large databases in economic history research methods and

Political Anthropology: An Introduction, Second Edition

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lewellen, Ted C., PUBLISHER: J F Bergin & Garvey, Unique in its field, this book offers a comprehensive overview of political anthropology, including its history, its major research findings, and its theoretical concerns both past and present. Significantly updated and expanded with extensive changes in many chapters, three additional chapters, and a new conclusion, this second edition provides the basic text and structure for a full course.

The Rhine

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lucent Books / Eboch, Chris / Kallen, Stuart A., PUBLISHER: Lucent Books, Fifty million people live along the Rhine River as it flows through Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands and other nations. "The Rhine" examines the history, economic importance, and ecology of the river, one of the most important waterways in the world.

Gender, Land, and Livelihoods in East Africa

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Verma, Ritu, PUBLISHER: IDRC (International Development Research Cent, This book illustrates in rich detail the complexity and diversity of women's lives in Maragoli, western Kenya, as they work to sustain their soils and negotiate a plethora of competing demands and constraints in an increasingly stressful economic environment. With extensive use of personal narratives and photographs from the farmers of Maragoli, this book demonstrates that soil degradation is not simply a function of population pressure and ignorance; rather, it is embedded in gender relations and complex struggles at the local level.

Handbook of Teacher Evaluation

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Millman, Jason, PUBLISHER: Corwin Press, Millman's tightly-edited volume answers the questions: who should evaluate teachers? For what purpose? And using what methods and techniques? The strengths and weaknesses of students, other teachers, or administrators as evaluators are discussed and the use of evaluation as a tool for self-improvement or for making decisions about promotion and salary is explored. Finally all commonly employed methods are summarized.

Nonparametric Statistical Tests: A Computational Approach

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Neuhauser, Markus, PUBLISHER: CRC Press, This book provides a modern and accessible overview of computationally-intensive nonparametric statistical methods. Presenting up-to-date and detailed information, the text focuses on the use of permutation and bootstrap methods to assess the significance of a statistic in a hypothesis test. It includes numerous real examples to illustrate the methods, and SAS programs are used throughout to apply them. In addition, a significant portion of the book is devoted to (recent) nonparametric tests for the comparison of independent groups with potentially unequal variances.

Discoveries in Photosynthesis

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Govindjee / Beatty, J. Thomas / Gest, Howard, PUBLISHER: Springer, "Life Is Bottled Sunshine" Wynwood Reade, Martyrdom of Man, ]. This inspired phrase is a four-word summary of the significance of photosynthesis for life on earth. The study of photosynthesis has attracted the attention of a legion of biologists, biochemists, chemists and physicists for over 200 years. Discoveries in Photosynthesis presents a sweeping overview of the history of photosynthesis investigations, and detailed accounts of research progress in all aspects of the most complex bioenergetic process in living organisms. Conceived of as a way of summarizing the history of research advances in photosynthesis as of millennium , the book evolved into a majestic and encyclopedic saga involving all of the basic sciences. The book contains 111 papers, authored by 132 scientists from 19 countries. It includes overviews; timelines; tributes; minireviews on excitation energy transfer, reaction centers, oxygen evolution, light-harvesting and pigment-protein complexes, electron transport and ATP synthesis, techniques and applications, biogenesis and membrane architecture, reductive and assimilatory processes, transport, regulation and adaptation, Genetics, and Evolution; laboratories and national perspectives; and retrospectives that end in a list of photosynthesis symposia, books and conferences. Informal and formal photographs of scientists make it a wonderful book to have. This book is meant not only for the researchers and graduate students, but also for advanced undergraduates in Plant Biology, Microbiology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics and History of Science.

Methodology, Theory, and Knowledge in the Managerial and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Geisler, Eliezer / Rogers, Everett M., PUBLISHER: Quorum Books, Geisler argues that the over-reliance on co-variation techniques and statistical methods, instead of process approach and in-depth analysis, produces meaningless knowledge in the managerial and organizational sciences, and indeed throughout all the social sciences. He offers instead a new and different approach, based on the notion of what he calls "dynamic morphologies"--an "architecture of slicing complex phenomena." This way it is possible to explain many inconsistencies in research findings, and to find a cohesive, systematic outlook on research, research design, and knowledge creation. Intellectually challenging and following in the footsteps of Kuhn, Argyris, and Popper, Geisler's approach is frankly revolutionary in research design and contains its own notions, terms, and nomenclature. A provocative discussion for academics and others well trained in the organizational, managerial, and social sciences. Geisler's dynamic morphologies provide a means to research complex phenomena and gain knowledge about them. They are composed of a chain of events, combined logically and temporally, and a method by which this process is studied. Geisler also contends that knowledge in the organizational and managerial sciences is only viable when it describes and explains the complex, higher-order phenomena. Therefore, theory building and research in these fields must be linked to higher-order constructs and the phenomena that they attempt to explain. This is the central notion of "amplitude" that Geisler introduces and describes. His book also criticizes the evolutionary epistemology view of knowledge creation and contends that knowledge in all of these fields of study in general is notevolutionary, but instead, cumulative and expansive.

Plunkett's Food Industry Almanac : The Only Complete

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Plunkett, Jack W. / Plunkett Research Ltd, PUBLISHER: Plunkett Research, Covers the food, beverage and tobacco industry, including food producers, retailers, technologies and distributors. Provides an industry glossary, contacts, analysis of trends and markets, statistical tables and profiles of nearly 400 leading companies in food and beverage industry. CD-ROM included.

Minority Hungarian Communities in the Twentieth Century

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bardi, Nandor / Fedinec, Csilla / Szarka, Laszlo, PUBLISHER: East European Monographs, The authors review the twentieth-century history of Hungarian communities that became minorities within Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Austria after World War I. They trace these developments over ninety years of social, political, economic, and cultural upheaval and examine in detail the relationship between such communities and the majority nations in which they found themselves. The volume also follows changes in these groups' political and legal statuses.

History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Boia, Lucian / Boia, L., PUBLISHER: Central European University Press, Boia closely examines the process of historical culture and conscience in nineteenth and twentieth century Romania, particularly concentrating on the impact of the national ideology on history. Based upon his findings, the author identifies several key mythical configurations and analyses the manner in which Romanians have reconstituted their own highly ideologized history over the last two centuries.

Web Accessibility: A Foundation for Research

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Harper, Simon / Yesilada, Yeliz, PUBLISHER: Springer, Covering key areas of evaluation and methodology, client-side applications, specialist and novel technologies, along with initial appraisals of disabilities, this important book provides comprehensive coverage of web accessibility. Written by leading experts in the field, it provides an overview of existing research and also looks at future developments, providing a much deeper insight than can be obtained through existing research libraries, aggregations, or search engines. In tackling the subject from a research, rather than practitioner standpoint, scientists, engineers and postgraduate students will find a definitive and foundational text that includes field overviews, references, issues, new research, problems and solutions, and opinions from industrial experts and renowned academics from leading international institutions including Adobe, Google, IBM, W3C, and York, Dartmouth and Kansai Universities.

Authority Vested: A Story of Identity and Change in the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Todd, Mary, PUBLISHER: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Like other major Protestant denominations in the United States, the 2.6-million-member Luther Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS), founded in , has struggled with issues of relevance and identity in society at large. In this book Mary Todd chronicles the history of this struggle for identity in the LCMS, critically examining the central--often contentious--issue of authority in relation to Scripture, ministry, and the role of women in the church. In recounting the history of the denomination, Todd uses the ministry of women as a case study to show how the LCMS has continually redefined its concept of authority in order to maintain its own historic identity. Based on oral histories and solid archival research, Authority Vested not only explores the internal life of a significant denomination but also offers critical insights for other churches seeking to maintain their Christian distinctives in religiously pluralistic America.

A Narrative History of Experimental Social Psychology: The

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Patnoe, Shelley, PUBLISHER: Springer, "A Narrative History of Experimental Social Psychology" presents lengthy and intensive interviews with the contemporary scientists that founded and shaped the field of social psychology. The story of social psychology is told through the autobiographical narratives of leading figures, such as Dorwin Cartwright, Harold Kelley, Kurt Back, Robert Krauss, Stanley Schachter, and Leon Festinger. The author traces the beginning of the field from the close-knit group of students around Kurt Lewin to the major research groups responsible for the scientific origins of the discipline. The interviews offer unique insights into the beginnings of the fields and prospects for future trends.

Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fogel, Gary B. / Corne, David W., PUBLISHER: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Bioinformatics has never been as popular as it is today. The genomics revolution is generating so much data in such rapid succession that it has become difficult for biologists to decipher. In particular, there are many problems in biology that are too large to solve with standard methods. Researchers in evolutionary computation (EC) have turned their attention to these problems. They understand the power of EC to rapidly search very large and complex spaces and return reasonable solutions. While these researchers are increasingly interested in problems from the biological sciences, EC and its problem-solving capabilities are generally not yet understood or applied in the biology community. This book offers a definitive resource to bridge the computer science and biology communities. Gary Fogel and David Corne, well-known representatives of these fields, introduce biology and bioinformatics to computer scientists, and evolutionary computation to biologists and computer scientists unfamiliar with these techniques. The fourteen chapters that follow are written by leading computer scientists and biologists who examine successful applications of evolutionary computation to various problems in the biological sciences. * Describes applications of EC to bioinformatics in a wide variety of areas including DNA sequencing, protein folding, gene and protein classification, drug targeting, drug design, data mining of biological databases, and biodata visualization. * Offers industrial and academic researchers in computer science, biology, and bioinformatics an important resource for applying evolutionary computation. * Includes a detailed appendix of biological data resources.

History Lessons: Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U.S.

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Grant, S. G., PUBLISHER: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, In this book, extended case studies of two veteran teachers and their students are combined with the extant research literature to explore current issues of teaching, learning, and testing U.S. history. It is among the first to examine these issues together and in interaction. While the two teachers share several similarities, the teaching practices they construct could not be more different. To explore these differences, the author asks what their teaching practices look like, how their instruction influences their students' understandings of history, and what role statewide exams play in their classroom decisions. "History Lessons: Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U.S. High School Classrooms" is a major contribution to the emerging body of empirical research in the field of social studies education, chiefly in the subject area of history, which asks how U.S. students make sense of history and how teachers construct their classroom practices. Three case study chapters are paired with three essay review chapters intended to help readers analyze the cases by looking at them in the context of the current research literature. Two concluding chapters extend the cases and analyses: the first looks at how and why the teachers profiled in this book construct their individual teaching practices, in terms of three distinct but interacting sets of influences--personal, organizational, and policy factors; the second explores the prospects for promoting what the author defines as ambitious teaching and learning. Many policymakers assume that standards-based reforms support the efforts of ambitious teachers, but until we better understand how they and the students in their classes think and act, that assumption is hollow at best. This book is a must have for faculty and students in the field of social studies education, and broadly relevant across the fields of curriculum studies and educational policy.

Essential Research Methods for Social Work

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Allen Rubin Earl R Babbie, PUBLISHER: Brooks Cole, NA

Peptide Nucleic Acids: Methods and Protocols

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Nielsen, Peter E., PUBLISHER: Humana Press, Peter Eigil Nielsen has assembled a critically evaluated collection of key PNA protocols that are either already well established around the world, such as PCR-clamping and in situ hybridization, or that display promise of significant future impact. Basic methods for PNA oligomer synthesis and analysis have also been included. Written by experts with hands-on in the methods they describe, these readily reproducible protocols contain detailed step-by-step instructions, tips on avoiding pitfalls and on extending the method to other situations, and introductory material explaining the theory behind the process.

A History of European Women's Work: to the Present

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Simonton, Deborah / Simonton, D., PUBLISHER: Routledge, "A History of European Women's Work" draws together recent research, lively personal accounts and statistical evidence to take an overview of trends in women's work from the pre-industrial period to the present. Deborah Simonton discusses the definition of work within and without patriarchal families, the status of work and the skills involved. She examines local as well as Europe-wide developments, contrasting countries such as Britain, Germany and France. She considers women's own perceptions of work and its place in their lives as well as age and class, to present a rounded account of the shifting patterns of employment and the continuities which are evident in the women's own experience.

The Americas in the Modern Age

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Langley, Lester D., PUBLISHER: Yale University Press, In this wide-ranging book, historian Lester D. Langley offers a fresh interpretation of the history of the modern Western hemisphere since the mid-nineteenth century. He evaluates the dynamics of hemispheric history, commencing with the articulation of the "two Americas" (Theodore Roosevelt's America and the contrasting America described by Cuban revolutionary, essayist, and poet Jose Marti) and culminating with recent controversial efforts to forge a united hemisphere. Tracing the interactions and influences among the nations of South, Central, and North America, including Canada, Langley departs from other accounts of the past 150 years. He argues that the seedtime for today's Americas was not the Cold War but the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He also contends that it is not what the countries and people of the Americas have in common that binds them; instead, their cultural, political, and economic conflicts tie them together. Comprehensive and balanced, this history of the nations of the Americas offers new insights into both the past and the future of inter-American relations.

Practitioner Research in Counselling

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McLeod, John, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), This is a practical guide to carrying out research in counselling and the helping professions generally. It covers all major aspects of research and guides the reader through the essential processes involved, from setting up and conducting a study, to analyzing data and evaluating findings' - "The New Therapist " This practical, informative and encouraging guide to doing research in counselling and the helping professions generally has been written with practitioners firmly in mind. The book is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction which covers all major aspects of research and guides the reader through the essential processes involved, from setting up and conducting a study, to analyzing

Human and Animal Ecology, Unesco,

Human and Animal Ecology: Reviews in Research, , UNESCO, Arid Zone Research, 244 pages with illustrations. Published by UNESCO, Used Softcover Euro 27 (varie 555)

Culture and Local Development

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Local Economic and Employment Development, PUBLISHER: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Devel, This publication highlights the impact of culture on local economies and the methodological issues related to its identification. In particular, the book demonstrates that the contemporary contribution of culture to economic development is not only limited to attracting tourists, but that it increasingly acts as a catalyst for other activities to further develop through territorial clusters. It also demonstrates the power of culture as a tool for the social integration of distressed people and communities, thus contributing to sustainable development.

The Affluent Suburb: Housing Needs and Attitudes

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sternlieb, George / Sagalyn, Lynne B. / Burchell, Robert W., PUBLISHER: Center for Urban Policy Research, Princeton, New Jersey, a town typical of the affluent suburbs arising in so many communities today, is surveyed by a team of urban affairs experts. Housing problems are studied in light of their political and economic implications.

Text, Context, and Hypertext: Writing with and for the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Barrett, Edward, PUBLISHER: MIT Press (MA), In "Text, ConText, and HyperText," twenty-seven experts present the most recent developments in three important areas of technical communication: the design of effective documentation, the impact of new technology and research on technical writing, and the training and management of technical writers. This first synthesis of diverse but related research provides a unique conceptualization of the field of computers and writing and documentation.

The International Movie Industry

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kindem, Gorham, PUBLISHER: Southern Illinois University Press, Movies are both art and commerce, creative expressions of national/cultural interests and preoccupations and part of a global entertainment market. The past century has witnessed a transformation of the movies from popular novelties into highly valued cultural icons and commodities that have promoted national identity and specific political agendas, while also affecting international trade. This comprehensive history of the international movie industry from its inception in to the present features nineteen original essays by international scholars who examine the film industries of nineteen countries and six continents. Each chapter in "The International Movie Industry" focuses on a specific national movie industry's economic and related social, aesthetic, technological, and political/ideological development within an international context during the last century. The result is a global history of the movie industry over the last one hundred years.

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