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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

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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
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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

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"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
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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

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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
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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

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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
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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

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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
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Brief Remarks to be Read at Salerno Conference on the Chicago School

Published in Sociologia n. 1/2015. Rivista quadrimestrale di Scienze Storiche e Sociali. Riflettendo sulla “Scuola” di sociologia di Chicago

by Andrew Abbott ...

Series Book 11 - Sociologia 1 2015
"Dear Colleagues: I send you greetings from Hyde Park, where the one hundred and twentysecond Autumn Quarter of University of Chicago is right now at its midpoint. The students are hurrying through the quadrangles; the University Libraries are packed with faces worried about midterm examinations; the faculty are frowning at computer screens filled with a thousand things scholarly and unscholarly." ... Read more

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"Dear Colleagues: I send you greetings from Hyde Park, where the one hundred and twentysecond Autumn Quarter of University of Chicago is right now at its midpoint. The students are hurrying through the quadrangles; the University Libraries are packed with faces worried about midterm examinations; the faculty are frowning at computer screens filled with a thousand things scholarly and unscholarly."
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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

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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
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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

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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
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Challenging Concepts in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

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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

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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
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Ballistic

The New Science of Injury-Free Athletic Performance

by Henry Abbott ...

Narrated by Andrew Joseph Perez ...

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8 hours 44 min

Blending cutting-edge science with gripping storytelling, award-winning data journalist and competitive amateur athlete Henry Abbott reveals that we are on the cusp of a new era in sports medicine, built around the science of ballistic movements—leaping and landing—and the unique fingerprint of your body's physics.Abbott's inspiring narrative tells the story of sports scientist Dr. Marcus Elliott ... Read more

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Blending cutting-edge science with gripping storytelling, award-winning data journalist and competitive amateur athlete Henry Abbott reveals that we are on the cusp of a new era in sports medicine, built around the science of ballistic movements—leaping and landing—and the unique fingerprint of your body's physics.Abbott's inspiring narrative tells the story of sports scientist Dr. Marcus Elliott
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The Copernicus Legacy: The Forbidden Stone

by Tony Abbott ...

Narrated by MacLeod Andrews ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Copernicus Legacy
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8 hours 37 min

The Copernicus Legacy: The Forbidden Stone has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. ... Read more

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The Copernicus Legacy: The Serpent's Curse

by Tony Abbott ...

Narrated by MacLeod Andrews ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Copernicus Legacy
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9 hours 57 min

Bestselling author Tony Abbott returns with the next full-length book in the Copernicus Legacy series, a globe-trotting adventure packed with more riddles, puzzles, and secret histories. The hunt for Copernicus's first relic sent Wade, Darrell, Lily, and Becca to the far reaches of the world and put them in serious danger. But they never imagined Sara Kaplan—Darrell and Wade's mother—would be ... Read more

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Bestselling author Tony Abbott returns with the next full-length book in the Copernicus Legacy series, a globe-trotting adventure packed with more riddles, puzzles, and secret histories. The hunt for Copernicus's first relic sent Wade, Darrell, Lily, and Becca to the far reaches of the world and put them in serious danger. But they never imagined Sara Kaplan—Darrell and Wade's mother—would be
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