Kessel, Frank, Patricia L. Rosenfield, and Norman B. Anderson, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

This newly updated and revised edition of Interdisciplinary Research is a practical guide to the most effective avenues for collaborative and integrative research in the social, behavioral, and bio-medical sciences. This book provides answers directly from researchers who have carried out successful interdisciplinary programs. The editors give a concise of account of the lessons that can be taken from the book, and then present a series of case studies that reveal the most successful interdisciplinary research programs. Each of the chapter authors has carried out innovative, collaborative programs, and all give compelling accounts of the benefits of interdisciplinary research and the central strategies required to achieve them. Buy from Amazon