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Two experts on designing questionnaires and surveys attempt to bring the average reader to an understanding of the ins and outs of polling. Bradburn is provost of the Univ. of Chicago, while Sudman is a professor at the Survey Research Laboratory at the Univ. of Illinois. The authors offer valuable advice on how to separate the wheat from the chaff in poll results. They take the reader back to the early history of polling (which, despite some ...

In "The System of Professions" Andrew Abbott explores central questions about the role of professions in modern life: Why should there be occupational groups controlling expert knowledge? Where and why did groups such as law and medicine achieve their power? Will professionalism spread throughout the occupational world? While most inquiries in this field study one profession at a time, Abbott here considers the system of professions as a whole...

In 1386, Chaucer recorded, or created, the stories spun by 30 pilgrims traveling from London to Canterbury. Cohen and Hyman have responded to Chaucer's masterpiece with lively prose and unforgettable pictures that evoke the colorful world of 14th-century England. Full color.

Chester and Wilson share the same exact way of doing things, until Lilly moves into the neighborhood and shows them that new ways can be just as good.

The resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism in the 1980s influenced many in the Islamic world to reject Western norms of liberal rationality and to return, instead, to their own tradition for political and cultural inspiration. This rejection of foreign thought threatens to end the centuries-long dialogue between Islam and the West, a dialogue that has produced a nascent Middle Eastern liberalism, along with many less desirable forms of discourse...

Experten berichten in diesem Buch über den Einsatz von Desktop-Publishing-Systemen. Im Vordergrund stehen dabei Aspekte der Software sowie Anwendungen im graphischen Gewerbe, im CAD-Bereich, in der öffentlichen Verwaltung sowie in Klein- und Mittelbetrieben. Das Buch ist eine wertvolle Hilfe für alle, die den Einsatz eines DTP-Systems planen und Trends in ihre Entscheidung einbeziehen wollen.

Political and Social Writings:Volume 2, 1955-1960 was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.A series of writings by the man who inspired the students of the Workers' Rebellion in May of 1968."Given the rapid pace of change in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and the...

Political and Social Writings: Volume 1, 1946-1955 was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.A series of writings by the man who inspired the students of the Workers' Rebellion in May of 1968."Given the rapid pace of change in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and th...

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In the first essay of this book, Stanley Cavell characterizes philosophy as a "willingness to think not about something other than what ordinary human beings think about, but rather to learn to think undistractedly about things that ordinary human beings cannot help thinking about, or anyway cannot help having occur to them, sometimes in fantasy, sometimes as a flash across a landscape." Fantasies of film and television and literature, flashes...