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	Handbook for College Research Complete, concise, and specially designed for easy access, this guide to the process of writing the research paper features a no-nonsense handbook format that helps students quickly find the information they need. The Third Edition of Handbook for College Research provides the latest information on locating and evaluating print and electronic source material as well as documenting sources in four different styles (the APA, Chicago, CBE, and updated MLA guidelines). In addition to guiding students in the stages of writing the research paper--planning, drafting, and revising, this edition includes convenient, in-text annotations with each citation, providing clear visual models of the four styles. Students receive the most up-to-date information on MLA documentation with the enclosed tri-fold card providing NEW 2009 MLA Handbook formats. Author: Robert Perrin Publisher: Cengage Learning ISBN: 9780495899525 Format: Spiral Bound Book List Price: $46.95 Our Price: $41.79
	Handbook of Marketing Scales 'Marketing scholars and marketing research practitioners will find this book useful. It offers an excellent sourcebook for a variety of scales, and the reviews of the scales are thoughtful and well crafted. The book includes many of the most widely used scales in the field. Its relatively modest price will also make it particularly attractive' - Journal of Marketing Research This Second Edition of the highly successful Handbook of Marketing Scales is an essential, time-saving resource for all marketing professionals, researchers, and graduate students. After an exhaustive search of the field's major publications, they have included only those measures of most use to researchers. Author: William O. Bearden & Richard G. Netemeyer Publisher: SAGE Publications ISBN: 9780761910008 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $240.95 Our Price: $214.45
	Handbook of Research Methods in Pediatric and Clinical Child Psychology Emphasizes a practical, skill-based perspective, that considers the problems that are faced by researchers executing various tasks. This book uses illustrations from research and includes recommendations for training researchers in pediatric and clinical child psychology. Author: Dennis Drotar Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers ISBN: 9780306462290 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $385.95 Our Price: $343.50
	Handling Qualitative Data This new edition of Lyn Richards' popular book provides an accessible introduction to qualitative research for students and practitioners. Recognizing that for many novice researchers, data - rather than methods and their philosophical underpinnings - are the starting point, the book helps the reader to acquire the skills and understanding of methodological issues that they need as they work through their research project. This enables the student to handle, reflect on, and get results from small amounts of data right from the start. The book also covers using software, when this is necessary, and the challenges that researchers might encounter. For those who wish to work with computer software, resource pages, and tutorials covering the issues and techniques in each chapter are available on the book's companion website. Author: Lyn Richards Publisher: Sage Publications (CA) ISBN: 9781848602182 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $54.95 Our Price: $48.91
	Healing Plants of the Bible Combining history, anecdotal history, legends, and traditions, Healing Plants of the Bible: Then and Now provides an informative look at faith concerns and healing practices and suggests that the two have been intertwined since creation itself. Beginning with a consideration of the Hebrew people and the surrounding cultures, the book discusses how through the centuries, religious communities have both helped and hindered the advancement of healing knowledge and medicine. Healing Plants of the Bible discusses thirty-five plants that are used as essential oils today and compares those uses with the plantsa uses in ancient times. Each plant considered includes Biblical references. Appendices offer a more detailed look at the scripture in which each plant is mentioned as well as references to an additional thirteen words related to essential oils, aromas, and worship. Author: Tim Morrison Publisher: PublishAmerica ISBN: 9781591295228 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $51.95 Our Price: $46.24
	How to Become an Expert on Anything in Two Hours For those in almost any field, the ability to immediately connect with others through knowledge of a particular subject area is vital to gaining trust, solidifying relationships, and getting ideas across. Convincing others that one 'knows what he's talking about' can help win clients, gain allies, make sales, and much more. But tricks and shortcuts, like peppering conversation with jargon or random facts, can seem transparent at best, and often work against one's intent. This field-tested book gives readers a comprehensive process for quickly taking in small amounts of information in a given area, and knowing how to use it to convey familiarity. This book allows readers to generate amazing rapport with anyone by honing in on the one subject that interests them most: their own area of expertise. Author: Gregory Hartley & Maryann Karinch Publisher: Amacom ISBN: 9780814409923 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $28.00 Our Price: $24.92
	How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education with Powerweb Author: Jack R. Fraenkel & Norman E. Wallen Publisher: McGraw Hill Publishers ISBN: 9780073135359 Format: Mixed Media: Paperback Book, Digital Media - CD-ROM List Price: $159.95 Our Price: $142.36
	How to do a Research Project In How to do a Research Project, Colin Robson has created an essential tool for students. Written specifically to address the needs and concerns of the undergraduate, this tightly focused volume guides students through the process of conducting and completing a research project and is relevant to all disciplines that require the use of social research methods. Friendly and accessible, this text includes a number of accompanying support materials to further aid students. Closely integrated sets of end-of-chapter tasks covering all aspects of research projects from design to completion, as well as lists of suggested further readings, enhance each chapter. Additionally, an extensive associated website gives students access to a wide range of helpful materials relevant to their particular needs, making this book an invaluable resource. Author: Colin Robson Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd ISBN: 9781405114905 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $30.95 Our Price: $27.55
	How to Do Media and Cultural Studies 'Crammed with useful advice delivered in a straight-forward, no nonsense approach this text helps students to get off the starting blocs...I recommend that all media dissertation students begin their project with it' - Simon Cottle, University of Melbourne How to do Media and Cultural Studies provides an essential student guide to the process of research and writing. Aimed at any student about to start on an extended essay or dissertation it covers all the key stages - from formulating a research question to writing up. How to do Media and Cultural Studies: - Covers both quantitative and qualitative methods - Includes separate chapters of how to analyze media and cultural texts, industries and audiences - Works through a series of key examples of media and cultural research - Includes a list of useful library resources and essential web sites Suitable for use as a coursebook, this book can also be used independently by students. No other book provides such an accessible and practical guide. How to do Media and Cultural Studies is an essential purchase for all media, communication, film and cultural studies students. Author: Jane Stokes Publisher: SAGE Publications ISBN: 9780761973294 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $59.95 Our Price: $53.36
	How to Get a Research Degree A research masters or doctoral degree has long been the passport to the academic community. This is still true today, despite the many changes experienced by universities around the world. Yet it is often hard to find practical guidance for what it usually the most challenging project a student can tackle.How to Get a Research Degreebreaks down the mystique surrounding major academic research projects. It shows how to develop a topic, manage the research and writing process, balance personal and professional life, and use the degree to further a career. The book addresses the requirements of different disciplines and the needs of different groups of students.How to Get a Research Degreeprovides the information you need to ensure they complete your research degree successfully.'How to Get a Research Degreeoffers insight, instruction and inspiration, and it does so without minimising the rigours of graduate study...[It] provides a great service to students.' Abigail Lipson, American University, Washington DC'Commendable for its scope, clarity and brevity, it will repay in a single week the few hours it takes to read.' David Rabuenheimer, Oxford University Author: Robert Schweitzer & Leonie Elphinstone Leonie Elphistone Publisher: Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781864485608 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $26.95 Our Price: $23.99
	How to Motivate Your Child for School and Beyond - Do you worry that your child has no interest in schoolwork? - Is your child reluctant to do homework? - Do you worry about your sons struggling at school while girls are enthusiastic achievers? - Do you want to help your child manage their study load better so they leave time for sporting activities and simple fun? If you answered yes to any of these questions, HOW TO MOTIVATE YOUR CHILD FOR SCHOOL AND BEYOND has all the answers and more. A positive, practical guide to helping children be the best they can be, it offers achievable solutions for parents who want their children to do well at school and enjoy the process. New research shows the difference between children who are enthusiastic achievers and those who struggle isn't simply the makeup of the child. Packed with authoritative information and hands on strategies for parents and teachers, HOW TO MOTIVATE YOUR CHILD is a must-have for parents and professionals who work with families and children. Andrew Martin won the prestigious American Psychological Association's international award for his innovative work on what makes children achieve and happy at school.In this book he reveals the secrets that will stop arguments over homework and worries about your child's achievements at school and university forever. Author: Andrew Martin Publisher: Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia) ISBN: 9781863253918 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $22.21
	How to Research Local History Do you want to know to know more about the history of your street or parish, find out about the people who lived in your area and what they did, or discover more about a particular building? How to Research Local History will help get you started on how to interpret documents such as census returns, rating books and maps, and where to find them. It will introduce you to the delights of street directories and old newspapers, lead you to fascinating websites that can save you a lot of research time and talk you through the best of research methods to use in archives. Author: Pamela Brooks Publisher: How To Books Ltd ISBN: 9781845282769 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $34.95 Our Price: $31.11
	How to Use Qualitative Methods in Evaluation How to Use Qualitative Methods in Evaluation -- a new volume in the Program Evaluation Kit -- reflects the growing use of qualitative techniques in the evaluation process. The author differentiates the qualitative approach in method and philosophy from more traditional quantitative methods and specifies the kinds of evaluation question for which it is most appropriate. The design decisions and sampling strategies which underlie the method are explained. Patton also includes clearly illustrated step-by-step guides for planning and conducting fieldwork and observations, in-depth interviewing, and analysing, interpreting and reporting results. Author: Michael Quinn Patton Publisher: SAGE Publications ISBN: 9780803931299 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $79.00 Our Price: $70.31
	How to Write Psychology Research Reports and Essays New to this fifth edition is an expanded section on how to reference electronic sources, included in text referencing and the use of quotations in response to the sorts of errors students are making. Also included are expanded comments on how to avoid plagiarism, as well as updated urls. Author: Bruce Findlay Publisher: Pearson Education ISBN: 9781442508415 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $69.95 Our Price: $62.26
	The Handbook of Visual Analysis The Handbook of Visual Analysis is a rich methodological resource for students, academics, researchers and professionals interested in investigating the visual representation of socially significant issues. The handbook: offers a wide-range of methods for visual analysis: content analysis, historical analysis, structuralist analysis, iconography, psychoanalysis, social semiotic analysis, film analysis and ethnomethodology. It shows how each method can be applied for the purposes of specific research projects. It exemplifies each approach through detailed analyses of a variety of data, including, newspaper images, family photos, drawings, art works and cartoons. It includes examples from the authors' own research and professional practice.This is the Handbook of Visual Analysis which demonstrates the importance of visual data within the social sciences. It offers an essential guide to those working in a range of disciplines including: media and communication studies, sociology, anthropology, education, psychoanalysis, and health studies. Author: Theo and Jewitt van Leeuwen, Theo Van Leeuwen & Carey Jewitt Publisher: SAGE Publications ISBN: 9780761964766 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $252.95 Our Price: $225.13
	The Handbook of Visual Analysis The Handbook of Visual Analysis is a rich methodological resource for students, academics, researchers and professionals interested in investigating the visual representation of socially significant issues. The Handbook: * Offers a wide-range of methods for visual analysis: content analysis, historical analysis, structuralist analysis, iconography, psychoanalysis, social semiotic analysis, film analysis and ethnomethodology * Shows how each method can be applied for the purposes of specific research projects. * Exemplifies each approach through detailed analyses of a variety of data, including, newspaper images, family photos, drawings, art works and cartoons. * Includes examples from the authors' own research and professional practice. The Handbook of Visual Analysis which demonstrates the importance of visual data within the social sciences offers an essential guide to those working in a range of disciplines including: media and communication studies, sociology, anthropology, education, psychoanalysis, and health studies. Author: Carey Jewitt & Theo van Leeuwen Theo Van Leeuwen Publisher: SAGE Publications ISBN: 9780761964773 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $54.95 Our Price: $48.91
	The Heinemann English Project Will help students develop skills to navigate through the information flood that is around. Using a six step process, students will learn how to decide on a topic, then find, use, record, present and evaluate information. Author: Meagan Roberts Publisher: Harcourt Education ISBN: 9781740814614 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $27.95 Our Price: $24.88
	The Hidden Web Original and practical, The Hidden Web will prove an indispensable resource for all Web users including very experienced ones by providing them with new skills and strategies for uncovering quality information in the ever-expanding online environment. In this timely revision of the book, the first edition of which was published in 2003, all chapters have been thoroughly updated to reflect the substantial changes that have occurred in this dynamic arena over the past few years. Author: Maureen Henninger Publisher: UNSW Press ISBN: 9780868408552 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $39.95 Our Price: $35.56