This book shows how concept and mind maps can be used in quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods research, using student-focused examples and classroom-based activities.

An in-depth and truly comprehensive exploration of the field, with chapters from some of the leading names working today.

Now available in paperback: This book brings together the most innovative contemporary ideas in method and methodology from global experts

Now featuring a total of 21 case study applications and six completely new chapters, this third edition helps students and researchers to improve upon their own research techniques, and provides them with the basis to critique other case studies.

A clear, innovative text from world experts, this clearly lays out the problems, strategies and resources associated with the teaching of quantitative methods in modern universities. It is a pragmatic approach which will be of interest to any academic teaching 'numbers' to their students.

Presenting readers with key research concepts, feminist epistemologies, methodologies, and methods as well as up-to-date debates in the field, this handbook provides students and researchers with a key resource for understanding and engaging with this field.

Introduces students to statistics using SPSS by using engaging subject matter and subjective and objective data.

A much needed retrospective and prospective look at how GIS technology influences and is influenced by today's post-industrial society.

A friendly introduction to the basics of focus group methods with an international feel and an ethical sensibility.

Social class schemes, contemporary as well as historical, always involve something of a mystery. While this book does not claim to have solved that mystery completely, it does shed significant light on it.

For the sake of comparability, it is advisable not to develop new class schemes but to use old ones. Yet presenting a new class scheme - HISCLASS - is exactly what this book does. Unlike existing historical schemes, HISCLASS is international, created for the purpose of making comparisons a...