The concise and easy-to-read guide for users who want to learn how to perform the same statistical calculations in R as in SPSS.

Broad in its coverage and examining the wide range of uses of visual images, this second edition helps the reader overcome some of the practical challenges they face when conducting visually orientated research.

With guidance especially pertinent to those specifically doing interviews with children as part of their research - including coverage of ethics, using participatory methods in formal settings, and choosing an interview style - this book provides both the theory and practical advice to ensure success

Designed to equip those doing research with the knowledge and tools they need to inform their methodological decisions when planning and conducting studies, this book describes both commonly used methods for health intervention research and outlines the theoretical reasoning underlying these different approaches.

Addressing the practicalities of research, and embracing the complexity and variety of written forms of language, this book helps readers with practical and conceptual tools to ask questions about written discourse, and to analyse the huge variety of texts that make up our linguistic landscape.

This popular and critically acclaimed Handbook is now available in paperback.

In covering both traditional and newer approaches, and presenting them alongside each other, and by consistently referring to two data sets throughout, this book provides students with a brand-new way of understanding methods and a tool with which they can think about their own research.

Written by award-winning scholar Jonathan H Turner, this 936 page resource is a comprehensive, in-depth and detailed review of both classical and present-day theory in sociology.

A clear, bold book which provides a contemporary account of why medicine and health matter in our modern society. Written by an expert in both sociology and medicine, it critically explores key areas of debate and policy whilst explaining the practical realities of medicine today.