Crisis Investing for the Rest of the 90's

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As for Gold DRC is right twice a century.......2001-02-28

Casey's bent is toward natural resources which he gives much time in this as well as in the rest of his books. An interesting thinker and an effortless writer, Doug is alway provacative and occasionally right. I mean right in a big way. The problem is the many times he's wrong. It is crucial to be in the right sector with him and that usually means gold stocks. He's worth paying attention to for that alone. To give him his due, he was the first guy I heard talk about the no-fun 90's at the outset of the decade. He foresaw the politically correct movement with all of its ramifications before anyone else I know.

Top ten classic.......2000-04-24

This book pulled me back from the brink of socialist thinking. It is the quickest read to understand how the world economy and politics interact. For all you day traders who are getting crushed these days, read this for a little long term philosophy!

Crisis Investing for the Rest of the 90's

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Crisis Investing for the Rest of the 90's
Douglas Casey
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Work in the 21st century requires new understanding in organizational behaviour; how individuals interact together to get work done. This volume brings together research on essential topics such as motivation, job satisfaction, leadership, compensation, organizational justice, communication, intra- and inter-team functioning, judgement and decision-making, organizational development and change. Psychological insights are offered on management interventions, organizational theory, organizational productivity, organizational culture and climate, strategic management, stress, and job loss and unemployment.

Handbook of Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology (2 Volume Set)

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Each of the 41 chapters has been written by one or more of the leading researchers in the world in each particular field, to provide both an overview of current research and a description of future trends. The chapters are designed to relate to, and give comprehensive coverage of, recommended teaching syllabi in North America, Europe, Austral-Asia, and the rest of the world as laid down by professional bodies in the field (SIOP, EAWOP, BPS, etc). The Handbook of Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology is therefore intended as a comprehensive, authoritative, and globally-focussed state-of-the-art review of Industrial/Organizational and Work and Organizational Psychology. Each chapter is fully referenced and includes a short biography of the author(s).

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This volume emphasizes the application of modern biotechnological approaches to the study and control of animal parasites. The book begins by discussing molecular concepts and principles in general before moving on to cover specific applications for endoparasites, ectoparasites, and finally the hosts themselves. Animal Parasite Control Utilizing Biotechnology will be an instrumental reference in promoting a better understanding of the host-parasite relationship and suggesting viable means of controlling economically important parasite infections of animals. The book will be invaluable to zoologists, parasitologists, microbiologists, biochemists, geneticists, immunologists, physiologists, molecular biologists, veterinarian and medical scientists, and advanced students interested in the topic.

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Progress in the neurosciences is profoundly changing our conception of ourselves. Contrary to time-honored intuition, the mind turns out to be a complex of brain functions. And contrary to the wishful thinking of some philosophers, there is no stemming the revolutionary impact that brain research will have on our understanding of how the mind works.

Brain-Wise is the sequel to Patricia Smith Churchland?s Neurophilosophy, the book that launched a subfield. In a clear, conversational manner, this book examines old questions about the nature of the mind within the new framework of the brain sciences. What, it asks, is the neurobiological basis of consciousness, the self, and free choice? How does the brain learn about the external world and about its own introspective world? What can neurophilosophy tell us about the basis and significance of religious and moral experiences?

Drawing on results from research at the neuronal, neurochemical, system, and whole-brain levels, the book gives an up-to-date perspective on the state of neurophilosophy--what we know, what we do not know, and where things may go from here.

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Neuroscience for philosophers - even for amateurs.......2007-09-09

While tough sledding in sections for those without a grounding in biology, this volume weds an overview of philosophy from Aristotle to the moderns, to the latest studies in how the brain and its constituent parts actually "work", and discusses in clear language the tentative conclusions that can be currently drawn. Since it discusses metaphysical subjects, those conclusions will meet a priori disagreement, but all readers will have a solid foundation to judge the issues for themselves.

Philosophy meets neuroscience accessibly and controversially.......2006-05-01

This masterly book summarizes a prodigious amount of research about the workings of the brain. Author Patricia Smith Churchland introduces the basics of neuroscience to the realm of philosophy. She says that present scientific knowledge about the brain makes it implausible that there is any such thing as an immaterial mind or soul. A committed materialist (although she does not make the case for materialism), she puts a mass of incomplete scientific evidence before you and says that more scientific evidence will emerge over the next decade or so to complete the picture and solidify the case. She does not do justice to contrary views, which she introduces as straw men, easily knocked down. That said, we find that Churchland provides a valuable, highly readable discussion of the challenges neuroscience presents to philosophy. She makes it clear that any philosophy of consciousness must be informed by knowledge of the brain.

Not traditional philosophy (thank goodness!).......2005-02-20

Philosophical purists will criticize Churchland for refusing to engage the philosophical "tradition" on its own terms, i.e., she refuses to stick her head in the sand and theorize as if neuroscience and psychology didn't exist. Rather, what Churchland has done is invert this traditional philosphical stance : survey the scientific results on topics philosophers have wanted to claim as their own: consciousness, free will, the self, human knowledge, religion, and the like (each gets a chapter in her book). That is, make a conscious effort to bring empirical results to bear on these thorny problems of human existence. While neuropsychology can't provide decisive answers yet, its data provides new ideas, new constraints, and casts doubt on those doctrines (such as the 'unity of the self') previously taken as sacrosanct by the head-in-the-sand philosophical establishment.

Overall, a very clearly written book, with lots of interesting ideas and data. If you want your traditional convoluted philosophical treatise, go somewhere else. If you want to be invigorated with new ideas and data from cutting edge neuroscience, then pick up this book!

Hardly philosophy.......2004-06-24

This book is only one example of the current practice by philosophers of essentially abandoning their craft and worshiping at the altar of science. Philosophy had always tried to go beyond observation of perceived physical reality alone, and deal with questions such as--in the branch of philosophy known as epistemology--how is knowledge of that reality, or of matters like principles of logic and mathematics, acquired.

What is pitiful is that the author of the book tries to subsume even these questions under physical science, thus putting the cart before the horse. She tries to find answers to what constitutes consciousness by studying the brain, forgetting that our knowledge of the brain and other physical occurrences depends itself on their manifestation in consciousness. We first have to know how reality is constructed in our minds, before exploring further physical particulars.

The author of the book, and she is not the only one to do so, goes as far as attempting to define consciousness in terms of the brain, committing the gross fallacy of equivocation. The fallacy consists in giving a name a new meaning and then trying to prove something about the originally named. But something proved about the newly meant does not thereby apply to what was meant before.

A basic endeavor of Professor Churchland is to eventually in some such way equate consciousness with some part of the brain. But although she tirelessly cites and illustrates minute and extensive studies, she fails to indicate what kind of findings so made would establish that identity. In the process, while a number of times branding other authors with circularity--with assuming a fact before proving it--though she does not say where the circularity resides, she indulges in the persistent circularity of arguing for the brain as the self while beforehand assuming that the brain, as the self, learns and so forth, and she names a chapter accordingly (p.321).

Circularity, the act of begging the question, is, to be sure, another fallacy, and the book contains additional lapses of logic. Earlier in the book (p.55) its author suggests that if A implies B then not-A implies not-B. This commits the fundamental fallacy of "denying the antecedent", and the book exhibits other failures in reasoning. Its author, concerning again definition, argues (p.267) that "the indivisible", which was the original meaning of "atom", turned out to be divisible. This is of course a glaring contradiction. The word "atom" was later applied to a physical unit found divisible, but this was merely a redefinition. The book asserts similar nonsense regarding parallel lines. They are in geometry defined as straight lines that never meet, and the book's author claims they meet. She is obviously not only illogical but insufficiently acquainted with geometry, in some of which parallel lines are said not to exist, rather than to, contradictorily, meet. "Half knowledge is worse than no knowledge", as they say, and a similar warning can apply in general when philosophers dabble in science.

By wanting to in the preceding manner downgrade past understandings, the book tries in the main, as do related ones, to forcibly dispense with the presence of consciousness by insistence that it must be material, instead of viewing it, alongside other events connected with matter, as the phenomenon it is, and by which all reality is ascertained.

Disappointing.......2004-01-26

Brain-wise is, to say the least, a less than impressive effort from a philosopher as prominent in philosophy of mind as Churchland is. A short list of complaints includes:

-Churchland collapses the distinction between 'consciousness' in the phenomenal sense ('subjective character of experience') & 'consciousness' in the psychological sense (awareness or self-consciousness)(see Chalmers, 'The Conscious Mind')

-most of her conclusions are simply asserted rather than argued, & when she does make arguments they are startlingly simple-minded

-the book completely overstates the progress of neuroscience, a field still very much in its infancy. She speaks about neuroscience as if she were in complete awe, which is quite unjustified, & she seems to have a bad case of science-envy

-she assumes that all sciences are reducible, which ignores the fact that (as Chomsky argues, although to say he 'argues' this neglects to express the obviousness of his conclusion) we are cognitively limited beings, & that there may simply be aspects of the world that are beyond the reach of our scientific capacities.

-she hauls out the tired vitalist analogy

-she admits the failure of logical supervenience of the phenomenal on the physical, yet fails to see why this counts against materialism (again, see Chalmers)

-the section on religion is just feeble, & includes not one original thought. Most of her 'insights' are along the lines of 'the prospect of [death] ... need not be [unsettling] ... one can live a richly purposeful life of love and work--of family, community, wilderness, music, and so forth--cognizant that it makees sense to make the best of this life'.

Anyway, I suppose someone interested in philosophy of mind should read this, if only because Churchland and her husband are such celebrities in the field. But don't expect much. As an introduction to neuroscience, I am not in a position to judge Brain-wise; my hunch is that if you simply want to become informed as to the latest developments in the field, there are more appropriate books out there. As philosophy, the book is depressingly weak.

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Author has no clue

The singing pig makes your heart join in

Think of them as Animals not Meat

Proof that farm animals have feelings . . . .

Intellectually And Emotionally Challenging

The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained world of the farm animal, revealing startling, irrefutable evidence that barnyard creatures have feelings too, even consciousness.

Weaving history, literature, anecdotes, scientific studies, and Masson’s own vivid experiences observing pigs, cows, sheep, goats, and chickens over the course of five years, this important book at last gives voice, meaning, and dignity to these gentle beasts that are bred to be milked, shorn, butchered, and eaten. Can we ever know what makes an animal happy? Many animal behaviorists say no. But Jeffrey Masson has a different view: An animal is happy if it can live according to its own nature. Farm animals suffer greatly in this regard. Chickens, for instance, like to perch in trees at night, to avoid predators and to nestle with friends. The obvious conclusion: They cannot be happy when confined twenty to a cage.

From field and barn, to pen and coop, Masson bears witness to the emotions and intelligence of these remarkable farm animals, each unique with distinct qualities. Curious, intelligent, self-reliant–many will find it hard to believe that these attributes describe a pig. In fact, there is much that humans share with pigs. They dream, know their names, and can see colors. Mother cows mourn the loss of their calves when their babies are taken away to slaughter. Given a choice between food that is nutritious or lacking in minerals, sheep will select the former, balancing their diet and correcting the deficiency. Goats display quite a sense of humor, dignity, and fearlessness (Indian goats have been known to kill leopards). Chickens are naturally sociable–they will gather around a human companion and stand there serenely preening themselves or sit quietly on the ground beside someone they trust.

For far too long farm animals have been denigrated and treated merely as creatures of instinct rather than as sentient beings. Shattering the abhorrent myth of the “dumb animal without feelings,” Jeffrey Masson has written a revolutionary book that is sure to stir human emotions far and wide.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Author has no clue.......2007-01-03

We live with farm animals and know that they have complex emotional lives, so I had high hopes, but I was very disappointed, the author doesn't really know animals and their emotions; he just has a warm fuzzy feeling about them and wants us to be nice to them. I don't disagree entirely, I'm totally against factory farms, but this book is supposed to be about their emotional lives, no? "Fast food nation" and "the omnivores dilemma" do a MUCH better job of addressing that issue. The stated title of this book is completely inaccurate, in my opinion, after living day to day with goats, sheep, chickens and a few other odds and ends for five years. If you want a book that actually talks about farm animal emotions, "Animals in Translation" really does this in a way that resonates with my experience.

I couldn't even finish reading this book, it was so far off the mark, I hate to even give it one star.

The singing pig makes your heart join in.......2006-07-23

From reading a fair bit of animal rights literature, I grew weary of the typical rhetoric that I've seen repeated over and over again (which I won't get into; if you know it, you know of what I speak, and if you don't, you should go out and see!), much of which I already figured out for myself from talking with people. The Pig who Sang to the Moon gives us an insight into the lives of animals who are kept on farms for whatever reason, be it milk, meat, fur, wool, or skin.

That's the other major thing I like about Pigit has a clear focus. You're meant to pick up this book, and through the stories, you should gain some insight that those animals that we've more or less writted off as "stupid beasts" lead lives that we are not privy to [if we don't pay attention]. When you leave, even if you don't fully embrace the decidedly vegan perspective, there is still a marked change in your thinking in understanding where Masson can find these emotions he speaks of.

Starting from pigs, moving on to goats, sheep, chickens, ducks, cows, and other animals kept on farms, Masson explores stories sent in by people about how animals display their complex lives. He tells us the story about the pig who sings to the moon. We learn of the chicken who followed her human around. We smile from ear to ear when we read the story about the cow that solves puzzles.

All of them give us a glimpse of a world that we'd never consider before this. Instead of bludgeoning you with an agenda or a message, Masson tells you a story, asks you to think about what that story means, and humbly requests that you maybe give the animals another chance. He gives voice to those whose voices we cannot comprehend. A must read for any animal lover.

Think of them as Animals not Meat .......2006-01-06

I love Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. He's brave enough to challenge our notions of animals without overlooking all evidence as 'anthromorphizing.'

I feel that Masson when he says we should take things at face value. If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck... in other words if animals appear to act as if they are expressing a certain emotion, then they probably are. He explores the emotional complexity of each animal we use for food including: pigs, cows, chickens, goats, ducks, and geese. He uses mainly anecdotes as well as behavioral studies, which are very compelling.

I definitely reccomend this book for two reasons: 1) you will think twice about the animals you eat and 2) you will be alerted to the horrible abuses of animals on factory farms. Also read When Elephants Weep by the Masson. :)

Proof that farm animals have feelings . . . ........2005-12-29

I just finished reading Masson's book and loved it. As someone who is already sensitive to the feelings of animals, and is well-read on the subject, I was hesitant when picking up this book because I don't need to read about any more gory details. Masson was able to get his point across by only "sprinkling" in facts about the torture of farm animals doomed to slaughter. I am already aware of the atrosities these poor creatures suffer through, and don't need to bury myself in book about it thus depressing myself more. Masson's book was a perfect balance. I enjoyed reading it and learned even more about the natural lives of, and what makes farm animals "happy." I was also able to educate myself more on the various issues.

Intellectually And Emotionally Challenging.......2005-12-16

"The Pig Who Sang to the Moon" chronicles the plight of farm animals, particularly those in mass-market farms in the United States and New Zealand, though the author also is careful to discuss farming procedures and techniques from all over the world. The book is written from the pro-vegan point of view and is genuinely disturbing and eye-opening.

I find myself in a conundrum in evaluating this book, and find myself agreeing with the vegan reviewer from Ontario that while the book is well written and heart-rending, it is not academically ground breaking other than in collecting the information in a species-specific chapter format. The author tends to rely on conjecture of animal feelings, preferences, and emotions to a degree that sometimes strain credibility, though the writing is generally excellent. He frequently dismisses anthropomorphism in others, but seems to engage in it frequently himself, and frequently engages in arguments and rhetorical questions that are tenuous at best, as on page 231 where he posits "If we kill animals with so little concern, what is to stop us from hurting one another?" Of course this is never addressed or discussed further, and I believe shows that while the author genuinely attempts to tell a factually accurate, yet moving, story, his biases are so prevalent as to call into question some of his conclusions. I don't believe that all farmers are evil (I am not involved with the agricultural industry, by the way), nor do I believe that all employees of companies like Cargill and ADM are evil.

Some of the chapters are better than others, and I particularly found the chapters of chicken, turkeys, ducks, and geese enlightening. The book makes clear the horrors of foie gras production, for example, and of all the parts of the book, I found this the hardest to bear. I never eat foie gras, and after reading the book am doubly glad that I don't. The book has many good points, and I am quick to stand up for it in areas such as habitability and humane treatment of animals on farms: the torture that some of these animals endure is heart-rending, but nothing short of evil. I agree with the author that stricter regulations are needed on farms, but stop short of his proposal to ban farming (other than crop farming) altogether, especially after reading his dietary proposals (tofu is featured prominently) and plans for transitioning to a vegan world, which are, at any rate, inadequately explained.

I recommend that all the notes at the end of the book be carefully studied. Some special-interest groups which have recently been challenged with ethics issues of their own are taken at their word, and I am not convinced of the validity of their use as a primary source in a scholarly work. On the other hand, I do commend the author for attempting to obtain as much first hand information and primary documentation as possible in a very difficult research area. I believe the author is highly ethical and attempts to prove his arguments with unimpeachable sources; the problem obviously resides in the fact that often the only sources available are highly biased organizations sympathetic to his cause.

There are some issues exposed (especially in the notes) that I do find troubling, however. In the main text, for example, the author regales the reader with tales of the intellect of turkeys, and discusses the myth that turkeys are so stupid that they will turn their heads skyward and drown in a rainstorm. I have to admit that I never knew of any incidents of this occurring first hand (I was around turkeys during a few summers in my younger years), and was happy that this was in fact an urban legend. (Or would that be a rural legend?) In the notes, however, the author explains that young turkeys actually will drown themselves by looking skyward in a rainstorm, and that this may be where the "myth" comes from. Well, I'd say so. The author then goes on (Page 247) to explain that this is man's fault because "without the protection of [the mother's] wings in a storm, [the chick] may well look up, inquiringly, or beseechingly, accidentally fill their small beaks with water and drown....no turkey chick should ever have to grow up without a mother." This illustrates all my objections to the book in one neat paragraph. In this one instance, the author refuses to put information he clearly knew to be contradictory to his central premise in the main body of the text, choosing rather to bury it in the notes at the back of the book. Once into the discussion he attributes intent and emotions to the young turkeys that he can't possibly know, and then goes on to explain that, in essence, the turkey's poor intellect (also in conflict with his central premise) is due to man putting him in an untenable situation. It is this type of conflict that makes me hesitant to recommend the book wholeheartedly and without reservation.

In the end I do recommend the book, but I recommend, as always, that readers use their own brains to look for logical holes in reasoning, and not merely accept the arguments, opinions, and feelings of the author automatically. I personally feel that Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is a good-hearted, sincere man, with a gift for writing, and I think he has written a powerful book that deserves to be read and considered. On balance, and despite my critiques of the book, I recommend it for a condensed, interesting, and thought-provoking account of the emotional world of animals important to us all.

The Pig Who Sang To The Moon - The Emotional World Of Farm Animals

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The Pig Who Sang To The Moon - The Emotional World Of Farm Animals
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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Bert Randolph Sugar , and Bert Sugar
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Very good.......2006-04-20

A smart, no-nonsense layout and oodles of curious baseball facts make Sugar's book stand out in its category. All your standard lists are here (HR, hits and strikeout leaders) but the book has its biggest fun offering up such lists as "Billy Martin's Fights," "Most Times Awarded First Base on Catcher's Interference or Obstruction" (Pete Rose), "Players Who Played 2500 Games in One Uniform", (Carl Yastrzemski at 3308) and Oldest Players Named to All-Star Team" (Satchel Paige, at 46). Too many fun, telling stats to mention here.

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Tricks of the Trade

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An invitation to sit in on a graduate seminar in methodology

Addresses the research process in an easy to understand way.

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Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of the Trade will help students learn how to think about research projects. Assisted by Becker's sage advice, students can make better sense of their research and simultaneously generate fresh ideas on where to look next for new data. The tricks cover four broad areas of social science: the creation of the "imagery" to guide research; methods of "sampling" to generate maximum variety in the data; the development of "concepts" to organize findings; and the use of "logical" methods to explore systematically the implications of what is found. Becker's advice ranges from simple tricks such as changing an interview question from "Why?" to "How?" (as a way of getting people to talk without asking for a justification) to more technical tricks such as how to manipulate truth tables.

Becker has extracted these tricks from a variety of fields such as art history, anthropology, sociology, literature, and philosophy; and his dazzling variety of references ranges from James Agee to Ludwig Wittgenstein. Becker finds the common principles that lie behind good social science work, principles that apply to both quantitative and qualitative research. He offers practical advice, ideas students can apply to their data with the confidence that they will return with something they hadn't thought of before.

Like Writing for Social Scientists, Tricks of the Trade will bring aid and comfort to generations of students. Written in the informal, accessible style for which Becker is known, this book will be an essential resource for students in a wide variety of fields.

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Tricks of the Trade.......2006-11-04

This is a must read book for anyone doing serious research. Told with a sense of humor and encouragement.

Good For the Social Scientist.......2005-07-14

I bought this book hoping it would help me do my research for my dissertation. It seems to be a reasonably sound book if you're in the social sciences (sociology, psych, anthropology, but I would advise humanities majors and researchers to skip this one. Most of the information presented in this book has no relevance to many other disciplines.

A real disappointment..........2001-07-18

I had high hopes for this one, in preparation for teaching a course on research methods. I found the discussion entirely too abstract -- odd, given Becker's insistence that he would use examples to illustrate his points. There are some intriguing discussions, but much of what I found was not terribly useful.

An invitation to sit in on a graduate seminar in methodology.......2001-07-12

Howard S. Becker's Tricks of the Trade is an invitation to sit in on a graduate seminar in methodology with an experienced social science researcher. The tone is conversational and thought-provoking, often humorous. Through a quirky set of examples that includes embezzlement, theatre casting, transvestitism, forestry, and opiate addiction, Becker describes common methodological problems in research and some "tricks" that might be helpful in unlocking them. Although the word "tricks" in the title might put some readers off, the author explains that he has found these to be useful tools in "tam[ing] theory...[by providing] ways of thinking that help researchers faced with concrete research problems make some progress" (p. 4). These tricks are not shortcuts to the solution of theoretical problems; in fact, Becker points out that they may cause more, rather than less, work because they "suggest ways of interfering with the comfortable thought routines academic life promotes and supports" (p. 6).

Becker's very readable book will probably be most interesting to someone who has some research experience and has grappled with the methodological and theoretical problems it addresses. For that reason, it would be less useful as an introductory methodology textbook than it would for a beginning researcher, but reading Tricks of the Trade will benefit researchers of any experience level. The usefulness of a particular trick to a given researcher will depend on the researcher's interests and experiences, but this may well be one of those books that yields fresh insights each time it is read. The main strength of Tricks of the Trade is the glimpse it provides into the thinking of an experienced and respected researcher.

Addresses the research process in an easy to understand way........1999-02-17

I am posed on the brink of my proposal and have been reading similar books about writing and research. This one is by far one of the best. Howard Becker is having a conversation with the reader about doing research in the social sciences. I find the concepts easy to follow and feel that his ideas have a universal applicability. I enjoy Dr. Becker's writing style, which is light on the jargon and heavy on the realities of graduate school.

Tricks of the Trade: How To Think About Your Research While You're Doing It (Chicago Guides To Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

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