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3) The History and Achievements of the Islamic Golden Age: Episode 11,Master Muslim Scholar: al-Biruni
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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This lecture introduces you to al-Biruni, a scholar and polymath who left a mark on physics, math, astronomy, geography, anthropology, history, and much more. Born in modern-day Uzbekistan, his pursuit of learning and dissemination of knowledge is unparalleled. See what made his scholastic approach and his research methodology so groundbreaking.
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
2012
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1.
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1 online resource (220 p.)
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English
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"What leads to national progress? The growing consensus in the social sciences is that neither capital flows, nor the savings rate, nor diffuse values are the key, but that it lies in the quality of a nation's institutions. This book is the first comparative study of how real institutions affect national development. It seeks to examine and deepen this insight through a systematic study of institutions in five Latin American countries and how they...
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English
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"Revealing a side of the famed city that tourists rarely experience, this handbook uncovers a hidden realm of ghosts, apparitions, and paranormal phenomena in San Francisco. The guide delves into the haunted hotspots that unsuspectedly lie in the city's most famous landmarks and neighborhoods, including Alcatraz, Chinatown, and the Presidio, while directions to each hair-raising location are provided, encouraging adventurous sightseers to seek out...
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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 online resource (xix, 262 pages)
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English
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"The world is saturated with data. We are regularly presented with data in words, tables, and graphics. Students from many academic fields are now expected to be educated about data in one form or another. Yet the typical sequence of courses--introductory statistics and research methods--does not provide sufficient information about data, learning to work with data sets, or how to present data to various audiences. This book is designed for these...
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Llewellyn Publications
Pub. Date
c2011
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1st ed.
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xii, 218 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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English
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If you're one of the fans of ghost hunting TV shows, itching to get off the couch and track some spirits on your own, this book provides everything you need to know to conduct a successful paranormal investigation.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
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288 pages ; cm
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English
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"This is an invaluable, concise, all-in-one guide for carrying out student research "and" writing a paper, adaptable to course use and suitable for use by students independently, it successfully guides students along every step of the way. Allows students to better manage their research projects Exercises and worksheets break down the research process into small steps and walk students through each stage of the research project Offers real-world and...
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SAGE Publications
Pub. Date
[2014]
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Fourth edition
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xxix, 273 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"The eagerly anticipated Fourth Edition of the title that pioneered the comparison of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design is here! For all three approaches, Creswell includes a preliminary consideration of philosophical assumptions, a review of the literature, an assessment of the use of theory in research approaches, and refl ections about the importance of writing and ethics in scholarly inquiry. He also presents the key...
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2008.
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Third edition.
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xvii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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"The aim of the third edition of The Craft of Research is the same as the first two: to meet the needs of all researchers, not just first-year undergraduates and advanced graduate students, but even those in business and government who do and report research on any topic, academic, political, or commercial. We wrote it to guide you through the complexities of turning a topic or question into a research problem whose significance matches the effort...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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vii, 278 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"American taxpayers spend $30 billion annually funding biomedical research. By some estimates, half of the results from these studies can't be replicated elsewhere-the science is simply wrong. Often, research institutes and academia emphasize publishing results over getting the right answers, incentivizing poor experimental design, improper methods, and sloppy statistics. Bad science doesn't just hold back medical progress, it can sign the equivalent...
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Routledge
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 volume ; 24 cm
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English
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"This book looks at literature review in the process of research design, and how to develop a research practice that will build skills in reading and writing about research literature-skills that remain valuable in both academic and professional careers. Literature review is approached as a process of engaging with the discourse of scholarly communities that will help graduate researchers refine, define, and express their own scholarly vision and...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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First US edition.
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x, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Eugenia Cheng can't help thinking like a mathematician. She also can't help thinking like a woman. After all, she's both. But there seems like there must be a clear tension. She had to learn to be a mathematician, for one thing, and-in the popular imagination, anyway-mathematics seems very "male," the domain of individualistic geniuses with terrible social skills, pursuing university tenure and fame. Those traits, however, aren't really what it means...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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viii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Where does great physics come from? As a young graduate student, cosmologist Stephon Alexander had a life-changing lesson in the subject. When asked by the legendary theoretical physicist Christopher Isham why he had attended graduate school, Alexander answered: "To become a better physicist." He could hardly have anticipated Isham's response: "Then stop reading those physics books." Instead, Isham said, Alexander should start listening to his dreams....
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