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This incisive book examines the role of Intellectual Property (IP)
as a complex adaptive system in innovation and the lifecycle of IP
intensive assets. Discussing recent innovation trends, it places
emphasis on how different forms of intellectual property law can
facilitate these trends. Inventors and entrepreneurs are guided
through the lifecycle of IP intensive assets that commercialise
human creativity. Utilising a range of sector-specific,
interdisciplinary and actor-focused approaches, each contribution
offers suggestions on how Europe's capacity to foster
innovation-based sustainable economic growth can be enhanced on a
global scale. This comprehensive book addresses the role of IP in
public-private partnerships and business transactions and further
explores how IP law can uphold distributive justice in the
innovation society. Chapters span a range of topics of great
societal interest, including standard essential patent licensing in
the Internet of Things, patent quality concerns under competition
law and the role of market-driven and legislative solutions to
online music licensing. Intellectual Property as a Complex Adaptive
System will be a key resource for students and scholars of IP law,
innovation and economics. It will also be vital reading for
practitioners, knowledge-intensive industry representatives and
innovation and technology transfer specialists.
Celebrated author and Benedictine monk Anselm Grun offers a daily
reader of very simple and often quite direct Advent reflections.
Anselm Grun shows the reader how to approach the festive season
consciously, making it a blessed time for ourselves and our
families. He draws on his experience as a spiritual director to
offer practices for personal devotion or for family prayer for each
day of Advent. Also included are special reflections for the
Sundays of the season. Anselm Grun's titles have sold more than 15
million copies in 30 languages. This title brings his spiritual
wisdom to American readers who are eager for a new voice among
titles for the Advent and Christmas season.
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Legend of St. Nicholas (Hardcover)
Anselm Grun; Illustrated by Giuliano Ferri; Translated by Laura Watkinson
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A beautiful retelling of the life of Saint Nicholas Many stories
are told about Saint Nicholas -- stories about his generosity and
his miracles, stories about the concern he showed for those in
poverty. This warm, inviting books tells many of these stories,
both familiar and lesser-known. It recounts how he ended a famine
by multiplying grain from a merchant ship and how he walked on
water to rescue sailors from a terrible storm. And, of course, it
tells the story of how Nicholas gave his inheritance to prevent a
desperate man from selling his daughters into slavery. Anselm
Grun's simple, graceful text and Giuliano Ferri's beautiful
paintings combine to provide the perfect way to introduce young
readers to the rich life of this beloved saint.
The phenomenon of learning has always been of fundamental
interest to psychologists. Although much of the research in this
area approaches the process of learning as a consequence of direct
experience, this volume is principally concerned with learning by
example.
A widening interest in modeling and vicarious processes of
learning has been apparent in recent years. Psychological Modeling
highlights the most important work done in the subject and offers
an extensive review of the major theories of learning by modeling.
In his introductory essay, the editor identifies the most important
controversial issues in the field of observational learning and
reviews a large body of research findings.
Among the questions debated in this volume are: How do observers
form an internal model of the outside world to guide their actions?
What role does reinforcement play in observational learning? What
is the relative effectiveness of models presented in live action,
in pictorial presentations, or through verbal description? What is
the scope of modeling influences? What factors determine whether
people will learn what they have observed? What types of people are
most susceptible to modeling influences, and what types of models
are most influential in modifying the behavior of others?
This volume deals with an important problem area in a lively
fashion. Its special organization makes it a stimulating adjunct to
all courses in psychology - undergraduate and graduate - in which
psychological modeling is discussed. It also provides a readable
introduction for educators and other professionals seeking reliable
information on the state of knowledge in this area.
The phenomenon of learning has always been of fundamental interest
to psychologists. Although much of the research in this area
approaches the process of learning as a consequence of direct
experience, this volume is principally concerned with learning by
example. A widening interest in modeling and vicarious processes of
learning has been apparent in recent years. Psychological Modeling
highlights the most important work done in the subject and offers
an extensive review of the major theories of learning by modeling.
In his introductory essay, the editor identifies the most important
controversial issues in the field of observational learning and
reviews a large body of research findings. Among the questions
debated in this volume are: How do observers form an internal model
of the outside world to guide their actions? What role does
reinforcement play in observational learning? What is the relative
effectiveness of models presented in live action, in pictorial
presentations, or through verbal description? What is the scope of
modeling influences? What factors determine whether people will
learn what they have observed? What types of people are most
susceptible to modeling influences, and what types of models are
most influential in modifying the behavior of others? This volume
deals with an important problem area in a lively fashion. Its
special organization makes it a stimulating adjunct to all courses
in psychology - undergraduate and graduate - in which psychological
modeling is discussed. It also provides a readable introduction for
educators and other professionals seeking reliable information on
the state of knowledge in this area.
At a time of global economic crisis and disillusionment with
capitalism, Adodo offers refreshing and positive insight into a
more integral way of business management, enterprise and community
development as well as holistic healing in Africa. For over three
decades, Africa was the recipient of billions of dollars in aid
funds that were meant to catapult the continent from undeveloped to
developed status. Yet the more the aid poured in, the poorer
African countries became. The devastating effect of western
economic models in Africa that followed is well documented.
Integral Community Enterprise in Africa exposes the limitations of
existing theories, such as capitalism, socialism and communism, and
shows how western theories were imposed on Africa. Such imposition
of concepts and ideas is not only demeaning but also unsustainable,
serving only the interest of the elite. Father Anselm Adodo argues
for the need to have a southern theory to serve as an alternative
to western theories. The majority of African intellectuals and
activists, while criticizing existing theories, often do not
provide alternative theories to address the prevalent inadequacies
entrenched in conventional social, political and economic systems.
This revolutionary book aims to address this lapse and proposes the
theory of communitalism as a more indigenous, sustainable and
integral approach to tackling the social, political, economic and
developmental challenges of today's Africa. There is an African
alternative to capitalism, socialism and communism - a surer path
to sustainable development in and from Africa. This is a book that
is positioned at the very core of a much needed African
Renaissance. A profoundly new approach to development in Africa,
this is essential reading for anyone concerned with authentic
development in Africa and in the world.
This fifth edition of Where Medicine Fails, like previous
editions, argues for a broader definition of society's
responsibilities to the ill than is commonly perceived to be the
case. The authors examine the moral and economic implications of
medical technology, especially in regard to fetal tissue
transplant, cancer survival, childbirth, and dying, and provide a
thoughtful assessment of the issues and challenges facing American
hospitals. Seventeen chapters are new to this edition. The aim of
this volume is to encourage serious examination of the current
structure of health services and of the complicated facets of
health care reform.
Originally published in 1989 as Appointment in Vienna, Esther
Menaker's Misplaced Loyalties is a fascinating memoir covering five
years of student life in Vienna during the early years of the
psychoanalytic movement started by Sigmund Freud. It begins in
1930, when, full of high expectations, the author and her husband
left their native America and eagerly embarked on an exhilarating
journey that would take them to Austria, where they were to become
candidates at the Psychoanalytic Institute.
The principle of national treatment, or the non-discrimination
clause, applies across many fields of international economic law.
This book provides a unique horizontal examination of the principle
as it applies within international trade law, international
investment law and intellectual property law, whilst also offering
challenging and perceptive views on commercial practices, trade law
and policy.Combining perspectives from practitioners, academics and
members of the judiciary, the book is the first to cover the
national treatment principle across the whole field of
international economic law - including not only in the domain of
WTO law, but also in treaty and contractual settings involving
investment and in intellectual property law. It also provides
practical insights regarding the application of the principle
relevant to inter-state relations, state-investor relations and in
the context of intellectual property protection. With its
comprehensive interdisciplinary coverage, this book will be of
special interest to academics, students and practitioners
interested in international economic law and trade, international
investment law, and intellectual property law and policy.
Contributors: A.E. Appleton, R. Brauneis, L. Choukroune, D.
Collins, T. Cottier, L. Ehring, J. Flett, C. Heath, A. Kamperman
Sanders, D. Prevost, S.J. Schaafsma, L. Schneller
Professions, Work and Careers addresses some of the central themes
that preoccupied the eminent sociologist Anselm Strauss. This
collection is directed at sociologists concerned with the
development of theory and graduate and undergraduate students in
the sociology of work and the sociology of medicine. His approach
is both thematic and topical.Straus examines organization,
profession, career, and work, in addition to related matters such
as socialization, occupational identity, social mobility, and
professional relationships, all in a social psychological context.
Because medicine is considered by many to be the prototype
profession, Strauss effectively illustrates many of the points by
allusion to nurses, chemists, hospitals, wards, and terminal care.
The progression of ideas in these essays are a befitting source for
the study of structure, interaction and process, other themes that
occupied Strauss in his other research enterprises.As Irving Louis
Horowitz noted at the time of Anselm Strauss's death in 1996:
"Anselm was and remained a social psychologist of a special sort.
He appreciated that what takes place in the privacy of our minds
translates into public consequences for the social fabric. His
statements on personal problems are invariably followed in quick
succession by intensely sociological essays on close awareness,
face-to-face interaction, and structured interactions. The subtext
distinguishes sociological from psychiatric conventions, seeing
everything from daydreams to visions in interactionist frames
rather than as pathology. The implications of his explorations into
the medical profession are stated gently, but carry deep
ramifications, for the act of people treating each other
compassionately, not less than professionally, is also an act of
awareness. Treating the human person as a creature of dignity, when
generalized, becomes the basis for constructing human society."The
late Anselm Strauss was a pioneer in bridging the gap between
theory and data in sociology. This collection of his works,
available in paperback for the first time, will be a valuable
resource for professionals and students interested in grounded
social theory.Anselm L. Strauss was professor of sociology and
chairman of the graduate program in sociology, University of
California, San Francisco. He is the author of numerous books
including Creating Sociological Awareness and editor of Where
Medicine Fails, both published by Transaction.
This fifth edition of Where Medicine Fails, like previous editions,
argues for a broader definition of society's responsibilities to
the ill than is commonly perceived to be the case. The authors
examine the moral and economic implications of medical technology,
especially in regard to fetal tissue transplant, cancer survival,
childbirth, and dying, and provide a thoughtful assessment of the
issues and challenges facing American hospitals. Seventeen chapters
are new to this edition. The aim of this volume is to encourage
serious examination of the current structure of health services and
of the complicated facets of health care reform.
The authors of this volume point out that what is ordinarily termed
the psychiatric hospital's "social structure" is principally
derived from three sources: the number and kinds of professionals
who work there; the treatment ideologies and professional
identities of these professionals; and the relationships of the
institution and its professionals to outside communities, both
professional and lay. They describe hospitals as sites where
ideological battles characterizing the mental health arena are
being fought, implemented, critiqued, modified, and transformed.
This classic monograph in medical sociology was originally
published in the 1960s. The period studied was 1958 through 1963,
when somatic and psychotherapeutic ideologies were flourishing as
now and milieutherapy was just emerging. The research team was
multidisciplinary: three sociologists, one psychologist, and one
psychiatrist. Three distinct psychiatric environments were
researched: two at the Chicago State Hospital "chronic services"
and "treatment services" and one at a private hospital. What
evolved were thoughtful comparative analyses of hospitals, wards,
professionals, ideological positions, careers, and organizational
and situational placements.
Reflecting the contributions of M. Brewster Smith to social
psychology and personality study, this selection includes not only
his best known essays but also previously unpublished material.
Professor Smith's consistent striving for a psychology both
scientific and humane unifies the collection; it is a valid and
valuable overview of the relevance of social psychology to human
experience and societal problems by a man at the midstream of his
career. An introductory essay traces the major themes in Professor
Smith's work. Part I discusses the interdisciplinary relations of
social psychology with other behavioral sciences; it shows that
social psychology, standing at the crossroads of the social
sciences, must articulate its contributions with those of the other
disciplines, and it delineates the problems involved in this
articulation. Part II presents the author's principal contributions
to the social psychology of attitudes and values, a central topic
in the field, in which he is a major proponent of the functional
approach. Part III is devoted to the broader issues of personality
theory, focusing on the "self" as the object of personal attitudes
and including a classic paper on the phenomenological approach.
Parts IV and V probe human effectiveness and "mental health,"
consider the social development of personal competence, and examine
from a social psychological perspective a variety of social
problems -foreign students and cross-cultural education, population
growth, ethnic prejudice, and student protest. The final group of
essays deals with perennial human concerns: the nature of
rationality, the ethics of behavioral research, the psychology of
literature, and the problems of evil.
Intellectual property (IP) rights impact innovation in diverse
ways. This book critically analyses whether additional rights
beyond patents, trademarks and copyrights are needed to promote
innovation. Featuring contributions from thought-leaders in the
field of IP, this book examines the check and balances that already
exist in the IP system to safeguard innovation and questions to
what extent existing IP regimes are capable of catering to new
paradigms of innovation and creativity. Taking a multi-angled view
of the topic, this book questions whether IP rights by definition
encourage innovation and explores the role of exceptions and
limitations to IP rights as well as the application of competition
law to promote innovation. Chapters analyse diverse topics within
the field of IP such as plant varieties protection, geographical
indications and 3D printing. Taken as a whole this book advocates
that a pro-innovation rationale must be applied when new IP
legislation is designed. This book will be an engaging source of
information for researchers and policy-makers with an interest in
the direction of IP legislation and the promotion of innovation. It
will also be relevant for scholars of competition law who are
seeking information on the relationship between competition and IP.
Identity as a concept is as elusive as everyone's sense of his own
personal identity. It is connected with appraisals made by oneself
and by others. Each person sees himself mirrored in the judgments
of others. The masks he presents to the world are fashioned upon
his anticipations of judgments. In Mirrors and Masks, Anselm
Strauss uses the notion of identity to organize materials and
thoughts about certain aspects of problems traditionally intriguing
to social psychologists.The problems Strauss considers to be
intriguing traditionally are those encountered when studying group
membership, motivation, personality development, and social
interaction. The topics covered include: the basic importance of
language for human action and identity; the perpetual indeterminacy
of identities in constantly changing social contexts; the symbolic
and developmental character of human interaction; the theme of
identity as it affects adult behaviqr; relations between
generations and their role in personality development; and the
symbolic character of membership in groups.By focusing on symbolic
behavior with an emphasis on social organization, Strauss presents
a fruitful, systematic perspective from which to view traditional
problems of social psychology. He opens up new areas of thought and
associates matters that are not ordinarily considered to be
related. Strauss believes that psychiatrists* and psychologists
underestimate immensely the influence of social organization upon
individual behavior and individual structure, and that
sociologists, whose major concern is with social organization,
should employ some kind of social psychology in their research.
Mirrors and Masks shows that the fusion of theoretical approaches
benefits the analyses of many scholars. This fascinating work
should be read by sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and
psychiatrists.
The French writer Arnold van Gennep first called attention to the
phenomena of status passages in his Rites of Passage one hundred
years ago. In Status Passage, first published in 1971, the movement
of individuals and groups in contemporary society from one status
to another is examined in the light of Gennep's original theory.
Glaser and Strauss demonstrate that society emerges as a
comparative order. In this order, every organized action,
collective or individual, can be seen as a form of status passage.
From one status to another-from childhood to adolescence to
adulthood, from being single to being married, movement from one
income group, social class or religion to another-there are
passages that entail movement into different parts of a social
structure and loss or gain in privileges. Types of status passage
are described by their proper ties. The authors present a formal
theory of status passage in the form of a running theoretical
discussion. The concepts and categories discussed in Status Passage
are illuminated by a large number of examples chosen from a wide
range of human behavior, and the applicability of the theory to
still other examples is made apparent. The result is a stimulating
and provocative book that will interest a wide range of
sociologists, social psychologists, and other social scientists,
and will be useful in a variety of courses.
This book contains a major statement by one of America's most
preeminent sociologists on what remains an important problem in
American history and social analysis: the nature and extent of
movement within American society from one status to another. The
most important images of mobility involve self-improvement by
changing location (going to the frontier, coming to the big city),
and by changing social class (second-generation immigrants). Almost
all sociological and historical analysis has been limited to these
themes. Strauss extends the concept to a wide range of ideologies,
institutional contexts, and social movements; his analysis is based
on a formal theory of status passage and develops a partial theory
of mobility. Strauss addresses a theme that underscores much of one
strand of his work: the changing articulation of individuals with
their social structure and institutions. The book follows on from
the theoretical presuppositions of Discovery of Grounded Theory and
the formal theory presented in Status Passage. Strauss was
continually concerned with American social and intellectual life in
its historical and contemporary manifestations. No one else has
looked at the important phenomenon of mobility in this broad a
context and from this point of view. The book remains important to
those concerned with the social history of America and with
problems of social change.
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