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"Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker's experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation and while looking at art. By exploring exceptional experiences through art, the volume asks probing questions for anthropology. In recognizing that art is all-encompassing - including, as it does, narrative, performance, dance and images - Exceptional Experiences situates itself within a number of conversations on methodological and conceptual issues in anthropology and beyond"--

For introductory courses Research Methods in any area of studyfrom Anthropology to Zoology Engaging, cross-disciplinary, practical.Practical Research: Planning and Design is a do-it-yourself, understand-it-yourself manual for planning and conducting research. Suitable for a wide variety of courses in basic research methodology, the text guides the reader, step-by-step, from the selection of a problem, through the process of conducting authentic research, to the preparation of a completed report, with practical suggestions throughout. The authors emphasize the idea that quality research demands planning and design, and they provide what is needed for readers to be able to execute their own research projects effectively and professionally. From reviews of the book: [Practical Research] is written in a very user-friendly style for novice researchers. It gives a good overview of research methodology in a very concise manner. I like the extended examples. Brian Belland, Utah State University The primary strengths are the authors capacity to provide a succinct overview to research in its broadest sense, while offering enough depth to both engage the reader and provoke an interest in further study. For this reason, Practical Research: Planning and Design represents a seminal introduction to the subject of research and remains a helpful reference tool along the way for novice and experienced researchers alike. Robert Hayden, Michigan State University This title is also available packaged with the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a bound book, use ISBN 0134013506. Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eTextThe Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with interactive learning exercises and assessments. The Enhanced Pearson eText is also available with a loose-leaf version or without a print version. Instructors, visit pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks to register for your digital examination copy. Students, register for or purchase your eText at pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks.

A Unified Electro-Gravity (UEG) Theory of Nature, by Nirod K. Das, is a research book describing discovery of a new theory of physics, which unifies all known fundamental forces and phenomena of nature. The new UEG theory introduces a general theoretical paradigm, unifying electrical, gravitational as well as mechanical principles, which can self-consistently model all elementary particles, as well as explain currently mysterious astrophysical, cosmological and quantum-mechanical phenomena. The book is presented as a set of articles that focus on specific aspects of the unified theory. The articles are grouped into major themes, starting with an introduction of the basic theory and its gradual development. The UEG theory predicts the value of the fine structure constant of electrodynamics, and the physical structures of the electron, proton, neutrino and other elementary particles. It unfolds the secrets of quantum physics, and explains galaxy rotation and cosmological expansion without need for any hypothetical dark matter or dark energy.

The essential guide to successful ecological research-now updated and expandedMost books and courses in ecology cover facts and concepts but don't explain how to actually do ecological research. How to Do Ecology provides nuts-and-bolts advice on organizing and conducting a successful research program. This one-of-a-kind book explains how to choose a research question and answer it through manipulative experiments and systematic observations. Because science is a social endeavor, the book provides strategies for working with other people, including professors and collaborators. It suggests effective ways to communicate your findings in the form of journal articles, oral presentations, posters, and grant and research proposals. The book also includes ideas to help you identify your goals, organize a season of fieldwork, and deal with negative results. In short, it makes explicit many of the unspoken assumptions behind doing good research in ecology and provides an invaluable resource for meaningful conversations between ecologists.This second edition of How to Do Ecology features new sections on conducting and analyzing observational surveys, job hunting, and becoming a more creative researcher, as well as updated sections on statistical analyses.

This book offers a brief history of how autoethnography has been employed in studies of sport and physical (in)activity to date and makes an explicit call for anti-colonial approaches - challenging scholars of physical culture to interrogate and write against the colonial assumptions at work in so many physical cultural and academic spaces.

A Practical Guide to Teaching Research Methods in Education brings together more than 60 faculty experts. The contributors share detailed lesson plans about selected research concepts or skills in education and related disciplines, as well as discussions of the intellectual preparation needed to effectively teach the lesson.

A Practical Guide to Teaching Research Methods in Education brings together more than 60 faculty experts. The contributors share detailed lesson plans about selected research concepts or skills in education and related disciplines, as well as discussions of the intellectual preparation needed to effectively teach the lesson.

Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds and Lived Emplacement is a compilation of eighteen previously published articles and chapters by David Seamon, one of the foremost researchers in environmental, architectural, and place phenomenology.

New Feminist Research Ethics re-examines the place of the ethical in feminist research and identifies new ethical priorities for feminist researchers. It acknowledges the need for feminist ethical research frameworks that encompass multiple perspectives and draw from diverse traditions of knowing.

This book provides an inventory of modes of inquiry for ethnographic research and presents fieldwork as an act of relational invention.

This edited volume comprises an insightful collection of international autoethnographies from doctoral candidates in the field of applied linguistics, narrating and analyzing their student experiences to problematize and challenge the dominant and oppressive cultures of academia.

This book offers a more holistic picture and contemporary interpretations for identifying and characterizing the unorthodox innovation patterns and the perplexing value-creating logic of Asia Pacific BMs at the crossroads of diverse cultures. It was originally published as a special issue of the Asia Pacific Business Review.

This book explores 'difficult conversations' in feminist theory as an integral part of social and theoretical transformations.

This book presents different tools and techniques used for Decision Support Systems (DSS), including decision tree and table, and their modifications, multi-criteria decision analysis techniques, network tools of decision support, and various case-based reasoning methods supported by examples and case studies. Latest developments for each of the techniques have been discussed separately, and possible future research areas are duly identified as intelligent and spatial DSS.Features:Discusses all the major tools and techniques for Decision Support System supported by examples.Explains techniques considering their deterministic and stochastic aspects.Covers network tools including GERT and Q-GERT.Explains the application of both probability and fuzzy orientation in the pertinent techniques.Includes a number of relevant case studies along with a dedicated chapter on software.This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in information systems, data analytics, operation research, including management and computer science areas.

Public Sociology highlights the relevance of sociological perspectives to Australian social life and encourages students to apply a sociological gaze to their own lives and the communities in which they live. This fully revised and updated fifth edition adds new chapters and material on a wide range of contemporary issues, from the COVID-19 pandemic and 'fake news' to Iindigenous issues and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.Public Sociology presents a wide range of topics in a user-friendly and accessible way, introducing key theories and research methods, and exploring core themes, including youth, families and intimate relationships, class and inequality, and race and ethnic relations. All chapters have been extensively revised to bring them up to date in a fast-changing social world, reflecting the latest sociological debates in response to changing lifestyles and evolving political landscapes. In addition to updated statistics and research findings, an expanded glossary and the latest citations to the scholarly literature, each chapter includes numerous learning features for students and instructors, including definitions of key terms, concise summaries of main points, discussion questions and guides to further reading and additional resources.This is the essential sociological reference to help students in the social sciences make sense of a complex and challenging world.New to the Fifth Edition:New chapters on the COVID-19 pandemic, Indigenous issues, youth and identity, and sportExploration of the latest social issues including the pandemic, BLM, expanded discussion of gender, #MeToo, LGBTIQ+ and intersectionality, rising inequality and the 'post-truth' ageAll chapters thoroughly revised and updated with the latest researchUpdated design, images, and chapter opening vignettes to engage the reader

Den menneskelige erkendelse er langt fra perfekt. Hver især er vi uvidende om mange ting, og meget af det vi ved, forstår vi ikke til bunds. Et overlegent rumvæsen ville sandsynligvis anse de fleste af os mennesker for temmelig tåbelige, eftersom vi bliver nødt til at stræbe efter viden og forståelse. I før-ste omgang for at overleve, og senere for at tilfredsstille vores intellektuelle behov. Vi kan håbe på at bygge vores formodninger om verden på gode grunde og til sidst opnå den form for viden og forståelse, der fortjener betegnelsen vis-dom. Desværre kan vi ikke engang blive enige om, hvad begrundelse, viden, forståelse, og visdom egentlig er for nogle størrelser. Forskellen mellem vi-den og uvidenhed, eller mellem visdom og tåbelighed, har været spørgsmål på den filosofiske dagsorden siden oldtiden. Har viden en absolut værdi, eller er viden altid kun viden i forhold til et bestemt samfunds normer og livsform? Dette spørgsmål kom for alvor i fokus i det 20. århundrede. Erkendelsens Mål giver en indføring i den moderne tids vigtigste debat-ter om målene for den menneskelige erkendelse. Debatterne har ikke kun betydning for erkendelsesteorien, men griber ofte ind i vigtige spørgsmål inden for etik, bevidsthedsfilosofi, videnskabsfilosofi og politisk teori. Bogen henvender sig især til studerende på bachelorniveau, men kan også læses med udbytte af gymnasie- og højskoleelever. NIKOLAJ NOTTELMANN, ph.d., er lektor i filosofi ved Institut for Kultur-videnskaber, Syddansk Universitet. Han har bidraget bredt til forskningen inden for erkendelsesteori, etik, og videnskabsfilosofi, og har stor erfaring med at formidle sin viden både skriftligt og mundtligt.