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Arguing With Numbers

Arguing With Numbers

Statistics for the Social Sciences

Paul Gingrich, Victor Thiessen

This book focuses on both constructing–and demolishing–arguments based on numbers. It brings a fresh approach to the study of statistics, one which will have students asking for more rather than avoiding the next statistics course. A Student Workbook is also available. (more information)

Research Ethics and the Internet

Research Ethics and the Internet

Negotiating Canada’s Tri-Council Policy Statement

Heather Kitchin

Kitchin helps readers pick their way through the minefield that stands in the way of all who seek to find clarity as to the ethics of Internet research. The Internet poses new challenges to researchers, and the author clearly discusses these challenges in all their complexity. Issues of copyright, privacy and ethical use of Internet materials loom large. Kitchin analyzes contradictions between the federal Tri- Council Policy Statement and university-based research ethics boards and offers a simple… (more information)

Research Is Ceremony

Research Is Ceremony

Indigenous Research Methods

Shawn Wilson

Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice. Relationships don’t just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality. Indigenous researchers develop relationships with ideas in order to achieve enlightenment in the ceremony that… (more information)

Up in Nipigon Country

Up in Nipigon Country

Anthropology as a Personal Experience

Edward J. Hedican

Fieldwork, once regarded as an essential pillar of social anthropology, has come under attack, especially from the post-modern school. Hedigan argues that for many in the discipline, an anthropology without fieldwork would appear to be a hollow, meaningless experience, devoid of its central epistemological value. This book, drawing on the author’s fieldwork experience among Ojibwa people in Northern Ontario, explores post-modernism’s critique of fieldwork and fieldwork’s contribution… (more information)