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Democratization and Research Methods is a coherent survey and critique of both democratization research and the methodology of comparative politics. The two themes enhance each other: the democratizat...

Drawing on the authors’ varied experiences working and teaching in the field, Analysis of Multivariate Social Science Data, Second Editionenables a basic understanding of how to use key multivariate m...

In this book, Porto analyzes the role of TV Globo in the democratization of Brazil. TV Globo, one of the world´s largest media conglomerates, has a dominant position in Brazil´s communications landsca...

“A book about your brain that should make you think—twice.” —Alvin Toffler, New York Times bestselling author of Future Shock In his book iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern ...

In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today. In a series...

Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding HRDY, Sarah Blaffer - MIT Mothers and Others finds the key in the primatologically unique length of human childhood. If the young w...

Many advertisements these days make us feel as if we have an intimate, even passionate relationship with a product. But as Jean Kilbourne points out in this fascinating and shocking exposé, the dreaml...

A Beginner’s Guide to Structural Equation Modeling, fifth edition, has been redesigned with consideration of a true beginner in structural equation modeling (SEM) in mind. The book covers introductory...

RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints is the only textbook that provides specific guidance on how to conduct evaluations when working under resource and/or ...

When used in tandem, systematic reviews and meta-analysis-- two distinct but highly compatible approaches to research synthesis-- form a powerful, scientific approach to analyzing previous studies. Bu...

Comprehensive survey of the debates and issues in the study of contemporary British culture provides the ideal introduction to the subject of British Cultural Studies Multidiscliplinary approach provi...

Werner Jaeger´s classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, ...

This volume unites, for the first time, Books IV and V of Mill´s great treatise on political economy with his fragmentary chapters on socialism. It shows him applying his classical economic theory to ...

Since Peter H. Rossi, Mark W. Lipsey, and Howard E. Freeman first published Evaluation: A Systematic Approach, more than 90,000 readers have considered it the premier text on how to design, implement,...

"Corpos que importam" e´ sobre pensar a hegemonia heterossexual na criac¸a~o de mate´rias [matter] sexuais e poli´ticas. Quais sa~o as limitac¸o~es pelas quais corpos sa~o materializados como “sexuado...

SINOPSE Fruto das investigações iniciais na Argélia, no início de sua carreira. Com observação empírica e muitos dados estatísticos, Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) elabora uma visão muito crítica da eco...