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Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts

Author : Roland Leander Williams
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143848948X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts written by Roland Leander Williams and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a cultural study of writings about slavery in the United States, Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts uncovers a mode of behavior adopted by African Americans for relief from the brutality of black bondage. Roland Leander Williams grants that African Americans have been beaten, but he guarantees that they have not been broken. While he acknowledges that they have been demeaned, he assures that they have not been diminished. Williams confesses that African Americans have been done harm, but he confirms that they have not become disheartened. Close readings of classic slave narratives, along with some neo-slave narratives—including The Conjure Woman (1899), Kindred (1979), Dessa Rose (1986), and The Good Lord Bird (2013)—furnish proof that African Americans have preserved their dignity and elevated their status through ingenious applications of improvisation. Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts establishes as well that a dim view of African Americans, propagated by black bondage, bears a resemblance to sexual discrimination, which prompts female targets of its gaze to practice dissembling.

Air and Space Law

Author : Henri Abraham Wassenbergh
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780792316268
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Book Synopsis Air and Space Law by : Henri Abraham Wassenbergh

Download or read book Air and Space Law written by Henri Abraham Wassenbergh and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this unique volume is twofold. First and foremost, it sets out to offer the reader a comprehensive and challenging view, from some of the most distinguished scholars in the field, of present and future trends and issues in the fields of international air and space law. By breaking new ground in this way, it pays tribute to the scholarly achievements of Henri (Or) Wassenbergh, whose ideas and work have helped to shape both air and space law throughout his long and distinguished career. "Air and Space Law: De Lege Ferenda" will be of interest to all those concerned with the present status of air and space law, and with the challenges the aviation and space industry must face in the century to come.

Action Research in Organisations

Author : Jean McNiff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134600577
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Action Research in Organisations written by Jean McNiff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current orthodoxy is that 'knowledge' is the most powerful resource for organisational success. So how can managers develop the appropriate knowledge base to make their organisations grow? The answer lies in action research. Action research is increasingly perceived and used as a powerful methodology to promote professional awareness and development. However, there are very few texts that demonstrate how this can be utilised to promote management and organisational improvement or that emphasise the reflective nature of improving professionalism. Action Research in Organisations fills this gap. Aimed at both practising managers and university students alike, key features of this title include: * the location of management and organisational theory within a framework * examination of the principles and practice of action research * real-world examples and case studies of people attempting to improve their own situations through action research.

The House of the Father As Fact and Symbol

Author : J. David Schloen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004369848
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis The House of the Father As Fact and Symbol by : J. David Schloen

Download or read book The House of the Father As Fact and Symbol written by J. David Schloen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first two volumes on patrimonialism in Ugarit and the ancient Near East, this book opens with a lengthy introduction on the interpretation of social action and households in the ancient world. Following this foundation, Schloen embarks on a societal and domestic study of the Late Bronze Age kingdom of Ugarit in its wider Near Eastern context.

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Citizenship Behavior

Author : Philip M. Podsakoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190219017
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Citizenship Behavior by : Philip M. Podsakoff

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Citizenship Behavior written by Philip M. Podsakoff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Citizenship Behavior provides a broad and interdisciplinary review of state-of-the-art research on organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs), and related constructs such as contextual performance, spontaneous organizational behavior, prosocial behavior, and proactive behavior in the workplace. Contributors address the conceptualization and measurement of OCBs; the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of these behaviors; and the methodological issues that are common when studying OCBs. In addition, this handbook pushes future scholarship in this and related areas by identifying substantive questions, methods, and issues for future research. The result is a single resource that will inform and inspire scholars, students, and practitioners of the origins of this construct, the current state of research on this topic, and potentially exciting avenues for future exploration. This handbook is designed to meet the needs of a broad spectrum of researchers and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of disciplines including management, organizational behavior, human resources management, and industrial and organizational psychology, as well as those interested in studying citizenship behavior in a variety of organizational contexts including marketing, nursing, engineering, sports, and education.

Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Sciences

Author : Ford Lumban Gaol
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1315687631
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Sciences written by Ford Lumban Gaol and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human aspect plays an important role in the social sciences. The behavior of people has become a vital area of focus in the social sciences as well. Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Sciences contains papers that were originally presented at the 3rd International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science 2014 (ICIBSoS 2014),

Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference 2007

Author : Stella Vosniadou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317705564
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Book Synopsis Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference 2007 by : Stella Vosniadou

Download or read book Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference 2007 written by Stella Vosniadou and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the invited lectures, invited symposia, symposia, papers and posters presented at the 2nd European Cognitive Science Conference held in Greece in May 2007. The papers presented in this volume range from empirical psychological studies and computational models to philosophical arguments, meta-analyses and even to neuroscientific experimentation. The quality of the work shows that the Cognitive Science Society in Europe is an exciting and vibrant one. There are 210 contributions by cognitive scientists from 27 different countries, including USA, France, UK, Germany, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Japan, Spain, the Netherlands, and Australia. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with current research in Cognitive Science.

Body - Language - Communication. Volume 1

Author : Cornelia Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110261316
Total Pages : 1148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Body - Language - Communication. Volume 1 by : Cornelia Müller

Download or read book Body - Language - Communication. Volume 1 written by Cornelia Müller and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I of the handbook presents contemporary, multidisciplinary, historical, theoretical, and methodological aspects of how body movements relate to language. It documents how leading scholars from differenct disciplinary backgrounds conceptualize and analyze this complex relationship. Five chapters and a total of 72 articles, present current and past approaches, including multidisciplinary methods of analysis. The chapters cover: I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter, II. Perspectives from different disciplines, III. Historical dimensions, IV. Contemporary approaches, V. Methods. Authors include: Michael Arbib, Janet Bavelas, Marino Bonaiuto, Paul Bouissac, Judee Burgoon, Martha Davis, Susan Duncan, Konrad Ehlich, Nick Enfield, Pierre Feyereisen, Raymond W. Gibbs, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Uri Hadar, Adam Kendon, Antja Kennedy, David McNeill, Lorenza Mondada, Fernando Poyatos, Klaus Scherer, Margret Selting, Jürgen Streeck, Sherman Wilcox, Jeffrey Wollock, Jordan Zlatev.

Emotionalizing Organizations and Organizing Emotions

Author : Åsa Wettergren
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230289894
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Emotionalizing Organizations and Organizing Emotions written by Åsa Wettergren and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delivers a strong contribution to the field of research on emotions in organizations offering original pieces of research. Uniting scholars from organization and management research and sociology, it conveys trans-disciplinary insights into the multidimensional 'nature' of emotion and its appearance in organizational structures and processes.

Action TV: Tough-Guys, Smooth Operators and Foxy Chicks

Author : Anna Gough-Yates
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113635865X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Action TV: Tough-Guys, Smooth Operators and Foxy Chicks written by Anna Gough-Yates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From re-runs of 'TV classics' like The Avengers or Starsky and Hutch, to soundtracks, club nights and film remakes such as Mission Impossible II, the action series is enjoying a popular revival. Yet little attention has been paid to the history, nature and enduring appeal of the action series, and its place in popular culture, past and present. Action TV traces the development of the action series from its genesis in the 1950s. From The Saint to Knigh t Rider, contributors explore the key shows which defined the genre, addressing issues of audiences and consumption, gender and sexuality, fashion and popular culture. They examine the institutional and cultural factors influencing the action series, and relate shifts in the genre to other forms of popular culture including film, pop music, fashion and popular literature. Chapters include: * Of leather suits and kinky boots: The Avengers, style and popular culture * 'Who loves ya, baby?': Kojak, action and the great society *'A lone crusader in a dangerous world': heroics of science and technology in Knight Rider * Angels in chains? feminism, femininity and consumer culture in Charlie's Angels * 'Who's the cat that won't cop out?' Black masculinity in American action shows of the sixties and seventies

New Perspectives on Early Social-Cognitive Development

Author :
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128205172
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Early Social-Cognitive Development written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Perspectives on Early Social-Cognitive Development, Volume 258 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Dynamics of Coordinated Attention, Investigating the Role of Neural Body Maps in Early Social-Cognitive Development: New Insights from Infant MEG and EEG, Motion tracking in developmental research: Methodological considerations and social-cognitive developmental applications, Early maturation of the social brain: How brain development provides a platform for the acquisition of social-cognitive competence, Getting a grip on early intention understanding: The role of motor, cognitive, and social factors, and much more. Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors Presents the latest release in the Progress in Brain Research series Includes the latest information on New Perspectives on Early Social-cognitive Development

Village Life in South India

Author : Alan R. Beals
Publisher : AldineTransaction
ISBN 13 : 1412848075
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Village Life in South India written by Alan R. Beals and published by AldineTransaction. This book was released on with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co., 1974.

Christian Social Action

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Social Action written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Architecture Is a Social Act

Author : Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne
Publisher : Frame Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9492311453
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (923 download)

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Book Synopsis Architecture Is a Social Act by : Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne

Download or read book Architecture Is a Social Act written by Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne and published by Frame Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good architecture is no longer about simply designing a building as an isolated object, but about meeting head-on the forces that are shaping today’s world. Architecture Is a Social Act: Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects [LOHA] addresses how the discipline can be used as a tool to engage in politics, economics, aesthetics, and smart growth by promoting social equity, human interaction, and cultural evolution. The book features 28 projects drawn across LOHA’s nearly 30-year history, a selection that underscores the direct connection between the development of consciously designed buildings and wider efforts to tackle issues that are relevant in a rapidly changing world. LOHA’s projects range from tiny Santa Monica storefronts to vast urban plans in Detroit, Michigan, and Raleigh, North Carolina. From activating main streets, to designing housing of all shapes and sizes, to bringing hope to the homeless, to developing strategic plans for the future growth of cities, all of the work featured is represented within a larger social framework. Each case study is evidence of LOHA’s mastery of scale, form, light, and space that gives people a true sense of place and belonging. Architecture Is a Social Act: Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects [LOHA] points the way ahead for both people and architecture. Features A collection of 28 projects completed over nearly three decades gives readers thorough insight – both visually and conceptually – into the work of LA and Detroit-based firm Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects. An important contribution in a post-pandemic world, the book’s main goal is to spark creative ideas and important questions about how architecture can be used in political engagement, smart growth and social structures, in order to improve our urban landscapes and elevate the human condition. Texts by O’Herlihy (Foreword), Frances Anderton (Introduction), Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne and Greg Goldin (project narratives and Afterword) are accompanied by illustrations and renderings by LOHA, and photography by Iwan Baan, Lawrence Anderson, Paul Vu, and others. The book is organized chronologically (starting in the 1990s and ending in 2020) and broken up into six sections, each representing a tipping point for the practice – periods in which LOHA’s work was launched in new directions that brought new sets of challenges, all of which parallel significant historical events. Readers will gain insight into the practice’s process when engaging a new project/site; understanding its history and context, and how it is informed by the culture and ecology of the people who live there.

Sway

Author : Ori Brafman
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 0385530609
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Sway written by Ori Brafman and published by Currency. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating journey into the hidden psychological influences that derail our decision-making, Sway will change the way you think about the way you think. Why is it so difficult to sell a plummeting stock or end a doomed relationship? Why do we listen to advice just because it came from someone “important”? Why are we more likely to fall in love when there’s danger involved? In Sway, renowned organizational thinker Ori Brafman and his brother, psychologist Rom Brafman, answer all these questions and more. Drawing on cutting-edge research from the fields of social psychology, behavioral economics, and organizational behavior, Sway reveals dynamic forces that influence every aspect of our personal and business lives, including loss aversion (our tendency to go to great lengths to avoid perceived losses), the diagnosis bias (our inability to reevaluate our initial diagnosis of a person or situation), and the “chameleon effect” (our tendency to take on characteristics that have been arbitrarily assigned to us). Sway introduces us to the Harvard Business School professor who got his students to pay $204 for a $20 bill, the head of airline safety whose disregard for his years of training led to the transformation of an entire industry, and the football coach who turned conventional strategy on its head to lead his team to victory. We also learn the curse of the NBA draft, discover why interviews are a terrible way to gauge future job performance, and go inside a session with the Supreme Court to see how the world’s most powerful justices avoid the dangers of group dynamics. Every once in a while, a book comes along that not only challenges our views of the world but changes the way we think. In Sway, Ori and Rom Brafman not only uncover rational explanations for a wide variety of irrational behaviors but also point readers toward ways to avoid succumbing to their pull.

Blending Spaces

Author : Arnd Witte
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614511233
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Blending Spaces written by Arnd Witte and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprehensively analyzes the development of interculturally blended third spaces by the second language learner, beginning with the linguistic and sociocultural imprints of the first language and culture on the mind and culminating in the proposal of a phase-model of the development of intercultural competence. The foundational analysis of L1-mediated constructs is followed by an analysis of forms interaction, concepts of identity and constructs of culture/interculture, thus shifting the object of analysis from the subjective to the intersubjective levels of construction and interaction. The focus of the book is on the gradual development of interculturally blended third spaces in the mind of the learner as genuinely new bases for construction. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on research in cultural psychology, linguistic anthropology, critical theory, language acquisition and second language learning and shows how culture and interculture need to be emphasized as an integral part of second language learning.

Smooth Operator: Remittances and Fiscal Shocks

Author : Ms.Kimberly Beaton
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1484311787
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Smooth Operator: Remittances and Fiscal Shocks written by Ms.Kimberly Beaton and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 250 million migrants globally, remittances are one of the major sources of income in many developing countries. While there is abundant evidence that remittances facilitate consumption smoothing in receving countries, the literature has not considered whether this effect varies with the fiscal stance and during fiscal shocks. Therefore, we investigate the impact of remittances on the stability of household consumption, using both cross-country and household-level datasets. Our focus is on whether the consumption-smoothing effect changes with fiscal policy phases and whether remittances and government support are substitutes or complements in stabilizing household consumption. We find that remittances help smooth consumption, and hence improve welfare, more during fiscal consolidation episodes, while this impact is insignificant during fiscal expansions. The results also indicate that the effect is more pronounced in countries with greater reliance on remittances.