Authors:Greg Marston, Catherine Mcdonald,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: approach, governmental, policy, social, analysing
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 2006-11-06
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 1845425073
ISBN-13: 9781845425074

This book brings together leading international researchers to discuss governmental approaches to analysing social policies. Analysing Social Policy expands the scope of social policy analysis using the insights from post-Foucauldian scholarship on the art of governing in liberal democracies. One of the main conclusions reached is that policy researchers need to pay much greater attention to the minutiae of policy reform, and to the discursive and material ways in which power operates in policy change. The chapters comprising this book are purposefully written in a clear, acce

Author: Andrew Radford
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: cambridge, textbooks, linguistics, approach, minimalist, english, sentences, analysing
Number of Pages: 540
Published: 2009-02-23
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0521516978
ISBN-13: 9780521516976

Analysing English Sentences provides a concise and clear introduction to current work in syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky’s Minimalist Program. Assuming little or no prior knowledge of syntax or minimalism, Radford outlines the core concepts and leading ideas and how they can be used to describe various aspects of the syntax of English. A diverse range of topics is covered, including syntactic structure, null constituents, head movement, case and agreement and split projections. Using Radford’s trademark approach and writing style, the book is intensive and

Authors:Louise J. Ravelli, Robert A. Elli,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: open, linguistics, frameworks, contextualized, academic, writing, analysing
Number of Pages: 279
Published: 2006-03-23
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0826488021
ISBN-13: 9780826488022

’The balance struck in this volume between discussion of theory and reports on and suggestions for practice make it an invaluable collection for all those engaged in researching and teaching academic writing. Most of the contributions present work influenced by systemic functional linguistics, but the collection will also be of interest to those adopting alternative approaches.’ Martin Hewings, Senior Lecturer, English Department, University of Birmingham and Co-Editor, English for Specific Purposes. This book presents international research by renowned linguists and second languag

Authors:Alex Hirschfield, Kate Bower,
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: research, practice, lessons, data, analysing, crime, mapping
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2001-04-26
List price: $139.95
ISBN-10: 074840922X
ISBN-13: 9780748409228

The book sets out methods used in the field of Geographical Information Systems and highlights areas of best practice, examines the types of problems to which spatial crime analysis can be applied, reviews the capabilities and limitations of existing techniques, and explores the future directions of spatial crime analysis and the need for training. It centers on a series of case studies highlighting the experiences of academics and practitioners in agencies centrally involved in the partnership approach to crime prevention.

Authors:Suzanne Eggins, Diana Slade,
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Keywords: surveys, linguistics, textbooks, equinox, casual, conversation, analysing
Number of Pages: 333
Published: 2005-03
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1845530462
ISBN-13: 9781845530464

Analysing Casual Conversation, first published in 1997 by Cassell, develops a systematic model for the analysis and description of casual conversation in English. Working through authentic examples of casual conversations involving participants differing in age, gender, ethnicity and socio-economic class, the authors argue that despite its sometimes aimless appearance and apparently unstructured content, casual conversation is a highly structured activity and plays a critical role in the social construction of reality. Drawing on insights from sociology, linguistics and critical semiotics, the

Authors:Alain F. Zuur, Elena N. Ieno, Graham M. Smith,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: biology, health, statistics, data, ecological, analysing
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2007-05-03
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0387459677
ISBN-13: 9780387459677

This book provides a practical introduction to analysing ecological data using real data sets collected as part of postgraduate ecological studies or research projects. The first part of the book gives a largely non-mathematical introduction to data exploration, univariate methods (including GAM and mixed modelling techniques), multivariate analysis, time series analysis (e.g. common trends) and spatial statistics. The second part provides 17 case studies, mainly written together with biologists who attended courses given by the first authors. The case studies include topics ranging from terr

Authors:Louise Ravelli, Robert Ellis,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: open, linguistics, series, frameworks, contextualized, academic, writing, analysing
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0826461077
ISBN-13: 9780826461070

The balance struck in this volume between discussion of theory and reports on and suggestions for practice make it an invaluable collection for all those engaged in researching and teaching academic writing. Most of the contributions present work influenced by systemic functional linguistics, but the collection will also be of interest to those adopting alternative approaches.’ Martin Hewings, Senior Lecturer, English Department, University of Birmingham and Co-Editor, English for Specific Purposes. This book presents international research by renowned linguists and second language exper