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Media is showing us that self-managing organizations, like Zappos, unleash human potential in ways we couldn't have imagined, but so often when we try to transition to a self managed organization, we get stuck. The task seems overwhelming and many organizations just give up. We find ourselves caught between the inspirational stories of these self-organizing companies and the deeply entrenched habits. It can be overwhelming to have such a sense of...
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Un libro necesario para entender un conflicto de alcance mundial que dura más de seis décadas y en que el autor ha pretendido: "meter los pies en el barro para que israelíes y palestinos vivan juntos, entremezclados y en paz".
Este nuevo libro no es un libro teórico sobre el conflicto palestino-israelí sino el fruto de numerosos diálogos mantenidos durante años con las personas que se me acercan y buscan respuestas a tantas preguntas, desde...
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The Protestant ethic - a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one's life in the service of God - was made famous by sociologist and political economist Max Weber. In this brilliant study (his best-known and most controversial), he opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through "the struggle of opposites." Instead, he relates the rise of a capitalist economy...
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Learn to solve problems together with this nonfiction book. Ideal for young readers, the book includes a fiction story related to the topic, a connected project, glossary, useful text features, and engaging sidebars. This 28-page full-color book explores real-world problems and how individuals have come together to find solutions. It also covers key topics like creative problem-solving and brainstorming, and includes an extension activity for grade...
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Applied Psychology: Practical Guide to the Human Mind, Step-by-Step Advice to the Understandings of Psychology
What people are saying: This is a surprisingly fascinating book. Well written in an easy to understand style and well researched. Applied Psychology: Practical Guide to the Human Mind, Step-by-Step Advice to the Understandings of Psychology (Positive Psychology) by Jonny Bell gives you a great overview of psychology and the workings of the...
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This essential presents the state of urban research on gentrification in a condensed form. This term, which has been used in the scientific community since the 1960s, has now also become established in the public debate. It describes how rising rents in the cities and the lack of affordable housing lead to poorer residents being driven out of their neighbourhoods. It becomes clear in what way gentrification is a general principle of urban development...
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We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block...
8) High Drama
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Dessa's friend Kat has started dating a girl and wants to keep it quiet. When Dessa accidentally reveals Kat's secret, a bully makes Kat a target. Dessa tries to defend her friend, but ends up suspended in the process.
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Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French, and it's all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics French, and it's all organized by the Italians. RTÉ's Tony Connelly has produced an intriguing, thought-provoking, hilarious and sometimes poignant grand tour through European stereotypes. From the bailouts to the Euro-crisis, from the rise...
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En s'intéressant à certaines populations socialement disqualifiées, soit les personnes ayant des problèmes de santé mentale et les résidents en habitation à loyer modique, les auteurs étudient le logement non seulement comme l'un des déterminants de la santé et du bien-être mais également comme un lieu d'intervention majeur dans le domaine des services sociaux.
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En este ensayo Pasado y presente en Merced: ¿cuál es su futuro? se aborda la complejidad social de un espacio sui generis en la ciudad, en donde formas recientes de marginación y pobreza, se sobreponen espacial y temporalmente, sobre un muestrario agudo de miseria, dolor y pérdida de identidad, en contraste con su centralidad, la mezcla de usos combinada con plazas antiguas y en medio de una diversidad de comercio y negocios. El estudio se basó...
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Los 12 trabajos expuestos en este volumen evidencian tres aspectos en el estudio de la vejez: (a) la diversidad temática que se vincula al estudio de esta etapa de vida, (b) las posibilidades metodológicas disponibles para estudiar esta etapa y proceso de vida, y (c) el desafío tanto académico como social que enfrentamos para dar respuesta a las demandas que impone dignificar al envejecimiento y a la vejez.
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Terrified and Defenseless is a story about one man's crusade to dish out his own form of vigilante justice. But his aim is not at child molestors or rapists or arsonists or someone who has harmed him personally. His aim is at those who willingly participate, fund or support cruelty towards animals. With his new found wealth, he has dedicated his life to not only helping those who can't help themselves, not only to avenging the torture and murder of...
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Como una suerte de desafío a la antropología clásica, la presente investigación muestra que las perspectivas intimistas pueden contribuir al entendimiento de los fenómenos sociales. El punto de partida es la historia personal de la autora y el método empleado implica el reconocimiento de un problema compartido con la alteridad que se propone abordar. No se trata de un relato autobiográfi co sino de un intento por encontrar, en el diálogo con...
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El análisis del discurso es hoy en día un campo interdisciplinario y muy heterogéneo de las ciencias sociales y las humanidades. La diversidad de los rápidos desarrollos en el campo teórico y metodológico internacional dificulta la identificación de las aportaciones propias de cada disciplina. Por ello, este libro se interesa por teorías y métodos específicamente sociológicos del análisis del discurso. Los estudios sociológicos del discurso...
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Mediadas por su interés en los estudios subalternistas, el autor aborda la crítica cultural rearticulando una idea básica: el concepto sin intuición es vacío, y la intuición sin concepto es ciega. Así, Kraniauscas sugiere que la crítica ideológica sin la cultural es vacía, y que ésta sin aquélla es ciega, y se entra en diálogo con conceptos clave como "estudios culturales", "hibridez", "transculturación", "imperio", "desarrollo" o "subalternidad";...
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"We are in deep trouble," writes Sharif Abdullah. "We live a world that works for only a few." The problem, Abdullah asserts, is exclusivity: "I am separate." By practicing exclusivity, he maintains, we have created a soul-starved society. We suffer both personally and as a society, from complex, interlocking so intense that they create a deep sense of emptiness in all of us. But there is hope. Abdullah shows how we can change our world by changing...
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En este libro hay una variedad de voces que reflexionan sobre medios, redes y tecnologías de la comunicación desde la contrahegemonía. Aquí convergen las ideas y los pensamientos de autoras y autores que transitan entre espacios académicos, medios comunitarios, movimientos sociales, instituciones educativas, barrios y comunidades de América Latina. La obra se constituye a partir de un tejido de diálogos que muestran las luchas, las negociaciones...
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#1 The American people are deeply divided about one thing: the belief that Washington is rife with government corruption. The concern over widespread corruption is growing.
#2 The new form of corruption in Washington involves large sums of money that are being funneled to the families and friends of politicians who are making influential decisions that affect everything...
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