Jamie Lewis

Bigfoot exists. Not necessarily as a biological creature, but certainly as an object around which thousands of Americans organise their lives, analysing evidence and making knowledge. This book examines the Bigfooting community sociologically. Using concepts from science and technology studies (STS) as well as cultural sociology, Lewis and Bartlett shed new light on what it is to do ‘science’, what it is to behave ‘scientifically’, and where the borders of legitimate scientific practice lie.Through detailed interviews with Bigfooters themselves, this book explores the ways in which the Bigfooting community makes sense of traces and absences to make knowledge claims that are acceptable to those within that community. It also shows how Bigfooters - in the face of scepticism - attempt to render Bigfoot a proper object of scientific inquiry outside their own circle. This fascinating, accessible, and entertaining reading will appeal to scholars and students of science and technology studies, cultural sociology, and the sociology of mystery, as well as to those interested in public trust and understanding of science.

Bigfoot exists. Not necessarily as a biological creature, but certainly as an object around which thousands of Americans organise their lives, analysing evidence and making knowledge. This book examines the Bigfooting community sociologically. Using concepts from science and technology studies (STS) as well as cultural sociology, Lewis and Bartlett shed new light on what it is to do ‘science’, what it is to behave ‘scientifically’, and where the borders of legitimate scientific practice lie.Through detailed interviews with Bigfooters themselves, this book explores the ways in which the Bigfooting community makes sense of traces and absences to make knowledge claims that are acceptable to those within that community. It also shows how Bigfooters - in the face of scepticism - attempt to render Bigfoot a proper object of scientific inquiry outside their own circle. This fascinating, accessible, and entertaining reading will appeal to scholars and students of science and technology studies, cultural sociology, and the sociology of mystery, as well as to those interested in public trust and understanding of science.

Simple. Comprehensive. Logical. This book is a companion guide for anyone completing a research project in the social sciences. It covers the whole research process, from planning, developing, collecting data, analysing data, and writing up. It will help you manage and complete your research project successfully. It will guide you on: -Planning your research project -Developing data collection tools -Analysing and interpreting data -Presenting your research in different formats Featuring chapter objectives, checklists, student exercises, weblinks, and further reading, this comprehensive guide ensures readers navigate the complexities of research within a manageable step-by-step framework.

Simple. Comprehensive. Logical. This book is a companion guide for anyone completing a research project in the social sciences. It covers the whole research process, from planning, developing, collecting data, analysing data, and writing up. It will help you manage and complete your research project successfully. It will guide you on: -Planning your research project -Developing data collection tools -Analysing and interpreting data -Presenting your research in different formats Featuring chapter objectives, checklists, student exercises, weblinks, and further reading, this comprehensive guide ensures readers navigate the complexities of research within a manageable step-by-step framework.

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Have you ever met someone so perfect? Someone you feel like you have known your whole life after just recently getting to know them? Someone who has that golden touch?In this beginner's guide to Emotional Intelligence, you will learn the #1 thing why people experience happier relationships, create more success at work, improve emotional strength, and live better lives. This guide will teach you how to better yourself, how to influence others to overcome their struggles and the mindset needed for you to become a social powerhouse. This one thing is what will set you apart from over 90% of the people who live day to day to day in mediocrity.Whether you are someone who proactively educates yourself or someone who feels like they are stuck in life and the whole world is against you, this book will provide you the practical examples and finer details about the inner workings of the winner mindset and experiencing an explosive breakthrough in life. By taking a deep dive in to the proven research of this book, getting to know the scholars, and developing your mindset of self-awareness and empathy, you will take your life to the next level. Learn to Think, Act and Win, by examining: - What is EI, EQ and E-Everything Else - How to develop Your own EI Mindset - How to deploy EI in Your own Relationships - How to Cultivate EI in Your own Children - How to Master Your own EIAnd much much more Do you want to experience an explosive breakthrough in your life?

Psychiatric genetics has become ‘Big Biology’. This may come as a surprising development to those familiar with its controversial history. From eugenic origins and contentious twin studies to a global network of laboratories employing high-throughput genetic and genomic technologies, biological research on psychiatric disorders has become an international, multidisciplinary assemblage of massive data resources. How did psychiatric genetics achieve this scale? How is it socially and epistemically organized? And how do scientists experience this politics of scale? Psychiatric Genetics: From Hereditary Madness to Big Biology develops a sociological approach of exploring the origins of psychiatric genetics by tracing several distinct styles of scientific reasoning that coalesced at the beginning of the twentieth century. These styles of reasoning reveal, among other things, a range of practices that maintain an extraordinary stability in the face of radical criticism, internal tensions and scientific disappointments. The book draws on a variety of methods and materials to explore these claims. Combining genealogical analysis of historical literature, rhetorical analysis of scientific review articles, interviews with scientists, ethnographic observations of laboratory practices and international conferences, this book offers a comprehensive and detailed exploration of both local and global changes in the field of psychiatric genetics.

Far too much emphasis is placed today on the utilization of cookie cutter routines designed by strangers to appeal to the lowest common denominator or lifter, while few texts today appeal to the beast within every real lifter. 365 Days of Brutality does just that- it enables lifters to harness their inner badass by emulating the training of the badasses who have gone before them, and in doing so, forge their own path.365 Days of Brutality is a compendium of a year's worth of workouts designed to take the aspiring gymgoer from "who gives a $h t about that gymbro nobody" to "slavering, musclebound, iron-crazed slaughterbeast" within that time frame. These workouts have been sourced from some of the most insane and intense strength athletes from every discipline- wrestlers, powerlifters, Olympic weightlifters, bodybuilders, and arm wrestlers- to ensure that anyone reading it will have the tools necessary to jump into the middle of anyone's workout and hang with or beat the people with whom (against whom) they're training.Leave the allegedly scientific programming to the prey animals and clock punchers, the posers and the neophytes, and learn to sharpen your fangs and attack the gym with the ferocity that belies your will to defeat gravity. This is 365 Days of Brutality.

Psychiatric genetics has become ‘Big Biology’. This may come as a surprising development to those familiar with its controversial history. From eugenic origins and contentious twin studies to a global network of laboratories employing high-throughput genetic and genomic technologies, biological research on psychiatric disorders has become an international, multidisciplinary assemblage of massive data resources. How did psychiatric genetics achieve this scale? How is it socially and epistemically organized? And how do scientists experience this politics of scale? Psychiatric Genetics: From Hereditary Madness to Big Biology develops a sociological approach of exploring the origins of psychiatric genetics by tracing several distinct styles of scientific reasoning that coalesced at the beginning of the twentieth century. These styles of reasoning reveal, among other things, a range of practices that maintain an extraordinary stability in the face of radical criticism, internal tensions and scientific disappointments. The book draws on a variety of methods and materials to explore these claims. Combining genealogical analysis of historical literature, rhetorical analysis of scientific review articles, interviews with scientists, ethnographic observations of laboratory practices and international conferences, this book offers a comprehensive and detailed exploration of both local and global changes in the field of psychiatric genetics.

This is the story of Grace, a little girl who absolutely loves all animals. She befriends every animal that she meets and spends all of her time loving and taking care of any animal in need. Grace becomes very sad when any animal passes away but is quite relieved when she discovers the truth of where they all went. Grace wants to make sure that everyone knows that their beloved pets are safe and happy and well loved, even when they can't be seen.