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Most writing on sociological method has been concerned with how accurate facts can be obtained and how theory can thereby be more rigorously tested. In The Discovery of Grounded Theory, Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss a...

The teaching of qualitative analysis in the social sciences is rarely undertaken in a structured way. This handbook is designed to remedy that and to present students and researchers with a systematic method for interpre...

Subjects / keywords: Catholic Church; Doctrines; Faith and reason; Christianity; Papal documents; Knowledge, Theory of (Religion); Electronic books

Subjects / keywords: Catholic Church; Missions; Papal documents; Theory; History; 20th century; Electronic books

This book presents a comprehensive review of the subject of gravitational effects in quantum field theory. Although the treatment is general, special emphasis is given to the Hawking black hole evaporation effect, and to...

Subjects / keywords: Dissipative system; Attractor; Differential equation; Subject (documents); Mathematics; Dynamical systems theory; Manifold (fluid mechanics); Invariant (physics); Calculus (dental); Mathematical analysis; Computer scienc...

This is the first book specifically designed to offer the student a smooth transitionary course between elementary fluid dynamics (which gives only last-minute attention to turbulence) and the professional literature on ...

This 1996 book is a reliable account of the statistical framework for pattern recognition and machine learning. With unparalleled coverage and a wealth of case-studies this book gives valuable insight into both the theor...

Just over one hundred and thirty years ago Charles Darwin, in The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871), developed remarkably accurate conclusions about man's ancestry, based on a review of general compa...

Description logics are embodied in several knowledge-based systems and are used to develop various real-life applications. Now in paperback, The Description Logic Handbook provides a thorough account of the subject, cove...