Oxford University Press

This text brings together important ideas on the model-based approach to sample        survey, which has been developed over the last twenty years. Suitable for graduate        students and professional statisticians, it moves from basic ideas fundamental to        sampling to more rigorous mathematical modelling and data analysis and...

It is well known that the English novel took shape in the eighteenth century, but no one knows who read novels like   Humphry Clinker and Clarissa when they were first published. Drawing on booksellers' archives and parish records, this book shows who in the Midlands actually bought novels, plays, and fiction magazines in the eighteenth century....

The best way to organize a firm is discussed by the faculty at the Wharton School. Sections of the book cover various ways firms can compete in the changing world market owing to innovations in the US and new organizing principles developed by Japan....

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Providing a novel, analytical perspective on executive government, this timely book examines recent public sector reform policies in a number of countries. The book exposes key dimensions of the relationship between public servants and the wider political system, examining both the formalized and the implicit understandings between the two....