These are people currently very much involved in cross-cultural and cross-national research./p>

*Lars Lyberg*, Ph.D., is a Senior Methodologist at the Director General's Office at Statistics Sweden and Professor at the Statistics Department, Stockholm University. He is the chief editor and founder of the Journal of Official Statistics. He is chief editor of Survey Measurement and Process Quality (Wiley, 1997) and co-editor of Telephone Survey Methodology (Wiley, 1988) and Measurement Errors in Surveys (Wiley, 1991). He is co-author of Introduction to Survey Quality (Wiley 2003). He chaired the Leadership Group on Quality of the European Statistical System and chaired the Organizing Committee of the first Quality Conference in this series, Q2001. He is former president of IASS and former chair of the ASA Survey Methods Section. With Janet Harkness and other colleagues he is on the organizing and editorial committee of the 3MC conference in Berlin in June 2008 (www.3mc2008.de)

*Janet A. Harkness* is Director of the Survey Research and Methodology Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), Director of the UNL Gallup Research Center, and Professor of English at UNL. Before being appointed to the Donald and Shirley Clifton Chair in Survey Science at UNL, she was Director of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) for Germany and Senior Scientist at ZUMA. She now continues her affiliation with ZUMA as a Senior Research Scientist. She is a member of the Central Co-ordinating Team of the European Social Survey (ESS) with responsibility for the ESS Translation Guidelines. She gained her Masters in Comparative Medieval Studies from Edinburgh University, Scotland and was awarded a doctorate in English Literature and Linguistics, Cultural Anthropology and Phonetics from Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg. Her current research focuses on the interface between instrument design and version comparability. She has published, presented, and taught on numerous aspects of cross-cultural survey research and communication. She became a Descartes Laureate in 2005; the Descartes Prize is the highest award of the European Union for collaborative research. Harkness is chief organizer of the 3MC conference in Berlin and chief editor of the Wiley book that follows the conference (www.3mc2008.de).

*Beth-Ellen Pennell* is the Director of Survey Research Operations at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Ms. Pennell also serves as the Director of the Data Collection Coordination Center for the World Mental Health Survey Initiative, a joint project of the World Health Organization (WHO), Harvard University and the University of Michigan. In this role, Ms. Pennell coordinates the technical support and oversees the implementation of the data collection activities for these general population epidemiological studies that are been conducted or are underway in 29 countries, representing all WHO regions. She is also Director of the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) Training Center. Ms. Pennell received her Master?s Degree in Applied Social Research at the University of Michigan in 1997. She has been a leading figure in the development of the CSDI guidelines for comparative research to be launched in summer 2008. Her recent publications focus on different aspects of quality issues in comparative research: project organization, knowledge management, translation and translation version assessment. With Janet Harkness and other colleagues she is on the organizing and editorial committee of the 3MC conference in Berlin in June 2008 (www.3mc2008.de).

*Peter Ph. Mohler* is Director of Gesis-ZUMA and professor at Mannheim University and heads the European Centre for Comparative Surveys (ECCS) at ZUMA. He is a member of the Central Coordinating Team of the European Social Survey (ESS) and became a Descartes Laureate in 2005 when the ESS was awarded this prize. His most recent publications are on comparative research-- on theoretical issues of comparability and on knowledge management in comparative contexts. He has an unusually broad background of teaching and research ranging from content analysis to values change, to development and harmonization of background demographics. With Janet Harkness and other colleagues he is on the organizing and editorial committee of the 3MC conference in Berlin in June 2008 (www.3mc2008.de).

The newly updated text, Internet, Mail, and Mixed Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method, coauthored by Dr. Jolene Smyth (Assistant Professor, Survey Research and Methodology Program and the Department of Sociology, UNL) along with Don A. Dillman (Washington State University) and Leah Melani Christian (Pew Research Center) will be available in October, 2008. This 3rd edition is an almost complete rewrite of Dr. Dillman’s (Washington State University) classic survey design text. It situates many of the challenges survey practitioners are now facing within larger cultural and technological trends over the last 75 years and then goes on to offer detailed theory and research-based guidance for how to address these challenges at each stage of self-administered survey design. The discussion includes an emphasis on the importance of visual design as well as a complete integration of web surveying throughout the book. In addition to this more general guidance, the text tackles specific survey situations faced by many such as mixed-mode surveys, panel surveys, customer satisfaction surveys, and establishment surveys.

The table of contents is as follows:

1. Turbulent Times for Survey Research.
2. The Tailored Design Method.
3. Coverage and Sampling.
4. The Basics of Crafting Good Questions.
5. Constructing Open and Closed Ended Questions.
6. From Questions to a Questionnaire.
7. Implementation Procedures.
8. When More than One Survey Mode is Needed.
9. Longitudinal and Internet Panel Surveys.
10. Customer Feedback Surveys and Alternative Delivery Technologies.
11. Effects of Sponsorship and the Data Collection Organization.
12. Surveying Businesses and Other Establishments.
13. Coping with Uncertainty.