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A guide to the survey research literature of the 1990s, with 617 annotations averaging over 200 words each, and with a 20-page subject index. Annotations include examples from business, criminology, education, health and medicine, law, social work, mass media, psychology, and more.

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Primary research ought to be preceded by a systematic review, which has the advantage over the traditional narrative review in its ability to identify all the available evidence in a systematic and replicable manner. This book describes the key steps to undertaking a systematic review.

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Analyses the function of utopias and utopia as a tool for social criticism, method and imaginative spaces, to develop utopias as methodology.

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Focus groups are often under-used as a tool for research. This practical guide offers advice on: planning and organising focus groups; what types of questions to use; limitations and advantages of using these groups in research; collecting data at group sessions; and how to analyse data.

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In the six years since the second edition of the bestselling Oryx information guide, Using Government Information Sources, was published, a lot has changed in the searching process. Each chapter is grouped into four search strategy categories: the subject search, the agency search, the statistical search, and special techniques.

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What are Qualitative Research Ethics is a short, accessible guide to the key issues in qualitative research. The book covers new online practices as well as traditional methods, offering a broad but succinct overview. At a time when ethical issues are becoming ever more complex, it is a key resource for graduates and researchers.

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This book will bring together ideas about narrative from a variety of contexts across the social sciences and synthesize understandings of the field. Rather than focusing on theory, the book will examine how narrative research is conducted and applied.

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This book shows researchers and students how to begin with key questions and theories and the best interviewing tactic to take. What is Qualitative Interviewing addresses the changes brought by new technologies as well as various enduring issues such as asking and listening, the implications of power dynamics.

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This book illuminates the problems and perspectives of qualitative research and offers researchers a comprehensive overview of the various types of .

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Martyn Hammersley's What is Qualitative Research illuminates the problems and perspectives of qualitative research. It offers researchers a comprehensive overview of the various types of investigation and is illustrated with practical examples and current controversies.

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A user-friendly introduction to some of the most useful analytical tools for model building, estimation, and analysis, presenting key methods and examples.

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Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluation and university rankings.

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This practical, down-to-earth guide is for researchers, students, community groups, charities or employees - in fact anyone who needs to put together research projects quickly and effectively.

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Two marketing experts present a comprehensive guide to building a product into a recognized and respected brand and share their radical strategies for marketing effectively on the Internet, urging readers to mix the old with the new when making a marketing plan, in a volume that contains The 22 Immu

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A fascinating introduction to how scientists identify fraudulent copies, from signatures to oil paintings....