Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Research Methods in Anthropology Bernard, 5th Edition
Research Methods in Anthropology, 5th Edition PDF Download Ebook. H. Russell Bernard offers valuable information and advice to all social scientists interested in research methods and analysis. This book provides an excellent introduction, compilation, and very useful applied examples. It has a nice mix of study design and preparation, data collection, and data analysis, along with theoretical underpinnings for various analytic approaches.
Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology. Written in Russ Bernard unmistakable conversational style, his guide has launched tens of thousands of students into the fieldwork enterprise with a combination of rigorous methodology, wry humor, and commonsense advice.
Whether you are coming from a scientific, interpretive, or applied anthropological tradition, you will learn field methods from the best guide in both qualitative and quantitative methods. Research Methods in Anthropology, 5th Edition is an absolute classic, not only for researchers that conduct primarily anthropological studies such as ethnography, but also for researchers who are interesting in using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods in other disciplines.
An absolute must for all libraries, classrooms, and individuals interested in this subject matter and also to be strongly recommended as accessibly informative for non-specialist general readers with an interest in anthropological research.
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
Essentials of Physical Anthropology 9th Edition
Essentials of Physical Anthropology 9th Edition PDF Download Ebook. Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore and Wenda Trevathan introduce you to physical anthropology with the goal of helping you understand why it is important to know about human evolution.
With a new framework that emphasizes 'connections', the reader is shown how humans are biologically connected to all other life, including our distant ancestors and our contemporary primate cousins, as well as how closely modern human populations are related to each other.
Supported by new chapter opening visual diagrams, a completely new art and map program, outstanding visual photographs and Photo Essays, as well as pedagogy such as What's Important boxes that put key chapter concepts into perspective for students, this text continues to help students master basic biological principles of physical anthropology and so be able to better understand human origins and our place in the biological world.
Altogether, Essentials of Physical Anthropology 9th Edition integrates coverage of the latest fossil finds with relevant technologies to be the most up to date text available. This breaks down topics and subtopics easily making it an easy read. This book is highly recommended to you personally. Get this one soon!
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CULTURE Lisa Gezon Conrad Kottak
CULTURE PDF Download Ebook. Lisa Gezon Conrad Kottak is two of a cultural anthropologist who graduated from the University of Michigan. In recent research projects, the writers have investigated the emergence of ecological awareness in Brazil, the social context of deforestation in Madagascar, and popular participation in economic development planning in northeastern Brazil.
McGraw-Hill conducted extensive research to gain insight into students’ study behavior and instructor needs. We learned that students want visual appeal and content designed according to the way they learn, while instructors need a way to engage their students without compromising on high quality content. From this, we created the M Series (a series of magazine style textbooks)
CULTURE is the latest addition to the series. This new magazine style text for the Introduction to Cultural Anthropology course offers solid scholarly content and an engaging design that will captivate your students. Through memorable eye-catching pedagogical features, students develop a better understanding of the material and will retain a greater amount of course concepts.
This book presents cultural anthropology in a way that is both captivating and relevant to today’s student at a price that they prefer. More current, more portable, more captivating, plus a rigorous and innovative research foundation adds up to more learning. When you meet students where they are, you can take them where you want them to be. Awesome!
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Readings for Diversity and Social Justice, Second Edition
Introduction to Algorithms 3rd Edition PDF Download Ebook. Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein improved treatment of dynamic programming and greedy algorithms and a new notion of edge-based flow in the material on flow networks. Many new exercises and problems have been added for this edition.
As of the third edition, this textbook is published exclusively by the MIT Press. It covering the full spectrum of modern algorithms: from the fastest algorithms and data structures to polynomial time algorithms for seemingly intractable problems, from classical algorithms in graph theory to special algorithms for string matching, computational geometry, and number theory.
This edition notably adds a chapter on van Emde Boas trees, one of the most useful data structures, and on multithreaded algorithms, a topic of increasing importance and covering the full spectrum of modern algorithms, from the fastest algorithms and data structures to polynomial time algorithms for seemingly intractable problems, from classical algorithms in graph theory to special algorithms for string matching, computational geometry, and number theory. The revised third edition notably adds a chapter on van Emde Boas trees, one of the most useful data structures, and on multithreaded algorithms, a topic of increasing importance.
Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete others cover masses of material but lack rigor. Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness. The book covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers. Each chapter is relatively self-contained and can be used as a unit of study. The explanations have been kept elementary without sacrificing depth of coverage or mathematical rigor. The first edition became a widely used text in universities worldwide as well as the standard reference for professionals.
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