Responding to the developments in the field as well as to the needs of a new generation of professionals & students, this edition offers a comprehensive introduction to the most important methods for categorical data analysis. It is suitable for statisticians & biostatisticians as well as scientists & graduate students practicing statistics. ...

If humanity has learned anything from the horrors of the war against terror, it is that our one hope is democracy. This work argues that Canada has pursued an ethically cockeyed war against terror. In order to use military force abroad, the government fussed over the need for UN approval. At home, however, there are no such restraints. ...

Focuses on how market categories shape processes of production & consumption & how these activities in turn shape category systems. This volume explores topics such as: how new categories emerge, become enacted & gain consensus, how categories are used by market agents, & how category systems change over time. ...

Studies the universal constructions & properties in categories of commutative algebras, showing that the concepts arising in commutative algebra & algebraic geometry are not bound to the universe of rings but possess a universality that can be interpreted in various domains of discourse. ...

Rodl traces how the Fregean influence on analytic philosophy led to an unholy alliance of an empiricist conception of sensibility with an inferentialist conception of thought. He turns to Kant & Aristotle to untangle the relation of judgment & truth to time, & shows that investigating categories of the temporal can contribute to logic. ...

TV disaster mini-series, with Chicago about to bear the brunt of a triple-whammy storm front. Just days before he's about to retire, chief meteorologist Andy Goodman (Brian Dennehy) discovers three separate weather systems about to simultaneously hit his city: an Arctic front from the north, a tornado cluster approaching from the west, & a drought-inducing system moving up from the south. If that isn't bad enough, when the city's main generating plant is destroyed, there's no way of informing the greater population of the coming dangers. It soon falls to intrepid TV reporter Amy Harkins (Nancy Mc Keon) & Midwest Electric chief Mitch Benson (Thomas Gibson) to spread the word before the whole national grid collapses. ...