Dictionary of French Family Names in North America
This dictionary provides the origins, meanings, and variants of French family names in North America. Uniquely, it also includes genealogical information on the migrants who brought them to the continent.
Child life specialists need research skills, but few resources exist. Combining clinical examples with advice from seasoned researchers, this text guides you from identifying a clinical question to reporting results and improving patient outcomes.
Making Sense of Stories
This book is an invaluable guide for the researcher or professional using storytelling as inquiry. Drawing from disciplines like psychology and sociology, its 29 chapters provide a rich compendium of ways to analyse stories and make sense of them.
The Home Workplace
The recent mass migration to remote work has made it clear our foundations are not solid. But what if this decentralization could benefit the individual, the organization, and the planet? This book provides tools to design a home workplace that serves your company and our world.
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.
Recent Developments in Management Science in Engineering
This book identifies the main research categories of Management Science in Engineering (MSE), and evaluates and classifies each MSE journal. Created by an expert team of editors and academics, it is a critical resource for scientists, researchers, practitioners, and students.
This book presents a rigorous, comprehensible mathematical analysis of linear, nonlinear, automatic, and optimal control systems. Offering applicative solutions illustrated with engineering examples, it will appeal to scientists and engineers in research, design, and industry.
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.
This collection of social work research uses studies as a tool for social justice. It offers a scientific model for researchers, organisations, and laypersons to study topics from education and health to criminal justice, bringing us a step closer to development for all.
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.
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.
This guide explains quantitative research in health sciences. It covers the entire process: formulating a research question, defining variables, choosing a study design, data collection, and statistical analysis. Acquire the skills to develop a complete health research project.
The crises of the Anthropocene pressure us to rethink education. This volume responds to these challenges, casting fresh light on contemporary research methodologies fit for the future, exploring post-qualitative inquiry, arts-based methods, and co-design with teachers.
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 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 framework and guidelines to help researchers produce high-quality manuscripts for high-impact journals. It offers precise tips and tricks to help students and researchers succeed in their publication endeavours.
This book discusses the most important issues facing librarianship today. Librarians ensure the authenticity of information and are committed to information literacy. The book is richly illustrated with clear diagrams for simple understanding of the subject matter.
The Theory and Practice of the East Asian Library
Presenting groundbreaking research on the East Asian library, this book covers the progress and conflicts in the field. The issues raised will lead to a rethinking of the field’s role in global interactivity and provide guidance to scholars on East Asian resources.
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.
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.