Now inits 7th edition, Mathematical Methods for Physicists continues to provide all the mathematical methods that aspiring scientists and engineers are likely to encounter as students and beginning researchers. This bestselling text provides mathematical relations and their proofs essential to the study of physics and related fields. While retaining thekey features of the 6th...(展开全部)

Despite the existence of a large number of research methods textbooks, until now there has not been one offering coherent discussion of or clearly outlining a 'strategy' for research. How to do Research is intended to decisively redress this imbalance. Offering practical advice on all methodological aspects of research from literature review and interpretation of findings -...(展开全部)

Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting and beautifully written, is not. How would you tell the difference? Qualitative Literacy presents criteria to assess qualitative research methods such as in-depth interviewing and participant observation. Qualitative research is indispensable to t...(展开全部)

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)

夏林清教授简介 现任台湾辅仁大学心理学系教授兼系主任，1974年获国立政治大学教育系学士学位，1978年获美国宾州州立大学谘商教育专业硕士学位，1984年获美国哈佛大学谘商与谘询心理学专业硕士学位，1992年获 美国哈佛大学谘商与谘询心理学专业博士学位。 夏林清教授曾接受过美国National Training Laboratory的团体领导力训练、Asia-South Pacific Bureau for Adult Education (ASPBAE)的参与研究方法训练以及美国East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy的社会治疗训练等专业训练，为团体动力协会、台北市劳工教育资讯发展中心、粉领联盟、性工作者关怀互助协会(日日春协会)、中华民国行动研究学会等多个民间团体的创始人，并担任台北市财团法...(展开全部)

Did mandatory busing programs in the 1970s increase the school achievement of disadvantaged minority youth? Does obtaining a college degree increase an individual's labor market earnings? Did the use of the butterfly ballot in some Florida counties in the 2000 presidential election cost Al Gore votes? If so, was the number of miscast votes sufficiently large to have altered th...(展开全部)

The tools of design research, writes Brenda Laurel, will allow designers "to claim and direct the power of their profession." Often neglected in the various curricula of design schools, the new models of design research described in this book help designers to investigate people, form, and process in ways that can make their work more potent and more delightful. "At the very le...(展开全部)

Written in simple, straightforward language, From Research to Manuscript, explains how to understand and summarize a research project. It is a writing guide that goes beyond grammar and style by demonstrating how to pull together the information needed for each section of a polished scientific paper. This book is a systematic guide, leading you from the data on your desk throug...(展开全部)