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  • The System of Professions

    An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor

    by Andrew Abbott ...
    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 ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

  • Digital Paper

    A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials

    by Andrew Abbott ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    "Shows the reader how to harness new technology while upholding the highest standards of research. The result is a joy to read . . . a boon for students." —Robert J. Sampson, professor of the social sciences at Harvard UniversityToday's researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Processual Sociology

    by Andrew Abbott ...
    For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing—making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of the social world—both individuals and entities—must be explained by these series of events rather than as enduring objects ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • The Dialogical Turn

    New Roles for Sociology in the Postdisciplinary Age

    by Andrew Abbott, Saïd Amir Arjomand, S N. Eisenstad, Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Johan Heilbron, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Eleanor Miller, Richard A. Münch, Neil J. Smelser, Thomas Spence Smith, Edward A. Tiryakian, Stephen P. Turner ...
    The discipline of sociology was born-and has been recurrently reconstituted-in response to the fragmentation of ideas about the social world. For two centuries, sociologists have sought refuge in "synthesis:" programs designed to integrate multiple perspectives within a unifying framework. Yet even as this cause has inspired many of the discipline's major thinkers, past and present, its objective ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • AI and the Art of Being Human

    A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process

    by Jeffrey Abbott, Andrew Maynard ...
    How do you rediscover what makes you you in a world where AI can replicate everything you do?In AI and the Art of Being Human, leading experts Jeffrey Abbott and Andrew Maynard explore how to embrace your full humanity at a time when machines are increasingly able to mirror your every move. Blending storytelling and practical insight while drawing on their own work and experiences, they reveal ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Electrodeposition from Ionic Liquids

    Edited by Frank Endres, Andrew Abbott, Douglas R. MacFarlane ...
    Edited by distinguished experts in this expanding field and with specialist contributions, this overview is the first of its kind to focus on electrodeposition from ionic liquids.This second edition has been completely revised and updated with approximately 20% new content and has been expanded by five chapters to cover the following topics:-Bulk and Interface Theory-Nanoscale Imaging including ... Read more

    $218.99 CAD

  • Challenging Concepts in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

    Cases with Expert Commentary

    Edited by Natasha Hezelgrave, Danielle Abbott, Andrew Shennan ...
    Series series Challenging Cases
    Challenging Concepts in Obstetrics and Gynaecology is a case-based guide to difficult scenarios faced in both fields, covering many of the major sub-speciality areas of each. The 24 cases have been selected to cover a spectrum of challenges in obstetrics and gynaecology. Recognising that any attempt to cover the whole curriculum is impossible, the authors have instead chosen specific, challenging ... Read more

    $68.49 CAD

  • Varieties of Social Imagination

    by Barbara Celarent, Andrew Abbott ...
    In July 2009, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent’s essays taken together provide a broad introduction to social thinking. Through the close reading of important texts, Celarent’s short, informative, and analytic essays engaged ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Memories of Blood and Fear: 10 Civil War Diaries

    Ten Diaries of Soldiers, Civilians, and Wartime Survival in the American Civil War

    by Lawrence Van Alstyne, Mary Ann Loughborough, Adam Gurowski, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Mary Boykin Chesnut, John Beauchamp Jones, Lemuel Abijah Abbott, William Howard Russell, Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan, Susan R. Jervey, Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, Eliza Frances Andrews ...
    The Memories of Blood and Fear: 10 Civil War Diaries gathers intimate records of a conflict experienced not only on battlefields but in households, hospitals, occupied cities, and anxious communities. Its entries range from immediate, fragmentary observation to sustained social commentary, combining military detail with reflections on grief, scarcity, loyalty, enslavement, gender, and the moral ... Read more

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  • 10 Civil War Diaries

    Eyewitness Diaries of War, Home Front, Politics, and Survival in Civil War America

    by Mary Ann Loughborough, Adam Gurowski, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Lawrence Van Alstyne, Mary Boykin Chesnut, John Beauchamp Jones, Lemuel Abijah Abbott, William Howard Russell, Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan, Susan R. Jervey, Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, Eliza Frances Andrews ...
    10 Civil War Diaries assembles intimate records of the American Civil War, tracing how military conflict entered homes, cities, plantations, hospitals, and routes of displacement. The selections range from compressed daily notation and reflective observation to political commentary and vivid scenes of scarcity, grief, religious conviction, and endurance. Especially striking are accounts of ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • The Politics of War and Peace

    A Survey of Thought

    by Stephana J. Landwehr, Abbott A. Brayton ...
    The reader is greeted with a Preface by the renowned military strategist and soldier, Andrew J. Goodpaster, followed by a Forward and Introduction. Each thinker is arranged in two tables of content, chronological and topical. Each thinker is introduced with a summary, followed by the title of their writing and then the original writing itself. The writings lift peace out of 20th and 21st centuries ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE ROMANCE BOOK VOL. I

    12 CLASSIC ROMANCE STORIES

    by MARY JOHNSTON, KATHLEEN NORRIS, MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN ANDREWS, HERBERT QUICK, ELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT ...
    Series series COMBO PRESS
    This volume includes 12 Classic Romance Stories by American authors:THE HEART OF RACHAEL BY KATHLEEN NORRISTHE STORY OF JULIA PAGE BY KATHLEEN NORRISLEWIS RAND BY MARY JOHNSTONSIR MORTIMER BY MARY JOHNSTONTHE COURAGE OF THE COMMONPLACE BY MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN ANDREWSAUGUST FIRST BY MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN ANDREWSALADDIN & CO BY HERBERT QUICKDOUBLE TROUBLE BY HERBERT QUICKLITTLE EVE EDGARTON BY ... Read more

    $1.26 CAD