While heated arguments between practitioners of qualitative and quantitative research have begun to test the very integrity of the social sciences, Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba have produced a farsighted and timely book that promises to sharpen and strengthen a wide range of research performed in this field. These leading scholars, each representing diverse acade...(展开全部)

While heated arguments between practitioners of qualitative and quantitative research have begun to test the very integrity of the social sciences, Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba have produced a farsighted and timely book that promises to sharpen and strengthen a wide range of research performed in this field. These leading scholars, each representing diverse acade...(展开全部)

This popular text provides useful and pragmatic guidance for developing and successfully defending proposals for qualitative inquiry. The fifth edition addresses the advances and challenges presented by developments and new applications while providing direct guidance. Focusing on the proposal stage of research, this edition allows the reader to have a clear plan for data analy...(展开全部)

Harold Jeffreys 杰弗里 生于1891年4月22日,卒于1989年3月18日,生前系剑桥大学教授,国际著名数学家、统计学家、地球物理学家兼天文学家。他一生在科学的诸多领域都有建树,特别是他在20世纪30年代出版的两本著作《科学推断》(1931年初版,1957年第二版)、《概率论》(1939年出版),对于当代贝叶斯学派的重新兴 起,对于引起人们关注信息不完全或不确定情况下的科学推断问题,起到了先锋与开拓者的作用。1953年他被英国王室授予爵士头衔。

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A scientific theory is originally based on a particular set of observations. How can it be extended to apply outside this original range of cases? This question, which is fundamental to natural philosophy, is considered in detail in this book, which was originally published in 1931, and first published as this third edition in 1973. Sir Harold begins with the principle that 'it...(展开全部)

"Narratives in Social Science Research" introduces students to the use of narrative methodology as a research tool. It offers a useful and rigorous framework for the application of these devices within qualitative research. This practically-orientated text provides: an historical overview of the development of the narrative approach within the social sciences; a guide to how na...(展开全部)

Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography is a practical, in-depth guide to understanding and conducting qualitative research in human geography. Reflecting both established and modern methods, and written by some of the most authoritative voices in the discipline, the text teaches students how to plan, execute, interpret, and effectively communicate qualitative research....(展开全部)

"Qualitative Research Methods" is based on the authors' highly successful multidisciplinary qualitative methods workshops, which have been conducted for over a decade. In this book the authors propose a 'qualitative research cycle' that leads students through the selection of appropriate methods, the collection of data and the transformation of findings into a finished project....(展开全部)

Educational policy-makers around the world constantly make decisions about how to use scarce resources to improve the education of children. Unfortunately, their decisions are rarely informed by evidence on the consequences of these initiatives in other settings. Nor are decisions typically accompanied by well-formulated plans to evaluate their causal impacts. As a result, know...(展开全部)