" Rather than trying to cover every possible topic relating to new communication technologies, this unique text is organized by how these new technologies mediate the community, political, economic, personal, and global spheres of our ...

Outlines a set of techniques that enables a researcher to explore the hidden structure of large databases. These techniques use proximities to find a configuration of points that reflect the structure in the data.

The focus of this volume is on analysis rather than problems of sampling or design, and its emphasis is on application rather than theory.

Krippendorff introduces social scientists to information theory and explains its application for structural modeling.

'The book could open up a fruitful controversy in social gerontology and should become part of the library of every social gerontologist' -- Contemporary Sociology 'A unique contribution to cross-cultural studies in aging' -- Choice ...

The concepts of game theory (rationality etc) now pervade much of social science, so that Professor Zagare's exposition of game theory and its applications (intended to "convert the unconverted and initiate the uninitiated") is very welcome ...

In this volume Professor Whyte compiles information gathered from his vast experience in field research.

Empirical researchers, for whom Iversen's volume provides an introduction, have generally lacked a grounding in the methodology of Bayesian inference.

Evaluation is only of use if its results are communicated to users and stakeholders -- this volume demonstrates how this is done.

There is no doubt that this book will be well received by those who are fortunate enough to come across it. This book will be of use to the growing number of people involved either as purchasers or providers of research.