In the decade since the idea of adapting the evidence-based paradigm for software engineering was first proposed, it has become a major tool of empirical software engineering. Evidence-Based Software Engineering and Systematic Reviews provides a clear introduction to the use of an evidence-based model for software engineering research and practice.
The book explains the roles of primary studies (experiments, surveys, case studies) as elements of an over-arching evidence model, rather than as disjointed elements in the empirical spectrum. Supplying readers with a clear understanding of...

Using novels, school textbooks, comics and story papers, as well as publishers' archives, social surveys, Department of Education files and other primary documents, British Children's Literature and the First World War examines developments in understandings of the First World War throughout the 20th century.

Children's literature has played an important role in shaping impressions of the First World War, but it also tells us much about the changing nature of British society. In his analysis, David Budgen raises important questions about the presentation of history. Are...