Mary Lynne Derrington provides guidance on how to conduct qualitative longitudinal studies rather than focusing on how to analyse such data.

In a new textbook designed for students new to statistics and social data, Gorard focuses on non-inferential statistics as a basis to provide readers with fundamental statistical literacy. Assuming no previous statistical knowledge, the author demystifies the subject in an engaging and approachable style.

Unrivalled in the way it makes the teaching of statistics through the use of IBM SPSS statistics compelling and accessible to even the most anxious of students. The only statistics textbook you and your students will ever need just got better!

Nervous about statistics? This guide offers a clear, straight to the point break down of exploratory and descriptive statistics and its potential. Anchored by lots of examples and exercises to enhance your learning, this book will give you the know-how and confidence needed to succeed on your quantitative research journey.

Provides readers with a systematic review of the origins, history, and statistical foundations of Propensity Score Analysis (PSA) and illustrates how it can be used for solving evaluation and causal-inference problems.

Providing a comprehensive foundation for planning, executing, and monitoring public health research of all types, this book goes beyond traditional epidemiologic research designs to cover technology-based approaches emerging in the new public health landscape.

Providing readers with an expansive and international overview, this handbook is the ideal resource on this fast-paced and ubiquitous field

The fifth volume in the cutting edge Cultures and Globalization Series, this volume explores a city's cultural dynamics and its impact on policy including alternative economies, creativity, migration, diversity, sustainability, education and urban planning.

Against the common assumption that identity 'always mattered', Marie Moran shows that what we now think of routinely as 'personal identity' actually only emerged with the explosion of consumption in the late 20th Century.

Addressing the practicalities of research, and embracing the complexity and variety of written forms of language, this book helps readers with practical and conceptual tools to ask questions about written discourse, and to analyse the huge variety of texts that make up our linguistic landscape.