Jesse Driscoll offers a how-to guide for social scientists who are considering extended mixed-methods international fieldwork. Doing Global Fieldwork is an up-to-date handbook for graduate students and social science researchers of all stripes who need blunt, no-nonsense advice about how to make the best of their time in the field. Every researcher headed for the field should read this book. Doing Global Fieldwork brings to the reader in plain and direct terms the reality that field research rarely goes according to plan. Experienced readers and those about to embark for field research for the first time will profit from the descriptions of how people's lives and the tumult of everyday events can sidetrack the most well thought out research designs. This book also is a guide to workarounds and ad hoc adaptations that will help the reader to get research done, especially for those headed to one of the many unstable, but not quite war-zone sorts of places. It is especially valuable for Driscoll's advice on making the oftentimes unexpectedly rough adjustment to life back home as one is called upon to translate the kaleidoscopic chaos of experience and improvisation into the cool, ordered product that will be read by people who did not get their hands dusty in the field or sweat as things fell apart.