Publisher's Description: The Third Edition of the bestselling text Research Design by John W. Creswell enables readers to compare three approaches to research-qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods-in a single research methods text. The book presents these three approaches side by side...

Concepts, methods and applications -- Motivation -- An introduction to exergy and economics -- Exergy -- Exergy and economics -- Exergy and economic methods -- Applications of exergy-based economic methods -- History of exergy and economic methods -- Illustrative examples -- Exergy analysis --...