Book Review: Practice-based Design Research

Book Review: Clinical Research Design. 4th ed.

Although this is a comprehensive textbook on clinical research design, it takes the reader in a truly step by step manner in designing a clinical research. It starts with explaining what a clinical research is made of the “anatomy” and how it works the “physiology.” It then covers how to conceive a research question, writing research proposals and ends with explaining not commonly discussed sub...

Book Review: Juvenile Justice: Advancing Research, Policy and Practice

Book Review: Research on PBL Practice in Engineering Education

Operations Research Letters Book Review

“Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services” written by Michael L. Pinedo and published in the Springer Series in Operations Research is a recent book intended for a senior level or master level course on planning and scheduling either in an engineering or a business school. The book consists of four parts. Part I introduces the main features of scheduling models in manufacturing and...

Book Review Elizabethan London and Scientific Practice

The jewel house is a nuanced analysis of the community of gardeners, instrument makers, engineers, alchemists and mathematics teachers in Elizabethan London whose empirical practices, Harkness argues, ‘set the stage for the Scientific Revolution’ via the practice of what she terms vernacular ‘science’. Although her employment of the term ‘science’ may seem an anachronism, she demonstrates that ...