Yin is board chair and CEO of COSMOS Corporation, an applied research and social science firm that has been in operation since 1980. He presents a collection of case studies for academics, practitioners, and researchers, providing a panorama of some of the best case studies ever done, demonstrating how case study research has been practiced by some of the best social scientists past and present in the country and how readers might conduct their own case studies. Nineteen case studies are organized into sections addressing theoretical perspectives and case selection, the strength of multiple cases, quantitative evidence and "embedded" units of analysis, additional examples of the different types of case study evidence, and data analyses and conclusions. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)