This practical guide offers an approachable introduction to doing hermeneutic phenomenological research across the health and social sciences.

This quick guide will help students be prepared for and avoid the unique and complex issues that can arise when working with online data, enabling them to decide what online data is best suited to their research question.

This new English translation of Francois Jullien's work is a compelling summation of his thinking on the comparison between Western and Chinese thought. The title, From Being to Living, summarises his essential point: that western thinking is obsessed by - and determined as well as limited by - the notion of Being, whereas traditional Chinese thought was always situated in Living.

An introductory guide to the key concepts, themes, and topics in the discipline of sociology, providing sociology students with comprehensive coverage of all the main areas of study for their first year and beyond.

This practical urban studies research guide for students, revised and with new chapter additions, focuses on the city and on the different ways to research it.

Doing the job of a Microsoft Office manual, a graphic design text, and a data visualization book in one, this book covers the full range of tasks, from procuring data to presenting a report and provides step-by-step instructions for creating visual data displays

Without sacrificing technical integrity for the sake of simplicity, the author draws upon accessible, student-friendly language to provide approachable instruction perfectly aimed at statistics and Bayesian newcomers.

With brand new chapters on ethics and mixed methods, this indispensable guide continues to provide readers with everything they need to develop effective and successful research proposals.

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Introducing students to the concepts of statistics, stripping away any technical jargon and mathematical language, this book sets out the tools needed by those doing statistical procedures for the first time, or those in need of a refresher.