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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (194 pages)
Description
This book explores New Area Studies in the twenty-first century. It addresses a blurring of genres between the social sciences and the humanities; expanding methodological innovation, reflective practice and co-production of knowledge with local people. It marks the significance of the local to the global in an increasingly complex world.
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Pub. Date
2004
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xiv, 126 p. : maps.
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Elements for a Science Plan for the North Pacific Research Board provides guidance for the NPRB as they work towards fulfilling key organizational goals. The report makes specific recommendations on long-term research priorities, the NPRB management structure and the development of future programs.
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Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
463 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 25 cm.
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"One of the best books yet published on climate change . . . The best compact history of the science of global warming I have read."-Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books
The world's premier climatologist, Lonnie Thompson has been risking his career and life on the highest and most remote ice caps along the equator, in search of clues to the history of climate change. His most innovative work has taken place on these mountain glaciers, where...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (378 pages)
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This book critically examines the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from an Afrocentric perspective. The necessity of interpretive Afrocentric research is relevant to position agency and to locate Africana studies in place, space, and time. This study will provide readers with a compilation of literary, historical, philosophical, and social science essays that describe and evaluate the Africana experience...
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Organisms and environments volume 1
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
xxiv, 197 p. : ill., maps.
Description
In 1540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado introduced the first domestic livestock to the American Southwest. Over the subsequent four centuries, cattle, horses, and sheep have created a massive ecological experiment on these arid grasslands, changing them in ways we can never know with certainty.
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This volume is a study of the theory and practice of researching education. It examines the philosophical, historical, political and social contexts of researching and the implications of these for the collection and analysis of data. The authors argue that power is ever present in the construction of research texts and this is inevitable, as research imposes a closure of the world through representation and thus is always involved with and implicated...
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Pub. Date
c2010
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xi, 158 p.
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Think tanks have become increasingly important in American politics foreign policy. In the last thirty years think tanks have emerged as major actors on the political stage, comparable in influence to large interest groups, political parties, and government agencies. In the same time span these think tanks have replaced universities as the main source for new policy ideas and the background research and arguments to justify them.
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Principles and Practice of Clinical Research, Fourth Edition has been thoroughly revised to provide a comprehensive look at both the fundamental principles and expanding practice of clinical research. New to this edition of this highly regarded reference, authors have focused on examples that broadly reflect clinical research on a global scale while including a discussion of international regulations, studies, and implications. In addition to key...





