5739 books (287 pages) in this category
Applied Structural Equation Modelling for Researchers and Practitioners
Using R and Stata for Behavioural Research
by Indranarain Ramlall
<p>During the last two decades, structural equation modelling (SEM) has emerged as a powerful multivariate data analysis tool in social science research settings, especially in the fields of sociology, psychology, and education. Social science ...
ISBN: 9781786358820
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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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eBookby Philip Bean & Stewart MacPherson
<p>Originally published in 1983 <em>Approaches to Welfare</em> provides a unique introduction to the study of social welfare in Britain. The contributions, by distinguished figures in the field of social welfare and social policy, explore all ...
ISBN: 9780429883866
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eBookAppropriate Technology For Development
A Discussion And Case Histories
by Donald D. Evans
<p>This analysis of appropriate technology first explores the concept of development in terms of needs, characteristics, and theories and then examines the pivotal role of technology in the developmental process. The twenty contemporary case ...
ISBN: 9780429727795
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eBookThe Role Of Science, Government, And The Entrepreneur
by Art Tiddens
<p>Tiddens' job is to track (one might suspect, to advance) the financial prospects for American companies cultivating aquatic plants and animals. He surveys the support currently available from state and federal governments and scientific ...
ISBN: 9780429714511
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eBookArab Youth and the Demographic Dividend They Will Bring
by Bessma Momani
<p>In the West, news about the Middle East is dominated by an endless stream of reports and commentary about civil war, sectarian violence, religious extremism, and economic stagnation. But do they tell the full story? For instance, who knew ...
ISBN: 9781442624283
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eBookArab National Media and Political Change
“Recording the Transition”
by Fatima El-Issawi
<p>This book examines the evolution of national Arab media and its interplay with political change, particularly in emerging democracies in the context of the Arab uprisings. Investigated from a journalistic perspective, this research addresses ...
ISBN: 9781349709151
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eBookArab Women's Activism and Socio-Political Transformation
Unfinished Gendered Revolutions
by Sahar Khamis & Amel Mili
<p>This book illustrates how Arab women have been engaging in three ongoing, parallel struggles, before, during, and after the Arab Spring, on three levels, namely: the political struggle to pave the road for democracy, freedom, and reform; the ...
ISBN: 9783319607351
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eBookArchitectural Theorisations and Phenomena in Asia
The Polychronotypic Jetztzeit
by Francis Chia-Hui Lin
<p>This book is the first overall and detailed discussion of contemporary Asia’s architectural theorisations and phenomena based on its heteroglossic and decolonisation character. Lin presents a theoretical journey of transdisciplinary ...
ISBN: 9783319584331
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eBookHolding Places for Difficult Memories
by Martine Hawkes
<p>Drawing together many stories from the archives of difficult events and volatile histories, <em>Archiving Loss: Holding Places for Difficult Memories</em> asks how we might cut and walk a path for memory, loss, and silence in the archive. The
ISBN: 9781317103325
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eBookPower and Voice from the North
by Ilan Kelman
<p>Climate change and globalisation are opening up the Arctic for exploitation by the world – or so we are told. But what about the views, interests and needs of the peoples who live in the region? This volume explores the opportunities and ...
ISBN: 9781787350120
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eBookAre Americans Becoming More Peaceful?
by Paul Joseph
<p>"It's time that someone broke into the general gloom created by a war-loving administration and reminded us that we are a peace-loving people. Paul Joseph's book does just that, not with fantasy but with facts, showing how the public ...
ISBN: 9781317263609
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eBookHow Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity
by Sander L. Gilman & James M. Thomas
<p><strong>The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illness</strong><br /> In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker ...
ISBN: 9781479891108
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eBookRising IQ in the Twenty-First Century
by James R. Flynn
<p>The 'Flynn effect' is a surprising finding, identified by James R. Flynn, that IQ test scores have significantly increased from one generation to the next over the past century. Flynn now brings us an exciting new book which aims to make ...
ISBN: 9781139579773
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eBookThe Jamaican Labour Rebellion of 1938 and its Aftermath
by K. Post
ISBN: 9781461341017
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eBookThe Scientific Method and Escalating World Problems
by Bernard S Phillips
<p>We are currently experiencing a wide range of evolving problems that threaten us with extinction. However, Phillips argues that we have the capacity-with the aid of a broad approach to the scientific method that builds on Mills's concept of ...
ISBN: 9781317263548
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eBookArmed and Considered Dangerous
A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms
by Peter H. Rossi
<p><em>Armed and Considered Dangerous</em> is a book about "bad guys" and their guns. But Wright and Rossi contend that for every suspected criminal who owns and abuses a firearm, a hundred or more average citizens own guns for sport, ...
ISBN: 9781351531214
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eBookFrom Being to Feeling American
by Anny Bakalian
<p>Assimilation has been a contentious issues for most immigrant groups in the United States. The host society is assumed to lire immigrants and their descendants away from their ancestral heritage. Yet, in their quest for a "better" ...
ISBN: 9781351531153
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eBookTerrorists, Tomb Raiders, Forgers and Thieves
by Noah Charney
<p>Since the Second World War, art crime has shifted from a relatively innocuous, often ideological crime, into a major international problem, considered by some to be the third-highest grossing criminal trade worldwide. This rich volume ...
ISBN: 9781137407573
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eBookVolume 8
by James. E Bond
<p>The single most important issue in American constitutional law is the role the Supreme Court should play in interpretation of the constitution. This issue has been a source of controversy since at least 1803, when Chief Justice John Marshall ...
ISBN: 9781351316262
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