214 books (11 pages) in this category
There Is Something Wrong with the System
by Michael Rose
<p>Experience is the best teacher, and when you have had a bad experience, the truth can be healing. This book is an attempt to discover the truth and find the answers to the many problems within healthcare and social care in modern Britain. The
ISBN: 9781543494068
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eBookMaking Sense Through Inquiry, Third Edition
by Alan Sears & James Cairns
<p>This highly original and compelling book offers an introduction to the art and science of social inquiry, including the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry. The new edition offers coverage of post-modernism and
ISBN: 9781442600973
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eBookA Guide to Argumentative Research Writing and Thinking
Overcoming Challenges
by Arnold Wentzel
<p>Research is difficult. Even though students are trained in the basic research methodology skills, when confronted with research writing, it feels to them as if they enter a bizarre world, with its own language and conventions, where it is ...
ISBN: 9781351707466
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eBookA-Z of Digital Research Methods
by Catherine Dawson
<p>This accessible, alphabetical guide provides concise insights into a variety of digital research methods, incorporating introductory knowledge with practical application and further research implications. <em>A-Z of Digital Research ...
ISBN: 9781351044653
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eBookA Handbook for International Students
by Stephen Bailey
<p>Now in its fifth edition, <em>Academic Writing</em> helps international students succeed in writing essays and reports for their English-language academic courses. Thoroughly revised and updated, it is designed to let teachers and students ...
ISBN: 9781351690577
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eBookNew Ideas and Perspectives from Scandinavia
by Ewa Gunnarsson, Hans Peter Hansen, Birger Steen Nielsen & others
<p>Contemporary society encounters profound economical, socio-ecological and political crises challenging the democratic foundation of our societies. This book addresses the potentials and challenges for Action Research supporting democratic ...
ISBN: 9781317335443
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eBookHow Advertising and Public Relations Changed Everything
by Jeff Koob
<p>The goal of information is to inform, while the goal of propaganda is to influence or persuade. It is not the intent to persuade that makes something propaganda, but the use of deceptive and manipulative techniques. Some advertising and ...
ISBN: 9781491758908
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eBookby Markus Heinrich Rehbach
<p>Essential reading for anyone who is, or is thinking of becoming, a teacher, this book details my personal experiences of workplace victimisation with the New South Wales Department of Education. It then goes on to place my personal ...
ISBN: 6610000104888
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eBookA Tool for the Human Services, Tenth Edition
by Timothy P. Hilton, PhD, Peter R. Fawson, PhD, MSW, Thomas J. Sullivan, PhD, MA & others
<p><strong>Praise for earlier editions:</strong></p> <p><em>“I have been using this textbook as a required reading for my research class since 2004 because I found the text’s coverage of research concepts to be in-depth, and easy to read ...
ISBN: 9780826172846
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eBookContinued Bonds with the Deceased
by Blake Paxton
<p>What would you say to a deceased loved one if they could come back for one day? What if you can’t just ‘move on’ from grief? *At Home with Grief: Continued Bonds with the Deceased *chronicles Blake Paxton’s autoethnographic study of his ...
ISBN: 9781351714501
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eBookby Lee Ann Hoff
<p>First published in 1990, this book is basedon a field study of domestic abuse victims and their social network members. In a life history perspective, using values and network analysis, it uncovers the social context of a ‘secret’ crime ...
ISBN: 9781317202479
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eBookYour Practical Guide to Evaluation
by Donna R. Podems, PhD
<p>Demystifying the evaluation journey, this is the first evaluation mentoring book that addresses the choices, roles, and challenges that evaluators must navigate in the real world. Experienced evaluator and trainer Donna R. Podems covers both ...
ISBN: 9781462537853
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eBookBlack Feminism in Qualitative Inquiry
A Mosaic for Writing Our Daughter's Body
by Venus E. Evans-Winters
<p>Recently, Black women have taken the world stage in national politics, popular culture, professional sports, and bringing attention to racial injustice in policing and the judicial system. However, rarely are Black women acknowledged and ...
ISBN: 9781351046053
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eBookCollege Pathways to Career Success
by James E. Rosenbaum, Caitlin E. Ahearn, Janet E. Rosenbaum & others
<p>College-for-all has become the new American dream. Most high school students today express a desire to attend college, and 90% of on-time high school graduates enroll in higher education in the eight years following high school. Yet, degree ...
ISBN: 9781610448680
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eBookMustang Ranch and Its Women
by Alexa Albert
<p>When Harvard medical student Alexa Albert conducted a public-health study as the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada, the only state in the union where prostitution is legal, neither she nor the brothel could have predicted the end result. Having
ISBN: 9780307554901
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eBookCareer Development Interventions for Social Justice
Addressing Needs across the Lifespan in Educational, Community, and Employment Contexts
by Margo A. Jackson, Allyson K. Regis & Kourtney Bennett
<p>Career development interventions can serve as one means to constructively address the problems of inequitable access to educational and occupational options and achievement that promote health and well-being across the lifespan. <em>Career ...
ISBN: 9781538124901
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eBookCategorical Statistics for Communication Research
by Bryan E. Denham
<p><em>Categorical Statistics for Communication**Research</em> presents scholars with a discipline-specific guide to categorical data analysis. The text blends necessary background information and formulas for statistical procedures with data ...
ISBN: 9781118927076
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eBookCausal Models in Experimental Designs
by H. M. Blalock
<p>This is a companion volume to Causal Models in the Social Sciences, the majority of articles concern panel designs involving repeated measurements while a smaller cluster involve discussions of how experimental designs may be improved by more
ISBN: 9781351529808
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eBookClimate Action in a Globalizing World
Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Movements in the Global North
by Asa Wettergren, Carl Cassegard, Linda Soneryd & others
<p>The existence and urgency of global climate change is a matter of scientific consensus. Yet the global politics of climate change have been anything but consensual. In this context, a wave of global climate activism has emerged in the last ...
ISBN: 9781317212546
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eBookCollaborative Arts-based Research for Social Justice
by Victoria Foster
<p>This book provides a thought-provoking guide to conducting collaborative arts-based research. Focusing on ways that social inquiry might be conducted with marginalised groups to promote social justice, the text offers chapters ...
ISBN: 9781135131821
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