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Many disasters are approached by researchers, managers and
policymakers as if they have a clear beginning, middle and end. But
often the experience of being in a disaster is not like this. This
book offers non-linear, non-prescriptive ways of thinking about
disasters and allows the people affected by disaster the chance to
speak.
Could language be a reason why women are under-represented at
senior level in the business world? The Language of Female
Leadership investigates how female leaders actually use language to
achieve their business and relational goals. The author proposes
that the language of women leaders is shaped by the type of
corporation they work for. Based on the latest research, three
types of 'gendered corporation' appear to affect the way women
interact with colleagues: the male-dominated, the gender-divided
and the gender-multiple. This book shows that senior women have to
carry out extra 'linguistic work' to make their mark in the
boardroom. In male-dominated and gender-divided corporations, women
must develop an extraordinary linguistic expertise just to survive.
In gender-multiple corporations, this linguistic expertise helps
them to be highly regarded and effective leaders.
This book reveals how 'double-voicing' is an inherent and routine
part of spoken interactions within institutional contexts. Baxter's
research shows that women use double-voicing more than men as a
means of gaining acceptance and approval in the workplace.
Double-voicing thus involves an interplay between power, gender and
linguistic expertise.
Positioning Gender in Discourse offers a newly emerging approach to the study of spoken discourse. Feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis has particular relevance to analyzing the significance of gender in relation to the competing and intertextualized ways in which speakers construct their identities and their relationships through talk. This book gives readers a full account of the methodology through a study of teenagers' conversations in class, and a study of managers' discussions in team meetings.
J. G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions is a response to the formal
and contextual diversity of one of the most significant writers of
the post-war period. Providing an extensive reassessment of
dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including
historical violence, pornography, post 9/11 politics, and urban
space, it also engages with Ballard's 'late' modernism; his
experimentation with style and form; and his sustained interests in
psychology and psychopathology. The volume addresses the full range
of Ballard's writing, including his early science fiction stories,
his experiments with 'condensed novels', his 'urban disaster'
trilogy (including Crash), his autobiographical fictions, his late
critiques of globalized capitalism, and his extensive non-fictional
output of essays and reviews.
Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, language and
gender specialists consider the barriers and opportunities
encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the
church, education, business and the media, where people are
increasingly judged by their speech and where male and female
speech is often evaluated differently.
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Preaching Black Lives (Matter) (Paperback)
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Preaching Black Lives (Matter) is an anthology that asks, "What
does it mean to be church where Black lives matter?" Prophetic
imagination would have us see a future in which all Christians
would be free of the soul-warping belief and practice of racism.
This collection of reflections is an incisive look into that future
today. It explains why preaching about race is important in the
elimination of racism in the church and society, and how preaching
has the ability to transform hearts. While programs, protests,
conferences, and laws are all important and necessary, less
frequently discussed is the role of the church, specifically the
Anglican Church and Episcopal Church, in ending systems of
injustice. The ability to preach from the pulpit is mandatory for
every person, clergy or lay, regardless of race, who has the
responsibility to spread the gospel. For there's a saying in the
Black church, "If it isn't preached from the pulpit, it isn't
important."
Could language be a reason why women are under-represented at
senior level in the business world? Using data from senior
management meetings, this book explores how female leaders use
language to achieve their business and relational goals by arguing
that senior women have to develop linguistic expertise in order to
be effective leaders.
Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, language and
gender specialists consider the barriers and opportunities
encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the
church, education, business and the media, where people are
increasingly judged by their speech and where male and female
speech is often evaluated differently.
"Positioning Gender in Discourse: A Feminist Methodology"
introduces a newly emerging approach to the analysis of talk.
Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis (FPDA) offers a means
of analyzing the ways in which speakers construct their gendered
identities within a complex web of power relations. The FPDA
approach challenges the traditional feminist view that females are
often disempowered within mixed-sex settings. The FPDA approach to
analyzing talk shows that both male and female speakers constantly
shift between positions of powerfulness and powerlessness--even
within the same conversation. The methodology is demonstrated
through a study of teenagers' conversations in class and a study of
senior managers' discussions in business meetings, concluding with
suggestions that while female speakers are often "silenced" by
dominant social discourses, they are far from being uniformly
powerless.
In recent years, work on what may broadly be described as
'behavioural economics' has expanded rapidly, and is now attracting
the attention of leading figures in economics, such as Kenneth
Arrow. Much of the work, however, has concentrated on particular
aspects of individual and aggregate behaviour. The book attempts to
construct a unified framework, showing both how behavioural
variables form the basis of economic activity, and how behavioural
and economic variables interact to determine individual and
aggregate behaviour.
Providing an extensive reassessment of dominant and recurring
themes in Ballard's writing, including historical violence,
pornography, post 9/11 politics, and urban space, this book also
engages with Ballard's 'late' modernism; his experimentation with
style and form; and his sustained interests in psychology and
psychopathology.
Many disasters are approached by researchers, managers and
policymakers as if they have a clear beginning, middle and end. But
often the experience of being in a disaster is not like this. This
book offers non-linear, non-prescriptive ways of thinking about
disasters and allows the people affected by disaster the chance to
speak.
Railroad Ferries of the Hudson and the Stories of a Deckhand is a
complete business, economic, technical, and social history of the
ferryboats that were once operated across the Hudson River to
Manhattan from New Jersey and that were owned and operated by
various railroad companies in conjunction with their commuter and
long-distance passenger trains. The work also covers the Staten
Island Ferry (formerly operated by the B&O Railroad) and New
York Waterway's present-day revival of services connecting with New
Jersey Transit commuter-train services.
This text explores the solution of two-dimensional lattice models.
Topics include basic statistical mechanics, Ising models, the mean
field model, the spherical model, ice-type models, corner transfer
matrices, hard hexagonal models, and elliptic functions. The author
has updated the 1989 version with a new chapter, Subsequent
Developments, for the 2007 edition.
Presenting a clear and compelling historical and scientific support
for the Bible's reliability, A Defence of the Bible brings together
wide-ranging evidence and equips Christians with ready information
to answer critics. Now in its second edition, A Defence of the
Bible answers the common arguments used against Christianity and
the Bible, including detailed responses to four major
misconceptions: That Christianity is "just another religion" That
science through the Theory of Evolution can explain our existence
without the need for God That the Bible is merely a collection of
ancient myths and is full of mistakes That Jesus Christ, if he ever
existed, was merely a good man and was not God. A Defence of the
Bible is published in large-format paperback, consisting of 182
full color pages with 185 images and 565 footnotes. Comments on the
first edition: I just wanted to write you a quick note to say that
I have just finished reading your book. It was absolutely
incredible I am sure I will refer to it again and again. I am
especially excited about sharing it with one of my work colleagues.
He is very interested in biblical evidence. Your book has come at
just the right time and I do not believe in 'coincidences.' This
has God's fingerprints all over it Thanks so much again Gary. You
may never know (this side of heaven) what kind of eternal impact
your research and teaching has had on people. I realize that you
give all of the credit and glory to Christ, but I truly believe
that (name of colleague) and several other seekers of the Truth
will still be thanking you 10,000 years from now for the role you
played in their journey toward_Christ. Randy McFarland, Indiana,
USA Gary, thank you so much for the book. It is explicitly well
researched, meticulously documented with colour pictures, pithy (no
waffle), interesting and easy to understand. Bob McGregor-Skinner,
NSW, Australia Before I read "A Defence of the Bible," I already
believed that the Bible was the true and accurate Word of God, but
I also knew that I couldn't completely persuade an unbeliever of
that fact. I dreaded the thought of being challenged - I simply
couldn't produce any reliable outside evidence. Studying "A Defence
of the Bible" changed the situation entirely. Dr Baxter has made
the material in this book both meaningful and memorable, presenting
it in a clear and powerful way. As I read chapter after chapter of
real, irrefutable evidence, God used this book not only to
strengthen my own faith but also to prepare me to share that faith
with others. I'm praying that He will use it to bless many others.
Sarah Tesch, Victoria, Australi As an evangelist, I have encouraged
many people to read this book and to utilise it as a resource to
answer the hard questions many people put to them. A new Christian,
whom I showed this book to last night, was thrilled when he saw it
and began telling me how it would help him and assist in his
witness to unbelieving friends and family. James Hood - Evangelist,
USA Thank you so very much for this wonderful book We are very
pleased to show it to anyone who visits our home and appreciates
the research and hard work it entailed to complete such a work.
Virg and I leave it on our coffee table so we can read it anytime
and discuss all the fascinating facts. It's quite a testimony to
everyone about our Lord and His word, our Bible. Susan Jacobelli,
Toronto, Canada You are a blessing and I appreciate how God is
using your passion for Him to help educate and support other
Christians. It is becoming more and more important to put into the
hands of believers the answers to some of the questions that are
being asked about creation, Jesus and religions. Thank you for what
you have done in putting together your book. Steven Maldoff,
Pastor, Murray River Baptist Church, Australia
The world is experiencing a shortage of helium-3, a rare isotope of
helium with applications in homeland security, national security,
medicine, industry, and science. This book discusses the nature of
the shortage; federal actions undertaken so far to address it;
current and potential sources of helium-3 and options for
increasing the supply; current and projected uses of helium-3 and
options for reducing the demand; and options for allocating the
supply if it continues to fall short of the demand.
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