The book does not meet the expectations that thetitle and foreword raise. It demonstrates the fact that thestrict separation of theoretical background and code of practiceis a difficult task to accomplish and hardly of any use inthe field of qualitative research. Repeated reference to thevariety of kinds of analyses that can be conducted using thiskind of software does not hide the fact that the author's instructionsinclude a very specific – presumably his own –way of doing qualitative

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... In doing so, he providesan insight in to techniques of computer-aided processing ofqualitative data, focusing on different types of text retrievaland inquiry for combinations of codes or variables.