships, enhance the targeting of their marketing efforts, align marketing activiti...
MPN: d1b32b341776e73e9c1b3822d136664c
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GED (r) Test, REA's Total Solution For the New 2014 GED (r) Test (GED (r) & TABE Test Preparation)
ISBN -13: 978-0738611358.
MPN: cc1e7963820e9c4c79671a939c8ab8ef
$119.22