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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.
This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the
nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal that in
light of prevailing social inequalities, health policies may intend
to protect public health, but in fact they often represent
significant structural threats to the health and well being of the
poor, ethnic minorities, women, and other subordinate groups. The
volume focuses on the 'anthropology of policy,' which is concerned
with the process of decision-making, the influences on
decision-makers, and the impact of policy on human lives. This
collaboration will be a critical resource for researchers and
practitioners in medical anthropology, applied anthropology,
medical sociology, minority issues, public policy, and health care
issues.
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.
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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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Discovery Miles 40 510
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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.
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.
The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Research Methods provides a
rich resource for organizational researchers, locating the
technical aspects of organizational research in the wider context
of the relevant personal, epistemological, theoretical, historical,
ethical, and political issues. Buchanan & Bryman have gathered
together many of the world's leading writers on theory, method and
analysis in organizational research and have made this the most
comprehensive and cutting-edge volume in this ever-growing field.
The handbook aims to: - Provide a comprehensive critical review of
contemporary issues, debates, field practice, and trends across the
domain of organizational research; - Locate current thinking,
debates, and methods in the history of organizational research; -
Identify trends, theories, and issues which have the potential to
shape the underpinning epistemologies, theories and methodologies
of future organizational research; - Explore strategies for
bridging the gap between researchers and those who are in a
position to act on research findings to influence organizational
practice The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Research Methods
provides an impressively comprehensive critical review of
contemporary issues, debates and trends across the domain of
organizational research. It will be an indispensible reference work
for all organizational researchers.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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++++ De Scriptoribus Scotis Libri Duo; Issue 55 Of Publications;
Lothian). Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh David Buchanan, David Irving
Excudebant Balfour et Jack, 1837 Literary Criticism; European;
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Authors, Scottish; Biography &
Autobiography / Religious; Christian biography; Literary Criticism
/ European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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