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Volume 4, Issue 1, 2008

Table of Contents

Main Articles

Scientific Journals as Fossil Traces of Sweeping Change in the Structure and Practice of Modern Geology Abstract HTML
Sarah E. Fratesi, H. Leonard Vacher Article M1
The Art of Rhetoric as Self-Discipline: Interdisciplinarity, Inner Necessity, and the Construction of a Research Agenda Abstract HTML
Anne R. Richards Article M2


Research Design

Genesis of an Academic Research Program Abstract HTML
Gautam Bhattacharyya Article D1


Provocative Idea

Meaningful Academic Work as Praxis in Emergence Abstract HTML
Keijo Räsänen Article P1