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Interpreting Interviews (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Mats Alvesson Interpreting Interviews (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Mats Alvesson
R1,294 Discovery Miles 12 940 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Through the use of eight original metaphors for understanding what may happen in interviews and what may guide the interviewee (more than telling the truth or revealing experiences), the reader is encouraged to do interviews in clever ways. This text enables you to question the interpretive nature and theoretical underpinnings of the interview method, and of the knowledge which is conveyed through it. The updated second edition includes new content on: • How to avoid traps in interviews  • How to use interviewees with experience and insight  • How to work creatively with generative material • The value of repeat interviewing over time  • The importance of supplementing interviews with other methods • Possibilities of interview-based research accompanied by examples This text is essential reading for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students of qualitative methods, and researchers looking to more clearly conceptualize their interviewing practice and explore its theoretical basis. Mats Alvesson is professor at University of Bath and is also affiliated with Lund University, Stockholm School of Economics and Bayes Business School.

Reflections Life Portraits of Exmoor (Paperback): Reflections Life Portraits of Exmoor (Paperback)
R218 Discovery Miles 2 180 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Superior Rendezvous-Place - Fort William in the Canadian Fur Trade (Paperback, 2nd edition): Jean Morrison Superior Rendezvous-Place - Fort William in the Canadian Fur Trade (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Jean Morrison
R718 R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Save R78 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jean Morrison has written a fascinating and important book, full of drama and colourful historical figures. Rare paintings, drawings, maps and archival photographs complement her impeccable research and lively text. Superior Rendezvous-Place encompasses the French predecessors of Fort William, Native Peoples of the time and the evolution of the fur trade, with an emphasis on the North West Company era.

This most important work concludes with details of the reconstruction of the fort and the development of Old Fort William, one of Ontario's "must see" attractions.

"Jean Morrison is a natural story teller, and hers is an essential historical document in the compelling history of Fort William, once the centre of the North American commercial universe."
- Peter C. Newman, author of Caesars of the Wilderness

"This book is wonderful reading. Jean Morrison's prose is beautiful."
- Carolyn Podruchny, fur trade historian, Newberry Library, Chicago

Designing Online Experiments for the Social Sciences (Paperback): Giuseppe Veltri Designing Online Experiments for the Social Sciences (Paperback)
Giuseppe Veltri
R1,186 Discovery Miles 11 860 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This book guides you through designing and implementing an online experiment in social science research in a clear and straightforward manner.  At an approachable pace, it covers foundational principles of good experimental design before setting out best practice for how to design and conduct web experiments, taking into account the specific methodological challenges of working online with digital tools. The book: Offers practical advice for approaching every stage of the research process Breaks real-world examples into easy to follow steps Focuses on how to make good decisions and choose the right design for your research project This pragmatic guide helps beginner researchers get started with online experiments confidently. It is supported by online resources such as case studies which allow you to see the concepts in practice, and weblinks to tools and resources to aid you.

All You Expect of the Road - Poems by Sue Nevill (Paperback): Sue Nevill All You Expect of the Road - Poems by Sue Nevill (Paperback)
Sue Nevill
R307 R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Save R24 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sue Nevill departs with purpose from traditional verse for her second collection. Careening through utterly unique poetic territory, from urban junkets to rural backroads, her images stun the reader with the force of wind against windshield. In four sections "Rain to Dance in at Midnight," "Another Way to Saskatchewan," "Romancing the Stone" and "Forest of Daughters," Nevill moves from the interior landscape of bars and basements to the open road, celebrating the vagabond tradition that hurtles us back in time and forward through generations - at once recovering the debris of earlier journeys and charting the totems and landmarks of a brilliant and personal journey.

Coping with Death In the Family (Paperback): Gerald Schneiderman Coping with Death In the Family (Paperback)
Gerald Schneiderman
R376 R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Save R23 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"A common sense guide for all age groups on how to live with the loss of a loved one." Dr. Gerald Schneiderman is on the staff of the Department of Psychiatry at the Hospital for Sick Children and is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Toronto. His long term interest in fatal metabolic disease within the family and his work on the consequences of the death of a child within the family have led him to his present involvement with the research group studying the treatment of bereavement. "The book is far from frightening, rather a sensitive and objective look at how to deal with death with the help of others who have had to deal with it, in the context of family." - Sandra Naiman, The Toronto Sun. "This book does very well what it sets out to do. It is of value not only for bereaved family members, but also for counselors, psychotherapists, and all professionals...who deal with death and with the bereaved ones." - Joseph C. Finney, MD, JD, Loyola University, Stritch School of Medicine, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. "Schneiderman has provided...workable ways to cope, not just with the stress of death, but also with the reality of life-being a survivor." - Stephen I. Katz, Ph.D, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Palo Alto, California, Family Process.

An Introduction to Identification (Paperback): J.P. Norton, Engineering An Introduction to Identification (Paperback)
J.P. Norton, Engineering
R438 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Save R24 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Advanced undergraduates and graduate students of electrical, chemical, mechanical, and environmental engineering will appreciate this text for a course in systems identification. In addition to the theoretical basis for mathematical modeling, it covers a variety of tried-and-true identification algorithms and their applications. Moreover, its broad view and fairly modest mathematical level offer readers a quick appraisal of established methods and their limitations. In addition to surveys covering classical methods of identification -- including impulse, step, and sine-wave testing -- and identification based on correlation function, the text examines least-squares model fitting, statistical properties of estimators, optimal estimation, and Bayes and maximum-likelihood estimators. Other topics include experiment design and choice of model structure as well as model validation. Numerical examples show students how to apply the modeling theories, and a chapter on specialized topics introduces research areas.

Politics in the Purple Kingdom - The Derailment of Vatican II (Paperback): George A. Schlichte Politics in the Purple Kingdom - The Derailment of Vatican II (Paperback)
George A. Schlichte
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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Canada And The World - Agenda For The Last Decade Of The Millennium (Paperback): Anatol Rapoport, Anthony Rapoport Canada And The World - Agenda For The Last Decade Of The Millennium (Paperback)
Anatol Rapoport, Anthony Rapoport
R341 R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Save R24 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the product of a collective effort by some members of the Group of 78. The name of the group derives from the number of its founding members. Its activities comprise studies of and analysis of public issues which seem at the time to be of crucial importance not only to Canadians but to all the inhabitants of the planet. The issues are discussed at annual conferences and some of the discussions have been edited and published. The present effort was stimulated by the rapid changes in the political landscape of Eastern Europe and the consequent demise of the Cold War. It seemed at the time that those changes were about to usher in a new historical era, rich in unprecedented opportunities of improving human life, in particular of freeing humanity from the threats generated by the burgeoning arsenals of weapons of total destruction and by the degradation of the environment. It seemed that global collective effort directed at solving urgent global problems became suddenly possible. One could speak hopefully of an "agenda" for such collective effort. The following members of the Group of 78 and friends sympathetic to its aims contributed to this work by submitting copy, directing us to sources, making cogent suggestions for substantive revisions or stylistic improvements: Newton R. Bowles Soonoo Engineer Shirley Farlinger Ann Gertler Leonard Johnson Peter Meincke Gwen Rapoport Ronald Shirtliff Anne Williams Pat Woodcock

Ink from an Octopus (Paperback): Leonard Gasparini Ink from an Octopus (Paperback)
Leonard Gasparini
R199 R186 Discovery Miles 1 860 Save R13 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ink from an Octopus is a book of poetry by Leonard Gasparini.

The Truth Behind Ghosts, Mediums, and Psychic Phenomena (Paperback): Ron Rhodes The Truth Behind Ghosts, Mediums, and Psychic Phenomena (Paperback)
Ron Rhodes
R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Psychics, mediums, and ghosts have become a sensation in our culture today. As a result, there are many confusing and deceptive beliefs presented. Ron Rhodes, respected and popular biblical scholar, tackles the truth about ghosts and those who say they communicate with them and answers the questions: Do ghosts in any shape or form exist? Why is there a rise in psychic phenomena today? What do psychics believe about God, Jesus, and salvation? What is Satan's role with the paranormal? How can parents protect their family from the psychic trend?

This reader-friendly presentation of intriguing facts and biblical insights will help Christians know how to respond to this fascination with the ultimate truth.

Thinking Systems - An Organic Language of Harmony for Human Survival (Paperback): Robin Asby Thinking Systems - An Organic Language of Harmony for Human Survival (Paperback)
Robin Asby
R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A guide and exploration for newcomers and experienced Systems Thinkers alike. In Thinking Systems Robin Asby explores Systems Thinking from a process perspective and shows how this perspective generates new insights, particularly into the problems that we face in the stewardship of our planet. It explains how a process-based approach allows us to think differently and how it can be widely applied. Part 1 introduces Systems Thinking and the systemic process modelling of learning and managing. This is an up-to-date and accessible introduction for anyone interested in the theory and practice of Systems Thinking. Part 2 describes the effect of applying Systems Thinking in two key areas where problems of understanding exist: government and Quantum Mechanics. Whilst these two are far apart in the academic world, in each case surprising insights result from the systemic process approach.

How to Make Sense of Statistics (Paperback): Stephen Gorard How to Make Sense of Statistics (Paperback)
Stephen Gorard
R1,256 Discovery Miles 12 560 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In a new textbook designed for students new to statistics and social data, Stephen Gorard focuses on non-inferential statistics as a basis to ensure students have basic statistical literacy.  Understanding why we have to learn statistics and seeing the links between the numbers and real life is a crucial starting point. Using engaging, friendly, approachable language this book will demystify numbers from the outset, explaining exactly how they can be used as tools to understand the relationships between variables.  This text assumes no previous mathematical or statistical knowledge, taking the reader through each basic technique with step-by-step advice, worked examples, and exercises. Using non-inferential techniques, students learn the foundations that underpin all statistical analysis and will learn from the ground up how to produce theoretically and empirically informed statistical results.

Dr. Dusty - The Down And Dirty, Rewarding Reality Of A Rural Rescue (Paperback): Kate J Kuligowski Dr. Dusty - The Down And Dirty, Rewarding Reality Of A Rural Rescue (Paperback)
Kate J Kuligowski
R195 R143 Discovery Miles 1 430 Save R52 (27%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Studies in Lucian (Paperback): Barry Baldwin Studies in Lucian (Paperback)
Barry Baldwin
R1,380 R1,132 Discovery Miles 11 320 Save R248 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Computer Connection (Paperback, New ed): Alfred Bester Computer Connection (Paperback, New ed)
Alfred Bester
R524 R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Alfred Bester's first science fiction novel since The Stars My Destination was a major event-a fast-moving adventure story set in Earth's future. A band of immortal-as charming a bunch of eccentrics as you'll ever come across-recruit a new member, the brilliant Cherokee physicist Sequoya Guess. Dr. Guess, with group's help, gain control of Extro, the supercomputer that controls all mechanical activity on Earth. They plan to rid Earth of political repression and to further Guess's researches-which may lead to a great leap in human evolution to produce a race of supermen. But Extro takes over Guess instead and turns malevolent. The task of the merry band suddenly becomes a fight in deadly earnest for the future of Earth. .

Sequoya Guess, whom they love, must be killed. And how do you kill an immortal? .

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The Cybernetic Hypothesis (Paperback): Tiqqun The Cybernetic Hypothesis (Paperback)
Tiqqun; Translated by Robert Hurley
R386 R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Save R39 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

An early text from Tiqqun that views cybernetics as a fable of late capitalism, and offers tools for the resistance. The cybernetician's mission is to combat the general entropy that threatens living beings, machines, societies-that is, to create the experimental conditions for a continuous revitalization, to constantly restore the integrity of the whole. -from The Cybernetic Hypothesis This early Tiqqun text has lost none of its pertinence. The Cybernetic Hypothesis presents a genealogy of our "technical" present that doesn't point out the political and ethical dilemmas embedded in it as if they were puzzles to be solved, but rather unmasks an enemy force to be engaged and defeated. Cybernetics in this context is the tekne of threat reduction, which unfortunately has required the reduction of a disturbing humanity to packets of manageable information. Not so easily done. Not smooth. A matter of civil war, in fact. According to the authors, cybernetics is the latest master fable, welcomed at a certain crisis juncture in late capitalism. And now the interesting question is: Has the guest in the house become the master of the house? The "cybernetic hypothesis" is strategic. Readers of this little book are not likely to be naive. They may be already looking, at least in their heads, for a weapon, for a counter-strategy. Tiqqun here imagines an unbearable disturbance to a System that can take only so much: only so much desertion, only so much destituent gesture, only so much guerilla attack, only so much wickedness and joy.

Writings of the Luddites (Paperback): Kevin Binfield Writings of the Luddites (Paperback)
Kevin Binfield
R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Named for their probably mythical leader, Ned Ludd, the Luddites were a group of social agitators in nineteenth-century Britain who tried to prevent the mechanization of cloth factories, which they blamed for increased unemployment, poverty, and hunger in industrial centers. Though famous for their often violent protests, the Luddites also engaged in literary resistance in the form of poems, proclamations, petitions, songs, and letters. In Writings of the Luddites, Kevin Binfield collects complete texts written by Luddites or Luddite sympathizers between 1811 and 1816, adds detailed notes, and organizes the documents by the three primary regions of origin: the Midlands, Northwestern England, and Yorkshire. Binfield's extensive introduction provides a historical overview of the Luddites and their activities, explores their rhetorical strategies, and illuminates their literary context. Written for the most part from a collective point of view, the texts themselves range from judicious to bloodthirsty in tone and reveal a fascination both with legal forms of address and with the more personal forms of Romantic literature, as well as with the recent political revolutions in France and America.

Statistics for Evidence-Based Practice and Evaluation (Paperback, 3rd edition): Allen Rubin Statistics for Evidence-Based Practice and Evaluation (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Allen Rubin
R1,228 R1,144 Discovery Miles 11 440 Save R84 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Both practical and easy to read, Rubin's STATISTICS FOR EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE AND EVALUATION provides you with a step-by-step guide that will help you succeed in your course. Practice illustrations and exercises support your ability to study and retain core concepts, while practical examples provide you with the opportunity to see how and when data analysis and statistics are used by helping professionals in the real world.

The Literary Doctrines of Jean-Francois Marmontel 1982 (Hardcover): Michael Cardy The Literary Doctrines of Jean-Francois Marmontel 1982 (Hardcover)
Michael Cardy
R3,011 Discovery Miles 30 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.

What to Do About Sleep Problems in Young Children - 12 Months to 5 Years (Paperback): Helen F Neville What to Do About Sleep Problems in Young Children - 12 Months to 5 Years (Paperback)
Helen F Neville
R244 R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Save R17 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Strategies for getting everyone in the family on the best possible sleep schedule. A veteran Bay Area paediatric nurse and parent educator, author Helen Neville helps parents pinpoint their children's sleep problems and develop a plan to resolve the issues.

Introduction to Research Methods 5th Edition - A Practical Guide for Anyone Undertaking a Research Project (Paperback):... Introduction to Research Methods 5th Edition - A Practical Guide for Anyone Undertaking a Research Project (Paperback)
Catherine Dawson 1
R505 R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 Save R50 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Introduction to Research Methods contains everything from developing an initial idea into a proposal, through to analysing data and reporting results. Whether you have to undertake a project as part of your coursework, or as part of your employment, or simply because you are fascinated by something you have observed and want to find out more, this book offers you advice on how to turn your ideas into a workable project. Specifically it will show you how to: *Choose your research methods *Choose your participants *Prepare a research proposal *Construct questionnaires *Conduct interviews and focus groups *Analyse your data *Report your findings *Be an ethical researcher

How to Write Effective Policies and Procedures - The System that Makes the Process of Developing Policies and Procedures Easy... How to Write Effective Policies and Procedures - The System that Makes the Process of Developing Policies and Procedures Easy (Paperback)
Kirsten Brumby
R475 R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Save R37 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Origins of Greek Thought (Paperback): Jean-Pierre Vernant The Origins of Greek Thought (Paperback)
Jean-Pierre Vernant
R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jean-Pierre Vernant's concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what they believed in was inseparable from the way they lived. The emergence of rational thought, Vernant claims, is closely linked to the advent of the open-air politics that characterized life in the Greek polis. Vernant points out that when the focus of Mycenaean society gave way to the agora, the change had profound social and cultural implications. "Social experience could become the object of pragmatic thought for the Greeks," he writes, "because in the city-state it lent itself to public debate. The decline of myth dates from the day the first sages brought human order under discussion and sought to define it. . . . Thus evolved a strictly political thought, separate from religion, with its own vocabulary, concepts, principles, and theoretical aims."

Sources of Power - How People Make Decisions (Paperback, 20th Anniversary Edition): Gary A Klein Sources of Power - How People Make Decisions (Paperback, 20th Anniversary Edition)
Gary A Klein
R815 R673 Discovery Miles 6 730 Save R142 (17%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A modern classic about how people really make decisions: drawing on prior experience, using a combination of intuition and analysis. Since its publication twenty years ago, Sources of Power has been enormously influential. The book has sold more than 50,000 copies, has been translated into six languages, has been cited in professional journals that range from Journal of Marketing Research to Journal of Nursing, and is mentioned by Malcolm Gladwell in Blink. Author Gary Klein has collaborated with Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and served on a team that redesigned the White House Situation Room to support more effective decision making. The model of decision making Klein proposes in the book has been adopted in fields including law enforcement training and petrochemical plant operation. What is the groundbreaking new way to approach decision making described in this modern classic? We have all seen images of firefighters rescuing people from burning buildings and paramedics treating bombing victims. How do these individuals make the split-second decisions that save lives? Most studies of decision making, based on artificial tasks assigned in laboratory settings, view people as biased and unskilled. Klein proposes a naturalistic approach to decision making, which views people as gaining experience that enables them to use a combination of intuition and analysis to make decisions. To illustrate this approach, Klein tells stories of people-from pilots to chess masters-acting under such real-life constraints as time pressure, high stakes, personal responsibility, and shifting conditions.

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