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The pressure to win funding to do research is felt by nearly all academics worldwide. This book details strategies that you might adopt to get your research projects funded. It also explains how to manage your research projects once they are funded. It explains how...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-01-30
Collection :
The Academic's Support Kit
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The men in Charles Kenney's family have been drawn to firefighting since his grandfather Charles "Pops" Kenney joined the Boston Fire Department in 1932. In his working class, Irish-Catholic neighborhood, there were other jobs that offered a decent wage, but none had...
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PublicAffairs
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2007-01-30
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Accessibly written and easy to use, Applied Statistics Using SPSS is an all-in-one self-study guide to SPSS and do-it-yourself guide to statistics. Based around the needs of undergraduate students embarking on their own research project, the text's self-help style is...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-01-24
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`This is an illuminating and topical study, which skilfully blends together theoretical and empirical analysis in search of the "citizen-consumer". It should become a key text for all with an interest in public service reform and the "choice" agenda, as well as...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-01-24
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Modern human origins and the fate of the Neanderthals are arguably the most compelling and contentious arenas in paleoanthropology. The much-discussed split between advocates of a single, early emergence of anatomically modern humans in sub-Saharan Africa and supporters...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-01-06
Collection :
Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
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LUDOMIR R. LOZNY Hunter College This book has a long history. In December 1998 I organized a two-day international symposium at Hunter College, New York to discuss issues related to research and preservation of cultural landscapes. The symposium was sponsored by a grant...
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Springer
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2006-12-30
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`Although primarily aimed at social workers, the content of this work is very relevant for other professionals who work with and for children, including trainee lawyers as an introduction to social work practice and the principles of child care law and practice upon...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2006-12-18
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"This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in class, inequality, poverty and politics. Actually, probably more importantly it should be read by people who think that those things do not matter! It provides a wonderful summation of the huge amount of work...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-12-18
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'This book is refreshing, both as an addition to the general literature and as a text that considers cultural and social issues in studies relating to improving the situation of vulnerable people…. [T]his book will be a helpful, accessible and interesting resource for...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2006-12-11
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"Too often cultural studies discourse seems cut off from wider developments in social theory. As a sociologist with a strong cultural studies sensibility, David Oswell is ideally placed to put this right. Through a series of well-judged and historically nuanced readings...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2006-12-07
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Andean Archaeology III represents a continuation in our effort to highlight the ?nest of current archaeological scholarship conducted in the CentralAndean c- ture area. Each paper contributes in a signi?cant way to understanding prehistoric processes in the Central...
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Springer
Parution :
2006-11-30
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Subsistence intensification, innovation and change have long figured prominently in explanations for the development of social complexity among foragers and horticulturalists, and the rise of chiefly societies and archaic states, yet there is considerable debate over...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-11-25
Collection :
Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation
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Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon across populations. In Western countries of the Northern hemisphere, mortality is typically larger in winter than in summer which is attributed to the detrimental effects of cold to health. This does,...
Editeur :
Springer
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2006-11-24
Collection :
Demographic Research Monographs
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This volume is about understanding the relationship between deviance and selected correlates of deviance in one generation and deviance and its selected correlates in the next generation. By examining the significance of these constructs in the parental generation as...
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Springer
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2006-11-24
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Recent archaeological theory has show that images of the past have carried a particularly strong resonance within modern social groups. This volume explores the immeasurable impact that the phenomenon of archaeology has had on the representation of the past in the...
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Springer
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2006-11-24
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Global processes such as capitalism and colonialism are influenced by local forces and manifested in events at a local level. The study of local practices can thus provide new insights into broader social relations. This book analyses British action at the end of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-11-22
Collection :
The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology
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During the past three decades, feminist scholars have successfully demonstrated the ubiq uity and omnirelevance of gender as a sociocultural construction in virtually all human collectivities, past and present. Intrapsychic, interactional, and collective social...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-11-22
Collection :
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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Archaeological analysis operates on a continuum of scale from the microscopic analysis of a single artifact to regional interpretations of cultural adaptations over thousands of years. A common assumption is that shifting from one scale to another in space and time is a...
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Springer
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2006-11-22
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The New Policing provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical issues confronting policing today. It incorporates an overview of traditional approaches to the study of the police with a discussion of current perspectives.The book goes on to examine key themes,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2006-11-16
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'This book is jam-packed with a wide range of material related to qualitative research…. [T]his is a quality text and has much to offer the reader, especially the novice researcher' - Nurse Researcher
`This comprehensive collection of almost 40 chapters - each written...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-11-15
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