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In this new volume of the Watch Book series, successful author
Gisbert L. Brunner focuses on Swiss watch history and the watch
industry, and in particular on the house of Oris, because what
could be a more fitting connection than that of the leading expert
when it comes to mechanical timepieces with the watch manufactory
that is one of the few to produce exclusively mechanical watches.
Founded in 1904, the company stands out in many ways in the luxury
world of horology, it is run independently and not by a large
corporation, it is valued as a down-to-earth brand and - in an
industry that is not necessarily known for this - it focuses on
sustainability, true to the motto: "Things have to make sense". Of
course, technology should not be missing from this volume; after
all, Oris has developed 280 different calibres in its company
history and manufactured them in its own factories. Companions have
their say and the best watch models of the company's almost
120-year history are presented in this usual high-quality volume.
Principles of Economics focuses on seven core principles to produce
economic naturalists through active learning. By eliminating
overwhelming detail and focusing on core principles, students from
all backgrounds are able to gain a deeper understanding of
economics. Focused on helping students become "economic
naturalists," people who employ basic economic principles to
understand and explain what they observe in the world around them.
COVID-19 pandemic content, analysis, and examples further engage
students. With engaging questions, explanations, exercises and
videos, the authors help students relate economic principles to a
host of everyday experiences such as going to the ATM or purchasing
airline tickets. Throughout this process, the authors encourage
students to become "economic naturalists." Author developed
Learning Glass concept overview videos and Worked Problem videos
give students an overview of challenging and important concepts.
With new videos and engagement tools in Connect, like
Application-Based Activities, alongside SmartBook's adaptive
reading experience, the 8th edition enables instructors to spend
class time engaging, facilitating, and answering questions instead
of lecturing on the basics.
Principles of Microeconomics focuses on seven core principles to
produce economic naturalists through active learning. By
eliminating overwhelming detail and focusing on core principles,
students from all backgrounds are able to gain a deeper
understanding of economics. Focused on helping students become
"economic naturalists," people who employ basic economic principles
to understand and explain what they observe in the world around
them. COVID-19 pandemic content, analysis, and examples further
engage students. With engaging questions, explanations, exercises
and videos, the authors help students relate economic principles to
a host of everyday experiences such as going to the ATM or
purchasing airline tickets. Throughout this process, the authors
encourage students to become "economic naturalists." Author
developed Learning Glass concept overview videos and Worked Problem
videos give students an overview of challenging and important
concepts. With new videos and engagement tools in Connect, like
Application-Based Activities, alongside SmartBook's adaptive
reading experience, the 8th edition enables instructors to spend
class time engaging, facilitating, and answering questions instead
of lecturing on the basics.
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Explore camouflage in this new addition to the Slide-and-See series
that introduces budding scientists to fun STEM topics! This
interactive board book features poetic riddles about camouflage
animals around the world. Sturdy pages with tiered layers cleverly
slide with each page turn to reveal answers. From classic
camouflage critters like the chameleon to lesser known species like
the owl butterfly, readers will delight in discovering the
creatures in this interactive guessing game. Includes fact-packed
educational notes about camouflage.
This volume offers a holistic, empirically grounded examination of
the factors which influence educational leaders' ethical judgments
in their day-to-day work in schools. Drawing on a range of
quantitative studies, the text utilizes organizational psychology
to explore multiple ethical paradigms. It considers social aspects
including ethnicity, gender, hegemony-minority relations, and
leadership styles which influence and drive ethical judgment
patterns employed by educators and principals. The book ultimately
demonstrates the Ethical Perspectives Instrument (EPI) as an
effective tool for the assessment of various ethical viewpoints and
their interactions, suitable for application to diverse cultures
and socio-educational circumstances. An important study of the
leaders' ethics and preparation in handling marginalized
populations, this book will be valuable for academics, researchers,
and graduate students working in the fields of educational
leadership, organizational psychology, and the sociology of
education.
Taking a theologically oriented method for engaging with
historical and cultural phenomena, this book explores the
challenge, offered by revolutionary Shi i theology in Iran, to
Western conventions on theology, revolution and religion 's role in
the creation of identity.
Offering a stringent critique of current literature on political
Islam and on Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, the author suggests
that current literature fails to perceive and engage with the
revolution and its thought as religious phenomena. Grounded in the
experience of unconditional faith in God, Shi'i thinkers recognize
a distinction between the human and the divine. Concerned with the
challenge of constructing a virtuous society, these thinkers pose a
model of authority and morality based on mediation, interpretation
and participation in the experience of faith. Ori Goldberg
considers this interpretative model utilizing a broad array of
theoretical tools, most notably critical theologies drawn from
Jewish and Christian thought. He draws on a close reading of
several texts written by prominent Iranian Shi'i thinkers between
1940 and 2000, most of which are translated into English for the
first time, to reveal a vibrant, complex discourse.
Presenting a new interfaith perspective on a subject usually
considered beyond the scope of such research, this book will be an
important reference for scholars of Iranian studies, political
Islam, theology and cultural studies.
Principles of Macroeconomics focuses on seven core principles to
produce economic naturalists through active learning. By
eliminating overwhelming detail and focusing on core principles,
students from all backgrounds are able to gain a deeper
understanding of economics. Focused on helping students become
"economic naturalists," people who employ basic economic principles
to understand and explain what they observe in the world around
them. COVID-19 pandemic content, analysis, and examples further
engage students. With engaging questions, explanations, exercises
and videos, the authors help students relate economic principles to
a host of everyday experiences such as going to the ATM or
purchasing airline tickets. Throughout this process, the authors
encourage students to become "economic naturalists." Author
developed Learning Glass concept overview videos and Worked Problem
videos give students an overview of challenging and important
concepts. With new videos and engagement tools in Connect, like
Application-Based Activities, alongside SmartBook's adaptive
reading experience, the 8th edition enables instructors to spend
class time engaging, facilitating, and answering questions instead
of lecturing on the basics.
This book focuses on how we should treat philosophy’s theoretical
representations. It argues in favor of an instrumentalist attitude
towards pivotal cases of theoretical representation in philosophy
that are commonly regarded under a realist attitude. Philosophy is
awash with theoretical representations, which raises the question
of how we should regard them. This book argues that representations
in philosophy should not be regarded under a realist attitude by
default as individually disclosing the nature of what they
represent. Ori Simchen introduces the reader to the general theme
of representations in philosophy and our attitudes towards them via
case studies: numbers, modality, and belief. He offers a framework
for deciding when a realist attitude towards a theoretical
representation is warranted and concludes that the representations
deployed in the case studies fail the proposed test. The next part
of the book illustrates the attractiveness of attitudinal
instrumentalism towards representations in semantics, in the
philosophy of mind, and within the problematics of rule-following.
Philosophical Representation will appeal to researchers and
advanced students working in philosophy of language, philosophy of
mind, metaphysics, philosophical logic, and philosophical
methodology.
Against the backdrop of research that tells us emotions are playing
an increasingly prevalent role in organizations' performance, this
text draws on empirical studies to powerfully argue that it is
incumbent upon school principals to display emotional leadership
within the education system. A Model of Emotional Leadership in
Schools sets out the importance of affective wellness in teachers
and addresses questions on emotive school management. Bringing
together a range of studies, the book elucidates emotion as a
managerial tool in the school environment, and considers the
interpersonal emotional support of teachers by principals.
Ultimately, the text puts forward a new model of emotional
leadership in schools to provide practical insights into the ways
in which principals can influence, transform, and manage teachers'
emotions. This insightful text will be of interest to researchers,
academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of school
leadership and leadership strategy, as well as educators and school
leaders concerned with how interpersonal aspects of emotion
management play out within the school context. Izhak Berkovich is a
faculty member in the Department of Education and Psychology at the
Open University of Israel, Israel. Ori Eyal is Chair of the
Graduate Division of Policy, Administration, and Leadership in
Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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Beatriz Gimenez de Ory; Illustrated by Paloma Valdivia
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Introduce budding scientists to a fun STEM topic -- eggs! This
interactive board book features riddles about the different eggs of
the animal kingdom, and images that transform as you turn the page
to reveal the answer. Includes fact-packed educational notes about
eggs and what we can learn from them.
This volume, which gathers contributions presented at the annual
conferences of l'Association pour le developpement de l'histoire
culturelle (ADHC), questions the subjects and boundaries of
cultural history in France - with regard to neighboring approaches
such as cultural studies, media studies, and gender studies - to
elaborate a "social history of representations." Historians,
philosophers and sociologists address a large variety of topics and
methodological proposals. Definitions, objects and actors, memories
and cultural transfers: this book depicts the major questions that
underlie the historical debate at the beginning of the 21st
century.
This volume offers a holistic, empirically grounded examination of
the factors which influence educational leaders' ethical judgments
in their day-to-day work in schools. Drawing on a range of
quantitative studies, the text utilizes organizational psychology
to explore multiple ethical paradigms. It considers social aspects
including ethnicity, gender, hegemony-minority relations, and
leadership styles which influence and drive ethical judgment
patterns employed by educators and principals. The book ultimately
demonstrates the Ethical Perspectives Instrument (EPI) as an
effective tool for the assessment of various ethical viewpoints and
their interactions, suitable for application to diverse cultures
and socio-educational circumstances. An important study of the
leaders' ethics and preparation in handling marginalized
populations, this book will be valuable for academics, researchers,
and graduate students working in the fields of educational
leadership, organizational psychology, and the sociology of
education.
At the crossroad of intellectual, diplomatic, and cultural history,
this book examines flows of information, men, and ideas between
South American cities-mainly the port-capitals of Buenos Aires and
Rio de Janeiro-during the period of their modernization. The book
reconstructs this largely overlooked trend toward connectedness
both as an objective process and as an assemblage of visions and
policies concentrating on diverse transnational practices such as
translation, travel, public visits and conferences, the print
press, cultural diplomacy, intertextuality, and institutional and
personal contacts. Inspired by the entangled history approach and
the spatial turn in the humanities, the book highlights the
importance of cross-border exchanges within the South American
continent. It thus offers a correction to two major traditions in
the historiography of ideas and identities in modern Latin America:
the predominance of the nation-state as the main unit of analysis,
and the concentration on relationships with Europe and the U.S. as
the main axis of cultural exchange. Modernization, it is argued,
brought segments of South America's capital cities not only close
to Paris, London, and New York, as is commonly claimed, but also to
each other both physically and mentally, creating and recreating
spaces, ways of thinking, and cultural-political projects at the
national and regional levels.
Effective Project and Change Sponsorship addresses the challenges
that organizations face surrounding the sponsorship of projects and
change initiatives. This long overdue book provides techniques,
remedies, and approaches to improve the way these initiatives are
sponsored, led, and executed to ensure context, alignment, and a
focus on value creation. Readers will learn key concepts about
specific aspects of project sponsorship, including overcoming the
most common and challenging project-related obstacles, connecting
the key elements of project and change management, and advanced
techniques to effectively engage stakeholders and manage their
expectations. This book provides a comprehensive and holistic
approach to sponsoring initiatives across the organization. It
gives sponsors a toolbox to deal with a variety of challenges and
situations in any type of project life cycle (including agile and
waterfall). Sponsors will learn how to lead their initiatives from
inception to success by reducing waste, redundancies,
misunderstandings, and misalignments. In addition, they will also
discover how to overcome organizational silos, effectively handle
organizational politics, and facilitate the building of
high-performing teams. This guide is designed for senior managers,
organizational leaders, project managers, change practitioners, and
anyone who is involved in leading initiatives in the
organization-including managers of PMOs, members of steering
committees, and "accidental" project or change sponsors.
From Oaxacan wood carvings to dessert kitchens in provincial
France, Critical Craft presents thirteen ethnographies which
examine what defines and makes 'craft' in a wide variety of
practices from around the world. Challenging the conventional
understanding of craft as a survival, a revival, or something that
resists capitalism, the book turns instead to the designers, DIY
enthusiasts, traditional artisans, and technical programmers who
consider their labor to be craft, in order to comprehend how they
make sense of it. The authors' ethnographic studies focus on the
individuals and communities who claim a practice as their own,
bypassing the question of craft survival to ask how and why
activities termed craft are mobilized and reproduced. Moving beyond
regional studies of heritage artisanship, the authors suggest that
ideas of craft are by definition part of a larger cosmopolitan
dialogue of power and identity. By paying careful attention to
these sometimes conflicting voices, this collection shows that
there is great flexibility in terms of which activities are
labelled 'craft'. In fact, there are many related ideas of craft
and these shape distinct engagements with materials, people, and
the economy. Case studies from countries including Mexico, Nigeria,
India, Taiwan, the Philippines, and France draw together evidence
based on linguistics, microsociology, and participant observation
to explore the shifting terrain on which those engaged in craft are
operating. What emerges is a fascinating picture which shows how
claims about craft are an integral part of contemporary global
change.
At the crossroad of intellectual, diplomatic, and cultural history,
this book examines flows of information, men, and ideas between
South American cities-mainly the port-capitals of Buenos Aires and
Rio de Janeiro-during the period of their modernization. The book
reconstructs this largely overlooked trend toward connectedness
both as an objective process and as an assemblage of visions and
policies concentrating on diverse transnational practices such as
translation, travel, public visits and conferences, the print
press, cultural diplomacy, intertextuality, and institutional and
personal contacts. Inspired by the entangled history approach and
the spatial turn in the humanities, the book highlights the
importance of cross-border exchanges within the South American
continent. It thus offers a correction to two major traditions in
the historiography of ideas and identities in modern Latin America:
the predominance of the nation-state as the main unit of analysis,
and the concentration on relationships with Europe and the U.S. as
the main axis of cultural exchange. Modernization, it is argued,
brought segments of South America's capital cities not only close
to Paris, London, and New York, as is commonly claimed, but also to
each other both physically and mentally, creating and recreating
spaces, ways of thinking, and cultural-political projects at the
national and regional levels.
Managing Stakeholder Expectations for Project Success provides a
practical approach to managing those things that matter most for
project success-stakeholder expectations, communication, risk,
change, and quality-so that scope, schedule, and cost end up on
target and the project's intended benefits for the organization are
realized.This unique desk reference shows how to utilize the best
practices, concepts, and methodologies found in PMI's PMBOK Guide,
along with a few concepts from APMG's PRINCE2, and leverage them in
the context of organizational challenges and project realities. It
features new methods for successful project management that focus
on understanding and managing stakeholders' needs and expectations,
communication, time management, and organizational politics and
culture. The book's content and design also make it a valuable
resource for PMP certification.
Agile Business Analysis discusses trends in the business analysis
and agile environments, how these two areas align and promote each
other, and identifies areas of responsibility and ownership for the
business analyst (BA). Readers will learn ways BAs can provide
support to agile projects through modeling techniques;
documentation; communication, meetings and reporting; governance;
building user stories, elaborating requirements, and facilitating
the estimating process; ensuring effective application of lessons,
improvements, and efficiencies; and much more. The book is designed
for BAs of all levels, from all types of environments.
The story of Israel's foundation has often been told from the
perspective of Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel. Leaving
Zion turns this historical narrative on its head, focusing on
Jewish out-migration from Palestine and Israel between 1945 and the
late 1950s. Based on previously unexamined primary sources
collected from twenty-two archives in six countries, Ori Yehudai
demonstrates that despite the dominant view that displaced Jews
should settle in the Jewish homeland, many Jews instead saw the
country as a site of displacement or a way-station to more
desirable lands. Weaving together the perspectives of governments,
aid organizations, Jewish communities and the personal stories of
individual migrants, Yehudai brings to light the ideological,
political and social tensions surrounding emigration. Covering
events in the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, this study
provides a fresh transnational perspective on the critical period
surrounding the birth of Israel and the post-Holocaust
reconstruction of the Jewish world.
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