Suitable for beginning qualitative researchers, this title intends to match the typical chronology of experience faced by the student-reader. It offer undergraduates the kind of hands-on training in qualitative research required to guide them through the process.

A civil servant, suitably emasculated, is called upon to prepare the emasculation act (a new law concerning the punishment of paedophiles) Is he the right man for the job?

Assembles a series of studies of Middle Kingdom culture gathered around the theme of archaism, change, and innovation. This title includes the papers that are presented at the symposium of the University of Pennsylvania Museum hosted in 2002, and held in memory of the great Middle Kingdom scholar, Oleg Berlev.

Demonstrates how to learn the craft of qualitative research by applying knowledge about different methods to actual data. This book provides practical advice on key issues, such as: defining 'originality' and narrowing down a topic; keeping a research diary and writing a research report; and, presenting research to different audiences.

Shows how good research can be methodologically inventive, empirically rigorous, theoretically-alive and practically relevant. Using materials ranging from photographs to novels and newspaper stories, this book challenges your perceptions and helps you think 'out of the box' about the nature and process of doing qualitative research.

Aimed at the student reader, this book demonstrates the benefits of using particular methods from the viewpoint of real-life experience. It contains chapters written by leading, internationally distinguished qualitative researchers who recount and reflect on their own research experiences as well as others.

This volume provides an introduction to Sack's work and reassesses its value for sociology, linguistics, anthropology and psychology. Using a variety of examples, the author explains Sacks's ideas on method, language and talk-in-interaction .

Twinkle follows an English rose who believes her life is perfection... until it crumbles around her.

Demonstrates how to learn the craft of qualitative research by applying knowledge about different methods to actual data. This book provides practical advice on key issues, such as: defining 'originality' and narrowing down a topic; keeping a research diary and writing a research report; and, presenting research to different audiences.

Building on the global success of the first edition of Qualitative Research: Theory, Method and Practice, the new edition has been thoroughly updated and revised. It succeeds in providing a comprehensive yet accessible guide to a variety of methodological approaches to qualitative research.

The Last American Typesetter or How I Made and Lost 4 Million Dollars. The hilarious and poignant story of a young man who set out to save a company, but got mugged by the realities of global capitalism.

Building on the global success of the first edition of Qualitative Research: Theory, Method and Practice, the new edition has been thoroughly updated and revised. It succeeds in providing a comprehensive yet accessible guide to a variety of methodological approaches to qualitative research.

In this book, the author offers an analytical account of how counselling, as a process, is dynamically constructed through the interaction of counsellor and client. Silverman draws on research on counselling of clients undergoing an HIV test.

Shows how good research can be methodologically inventive, empirically rigorous, theoretically-alive and practically relevant. Using materials ranging from photographs to novels and newspaper stories, this book challenges your perceptions and helps you think 'out of the box' about the nature and process of doing qualitative research.

Suitable for beginning qualitative researchers, this title intends to match the typical chronology of experience faced by the student-reader. It offer undergraduates the kind of hands-on training in qualitative research required to guide them through the process.

This title distills the essence of this great civilization in a series of generously illustrated treatments of major themes, including historical, religious, scientific, artistic, and mythological strands of the culture's identity.

This volume provides an introduction to Sack's work and reassesses its value for sociology, linguistics, anthropology and psychology. Using a variety of examples, the author explains Sacks's ideas on method, language and talk-in-interaction .

A guide to the questions students ask when beginning their first research project. It demonstrates how to learn the craft of qualitative research by applying knowledge about different methods to actual data. It is suitable for those planning their own research project.