32.688 results (0,26173 seconds)

Show all filters

Brand

Show all

Merchant

Price (EUR)

Show all

Reset filter

Products
From
Shops

Christianity and Sociological Theory Reclaiming the Promise

Christianity and Sociological Theory Reclaiming the Promise

This book offers a history of sociological theory from a Christian perspective tracing the origins of sociology from the beginnings of Western science as introduced by the Scholastics of the twelfth century which when combined with their emphasis on rationality led to the Enlightenment science of man—an emphasis that eventually resulted in sociology which combined empiricism and a Christian moral philosophy. With chapters focusing on the Scholastics the Enlightenment the rise of sociology in France Germany and the United States and the legacy of Positivism Christianity and Sociological Theory shows how the emphasis on moral philosophy was eventually lost as sociology rejected Christian underpinnings resulting in what can only be described as an extremely limited sociology. A rigorous exploration of the trajectory of the discipline from its Christian origins this volume reveals the potential that exists for sociology in an era of postmodern thought to reclaim its promise through a re-introduction of Christianity. | Christianity and Sociological Theory Reclaiming the Promise

GBP 36.99
1

Legitimizing Authority American Government and the Promise of Equality

Legitimizing Authority American Government and the Promise of Equality

Legitimizing Authority places the American state apparatus back in the foreground to rethink the development of the country’s government in the context of its unfulfilled promise of equality. The book argues that the tensions between calls for equality and the simultaneous tolerance of inequality have accompanied the rise of modern mass society and with it of liberal democracy. Vormann and Lammert emphasize that government has played and continues to play a decisive role in calibrating the relationship between the interior and the exterior of the nation moving between an extractive state a taxation state and a welfare state over time in order to expand social access and political participation inside the national community – while tolerating conditions that continue to belie the historical promise of equality. The authors draw on a range of literatures that transcend disciplinary boundaries to reveal how exploitative practices have been accepted. They conclude that the democratic crises of the present must be comprehended through understanding how legitimation was always maintained by a state apparatus active at multiple scales and in multiple policy fields. This interdisciplinary book is addressed to a broad audience across disciplines including political science political economy political history comparative politics international politics international relations American Political Development (APD) and cultural studies. | Legitimizing Authority American Government and the Promise of Equality

GBP 130.00
1

Voices of Innovation Fulfilling the Promise of Information Technology in Healthcare

Voices of Innovation Fulfilling the Promise of Information Technology in Healthcare

We can all point to random examples of innovation inside of healthcare information technology but few repeatable processes exist that make innovation more routine than happenstance. How do you create and sustain a culture of innovation? What are the best practices you can refine and embed as part of your organization's DNA? What are the potential outcomes for robust healthcare transformation when we get this innovation mystery solved? Loaded with numerous case studies and stories of successful innovation projects this book helps the reader understand how to leverage innovation to help fulfill the promise of healthcare information technology in enabling superior business and clinical outcomes. | Voices of Innovation Fulfilling the Promise of Information Technology in Healthcare

GBP 31.99
1

The Promise of Public Service Ideas and Examples for Effective Service

The Promise of Public Service Ideas and Examples for Effective Service

In the United States new government employees begin their careers by pledging their allegiance to the Constitution and by committing to conscientious service dedicated to solving public problems. But what do public servants get in return? For many a chance to serve provides public servants with a higher purpose as well as professional and personal meaning in their lives and careers. In The Promise of Public Service: Ideas and Examples for Effective Service Michael M. Stahl a 40-year veteran in the executive and legislative branches of state and federal service demonstrates what makes public servants effective by offering useful ideas and examining the accomplishments of public servants throughout American history. The book blends theory with practice exploring the role that attitudes and philosophy play throughout one’s career offering practical implementation advice and demonstrating how one can measure success. Undergraduate- and graduate-level courses will benefit from The Promise of Public Service as a resource and practitioners of public service in all its forms will benefit from these ideas and examples at any stage of their careers. | The Promise of Public Service Ideas and Examples for Effective Service

GBP 35.99
1

The Promise of Nostalgia Reminiscence Longing and Hope in Contemporary American Culture

The Promise of Nostalgia Reminiscence Longing and Hope in Contemporary American Culture

The Promise of Nostalgia analyses a range of texts – including The Virgin Suicides both the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides’ and Sofia Coppola’s screen adaptation photography of Detroit’s ‘abandoned spaces’ and blogger Tavi Gevinson's media output – to explore nostalgia as a prominent affect in contemporary American cultural production. Counter to the prevalent caricature of nostalgia as anti-future the book proposes a more nuanced reading of its stakes and meanings. Instead of understanding it as evidence of the absence of utopia it contends that there is a masked utopian impulse in this nostalgia ‘mode’ and critical potential in what has typically been dismissed as ideological. This book will be of interest to scholars graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students interested in contemporary culture cultural theory media studies the Frankfurt School utopian studies and American literature and culture. | The Promise of Nostalgia Reminiscence Longing and Hope in Contemporary American Culture

GBP 38.99
1

Voices of Innovation Fulfilling the Promise of Information Technology in Healthcare

Voices of Innovation Fulfilling the Promise of Information Technology in Healthcare

Everyone talks innovation and we can all point to random examples of innovation inside of healthcare information technology but few repeatable processes exist that make innovation more routine than happenstance. How do you create and sustain a culture of innovation? What are the best practices you can refine and embed as part of your organization's DNA? What are the potential outcomes for robust healthcare transformation when we get this innovation mystery solved? Through timely essays from leading experts the first edition showcased the widely adopted healthcare innovation model from HIMSS and how providers could leverage to increase their velocity of digital transformation. Regardless of its promise innovation has been slow in healthcare. The second edition takes the critical lessons learned from the first edition expands and refreshes the content as a result of changes in the industry and the world. For example the pandemic really shifted things. Now providers are more ready and interested to innovate. In the past year alone significant disruptors (such as access to digital health) have entered the provider space threatening the existence of many hospitals and practices. This has served as a giant wake-up call that healthcare has shifted. And finally there is more emphasis today than before on the concept of patient and clinician experience. Perhaps hastened by the pandemic the race is on for innovations that will help address clinician burnout while better engaging patients and families. Loaded with numerous case studies and stories of successful innovation projects this book helps the reader understand how to leverage innovation to help fulfill the promise of healthcare information technology in enabling superior business and clinical outcomes. | Voices of Innovation Fulfilling the Promise of Information Technology in Healthcare

GBP 44.99
1

Development in Nigeria Promise on Hold?

Development in Nigeria Promise on Hold?

This book unravels the trajectories and dilemmas of development in Nigeria since its independence in 1960. Despite enormous human and material resources development progress in Nigeria has not met expectations. By delving into the various factors that have influenced development efforts and initiatives Development in Nigeria: Promise on Hold? aims to draw out lessons to help the country to achieve its potential. In many ways Nigeria typifies the African puzzle of near-misses a never-ending drive towards development with enormous promise but no real practical output. As in many states within Africa these failures can be traced to structural inadequacies and the perennial weakness of public institutions. Problems which collectively undermine sustainable development and growth include political corruption ethnicity failure of public institutions distributional injustice fiscal centralism in a purported federal state faulty democratic traditions malevolent elite class religious and social conflicts among others. By taking a comprehensive panoramic overview of the country’s historical experience as both a military dictatorship and democracy Edlyne Eze Anugwom presents a nuanced comprehensive and contemporary interrogation of the ever-dynamic forces and factors in Nigeria’s development project. This book’s incisive examination of Nigeria’s development aspirations over time will be of interest to students of Development and African Studies as well as to practitioners and multilateral agencies involved in development planning and intervention in Nigeria who are looking for strategies for overcoming the challenges facing the country. | Development in Nigeria Promise on Hold?

GBP 38.99
1

School-University Partnerships in Action The Promise of Change

School-University Partnerships in Action The Promise of Change

This book provides new knowledge insights and experience about school-university partnerships. Drawing upon evidence from international research of the world’s most improved systems and learning from a UK research council funded ‘knowledge exchange’ project it reveals that when the profound differences between the practice worlds of schools and the theoretical worlds of university academics are embraced and cherished rather than eschewed school-university partnerships become exciting avenues of learning which connect challenge and transform the thinking and practice of all those involved. Over its eight chapters the book explores uncertainties challenges and possibilities faced by those who seek to create develop and sustain school-university partnerships that aspire to improve the practice and understanding of the leadership of teaching and learning in schools. It explicates and elucidates precepts principles and practices for achieving such successful partnerships between higher education and school leaders and contextualises these in terms of policy wide developments internationally. This book will appeal to school leaders internationally leadership training organisations and academics who lead postgraduate leadership and management programmes. | School-University Partnerships in Action The Promise of Change

GBP 36.99
1

A Career Is a Promise Finding Purpose Success and Fulfillment

A Career Is a Promise Finding Purpose Success and Fulfillment

No matter your field of interest A Career is a Promise offers a proven framework for finding purpose fulfillment and success. Robin Landa one of the world's leading experts on creativity and idea generation reveals practical strategies that will help you identify a career worthy of your intelligence aptitudes and time. Much more than a how-to guide the roadmaps prompts inner directed questions and self-assessment tools will help you discover what most excites you professionally how to set worthwhile career goals find purpose in your career achieve success lead with compassion find fulfillment secure mentors and sponsors and enhance your creative thinking to best compete in a global marketplace. Most of us don’t spend adequate time thinking about what ignites our souls and makes careers roar–well enough to forge a fruitful and satisfying career path. When you spend more than one third of your life working your career should hold promise. A career is a promise you make to yourself. | A Career Is a Promise Finding Purpose Success and Fulfillment

GBP 31.99
1

Democracy and Event The Promise and Perils of Catastrophe

Democracy and Event The Promise and Perils of Catastrophe

Catastrophes unsettle our safe places within the world. As such they provide an interesting site to analyze the intersection of our affective and political lives. Bringing radical democratic thinking affect theory psychoanalysis and discursive analysis to bear on contemporary catastrophic events Democracy and Event presents a fresh perspective on the study of affect and its impact on democratic sensibilities and practices. Situated in different countries with differing institutional histories and cultures – the Grenfell Tower fire in London England (2017); the SARS epidemic in Toronto Canada (2003); the Parkland shooting in Florida (2018); the early days of the COVID-19 crisis and the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis USA (2020) – Elaine Stavro interprets the rhetoric discourse and affective communication of politicians and passionate protestors. She examines their linkages to well-established organizations informed by democratic ideals as well as the context in which they arise which have a bearing on their ability to challenge neoliberal and authoritarian practices. Inspired by the urgent need to bring theory back to politics and politics back to theory Elaine Stavro demonstrates how theory might inform our attitudes to contemporary events while recognizing that political action and events cannot be captured in their complexity by theory. Her skillful engagement with various theoretical approaches read through the lens of catastrophic events will speak to a wide-ranging scholarly readership in numerous academic fields. | Democracy and Event The Promise and Perils of Catastrophe

GBP 35.99
1

Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2011 The Promise and Threat of Transformation

Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2011 The Promise and Threat of Transformation

Fourth in the annual series this volume reviews the transformative changes which have emerged in the armed conflicts in South Asia in 2010 several of these with long and convoluted histories including the conflicts in Jammu & Kashmir northeast India and the Naxalite movement in central India; as also issues of autonomy in Balochistan the FATA region in Pakistan the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh and the Terai foothills in Nepal. The book examines whether armed conflicts have transformed since their inception; or only metamorphosed into the sullen acceptance that could usher future violence. While conflicts in South Asia have been interspersed with peace efforts the book looks at the complex trajectories that such attempts have taken. Specifically it identifies three regions where most significant transformative trends were witnessed in South Asia in 2010: conflict-ridden Sri Lanka Af-Pak and the Naxalite regions of India. | Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2011 The Promise and Threat of Transformation

GBP 42.99
1

World Language Education as Critical Pedagogy The Promise of Social Justice

World Language Education as Critical Pedagogy The Promise of Social Justice

Accessible and cutting-edge this text is a pivotal update to the field and offers a much-needed critical perspective on world language education. Building off their classic 2002 book The Foreign Language Educator in Society Timothy G. Reagan and Terry A. Osborn address major issues facing the world language educator today including language myths advocacy the perceived and real benefits of language learning linguistic human rights constructivism learning theories language standards monolingualism bilingualism and multiculturalism. Organized into three parts – Knowing Language Learning Language and Teaching Language – this book applies a critical take on conventional wisdom on language education evaluates social and political realities assumptions and controversies in the field. Each chapter includes questions for reflection and discussion to support students and educators in developing their own perspectives on teaching and learning languages. With a critical pedagogy and social justice lens this book is ideal for scholars and students in foreign/world language education social justice education and language teaching methodology courses as well as pre- and in-service teachers. | World Language Education as Critical Pedagogy The Promise of Social Justice

GBP 39.99
1

Digital Health and Technological Promise A Sociological Inquiry

Digital Health and Technological Promise A Sociological Inquiry

What is ‘digital health’? And what are its implications for medicine and healthcare and for individual citizens and society? Digital health is of growing interest to policymakers clinicians and businesses. It is underpinned by promise and optimism with predictions that digital technologies and related innovations will soon ‘transform’ medicine and healthcare and enable individuals to better manage their own health and risk and to receive a more ‘personalized’ treatment and care. Offering a sociological perspective this book critically examines the dimensions and implications of digital health a term that is often ill defined but signifies the promise of technology to ‘empower’ individuals and improve their lives as well as generating efficiencies and wealth. The chapters explore relevant sociological concepts and theories; changing conceptions of the self evident in citizens’ growing use of wearables online behaviours and patient activism; changes in medical practices especially precision (or personalized) medicine and growing reliance on big data and algorithm-driven decisions; the character of the digital healthcare economy; and the perils of digital health. It is argued that for various reasons including the way digital technologies are designed and operate and the influence of big technology companies and other interests seeking to monetize citizens’ data digital health is unlikely to deliver much of what is promised. Citizens’ use of digital technologies is likened to a Faustian bargain: citizens are likely to surrender something of far greater value (their personal data) than what they obtain from its use. However growing data activism and calls for ‘algorithmic accountability’ highlight the potential for citizens to create alternative futures—ones oriented to fulfilling human needs rather than techno-utopian visions. This ground-breaking book will provide an invaluable resource for those seeking to understand the socio-cultural and politico-economic implications of digital health. | Digital Health and Technological Promise A Sociological Inquiry

GBP 36.99
1

Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth A Strengths-Based Approach to At-Promise Children and Adolescents

Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth A Strengths-Based Approach to At-Promise Children and Adolescents

Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth highlights the paradigm shift to treating children and adolescents as at-promise rather than at-risk. By utilizing a strength-based model that moves in opposition to pathology this volume presents a client-allied modality wherein youth are given the opportunity to express emotions that can be difficult to convey using words. Working internationally with diverse groups of young people grappling with various forms of trauma 30 contributing therapists share their processes informed by current understandings of neurobiology attachment theory and developmental psychology. In addition to guiding principles and real-world examples also included are practical directives strategies and applications. Together this compilation highlights the promise of healing through the creative arts in the face of oppression. | Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth A Strengths-Based Approach to At-Promise Children and Adolescents

GBP 46.99
1

Delivering on the Promise of High-Impact Practices Research and Models for Achieving Equity Fidelity Impact and Scale

Delivering on the Promise of High-Impact Practices Research and Models for Achieving Equity Fidelity Impact and Scale

Research shows that enriching learning experiences such as learning communities service-learning undergraduate research internships and senior culminating experiences – collectively known as High-Impact Practices (HIPs) – are positively associated with student engagement; deep and integrated learning; and personal and educational gains for all students – particularly for historically underserved students including first-generation students and racially minoritized populations. While HIPs’ potential benefits for student learning retention and graduation are recognized and are being increasingly integrated across higher education programs much of that potential remains unrealized; and their implementation frequently uneven. Colleges are eager to use the HIP nomenclature for recruitment promoting equity for traditionally underserved student populations and preparing lifelong learners and successful professionals. However HIPs defy easy categorization or standardized implementation. They rely on fidelity quality and consistency – being “done well” – to achieve their learning outcomes; and above all require attention to access and equity if they are to fulfill their promise of benefitting all student populations equally. The goal of Delivering on the Promise of High-Impact Practices is to provide examples from around the country of the ways educators are advancing equity promoting fidelity achieving scale and strengthening assessment of their own local high-impact practices. Its chapters bring together the best current scholarship methodologies and evidence-based practices within the HIPs field illustrating new approaches to faculty professional development culture and coalition building research and assessment and continuous improvement that help institutions understand and extend practices with a demonstrated high impact. For proponents and practitioners this book offers perspectives data and critiques to interrogate and improve practice. For administrators it provides an understanding of what’s needed to deliver the necessary support. | Delivering on the Promise of High-Impact Practices Research and Models for Achieving Equity Fidelity Impact and Scale

GBP 35.99
1

Higher Education Beyond COVID New Teaching Paradigms and Promise

Higher Education Beyond COVID New Teaching Paradigms and Promise

This book illustrates how higher education responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and grew from it. The pandemic impacted faculty development drew a greater focus on the measurement of effective teaching in higher education and provided a better understanding of what was needed to better aid educators in colleges and universities nationwide. The stage is set for a more resilient higher education with chapters illustrating new paradigms and promise. Three themes are highlighted throughout this volume. Authors underscore the need to explore different modalities of delivery for faculty development and instruction to enhance the leverage of technology in course design and to refine faculty development for holistic development. Pulling together empirical data on college faculty administration and student responses to the pandemic chapter authors address the unique issues faced by educators and highlight successes and challenges in working with existing Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) and information technology structures. Featuring contributions from diverse institutions each chapter provides specific guidelines and recommendations for higher education to set the stage for innovation and change. Laying the groundwork for the design of more effective models of faculty development for higher education this book is a valuable resource for higher education administrators and faculty to improve higher education going forward. | Higher Education Beyond COVID New Teaching Paradigms and Promise

GBP 31.99
1

Children of Incarcerated Parents Challenges and Promise

Children of Incarcerated Parents Challenges and Promise

This book highlights the myriad factors that can impact the children of incarcerated parents. It is no secret that the United States continues to be the leading nation for the incarceration of men and women and this this large prison population includes approximately 120 000 incarcerated mothers and 1. 1 million incarcerated fathers. Incarceration of a parent is recognized as an ‘adverse childhood experience’ an acute or chronic situation that for most people is stressful and potentially traumatic. Children of incarcerated parents may experience other adverse childhood experiences such as poverty homelessness parental substance abuse and other mental health problems and family violence. The chapters in this book document some of the challenges as well as some promising ways that can help parents and families begin to meet these challenges. It is our hope that the compendium of chapters presented in this book will be a resource for practitioners policy makers educators researchers and advocates in their work to ensure that the children of incarcerated parents their caregivers and their mothers and fathers are provided the support they need to address the challenges they face during and after parental incarceration. This book was originally published as a special issue of Smith College Studies in Social Work. | Children of Incarcerated Parents Challenges and Promise

GBP 39.99
1

Educating Emergent Bilingual Youth in High School The Promise of Critical Language and Literacy Education

Educating Emergent Bilingual Youth in High School The Promise of Critical Language and Literacy Education

This book revolves around educating recently arrived immigrant youth in the United States who are emergent bilinguals. Drawing on a seven-year research collaboration with three ESL teachers in an urban secondary school in the United States it addresses questions around taking a critical approach to language and literacy education including what this looks like in everyday practice and what emergent bilingual youth can learn from it. The chapters illustrate the praxis of critical language and literacy education undertaken by everyday ESL teachers curricular materials and pedagogical practices that promote emergent bilingual youths’ engagement with words and worlds and finally a methodological and relational approach to researching with classroom teachers. The book introduces teaching practices such as dialogic problem-posing translanguaging and translation the use of multimodal texts and youth research on language. Arguing for the potential power of critical language and literacy education for immigrant youth and their teachers this book will benefit educators researchers and graduate students in the fields of language and literacy second language acquisition (SLA) ESL and TESOL pedagogy and in curriculum studies education of immigrant children and youth and multicultural issues in education. | Educating Emergent Bilingual Youth in High School The Promise of Critical Language and Literacy Education

GBP 130.00
1

Nuclear Conundrum of Iran and North Korea From Proliferation Crisis to Non-Proliferation Promise?

Nuclear Conundrum of Iran and North Korea From Proliferation Crisis to Non-Proliferation Promise?

This book examines Iran and North Korea from a non-proliferation lens. It highlights how these two countries stand out as nuclear challenges vis-à-vis the NPT and unpacks their nuclear history recent developments nuclear resolve in the times of the pandemic and future challenges in a comprehensive manner. It shows how these two issues remain similar distinguished dynamic but static so far progress on non-proliferation is concerned. The book will be a valuable read for students scholars academicians policy practitioners and anyone invested and interested in nuclear issues. | Nuclear Conundrum of Iran and North Korea From Proliferation Crisis to Non-Proliferation Promise?

GBP 130.00
1

Latin America Its Problems and Its Promise: A Multidisciplinary Introduction

Latin America Its Problems and Its Promise: A Multidisciplinary Introduction

Now in a fifth edition Latin America has been updated to reflect the region's growing optimism as economies stabilize trade diversifies and political systems become more participatory. This multidisciplinary survey of Latin American history politics and society features invited contributions from authorities in a variety of fields. New sections address current events including deforestation in Costa Rica and Brazil emerging social movements Ecuador's new constitution and Obama's stated objectives to repair U. S. relations with the region. In addition key topics (such as women and Latin American politics socialist governments and anti-American sentiment Argentina's deteriorating economy and Colombia's struggle with military and narcotics issues) receive expanded and revitalized treatment. Other updated material covers outcomes of recent elections in Bolivia Brazil and Nicaragua among others. Through a hybrid thematic and regional organization this text provides an essential foundation for introductory courses on Latin America. | Latin America Its Problems and Its Promise: A Multidisciplinary Introduction

GBP 130.00
1

Inequality in America Race Poverty and Fulfilling Democracy's Promise

Inequality in America Race Poverty and Fulfilling Democracy's Promise

Why does inequality have such a hold on American society and public policy? And what can we as citizens do about it? Inequality in America takes an in-depth look at race class and gender-based inequality across a wide range of issues from housing and education to crime employment and health. Caliendo explores how individual attitudes can affect public opinion and lawmakers’ policy solutions. He also illustrates how these policies result in systemic barriers to advancement that often then contribute to individual perceptions. This cycle of disadvantage and advantage can be difficult—though not impossible—to break. Representing and What Can I Do? feature boxes highlight key public figures who have worked to combat inequality and encourage students to do the same. The third edition has been thoroughly revised to include the most current data and cover recent issues and events such as Trump Administration policies the #MeToo movement and U. S. Supreme Court decisions affecting issues of racial representation and voting rights. Concise and accessible Inequality in America paves the way for students to think critically about the attitudes behaviors and structures of inequality. New to the Third Edition New to the Third Edition Considers the heightened discussion of racial reckoning that has been occurring since the summer of 2020. Covers the disproportional effect to communities of color of the Covid-19 global pandemic and related recession Takes an early glimpse into Biden Administration priorities compared to Trump Administration policies on education immigration housing and urban development. Updates feature boxes including a spotlight on U. S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative. Discusses the January 6 2021 riot at the U. S. Capitol the #MeToo and #TimesUp Movements and much more. | Inequality in America Race Poverty and Fulfilling Democracy's Promise

GBP 34.99
1

The Trump Presidency Continuity and Change in US Foreign Policy

The Trump Presidency Continuity and Change in US Foreign Policy

Did Donald Trump decisively transform and alter the course of US foreign policy? All presidents promise change but few presidents promise changes as radical as Trump did during his presidency. The extent to which Trump delivered on that promise however remains hotly debated with little or no agreement. The chapters in this edited volume argue that much of this debate is a dialogue of the deaf where scholars speak past rather than to each other where the basis for claims about change or continuity is unclear and where the argument and knowledge consequently fails to progress. At its heart this is a problem of theory and methods. Employing a diverse range of theoretical and methodological perspectives this book seeks to move the debate beyond a superficial focus on events to more fundamental questions of how change is defined measured and explained and in doing so attempts to advance understanding of foreign policy change and the extent to which Trump can really be considered to have been a transformative president. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Global Affairs. | The Trump Presidency Continuity and Change in US Foreign Policy

GBP 130.00
1

The Waste Fix Seizures of the Sacred from Upton Sinclair to the Sopranos

The Waste Fix Seizures of the Sacred from Upton Sinclair to the Sopranos

First published in 2002. This book explores the philosophical social and aesthetic implications of twentieth-century America's obsession with eliminating waste. Through interdisciplinary engagement with fiction and popular culture William Little traces the way this obsession finds expression in powerful social forces (e. g. the drive to consume conspicuously; the Progressive-era campaign to manage scientifically; the current demand to reduce reuse recycle) and shows how such forces are governed by an idealism that links proper treatment of waste with the promise of salvation. | The Waste Fix Seizures of the Sacred from Upton Sinclair to the Sopranos

GBP 31.99
1

Lessons in Leadership from the White House to Your House

Lessons in Leadership from the White House to Your House

This book argues that we can learn a great deal about leadership from the experiences of eight US presidents who have served in the White House since Watergate. The eight presidents considered here differed widely in their family backgrounds wealth education age prior political experiences and motivations for power. But they all made the same promise—to “faithfully execute the Office of President of the US and … preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”—and they all faced considerable challenges in fulfilling that promise. While all eight presidents had policy successes and failures the author argues that we gain real insight on their leadership acumen by analyzing the deeper structures of leadership effectiveness that all leaders need to address: vision execution management and decision-making. The book assesses the performance of each president along these four dimensions of leadership and extends lessons learned to leaders in other sectors. | Lessons in Leadership from the White House to Your House

GBP 34.99
1

C. G. Jung in the Humanities Taking the Soul's Path

C. G. Jung in the Humanities Taking the Soul's Path

This book demonstrates for the first time the significance of Jung’s work to the humanities and to those areas where the humanities and sciences share borders. More radically it shows that Jung was a writer of myth alchemy narrative and poetics as well as on them. Jung’s core concepts are introduced their ongoing relevance is championed. The book also addresses Jung’s sometimes questionable judgment on politics and gender and previews contemporary extensions of Jungian theory. By privileging the creative psyche and exploring the connections between individual natural environment and social/psychological collective Jung anticipates the new holism offering the promise of reconciling the sciences with the arts humanity with nature. | C. G. Jung in the Humanities Taking the Soul's Path

GBP 22.99
1