Authors:Paul S. Gray, John B. Williamson, David A. Karp, John
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: quantitative, methods, qualitative, introduction, imagination, research
Number of Pages: 478
Published: 2007-08-13
List price: $148.00
ISBN-10: 0521879728
ISBN-13: 9780521879729

The idea that science is a blueprint for research, and imagination gives research its life and purpose inspired this comprehensive explanation of research methodology. The authors’ decades of experience have revealed that research is a craft requiring judgment and creativity, not simply memorization and application of the rules of science. This book covers a wide variety of data-collection techniques, but presents them as reinforcing, rather than competing with one another, thus striking a balance between qualitative and quantitative methods and proving an essential resource for instruct

Authors:Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge, John He
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: revivals, routledge, volumes, news
Number of Pages: 834
Published: 2009-10-22
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0415572681
ISBN-13: 9780415572682

It is a commonly held belief that television news in Britain, on whatever channel, is more objective, more trustworthy, more neutral than press reporting. The illusion is exploded in this controversial 2-volume study by the Glasgow University Media Group, originally published in 1976 and 1980.

Authors:John P. McKay, Bennett D. Hill, John Buckler, Patrici
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s
Keywords: present, volume, societies, world, history
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2008-10-10
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0312682980
ISBN-13: 9780312682989

More than any other text, A History of World Societies introduces students to the families, foods, workplaces, religions, and diversions of peoples of the past through lively, descriptive writing and extensive primary sources that give voice to a wide range of individuals. This hallmark treatment of social history combines with strong political, cultural, and economic coverage and a clear, easy-to-manage organization to provide students with the most vivid account available of what life was like throughout human history. The Eighth Edition welcomes to the author team Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Cl

Authors:Clarence Irving Lewis, John D. Goheen, John L. Mothe
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: lewis, irving, clarence, papers, collected
Number of Pages: 454
Published: 1970-08-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0804707170
ISBN-13: 9780804707176

Authors:Marvin D Feit, John S Wodarski, John H Ramey, Aaron R
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: groups, work, akron, ohio, november, october, social, symposium, diversity, power, selected, proceedings, xiiith, capturing
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 1995-07-13
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 1560249714
ISBN-13: 9781560249719

This stimulating book explores the many ways in which social group workers approach diversity. Capturing the Power of Diversity represents a range of interests and approaches to the challenges faced by group workers throughout the world. It illustrates the complexity, creativity, and excitement of the diversity concept and it explores how practitioners manage and adjust to diversity and use its power constructively. The contributing authors discuss macro approaches to inequality in social, political, and economic spheres and address concerns about the fit of group work into the social work cur

Authors:John W. Nunley, Cara McCarthy, John Emigh, Lesley K.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Keywords: culture, faces, masks
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0810943794
ISBN-13: 9780810943797

From Palaeothic times to the present, people have used masks to add power and mystery to religious rituals, warfare and entertainment. This companion volume to the 1999-2000 exhibtion at The Saint Louis Museum of Art provides a cultural history of these artefacts.

Authors:John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Se
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: novel, british, history, columbia
Number of Pages: 1064
Published: 1994-04-15
List price: $113.00
ISBN-10: 0231078587
ISBN-13: 9780231078580