Using substantive research stories to illustrate the presentation of research methods in each chapter, this textbook systematically presents the entire research process and its major variants within a unifying conceptual framework.
Exhausting read. The first few chapters were interesting and then the structure just got confusing. I'm pretty sure there are better text books than this one out there. Can't imagine why it had to be 500 pages thick. A student guide I had as an undergrad student covered all of this in about 250 pages. The guide I'm referring to was printed by my university. The glossary in this book is pretty good, though.