Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's thirty years of experience in interviewing and teaching others how to do it. The most effective interviews, says Weiss, rely on creating cooperation -- an open and trusting alliance between interviewer and respondent, dedicated to specific and honest accounts of both...(展开全部)

Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalised, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important than ever. In The Art of Statistics, David ...(展开全部)

David Spiegelhalter is a British statistician and Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. He was also elected as President of the Royal Statistical Society for 2017-18. In addition to presenting documentaries on BBC4, he has appeared on Infinite Monkey Cage, BBC Horizon, and the Life Scientific...(展开全部)

沃尔特·皮特金，曾任美国哥伦比亚大学新闻学教授，并担任过大英百科全书美国分册的主编。他14岁开始便靠给人送货来谋生，16～18岁靠帮助政府部门在底特律的波兰人居住区进行在校学生状况调查，为自己赚得了跨人大学校门所需的第一笔学费，后一直靠勤工俭学坚持自己的学业。他广泛涉猎各种知识，学习了希腊语、拉丁语、法语、德语、希伯莱语、阿拉伯语等多种语言，一直从事哲学与心理学领域的研究。他一生完成了多部著作，涉及个人成长学习、生活与心理等多个方面。《人生40才开始》这本书当年出版后即被评为《纽约时报》年度畅销书，改变了很多美国人的生活态度与人生观。

沃尔特·皮特金，曾任美国哥伦比亚大学新闻学教授，并担任过大英百科全书美国分册的主编。他14岁开始便靠给人送货来谋生，16～18岁靠帮助政府部门在底特律的波兰人居住区进行在校学生状况调查，为自己赚得了跨人大学校门所需的第一笔学费，后一直靠勤工俭学坚持自己的学业。他广泛涉猎各种知识，学习了希腊语、拉丁语、法语、德语、希伯莱语、阿拉伯语等多种语言，一直从事哲学与心理学领域的研究。他一生完成了多部著作，涉及个人成长学习、生活与心理等多个方面。《人生40才开始》这本书当年出版后即被评为《纽约时报》年度畅销书，改变了很多美国人的生活态度与人生观。

Professor Ragin proposes a synthetic new strategy, based on an application of Boolean algebra, that will combine the strengths of both qualitative and quantitative sociology. Elegantly accessible and germane to the work of all the social sciences, this book will garner interest, debate, and praise from many quarters.

As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the c...(展开全部)

苏珊·奈曼（Susan Neiman），道德哲学家、文化评论家和散文家，波茨坦爱因斯坦论坛负责人，2014年斯宾诺莎奖获得者。她是哈佛大学哲学博士，受业于罗尔斯，先后在耶鲁大学和特拉维夫大学担任哲学教授，为美国、德国和英国的多家媒体撰写文化政治评论。奈曼的写作主题涉及启蒙运动、道德哲学、形而上学和当代政治等，她的著作包括《为什么长大》（Why Grow Up?）、《现代思想中的恶》（Evil in Modern Thought）、《道德明晰》（Moral Clarity）、《理性的统一》（The Unity of Reason）等。

A groundbreaking treatise by one of the great mathematicians of our time, who argues that highly effective thinking can be learned. What spurs on and inspires a great idea? Can we train ourselves to think in a way that will enable world-changing understandings and insights to emerge? Richard Hamming said we can, and first inspired a generation of engineers, scientists, and rese...(展开全部)