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EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

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Hbk | 472pp | 9781787141834 | 17/08/2017A$145 | NZ$175 | Emerald Publishing Ltd

This text explains how educational research can inform the design of technology-enhanced learning environments. After laying pedagogical, technological and content foundations, it analyses learning in Web 2.0, Social Networking, Mobile Learning and Virtual Worlds to derive nuanced principles for technology-enhanced learning design.

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Design of Technology-Enhanced Learning: Integrating Research and Practice

Amanda Coffey

Pbk | 168pp | 9781473913332 | 13/10/2018A$63 | NZ$75 | Sage Publications Ltd

This text provides a systematic introduction to ethnographic methods for data collection, analysis and representation. It takes students through the art and the methodological practicalities of ethnographic research, covering research design, choosing and accessing research settings and participants, data collection, field roles, analysis and writing. The text concludes with a bold assessment of the challenges, innovations and futures facing ethnography.

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ETHNOGRAPHY

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Raymond Madden


Being Ethnographic is an essential introductory guidebook to the methods and applications of doing fieldwork in real-world settings. It discusses the future of ethnography, explores how we understand identity, and sets out the role of technology in a global, networked society. Driven by classic and anecdotal case studies,Being Ethnographic highlights the challenges introduced by the ethnographers' own interests, biases and ideologies and demonstrates the importance of methodological reflexivity.

Being Ethnographic: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Ethnography 2ed

Anne Markiewicz and Ian Patrick

Pbk | 312pp | 9781483358338 | 28/07/2015A$92 | NZ$109 | Sage Publications Inc

This practical text provides step-by-step guidance on how to develop a monitoring and evaluation framework in a participatory, logical, systematic, and integrated way. The authors outline key stages including scoping the framework, identifying planned results, using programme theory and programme logic, developing evaluation questions, identifying processes for on-going data analysis and learning and implementing the framework.

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Developing Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks

Donna R Podems

Pbk | 362pp | 9781462537808 | 21/11/2018A$82 | NZ$99 | Guilford Publications Inc

Demystifying the evaluation journey, this is the first evaluation mentoring text that addresses the choices, roles, and challenges that evaluators must navigate in the real world. Experienced evaluator and trainer Donna R. Podems covers both conceptual and technical aspects of practice in a friendly, conversational style. She focuses not just on how to do evaluations but how to think like an evaluator, fostering reflective, ethical, and culturally sensitive practice.

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Being an Evaluator: Your Practical Guide to Evaluation

Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel

Pbk | 176pp | 9780691183138 | 10/10/2018A$36.99 | NZ$44.99 | Princeton University Press

While much has been gained from the successes of randomised controlled trials, stories of failed projects often do not get told. In Failing in the Field, Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel delve into the common causes of failure in field research, so that researchers might avoid similar pitfalls in future work. Drawing on the prior experiences of top social scientists working in developing countries, this text delves into failed projects and helps guide practitioners as they embark on their research.

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Failing in the Field: What We Can Learn When Field Research Goes Wrong

Christopher Hart


This text is the ultimate guide to the "what," "how," and "why" of literature reviewing. In combining a critical, philosophical approach with an expertly selected body of practical examples, this Second Edition of Chris Hart's landmark text provides both the intellectual understanding and the technical skills required to produce sophisticated, robust literature reviews of the very highest standard.

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Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Research Imagination 2ed

Diana Ridley

Pbk | 232pp | 9781446201435 | 31/07/2012A$58.99 | NZ$69 | Sage Publications Ltd

This second edition of Ridley's bestselling text provides a step-by-step guide to conducting a literature search and literature review, using cases and examples throughout to demonstrate best practice. Ridley outlines practical strategies for conducting a systematic search of the available literature, reading and note taking, and writing up a literature review as part of an undergraduate research project, Masters dissertation or PhD thesis.

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Andrew Booth, Anthea Sutton and Diana Papa


Showing you how to take a structured and organised approach to a wide range of literature review types, this text helps you to choose which approach is right for your research. Packed with constructive tools, examples, case studies and hands-on exercises, the text covers the full range of literature review techniques. With an emphasis on the practical skills, this guide is essential for any student needing to get from first steps to a successful literature review.

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Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review 2ed

Sara Efrat Efron and Ruth Ravid


This accessible text provides a roadmap for producing a high-quality literature review - an integral part of a successful thesis, dissertation, term paper, or grant proposal. Each step of searching for, evaluating, analysing, and synthesising prior studies is clearly explained and accompanied by user-friendly suggestions, organisational tips, vignettes and examples of student work. Also featured are excerpts from peer-reviewed quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods articles.

Writing the Literature Review: A Practical Guide

Cheryl N Poth


Explaining both why and how to use mixed methods for discovering solutions to complex research problems, this text gives students the tools to adapt approaches to suit their own research conditions. Written in a warm, encouraging tone and packed with helpful diagrams and visual organisers, it provides an easy-to-follow map to the mixed methods process, covering everything from ‘what is mixed methods research?’ to framing, integrating, and describing a complexivity-sensitive mixed methods approach.

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Innovation in Mixed Methods Research: A Practical Guide to Integrative Thinking with Complexity

John W Creswell and J David Creswell


This bestselling text pioneered the comparison of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design. For all three approaches, John W. Creswell and new co-author J. David Creswell include a preliminary consideration of philosophical assumptions, key elements of the research process, a review of the literature, an assessment of the use of theory in research applications, and reflections about the importance of writing and ethics in scholarly inquiry.

Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (ISE) 5ed

Uwe Flick


This text shows students not just how to use triangulation as a strategy of quality management, but also how to use it as an approach to designing and doing qualitative research in a more comprehensive way. Flick links triangulation with current debates about using mixed methods, and outlines their potential for extending qualitative research, addressing questions such as how such research can benefit from integrating quantitative (mixed methods), or from working more generally with more than one approach (triangulation).

Doing Triangulation and Mixed Methods 2ed

John Creswell and Vicki Plano Clark


The authors walk students through the entire research process, from formulating questions to designing, collecting data, and interpreting results and include updated examples from published mixed methods studies drawn from the social, behavioural, health, and education disciplines. Combining the latest thinking about mixed methods research designs with practical, step-by-step guidance, this text covers seven mixed methods designs, with accompanying journal articles in the back of the text illustrating each of these designs.

Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research 3ed (ISE)

Patricia Bazeley


Integrating Analyses in Mixed Methods Research goes beyond mixed methods research design and data collection, providing a pragmatic discussion of the challenges of effectively integrating data to facilitate a more comprehensive and rigorous level of analysis. Showcasing a range of strategies for integrating different sources and forms of data as well as different approaches in analysis, it helps students plan, conduct, and disseminate complex analyses with confidence.

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Integrating Analyses in Mixed Methods Research

Tiffany Bergin


Covering the general process of data analysis to finding, collecting, organising, and presenting data, this text offers a complete introduction to the fundamentals of data analysis.Using real-world case studies as illustrations, it helps students understand theories behind and develop techniques for conducting quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods data analysis.

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Johnny Saldana


Johnny Saldana's unique and invaluable manual demystifies the qualitative coding process with a comprehensive assessment of different coding types, examples and exercises. The ideal reference for students, teachers, and practitioners of qualitative inquiry, it is essential reading across the social sciences and neatly guides you through the multiple approaches available for coding qualitative data.

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The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers 3ed

Kathy Charmaz


This is the second edition of Kathy Charmaz's ground-breaking and bestselling text on grounded theory. It retains the accessible and engaging style of the first edition to present for students a benchmark introduction to doing grounded theory from a constructivist perspective. Constructing Grounded Theory 2ed retains the strengths of the first edition while updating it with a dazzling array of new examples of grounded theory practice from diverse disciplines and professions.

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Constructing Grounded Theory 2ed

Stephanie Gaudet and Dominique Robert


This hands-on guide takes students from start-to-finish through the research process while showcasing the complexities and interrelationships of different methods, schools of thought, and associated analytical strategies. Encouraging students to think of qualitative research as a flexible, cyclical process rather than a linear one, this book offers a panoramic strategy and dynamic approach to qualitative research that accommodates the fluid nature of research and accounts for lessons learned through lived experience.

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A Journey Through Qualitative Research: From Design to Reporting

Uwe Flick


This short, easy to read introduction to grounded theory will help you to employ the method in your research project. Uwe Flick discusses each stage of the process of doing grounded theory research, including formulating a research question through analysis of data, theoretical sampling, sorting and saturation, data collection, coding and forming theories from data.

Doing Grounded Theory 2ed

Michelle O'Reilly and Nikki Kiyimba


This distinctive, nuanced text addresses the more complex theoretical issues embedded in the qualitative research paradigm. Adopting a reflective stance that emphasises the role of the researcher it carefully avoids a standardised ‘tick box’ approach to methods. It explores the impact of theory on practical topics such as data management and safety in the field. Theory is powerfully and persuasively interwoven within each chapter.

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Advanced Qualitative Research: A Guide to Using Theory

David Silverman


In this fifth edition of his field-defining text, David Silverman, a true guru of qualitative research, walks the student through the basics of gathering and analysing qualitative data. It offers beginners unrivalled hands-on guidance to help them get the best out of a research methods course or research project. This is the perfect companion for all those new to qualitative research.

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Interpreting Qualitative Data 5ed

Jennifer Mason


The third edition of this bestselling text guides students through the process of doing qualitative research, clearly explaining how different theoretical approaches inform what you do in practice. By posing "difficult questions" that researchers should be asking themselves while doing qualitative research, the text encourages reflection on how we draw insights, how we interpret, and how we craft knowledge from qualitative research.

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Qualitative Researching 3ed

Tim Rapley


Introducing the theory and practice of conversation, discourse and document analysis, this text proves how useful these methods are in addressing key questions in the social sciences. A true masterclass on practical issues such as generating an archive, transcribing video material, and analysing discourses using a full range of documentary and verbal data. It is the essential guide to exploring the rich rewards of working with text and talk.

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David Silverman


Written by a who's who of methodologists, this text introduces students to the big picture of qualitative research, teaching both the ‘why' and the ‘how to' of getting started, selecting a method, and conducting research and data analysis. With practical tips, summaries, exercises, and further reading, each chapter is like a masterclass from a leading scholar in qualitative research. This is the perfect all-in-one companion for any student embarking on a qualitative research course or project.

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Qualitative Research 4ed

Matthew B Miles, A Michael Huberman and Jo


This is a classic text that has helped thousands of graduate students since its first publication in 1984. The fourth edition’s presentation of the fundamentals of research design and data management is followed by five distinct methods of analysis: exploring, describing, ordering, explaining, and predicting. Matthew B Miles and A Michael Huberman's original research studies are profiled and accompanied with new examples from Johnny Saldaña's recent qualitative work.

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Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook 4ed

John Creswell and Cheryl N Poth


In this new edition, the authors explore the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of each of five qualitative inquiry traditions: narrative research; phenomenology; grounded theory; ethnography; and case study. In an accessible writing style, the authors relate research designs to each of the traditions of inquiry and compare theoretical frameworks, ways to employ standards of quality, and strategies for writing introductions to studies, collecting data, analysing data, writing a narrative, and verifying results.

Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches (ISE) 4ed

Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke


Successful Qualitative Research is an accessible, practical guide to doing qualitative research. It sidesteps detailed theoretical discussion and focuses on the core commonalities, providing a toolkit of methods, explaining why and when each method is used and demonstrating how they are used. For clarity and consistence, the authors use the same data set, reproduced in full, to apply the different processes and outcomes of the analytical methods they cover.

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Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners

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Marcus Banks


This text helps students and scholars get started on the exciting journey of using visual data in social research. It covers the many uses a researcher can make of images, from creating images as a part of the research process to collecting and analysing images from diverse sources. Exploring the opportunities and arming students with tools to overcome some of the practical challenges,Using Visual Data in Qualitative Research is a perfect guide to uncovering new and unexpected dimensions of social life.

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Using Visual Data in Qualitative Research 2ed

Uwe Flick


Quality underpins the success (or failure) of any piece of qualitative research. In this text, Uwe Flick takes you through the steps in method and design to ensure quality and reliability throughout the entire research process. Showing hands-on what it means to 'manage' quality, this book puts the spotlight on practical questions and steps researchers can use to continually interrogate, improve and demonstrate quality in your research.

Managing Quality in Qualitative Research 2ed

Graham R Gibbs


This text tackles the challenges of how to make sense of qualitative data. It offers students a hands-on guide to the practicalities of coding, comparing data, and using computer-assisted qualitative data analysis. Lastly, Gibbs shows you how to bring it all together, so you can see the steps of qualitative analysis, understand the central place of coding, ensure analytic quality and write effectively to present your results.

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Analyzing Qualitative Data 2ed

Lynn Butler-Kisber


Qualitative inquiry is not merely a research method or a series of analytic steps, but a holistic process that challenges the age-old qualitative/quantitative dichotomy. This text provides students and researchers with an approachable guide to a range of interpretive perspectives, including thematic, narrative, and arts-based types of inquiry.

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Qualitative Inquiry: Thematic, Narrative and Arts-Based Perspectives 2ed


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Jamie Harding


This is the ideal text to get students up and running with the basics of qualitative data analysis. It breaks everything down into a series of simple steps and introduces the practical tools and techniques students need to turn their transcripts into meaningful research. Using multidisciplinary data from interviews and focus groups Jamie Harding provides clear guidance on how to apply key research skills such as making summaries, identifying similarities, drawing comparisons and using codes.

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Qualitative Data Analysis: From Start to Finish 2ed

David Silverman

Kit | 592pp | 9781526441614 | 9/12/2017A$92 | NZ$112 | Sage Publications Ltd

Accessible, practical, and featuring indispensable advice, this bestselling text is the perfect hands-on guide for students embarking on their own research. With expert advice from the author and real-life experiences from students, this book shows how to go from the ideas of research to the practicalities of designing, conducting, and writing about research. This text secures its place as the "take this everywhere" textbook that supports students both in the classroom and in the field.

Doing Qualitative Research (Pbk plus Interactive Ebk) 5ed

Uwe Flick


This concise introduction to qualitative research design will help students to think through the questions they need to ask when embarking on their research. Uwe Flick discusses each stage of the process of designing qualitative research, from turning an idea into a research question, selecting a sample, choosing an appropriate strategy, developing a conceptual framework and data source, and preparing for data collecting and analysis.

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Designing Qualitative Research 2ed

Rosaline Barbour


Focus groups are a popular method for collecting qualitative data in the social sciences. Doing Focus Groups provides a concise, practical introduction to planning and organising successful focus groups. Barbour discusses the advantages and limitations of using group discussion and demonstrates effective methods for collecting and analysing data. This is a perfect how-to introduction to getting the most out of your focus group research.

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Doing Focus Groups 2ed

Mats Alvesson and Kaj Skoldberg


Reflexivity is an essential part of the research process. Mats Alvesson and Kaj Sköldberg make explicit the links between techniques used in empirical research and different research traditions, giving a theoretically informed approach to qualitative research. Building on the acclaimed and successful previous editions, the third edition provides further critical updates and illustrations of the applications of reflexive methodology in formulating research strategies.

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Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research 3ed

Thomas Lindlof and Bryan Taylor


The fourth edition of Qualitative Communication Research Methods takes students through every step of the qualitative research process - from the research idea to the finished report. Spanning the fields of both speech communication and media studies research, this edition is fully updated with new figures and tables, additional illustrations of field notes and sample reports, and expanded key topics, including new directions in doing research in rapidly changing technological cultures.

Qualitative Communication Research Methods 4ed

Nathan Durdella


Qualitative Dissertation Methodology: A Guide for Research Design and Methods functions as a dissertation advisor to help students construct and write a qualitative methodological framework for their research. Drawing from the challenges author Nathan Durdella has experienced while supervising students, the book breaks down producing the dissertation chapter into smaller pieces and goes through each portion of the methodology process step by step.

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Qualitative Dissertation Methodology: A Guide for Research Design and Methods

Raji Swaminathan and Thalia M Mulvihill


This timely resource provides a framework for teaching students how to think qualitatively and become more critical and reflexive researchers. Presented are a wealth of pedagogical tools that instructors across the disciplines can tailor to their own needs, including thought-provoking discussion questions, group work exercises, and field activities. The authors discuss issues and choices in course design, including approaches to assessment and grading, and share sample syllabi for both online and face-to-face course formats.

Teaching Qualitative Research: Strategies for Engaging Emerging Scholars


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Andrew F Hayes

Hbk | 692pp | 9781462534654 | 13/12/2017A$126 | NZ$154 | Guilford Publications Inc

Using the principles of ordinary least squares regression, Andrew F. Hayes carefully explains procedures for testing hypotheses about the conditions under and the mechanisms by which causal effects operate, as well as the moderation of such mechanisms. Hayes shows how to estimate and interpret direct, indirect, and

conditional effects; probe and visualise interactions; test questions about moderated mediation; and report different types of analyses.

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Introduction to Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis: A Regression-Based Approach 2ed

Damodar N Gujarati

Pbk | 272pp | 9781544336572 | 17/07/2018A$43.99 | NZ$53.99 | Sage Publications Inc

Regression analysis is one of the most widely and intensively used techniques of quantitative research in the social and behavioural sciences, economics, and the health sciences. Damodar N. Gujarati presents linear regression theory in a rigorous but approachable manner, so that it is accessible to beginning graduate students in the social sciences. The technical discussion is provided in a clear and accessible style, with advanced discussion of some of the topics offered in the appendices to the various chapters.

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Linear Regression: A Mathematical Introduction

Michael Lewis-Beck and Colin Lewis-Beck


This bestselling introduction to regression is known for its readability and clarity. Applied Regression 2edorganises the material logically and in a way that students find easy to follow. It provides the student with applied examples, and without too much unnecessary derivation of mathematical formulae. Ebook Available

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Applied Regression: An Introduction 2ed

Erin E Ruel


Surveys are no longer the province of academics and marketing firms, rather technology has made it possible for anyone and everyone to conduct a survey. Making this technology accessible to everyone can be very positive, but to get the most out of using surveys, there are some basic principles that should be followed. Erin Ruel's 100 Questions (and Answers) About Survey Research is designed to make those principles accessible in an easily digestible format.

100 Questions (and Answers) About Survey Research

Ian Brace

Pbk | 384pp | 9780749481971 | 3/04/2018A$79 | NZ$97 | Kogan Page Ltd

Questionnaire Design delivers a complete handbook for the mounting challenge of acquiring more data in less time, generating an entire rethink on how data is collected. The growth in mobile devices is limiting the readability of traditional measurement tools, new consumer channels are altering access, whilst time spent answering questions is decreasing exponentially. This book provides practical guidelines to plan, structure and compose questionnaires across all industries and purposes.

Questionnaire Design: How to Plan, Structure and Write Survey Material for Effective Market Research 4ed

Sheila B Robinson and Kimberly Firth Leona


Surveys are a cornerstone of social and behavioural research, and with the use of web-based tools, surveys have become an easy and inexpensive means of gathering data. But how researchers ask a question can dramatically influence the answers they receive. This text addresses a distinct gap in the literature that specifically addresses question wording beyond the basic, often repeated and highly general advice.

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Designing Quality Survey Questions

Gjoko Muratovski


Design is everywhere: it influences how we live, what we wear, how we communicate, what we buy, and how we behave. In order for designers to design for the real world, defining strategies rather than just implementing them, they need to learn how to understand and solve complex, intricate and often unexpected problems. Research for Designers is an essential toolkit for a design education and every design student who is getting ready to tackle their own research.

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Research for Designers: A Guide to Methods and Practice

Nick Emmel, Joanne Greenhalgh, Ana Manzano


Bringing together leading theorists, researchers and policy makers with expertise in using realist methods, this text is a definitive guide to putting realist methodologies into practice.Not just an overview of the field, this text looks to extend current debates and apply realist methods to new and practical challenges in social research. Featuring practical, worked examples of how to turn theory into evidence, it empowers students not just to understand realist methods, but to use them.

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Renita Coleman


This is a practical, applied text for courses in experimental design. The text assumes that students have just a basic knowledge of the scientific method, and no statistics background is required. With its focus on how to effectively design experiments, rather than how to analyse them, the text concentrates on the stage where researchers are making decisions about procedural aspects of the experiment before interventions and treatments are given.

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Designing Experiments for the Social Sciences: How to Plan, Create, and Execute Research Using Experiments

Diana Panke


Heavily grounded in helping students make the best choices for their projects, this book explores how to develop and work with theory, research questions, and method selection to build solid, logical proposals and move from research concepts to fully realised designs. Rather than rushing initial planning stages or reverse engineering questions from preferred methods, it encourages students to challenge unconscious biases around method selection and analysis and provides step-by-step guidance on choosing a method that is in-line with the question being explored.

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Research Design and Method Selection: Making Good Choices in the Social Sciences

Ranjit Kumar


This fifth edition of the bestseller Research Methodology has reimagined, redesigned, and fully renovated how a textbook can help students achieve success in their methods course or research project. Foolproof for any beginner researcher, the book breaks the process of designing and doing a research project into achievable stages. It delivers students from a research problem to their written research report at the pace they need, with clear explanations, DIY tasks, helpful visualisations and study skills support.

Research Methodology: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners 5ed

Klaus Krippendorff


This edition of Content Analysis introduces students and scholars to a method of analysing the textual fabric of contemporary society. Today, content analysis has become an efficient alternative to public opinion research - a method of tracking markets, political leanings, and emerging ideas, a way to settle legal disputes, and an approach to explore individual human minds.

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Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology 4ed

Barbara Fawcett and Rosalie Pockett


How do you turn a really good idea into a really good question, and how do you turn this into successful research? Fawcett and Pockett use their expertise to provide students with the frameworks and the theoretical and practical guidance they need to design, carry out, and communicate their research effectively.Ebook Available

RESEARCH METHODS

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Turning Ideas into Research: Theory, Design and Practice

Gordon Robertson, Graham Caldwell, Joseph

Hbk | 440pp | 9780736093408 | 1/11/2013A$179 | NZ$218 | Human Kinetics Inc

Research Methods in Biomechanics, Second Edition, demonstrates the range of available research techniques and how to best apply this knowledge to ensure valid data collection. In the highly technical field of biomechanics, research methods are frequently upgraded as the speed and sophistication of software and hardware technologies increase. With this in mind, the second edition includes up-to-date research methods and presents new information detailing advanced analytical tools for investigating human movement.

Research Methods in Biomechanics 2ed

Jerry Thomas, Jack Nelson and Stephen Silv


Research Methods in Physical Activity 7ed,systematically guides students through the research process, introducing methods and tools specifically for kinesiology and exercise science disciplines, including the subdisciplines of physical therapy, rehabilitation, and occupational therapy. The seventh edition leads students and novice researchers to research competency with the distinctive humour that has become a trademark of this internationally recognised text.

Research Methods in Physical Activity 7ed

Dawn Brancati


Offering an engaging and entertaining introduction to research methods, this is a practical and easy-to-use companion for all new students in the social sciences. Covering all the key stages of the research process, this text guides students in navigating some of the biggest challenges in developing a research project. Bringing methods to life for students across the social sciences, this book will provide you with the confidence you need to get your research off the ground.

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Svend Brinkmann and Steinar Kvale


This is a concise introduction to the richness and scope of interviewing in social science research, teaching the craft of interview research with practical, hands-on guidance. Incorporating discussion of the wide variety of methods in interview-based research and the different approaches to reading the data, this text will help students to navigate the broad field of qualitative research with confidence and get out there and start collecting their data.

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Doing Interviews 2ed

Wayne Booth, Gregory Colomb, Joseph Willia

Pbk | 336pp | 9780226239736 | 28/09/2016A$37.99 | NZ$46.99 | University of Chicago Press

The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level to learn how to conduct effective and meaningful research. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C Booth, Gregory G Colomb, and Joseph M Williams, this fundamental work explains how to find and evaluate sources, anticipate and respond to reader reservations, and integrate these pieces into an argument that stands up to reader critique.

The Craft of Research 4ed

Bagele Chilisa


Responding to increased emphasis in the classroom and the field on exposing students to diverse epistemologies, methods, and methodologies, Bagele Chilisa has written the first textbook that situates research in a larger, historical, cultural, and global context. With case studies from around the world, the text demonstrates the specific methodologies that are commensurate with the transformative paradigm of research and the historical and cultural traditions of indigenous peoples.

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Indigenous Research Methodologies

Derek Layder


With its unique modelling and mapping of social processes, Investigative Research offers an alternative approach to social research. This text guides students through the theoretical grounding and rules they need to effectively combine the evidence-based explanations of social behaviour and distinctive strategies of data collection associated with investigative research.

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Investigative Research: Theory and Practice

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Andy Ruddock


In the age of reality television, 24-hour news and personality politics, understanding how media function has become a key aspect of the active citizen’s cultural awareness is essential. With this in mind, this text argues for a new form of dialogue between students of the media and popular audiences. It aims to democratise media studies research and to extend its accessibility and significance beyond the academy to a wider public.

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Exploring Media Research: Theories, Practice, and Purpose

Per Ledin and David Machin


Visual communication shapes our perceptions and experiences of the world. Doing Visual Analysis: From Theory to Practice provides a concrete set of tools to research and analyse a wide range of visual data, showing students how to apply the right mix of methods to their own research projects and equipping them with the skills to break down and analyse contemporary visual communication.

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Doing Visual Analysis: From Theory to Practice

Emily Anderson and Amy Corneli


100 Questions (and Answers) About Research Ethics is an essential guide for graduate students. It identifies ethical issues that individuals must consider when planning research studies as well as provides guidance on how to address ethical issues that might arise during research implementation. Questions such as assessing risks, protecting privacy and vulnerable populations, obtaining informed consent, using technology including social media, negotiating the IRB process, and handling data ethically are covered.

100 Questions (and Answers) About Research Ethics

Nevine Sultan


Since the original publication of Clark Moustakas’s classic text on heuristic research (SAGE, 1990), there has not be another text completely devoted to this method. Focused on exploring human experience from an authentic researcher perspective, this new text presents heuristic inquiry as a unique phenomenological, experiential, and relational approach to qualitative research that is also rigorous and evidence-based.

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Barry Brummett


This text helps students see what tests - be they written, oral, visual, or mediated - may be saying. Renowned scholar Barry Brummett explains and explores the various ways to "read" messages (such as speeches, cartoons, or magazine ads), teaching students how to see deeper levels of meaning and how to share those insights with others. Within the pages of this brief book, students will learn techniques for discovering form, rhetorical tropes, argument, and ideologies within texts.

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Techniques of Close Reading 2ed

Robert K Yin


Providing a complete portal to the world of case study research, the new edition offers comprehensive coverage of the design and use of the case study method in addition to an integration of applications. The text's coverage of case study research along with the applications gives students access to exemplary case studies drawn from a wide variety of academic and applied fields. The integration of applications will enable users to see more directly how concrete case studies can implement the principles of case study research methods.

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Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods 6ed

Kathrynn A Adams and Eva K Lawrence


This book consistently integrates methods and statistics while including multiple examples and practical application to make the material more interesting and to take some of the mystery and anxiety out of learning research methods and statistics. One of the greatest strengths of this text is the consistent integration of research methods and statistics so that students can better understand how the research process requires the combination of these elements. The goal is to spark students' interest in conducting research and to increase their ability to critically analyse it.

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Research Methods, Statistics, and Applications 2ed

Zina O'Leary


The ultimate companion to successfully completing your research project. The author guides you through a step-by-step approach to research and provides all of the skills and momentum you need to excel. Each stage of a project is clearly set out with best practice highlighted alongside pragmatic advice for tackling research in the real world. The text is packed full of learning features and tools to support your journey.

The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project 3ed

Sophie Laws, Caroline Harper, Nicola Jones


This text offers a comprehensive guide to commissioning, managing, and undertaking research in development work; it serves both as a practical reference manual and an indispensable learning tool. The text covers the uses and planning of research, the selection of research methods, and the analysis and presentation of research findings - together these provide a complete overview of the entire research process.

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Research for Development: A Practical Guide 2ed

Gary Thomas


With more advice on concluding, writing up and presenting research, using social media and digital methods, and understanding what supervisors want and how to work with them, the third edition of this bestselling title continues to lead the way as an essential guide for anyone undertaking a research project in the applied social sciences. Setting out a clear and detailed road map, Gary Thomas guides students through the different stages of a research project, explaining key steps and processes at each level in refreshingly jargon-free terms.

How to Do Your Research Project: A Guide for Students 3ed

Keith F Punch


Successful research requires effective and thorough preparation. In this third edition, Keith Punch offers an indispensable guide to the issues involved in proposal development and in presenting a well-considered plan for the execution of research. Dealing with both qualitative and quantitative approaches to empirical research across the social sciences, the text comprehensively covers the topics and concerns relevant to the subject.

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Developing Effective Research Proposals 3ed

Peter Kettner, Robert Moroney and Lawrence


The fifth edition of the classic text for human services helps students grasp the meaning and significance of measuring performance and evaluating outcomes. The authors, all leaders in the field, incorporate the principles of effectiveness-based planning as they address the steps of designing, implementing, and evaluating a human services programme at the local agency level.

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Vivienne Waller, Karen Farquharson and Deb


Qualitative Social Research employs an accessible approach to present the multiple ways in which criticism enhances research practice. Packed full of relevant, 'real world' examples, it showcases the strengths and pitfalls of each research method, integrating the philosophical groundings of qualitative research with thoughtful overviews of a range of commonly used methods.

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Qualitative Social Research: Contemporary Methods for the Digital Age

Jessica N Lester and Michelle O'Reilly


In this timely text, Jessica N. Lester and Michelle O'Reilly provide practical and theoretical guidance on how to undertake conversation analysis studies in applied contexts, while also offering guidance regarding the benefits, limitations, and challenges of undertaking work of this nature. This text seeks to guide the student through the practical issues of doing conversation analysis, while providing the theoretical foundation for making research decisions.

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Applied Conversation Analysis: Social Interaction in Institutional Settings

Sarah Quinton and Nina Reynolds


Understanding Research in the Digital Age is a guide to understanding digital research from both a conceptual and practical perspective, helping the student to make sense of the issues, challenges and opportunities of social science research in the digital age. The text is divided into three main sections: Justification & Reconceptualisation of Digital Research; Accessing Digital Data; and Moving Forward with Digital Research.

Understanding Research in the Digital Age

Keith F Punch


Keith Punch takes a fresh look at the entire research process, from formulating a research question to writing up your research. Covering qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods, the text focuses on matching research questions to appropriate methods. Offering concise, balanced coverage, it clearly explains the underlying principles of social research and shows you how to put this understanding into practice.

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Introduction to Social Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches 3ed

Charles Ragin and Lisa Amoroso


Rather than offer an inventory of data collection and analysis techniques, this text's primary goal is to show the unity within the diversity of activities that are called social research - to make sense of social research in a way that demonstrates how all social researchers construct representations of social life, using theories, systematic data collection, and careful examination of that data.

Constructing Social Research: The Unity and Diversity of Method 3ed

David L Morgan


Basic and Advanced Focus Groups gives students a comprehensive picture of focus groups with coverage of both the “how-to” and the why of focus groups from research questions to analysis and beyond. In giving students a variety of approaches for doing research with focus groups, this text gives students the tools to develop and examine their research designs, starting with the basics. Advanced topics allow students to take an in-depth look at topics that may be crucial to their research.

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Basic and Advanced Focus Groups

Stephen Borgatti, Martin Everett and Jeffr


Designed to walk beginners through core aspects of collecting, visualising, analysing, and interpreting social network data, this text will get your students up-to-speed on the theory and skills they need to conduct social network analysis. Using simple language and equations, the authors provide expert, clear insight into every step of the research process - including basic maths principles - without making assumptions about what you know.

Analyzing Social Networks 2ed

Matt Henn, Mark Weinstein and Nick Foard


This book introduces students to the key ideas and issues that inform research practice. In it, Henn, Weinstein and Foard provide a clear and easy to understand route map to help readers plan their research project from beginning to end. This text is an essential guide to the theory of research, the practice of research and the best ways to plan and manage your research.

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A Critical Introduction to Social Research 2ed


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Patricia Leavy and Anne Harris


Exploring the breadth of contemporary feminist research practices, this engaging text immerses the reader in cutting-edge theories, methods, and practical strategies. Chapters review theoretical work from around the globe and describe approaches to conducting quantitative, qualitative, and community-based research with participants; doing content or media analysis; and evaluating programmes or interventions. Ethical issues are addressed and innovative uses of digital media highlighted.

Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice

Clive Seale


Written by internationally renowned experts, each chapter provides a full introduction to a key aspect of research methodology. From starting out to generating, analysing, and presenting data, this new edition covers foundational concepts in social research while also keeping students on the pulse of topics like digital social research, social surveys, and big data. Packed with international examples from across the social sciences, it shows how to interpret and work with data generated from real-world research.

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Researching Society and Culture 4ed

Earl Babbie, William E Wagner and Jeanne Pbk | 512pp | 9781506362779 | 8/06/2018A$149 | NZ$179 | Sage Publications Inc

Inspire students to pursue their own adventures in social research with this practical, hands-on introduction to data conceptualisation, measurement, and association through active learning. Adventures in Social Research: Data Analysis Using IBM® SPSS® Statistics encourages students to practice SPSS as they read about it. The fully revised Tenth Edition offers step-by-step instruction on data analysis using the latest version of SPSS through v. 24 and the most current 2016 General Social Survey data.

Adventures in Social Research: Data Analysis Using IBM® SPSS® Statistics 10ed

David E Gray


Featuring a full set of updated and integrated digital resources, as well as three new chapters on visual methods, qualitative data analysis with NVivo, and digital research, this fourth edition remains on the forefront of practical, applied research. Guiding students through every step of the research process from start to finish in a logical way, the text takes a pragmatic, real-world approach to research methods that gives students the tools and confidence to carry out their own research and see its value outside of university.

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Doing Research in the Real World (Pbk with Interactive ebook) 4ed

Russell K Schutt

Kit | 728pp | 9781544331409 | 14/05/2018A$239 | NZ$288 | Sage Publications Inc

In this exciting new edition of his leading social research text, author Russell K. Schutt, an award-winning researcher and teacher, continues to make the field come alive through research stories that illustrate the methods presented in each chapter. Through numerous examples and hands-on exercises that help students learn by doing, Investigating the Social World helps students understand research methods as an integrated whole.

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Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research (Pbk plus Interactive ebook) 9ed (ISE)

Andy Field


With an exciting new look, new characters to meet, and its unique combination of humour and step-by-step instruction, this award-winning book is the statistics lifesaver for everyone. From initial theory through to regression, factor analysis and multilevel modelling, Andy Field's fully updated fifth edition animates statistics and SPSS software with his famously bizarre examples and activities offering a trusted, student-friendly approach to mastering quantitative data analysis.

Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics 5ed

Andy Field


With an exciting new look, new characters to meet, and its unique combination of humour and step-by-step instruction, this award-winning text is the statistics lifesaver for everyone. From initial theory through to regression, factor analysis and multilevel modelling, Andy Field's fully updated fifth edition animates statistics and SPSS software with his famously bizarre examples and activities offering a trusted, student-friendly approach to mastering quantitative data analysis.

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Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics (Paperback plus Ebook) 5ed

Andy Field


With an exciting new look, new characters to meet, and its unique combination of humour and step-by-step instruction, this award-winning text is the statistics lifesaver for everyone. From initial theory through to regression, factor analysis and multilevel modelling, Andy Field's fully updated fifth edition animates statistics and SPSS software with his famously bizarre examples and activities offering a trusted, student-friendly approach to mastering quantitative data analysis.

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Gregory J. Privitera’s Essential Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences offers a concise and pedagogically rich introduction to the field of behavioural science statistics. With unique features like chapter opening vignettes, SPSS integration, and ample application problems, Privitera creates unparalleled scaffolding for student learning.

Essential Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences 2ed (ISE)

Gregory J Privitera


The Student Study Guide With IBM® SPSS® Workbook for Essential Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences includes a review of chapter learning objectives, chapter outlines and key terms, essential statistical formulas, special tips and insights for students, and chapter summaries. The guide offers word searches and crossword puzzles for each chapter, extensive practice quizzes linked to chapter learning objectives, and "SPSS in Focus" exercises which complement those in the book.

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Student Study Guide With IBM® SPSS® Workbook for Essential Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences 2ed (ISE)

Gregory J Privitera, Kristin L Sotak and Y


This is an alternate workbook to accompany Essential Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences 2ed. This format is an alternate option offering replacement "In Focus" sections for those who use R, SAS, or Stata as opposed to SPSS or Excel. Like the SPSS version, this rendition of Privitera's exercises includes a review of chapter learning objectives, chapter outlines and key terms, essential statistical formulas, helpful tips and insights for students, and chapter summaries.

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Essentials of Statistical Analysis "In Focus": Alternate Guides for R, SAS, and Stata for Essential Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences 2ed

Ben Lambert


Supported by a wealth of learning features, exercises, and visual elements as well as online video tutorials and interactive simulations, this textbook is the first student-focused introduction to Bayesian statistics. Without sacrificing technical integrity for the sake of simplicity, the author draws upon accessible, student-friendly language to provide approachable instruction perfectly aimed at statistics and Bayesian newcomers.

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A Student's Guide to Bayesian Statistics

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Statistics in Kinesiology 4ed provides an accessible introduction to statistics concepts and techniques and their applications to kinesiology-related fields. Students will learn to use statistical tools to analyse quantitative data and then apply that knowledge to common questions and problems they will encounter as they continue their studies.

Statistics in Kinesiology 4ed

Howard T Tokunaga


Fundamental Statistics is designed not to just teach students how to calculate statistics, but how to interpret the results of statistical analyses in light of a research hypothesis, and to communicate the results and interpretations to a broader audience.

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Fundamental Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences 2ed

Brian J Fogarty


Relevant, engaging, and packed with student-focused learning features, this book provides the basic step-by-step introduction to quantitative research and data every student needs. Gradually introducing applied statistics and the language and functionality of R and R Studio software, it uses examples from across the social sciences to show students how to apply abstract statistical and methodological principles to their own work.

Quantitative Social Science Data with R: An Introduction

Richard N Landers


A clear and concise introduction to statistics for business and management students, demonstrating how important statistics are in the business decision-making process and covering everything from conducting a survey and collecting data, to summarising statistical data, and presenting findings.Ebook Available

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A Step-By-Step Introduction to Statistics for Business 2ed


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Robert Stinerock


This dynamic, student focused textbook provides step-by-step instruction in the use of R and of statistical language as a general research tool. It is ideal for those hoping to: complete an introductory course in statistics; prepare for more advanced statistical courses; gain the transferable analytical skills needed to interpret research from across the social sciences; learn the technical skills needed to present data visually; acquire a basic competence in the use of R Statistics.

Statistics with R: A Beginner's Guide

Robert L Kaufman

Hbk | 480pp | 9781506365374 | 16/10/2018A$145 | NZ$175 | Sage Publications Inc

This text provides comprehensive and accessible coverage of methods for interpreting interaction effects in regression-like models. There are very few texts that cover interaction effects in the linear and generalised model in this depth, and the focus on applied research using Stata will make this an invaluable guide for graduate students taking quantitative methods courses in the social and behavioural sciences.

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Interaction Effects in Linear and Generalized Linear Models: Examples and Applications using Stata

James O Aldrich


This text gives students a very accessible and comprehensive guide to walking through SPSS, providing them with step-by-step knowledge for effectively analysing their data. From entering data to working with existing databases, from working with the help menu through performing factor analysis, Using IBM SPSS Statistics covers every aspect of SPSS from introductory through intermediate statistics.

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Using IBM® SPSS® Statistics: An Interactive Hands-On Approach 3ed

Andy Field, Jeremy Miles and Zoe Field


Keeping the uniquely humorous and self-deprecating style that has made students across the world fall in love with Andy Field's books, this text takes students on a journey of statistical discovery using the freeware R, a free, flexible and dynamically changing software tool for data analysis that is becoming increasingly popular across the social and behavioural sciences throughout the world.

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Discovering Statistics Using R

Andy Field


Once again, bestselling author and award-winning teacher Andy Field hasn't just broken the traditional textbook mould with his new textbook, he has forged in the fire of his imagination the only statistics book on the market with a terrifying probability bridge, zombies and talking cats! Field's unique approach introduces students across the social sciences to the importance and relevance of statistics in a lavishly illustrated format and style.

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An Adventure in Statistics: The Reality Enigma

Neil J Salkind


This fourth edition of Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics: Excel 2016 Edition, is the most accessible text for first courses in statistics. Presented in a clear and accessible way he provides students with exactly what they need to have a basic understanding of the fundamental ideas and the most commonly used techniques to understand and organise data. Through the use of Excel, students learn how to understand the world of statistics by the use of an easy to use and powerful tool.

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Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics: Using Microsoft Excel 2016 4ed

Chris Brunsdon and Lex Comber


This is a new edition of the accessible and student-friendly 'how to' for anyone using R for the first time, for use in spatial statistical analysis, geocomputation and digital mapping. The authors, once again, take readers from ‘zero to hero', updating the now standard text to further enable practical R applications in GIS, spatial analyses, spatial statistics, web-scraping and more.

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An Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis and Mapping 2ed

Zina O'Leary

Pbk | 108pp | 9781526456885 | 29/07/2018A$18.99 | NZ$22.99 | Sage Publications Ltd

Zina O'Leary's Research Question: Little Quick Fixteaches students how to find their interest, hone it to a topic, and turn it into a research question that is relevant, interesting and researchable. Little Quick Fixtitles provide quick but authoritative answers to the problems, hurdles and assessment points students face in the research course, project proposal or design -whatever their method of learning is.

Research Question: Little Quick Fix


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Zina O'Leary


When it comes to research proposals, there's the good, the bad, and the messy; there are essential elements and students often forget them, miss them, or struggle to find a workable plan. Zina O'Leary's Research Proposal: Little Quick Fix gives you a clever, beautiful workbook packed with real life examples to keep you on track. Use it to work through guided exercises; understand the elements of the proposal; and, put them together thoughtfully to create your very own research proposal - fast.

Research Proposal: Little Quick Fix

John MacInnes


Understand Probability: Little Quick Fix breaks it down step by step with crystal clear examples and exercises from a leading quantitative teacher. All you need is an hour and you'll finally get it. Once it clicks into place, you can nail that section of your exam. Little Quick Fix titles provide quick but authoritative answers to the problems, hurdles and assessment points students face in the research course, project proposal or design -whatever their method of learning is.

Understand Probability: Little Quick Fix

John MacInnes


This text unlocks the gate to simple data analysis for any statistics course. Packed with lively examples it shows students what variables are and why looking for relationships between them is so interesting, and so powerful. Little Quick Fix titles provide quick but authoritative answers to the problems, hurdles and assessment points students face in the research course, project proposal or design - whatever their method of learning is.

Identify Your Variables: Little Quick Fix

John MacInnes


The Know Your Numbers: Little Quick Fix teaches students easy ways to nail the basic numbers, but also why it's important. Relationships between numbers is what underpins all quantitative research. This text teaches students why it's fun, powerful, and definitely not scary, to see the world in numbers.Little Quick Fix titles provide quick but authoritative answers to the problems, hurdles and assessment points students face in the research course, project proposal or design - whatever their method of learning is.

Know Your Numbers: Little Quick Fix

Kate L Turabian

Pbk | 464pp | 9780226430577 | 1/04/2018A$39.99 | NZ$49.99 | University of Chicago Press

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations - also known as “Turabian” - remains one of the most popular books for writers because of its timeless focus on achieving these goals. While the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, the fundamentals remain the same: writers need to have a strong research question, construct an evidence-based argument, cite their sources, and structure their work in a logical way.

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A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers 9ed

Andrew J Friedland, Carol L Folt and Jenni

Pbk | 288pp | 9780300226706 | 11/09/2018A$33.99 | NZ$39.99 | Yale University Press

This fully revised edition of the authoritative guide to science proposal writing is an essential tool for any student embarking on a grant or thesis application. In accessible steps, the authors detail every stage of proposal writing, from conceiving and designing a project to analysing data, synthesising results, estimating a budget, and addressing reviewer comments and resubmitting. This new edition is updated to address changes and developments over the past decade.

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Writing Successful Science Proposals 3ed

Kieran Healy

Pbk | 304pp | 9780691181622 | 18/11/2018A$73 | NZ$88 | Princeton University Press

This text provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualisation. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods, and how to think about data visualisation in an honest and effective way.

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Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction

Tom Chatfield


Critical thinking is a set of techniques. You just need to learn them. So here's your personal toolkit for demystifying critical engagement. Critical Thinking walks students through exactly what critical thinking is: how good arguments work, what 'evidence' is, and what thinking and writing skills students need to demonstrate in their essays and coursework.

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