To venture into explanation of political action we need some map of our basic options: what kinds of explanations are out there? Even advanced students and scholars can find the landscape difficult to chart. We confront a bewildering maze of partial typologies, contrasting uses of terms, and debate over what counts as explanation. This book makes an argument about the most usef...(展开全部)

W．菲利普斯·夏夫利（W. Phillips Shively），现为美国明尼苏达大学政治学系教授。1971年之前在耶鲁大学、俄勒冈大学任教，还曾经担任挪威奥斯陆大学访问教授。历任《美国政治科学杂志》编辑、美国政治学会全国大会专题主席以及“选举制度比较研究”项目的负责人。他主要从事选举体制比较研究。曾在《美国政治科学评论》《美国政治科学杂志》《政治学杂志》及《政治分析》等顶级期刊上发表多篇论文，其最具广泛影响的代表性著作包括《政治科学研究方法》《跨层推断》（合著）。此外，他还曾担任明尼苏达州的院外活动成员，有较丰富的政治实践经历。

You've always dreamed of writing science fiction and fantasy tales that pull readers into extraordinary new worlds and fantastic conflicts. Best-selling author Orson Scott Card shows you how it's done, distilling years of writing experience and publishing success into concise, no-nonsense advice. You'll learn how to: • utilize story elements that define the science fiction and ...(展开全部)

Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western societies has been modified in recent years by the work of philosophers, sociologists and historians of science. In this book Bruno Latour brings together these different approaches to provide a lively and cha...(展开全部)

This book provides a general, comparative introduction to the major concepts and themes of political science. Politics may be seen as (1)the use of power or (2) the production of a public choice.That is, Power and choice are the focus of Politics. This book can give you a good glimpse of political science and it is much beneficial and suitable for the new learners of Politics.

Stephen Van Evera greeted new graduate students at MIT with a commonsense introduction to qualitative methods in the social sciences. His helpful hints, always warmly received, grew from a handful of memos to an underground classic primer. That primer evolved into a book of how-to information about graduate study, which is essential reading for graduate students and undergradua...(展开全部)

Offers tips and advice on writing science fiction, discussing the rules of fiction, and how to structure a successful story

The systematically revised third edition of the leading text on approaches and methods in political science features a considerable internatizationization in both the team of contributors and the range of coverage and examples. About half the chapters are entirely new and the rest are substantially revised and updated.

Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked era. This book, the first of its kind in political science, reconsiders the design and execution of field research and explores its role in producing knowledge. First, it offers an empir...(展开全部)

At the turn of the millennium there has been a major growth of interest in institutional theory and institutional analysis in political science. This book identifies these approaches to institutions, and provides a frame of reference for the different theories. In the past decade there has been a major growth of interest in institutional theory and institutional analysis in pol...(展开全部)