Introduction to Research Methods contains everything from developing an initial idea into a proposal, through to analysing data and reporting results. Whether you have to undertake a project as part of your coursework, or as part of your employment, or simply because you are fascinated by something you have observed and want to find out more, this book offers you advice on how to turn your ideas into a workable project.

Specifically it will show you how to:

*Choose your research methods

*Choo...

A new edition of the #1 text in the human computer Interaction field!

Hugely popular with students and professionals alike, the Fifth Edition of Interaction Design is an ideal resource for learning the interdisciplinary skills needed for interaction design, human-computer interaction, information design, web design, and ubiquitous computing. New to the fifth edition: a chapter on data at scale, which covers developments in the emerging fields of 'human data interaction' and data analytics. Th...

Augusto Boal saw theatre as a mirror to the world, one that we can reach into to change our reality. This book, The Theatre of the Oppressed, is the foundation to 'Forum Theatre', a popular radical form practised across the world. Boal's techniques allowed the people to reclaim theatre, providing forums through which they could imagine and enact social and political change.

Rejecting the Aristotelian ethic, which he believed allowed the State to remain unchallenged, he broke down the wall bet...

'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The TimesA band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'.

Het werkboek Keukenassistent behoort tot de vernieuwde methode voor SVH Keukenassistent (KAS). Deze methode bestaat uit een the­o­rieboek, een werk­boek, een set instructiekaarten en instructiefilms in de online leeromgeving. Het werkboek geeft een helder overzicht van de te leren praktijkhandelingen en is een echt oefen-boek. Het bevat verschillende vragen en opdrachten waarbij op een speelse manier wordt gekeken of de stof uit het theorieboek wordt begrepen. De vragen in het werkboek vol...

'It's rare for a book to make you see the world differently, but this ... does exactly that on almost every page' GuardianStandard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. They split history into ages - electrification, motorisation, and computerisation - and rarely ask whether anyone bothered to use these inventions at the time.

Shock of the Old is not one of those histories. I Letters e...

Welke bouwstenen voor effectieve lessen kunnen docenten in het VO gebruiken en hoe pas je ze toe in de dagelijkse lespraktijk?

Dagelijks geven duizenden leraren het beste voor zichzelf in de klas. Hoewel het takenpakket van de leraar heel divers is, blijft het geven van een goede les de kern van het vak. Zes auteurs uit Nederland en Belgie met ruime ervaring in onderwijspraktijk en onderwijsonderzoek presenteren in dit boek de meest recente wetenschappelijke inzichten op het vak van leren en ...

This book introduces research-based pedagogical practices for supporting and enhancing language development and use in school-based immersion and dual language programs in which a second, foreign, heritage, or indigenous language is used as the medium of subject-matter instruction. Using counterbalanced instruction as the volumes pedagogical framework, the authors map out the specific pedagogical skill set and knowledge base that teachers in immersion and dual language classrooms need so thei...

Think Java is a hands-on introduction to computer science and programming used by many universities and high schools around the world. Its conciseness, emphasis on vocabulary, and informal tone make it particularly appealing for readers with little or no experience. The book starts with the most basic programming concepts and gradually works its way to advanced object-oriented techniques.

In this fully updated and expanded edition, authors Allen Downey and Chris Mayfield introduce programming...