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Foundations for Research: Methods of Inquiry in Education and the Social Sciences

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

This text is designed for use in introductory research courses in the professional fields and social sciences. The major goal of the book is to acquaint students and beginning researchers with a broad view of research methodologies, as well as an
understanding of the assumptions that inform each of these approaches. Because the book presents...

Picturing Machines 1400-1700 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

MIT Press, 2004

Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of new methods of graphic representation. These drawingsÐ²Ð”among them Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawings of mechanical devicesÐ²Ð”have long been studied for their aesthetic qualities and technological ingenuity, but their significance...

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches (Routledge Music Companions)

Routledge, 2018

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches widens the scope of analytical approaches for popular music by incorporating methods developed for analyzing contemporary art music. This study endeavors to create a new analytical paradigm for examining popular music from the perspective of developments...

Open Sources 2

O'Reilly, 2005

Open Sources 2.0 is a collection of insightful and thought-provoking essays from today's technology leaders that continues painting the evolutionary picture that developed in the 1999 book Open Sources: Voices from the Revolution .

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Sex For Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry

Routledge, 2009

A groundbreaking collection of essays on the sex industry. Sex for Sale contains original studies on sex work, its risks and benefits, and its political implications. The book covers areas not commonly researched, including gay and lesbian pornography, telephone sex workers, customers of prostitutes, male and female escorts who work...

The Visual Language of Technique: Volume 1 - History and Epistemology

Springer, 2015

The book is inspired by the first seminar in a cycle connected to the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Politecnico di Milano. "Dealing with the Image Ivory Towers and Virtual Bridges" was the motto of this meeting, aiming to stimulate a discussion among engineers, designers and architects, all of whom are...

Too Soon To Tell: Essays for the End of The Computer Revolution (Perspectives)

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Based on author David A. Grier's column "In Our Time," which runs monthly in Computer magazine, Too Soon To Tell presents a collection of essays skillfully written about the computer age, an era that began February 1946. Examining ideas that are both contemporary and timeless, these chronological essays examine the revolutionary nature of...

The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky

Apress, 2005

Frustrated by the lack of well-written essays on software engineering, Joel Spolsky (of www.joelonsoftware.com fame) has put together a collection of his favorite writings on the topic.

With a nod to both the serious and funny sides of technical writing, The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky is an...

Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This edited collection offers an interdisciplinary study of Twin Peaks: The Return, the third season of a TV program that has attracted the attention (and appreciation) of spectators, fans, and critics for over two decades. The book takes readers into several distinct areas and addresses the different approaches and the range...

Publicity and the Early Modern Stage: People Made Public (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

What did publicity look like before the eighteenth century? What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask these questions of early modern London. Together, they argue that commercial theater was a vital engine in celebrity’s production. The men and women associated...

Inside the Minds: The Art of Advertising

Aspatore Books, 2003

The different niches represented and the various perspectives presented in this text enable readers to really get inside the great minds of advertising and glean practical advice, as advertising CEOs go back to basics.

Inside the Minds: The Art of Advertising is the most authoritative book ever written on...

Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice

MIT Press, 2006

Knowledge in digital form offers unprecedented access to information through the Internet but at the same time is subject to ever-greater restrictions through intellectual property legislation, overpatenting, licensing, overpricing, and lack of preservation. Looking at knowledge as a commons--as a shared resource--allows us to understand both its...

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