A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research (Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books)

Author : David Silverman Number of Pages : 168 Publisher : Sage Publications Ltd List Price : $79.00 Amazon Price : $79.00 Used Price : $107.80

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`Clear and incisive, this valuable text needs to be on every qualitative researcher’s bookshelf. What could be handier? I recommend it to anyone in the trade for its seasoned good sense and advice' - Jay Gubrium, University of Missouri

`David Silverman has drawn on his enormous experience in writing, teaching and using qualitative research methods to produce a book that lays bare key dilemmas and confronts questions that qualitative researchers often avoid' - Jonathan Potter, Loughborough University

This is the book which everybody doing a research project has been waiting for. Writing in an informal and accessible style, David Silverman offers the reader an entry into the broader issues of qualitative research that many textbooks gloss over - the underlying arguments of qualitative research and the key debates about its future direction.

Silverman shows how good research can be methodologically inventive, empirically rigorous, theoretically-alive and practically relevant. Using fascinating materials, ranging from photographs to novels and newspaper stories, this book demonstrates that getting to grips with these issues means asking ourselves fundamental questions about how we are influenced by contemporary culture.

David Silverman provides an antidote to the boring textbook, which is relevant to any degree course on research methods. Brilliantly written and always challenging and entertaining, this book will challenge your perceptions and help you think `out of the box' about the nature and process of doing qualitative research.
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Skills Development in Very Small and Micro Enterprises (HSRC Research Monograph)

Number of Pages : 83 Publisher : HSRC Publishers Amazon Price : $22.28 Used Price : $37.55

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Enterprises employing ten or less workers - very small and micro enterprises (VSMEs) - can potentially make important contributions to meeting South Africa's targets for reducing poverty and unemployment and increasing broad-based economic empowerment. One of the barriers that many such enterprises face is in the area of skills development. The apartheid legacy and the continued limited responsiveness of training providers have made access to formal skills acquisition difficult for these enterprises and their workers. Nonetheless, in this volume, which draws together two studies for the Department of Labour, a picture of the dynamism of many such firms emerges. Considerable learning is going on amongst the highly diverse VSME population and the challenge for the state lies in how to support what is already going on: how to spread it, and how to avoid over-interference in enterprises whose success has typically been irrespective of, or in spite of external interventions.
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Thermal conductivities of Portland cement paste, aggregate and concrete down to very low temperatures (Bulletin / Research and Development Laboratories ... Portland Cement Association. Research Dept)

Author : A. E Lentz Publisher : Portland Cement Association, Research and Development Laboratories Used Price : $10.00

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2001 Conference on Advanced Research in Vlsi Arvlsi 2001: March 14-16, 2001 Salt Lake City, Utah : Proceedings

Author : Ga.) Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI (21st : 2001 : Atlanta Number of Pages : 267 Publisher : Ieee List Price : $140.00 Amazon Price : $72.88

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This volume constitutes the proceedings from the 19th Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI (ARVLSI 2001), which focused on interdisciplinary research involving VLSI circuits, systems, CAD, and theory, with an emphasis on novel ideas at an early stage of development.
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Advanced Research in VLSI: Proceedings of the 1987 Stanford Conference

Number of Pages : 429 Publisher : The MIT Press List Price : $52.00 Amazon Price : $143.53 Used Price : $7.50

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Advanced Research in VLSI focuses on basic research, primarily involving interdisciplinary work in semiconductor physics, computer science, and electrical engineering that is giving rise to exciting new systems that have greatly increased functionality.

Examples are systems that integrate sensors and logic circuitry to perform a function that might be called "perception"; systems that compute in novel and interesting ways to solve otherwise unsolveable problems; systems that interact and communicate with humans in more natural and efficient ways through the integration of logic circuitry and sensory stimulators; and systems that are adaptive to their environment in either physical or functional ways.

"New Technologies for New Architectures" is the theme that binds these forays into interdisciplinary design, aptly expressed in chapters covering innovative approaches to design, manufacture, and testing.

Paul Losleben is Associate Director for Program Development at the Center for integrated Systems at Stanford University.
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