Author: David Byrne

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Charles C. Ragin spent most of his youth in Texas and the southeastern United States. He attended the University of Texas at Austin as an undergraduate and received his BA degree in 1972 at the age of 19. That same year he began graduate work in sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his Ph D in 1975. From 1975 until 2001, he lived in the Midwest, teaching first at Indiana University and then at Northwestern University. He headed west in 2001, where he spent just over a decade at University of Arizona-Tucson. In 2012, he joined the faculty at the University of California-Irvine, where he is currently the Chancellor′s Professor of Sociology. He is best known for developing a methodological alternative to conventional research methods, using formal set-theoretic techniques for comparative research. His many publications address broad issues in politics and society, with topics ranging from the causes of ethnic political mobilization to the shaping of the welfare state in advanced capitalist countries. He has written several books including Intersectional Inequality: Race, Class, Test Scores and Poverty (with Peer Fiss, 2017). Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond (2008) Fuzzy-Set Social Science (2000). His book The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies (1987) won the 1989 Stein Rokkan Prize of the International Social Science Council of UNESCO. In 2014 he received the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award of the American Sociological Association. He is married to Mary Driscoll, and they have two sons, Andrew and Daniel.




30 Ebooks by David Byrne

David Byrne: Bicycle Diaries
'Byrne comes across like a post-punk Michael Palin.' Sephen Dalton, The Times'An engaging book; part-diary, part-manifesto.' Observer David Byrne, co-founder of the group Talking …
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€7.67
David Byrne & Charles C. C. Ragin: The SAGE Handbook of Case-Based Methods
Case-based methods have a long history in the social sciences. They are extensively used and raise many practical and theoretical questions. This book provides a comprehensive, critical examination o …
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€37.99
David Byrne: Interpreting Quantitative Data
How do quantitative methods help us to acquire knowledge of the real world? What are the `do′s′ and `don′ts′ of effective quantitative research? This refreshing and accessible book provides students …
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€64.99
David Byrne: Applying social science
In complex contemporary societies social science has become increasingly interwoven into the whole fabric of governance. At the same time there is an increasing recognition that attempts to understan …
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€48.99
David Byrne & Sally Ruane: Paying for the Welfare State in the 21st Century
What does the future hold for the welfare state in the post-industrial 21st century? Political and economic forces are threatening the taxation regimes of highly globalised, capitalist societies, pro …
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€19.99
David Byrne: Secret Life of Humans (NHB Modern Plays)
In 1949, scientist and mathematician Dr Jacob Bronowski installs a hidden, locked room in his house. Fifty years later, his grandson discovers the secrets contained in the room, unearthing echoes fro …
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€13.99
David Byrne: Class After Industry
The transition to twenty-first century post-industrial capitalism from the ‘welfare’ industrial capitalism of the twentieth century, has affected the ways in which class is lived in terms of relation …
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€58.84
David Byrne: Wie Musik wirkt
Mit ›Wie Musik wirkt‹ ermöglicht Musiker David Byrne den Lesern einen außergewöhnlichen Blick in die Welt der Musik – die Mischung aus Musikgeschichte, Autobiographie und Handbuch ist so vielseitig w …
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€24.99
David Byrne: Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences
This is the first introduction to chaos theory for social science students. It discusses key concepts and shows how the use of complexity theory can transform the study of central issues in social re …
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€34.58
David Byrne: Social Exclusion
Reviews of the First Edition:thoughtful, critical, comprehensive, genuine Byrnes workshould prove compulsory reading for any critical and nuancedview of social exclusion.Progress in Human Geography T …
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€29.68
David Byrne: How Music Works
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€9.60
David Byrne: How Music Works
How Music Works is David Byrne”s buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about.Equal parts historian and anthropologist, raconteur and social scientist, Byrne draws on his …
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€19.55
David Byrne: Bicycle Diaries
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€15.03
David Byrne: Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences
Chaos and complexity are the new buzz words in both science and contemporary society. The ideas they represent have enormous implications for the way we understand and engage with the world. Complexi …
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€62.07
David Byrne: Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences
Chaos and complexity are the new buzz words in both science and contemporary society. The ideas they represent have enormous implications for the way we understand and engage with the world. Complexi …
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€61.75
David Byrne & Sally Ruane: Paying for the Welfare State in the 21st Century
What does the future hold for the welfare state in the post-industrial 21st century? Political and economic forces are threatening the taxation regimes of highly globalised, capitalist societies, pro …
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€17.90
David (School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Durham) Byrne: Applying social science
In complex contemporary societies social science has become increasingly interwoven into the whole fabric of governance. At the same time there is an increasing recognition that attempts to understan …
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€34.90
David Byrne: Interpreting Quantitative Data
How do quantitative methods help us to acquire knowledge of the real world? What are the `do’s’ and `don’ts’ of effective quantitative research?This refreshing and accessible book provides students w …
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€56.55
David Byrne: Arboretum
For over thirty years, besides making music, David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as the archaeology of music as we know it, architectural photography and the uses of Power …
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€20.53
Olivia Hirst & David Byrne: The Incident Room (NHB Modern Plays)
It’s 1975. The Millgarth Incident Room in Leeds is the epicentre of the biggest manhunt in British history, for one of the most notorious serial killers: the Yorkshire Ripper. With public and politic …
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€13.99
Here Lies Love
David Byrne’s play about Imelda Marcos called for the theater to be transformed into a disco. Spanish photographer Fernando Sancho found the whole idea mesmerizing, so he traipsed to a lumberyard in …
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€14.99
Byrne David Byrne & Kalman Maira Kalman: American Utopia
From former Talking Heads frontman and multimedia visionary David Byrne and revered bestselling author, illustrator, and artist Maira Kalman–an inspiring celebration in words and art of the connecti …
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€17.92
David Byrne: How Music Works
How Music Works is David Byrnes remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he …
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€24.58
David Byrne: Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID
Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID uses a complex realist approach to examine the crisis of three interconnected problems: economic inequality, climate change, and the COVID-19 pan …
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€47.60
David Byrne: Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID
Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID uses a complex realist approach to examine the crisis of three interconnected problems: economic inequality, climate change, and the COVID-19 pan …
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€47.68
David Byrne & Gillian Callaghan: Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences
This expanded and updated edition of Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art revisits the use of complexity theory across the social sciences and demonstrates how complexity i …
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€46.28
David Byrne & Gillian Callaghan: Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences
This expanded and updated edition of Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art revisits the use of complexity theory across the social sciences and demonstrates how complexity i …
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€46.43
David John Byrne: The Adventures of Amby the Ambulance ‘Riding a Bike’
Welcome to the story of an Emergency Ambulance called Amby. This story is for children and follows Amby on one of his many Emergencies the story also gives a safety message. At the back of the book a …
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€6.49
Jeff Evans & Sally Ruane: Data in Society
Statistical data and evidence-based claims are increasingly central to our everyday lives. Critically examining ‘Big Data’, this book charts the recent explosion in sources of data, including those p …
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€41.24
Gill Callaghan & Emma Uprichard: Global Crises
Featuring examples from the UK, China, Brazil, South Africa and the US, this book demonstrate how an action research programme based around the use of existing social research methods embedded in pro …
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€42.99