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Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach,
4e, by Palmer, Dunford, and Buchanan, offers managers a multiple
perspectives approach to managing change, which recognizes the
variety of ways to facilitate change and reinforces the need for a
tailored and creative approach to fit different contexts. The
fourth edition offers timely updates to previous content, while
introducing new and emerging trends, developments, themes, debates,
and practices.
Since 9/11, David Buchanan argues, the genre of war literature has
become a ""sufferable"" and ""suffering"" feature of American
popular culture. While there has long been a simmering critical
debate regarding artistic depictions of war-who can write war
literature, when he or she can do so-Buchanan wades right in to
offer a new way to close-read war narratives. An experienced
insider, Buchanan disavows the supposed epistemological power of
war experience and the guiding ideology called ""combat
gnosticism"" that has dominated the field. Couple this with a
persistent popular preference for the combat narrative told by the
combat experienced soldier, the potential of the genre to address
the U.S. war system critically has been severely limited. Buchanan
closely examines three war novels from 2012 that represent the
United States' military responses to 9/11 (Ben Fountain's Billy
Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, David Abrams's FOBBIT, and Kevin
Powers's The Yellow Birds). Buchanan adapts Kenneth Burke's
scapegoat mechanism in order to offer a model for those who engage
war literature and war films at a critical level. Favoring healthy
ambivalence of certainty, the result is a method of critiquing war
literature that ameliorates the limiting problems that accompany
combat gnosticism itself.
In Acts of Modernity, David Buchanan reads nineteenth-century
historical novels from Scotland, America, France, and Canada as
instances of modern discourse reflective of community concerns and
methods that were transatlantic in scope. Following on
revolutionary events at home and abroad, the unique combination of
history and romance initiated by Walter Scott's Waverley (1814)
furthered interest in the transition to and depiction of the
nation-state. Established and lesser-known novelists reinterpreted
the genre to describe the impact of modernization and to propose
coping mechanisms, according to interests and circumstances.
Besides analysis of the chronotopic representation of modernity
within and between national contexts, Buchanan considers how
remediation enabled diverse communities to encounter popular
historical novels in upmarket and downmarket forms over the course
of the century. He pays attention to the way communication
practices are embedded within and constitutive of the social lives
of readers, and more specifically, to how cultural producers
adapted the historical novel to dynamic communication situations.
In these ways, Acts of Modernity investigates how the historical
novel was repeatedly reinvented to effectively communicate the
consequences of modernity as problem-solutions of relevance to
people on both sides of the Atlantic.
In Acts of Modernity, David Buchanan reads nineteenth-century
historical novels from Scotland, America, France, and Canada as
instances of modern discourse reflective of community concerns and
methods that were transatlantic in scope. Following on
revolutionary events at home and abroad, the unique combination of
history and romance initiated by Walter Scott's Waverley (1814)
furthered interest in the transition to and depiction of the
nation-state. Established and lesser-known novelists reinterpreted
the genre to describe the impact of modernization and to propose
coping mechanisms, according to interests and circumstances.
Besides analysis of the chronotopic representation of modernity
within and between national contexts, Buchanan considers how
remediation enabled diverse communities to encounter popular
historical novels in upmarket and downmarket forms over the course
of the century. He pays attention to the way communication
practices are embedded within and constitutive of the social lives
of readers, and more specifically, to how cultural producers
adapted the historical novel to dynamic communication situations.
In these ways, Acts of Modernity investigates how the historical
novel was repeatedly reinvented to effectively communicate the
consequences of modernity as problem-solutions of relevance to
people on both sides of the Atlantic.
Organization politics can be seen as a game in which players
compete for different kinds of territory such as status, power, and
influence. In Power, Politics and Organizational Change, David
Buchanan and Richard Badham ask: What's the relevance of politics
to change and innovation? What kind of game is this? What, if any,
are the rules? How is the game played? What ethical issues arise?
Should one play this game to win, and if so, how? How can you
develop political expertise? The third edition has been thoroughly
updated and revised. This includes discussion of current trends
heightening the importance of developing political will and skill
in a post-truth era, the rise of 'new power', the role of 'BS
busting', the power of storytelling, and the politics of speaking
up.
Organization politics can be seen as a game in which players
compete for different kinds of territory such as status, power, and
influence. In Power, Politics and Organizational Change, David
Buchanan and Richard Badham ask: What's the relevance of politics
to change and innovation? What kind of game is this? What, if any,
are the rules? How is the game played? What ethical issues arise?
Should one play this game to win, and if so, how? How can you
develop political expertise? The third edition has been thoroughly
updated and revised. This includes discussion of current trends
heightening the importance of developing political will and skill
in a post-truth era, the rise of 'new power', the role of 'BS
busting', the power of storytelling, and the politics of speaking
up.
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The Genetics of the Pig (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Leif Andersson; Edited by Max Rothschild; Contributions by Alan Archibald, Jean-Pierre Bidanel; Edited by Anatoly Ruvinsky; Contributions by …
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The understanding of pig genetics and genomics has advanced
significantly in recent years, creating fresh insights into
biological processes. This comprehensive reference work discusses
pig genetics and its integration with livestock management and
production technology to improve performance. Fully updated
throughout to reflect advances in the subject, this new edition
also includes new information on genetic aspects of domestication,
colour variation, genomics and pig breeds, with contributions from
international experts active in the field.
Full Title: "Report of The Jury Trial Miss Anne Waddel, &
Others, against The Right Hon. Charles Hope, & Others, Trustees
of The Late William Waddel, Esq. of Sydserff; and Miss Anne Waddel,
against The Right Hon. Charles Hope, & Daughters, Commencing on
13th, and Endi"Description: "The Making of the Modern Law: Trials,
1600-1926" collection provides descriptions of the major trials
from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially
published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more.
Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those
precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and
historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case,
the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial."Trials" provides
unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as
well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the
historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and
divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various identification
fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is
provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition
identification: ++++Court RecordNew York City BarEdinburgh: Printed
by Thomas Allan & Co., 265 High Street. 1845
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the
pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
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