Product Description: Book by Dollard, John

Product Description: This unique book is intended to be used as a field guide and reference manual for field service engineers and in-house biomedical engineers when servicing radiographic equipment. The text includes chapters on the history and development of radiographic equipment, types of equipment found in the general radiographic room, fundamentals of radiography, safety practices in servicing, mobile x-ray units, installation processes, preventive maintenance, image quality, troubleshooting and repair, and customer relations...read more

Product Description: This new Seventh Edition is a most expansive and comprehensive text on radiographic exposure and imaging and encompasses the vast and intricate changes that have taken place in the field. As with previous editions, the book is intended to complement radiographic physics texts rather than duplicate them...read more

Product Description: Karl Popper is a philosopher of knowledge and politics, rationality and freedom. His ideas have won acceptance and provoked controversy among an academic as well as a more general audience. This book aims to broaden our understanding of Popper's philosophy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers students a comprehensive introduction to the field of research methods as practiced by sociologists and other social scientists. Emphasizing the importance of the research process, this book shows students how social scientists design research studies. It introduces the variety of observation modes used by sociologists.

Product Description: A major shift in research methodology from technical to more contextual and pragmatic approaches, this thorough resource incorporates new trends while also providing comprehensive coverage of the full range of established research approaches and techniques, skillfully combining epistemology, methodology, statistics, and application in a volume that is both sophisticated and practical...read more

Product Description: Babbie's THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH, 14th Edition gives students the tools they need to apply research concepts practically, as both researchers and consumers. This "gold-standard" research methods book shows students how to design and construct projects, introduces the various observation modes in use today, and answers questions about research methods -- such as how to conduct online surveys and analyze data...read more

Product Description: Max Weber's speech on "Science as a Vocation," presented in 1917 to students in Munich, Germany, is considered one of the outstanding presentations of the 20th Century. With his plea for the necessary self-restraint in the service of science and for "intellectual honesty," he not only provided a rhetorically brilliant example of self-reflection, but also destroyed all hopes placed in him for leadership and ideology...read more

Product Description: Realism is an approach to humanity which recognizes the real existence of social objects as well as physical objects.  It asserts that the things we are studying in social research have some prior existence and would continue to exist even if our knowledge of them was limited...read more

With innovative new chapters on process tracing, regression analysis, and natural experiments, the second edition of Rethinking Social Inquiry further extends the reach of this path-breaking book. The original debate with King, Keohane, and Verba_now updated_remains central to the volume, and the new material illuminates evolving discussions of essential methodological tools. Thus, process tracing is often invoked as fundamental to qualitative analysis, but is rarely applied with precision. Pitfalls of regression analysis are sometimes noted, but often are inadequately examined. And the complex assumptions and trade-offs of natural experiments are poorly understood. The second edition extends the methodological horizon through exploring these critical tools. A distinctive feature of this edition is the online placement of four chapters from the prior edition, all focused on the dialogue with King, Keohane, and Verba.

This book assembles a team of internationally-renowned researchers who share a commitment to rigorous qualitative research concerned with how social worlds are constructed. The contributors reflect on the analysis of various types of qualtiative data – observations, interviews, focus groups, documents, talk, visual data and the internet – using helpful case-studies.

Product Description: Written for students taking research methods courses, this text provides a thorough overview of sampling principles. The author gives detailed, nontechnical descriptions and guidelines with limited presentation of formulas to help students reach basic research decisions, such as whether to choose a census or a sample, as well as how to select sample size and sample type...read more