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  • Telling Stories

    The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History

    by Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, Barbara Laslett ...
    In Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives-autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs-are an important research tool for understanding the relationship between people and their societies. Gathering examples from throughout the world and from premodern as well as contemporary cultures, they draw from labor ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Telling Stories

    The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History

    by Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, Barbara Laslett ...
    In Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives—autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs—are an important research tool for understanding the relationship between people and their societies. Gathering examples from throughout the world and from premodern as well as contemporary cultures, they draw from labor ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Introducing Qualitative Research

    A Student′s Guide

    by Rosaline S. Barbour ...
    Rosaline Barbour draws on her extensive teaching experience to provide a clear, user-friendly introduction to the craft of doing qualitative research. Each chapter includes examples of real-life qualitative data and a range of exercises to help students get a feel for the process of generating and analysing qualitative data.The second edition includes:New examples from a range of social science ... Read more

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  • Quantitative Intelligence Analysis

    Applied Analytic Models, Simulations, and Games

    by Edward Waltz ...
    Series series Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series
    Quantitative Intelligence Analysis describes the model-based method of intelligence analysis that represents the analyst’s mental models of a subject, as well as the analyst’s reasoning process exposing what the analyst believes about the subject, and how they arrived at those beliefs and converged on analytic judgments. It includes:Specific methods of explicitly representing the analyst’s mental ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The First Thanksgiving

    What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History

    by Robert Tracy McKenzie ...
    Foreword Book of the Year Award FinalistThe Pilgrims' celebration of the first Thanksgiving is a keystone of America's national and spiritual identity. But is what we've been taught about them or their harvest feast what actually happened? And if not, what difference does it make?Through the captivating story of the birth of this quintessentially American holiday, veteran historian Tracy McKenzie ... Read more

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  • Knowledge, Experience, and Ruling

    Studies in the Social Organization of Knowledge

    Edited by Marie Campbell, Ann Manicom ...
    Series series Heritage
    Dorothy Smith is considered one of the most original sociologists and theorists of our time, and her writings have attracted much attention in Europe and the US as well as in Canada. This collection of original essays, written by scholars who worked or studied with Smith, exemplifies Smith's approach to social analysis.Each author takes an empirical approach. Some analyse texts (the maps and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Maths Meets Myths: Quantitative Approaches to Ancient Narratives

    Edited by Ralph Kenna, Máirín MacCarron, Pádraig MacCarron ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    With an emphasis on exploring measurable aspects of ancient narratives, Maths Meets Myths sets out to investigate age-old material with new techniques. This book collects, for the first time, novel quantitative approaches to studying sources from the past, such as chronicles, epics, folktales, and myths. It contributes significantly to recent efforts in bringing together natural scientists and ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • An Artist as Soldier

    Seeking Refuge in Love and Art

    by Barbara Schmitter Heisler ...
    Series Book 114 - American University Studies
    At the center of this book are the World War II letters (Feldpostbriefe) of a German artist and art teacher to his wife. While Bernhard Epple’s letters to his wife, Gudrun, address many of the topics usually found in war letters (food, lodging conditions, the weather, problems with the mail service, requests for favors from home), they are unusual in two respects. Each letter is lovingly decorated ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Unmeasured Information and the Methodology of Social Scientific Inquiry

    by Donald W. Katzner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    I have three reasons for bringing out the ensuing collection of essays. First, since analysis without measurement (this is generally not the same thing as what is commonly referred to as "qualitative methods" or "qualitative research" in the social science literature) is a relatively new scholarly endeavor, I am striving to enhance its visibility by attracting a wider audience than what would ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Creative Teamwork

    Developing Rapid, Site-Switching Ethnography

    Edited by Pat Armstrong, Ruth Lowndes ...
    Creative Team Work describes a new way of doing rapid ethnography to capture the rich complexity and contradictions of social relations. It is about the imagination, stimulation, and reflection that can come with international, interdisciplinary teams sharing the development, application, analysis, and dissemination of research. Although the book is based on a large, seven-year project studying ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Water Pollution and Abatement Policy in India

    A Study from an Economic Perspective

    by Kakali Mukhopadhyay, Debesh Chakraborty ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    India has been traditionally well-endowed with large freshwater reserves, but increasing population, urbanization and agricultural growth in recent decades are causing overexploitation of surface and groundwater. As consumption of water grows, wastewater increases significantly and in the absence of proper measures for treatment and management, is polluting existing freshwater reserves. As a ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics

    A Handbook

    Edited by Andrew Caplin, Andrew Schotter ...
    Series series Handbooks of Economic Methodology
    The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics: A Handbook is the first book in a new series by Andrew Caplin and Andrew Schotter. There is currently no guide available on the rapidly changing methodological frontiers of the field of economics. Economists have been introducing new theories and new sources of data at a remarkable rate in recent years, and there are widely divergent views both ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD