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The present work is based on the author's long teaching and research guiding experience in History. The author has added 'A Word About History' in the First chapter to make the book useful for the general reader as well as the specialist. The succeeding chapters deal with the Research Methodology, the emphasis being on the quality of research. The author has tried to touch upon all the areas and delicate matters to help the researcher achieve his...
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English
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Research Methodology A Handbook is designed as a short introduction to the subject. It is eminently practical in nature. Conceptual issues confusing the research scholar have been dealt with in a lucid manner. The authors believe that even in the social sciences the mechanical or quantitative dimension should precede the sociological dimension. Before the social scientist begins to deal with verbal categories such as role, status, institution, etc,...
7) The History and Achievements of the Islamic Golden Age: Episode 11,Master Muslim Scholar: al-Biruni
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This lecture introduces you to al-Biruni, a scholar and polymath who left a mark on physics, math, astronomy, geography, anthropology, history, and much more. Born in modern-day Uzbekistan, his pursuit of learning and dissemination of knowledge is unparalleled. See what made his scholastic approach and his research methodology so groundbreaking.
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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Falsehood and Fallacy shows students how to evaluate what they read in a digital age now that old institutional gatekeepers, such as the media or institutions of higher education, no longer hold a monopoly on disseminating knowledge. Short chapters cover the problems that exist as a result of the current flow of unmediated information, Fake News, and bad arguments, and demonstrate how to critically evaluate sources--particularly those that appear...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Where does great physics come from? As a young graduate student, cosmologist Stephon Alexander had a life-changing lesson in the subject. When asked by the legendary theoretical physicist Christopher Isham why he had attended graduate school, Alexander answered: "To become a better physicist." He could hardly have anticipated Isham's response: "Then stop reading those physics books." Instead, Isham said, Alexander should start listening to his dreams....
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
Eugenia Cheng can't help thinking like a mathematician. She also can't help thinking like a woman. After all, she's both. But there seems like there must be a clear tension. She had to learn to be a mathematician, for one thing, and-in the popular imagination, anyway-mathematics seems very "male," the domain of individualistic geniuses with terrible social skills, pursuing university tenure and fame. Those traits, however, aren't really what it means...
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