Автор: Howard Christopher
Название: Thinking Like a Political Scientist: A Practical Guide to Research Methods
ISBN: 022632754X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226327549
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Each year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books on research methods fail to highlight the most important concepts and questions. Instead, they brim with dry technical definitions and focus heavily on statistical analysis, slighting other valuable methods. This approach not only dulls potential enjoyment of the course, but prevents students from mastering the skills they need to engage more directly and meaningfully with a wide variety of research.

With wit and practical wisdom, Christopher Howard draws on more than a decade of experience teaching research methods to transform a typically dreary subject and teach budding political scientists the critical skills they need to read published research more effectively and produce better research of their own. The first part of the book is devoted to asking three fundamental questions in political science: What happened? Why? Who cares? In the second section, Howard demonstrates how to answer these questions by choosing an appropriate research design, selecting cases, and working with numbers and written documents as evidence. Drawing on examples from American and comparative politics, international relations, and public policy, Thinking Like a Political Scientist highlights the most common challenges that political scientists routinely face, and each chapter concludes with exercises so that students can practice dealing with those challenges.

Автор: Gilbert
Название: Simulation for the social scientist
ISBN: 0335216005 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780335216000
Издательство: McGraw-Hill
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Описание: An invaluable guide to the complex and increasingly vital study of social simulation, this is a revised, completely updated edition of the practical textbook that examines the techniques of building computer simulations to assist understanding of social and economic issues and problems. Interest in social simulation has been growing rapidly worldwide as a result of increasingly powerful hardware capabilities and software programs. The focus on this area of expertise is also influenced by a rising interest in the application of ideas of complexity, evolution, adaptation, and chaos in the social sciences. This authoritative book details all of the common approaches to social simulation, to provide social scientists with an appreciation of the literature and allow those, with some programming skills, to create their own simulations. New for this edition are a chapter on how to use simulation as a tool, as well as a chapter on multi-agent systems to explain why and how multi-agent modeling has become the preferred approach to simulation.

Автор: Subramanian S.
Название: Essays in Economics and Other Cheerful Themes: A Dismal Scientist S Occasional Reflections on the World Around Him
ISBN: 813211373X ISBN-13(EAN): 9788132113737
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: A collection of pieces on economy, polity and society, written by a social scientist. It also makes space for essays that deal with less solemn phenomena, such as cricket, film, the conduct of academic institutions, and the esoteric excesses of scholarly writing in the social sciences and humanities.

Автор: Hutcheson G & Sofroniou N
Название: The Multivariate Social Scientist
ISBN: 0761952012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780761952015
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: Social responsibility and social capital are high on the agenda of governments and corporations. But what of the small firm? Little is known about the small firm response to social issues, despite their domination of the business landscape. This is an introduction to multivariate analysis and techniques written in a non-mathematical style. It starts from a simple hypothesis testing, moves towards model-building and takes the reader through the basics of multivariate analysis.

Автор: Lebrun, Jean-luc
Название: When the scientist presents
ISBN: 9812839194 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789812839190
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
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Описание: Looks at the presenting scientist from a novel angle: the presenter-host. This book takes a human factor view of the presentation delivery, in which the audience is easily distracted, rapidly forgetful, and increasingly impatient.

Автор: Elster, Jon
Название: Alexis de tocqueville, the first social scientist
ISBN: 052174007X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521740074
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than as a political theorist. Drawing on his earlier work on the explanation of social behavior, Elster argues that Tocqueville’s main claim to our attention today rests on the large number of exportable causal mechanisms to be found in his work, many of which are still worthy of further exploration. Elster proposes a novel reading of Democracy in America in which the key explanatory variable is the rapid economic and political turnover rather than equality of wealth at any given point in time. He also offers a reading of The Ancien R?gime and the Revolution as grounded in the psychological relations among the peasantry, the bourgeoisie, and the nobility. Consistently going beyond exegetical commentary, he argues that Tocqueville is eminently worth reading today for his substantive and methodological insights.

Автор: Micah Altman
Название: Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist
ISBN: 0471236330 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780471236337
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Описание: Addressing the current deficiency in the literature on statistical methods as they apply to the social and behavioral sciences, Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist provides readers with a unique, practical guidebook to the numerical methods underlying computerized statistical calculations specific to these fields. The authors demonstrate that knowledge of these numerical methods, and how they are used in statistical packages, is essential for making accurate inferences. With the aid of key contributors from both the social and behavioral sciences, the authors have assembled a rich set of interrelated chapters designed to guide empirical social scientists through the potential minefield of modern statistical computing. Uniquely accessible and abounding in modern-day tools, tricks, and advice, the text successfully bridges the gap between the current level of social science methodology and the more sophisticated technical coverage usually associated with the statistical field.

Название: In memory of d allan bromley -- nuclear scientist and policy innovator - proceedings of the memorial symposium
ISBN: 9812568115 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789812568113
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
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Описание: This book covers two aspects of the career of D. Allan Bromley: the scientific policy aspect and the scientific aspect. In the first half of the book, contributions from Governor John Sununu, former White House Chief of Staff under President George H.

W. Bush; Neal Lane, former Science Adviser to President William Clinton; John Marburger III, Science Adviser to President George W Bush; and Mary Good, former Undersecretary of Commerce, highlight the role of Bromley as Science Adviser to President George H. W.

Bush and a maker of science policy in the second part of the 20th Century. This part is of interest to science policy scholars, historians, and young persons wishing to start a career in science policy. In the second half of the book, articles by directors of laboratories and leading scientists discuss future programs in all areas of nuclear physics - low-energy, medium-energy and high-energy - to which Bromley greatly contributed, in the USA, Europe and Japan.

This part of the book is of interest to all researchers in the field of nuclear physics, as it provides a comprehensive but succinct overview of the field and indicates directions for future research in the first part of the 21st century.

Название: Bernard g sarnat: 20th century plastic surgeon and biological scientist
ISBN: 9812813179 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789812813176
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
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Описание: Features a biography of Bernard G Sarnat, SB, MD, MS, DDS, FACS. This title is intended not just for researchers in the biology of bone and teeth, but also for medical and dental students as well the general reader interested in science and medicine.

Автор: Voldman
Название: From Invention to Patent: A Scientist and Engineer `s Guide
ISBN: 1119125251 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781119125259
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Invention and patents continues to be an important issue in technology and our global economy. Invention and Patenting provides a clear picture of how to be a prolific inventor, to understand patents, and the patent process.

Автор: Heine
Название: A.S. Eddington and the Unity of Knowledge: Scientist, Quaker and Philosopher
ISBN: 1107037379 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107037373
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This 2012 collection gathers together lectures on the relationship between scientific thought and aspects of philosophy, religion or ethics.

Автор: Mak Don K, Mak Angela T & Mak Anthony B
Название: Solving Everyday Problems With The Scientific Method: Thinking Like A Scientist (Second Edition)
ISBN: 9813145307 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789813145306
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
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