This book presents an overview of common SPSS commands and contains a collection of more or less independent sections to help readers find the specific information they need.

Providing readers with non-technical and applied explanations of both conceptual and practical aspects of sampling, this book covers the changing technology landscape of survey research and big data.

Covering the full spectrum of skills needed, including planning, scoping, analysis, argumentation, theory building, modelling theories, methods, gathering data, presenting evidence, and writing, this book clearly helps students through each stage of doing a research project.

This practical, hands-on guide helps beginning researchers create a mixed methods research proposal for their dissertations, grants, or general research studies.

This practical book provides researchers strategic and practical guidance on using text mining methods to analyze large text collections more efficiently and productively.

A comprehensive guide to carrying out Qualitative Secondary Analysis (QSA) that brings together expert advice and professional insight from leading researchers who have developed innovative theories and methods of QSA.

Concise and unintimidating, the fifth edition of this bestselling book is the only pragmatic, quick-start guide to the main theories, issues, and approaches to insider action research.

An ideal introduction for trainees and practitioners looking to understand the what, the why, and the how of coaching research.

What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Immigration? Is part of a new book series offering short, up-to-date overviews of key issues often misrepresented or simplified in the mainstream media.

The Varieties of Grounded Theory explores the range and depth of grounded theory methodology, and the ways in which discussions in the field have developed and expanded in recent years.