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Developing Transferable Skills
Enhancing Your Research and Employment Potential
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Succinct and supportive, this book provides doctoral and early career researchers with everything you need to know about developing marketable, transferrable skills—and how they can lead to getting that dream job.
It illustrates exactly how and when your doctoral degree can be used to build...
by John Morrissey, David Nally, Ulf Strohmayer
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
"This ambitious volume reviews the best recent work in historical geography... It demonstrates how a dual sense of history and geography is necessary to understand such key areas of contemporary debate as the inter-relationship between class, race and gender; the character of nations and nationalism;...
by Derek McCormack, Kim McNamara, Donald McNeill
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
"This extraordinary collage of sophisticated essays on key terms in urban geography both provides a conventional basis to and recasts innovatively a burgeoning field in the discipline."
- Roger Keil, co-Editor, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
"The city is...
by Paddy Scannell
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
"An excellent book providing students with a historical understanding of mass media and communication. Theories, concepts and models are intertwined throughout the chapters challenging students to critically understand and evaluate the role of mass media in society."
- Stephanie Goodwin,...
Creative Economy and Culture
Challenges, Changes and Futures for the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
"The most ambitious, thoughtful and internationally aware assessment to date of the creative economy. Defining creativity as the production of newness in complex, adaptive systems, the authors make the case that together the creative economy, along with other cultural outputs, represent a planet-wide...
Designing and Managing Programs
An Effectiveness-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
The Fifth Edition of the classic Designing and Managing Programs for human services helps readers grasp the meaning and significance of measuring performance and evaluating outcomes. Authors Peter M. Kettner, Robert M. Moroney, and Lawrence L. Martin, all leaders in the field, incorporate the principles...
Essentials of Marketing Research
Putting Research Into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Essentials of Marketing Research: Putting Research into Practice, an exciting new practical guide by Kenneth E. Clow and Karen E. James offers a hands-on, applied approach to developing the fundamental data analysis skills necessary for making better management decisions using marketing research results....
How to Conduct Surveys
A Step-by-Step Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
Packed with new topics that reflect today’s challenges, the Sixth Edition of the bestselling How to Conduct Surveys guides readers through the process of developing their own rigorous surveys and evaluating the credibility and transparency of surveys created by others. Offering practical, step-by-step...
Designing Surveys
A Guide to Decisions and Procedures
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Written with the needs and goals of a novice researcher in mind, this fully updated Third Edition of Designing Surveys by Johnny Blair, Ronald F. Czaja, and Edward A. Blair provides an accurate account of how modern surveys are actually designed and conducted. Much more than a “how-to” guide,...
Cross-Cultural Analysis
The Science and Art of Comparing the World's Modern Societies and Their Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Cross-Cultural Analysis is the sequel to Culture's Consequences, the classic work published by Geert Hofstede, one of the most influential management thinkers in today's times. Hofstede's original work introduced a new research paradigm in cross-cultural analysis: studying cultural differences through...
The End of Corporate Social Responsibility
Crisis and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here
Providing a much-needed critique of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice and scholarship, this book seeks to redress CSR advocacy, from a political and critical perspective.
A strident approach backed up by...
by Kelley S. Pendleton DC & MPH
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Whether you’re a chiropractor, medical doctor, massage therapist, veterinarian, acupuncturist, or any other provider of a healing art, you’ve undergone intensive training and developed valuable skills. However, traditional healthcare curricula may not address the critical areas of business, finance...
by Dr. Neil J. Salkind
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
How do I create a good research hypothesis? How do I know when my literature review is finished? What is the difference between a sample and a population? What is power and why is it important?
In an increasingly data-driven world, it is more important than ever for students as well as professionals...
Applied Regression
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Known for its readability and clarity, this Second Edition of the best-selling Applied Regression provides an accessible introduction to regression analysis for social scientists and other professionals who want to model quantitative data. After covering the basic idea of fitting a straight line to...