Research Methodology for Engineers and Architects
A practical guide to research methods for engineering and architecture students. This book uses real examples from the Palestinian environment to demonstrate a pragmatic approach, bridging the gap between theory and application. An essential textbook and reference.
Little Magazines in West Bengal
Despite immense passion for the Bānlā little magazine, academic books in English are very rare. This book fills that scarcity. Drawing on three decades of intimate experience as an author, editor, and organizer, the text is not a dry research work but an enjoyable read.
This book exposes the ‘unseen’ challenges of qualitative research. First-person accounts from diverse multicultural contexts reveal how researchers navigated ethical tensions, unequal power relations, and linguistic barriers. An invaluable resource with practical recommendations.
This book provides a novel, strategic solution for China’s future, investigating the scientification of its words, language, and culture. This ‘scientific Chinese trinity’ will create a scientific China and facilitate the development of the digital economy.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed education research. This book maps key challenges and opportunities for a post-COVID world where method and methodology are as vital as findings. It explores issues from STEM research and design to analysis, complexity, and ethics.
This book portrays all rational actions as social. It elucidates the significance of this perspective for psychology, political philosophy, and better living, challenging the damaging consequences of psychology’s assumption that rationality is strictly individualist.
An indispensable guide to modern business analytics. Convert raw data into actionable insights using descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive techniques. With real-world case studies, this book equips you with the knowledge to optimize processes and make strategic decisions.
This book presents fundamental studies on EEG analysis, introducing a new method for analyzing synchrony to differentiate diseases like schizophrenia and depression. It also covers sleep analysis, choosing an optimal reference electrode, and includes free software tools.
This book argues that all rationality is social and explains the far-ranging consequences. It highlights the need for methodological reforms and for changing social scientific theories in economics, sociology, and psychology.
An explosive exposé of India’s flawed development. Focusing on land, caste, and gender, this scathing critique reveals how an elite nexus has subverted national progress. A must-read to understand contemporary India.
Video Vision
This volume unpacks the use of video as a research tool, exploring ethics, methodology, and analysis. It presents cutting-edge research with practical strategies for data collection and presentation, accessible to students and useful for social scientists.
Learn the basics of media research, from conducting experimental and survey research to understanding how the media socializes us. This book explores media’s effects, including stereotypes and prosocial impacts, and teaches critical thinking techniques.
This guide offers a complete methodology for the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) thesis, blending indispensable theory and practice. It provides clear, applicable standards and testimonies from scholars to help students and supervisors find valuable solutions.
For new and seasoned investors, this book provides crucial knowledge of Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), and Blockchain. It covers the most important elements investors need to know, including regulation risk and robust trading strategy.
This concise contemporary guide explores optimization, control theory, and calculus of variations. A valuable source for learning mathematical modeling and scientific prediction, it features a variety of solved exercises, making it useful for university courses.
Systemics helps us navigate our increasingly complex world. This book provides an easy-to-read introduction to this new science for students and professionals, covering everything from basic concepts and systems thinking to modeling and organizational transformation.
This book explores how research practices have profound implications for education. Authors think critically about research design, covering topics from co-design with teachers to system change, in a robust discussion that will inform and shape education systems for the future.
Complexity and Uncertainty in Contemporary Cities
Contemporary cities face growing complexity and uncertainty. This book reviews the history of systems thinking and provides a conceptual model applying systemic principles and foresight techniques to urban planning, facilitating collaborative and integrated approaches to cities.
This book details the reinvention of librarians and archivists as memory makers for the digital age. Learn the methods to turn a flood of data into valued information, combining the art of curation with the science of recordkeeping to assume control in the Digital Memory Age.
This book helps researchers select the right predictive model. It explains and compares traditional and data-driven models from a statistical viewpoint, with illustrations in R. Learn to handle model assumptions, outliers, and overfitting.