数字时代， 我们还需要去实体图书馆吗？ 美国国会图书馆参考馆员托马斯•曼 以自己数十年服务读者的亲身经历给出了明确答案 ——并非所有信息都能在网上找到，网络资源检索也远非一个回车那么轻松， 看完作者介绍的各种检索方法和技巧，以及各种检索实例，你才会明白 ——我们其实从未好好利用过图书馆！ 在浩瀚的知识海洋中，成功的探索者既要能驾驭高速艇驶往预定目标，也要能划着小船从容搜寻；既要掌握最新的网络和电子资源的检索手段，也要学会用传统方法从纸本书刊中获得资源。在短期内不可能将书刊完全转化为电子资源的中国尤其如此，这就是我推荐这本极富运用价值的工具书的理由。 ——葛剑雄，复旦大学教授、图书馆前馆长 只要图书馆员具备真功夫，能够解决或协助解决读者在阅读、检索、研究中遇到的问题，那么，谷歌和度娘可以成为图书馆员的助手，却不能替代他们。读《怎样利用图书馆做研究》可以学习、掌握这些真功夫。 ——周德明，上海图书馆副馆长 这本富有洞察力的及时力作应该立于每一位研究者的案头。托马斯•曼以高超的技巧引领学者们遨游于数字时代的海量资料之中，同时又告诉我们，作为保存所有人类知识的场所，图书馆的关键作用并不会消失。 ——保罗•勒克拉克，纽约公共图书馆馆长 这本书对任何领域的研究者（不管他是出于学术的、专业的、商业的还是消遣的目的）、图书馆专业的学生和专业人员都有着巨大的实用价值和启示。这是唯一一本成功地将文献工作与知识信息的组织和提取的各种要素相结合的书。普通读者能够读懂，而那些在图书馆和相关领域的专业人士也能借此书提升他们的技巧和理解水平。 ——迈克尔•戈尔曼，美国图书馆协会主席

Quantitative analysis is an increasingly essential skill for social science research, yet students in the social sciences and related areas typically receive little training in it—or if they do, they usually end up in statistics classes that offer few insights into their field. This textbook is a practical introduction to data analysis and statistics written especially for undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the social sciences and allied fields, such as economics, sociology, public policy, and data science. Quantitative Social Science engages directly with empirical analysis, showing students how to analyze data using the R programming language and to interpret the results—it encourages hands-on learning, not paper-and-pencil statistics. More than forty data sets taken directly from leading quantitative social science research illustrate how data analysis can be used to answer important questions about society and human behavior. Proven in the classroom, this one-of-a-kind textbook features numerous additional data analysis exercises and interactive R programming exercises, and also comes with supplementary teaching materials for instructors. Written especially for students in the social sciences and allied fields, including economics, sociology, public policy, and data science Provides hands-on instruction using R programming, not paper-and-pencil statistics Includes more than forty data sets from actual research for students to test their skills on Covers data analysis concepts such as causality, measurement, and prediction, as well as probability and statistical tools Features a wealth of supplementary exercises, including additional data analysis exercises and interactive programming exercises Offers a solid foundation for further study Comes with additional course materials online, including notes, sample code, exercises and problem sets with solutions, and lecture slides

Plenty of books tell you how to do research. This book helps you figure out WHAT to research in the first place, and why it matters. The hardest part of research isn’t answering a question. It’s knowing what to do before you know what your question is. Where Research Begins tackles the two challenges every researcher faces with every new project: How do I find a compelling problem to investigate—one that truly matters to me, deeply and personally? How do I then design my research project so that the results will matter to anyone else? This book will help you start your new research project the right way for you with a series of simple yet ingenious exercises. Written in a conversational style and packed with real-world examples, this easy-to-follow workbook offers an engaging guide to finding research inspiration within yourself, and in the broader world of ideas. Read this book if you (or your students): • have difficulty choosing a research topic • know your topic, but are unsure how to turn it into a research project • feel intimidated by or unqualified to do research • worry that you’re asking the wrong questions about your research topic • have plenty of good ideas, but aren’t sure which one to commit to • feel like your research topic was imposed by someone else • want to learn new ways to think about how to do research. Under the expert guidance of award-winning researchers Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, you will find yourself on the path to a compelling and meaningful research project, one that matters to you—and the world.

本书是一本面向应用的经典多元数据分析教材，自1979年出版第1版至今，深受读者好评。本书循序渐进地介绍了各种多元统计分析方法，并通过丰富的实例演示了这些方法的应用。书中不仅涵盖多元数据分析的基本方法，而且还介绍了一些新方法，如结构方程建模和偏最小二乘法等。 本书特色  以循序渐进方式（流水线方式）组织内容：在内容组织上，各章集中概述一个论题，每章均从基础开始并讨论应用，后面各章逐步深入。  扩展各种方法应用：对“经验法则”给出解释，包括像样本容量这类重要问题。  重新组织结构方程建模这一重要内容，包括结构方程建模概述、验证性因素分析、估计和检验结构模型的相关问题，以及验证性因素分析和结构方程建模的一些高级主题，如检验更高阶因子模型、群组模型、调节变量与中间变量。

In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end of his lecture, a distinguished colleague standing at the back of the room, puffing a cigar, looked at Becker quizzically and asked, “What about murder? Isn’t that really deviant?” It sounded like Becker had been backed into a corner. Becker, however, wasn’t defeated! Reasonable people, he countered, differ over whether certain killings are murder or justified homicide, and these differences vary depending on what kinds of people did the killing. In What About Mozart? What About Murder?, Becker uses this example, along with many others, to demonstrate the different ways to study society, one that uses carefully investigated, specific cases and another that relies on speculation and on what he calls “killer questions,” aimed at taking down an opponent by citing invented cases. Becker draws on a lifetime of sociological research and wisdom to show, in helpful detail, how to use a variety of kinds of cases to build sociological knowledge. With his trademark conversational flair and informal, personal perspective Becker provides a guide that researchers can use to produce general sociological knowledge through case studies. He champions research that has enough data to go beyond guesswork and urges researchers to avoid what he calls “skeleton cases,” which use fictional stories that pose as scientific evidence. Using his long career as a backdrop, Becker delivers a winning book that will surely change the way scholars in many fields approach their research.

Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners is an accessible, practical textbook. It sidesteps detailed theoretical discussion in favor of providing a comprehensive overview of strategic tips and skills for starting and completing successful qualitative research. Uniquely, the authors provide a "patterns framework" to qualitative data analysis in this book, also known as "thematic analysis." The authors walk students through a basic thematic approach, and compare and contrast this with other approaches. This discussion of commonalities, explaining why and when each method should be used, and in the context of looking at patterns, will provide students with complete confidence for their qualitative research journey. This textbook will be an essential textbook for undergraduates and postgraduates taking a course in qualitative research or using qualitative approaches in a research project.

For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. It starts with a powerful reassurance: Academic writing is stressful, and even accomplished scholars like sociologist Howard S. Becker struggle with it. And it provides a clear solution: In order to learn how to write, take a deep breath and then begin writing. Revise. Repeat. This is not a book about sociological writing. Instead, Becker applies his sociologist’s eye to some of the common problems all academic writers face, including trying to get it right the first time, failing, and therefore not writing at all; getting caught up in the trappings of “proper” academic writing; writing to impress rather than communicate with readers; and struggling with the when and how of citations. He then offers concrete advice, based on his own experiences and those of his students and colleagues, for overcoming these obstacles and gaining confidence as a writer. While the underlying challenges of writing have remained the same since the book first appeared, the context in which academic writers work has changed dramatically, thanks to rapid changes in technology and ever greater institutional pressures. This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect these changes, offering a new generation of scholars and students encouragement to write about society or any other scholarly topic clearly and persuasively. As Becker writes in the new preface, “Nothing prepared me for the steady stream of mail from readers who found the book helpful. Not just helpful. Several told me the book had saved their lives; less a testimony to the book as therapy than a reflection of the seriousness of the trouble writing failure could get people into.” As academics are being called on to write more often, in more formats, the experienced, rational advice in Writing for Social Scientists will be an important resource for any writer’s shelf.

學術界是怎樣的江湖？在其中要如何生存？作者以二十多年在學術界探索的親身經歷與清醒思考，揭開學術圈的生存法則和注意事項、規則與潛規則，分享學習研究的方法與捷徑。所涉及內容包括選題、研究方法、論文寫作、期刊發表、英語學習、學者生涯等等，皆是當下年輕學者或學生切實面對、卻往往無路可循甚至誤入歧途的問題。

北京大学心理与认知科学学院研究员、博士生导师易莉多年英文论文写作课程精华 一套更适合国内英文学术写作者的方法 一部有关心理学及相关学科（如语言学、社会学等学科）的英文学术写作指南 ◎从学术写作的障碍和原则、学术写作的逻辑、学术写作的语言、学术写作的流程四个方面，简洁明了地介绍了学术写作的方法。 ◎针对中国人英文学术写作中的常见误区，提出了具体的解决方案。 ◎提供了很多有用的学术写作资源（如学术写作指导书单、学术措辞库、语料库等）和写作修改范例，以帮助读者提高学术写作水平，顺利发表论文。

本书并非一本简单的 “菜谱”书，她是从质性研究全过程的视角出发，来指导读者做研究设计和计划书写作。其写作的体例遵循了研究的基本流程——首先讨论进入研究前需要考虑的“做的可能性”等问题；而后是认识并合理选择研究的类型；接下来，要考虑伦理等问题；然后便进入建立概念框架、收集资料等关键环节；最后是资源的合理规划和最终报告的呈现。阅读本书，研究者不但可以依序而行，写作研究计划，而且还能够全面地理解质性研究的方法和方法论问题。 本书在内容和体例上的优点体现在三个方面。 首先，按照准备一份质性研究计划书的过程来组织章节结构。也就是说，本书不但包括了质性研究计划书的各个部分，而且将这些以一个过程的方式展现出来了，即详细地展示了质性研究设计的步骤。从研究主题和研究问题，到概念框架，再到资料收集方法与资料分析方法，以及最终报告的写作与呈现，本书都详细地论述了相关的规划设计。因此，本书不但对质性研究设计进行了指导，实际上也对整个质性研究的开展过程进行了概述和讨论。 本书的第二个优点是：在为质性研究设计提供清晰且明确的指导的同时，本书也一再强调实践的复杂性，进而强调要在质性研究设计中保留灵活性，确保研究者在开展研究的过程中能够对研究计划进行调整。 与实践关怀一致，本书还特别关注质性研究的现实社会意义（这也是本书的最重要的优点），明确地强调了研究者需要考虑自己的研究可以为政策制定者提供哪些帮助、可以如何帮助被压迫群体和被边缘化的群体发出自己的声音，甚至实现“解放”。 除了内容本身外，本书在形式上的用心也是一大看点： 1. 本书作者针对计划书写作的关键节点，结合自身的教学和研究经验，提供了30个精彩范例（详见“范例目录”）。这些范例与相应的内容结合起来能够使读者产生“恍然大悟”之感。 2. 本书虚构了两个博士生在写作质性研究的博士论文中“婆婆妈妈”的通信，但恰恰在这些“唠唠叨叨”中，却生动体现了博士论文写作的种种困惑。

A down-to-earth, practical guide for interview and participant observation and analysis. In-depth interviews and close observation are essential to the work of social scientists, but inserting one’s researcher-self into the lives of others can be daunting, especially early on. Esteemed sociologist Annette Lareau is here to help. Lareau’s clear, insightful, and personal guide is not your average methods text. It promises to reduce researcher anxiety while illuminating the best methods for first-rate research practice. As the title of this book suggests, Lareau considers listening to be the core element of interviewing and observation. A researcher must listen to people as she collects data, listen to feedback as she describes what she is learning, listen to the findings of others as they delve into the existing literature on topics, and listen to herself in order to sift and prioritize some aspects of the study over others. By listening in these different ways, researchers will discover connections, reconsider assumptions, catch mistakes, develop and assess new ideas, weigh priorities, ponder new directions, and undertake numerous adjustments—all of which will make their contributions clearer and more valuable. Accessibly written and full of practical, easy-to-follow guidance, this book will help both novice and experienced researchers to do their very best work. Qualitative research is an inherently uncertain project, but with Lareau’s help, you can alleviate anxiety and focus on success.

Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive reinforcement, she begins by reminding thesis writers that being able to devote themselves to a project that truly interests them can be a pleasurable adventure. She encourages them to pay close attention to their writing method in order to discover their individual work strategies that promote productivity; to stop feeling fearful that they may disappoint their advisors or family members; and to tailor their theses to their own writing style and personality needs. Using field-tested strategies she assists the student through the entire thesis-writing process, offering advice on choosing a topic and an advisor, on disciplining one's self to work at least fifteen minutes each day; setting short-term deadlines, on revising and defing the thesis, and on life and publication after the dissertation. Bolker makes writing the dissertation an enjoyable challenge.

Veteran higher-education consultant Donald Asher demystifies the graduate school application process and offers a detailed action plan that has proved successful for some of the most competitive programs in the country. The 50 sample essays--selected from thousands of candidates--showcase the best of the best, while the Essay Hall of Shame identifies common pitfalls to avoid. Sample letters of recommendation and essays for scholarships, residencies, fellowships, and postgraduate and postdoctoral applications cover all stages of the application process.

In this new edition of Your Research Project, Nicholas S.R. Walliman has made this bestselling book even better with the addition of a number of new features whilst retaining all the benefits of the original. New features include: more elaboration on the differing needs of masters and PhD students; a new overview of the entire research chronology from start to finish; student checklists throughout; a new chapter on research ethics; new sections on critical reading skills and compiling literature reviews; examples from a wide range of disciplines and a student glossary.

It is easy to be paralyzed by the possibilities and responsibilities of academic work or distracted into one fascinating alley after another without cumulative insight. Even when well underway too many scholars sink into necessary details and do not complete the less inviting tasks that are required to engage the attention of others. "Designing Scholarly Research" addresses efforts to avoid these and other pitfalls. It is written especially for those early in their careers who must quickly master the basic mechanics of research and publication if they are to succeed as academics, and for those who try to assist them.

Social scientists, whether earnest graduate students or tenured faculty members, clearly know the rules that govern good writing. But for some reason they choose to ignore those guidelines and churn out turgid, pompous, and obscure prose. Distinguished sociologist Howard S. Becker, true to his calling, looks for an explanation for this bizarre behavior not in the psyches of his colleagues but in the structure of his profession. In this highly personal and inspirational volume he considers academic writing as a social activity. Both the means and the reasons for writing a thesis or article or book are socially structured by the organization of graduate study, the requirements for publication, and the conditions for promotion, and the pressures arising from these situations create the writing style so often lampooned and lamented. Drawing on his thirty-five years' experience as a researcher, writer, and teacher, Becker exposes the foibles of the academic profession to the light of sociological analysis and gentle humor. He also offers eminently useful suggestions for ways to make social scientists better and more productive writers. Among the topics discussed are how to overcome the paralyzing fears of chaos and ridicule that lead to writer's block; how to rewrite and revise, again and again; how to adopt a persona compatible with lucid prose; how to deal with that academic bugaboo, "the literature." There is also a chapter by Pamela Richards on the personal and professional risks involved in scholarly writing. In recounting his own trials and errors Becker offers his readers not a model to be slavishly imitated but an example to inspire. Throughout, his focus is on the elusive work habits that contribute to good writing, not the more easily learned rules of grammar and punctuation. Although his examples are drawn from sociological literature, his conclusions apply to all fields of social science, and indeed to all areas of scholarly endeavor. The message is clear: you don't have to write like a social scientist to be one.

The ideal book for people who want to increase their word power. Thorough coverage of 1,200 words and 240 roots while introducing 2,300 words. The Vocabulary Builder is organized by Greek and Latin roots for effective study with nearly 250 new words and roots. Includes quizzes after each root discussion to test progress. A great study aid for students preparing to take standardized tests.

《滴水不漏：学位论文写作与答辩指南》是一本指导在校大学生和研究生写作研究性论文的指南书，由三部分组成：第一部分三节讨论了构写论文的前期准备，包括确定主题、撰写大纲及厘定结构；第二部分的六节内容涉及具体论文撰写过程中，主题问题聚焦及谋篇布局规划等实际问题；第三部分三节介绍了论文答辩及出版的相关内容。本书结构缜密，内容详实，具有一定参考性及实操性。