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A Handbook for Social Science Field Research

Essays & Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods

By: Ellen Perecman,Sara R. Curran

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A Handbook for Social Science Field Research

Essays & Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods

By: Ellen Perecman,Sara R. Curran

A Handbook for Social Science Field Research: Essays & Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods provides both novice and experienced scholars with valuable insights to a select list of critical texts pertaining to a wide array of social science methods useful when doing fieldwork. Through essays on ethnography to case study, archival research, oral history, surveys, secondary data analysis, and ethics, this refreshing new collection offers "tales from the field" by renowned scholars across various disciplines. Key Features: Offers real life guidance: Personal "tales from the field" by renowned social science scholars exemplify how fieldwork requires adaptation, adoption, and flexibility with regards to methodological approaches. In addition, thoughtful commentaries on how to conduct research and pursue a research career in the social sciences offer guidance on making difficult research and career choices. Highlights vital bibliographic references: Bibliographies of critical texts help guide researchers as they broaden their methodological approaches and develop their research skills. This is not your ordinary reference list, but a compilation of the top classics and current, but soon-to-be classics, in the field of social science research. Addresses ethical concerns: Discussions of ethical concerns are presented throughout the collection, as well as a stand-alone essay on ethical considerations in field-based research. Explicit attention throughout the collection to ethical concerns is rare among methodology texts, but required as field work becomes more complex and concerns about human subjects′ safety grow. Intended Audience: Ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate social science methods courses, where there is a growing demand for multiple methods or mixed methods training; as well as a perfect, lightweight handbook for all researchers and professionals interested in having a comprehensive collection of bibliographic information for social science research

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SAGE Publications

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1412973422

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9781412973427

The Education of the Anglican Clergy, 1780-1839

By: Sara Slinn

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The Education of the Anglican Clergy, 1780-1839

By: Sara Slinn

Frontcover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Entrants to the Clerical Profession, 1780-1839 -- 1. Recruitment to the Established Church -- 2. Episcopal Ordination: Policy and Practice -- Part Two: Routes to Ordination -- 3. The Ordinand and the University -- 4. Literate Clergy and the Grammar Schools -- 5. Autodidacts, Tutors for Orders and Parish Clerical Seminaries -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Ordination Profiles of Bishops, 1780-1839 -- Appendix 2. A Note on Methodology -- Bibliography -- Index

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783271752

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9781783271757

The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective

By: Sara Lodge

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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective

By: Sara Lodge

A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account--and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realise that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain, working both with the police and for private agencies, which they sometimes managed themselves. Sara Lodge recovers these forgotten women's lives. She also reveals the sensational role played by the fantasy female detective in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction, enthralling a public who relished the spectacle of a cross-dressing, fist-swinging heroine who got the better of love rats, burglars, and murderers alike. How did the morally ambiguous work of real women detectives, sometimes paid to betray their fellow women, compare with the exploits of their fictional counterparts, who always save the day? Lodge's book takes us into the murky underworld of Victorian society on both sides of the Atlantic, revealing the female detective as both an unacknowledged labourer and a feminist icon.

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380

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Yale University Press

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0300277881

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9780300277883

Household Gods

The Religious Lives of the Adams Family

By: Sara Georgini

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Household Gods

The Religious Lives of the Adams Family

By: Sara Georgini

Reflecting on his past, President John Adams mused that it was religion that had shaped his family's fortunes and young America's future. For the nineteenth century's first family, the Adamses of Massachusetts, the history of how they lived religion was dynamic and well-documented. Christianity supplied the language that Abigail used to interpret husband John's political setbacks. Scripture armed their son John Quincy to act as father, statesman, and antislavery advocate. Unitarianism gave Abigail's Victorian grandson, Charles Francis, the religious confidence to persevere in political battles on the Civil War homefront. By contrast, his son Henry found religion hollow and repellent compared to the purity of modern science. A renewal of faith led Abigail's great-grandson Brooks, a Gilded Age critic of capitalism, to prophesy two world wars. Globetrotters who chronicled their religious journeys extensively, the Adamses ultimately developed a cosmopolitan Christianity that blended discovery and criticism, faith and doubt. Drawing from their rich archive, Sara Georgini, series editor for The Papers of John Adams, demonstrates how pivotal Christianity--as the different generations understood it--was in shaping the family's decisions, great and small. Spanning three centuries of faith from Puritan New England to the Jazz Age, Household Gods tells a new story of American religion, as the Adams family lived it.

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297

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Oxford University Press

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019088259X

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9780190882594

Explorer's Guide The Four Corners Region: Where Colorado, Utah, Arizona & New Mexico Meet: A Great Destination (Explorer's Great Destinations)

By: Sara J. Benson

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Explorer's Guide The Four Corners Region: Where Colorado, Utah, Arizona & New Mexico Meet: A Great Destination (Explorer's Great Destinations)

By: Sara J. Benson

Explorer's Great Destinations puts the guide back into guidebook. This Explorer's Great Destinations guidebook focuses on the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest, including parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah.

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321

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The Countryman Press

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158157987X

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9781581579871

South Carolinians in the Revolution. with Service Records and Miscellaneous Data. Also, Abstracts of Wills, Laurens County (Ninety-Six District), 1775

By: Sara Sullivan Ervin

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South Carolinians in the Revolution. with Service Records and Miscellaneous Data. Also, Abstracts of Wills, Laurens County (Ninety-Six District), 1775

By: Sara Sullivan Ervin

This volume contains lists of soldiers that were enrolled in the American Revolution during the years 1775-1855 from South Carolina.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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080630104X

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9780806301044

Edmonds

1850s–1950s

By: Sara McGibbon DuBois,Ray E. DuBois

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Edmonds

1850s–1950s

By: Sara McGibbon DuBois,Ray E. DuBois

Before Edmonds became a town, it was a forest of cedar trees and evergreens. The Puget Sound's various Indian tribes used the land for camping, the sea for fishing and clamming for meals, and the marshes for harvesting tules that they used to weave into items such as mats and baskets. Later, the area became known as Brackett's Landing, named after the man who began logging the forest and founded the town of Edmonds in 1890 and opened its first mills and schools. The Great Northern Railway arrived in 1891, bringing with it great prospects for commercial and residential prosperity. As the young town grew into a city, it thrived because of its location on the water. Private ferry boats called the "Mosquito Fleet" came from Seattle, and to this day, commercial and passenger ferries cross the Puget Sound to the Port of Edmonds, Kingston, and the rest of the Olympic peninsula.

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128

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439649146

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Jim Jarmusch

Music, Words and Noise

By: Sara Piazza

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Jim Jarmusch

Music, Words and Noise

By: Sara Piazza

Jim Jarmusch: Music, Words and Noise is the first book to examine the films of Jim Jarmusch from a sound-oriented perspective. The three essential acoustic elements that structure a film— music, words and noise—propel this book’s fascinating journey through his work. Exploring the director’s extensive back catalogue, including Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law, Dead Man, and Only Lovers Left Alive, Sara Piazza’s unique reading reveals how Jarmusch created a form of “sound democracy” in film, in which all acoustic layers are capable of infiltrating each other and in which sound is not subordinate to the visual. In his cultural melting pot, hierarchies are irrelevant: Schubert and Japanese noise-bands, Marlowe and Betty Boop, can coexist easily side-by-side. Developing the innovative idea of a “silent-sound film,” Piazza identifies prefiguring elements from pre-sound-era film in Jarmusch’s work. Highlighting the importance of Jarmusch’s treatment of sound, Piazza investigates how the director’s distinctive reputation consolidated itself over the course of a thirty-year career. Based in New York, Jarmusch was able to develop a fiercely personal vision far from the commercial pressures of Hollywood. The book uses wide-ranging examples from music, film, literature, and visual art, and features interviews with many prominent figures, including Ennio Morricone, Luc Sante, Roberto Benigni, John Lurie, and Jarmusch himself. An innovative account of a much-admired body of work, Jim Jarmusch will appeal not only to the many fans of the director but all those interested in the connections between sound and film. Visit the author's page for this book: http://jimjarmusch-musicwordsandnoise.com

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Reaktion Books

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1780234694

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Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television

By: Gale Research Staff,Linda S. Hubbard,Sara J. Steen

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Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television

By: Gale Research Staff,Linda S. Hubbard,Sara J. Steen

Biographical reference providing information on individuals active in the theatre, film, and television industries. Covers not only performers, directors, writers, and producers, but also behind-the-scenes specialists such as designers, managers, choreographers, technicians, composers, executives, dancers, and critics from the United States and Great Britain.

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0810320703

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A Handbook for Social Science Field Research

A Handbook for Social Science Field Research

The Education of the Anglican Clergy, 1780-1839

The Education of the Anglican Clergy, 1780-1839

The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective

The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective

Household Gods

Household Gods

Explorer's Guide The Four Corners Region: Where Colorado, Utah, Arizona & New Mexico Meet: A Great Destination (Explorer's Great Destinations)

Explorer's Guide The Four Corners Region: Where Colorado, Utah, Arizona & New Mexico Meet: A Great Destination (Explorer's Great Destinations)

South Carolinians in the Revolution. with Service Records and Miscellaneous Data. Also, Abstracts of Wills, Laurens County (Ninety-Six District), 1775

South Carolinians in the Revolution. with Service Records and Miscellaneous Data. Also, Abstracts of Wills, Laurens County (Ninety-Six District), 1775

Edmonds

Edmonds

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Jim Jarmusch

Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television

Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television

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