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Qualitative Methodologies in Organization Studies: Volume I: Theories and New Approaches
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book brings together key theories behind qualitative research, whilst drawing attention to novel, cutting-edge approaches to data gathering, such as visual anthropology and storytelling. Offering a comprehensive guide ... -
Qualitative Methodologies in Organization Studies: Volume II: Methods and Possibilities
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides a thorough review of tested qualitative methods often used in organization studies, and outlines the challenges and essential requirements of designing a qualitative research project. The methods examined ... -
Qualitative research methods for the social sciences
(Pearson, 2017)Social research provides necessary support for innumer able professions, bolsters and directs policy decisions, fact-checks both wild and mundane claims about theworld, and helps us understand ourselves and others. But ... -
Quality
(Pearson, 2017)Quality, 6/e provides the tools and techniques needed to help organizations improve in the areas of quality, productivity, and safety. Using a wide-range of industry examples, insightful case studies, clear explanations ... -
Quality strategy for research and development
(Wiley, 2013)Providing readers with a clear, useful framework for systems engineering, this book integrates the Japanese and Western perspectives of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and relates its unique framework to current, widely ... -
Quandaries of School Leadership: Voices from Principals in the Field
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides insights into the everyday practices of school leaders as told through the real-life stories of principals. The editors and their contributors blend practice with theory, helping aspiring leaders to ... -
Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life
(MIT Press, 2016)What is at stake socially, culturally, politically, and economically when we routinely use technology to gather information about our bodies and environments? Today anyone can purchase technology that can track, quantify, ... -
Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics for User Research
(Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2012)You're being asked to quantify usability improvements with statistics. But even with a background in statistics, you are hesitant to statistically analyze the data, as you may be unsure about which statistical tests to use ... -
Quantitative analysis for management
(Pearson, 2018)Quantitative analysis is the scientific approach to managerial decision making. This field of study has several different names, including quantitative analysis, management science, and operations research. These terms are ... -
Quantitative health research: issues and methods
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)Presents a detailed and comprehensive guide to undertaking quantitative health research at postgraduate and professional level. This title takes you through the entire research process, from designing the project to ... -
Quantitative Methods for Business, 5th Edition
(Pearson Education , 2011)Quantitative Methods for Business has been thoroughly revised and updated for this 5th edition, and continues to provide a simple and practical introduction to an area that students can find difficult. The book takes a ... -
Quantitative methods in corpus-based translation studies : a practical guide to descriptive translation research
(John Benjamins Pub Co, 2012)This is a comprehensive guidebook to the quantitative methods needed for Corpus-Based Translation Studies (CBTS). It provides a systematic description of the various statistical tests used in Corpus Linguistics which can ... -
Quantitative Methods in Tourism Economics
(Physica-Verlag , 2013)Tourism economics is partly based on established principles from the economics discipline, but it also incorporates elements from sociology, psychology, organization theory and ecology. It has over the years turned into ... -
Quantum Algorithms via Linear Algebra: A Primer
(MIT Press, 2014)This introduction to quantum algorithms is concise but comprehensive, covering many key algorithms. It is mathematically rigorous but requires minimal background and assumes no knowledge of quantum theory or quantum ... -
Quantum Language and the Migration of Scientific Concepts
(MIT Press, 2018)The principles of quantum physics―and the strange phenomena they describe―are represented most precisely in highly abstract algebraic equations. Why, then, did these mathematically driven concepts compel founders of the ... -
Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends...and Pseudoscience Begins
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Get the straight, scientific story on things like astrology, ghosts, spontaneous human combustion, psychic surgery, and ESP. You hear about these fantastic happenings every day on television and in the supermarket tabloids. ... -
Quantum physics : what everyone needs to know
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Around 1900, physicists started to discover particles like electrons, protons, and neutrons, and with these discoveries believed they could predict the internal behavior of the atom. However, once their predictions were ... -
Quantum Physics and Linguistics: A Compositional, Diagrammatic Discourse
(Oxford University Press, 2013)New scientific paradigms typically consist of an expansion of the conceptual language with which we describe the world. Over the past decade, theoretical physics and quantum information theory have turned to category theory ... -
Quantum processes in semiconductors
(Oxford University Press, 2013)This book sets out the fundamental quantum processes that are important in the physics and technology of semiconductors in a relatively informal style that graduate students will find very attractive. The fifth edition ... -
The Quantum Universe
(Da Capo Press, 2012)In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible and fascinating to everyone. The ...
