`This is an excellent book. It will be required reading on my methods courses&apos; - <B><I>Nigel Fielding, University of Surrey </I></B><P><I><B></B></I></P><P>Students at postgraduate, and increasingly at undergraduate, level are required to undertake research projects and interviewing is the most frequently used research method. This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to interviewing. It covers all the issues that arise in interview work: theories of interviewing; design; application; and interpretation. Richly illustrated with relevant examples, each chapter includes handy statements of `advantages&apos; and `disadvantages&apos; of the approaches discussed.</P>