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  • TRADITION AND REVOLT
    ROBERT NISBET
    This classic volume deals with a crucial contemporary social issue: the conflict between traditionalism and modernism. Nisbet considers such subjects as power, community, culture, and the university. He deals directly with the values of authority, tradition, hierarchy, and community on the one hand, and individualism, secularism, and revolt on the other. Nisbet's underlying arg...

    $1,320.00

  • THE DEGRADATION OF THE ACADEMIC DOGMA
    EGON FRIEDELL / ROBERT NISBET
    This is one of the most important books ever published about the American university. Robert Nisbet accuses universities of having betrayed themselves. Over the centuries they earned the respect of society by attempting to remain faithful to what he terms "the academic dogma," the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. The measure of a university's greatness and of the stature ...

    $1,340.00

  • HANDBOOK OF STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND DATA MINING APPLICATIONS
    KEN YALE / ROBERT NISBET / GARY D. MINER
    Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications, Second Edition, is a comprehensive professional reference book that guides business analysts, scientists, engineers and researchers, both academic and industrial, through all stages of data analysis, model building and implementation. The handbook helps users discern technical and business problems, understand the s...

    $1,329.00

  • SOCIOLOGY AS AN ART FORM
    ROBERT NISBET
    ""One of our most original social thinkers,"" according to the New York Times, Robert Nisbet offers a new approach to sociology. He shows that sociology is indeed an art form, one that has a strong kinship with literature, painting, Romantic history, and philosophy in the nineteenth century, the age in which sociology came into full stature. Sociology as an Art Form is an intro...

    $1,360.00

  • METAPHOR AND HISTORY
    ROBERT NISBET
    The primary purpose of Metaphor and History is to explain the sources and contexts of the Western idea of social development. Nisbet explores the concept of social change across the whole range of Western culture, from ancient Greece to the present day. He does not see the idea of social development as a nineteenth-century phenomenon or a by-product of the idea of biological ev...

    $1,340.00

  • HISTORY OF THE IDEA OF PROGRESS
    ROBERT NISBET
    The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is as spirited as it was in the late seventeenth century. In History of the Idea of Progress, Robert Nisbet traces the idea of p...

    $1,340.00

  • CONSERVATISM
    ROBERT NISBET
    The essential concerns of conservatism are the same as those that motivated Nisbet's first and most influential book. The Quest for Community. In fact, Conservatism unites virtually all of Nisbet's work. In it, Nisbet deals with the political causes of the manifold forms of alienation that underwrite the human quest for community. The sovereign political state is more than a le...

    $1,320.00

  • TEACHERS AND SCHOLARS
    ROBERT NISBET
    The University of California at Berkeley is today best known as a great research center and popularly remembered as a locus of campus unrest in the 1960s. This memoir by the eminent sociologist and historian of ideas Robert Nisbet views Berkeley from a different perspective. Teachers and Scholars is a fascinating picture of Berkeley as it was a half a century ago in its move to...

    $1,340.00

  • PRACTICAL PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS AND DECISIONING SYSTEMS FOR MEDICINE: INFORMATICS ACCURACY AND COST-EFFECTIVENESS FOR HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION AND DELIVERY INCLUDING MEDICAL RESEARCH
    MINER, LINDA / BOLDING, PAT / HILBE, JOSEPH / GOLDSTEIN, MITCHELL / HILL, THOMAS / NISBET, ROBERT / WALTON
    With the advent of electronic medical records years ago and the increasing capabilities of computers, our healthcare systems are sitting on growing mountains of data. Not only does the data grow from patient volume but the type of data we store is also growing exponentially. Practical Predictive Analytics and Decisioning Systems for Medicine provides research tools to analyze t...

    $1,907.00