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The author discusses the tools used in the field of historical analysis and explores the principles and problems involved in studying the human being

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The one subject that serious students want most to know about, other than their specialty, is how academic life is lived and how scholarly work is carried out. Their curiosity is equally shared by those interested in how to improve the quality and quantity of their work. With few exceptions, the time honored word-of-mouth approach is all there has been until now; how one works is rarely a subject seriously discussed in print. Craftways is intended to address these concerns and needs. Aaron Wildavsky has long been admired as one of the most productive political scientists of his generation. Repeated expressions of interest in his scholarly craft led him to gather together his essays on how he works. Included are chapters on how to read social science -"not always everyone's favorite pastime" - how to work with others on collaborative projects, and how to improve one's academic writing. The question of time, the most limited resource available to most scholars, is addressed in an amusing chapter, "The Organization of Time in Scholarly Activities Carried Out Under American Conditions in Resource-Rich Universities." He includes a section on interviewing, focusing not only on the process, but on the spirit of scholarly enterprise that should animate it. The last part of the book is purely personal, emphasizing the familial and background variables that have made Wildavsky who he is and play a large part in how he goes about his work. This wise volume, by a master of his craft, should be of broad interest to students and faculty in the social sciences.

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A systematic approach to lifelong learning interconnects disciplines and ideas, explains the shortcomings of specialization, shows how to assimilate information and knowledge into understanding and wisdom, and offers a defense of the liberal arts.

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1908. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XL. ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Dr Parr, who died in 1825, writes thus in his Diary:-- 'In the reign of Ptolemy Greece boasted of her Pleiad; England, in my day, may boast of a Decad of literary luminaries, Dr Samuel Butler, Dr Edward Maltby, bishop Blomfield, dean Monk, Mr E. H. Barker, Mr Kidd, Mr Burges, professor Dobree, professor Gaisford, and Dr Elmsley. They are professed critics: but in learning and taste Dr Routh of Oxford is inferior to none'1. The last of these, Martin Joseph Routh (1755--1854), died in the hundredth year of his age, after having been President of Magdalen for three and sixty years. He edited the Euthydemus and Gorgias of Plato in 1784, lived to produce the fifth volume of his Relliquiae Sacrae in 1848, and, at the age of 92, summed up his long experience in the precept:-- 'I think, sir, ...you will find it a very good practice always to verify your references'13. Edward Maltby (1770--1859), of Winchester and of Pembroke, Cambridge, successively bishop of Chichester and of Durham, was the author of a useful Kiddby Lexicon Graecoprosodiacum (1815)3. Thomas Kidd (1770--1850), of Trinity, Cambridge, head-master of Lynn, Wymondham and Norwich, edited the philological and critical works of Ruhnken, the 'Tracts' of Porson, and the 'Miscellanea Critica' of Dawes. 'It was amusing', says Maltby, 'to see Kidd in Porson's company; he bowed down before Porson with the veneration due to some being of a superior nature'4. 1 Memoirs, i 753 n. 2 Burgon's Twelve Good Men, i 73. 3 Founded on Morell's Thesaurus (1762). In supplementing that work Maltby, the pupil of Parr and the friend of Porson, received valuable assistance from both. 4 Rogers, Table Talk, Porsoniana, 325. The Porsonian tradition passed for a time from Cambridge to Oxfor...

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Featuring a new preface by the author, a new edition of the best-selling study offers a provocative critique of the intellectual--and pseudo-intellectual world of American culture, identifying three key enemies of Intellect--Art, Science, and Philanthropy--in the areas of public administration, communications, education, business, scholarship, and conversation and home life. Reprint.

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Chronicles the efforts of an NPR contributor to read the 'Encyclopedia Britannica' from A to Z, sharing the humorous mishaps that occurred as a result of the endeavor, from changed family relationships to his efforts to join Mensa.

Chronicles the efforts of an NPR contributor to read the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z, sharing the humorous and unexpected mishaps that occurred as a result of the endeavor, from changed dynamics in his family relationships to his efforts to join Mensa and win a spot on Jeopardy! By the author of Fractured Fairy Tales. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.