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Gary King is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University. His books include A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem (Princeton). Robert O. Keohane is professor emeritus of international affairs at Princeton University. His books include After Hegemony (Princeton). Sidney Verba (1932–2019) was the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and research professor of government at Harvard. His books include...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2023]
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"Mr. Keene runs a fine, fine school. He encourages his students to express themselves through the creative arts: drawing, painting, reading, and singing. Then Mr. Keene's appendix bursts, and he's rushed to the hospital. A new principal named Mr. Tatters arrives to take his place, and he is a serious man. He does not smile, he does not laugh, [he] disapproves of their creative methods of learning, and [he] immediately implements a policy of daily...
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What is the relationship between democracy and critical thinking? What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? In A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense, historian and educator Normand Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through the spin and jargon of everyday politics and news reporting in order to decide for themselves what is at stake and how to ask the necessary questions to protect themselves...
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Las prácticas filosóficas se han abierto hoy un espacio, tanto en el mundo de esa disciplina como en los campos sociales. Una parte de la filosofía desistió de dedicarse solamente a la labor teórica y se atrevió a dar importantes pasos hacia la interacción con los otros. En este libro escriben buena parte de los principales filósofos prácticos de la filosofía con/para niños, la consultoría filosófica y los talleres filosóficos aplicados...
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Kaizen is a Japanese management philosophy that emphasises continuous improvement in all aspects of an organisation's operations. The philosophy can be applied to various industries, including manufacturing, service delivery, healthcare, education, and sports. Key aspects of the Kaizen approach include employee engagement, data-driven decision-making, and the promotion of standardised processes. By adopting the mindset of Kaizen, organisations can...
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Frequentemente llamado "El fundador de la filosofía moderna" y el "padre de la matemática moderna", René Descartes es considerado uno de los pensadores más importantes e influyentes en la Historia del Pensamiento Occidental, habiendo inspirado a contemporáneos y a varias generaciones de filósofos posteriores. Los expertos afirman que, a partir de Descartes, se inauguró el racionalismo de la Edad Moderna. En este valioso eBook, el lector podrá...
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The Prince and the Wolf contains the transcript of a debate, which took place on 5th February 2008 at the London School of Economics (LSE) between the prominent French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher Bruno Latour and the Cairo-based American philosopher Graham Harman.
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A medio camino entre un manual metodológico y un texto de reflexión teórica, Cómo iniciarse en la investigación académica. Una guía práctica ofrece una estrategia simple, efectiva e iluminadora que permite a todo estudiante universitario emprender la desafiante y maravillosa tarea de elaborar una investigación propia, original y de buen nivel.
El libro presenta los fundamentos de la investigación académica y parte de una reflexión acerca...
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Social research practitioners and others working in the public and voluntary sectors, in academia and consultancy are increasingly under pressure to provide policy-related evidence with limited resources and rising expectations. Demystifying evaluation is an accessible introductory guide setting the foundations for tackling those challenges, explaining the options open to evaluators, their merits and uses, and how to make appropriate choices of research...
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Un ouvrage centré sur le processus de réalisation d'un mémoire ou d'une thèse. Qui indique quoi, comment et quand faire les choses. Que la démarche suivie soit qualitative ou quantitative, il aide à cerner sa problématique, à établir son cadre théorique, à analyser, présenter et interpréter ses résultats.
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The word creation requires a structure, and this structure could be in different forms just like creative writing (Prosaic or Poetic), rules and regulations and different customs. There are many continuous living systems just like administration, religious conviction, communal etiquette, philosophy, literature, art and many more that engage associations with mankind. One of those systems is Mythology. Each country and each continent has its own mythology....
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Embark on an intellectual journey with "The Bertrand Russell Collection," a comprehensive anthology spanning the influential philosopher's groundbreaking works. From "The Analysis of Mind" to insightful essays on humanism, ethics, and society, this collection encapsulates Russell's brilliance and offers timeless reflections on reason, knowledge, and the complexities of the human experience. Explore the mind of one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers...
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Anyone interested in research related to determining subjectivities, meaning people's opinions about a topic, will be interested in reading this text. Certainly, this text is a must-have for anyone interested in Q methodology or who has used Q methodology, Q Methodology (Q) is a complete methodology which involves technique (sorting), method (factor analysis), philosophy, ontology, and epistemology. Q reveals and describes divergent views in a group...
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Cet indispensable ouvrage de méthodologie jette les bases de la réflexion scientifique contemporaine en sciences sociales. De conception multidisciplinaire, Recherche sociale couvre le processus de la recherche en sciences sociales, de l'établissement de l'objet d'étude jusqu'à la collecte des données. Les auteurs, chercheurs dans des universités ou dans des entreprises privées, exposent, analysent et critiquent les tendances propres à leur...
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Pratiquée dans le réseau de la santé et des services sociaux depuis la création des centres locaux de services communautaires (CLSC), l'organisation communautaire s'est diversifiée au cours des 40 dernières années. De même, les professions de l'intervention collective se sont multipliées aussi bien en milieu communautaire que dans les organismes philanthropiques et les municipalités. Au cœur de ces professions, la fonction de liaison répond...
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The main advantages of case research are that it can produce an in-depth analysis of phenomena in context, support the development of historical perspectives and guarantee high internal validity, which is to say that the observed phenomena are authentic representations of reality. In short, the case study is adaptable to both the context and the researcher.
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Este libro le propone al lector un conjunto clave de consideraciones conceptuales, metodológicas y prácticas en torno al uso de métodos experimentales en ciencias sociales. Así mismo, ofrece una rica variedad de aproximaciones disciplinares, subdisciplinares, de enfoques, métodos y técnicas aplicadas mediante estudios inéditos sobre diferentes temas, problemas y casos. Por medio de doce capítulos, los autores hilan un recorrido que lleva al...
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¿Se pueden contrastar las teorías psicoanalíticas? ¿Hay manera de controlar su descripción de los mecanismos psíquicos? ¿Es posible considerar a las teorías psicoanalíticas como buenas informaciones acerca de los eventos psíquicos? ¿O ellas son concepciones filosóficas sostenidas o combatidas tan sólo por razones subjetivas, ideológicas o políticas? ¿Cuál es el papel de la reflexión ética, en medicina, psiquiatría y psicoanálisis?
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