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This second European edition of this classic textbook brings the
exceptional introduction to organizational behaviour written by the
masters of the subject, and adapts it to meet the needs of students
studying in Europe today. Fully updated and revised, this
adaptation continues the tradition of making current, relevant
research come alive for students, while maintaining its hallmark
features - clear writing style, cutting-edge content and compelling
pedagogy. This new edition offers real-life examples drawn from a
global range of organizations including Google, Cadbury, Apple,
Capital One, Microsoft, Lego, Ferrari and more, plus up-to-date
insights into the latest research and hot topics from across the
world. Key features include: 'Myth or science?' boxes, which
provide repeated evidence that common sense can often lead us
astray in the attempt to understand human behaviour, and that
behavioural research offers a means for testing the validity of
common-sense notions. 'OB in the news' which prepares students to
recognise and evaluate OB issues which often appear in the news
when presented with them in newspapers, magazines, TV, etc. 'Face
the facts': these boxes highlight interesting facts from recent
surveys that emphasise key aspects of the text. For example,
diversity across Europe, the extent of employee engagement, and the
popularity of working in teams. "As a whole, the content of the
book is strong, and is well-structured with a European focus."
Mohammad Lafiti, Uppsala University, Sweden
This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of
biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the
humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching influence of
the biopolitical-the relation of politics to life, or the state to
the body-is not surprising given its centrality to matters such as
healthcare, abortion, immigration, and the global distribution of
essential medicines and medical technologies.Michel Foucault gave
new and unprecedented meaning to the term "biopolitics" in his 1976
essay "Right of Death and Power over Life." In this anthology, that
touchstone piece is followed by essays in which biopolitics is
implicitly anticipated as a problem by Hannah Arendt and later
altered, critiqued, deconstructed, and refined by major political
and social theorists who explicitly engaged with Foucault's ideas.
By focusing on the concept of biopolitics, rather than applying it
to specific events and phenomena, this Reader provides an enduring
framework for assessing the central problematics of modern
political thought. Contributors. Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt,
Alain Badiou, Timothy Campbell, Gilles Deleuze, Roberto Esposito,
Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway, Michael Hardt, Achille Mbembe,
Warren Montag, Antonio Negri, Jacques Ranciere, Adam Sitze, Peter
Sloterdijk, Paolo Virno, Slavoj Zizek
Roberto Esposito is one of the most prolific and important
exponents of contemporary Italian political theory. Bios"-his first
book to be translated into English-builds on two decades of highly
regarded thought, including his thesis that the modern
individual-with all of its civil and political rights as well as
its moral powers-is an attempt to attain immunity from the
contagion of the extraindividual, namely, the community. In Bios,
"Esposito applies such a paradigm of immunization to the analysis
of the radical transformation of the political into biopolitics.
Bios" discusses the origins and meanings of biopolitical discourse,
demonstrates why none of the categories of modern political thought
is useful for completely grasping the essence of biopolitics, and
reconstructs the negative biopolitical core of Nazism. Esposito
suggests that the best contemporary response to the current deadly
version of biopolitics is to understand what could make up the
elements of a positive biopolitics-a politics of life rather than a
politics of mastery and negation of life. In his introduction,
Timothy Campbell situates Esposito's arguments within American and
European thinking on biopolitics. A comprehensive, illuminating,
and highly original treatment of a critically important topic, Bios
"introduces an English-reading public to a philosophy that will
critically impact such wide-ranging current debates as stem cell
research, euthanasia, and the war on terrorism. Roberto Esposito
teaches contemporary philosophy at the Italian Institute for the
Human Sciences in Naples. His books include Categorie dell
impolitico, Nove pensieri sulla politica, Communitas: orgine e
destino della comunita," andImmunitas: protezione e negazione della
vita." Timothy Campbell is associate professor of Italian studies
in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University and the
author of Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi" (Minnesota,
2006).
The wholesome, winsome wit and wisdom of columnist Roger Campbell
Every week for nearly forty years, Roger Campbell took up his pen
to craft a newspaper column that would make a difference in the
lives of his readers. His tales of fishing, family, friends, and
fun helped them to trade their fears for faith, their sorrows for
songs, and their doubts for certainties. Everywhere You Go There's
a Zacchaeus Up a Tree is an anthology edited by his son, drawn from
these weekly columns. Based on Roger's experiences in the world at
large, the pastorate, his community, and his family, these brief
but wise essays are enriching, instructive, and gently challenging.
Roger's habit of humbly talking with people from all walks of life
wherever he went provided ample opportunity to impact generations
of folks. His warm words still bear witness to the truth that God
meets us where we are and uses us when we are willing. Always
starting with a Scripture reference, these short entries can be
read as a daily or weekly devotion. For those longing for a simpler
time and the flavor of small-town life, Everywhere You Go There's a
Zacchaeus Up a Tree shares a deep, abiding, homespun faith that
knows, as Campbell wrote, that "God loves you no matter which way
the wind blows."
This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of
biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the
humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching influence of
the biopolitical-the relation of politics to life, or the state to
the body-is not surprising given its centrality to matters such as
healthcare, abortion, immigration, and the global distribution of
essential medicines and medical technologies.Michel Foucault gave
new and unprecedented meaning to the term "biopolitics" in his 1976
essay "Right of Death and Power over Life." In this anthology, that
touchstone piece is followed by essays in which biopolitics is
implicitly anticipated as a problem by Hannah Arendt and later
altered, critiqued, deconstructed, and refined by major political
and social theorists who explicitly engaged with Foucault's ideas.
By focusing on the concept of biopolitics, rather than applying it
to specific events and phenomena, this Reader provides an enduring
framework for assessing the central problematics of modern
political thought. Contributors. Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt,
Alain Badiou, Timothy Campbell, Gilles Deleuze, Roberto Esposito,
Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway, Michael Hardt, Achille Mbembe,
Warren Montag, Antonio Negri, Jacques Ranciere, Adam Sitze, Peter
Sloterdijk, Paolo Virno, Slavoj Zizek
Historical Style connects the birth of eighteenth-century British
consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness.
Prior to the eighteenth century, British style was slow to change
and followed the cultural and economic imperatives of monarchical
regimes. By the 1750s, however, a growing fashion press extolled,
in writing and illustration, the new phenomenon of periodized
fashion trends. As fashion fads came in and out of style, and as
fashion texts circulated and obsolesced, Britons were forced to
confront the material persistence of out-of-date fashions. Timothy
Campbell argues that these fashion texts and objects shaped British
perception of time and history by producing new curiosity about the
very recent past, as well as a new self-consciousness about the
means by which the past could be understood. In a panoptic sweep,
Historical Style brings together art history, philosophy, and
literary history to portray an era increasingly aware of itself.
Burgeoning consumer society, Campbell contends, highlighted the
distinction between the past and the present, created an
expectation of continual change, and forged a sense of history as
something that could be tracked through material objects. Campbell
assembles a wide range of writings, images, and objects to render
this eighteenth-century landscape: commercial dress displays and
David Hume's ideas of novelty as historical form; popular
illustrations of recent fashion trends and Sir Joshua Reynolds's
aesthetic precepts; fashion periodicals and Sir Walter Scott's
costume-saturated historical fiction. In foregrounding fashion to
trace eighteenth-century historicism, Historical Style draws upon
the interdisciplinary, multimedia archival impressions that
fashionable dress has left behind, as well as the historical and
conceptual resources within the field of fashion studies that
literary and cultural historians of eighteenth-century and Romantic
Britain have often neglected.
Wireless technology has become deeply embedded in everyday life,
but its impact cannot be fully understood without probing the
contributions of the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi
(1874-1937), who ushered in the beginning of wireless
communication. Marconi produced and detected sound waves over long
distances, using the curvature of the earth for direction, and laid
the foundations for what we know as radio--the original mobile,
voice-activated, and electronic media community.
Timothy C. Campbell demonstrates that Marconi's invention of the
wireless telegraph was not simply a technological act but also had
an impact on poetry and aesthetics and linked the written word to
the rise of mass politics. Reading influential works such as F. T.
Marinetti's futurist manifestos, Rudolf Arnheim's 1936 study
"Radio," writings by Gabriele D'Annunzio, and Ezra Pound's
"Cantos," Campbell reveals how the newness of wireless technology
was inscribed in the ways modernist authors engaged with
typographical experimentation, apocalyptic tones, and newly minted
models for registering voices. "Wireless Writing in the Age of
Marconi" presents an alternative history of modernism that listens
as well as looks and bears in mind the altered media environment
brought about by the emergence of the wireless.
Timothy C. Campbell is associate professor of Italian at Cornell
University.
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