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keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
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This Research Handbook provides a cutting-edge review of complex
project organizing (CPO), and suggests fruitful avenues for future
research with a focus on grand challenges and a sustainable future.
Split into four sections, this Research Handbook addresses
transitions within the field of CPO that could, and should, take
place to achieve our shared aspirations for a better future.
Featuring a team of contributors that is both interdisciplinary and
geographically widespread, chapters provide a clarification of core
concepts of complex project organizing, comprehensive coverage of
leading theoretical perspectives for CPO, as well as a discussion
of key empirical research themes. In particular, special attention
is given to the implications of Industry 4.0 for complex project
organizing. The Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing
develops a guiding path to help academics - both established and
early career - and research students in the fields of business
leadership, operations management, and knowledge management
navigate through these important topics, and envision how to
respond to the grand challenges we all face.
A new and creative way of thinking about the consultation in
primary care, for both trainees and practising GPs The book
features a unique Two Houses model to help the reader move away
from completing a series of tasks to focusing on the two key
objectives at the heart of every consultation: Working out what
matters (The House of Discovery) Deciding with the patient what to
do about it (The House of Decision) Using the rich metaphors
contained within these houses, the book explores common pitfalls
that can beset those who are learning the craft of consulting in
primary care, and encourages the reader to fill their toolbox with
the skills needed to develop their own patient-centred consultation
style. The GP Consultation Reimagined is based on the author's
experience of teaching communication skills over 10 years as a GP
Training Programme Director. "This book will not teach you to
improve your consultations. That is its great merit. Instead, it
will encourage you to learn how to consult better." From the
Foreword by Roger Neighbour
"Nearly every major figure of his era," writes his biographer
Adrian Frazier, "worked with Moore, tangled with Moore, took his
impression from, or left it on, George Moore." The Anglo-Irish
novelist George Moore (1852-1933) espoused multiple identities. An
agent provocateur whether as an art critic, novelist, short fiction
writer or memoirist, always probing and provocative, often
deliberately controversial, the personality at the core of this
book invented himself as he reinvented his contemporary world.
Moore's key role-as observer-participant and as satirist-within
many literary and aesthetic movements at the end of the Victorian
period and into the twentieth century owed considerably to the
structures and manners of collaboration that he embraced. This book
throws into relief the multiple ways in which Moore's work can
serve as a counterbalance to established understandings of late
nineteenth and early twentieth-century literary aesthetics both
through innovative scholarly readings of Moore's work and through
illustrative case studies of Moore's collaborative practice by
making available, for the first time, two manuscript plays he
co-authored with Pearl Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes) in 1894. It is
this collaborative practice in conjunction with his cosmopolitan
outlook that turned Moore into a key player in the fin-de-siecle
formation of an international aesthetic community. This book
explores the full range of Moore's collaborations and cultural
encounters: from 1870s Paris art exhibitions to turn-of-the-century
Dublin and London; from gossip to the culture of the barmaid; from
the worship of Balzac to the fraught engagement with Yeats; from
music to Celtic cultural translation. Moore's reputation as a
collaborator with the most significant artistic individuals of his
time in Britain, Ireland and France in particular, but also in
Europe more widely, provides a rich exposition of modes of exchange
and influence in the period, and a unique and distinctive
perspective on Moore himself.
2023 Peter C. Rollins Book Award, Southwest Texas Popular Culture
and American Culture Associations (SWPACA) A revisionist history of
women's pivotal roles as creators of and characters in comic books.
The history of comics has centered almost exclusively on men.
Comics historians largely describe the medium as one built by men
telling tales about male protagonists, neglecting the many ways in
which women fought for legitimacy on the page and in publishers’
studios. Despite this male-dominated focus, women played vital
roles in the early history of comics. The story of how comic books
were born and how they evolved changes dramatically when women like
June Tarpé Mills and Lily Renée are placed at the center rather
than at the margins of this history, and when characters such as
the Black Cat, Patsy Walker, and Señorita Rio are analyzed. Comic
Book Women offers a feminist history of the golden age of comics,
revising our understanding of how numerous genres emerged and
upending narratives of how male auteurs built their careers.
Considering issues of race, gender, and sexuality, the authors
examine crime, horror, jungle, romance, science fiction, superhero,
and Western comics to unpack the cultural and industrial
consequences of how women were represented across a wide range of
titles by publishers like DC, Timely, Fiction House, and others.
This revisionist history reclaims the forgotten work done by women
in the comics industry and reinserts female creators and characters
into the canon of comics history.
This book explores the challenges and opportunities at the
intersection of the global mining sector and local communities by
focusing on a number of international cases drawn from various
locations in Canada, the Philippines and Scandinavia. Mining's
contribution to economic development varies greatly across
countries. In some, it has been a major engine of development, but
in others, disputes have erupted over land use, property rights,
environmental damage, and revenue sharing. Corporate social
responsibility programs are increasingly relied upon to manage
company-community relations, yet conflicts persist in many
settings, with significant costs for companies and communities.
Exploring the many factors and drivers that characterise
relationships among different actors within the sector, the volume
contributes towards the development of practical wisdom, collective
understanding, common sense, and prudence required for the mining
sector and community partners to realize the economic potential and
social and environmental responsibilities of non-renewable resource
development. The book examines case studies from Canada,
Scandinavia and the Philippines, three regions amongst the world's
top countries of mining operations. Drawing on their extensive
experience in these regions, the contributors explore distinctive
mining sectors in the Global North and South, the variation
surrounding different types of extractive industries, and at
different scales, and the legal processes in place to protect local
communities. Key themes include corporate social responsibility,
impact assessment, foreign ownership, Indigenous Peoples, gender,
local insurgency and mining disasters as well as climate change.
The book identifies areas of future research and pathways to
achieving stronger, respectful and mutually beneficial
relationships at the nexus of global mineral extraction and local
communities. This book will be of great interest to students and
scholars of the extractive industries, natural resource management,
sustainable business and corporate social responsibility,
Indigenous studies, and sustainable planning and development.
How do security communities transform into security regimes? This
book compares the construction of cross-border security regimes
across five regions of the world to illustrate how trust emerges
from the day-to-day relations of coordination, cooperation, or
collaboration. Patterns in Border Security: Regional Comparisons
studies the way borderland communities develop, implement, and
align border policy to enhance their sense of security. Borders
have been evolving rapidly in direct response to the multifaceted
challenges brought on by globalization, which has had a nuanced
impact on the way borders are governed and border security is
managed. Taking a methodical comparative regional approach, this
book identifies and contrasts determinants of nascent, ascendant,
and mature border security regimes, which the book documents in
seven regional case studies from across the globe. The findings
identify conditions that give rise to cross-border and
trans-governmental coordination, cooperation, or collaboration.
Specifically, pluralistic forms of communication and interactions,
sometimes far from the actual borderline, emerge as key
determinants of friendly and trustful relations among both
contiguous and non-contiguous regions. This is a significant
innovation in the study of borders, in particular in the way
borders mediate security. For six decades international security
studies had posited culture as the bedrock of security communities.
By contrast, the book identifies conditions, a method, and a model
for adequate and effective cross-border relations, but whose
outcome is not contingent on culture. The chapters in this book
were originally published as a special issue of Commonwealth and
Comparative Politics with a Foreword by the Secretary General of
the World Customs Organization.
This book is treasured by thousands in the culinary profession. If
you are interested in good food and cooking, it will prove of great
value and be constantly in use. This volume presents the
fundamental elements of cookery: explanations of French culinary
terms; recipes for the great sauces; and ingredients and
preparations for appetizers, soups, egg and fish courses, entrees,
salads, vegetables, and desserts.
This book explores the largely neglected issue of responses to the
US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI, or the 'Star Wars' missile
defence programme) across NATO. The chapters here explore the
reactions of different Western allies to the announcement of the
SDI in 1983 and especially the 1985 invitation to participate.
While existing studies have explored the origins of the American
programme and the role it may have played in ending the Cold War,
this volume breaks new ground by considering the impact of the SDI
on transatlantic relations in the 1980s. Based on newly available
archival sources, this volume re-evaluates the responses of eight
NATO member-state governments, as well as the Soviet leadership, to
the SDI. In addition to looking at 'top-down' governmental
reactions, the volume also explores the 'bottom-up' response to the
SDI of civil society and peace activists on both sides of the
Atlantic. The volume examines how the American initiative -
derisively named 'Star Wars' by its detractors - provoked a crisis
in relations with its allies during the final decade of the Cold
War and how those tensions within NATO were ultimately resolved.
This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War history,
strategic studies, foreign policy and international history.
The Red Book is C.G. Jung's record of a period of deep penetration
into his unconscious mind in a process that he called 'active
imagination', undertaken during his mid-life period. Answer to
Jung: Making Sense of 'The Red Book' provides a close reading of
this magnificent yet perplexing text and its fascinating images,
and demonstrates that the fantasies in The Red Book are not
entirely original, but that their plots, characters and symbolism
are remarkably similar to some of the higher degree rituals of
Continental Freemasonry. It argues that the fantasies may be
memories of a series of terrifying initiatory ordeals, possibly
undergone in childhood, using altered or spurious versions of these
Masonic rites. It then compares these initiatory scenarios with
accounts of ritual trauma that have been reported since the 1980s.
This is the first full-length study of The Red Book to focus on the
fantasies themselves and provide such an external explanation for
them. Sonu Shamdasani describes The Red Book as an incomplete task
that Jung left to posterity as a 'message in a bottle' that would
someday come ashore. Answer to Jung brings its message to shore,
providing a coherent, but disturbing, interpretation of each of the
fantasies and their accompanying images.
Nearly every major figure of his era, writes his biographer Adrian
Frazier, worked with Moore, tangled with Moore, took his impression
from, or left it on, George Moore. The Anglo-Irish novelist George
Moore (1852 1933) espoused multiple identities. An agent
provocateur whether as an art critic, novelist, short fiction
writer or memoirist, always probing and provocative, often
deliberately controversial, the personality at the core of this
book invented himself as he reinvented his contemporary world.
Moore s key role3/4as observer-participant and as satirist3/4within
many literary and aesthetic movements at the end of the Victorian
period and into the twentieth century owed considerably to the
structures and manners of collaboration that he embraced. This book
throws into relief the multiple ways in which Moore s work can
serve as a counterbalance to established understandings of late
nineteenth and early twentieth-century literary aesthetics both
through innovative scholarly readings of Moore s work and through
illustrative case studies of Moore s collaborative practice by
making available, for the first time, two manuscript plays he
co-authored with Pearl Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes) in 1894 and
1904 through 1906. It is this collaborative practice in conjunction
with his cosmopolitan outlook that turned Moore into a key player
in the fin-de-siecle formation of an international aesthetic
community. This book explores the full range of Moore s
collaborations and cultural encounters: from 1870s Paris art
exhibitions to turn-of-the-century Dublin and London; from gossip
to the culture of the barmaid; from the worship of Balzac to the
fraught engagement with Yeats; from music to Celtic cultural
translation. Moore s reputation as a collaborator with the most
significant artistic individuals of his time in Britain, Ireland
and France in particular, but also in Europe more widely, provides
a rich exposition of modes of exchange and influence in the period,
and a unique and distinctive perspective on Moore himself."
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