PO 2302 - Civic Engagement and Social Action

222 pages. Covers the experiences and issues central to life between cultures to gain a better understanding of the often misunderstood Mexican-American region and state-of-mind.

323 pages. Exposes the role of children in war, describing where, why, and how children are deployed, the attempts made by international organizations to protect children, and the underlying political and cultural issues.

569 pages. This issues-based reference work shines a spotlight on health care policy and practice in the United States. It uses introductory essays followed by point/counterpoint articles to explore prominent and perennially important debates, providing readers with views on multiple sides of this complex issue.

1136 pages. 3 volumes. Information and ready-to-use facts from the fields of measurement and statistics. Specifically designed to appeal to beginning and intermediate-level students, practitioners, researchers, and consumers of information. Appendix A is a guide to basic statistics for those readers who require an instructional step-by-step presentation of basic concepts in statistics and measurement. Appendix B is a table of critical values used in hypothesis testing and an important part of any reference in this area. Appendix C represents a collection of some most important and useful measurement and statistics Websites.

494 pages. 2 volumes. Covers all major facets of survey research methodology, from selecting the sample design and the sampling frame, designing and pretesting the questionnaire, data collection, and data coding, to the issues surrounding diminishing response rates, confidentiality, privacy, informed consent and other ethical issues, data weighting, and data analyses.

485 pages. A collection of primary source documents that focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope.

4000 pages. 9 volumes. Complements the first edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences. First edition is also searchable through Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library).

1014 pages. 2 volumes. Defines and explains core concepts, describes the techniques involved in the implementation of qualitative methods, and presents an overview of qualitative approaches to research. Covers every major facet of qualitative methods, including access to research participants, data coding, research ethics, and the role of theory in qualitative research.