Author: Thomas A. Schwandt
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: inquiry, qualitative, dictionary, sage
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2007-03-05
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1412909279
ISBN-13: 9781412909273
Intended as a guide to the terms and phrases that partially shape the origins, purpose, logic, meaning, and methods of the practices known as qualitative inquiry, this Third Edition has 70 additional terms as well as a Readers’ Guide. Key references have been updated and several terms and phrases from previous editions have been reorganized and expanded. The dictionary entries are intended as a guide to the methodological and epistemological concepts and theoretical orientations of qualitative inquiry. Students and teachers will find this book a very useful resource for navigating various pe
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
Publisher: HarperTorch
Keywords: inquiry, values, maintenance, motorcycle, art, zen
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0060589469
ISBN-13: 9780060589462
One of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live . . . and a breathtaking meditation on how to live better. Here is the book that transformed a generation: an unforgettable narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America’s Northwest, undertaken by a father and his young son. A story of love and fear -- of growth, discovery, and acceptance -- that becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life’s fu
Author: Alejandro Portes
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: inquiry, systematic, sociology, economic
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2010-04-19
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0691142238
ISBN-13: 9780691142234
The sociological study of economic activity has witnessed a significant resurgence. Recent texts have chronicled economic sociology’s nineteenth-century origins while pointing to the importance of context and power in economic life, yet the field lacks a clear understanding of the role that concepts at different levels of abstraction play in its organization. Economic Sociology fills this critical gap by surveying the current state of the field while advancing a framework for further theoretical development. Alejandro Portes examines economic sociology’s principal assumptions, key
Author: Richard Madsen
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: inquiry, moral, dream, american, china
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1995-03-08
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0520086139
ISBN-13: 9780520086135
From the "Red Menace" to Tiananmen Square, the United States and China have long had an emotionally tumultuous relationship. Richard Madsen’s frank and innovative examination of the moral history of U.S.-China relations targets the forces that have shaped this surprisingly strong tie between two strikingly different nations. Combining his expertise as a sinologist with the vision of America developed in Habits of the Heart and The Good Society, Madsen studies the cultural myths that have shaped the perceptions of people of both nations for the past twenty-five
Author: King-Tak I
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: inquiry, book, value, perspectives, ethics, intercultural, environmental
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 2009-05-29
List price: $51.00
ISBN-10: 9042025956
ISBN-13: 9789042025950
This book shows that environmental protection is a global concern that must enlist all of humanity’s cultural, religious, and moral resources. The nine essays in this volume explore the foundations of environmental ethics in the Western philosophical tradition as well as from the perspectives of Christianity, Islam, Daoism, and Buddhism and propose morally responsible attitudes towards nature and the environment.
Author: Matthew B. Crawford
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: value, work, inquiry, soulcraft, class, shop
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-05-28
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1594202230
ISBN-13: 9781594202230
A philosopher / mechanic destroys the pretensions of the high- prestige workplace and makes an irresistible case for working with one’s hands Shop Class as Soulcraft brings alive an experience that was once quite common, but now seems to be receding from society-the experience of making and fixing things with our hands. Those of us who sit in an office often feel a lack of connection to the material world, a sense of loss, and find it difficult to say exactly what we do all day. For anyone who felt hustled off to college, then to the cubicle, against their own inclinations and natural be
Author: Liina Pylkkäne
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: monographs, inquiry, linguistic, arguments, introducing
Number of Pages: 162
Published: 2008-05-31
List price: $34.00
ISBN-10: 0262662094
ISBN-13: 9780262662093
This concise work offers a compositional theory of verbal argument structure in natural languages that focuses on how arguments that are not "core" arguments of the verb (arguments that are not introduced by verbal roots themselves) are introduced into argument structures. Liina Pylkkänen shows that the type of argument structure variation that allows additional noncore arguments is a pervasive property of human language and that most languages have verbs that exhibit this behavior. It would be natural to hypothesize that the grammatical elements that allow for this variation are the same in
