This book is intended for anyone who wants to research social, health, educational, and business issues. It is ideal for students, researchers, marketers, planners, and policymakers who design and manage public and private agencies, conduct research studies, and prepare strategic plans and grant proposals. This new edition includes: flow diagrams to assist the reader in linking...(展开全部)

何塞·L. 加尔万 （Jose L. Galvan）：美国加利福尼亚州立大学洛杉矶分校名誉教授。他的学术生涯跨越39年，曾任加利福尼亚州立大学洛杉矶分校研究生院院长、旧金山州立大学副校长等职，并在加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校、哥伦比亚大学师范学院等院校担任过重要职务。他还积极从事国际交流与合作，与中国、埃及、阿根廷、韩国、日本、古巴、越南等国的学术机构保持密切联系，并开展相应的教学活动。其研究项目获得来自美国教育部、富布赖特基金会、美国国际开发署和其他一些机构总额超过 1000万美元的资助。 梅丽莎 ·C. 加尔万（Melisa C. Galvan）：美国加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校博士，现为加利福尼亚州立大学北岭分校助理教授。

Research like a pro-and write a winning paper! Do research papers make you nervous? Don't panic! This task isn't as overwhelming as it may seem--and conducting good research is an important skill to have. With How to Write a Great Research Paper, you'll see how easy and rewarding it can be to explore a topic and present your ideas in an organized and interesting way. Filled w...(展开全部)

A Library Journal Best Book of the Year Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the internet, why it exploded, and how it changed everything. The internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology. In How the Internet Happened, he chronicles t...(展开全部)

The image of the lone inventor transforming society from the outside has a strong hold on the public's imagination. In reality, though, technologies are products of ongoing social and cultural processes. In Leonardo to the Internet, historian Thomas J. Misa provides a sweeping comparative history of the interrelationship between technology and society since the Renaissance, rev...(展开全部)

Now updated — A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society. Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped—and have been shaped by—the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industri...(展开全部)

Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped-and have been shaped by-the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism,...(展开全部)

"The authors provided state-of-the-art information about mixed methods approaches to research. The book significantly expands Creswell's previous editions of mixed methods approaches to research by including four complete current studies that exemplify distinctive research using mixed methods...What becomes apparent throughout the book is the authors' interest in providing rese...(展开全部)

Mixed method research design, spearheaded by the author of the best-selling Research Design text (Second Edition, SAGE 2002), combines the latest thinking about mixed methods research designs with practical, step-by-step guidelines for the decisions that must be made in designing a mixed methods research study. The text: - offers a practical, how-to guide for designing a mixed ...(展开全部)