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Board of governors and distinguished professor of sociology at rutgers university. The clockwork muse is designed to help prospective authors develop a workable timetable for completing long and often formidable projects. Erratic time is the time of irregular life and world events, the uncertainties of ongoing history. This edition is reprinted by arrangement with the free press, a division of macmillan, inc. Alessandro barchiesi and peter brown read versions of the lectures, and i am most grateful to them for their responses and. Eviatar zerubavel calendars and history a comparative study of the. I have already collected information from students who declared interest in that initia. Writing your journal article in twelve weeks, and eviatar zerubavel s the clockwork muse. Eviatar zerubavel calendars and history a comparative study of. Publication date 1991 topics categorization psychology.
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