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"While mainstream science has focused on polar ice to find clues about climate change, Lonnie Thompson has been risking his career and life on the highest and most remote ice caps along the equator. In the process he has changed the science of climatology." "Scientist and expert climber Mark Bowen joined Thompson's crew on several expeditions, including an eye-opening ascent in East Africa that revealed why the snows of Kilimanjaro will be gone in...

Qualitative Data is meant for the novice researcher who needs guidance on what specifically to do when faced with a sea of information. It takes readers through the qualitative research progress, beginning with an examination of the basic philosophy of qualitative research, and ending with planning and carrying out a qualitative research study. It provides an explicit, step-by-step procedure that will take the researcher from the raw text of interview...

"Qualitative Research in Psychology: Expanding Perspectives in Methodology and Design brings together a diverse group of scholars who share valuable qualitative research techniques and rich case examples. Qualitative methodologies and the paradigms that guide them can be seen as both an alternative and a complementary approach to quantification and positivism in social, personality, developmental, health, clinical, counseling, community, and school...

The experiences of explorers, adventures, military personnel, scientists, and astronauts in long-duration confinement and isolation have been recorded for decades. But now a behavioral scientist working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Defense Department has distilled this far-flung literature into a highly readable guide useful for everyone from NASA planners to submarine crews, mountain climbers, prison administrators,...

This text for first year law students teaches the skills needed for conducting legal research. Although it is assumed that the reader will primarily use WESTLAW, LEXIS, and other Internet-based tools, the authors do not neglect the world of books, indexes, and other traditional resources. Sample topics include understanding the components of a court decision, finding cases, and compiling a federal legislative history. The volume concludes with a full-length...

Illustrating how numbers can be used successfully for research purposes, this guide explains how they can be utilised without resorting to confidence intervals, probability densities, Gaussian distributions, or indeed other complicated research tools.

"Amy E. Sloan presents legal research as a process of efficiently filtering a vast quantity of available information. Simply put, students learn how to locate and identify the most pertinent and authoritative information available with the greatest possible expedience."--Back cover.