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Engaged Research in a Hurry: The Case for and Complications of Immediate Anthropology By Krista Billingsley and Dillon Mahoney (Journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vol. 80, Issue 2).
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Billingsley and Mahoney argue for what they have termed “immediate anthropology,” or innovative ways to provide solutions that are immediately applicable to the communities with which researchers work. They describe how they applied their anthropological research methods to address the stated needs of Congo War refugees facing harassment and discrimination in Florida.
Administrative Records for Survey Methodology Edited by Michael Larsen, Asaph Young Chun, Gabriele Durrant, and Jerome P. Reiter (John Wiley and Sons) This book addresses issues involved in utilizing administrative and other data sources for improving surveys. It addresses population coverage, data quality, statistical estimation, record linkage, and confidentiality, among other topics, and applies methods to studying problems in demography, economics, agriculture, education, and health.
Theory of Computation By Jim Hefferon Hefferon’s latest version of his undergraduate text covers Turing Machines, the Halting problem, and P versus NP, which addresses what computers can and cannot do. The text also makes many connections with other things a student will learn—emphasizing the underlying ideas, while not sacrificing the technical material that students need for mastery. Available Free at https://hefferon.net.
