Trade Of The Tricks
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Author | : Graham Jones |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2011-09-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520270479 |
This book looks inside the secretive subculture of modern magicians. Entering the flourishing Paris magic scene as an apprentice, the author gives a firsthand account of how magicians learn to perform their deceptions. He follows the day-to-day lives of some of France's most renowned performers, revealing not only how secrets are created and shared, but also how they are stolen and destroyed.
Author | : Howard S. Becker |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2008-09-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226040992 |
Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of the Trade will help students learn how to think about research projects. Assisted by Becker's sage advice, students can make better sense of their research and simultaneously generate fresh ideas on where to look next for new data. The tricks cover four broad areas of social science: the creation of the "imagery" to guide research; methods of "sampling" to generate maximum variety in the data; the development of "concepts" to organize findings; and the use of "logical" methods to explore systematically the implications of what is found. Becker's advice ranges from simple tricks such as changing an interview question from "Why?" to "How?" (as a way of getting people to talk without asking for a justification) to more technical tricks such as how to manipulate truth tables. Becker has extracted these tricks from a variety of fields such as art history, anthropology, sociology, literature, and philosophy; and his dazzling variety of references ranges from James Agee to Ludwig Wittgenstein. Becker finds the common principles that lie behind good social science work, principles that apply to both quantitative and qualitative research. He offers practical advice, ideas students can apply to their data with the confidence that they will return with something they hadn't thought of before. Like Writing for Social Scientists, Tricks of the Trade will bring aid and comfort to generations of students. Written in the informal, accessible style for which Becker is known, this book will be an essential resource for students in a wide variety of fields. "An instant classic. . . . Becker's stories and reflections make a great book, one that will find its way into the hands of a great many social scientists, and as with everything he writes, it is lively and accessible, a joy to read."—Charles Ragin, Northwestern University
Author | : Becker |
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Release | : 1990 |
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Author | : Laura Anne Gilman |
Publisher | : LUNA |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2011-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1459281640 |
When magic goes wrong, who are you going to call? The name's Torres, Bonnie Torres, and I'm a paranormal scene investigator—rooting out the truth about crimes of magic. It's dangerous and boring and scary and fascinating. Though not everyone in the Cosa Nostradamus is happy we're around, which can make things…tricky. Working two cases—looking into a murder for the NYPD, and a rich man's break-in—should be well within our abilities. But when things start getting weird in the Electric Apple, Private Unaffiliated Paranormal Investigations is stretched to the limits, trying to keep one step ahead and out of trouble. Add in rumors of a powerful creature gunning for us and it's not just our rep on the line this time—if we don't solve this case, everyone will suffer. Fortunately, around here, when the going gets weird, the weird hire us.…
Author | : Dario Fo |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Acting |
ISBN | : 9780878300082 |
A collection of talks, workshops, lectures and conference pieces ... which were recorded at the time before being written by Fo's wife and collaborator Franca Rame (from introduction).
Author | : Genevieve Orr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : |
It is our belief that researchers and practitioners acquire, through experience and word-of-mouth, techniques and heuristics that help them successfully apply neural networks to di cult real world problems. Often these \tricks' are theo- tically well motivated. Sometimes they are the result of trial and error. However, their most common link is that they are usually hidden in people’s heads or in the back pages of space-constrained conference papers. As a result newcomers to the eld waste much time wondering why their networks train so slowly and perform so poorly. This book is an outgrowth of a 1996 NIPS workshop called Tricks of the Trade whose goal was to begin the process of gathering and documenting these tricks. The interest that the workshop generated motivated us to expand our collection and compile it into this book. Although we have no doubt that there are many tricks we have missed, we hope that what we have included will prove to be useful, particularly to those who are relatively new to the eld. Each chapter contains one or more tricks presented by a given author (or authors). We have attempted to group related chapters into sections, though we recognize that the di erent sections are far from disjoint. Some of the chapters (e.g., 1, 13, 17) contain entire systems of tricks that are far more general than the category they have been placed in.
Author | : Tricks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Adulterations |
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Author | : Jerry Dunn |
Publisher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780395650271 |
The secrets of how to be the best in everything by people in the know.
Author | : Robert L. Fish |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1974-01-01 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9780709138600 |
Author | : Riccardo Bozzi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9788881720477 |