"Research Methods in Education" is an innovative new text for teaching introductory research methods that addresses emerging instructional needs. It weaves actual research "stories" into the presentation of research topics, and it emphasizes validity, authenticity, and practical significance as over[...]

"The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice, 4th Edition" is a truly comprehensive, yet accessible, research methods text. It provides students with real-world criminal justice examples that will capture their attention and help them to better understand contemporary research and i[...]

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Making Sense of the Social World, fourth edition is an engaging introduction to social research for students who need to understand methodologies and results, but who may never conduct research themselves. It provides a balanced treatment of qualitative and quantitative methods, integrating substant[...]

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Investigating Human Behavior is a ground-breaking, accessible textbook that uses substantive research stories to illustrate the presentation of research methods in each chapter; it systematically presents the entire research process and its major variants within a unifying conceptual framework; it i[...]