This book helps bridge the gap between the theory of evaluation and its practice, giving students the specific skills they need to use in different evaluation settings.

This book boldly pursues the challenge to teach researchers not just how to collect and analyze data but how to actively think about them.

Offers a fresh and creative approach to the research process based on author James V. Spickard's decades of teaching experience.

Material Methods brings introduces students and researchers to the wide range of cross-disciplinary methods which help us to approach and interpret material culture and materials.

Engaging analysis of sport's role in the 'making of race', and the place of sport in relation to the politics of racial equality.

This text looks closely at interdisciplinary research, covering topics such as applying theory and practice to problems, the importance of finding a common ground and suggests new solutions to problems that cover multiple disciplines.

This interdisciplinary text examines five different components of family health--biology, behavior, social-cultural circumstances, the environment, and health care--and the ways they affect the abilities of family members to perform well in their homes, workplaces, and communities.

Packed with global, interdisciplinary examples that ground statistical theory and concepts in real-world situations, it shows students not only how to apply newfound knowledge using IBM SPSS Statistics, but also why they would want to - all supported by lots of visuals, interactive demonstrations, author videos, and practice datasets.

The Logic Model Guidebook offers clear, step-by-step support for creating logic models and the modeling process in a range of contexts.