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Most people can name dozens of knowledgeable people in their
private and business lives, but highly value the very limited
number deemed as wise. The fields of gerontology, psychology, and
social science have attempted to study the phenomena of wisdom with
little significant clarity or understanding of the construct within
the expansive workforce development field. Wisdom, as an important
aspect of a growing global knowledge economy, lacks the frameworks
and theories needed for fostering workplace wisdom. This book
brings a scholarly scrutiny to the study of wisdom, propelling the
attribute to prominence within the broad field of workforce
development and particularly within the growing context of a global
knowledge economy. It investigates the characteristics of wisdom
and offers theories, frameworks, techniques to foster wisdom in the
workplace, recognizing it as a vital key to success for individuals
and society. The ideal audience of this book includes senior
learning specialists, organization development managers, HRD
directors and workforce scholar-practitioners. These key
individuals in organizations understand talent management and have
a vested interest in the career construction of individuals in
their organizations.
The authors of this book link productivity change, trade
competitiveness, networks of interaction and cooperation and income
growth in developing Asian countries with the complex evolutionary
processes of economic development and international trade. They
take an innovative approach to simulating the complex
micro-dynamics of competitiveness in order to distinguish those
trade-related microeconomic dynamics and institutional reforms
vital to leading countries out of institutional and poverty
traps.Real competitiveness changes in six countries (Bangladesh,
India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Thailand) are measured from
1991 to 2000 with detailed international export unit value
comparisons, to detect structural changes towards technology and
knowledge intensive goods in trade patterns. No significant
structural change was detected in the six countries during that
period. Evolutionary trade theory is presented in two models and is
calibrated with transaction and trade data from West Bengal and
Nepal. These reveal that lower transport costs - resulting from
investment in transport and institutional reforms related to the
investment and trade environment - result initially in small
productivity differences that can be amplified in a non-linear
evolutionary system and eventually lead to a spatial restructuring
of the system, and to a structural change in the trade patterns.
The models in this path-breaking book can be used to explore the
impact of a variety of interventions and policies. Productivity,
Competitiveness and Incomes in Asia will be of interest to
academics and researchers in Asian Studies, industrial economics,
evolutionary economics and international business development. The
book will also appeal to policy makers responsible for economic
growth.
Most people can name dozens of knowledgeable people in their
private and business lives, but highly value the very limited
number deemed as wise. The fields of gerontology, psychology, and
social science have attempted to study the phenomena of wisdom with
little significant clarity or understanding of the construct within
the expansive workforce development field. Wisdom, as an important
aspect of a growing global knowledge economy, lacks the frameworks
and theories needed for fostering workplace wisdom. This book
brings a scholarly scrutiny to the study of wisdom, propelling the
attribute to prominence within the broad field of workforce
development and particularly within the growing context of a global
knowledge economy. It investigates the characteristics of wisdom
and offers theories, frameworks, techniques to foster wisdom in the
workplace, recognizing it as a vital key to success for individuals
and society. The ideal audience of this book includes senior
learning specialists, organization development managers, HRD
directors and workforce scholar-practitioners. These key
individuals in organizations understand talent management and have
a vested interest in the career construction of individuals in
their organizations.
This volume uses case studies and students' lived experiences to
document the impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19) on international
students and explore future challenges and opportunities for
student mobility within higher education. Responding to the growing
need for new insights and perspectives to improve higher education
policy and practice in the era of COVID-19, this text analyses the
changing roles and responsibilities of institutions and
international education leaders post-2020. Initial chapters
highlight key issues for students that have arisen as a result of
the global health crisis such as learning, well-being, and the
changed emotional, legal, and financial implications of study
abroad. Subsequent chapters confront potential longer-term
implications of students' experiences during COVID-19, and provide
critical reflection on internationalization and the opportunities
that COVID-19 has presented for tertiary education systems around
the world to learn from one another. This timely volume will
benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in
online teaching and e-learning, curriculum design, and more
specifically those involved with international and comparative
education. Those involved with educational policy and practice,
specifically related to pandemic education, will also benefit from
this volume.
To celebrate the centennial of America's National Park Service,
Picturing America's National Parks brings together some of the
finest landscape photography in the history of the medium, from
America's most magnificent and sacred environments. Photography has
played an integral role in both the formation of the National Parks
and in the depiction of America itself, through this natural
resource. From Yosemite to the most recent 2013 addition of
Pinnacles National Park in California, America's National Parks
have been enjoyed through photographs for over 150 years. This book
traces that his - tory and delights readers with stunning
photographs of the best American landscapes. An informative essay
from curator Jamie M. Allen unfolds the role of photography in
promoting America's national heritage, land conservation, and
wildlife preservation. Featuring the historic work of masters such
as Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, William Henry Jackson, Edward
Weston, and Minor White, as well as contemporary greats such as Lee
Friedlander, Stephen Shore, and Joel Sternfeld, this volume offers
a powerful look at America's National Parks and pays homage to a
practice that has defined the way we see America, particularly the
American West.
This timely volume documents the immediate, global impacts of the
coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) on teaching and learning in higher
education. Focusing on student and faculty experiences of online
and distance education, the text provides reflections on novel
initiatives, unexpected challenges, and lessons learned. Responding
to the urgent need to better understand online teaching and
learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book investigates how
the use of information and communication technologies (ICT)
impacted students, faculty, and staff experiences during the
COVID-19 lockdown. Chapters initially look at the challenges faced
by universities and educators in their attempts to overcome the
practical difficulties involved in developing effective online
programming and pedagogy. The text then builds on these insights to
highlight student experiences and consider issues of social
connection and inequality. Finally, the volume looks forward to
asking what lessons COVID-19 can offer for the future development
of online and distance learning in higher education. This engaging
volume will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an
interest in online teaching and eLearning, curriculum design, and
more, specifically those involved with the digitalization of higher
education. The text will also support further discussion and
reflection around pedagogical transformation, international
teaching and learning, and educational policy more broadly.
This book shows how family affinities and community loyalties at
the foundation of Madagascar's culture have influenced Malagasy
nationalism and forged islandwide traditions. It explores the
complex challenges facing Madagascar's resurgent democratic forces.
The five island societies of the Western Indian Ocean-Madagascar,
Mauritius, the Seychelles, the Comoros, and the French Overseas
Department of Reunion-have retained distinctive national characters
while cultivating regional cohesion and the establishment of a Zone
of Peace. In this study, Dr. Allen places the nations of the
maritime Latin Quarter
An examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval
romance. In both medieval and modern contexts, women who do not
desire men invite awkward silences. Men's dissident sexual
practices have been discussed energetically by writers of law and
religion, medicine and morality; reams of medieval texts are
devoted to horrified or fascinated references to men's deviant
intimacies with men. Yet women - despite the best efforts of recent
scholars - remain at the margins of this picture, especially in
studies of literature. This book aims to re-centre female desire.
Identifying a feminine or lesbian hermeneutic in late-medieval
English literature, it offers new approaches to medieval texts
often denigrated for their omissions and fragmentation, their
violence and uneven poetic texture. The hermeneutic tradition
Chaucer inherited, stretching from Jerome to Jean de Meun,
represents female bodies as blank tablets awaiting masculine
inscription, rather than autonomous agents. In the Legend, Chaucer
considers the unspoken problem of female desires and bodies that
resist, evade, and orient themselves away from such a position. Can
women take on hermeneutic authority, that phallic capacity, without
rendering themselves monstrous or self-defeating? This question
resonates through three Middle English romances succeeding the
Legend: the alliterative Morte Arthure, the Sowdone of Babylon, and
Undo Your Door. With combative innovation, they repurpose the
hermeneutic tradition and Chaucer's use of it to celebrate an array
of audacious female desires and embodiments which cross and
re-cross established categories of masculine and feminine, licit
and illicit, animate and inanimate. Together, these texts make
visible the desires and the embodiments of women who otherwise slip
out of visibility, in both medieval and post-medieval contexts.
Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) or borderline
traits are among the most difficult for mental health practitioners
to treat. They present an incredible range of symptoms,
dysfunctional interpersonal interactions, provocative behavior in
therapy, and comorbid psychiatric disturbances. So broad is this
array that indeed the disorder constitutes a virtual model for the
study of all forms of self-destructive and self-defeating behavior
patterns. Psychotherapy With Borderline Patients: An Integrated
Approach fills the need for a problem-focused, clinically oriented,
and operationalized treatment manual that addresses major ongoing
family factors that trigger and reinforce the patient's
self-destructive or self-defeating behavior. In it, David Allen
draws on the theoretical ideas and techniques of biological, family
systems, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioral therapists to
describe an integrated approach to adults with BPD or borderline
traits in individual therapy. Innovative, practical, and specific,
the book * helps therapists teach their patients, through the use
of various role-playing techniques, strategies to alter the
dysfunctional patterns of interaction with their families of origin
that reinforce self-destructive behavior or chronic affective
symptoms; * explains the nature and origins of the characteristic
oscillation of hostile over- and underinvolvement between adults
with BPD and those who served as their primary parental figures
during childhood; * elucidates the nature and causes of the
dysfunctional communication patterns in patients' families that
lead to misunderstanding; and * provides concrete, clearly spelled
out advice for therapists about how to deal with provocative
patient behavior, how to minimize distorted descriptions by
patients of significant others, how to avoid patients' misuse of
medications, and how to respond to managed care restrictions on
patients' insurance coverage. Psychotherapy With Borderline
Patients: An Integrated Approach will be welcomed by all clinicians
who work with these patients, whatever their training or
theoretical orientation.
The first book to explore in detail what we can deduce about the
historical Jesus from the later New Testament writings (i.e.
everything after the Gospels).
Latin American cocaine trafficking organizations comprise an
indigenous, globally competitive, multinational industry. Their
business operations are deeply ingrained within the economic and
political systems of countries throughout the region. While
criminal enterprises operate in a more complex and uncertain
setting than licit firms, their competitive success is determined
in fundamentally similar ways. Models developed by geographers to
explain the spatial behavior of licit multinational firms are
profitably applied here to the operations of drug trafficking
operations.
I thank Peter Duignan for suggesting that the book be done and The
Hoover Institution on War, Peace, and Revolution for a grant that
facilitated the early stages of research. Other grant funds were
generously provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities
and by Johnson State College, which also allowed me to run off with
the stipend on academic leave. I obtained invaluable advice and
access to special resources at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches
des Pays de l'Ocean lndien (CERSOI) at the Universite
d'Aix-Marseille in Aix*en*Provence and at the Centre de
Documentation et de Recherches sur I' Asie du Sud-Est et le Monde
lnsulindien (CeDRASEMI) in Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France;
particular thanks go to President Louis Favoreu, Professor Jean
Benoist, Marc Besson and Mme. Besson at Aix. Similar courtesies
were extended by Mme. Lauret at the Centre de Documentation de
l'Ocean Indien at St. Denis in La Reunion and by archivists and
librarians in all of the islands, France, the United States, and
Montreal. Thanks go to Paul Gallagher and to Linda Kramer of the
Johnson State College Library for finding and smoothing paths.
The world's fourth largest island, with a unique biological and
physical endowment, Madagascar is home to an extraordinary insular
civilization that has struggled for more than a century against
external domination. In this sensitive introduction to the Indian
Ocean's "great island," Philip Allen shows how family affinities
and community loyalties at the foundation of Madagascar's culture
have influenced Malagasy nationalism and forged islandwide
traditions. These same principles have nonetheless engendered
social cleavages and resistance to economic and political change.
In chapters on modern Madagascar, Allen analyzes the inability of a
series of regimes to maintain authority among a people deeply bound
to rituals of communication with their spiritual environment. He
demonstrates how the first Malagasy Republic became stigmatized by
its lingering identification with French colonialism and how the
nationalist revolution in 1972 soon hardened into autocratic
radicalism. Allen explores the complex challenges facing
Madagascar's resurgent democratic forces-including a need to
conserve the island's irreplaceable biodiversity and to facilitate
authentic participation in public affairs without offending
ancestral customs and local precedents. Finally, he discusses
efforts to end Madagascar's economic and political dependence and
to improve living conditions for its tragically impoverished
population.
Skilled and resourceful, the locksmiths were an important part of
the craft aristocracy in early modern Edinburgh. This book explores
the lives of the craftsmen, the social structures in which they
lived and the remarkable objects which they made.
Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) or borderline
traits are among the most difficult for mental health practitioners
to treat. They present an incredible range of symptoms,
dysfunctional interpersonal interactions, provocative behavior in
therapy, and comorbid psychiatric disturbances. So broad is this
array that indeed the disorder constitutes a virtual model for the
study of all forms of self-destructive and self-defeating behavior
patterns.
"Psychotherapy With Borderline Patients: An Integrated Approach"
fills the need for a problem-focused, clinically oriented, and
operationalized treatment manual that addresses major ongoing
family factors that trigger and reinforce the patient's
self-destructive or self-defeating behavior. In it, David Allen
draws on the theoretical ideas and techniques of biological, family
systems, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioral therapists to
describe an integrated approach to adults with BPD or borderline
traits in individual therapy.
Innovative, practical, and specific, "the book"
* helps therapists teach their patients, through the use of
various role-playing techniques, strategies to alter the
dysfunctional patterns of interaction with their families of origin
that reinforce self-destructive behavior or chronic affective
symptoms;
* explains the nature and origins of the characteristic
oscillation of hostile over- and underinvolvement between adults
with BPD and those who served as their primary parental figures
during childhood;
* elucidates the nature and causes of the dysfunctional
communication patterns in patients' families that lead to
misunderstanding; and
* provides concrete, clearly spelled out advice for therapists
about how to deal with provocative patient behavior, how to
minimize distorted descriptions by patients of significant others,
how to avoid patients' misuse of medications, and how to respond to
managed care restrictions on patients' insurance coverage.
"Psychotherapy With Borderline Patients: An Integrated Approach"
will be welcomed by all clinicians who work with these patients,
whatever their training or theoretical orientation.
A clear methodological and philosophical introduction to complexity
theory as applied to urban and regional systems is given, together
with a detailed series of modelling case studies compiled over the
last couple of decades. Based on the new complex systems thinking,
mathematical models are developed which attempt to simulate the
evolution of towns, cities, and regions and the complicated
co-evolutionary interaction there is both between and within them.
The aim of these models is to help policy analysis and
decision-making in urban and regional planning, energy policy,
transport policy, and many other areas of service provision,
infrastructure planning, and investment that are necessary for a
successful society.
Fundamentals of Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry presents an account of
the development and theory of the quadrupole ion trap and its
utilization as an ion storage device, a reactor for ion/molecular
reactions, and a mass spectrometer. It also expands the
appreciation of ion traps from that of a unique arrangement of
electrodes of hyperbolic form (and having a pure quadrupole field)
to a series of ion traps having fields with hexapole and octopole
components and introduces the practical ion trapping device in
which electrode spacing has been increased.
The fundamentals of ion trap are covered in four chapters,
beginning with the origin of the ion trap, its development and
operating principles, and improvements in performance. The second
part focuses on the environment within the ion trap -- the movement
of ions within the trap -- and how this movement is modified by
repeated collisions of the ions with buffer gas atoms of helium,
and on the collisions of ions with molecules that lead to chemical
change. The critical role of collisions in focusing the ion cloud
for subsequent operations is emphasized.
This important reference presents a coherent picture of the present
status of research in the ion trapping field to facilitate the
entree of potential ion trappers and provide a backdrop for ion
trap research and development in the future.
By delivering concentrated information in three different volumes,
the editors of the Practical Aspects of Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry
mini-series present in-depth reviews on mainstream developments in
each active and popular area. Contributing authors provide concise
reports illustrating successful approaches to difficult analytical
problems across the basic scientific disciplines.
Ion Trap Instrumentation, the second volume in the series, conveys
an appreciation of the ion trap as a versatile instrument which is
used successfully in research and in applications, often in tandem
with other instruments or components, such as external ion sources
and lasers.
The book begins with a discussion of high resolution mass
spectrometry and mass measurement accuracy. It then demonstrates
that trajectories of high kinetic energy ions can be controlled so
that such ions are confined. It provides applications of lasers to
the study of trapped ions the laser photodissociation of gaseous
ions confined within the ion trap. The book concludes with physics
applications of the ion trap, in particular, the Penning trap and
the Paul trap.
This book discusses one of the hottest topics in science today,
i.e., the concern over certain problematic practices within the
scientific enterprise. It raises questions and, more importantly,
begins to supply answers about one particularly widespread
phenomenon that sometimes impedes scientific progress: group
processes. The book looks at many problematic manifestations of
"going along with the crowd" that are adopted at the expense of
truth. Closely related is the concept of pathological altruism or
altruism bias-the tendency of scientists to bias their research in
order to further the ideological or financial interests of an
"in-group" at the expense of both the interest of other groups as
well as the truth. The book challenges the widespread notion that
science is invariably a benevolent, benign process. It defines the
scientific enterprise, in practice as opposed to in theory, as a
cultural system designed to produce factual knowledge. In effect,
the book offers a broad and unique take on an important and
incompletely explored subject: research and academic discourse that
sacrifices scientific objectivity, and perhaps even the scientist's
own ethical standards, in order to further the goals of a
particular group of researchers or reinforce their shared belief
system or their own interests, whether economic, ideological, or
bureaucratic.
Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, 5th Edition guides you through
the wide variety of diseases that may affect the oral and
maxillofacial region. More than 1,500 radiographs and full-color
clinical photos bring various lesions and conditions to life.
Updates in this edition include coverage of the latest advances in
oral squamous cell carcinoma treatment, HPV, and molecular
pathology, along with revised content throughout. Well-known oral
pathology educators Brad Neville, Douglas Damm, Carl Allen, and
Angela Chi, bring you up to date on the latest concepts of
pathogenesis and disease management in the care of patients with
oral disease. Comprehensive, contemporary overview of oral and
maxillofacial pathology includes a detailed description of each
individual lesion or pathologic condition and the kind of
pathologic process that it represents, followed by a discussion of
its clinical and/or radiographic presentation, histopathologic
features, and its treatment and prognosis. Coverage of the latest
concepts of pathogenesis and disease management helps you
understand the diseases that affect oral and maxillofacial
structures, how to formulate an accurate diagnosis, and how to
institute proper treatment. More than 1,500 radiographs and
full-color clinical photos facilitate the identification and
classification of lesions and disease states. Logical organization
by body system or disease process makes it easy to look up specific
conditions. Comprehensive appendix on differential diagnosis
organizes disease entities according to their most prominent or
identifiable clinical features, helping you find and formulate
differential diagnoses. NEW! An ebook version is included with
print purchase. The ebook allows you to access all the text,
figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize
content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.
Plus, it includes prescriptions for oral diseases, differential
diagnosis of clinical cases, and practice questions. Updated
content on the latest breakthroughs in oral squamous cell carcinoma
treatment, HPV, and molecular pathology addresses some of today's
leading topics in oral pathology research.
Literary History in and beyond China: Reading Text and World
explores the idea of literary history across the long span of the
Chinese tradition. Although much scholarship on Chinese literature
may be characterized as doing the work of literary history, there
has been little theoretical engagement with received literary
historical categories and assumptions, with how literary historical
judgments are formed, and with what it means to do literary history
in the first place. The present collection of essays addresses
these questions from perspectives emerging both from within the
tradition and from without, examining the anthological histories
that shape the concept of a particular genre, the interpretive
positions that impel our aesthetic judgments, the conceptual
categories that determine how literary history is framed, and the
history of literary historiography itself. As such, the essays
collectively consider what it means to think through the framework
of literary history, what literary history affords or omits, and
what needs to be theorized in terms of literary history’s
constraints and possibilities.
Nick Mayhew has made key contributions to fields as diverse as
medieval European monetary history, numismatics, financial history,
price and wage history, and macroeconomic history. These essays, in
his honour, demonstrate the analytical power and chronological
reach of the novel interdisciplinary approach he has nurtured in
himself and others.
This book presents a study of remembrance practices emerging after
the 2005 London bombings. Matthew Allen explores a range of cases
that not only illustrate the effects of the organisation of
remembrance on its participants, but reveal how people engaged in
memorial culture to address difficult and unbearable conditions in
the wake of 7/7.
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