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Identitti 2022 (Paperback)
Mithu Sanyal; Translated by Alta L Price
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The quest for moral leaders is both a personal quest that takes
place in the hearts and minds of leaders and a pursuit by
individuals, groups, organizations, communities and societies for
leaders who are both ethical and effective. The contributors to
this volume, all top scholars in leadership studies and ethics,
provide a nuanced discussion of the complex ethical relationships
that lie at the core of leadership. Two distinct factors make the
ethics of leadership different from the ethics of other
individuals. The first is power - the way leaders exercise it and
the temptations that come with it. The second is the moral
relationship they have with followers and the range of people with
whom they have moral relationships and obligations. In The Quest
for Moral Leaders, the contributors explore how leaders themselves
view their role, as well as the ways in which leadership functions
within business, politics and society. The volume begins with
chapters examining how religious beliefs and emotions color the way
leaders make decisions. The second section covers how leaders think
about morality, while the book's final chapters shift our attention
to the function of leadership within organizations. The first book
to offer perspectives on leadership ethics from the ancient Greek
ideas on reverence to the moral problems of executive compensation,
The Quest for Moral Leaders is a must-read for scholars and
students of leadership, ethics and business. Leadership consultants
will also find this in-depth analysis a valuable resource.
Alexander Kluge's work has long grappled with the Third Reich and
its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its
gravitational center. Kluge is forever reminding us to keep our
present catastrophes in perspective-"calibrated"-against this
historical monstrosity. Kluge's newest work is a book about bitter
fates, both already known and yet to unfold. Above all, it is about
the many kinds of organized machinery built to destroy people.
These forty-eight stories of justice and injustice are dedicated to
the memory of Fritz Bauer, determined fighter for justice and
district attorney of Hesse during the Auschwitz Trials. "The moment
they come into existence, monstrous crimes have a unique ability,"
Bauer once said, "to ensure their own repetition." Kluge takes
heed, and in these pages reminds us of the importance of keeping
our powers of observation and memory razor sharp.
One of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben,
analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets,
Friedrich Hölderlin. What does it mean to inhabit a place or a
self? What is a habit? And, for human beings, doesn’t living
mean—first and foremost—inhabiting? Pairing a detailed
chronology of German poet Friedrich Hölderlin’s years of
purported madness with a new examination of texts often considered
unreadable, Giorgio Agamben's new book aims to describe and
comprehend a life that the poet himself called habitual and
inhabited.  Hölderlin’s life was split neatly in two: his
first 36 years, from 1770 to 1806; and the 36 years from 1807 to
1843, which he spent as a madman holed up in the home of Ernst
Zimmer, a carpenter. The poet lived the first half of his existence
out and about in the broader world, relatively engaged with current
events, only to then spend the second half entirely cut off from
the outside world. Despite occasional visitors, it was as if a wall
separated him from all external events and relationships. For
reasons that may well eventually become clear, Hölderlin chose to
expunge all character—historical, social, or otherwise—from the
actions and gestures of his daily life. According to his earliest
biographer, he often stubbornly repeated, “nothing happens to
me.†Such a life can only be the subject of a chronology—not a
biography, much less a clinical or psychological analysis.
Nevertheless, this book suggests that this is precisely how
Hölderlin offers humanity an entirely other notion of what it
means to live. Although we have yet to grasp the political
significance of his unprecedented way of life, it now clearly
speaks directly to our own. Â
With or Without Me is a book for everyone - believer or unbeliever,
Christian or atheist- who refuses to surrender to the idea that
there are easy answers to the big questions in life. Doubt about
God's goodness in the face of grief is natural. With or Without Me
is one woman's unsparing and eloquent memoir about the inadequacy
of religion and philosophy to answer her emotional pain. Yet Esther
Maria Magnis's rejection of God is merely the beginning of a
tortuous journey back to faith - one punctuated by personal losses
retold with bluntness and immediacy. Magnis knows believing in God
is anything but easy. Because he allows people to suffer. Because
he's invisible. And silent. "A must read for anyone who has ever
pondered the meaning of life" - Lydia S. Dugdale, Author of The
Lost Art of Dying
The Cultural Geography Reader draws together fifty-two classic and
contemporary abridged readings that represent the scope of the
discipline and its key concepts. Readings have been selected based
on their originality, accessibility and empirical focus, allowing
students to grasp the conceptual and theoretical tools of cultural
geography through the grounded research of leading scholars in the
field. Each of the eight sections begins with an introduction that
discusses the key concepts, its history and relation to cultural
geography and connections to other disciplines and practices. Six
to seven abridged book chapters and journal articles, each with
their own focused introductions, are also included in each section.
The readability, broad scope, and coverage of both classic and
contemporary pieces from the US and UK makes The Cultural Geography
Reader relevant and accessible for a broad audience of
undergraduate students and graduate students alike. It bridges the
different national traditions in the US and UK, as well as
introducing the span of classic and contemporary cultural
geography. In doing so, it provides the instructor and student with
a versatile yet enduring benchmark text.
An engaging collection of late-life reflections and quick thoughts,
a book unlike any other Agamben book. What can the senses of an
attentive philosopher see, hear, and learn that can, in turn, teach
us about living better lives? Perhaps it’s less a matter of
asking what and more a matter of asking how. These latest
reflections from Italy’s foremost philosopher form a sort of
travelogue that chronicles Giorgio Agamben’s profound interior
journey. Here, with unprecedented immediacy, Agamben shares his
final remarks, late-life observations, and reflections about his
life that flashed before his eyes. What did he see in that brief
flash? What did he stay faithful to? What remains of all those
places, friends, and teachers? Â
Cannibalism is the breaking of the ultimate taboo. Yet during the later Middle Ages and early years of the Renaissance, mythological, historical and contemporary accounts of cannibalism became particularly popular. Consuming Passions synthesizes and analyses the most interesting of those late medieval and early modern responses to Eucharistic teaching and debate that manifest themselves in the trope of cannibalism.
"Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough
Innovations in Mature Firms" zeros in on the cutting-edge thinkers
who repeatedly create and deliver breakthrough innovations and new
products in large, mature organizations. These employees are
organizational powerhouses who solve consumer problems and
substantially contribute to the financial value to their firms.
In this pioneering study, authors Abbie Griffin, Raymond L. Price,
and Bruce A. Vojak detail who these serial innovators are and how
they develop novel products, ranging from salt-free seasonings to
improved electronics in companies such as Alberto Culver,
Hewlett-Packard, and Procter & Gamble. Based on interviews with
over 50 serial innovators and an even larger pool of their
co-workers, managers and human resources teams, the authors reveal
key insights about how to better understand, emulate, enable,
support, and manage these unique and important individuals for
long-term corporate success. Interestingly, the book finds that
serial innovators are instrumental both in cases where firms are
aware of clear market demands, and in scenarios when companies take
risks on new investments, creating a consumer need.
For over 25 years, research on innovation has taken the perspective
that new product development can be managed like any other
(complex) process of the firm. While a highly structured and
closely supervised approach is helpful in creating incremental
innovations, this book finds that it is not conducive to creating
breakthrough innovations. The text argues that the drive to
routinize innovation has gone too far; in fact, so far as to limit
many mature firms' ability to create breakthrough innovations. In
today's economy, with the future of so many large firms on the
line, this book is a clarion call to businesses to rethink how to
nurture and thrive on their innovative workforce.
Basic Confocal Microscopy, Second Edition builds on the successful
first edition by keeping the same format and reflecting relevant
changes and recent developments in this still-burgeoning field.
This format is based on the Confocal Microscopy Workshop that has
been taught by several of the authors for nearly 20 years and
remains a popular workshop for gaining basic skills in confocal
microscopy. While much of the information concerning fluorescence
and confocal microscopy that made the first edition a success has
not changed in the six years since the book was first published,
confocal imaging is an evolving field and recent advances in
detector technology, operating software, tissue preparation and
clearing, image analysis, and more have been updated to reflect
this. Several of these advances are now considered routine in many
laboratories, and others such as super resolution techniques built
on confocal technology are becoming widely available.
This book explores the knowledge, work and life of Pacific coastal
populations from the Pacific Northwest to Panama. Center stage in
this volume is the knowledge people acquire on coastal and marine
ecosystems. Material and aesthetic benefits from interacting with
the environment contribute to the ongoing building of coastal
cultures. The contributors are particularly interested in how local
knowledge -either recently generated or transmitted along
generations- interfaces with science, conservation, policy and
artistic expression. Their observations exhibit a wide array of
outcomes ranging from resource and human exploitation to the
magnification of cultural resilience and coastal heritage. The
interdisciplinary nature of ethnobiology allows the chapter authors
to have a broad range of freedom when examining their subject
matter. They build a multifaceted understanding of coastal heritage
through the different lenses offered by the humanities, social
sciences, oceanography, fisheries and conservation science and, not
surprisingly, the arts. Coastal Heritage and Cultural Resilience
establishes an intimate bond between coastal communities and the
audience in a time when resilience of coastal life needs to be
celebrated and fortified.
Basic Confocal Microscopy, Second Edition builds on the successful
first edition by keeping the same format and reflecting relevant
changes and recent developments in this still-burgeoning field.
This format is based on the Confocal Microscopy Workshop that has
been taught by several of the authors for nearly 20 years and
remains a popular workshop for gaining basic skills in confocal
microscopy. While much of the information concerning fluorescence
and confocal microscopy that made the first edition a success has
not changed in the six years since the book was first published,
confocal imaging is an evolving field and recent advances in
detector technology, operating software, tissue preparation and
clearing, image analysis, and more have been updated to reflect
this. Several of these advances are now considered routine in many
laboratories, and others such as super resolution techniques built
on confocal technology are becoming widely available.
This book explores our ethical responsibilities regarding health in
general and disabilities in particular. Disability studies and
human enhancement stand out as two emerging areas of research in
medical ethics, prompting debates into ethical questions of
identity, embodiment, discrimination, and accommodation, as well as
questions concerning distributive justice and limitations on
people's medical rights. Edited by two ethicist philosophers, this
book combines their mastery of the theoretical debates surrounding
disability and human enhancement with attention to real world
questions that health workers and patients may face. By including a
wide range of high-quality voices and perspectives, the book
provides an invaluable resource for scholars who are working on
this important and emerging area of leadership and health care
ethics.
This book explores our ethical responsibilities regarding health in
general and disabilities in particular. Disability studies and
human enhancement stand out as two emerging areas of research in
medical ethics, prompting debates into ethical questions of
identity, embodiment, discrimination, and accommodation, as well as
questions concerning distributive justice and limitations on
people's medical rights. Edited by two ethicist philosophers, this
book combines their mastery of the theoretical debates surrounding
disability and human enhancement with attention to real world
questions that health workers and patients may face. By including a
wide range of high-quality voices and perspectives, the book
provides an invaluable resource for scholars who are working on
this important and emerging area of leadership and health care
ethics.
Most researchers agree that biological confocal microscopy was
jump-started by the confocal design first published by White and
Amos in 1985 in the Journal of Cell Biology. As a result, this
remains a relatively young field. Yet the use of the technique has
grown phenomenally since those early efforts, with new users
joining the ranks daily. The publication of Basic Confocal
Microscopy reflects the burgeoning need to train new students,
technologists, and faculty wishing to use confocal microscopy in
their research. A direct outgrowth of the authors' five-day
intensive course in the subject begun in 2005, this book covers the
basics and includes all the information required to design,
implement, and interpret the results of, biological experiments
based on confocal microscopy. Concise yet comprehensive, the volume
begins by covering the core issues of fluorescence, specimen
preparation and labeling, before moving on to address the
analog-to-digital conversion of specimen data gathered using
confocal microscopy. Subsequent chapters detail the practicalities
of operating confocal microscopes, providing all the information
necessary to begin practicing confocal microscopy as well as
optimizing the material obtained. The final block of chapters
examine 3-dimensional analysis and the reconstruction of data sets,
outline some of the ethical considerations in confocal imaging, and
then supply a number of resources that the authors have found
useful in their own work. Once readers have mastered the
information this book presents, the resources found in its pages
will be an excellent guide to continued learning about the more
advanced forms of confocal microscopy.
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New Year (Paperback)
Juli Zeh; Translated by Alta L Price
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R376
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2022 PEN Translation Award FINALIST In this masterful novel, author
Juli Zeh skillfully shifts away from the conventional tale of a
middle-aged, middle-class father out for a New Year's Day bike ride
to an unexpectedly dark, psychological family drama. Lanzarote on
New Year's Day: Henning is cycling up the steep path to Femes. As
he struggles against the wind and the gradient he takes stock of
his life. He has a job, a wife, two children-yet hardly recognizes
himself anymore. Panic attacks have been pouncing on him like
demons. When he finally reaches the pass in utter exhaustion, a
mysterious coincidence unveils a repressed yet vivid memory,
plunging him back into childhood and the traumatic event that
almost cost him and his sister their lives. In this masterful
novel, bestselling author Juli Zeh skillfully turns a New Year's
Day bike ride into an unexpectedly dark, psychological family
drama.
Leadership might be thought of as the process that facilitates the
achievement of group or societal objectives. As such, it has been
at the centre of learned reflection and debate from earliest times.
Philosophers, religious leaders, political theorists, and reformers
have struggled with (and argued about) the moral purpose of
leadership, how individuals and societies can go about achieving
desired ends, and what role leaders and followers play in the
process. This volume draws together in one place some of the best
thinking on these and other issues from the great minds of the
Western tradition. Taken together, the selections of this volume
provide a rich and textured source for an initial understanding of
some of the central issues of leadership.This book is an ideal
reference work for scholars, leaders, and public intellectuals who
are interested in the workings of leadership. It is also essential
reading for students who wish to confront the deeper issues
surrounding the leadership relation.
Since September 11, 2001, long-standing debates over the nature and
proper extent of executive power have assumed a fresh urgency. In
this book eleven leading scholars of American politics and
political theory address the idea of executive power.
Since September 11, 2001, long-standing debates over the nature and
proper extent of executive power have assumed a fresh urgency. In
this book eleven leading scholars of American politics and
political theory address the idea of executive power.
Table of contents P.L.A. Popelier: Quantum Chemical Topology: on
Bonds and Potentials.- A. Soncini, P.W. Fowler, L.W. Jenneskens:
Angular Momentum and Spectral Decomposition of Ring Currents:
Aromaticity and the Annulene Model.- S.L. Price, L.S. Price:
Modelling Intermolecular Forces for Organic Crystal Structure
Prediction.- C. Millot: Molecular Dynamics Simulations and
Intermolecular Forces.- S. Tsuzuki: Interactions with Aromatic
Rings
This textbook actually shows your students what real life
geographers do. How they are able to conduct different types of
research, develop new insights and teach us more about the world
through a geographer's viewpoint. These are all skills that can
then be applied in a wide range of academic and professional areas.
With chapters organised into 5 different themes, you can choose
which areas of the text you wish to focus on, including (mobility,
region, globalization, nature-culture, cultural landscape). You can
also introduce your students to a number of fascinating
contemporary topics, such as vampire tourism, the rise of the LBGT
districts, texting and language modification. Contemporary Human
Geography is available with LaunchPad. LaunchPad combines an
interactive ebook with high-quality multimedia content and
ready-made assessment options, including LearningCurve adaptive
quizzing. See `Instructor Resources' and `Student Resources' for
further information.
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New Year (Paperback)
Juli Zeh; Translated by Alta L Price
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Lanzarote on New Year's Day: Henning is cycling up the steep path
to Femes. As he struggles against the wind and the gradient he
takes stock of his life. He has a job, a wife, two children - yet
hardly recognises himself anymore. Panic attacks have been pouncing
on him like demons. When he finally reaches the pass in utter
exhaustion, a mysterious coincidence unveils a repressed yet vivid
memory, plunging him back into childhood and the traumatic event
that almost cost him and his sister their lives. In this masterful
novel, bestselling author Juli Zeh skillfully turns a New Year's
Day bike ride into an unexpectedly dark, psychological family
drama.
The Cultural Geography Reader draws together fifty-two classic and
contemporary abridged readings that represent the scope of the
discipline and its key concepts. Readings have been selected based
on their originality, accessibility and empirical focus, allowing
students to grasp the conceptual and theoretical tools of cultural
geography through the grounded research of leading scholars in the
field. Each of the eight sections begins with an introduction that
discusses the key concepts, its history and relation to cultural
geography and connections to other disciplines and practices. Six
to seven abridged book chapters and journal articles, each with
their own focused introductions, are also included in each section.
The readability, broad scope, and coverage of both classic and
contemporary pieces from the US and UK makes The Cultural Geography
Reader relevant and accessible for a broad audience of
undergraduate students and graduate students alike. It bridges the
different national traditions in the US and UK, as well as
introducing the span of classic and contemporary cultural
geography. In doing so, it provides the instructor and student with
a versatile yet enduring benchmark text.
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