5280 books (264 pages) in this category
Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule
by Matthew Babcock
<p>As a definitive study of the poorly understood Apaches de paz, this book explains how war-weary, mutually suspicious Apaches and Spaniards negotiated an ambivalent compromise after 1786 that produced over four decades of uneasy peace across ...
ISBN: 9781316771839
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eBookAppeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East: Quarterly Essay 2
by John Birmingham
In the second Quarterly Essay, John Birmingham takes apart the folly of twenty-five years of Australian policy on East Timor. How did Gough Whitlam and Richard Woolcott in 1975 saddle this country with a policy that was bound to lead to the ...
ISBN: 9781863953863
Binding: Paperback
Applications of Data Management and Analysis
Case Studies in Social Networks and Beyond
by Mohammad Moshirpour, Behrouz H. Far & Reda Alhajj
<p>This book addresses and examines the impacts of applications and services for data management and analysis, such as infrastructure, platforms, software, and business processes, on both academia and industry. The chapters cover effective ...
ISBN: 9783319958101
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eBookApplications of Data-Centric Science to Social Design
Qualitative and Quantitative Understanding of Collective Human Behavior
by Aki-Hiro Sato
<p>The intention behind this book is to illustrate the deep relation among human behavior, data-centric science, and social design. In fact, these three issues have been independently developing in different fields, although they are, of course,
ISBN: 9789811071942
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eBookApplications of Mathematics in Models, Artificial Neural Networks and Arts
Mathematics and Society
by Vittorio Capecchi, Massimo Buscema, Pierluigi Contucci & others
<p>The book shows a very original organization addressing in a non traditional way, but with a systematic approach, to who has an interest in using mathematics in the social sciences.</p> <p>The book is divided in four parts: (a) a historical ...
ISBN: 9789048185818
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eBookApplications of Systems Thinking and Soft Operations Research in Managing Complexity
From Problem Framing to Problem Solving
by Anthony J. Masys
<p>This book captures current trends and developments in the field of systems thinking and soft operations research which can be applied to solve today's problems of dynamic complexity and interdependency. Such ‘wicked problems’ and messes are ...
ISBN: 9783319211060
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eBookUnexpected Spaces, Topics and Methods
by Sheena Nahm & Cortney Hughes Rinker
<p>This collection brings together recent innovative work in applied and practicing anthropology. Organised around the theme of unexpectedness, it examines some of the novel spaces, topics, and methods that anthropologists are involved with. The
ISBN: 9781317428022
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eBookGuidelines for Field Research
by Pertti J Pelto
<p>This comprehensive, engaging guide to applied research distills the expertise of the distinguished ethnographer and methodologist Pertti Pelto over his acclaimed 50-year career. Having written the first major text promoting mixed qualitative ...
ISBN: 9781315434674
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eBookApplied Matrix and Tensor Variate Data Analysis
by Toshio Sakata
<p>This book provides comprehensive reviews of recent progress in matrix variate and tensor variate data analysis from applied points of view. Matrix and tensor approaches for data analysis are known to be extremely useful for recently emerging ...
ISBN: 9784431553878
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eBookApplied modelling and computing in social science
by Janez Povh
<p>In social science outstanding results are yielded by advanced simulation methods, based on state of the art software technologies and an appropriate combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. This book presents examples of ...
ISBN: 9783653962109
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eBookApplied Multidimensional Scaling and Unfolding
by Ingwer Borg, Patrick J.F. Groenen & Patrick Mair
<p>This book introduces multidimensional scaling (MDS) and unfolding as data analysis techniques for applied researchers. MDS is used for the analysis of proximity data on a set of objects, representing the data as distances between points in a ...
ISBN: 9783319734712
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eBookApplied Multiregional Demography: Migration and Population Redistribution
by Andrei Rogers
<p>This book shows the effectiveness of multiregional demography for studying the spatial dynamics of migration and population redistribution. It examines important questions in demographic analysis and shows how the techniques of multiregional ...
ISBN: 9783319223186
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eBookA Practical Guide
by Leonard Bickman, Ms. Debra J. Rog & Terry E. Hedrick
<p>To help researchers and students make the transition from the classroom and laboratory to research in the `real world,' the authors reveal the pitfalls and suggest strategies to overcome problems in the design and planning of applied ...
ISBN: 9781506319445
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eBookApplied Statistics for Social and Management Sciences
by Abdul Quader Miah
<p>This book addresses the application of statistical techniques and methods across a wide range of disciplines. While its main focus is on the application of statistical methods, theoretical aspects are also provided as fundamental background ...
ISBN: 9789811004018
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eBookApplying Anthropology in the Global Village
by Christina Wasson, Mary Odell Butler & Jacqueline Copeland-Carson
<p>The realities of the globalized world have revolutionized traditional concepts of culture, community, and identity—so how do applied social scientists use complicated, fluid new ideas such as translocality and ethnoscape to solve pressing ...
ISBN: 9781315434636
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eBookApplying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence
Global Responses, Local Practices
by Kimberly Ashburn, Melissa Beske, Karin Friederic & others
<p>Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices addresses the gaps in theory, methods, and practices that are currently used to engage the problem of gender-based violence. This book complements the work ...
ISBN: 9781498509046
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eBookApplying Critical Social Theories to Family Therapy Practice
by Teresa McDowell
<p>This volume applies critical social theories to family therapy practice, using sociopolitical context for a clearer focus on the power dynamics of couple and family relationships. Its decolonizing approach to therapy is shown countering the ...
ISBN: 9783319156330
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eBookApplying Evolutionary Archaeology
A Systematic Approach
by Michael J. O'Brien & R. Lee Lyman
<p>Anthropology, and by extension archaeology, has had a long-standing interest in evolution in one or several of its various guises. Pick up any lengthy treatise on humankind written in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the chances
ISBN: 9780306474682
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eBookApplying Public Opinion in Governance
The Uses and Future of Public Opinion in Managing Government
by Scott Edward Bennett
<p>This book explores how public opinion is used to design, monitor and evaluate government programmes in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Using information collected from the media and from international practitioners in ...
ISBN: 9783319546964
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eBookApplying Test Equating Methods
Using R
by Jorge González & Marie Wiberg
<p>This book describes how to use test equating methods in practice. The non-commercial software R is used throughout the book to illustrate how to perform different equating methods when scores data are collected under different data collection
ISBN: 9783319518244
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