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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Regulate! (Hardcover)
Clarence M. Allen
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Among the most critical issues facing society today is the
provision of community support for people of all ages who require
assistance in performing daily living tasks. Researchers have
documented the support systems and needs of older persons, children
with special health care needs, and young persons transitioning
into adulthood. While the United States may not yet have solved
many of the challenges of providing adequate supports to these
populations, researchers at least have a good sense of the nature
of those challenges and are working toward that end. Somewhat
surprising, then, is the nearly complete lack of knowledge about
the support systems and needs of a rapidly growing population of
adults who are not yet considered old but who nevertheless need
help due to traumatic injury, the congenital illnesses of childhood
and young adulthood, and/or the early onset of chronic diseases
typically associated with later life (e.g., arthritis, heart
disease and cancer). Specifically, researchers know little about
the millions of Americans who require assistance during the period
of late middle age, a transition phase between middle age and the
older years, when activity limitations associated with a chronic
condition escalate sharply. The largest generation in American
history to date--the baby boom generation--has begun to enter late
middle age, the oldest of whom turned sixty in 2006. While the
research community looks ahead to the likely strains this
generation will place on the formal long-term care system,
Medicare, and the Social Security system in the near future, those
who find themselves in need of personal care in late middle age
must first pass through a particularly vulnerabletime before they
are eligible to benefit from the safety net these systems afford.
Because late-middle-aged adults are often considered the "carers"
of society (many caring for dependent children or aging parents,
and often both), we do not often think of this group as vulnerable
and in need of help themselves. They, more than others, are left to
rely on their own financial and family support systems to get
through their difficult time, while at the same time planning and
preparing for the possibility of living another 20 years or more
with chronic illnesses and conditions. Up until now, we have known
very little about how, and how well, they manage. In this first
critical study of the availability and receipt of care for
late-middle-aged adults, Julie Lima and Susan Allen uncover a host
of vulnerabilities that challenge the wellbeing of those who find
themselves in need of personal assistance at a critical point in
their lives. Using a lifecourse approach, they outline the care
needs of older adults in various stages of life, as well as the
sociodemographic and policy trends that influence the amounts and
types of care that are available, and that will likely be available
in the near future. Since so little was known about the care needs
of this group prior to this work, this book is largely descriptive
in nature, and the authors intend for it to lay the groundwork for
future work in this area. This is an important book for all
gerontology, disability, and lifecourse collections.
An investigative study into where, how and why Luke interacts with
Isaiah. References to Isaiah occur at key points in the narrative,
typically introducing the mission of main characters and outlining
or summarising the overall plot, suggesting that Luke utilises
Isaiah as part of his interpretive framework. The overarching theme
drawn from Isaiah appears to be the servant's mission to bring
salvation to all people (Isa 49:6). Luke's careful selection and
radical interpretation of Isaianic texts highlights surprising
aspects of this theme. These include the nature and scope of
salvation, the necessary suffering role of the Messiah and its
connection with the proclamation of salvation, and the unexpected
response to the message by Israel and the nations. Mallen's study
rehabilitates the importance of the servant motif for Luke, not in
terms of atonement or as a christological title but rather in
supplying the job description for Jesus' messianic mission and that
of his followers.
In China the tradition of a book society is longer than anywhere
else in the world. Chinese paper making, calligraphy and woodblock
printing date from very early ages, but have for a very long time
remained almost unknown to the Western world. At the IFLA satellite
meeting Chinese Written and Printed Cultural Heritage and Library
Work in Hangzhou in 2006 the richness of present day book
historical research and library activities in China has been
presented by more than sixty papers. This fine selection reflects
the width and depth of this extremely important and immense Chinese
heritage.
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.
Organizations of all kinds struggle to understand, adapt, respond
and manipulate changing conditions in their internal and external
environments. Approaches based on the causal, linear logic of
mechanistic sciences and engineering continue to play an important
role, given people's ability to create order. But such approaches
are valid only within carefully circumscribed boundaries. They
become counterproductive when the same organizations display the
highly reflexive, context-dependent, dynamic nature of systems in
which agents learn and adapt and new patterns emerge. The rapidly
expanding discussion about complex systems offers important
contributions to the integration of diverse perspectives and
ultimately new insights into organizational effectiveness. There is
increasing interest in complexity in mainstream business education,
as well as in specialist business disciplines such as knowledge
management. Real world systems can't be completely designed,
controlled, understood or predicted, even by the so-called sciences
of complexity, but they can be more effective when understood as
complex systems. While many scientific disciplines explore
complexity principally through abstract mathematical models and
simulations, Emergence: Complexity & Organization explores the
emerging understanding of human systems from both the 'hard'
quantitative sciences and the 'soft' qualitative perspectives. This
2008 Annual includes articles from Stephen J. Guastello, Ken
Baskin, Mihnea Moldoveanu, Frank Boons, Duncan A. Robertson, Brenda
L. Massetti, Maria May Seitanidi, Mary Lee Rhodes and many more,
which explore a range of complexity-related topics from
philosophical concerns through to the practical application of
complexity ideas, concepts and frameworks in human organizations.
Also included are a series of four reproductions of classical
papers in the fields of complexity and systems, each with critical
introductions that explore their modern relevance: "The Meanings of
'Emergence' and Its Modes" by Arthur O. Lovejoy (originally
published in 1927) "An Outline of General System Theory" by Ludwig
von Bertalanffy (originally published in 1950) "Society as a
Complex Adaptive System" by Walter Buckley (originally published in
1968) "Is Adaptability Enough?" by Geoffrey Vickers (originally
published in 1959)
Organizations of all kinds struggle to understand, adapt, respond
and manipulate changing conditions in their internal and external
environments. Approaches based on the causal, linear logic of
mechanistic sciences and engineering continue to play an important
role, given people's ability to create order. But such approaches
are valid only within carefully circumscribed boundaries. They
become counterproductive when the same organizations display the
highly reflexive, context-dependent, dynamic nature of systems in
which agents learn and adapt and new patterns emerge. The rapidly
expanding discussion about complex systems offers important
contributions to the integration of diverse perspectives and
ultimately new insights into organizational effectiveness. There is
increasing interest in complexity in mainstream business education,
as well as in specialist business disciplines such as knowledge
management. Real world systems can't be completely designed,
controlled, understood or predicted, even by the so-called sciences
of complexity, but they can be more effective when understood as
complex systems. While many scientific disciplines explore
complexity through mathematical models and simulations, Emergence:
Complexity & Organization explores the emerging understanding
of human systems that is informed by this research. This 2004
Annual includes articles from Isabelle Stengers, Julie Klein,
Sandra Mitchell, Glenda Eoyang, Bill McKelvey, William Sulis and
many more, which explore a range of complexity-related topics from
philosophical concerns through to the practical application of
complexity ideas, concepts and frameworks in human organizations.
Also included are a series of four reproductions of classical
papers in the fields of complexity and systems: "Principles of
Self-Organizing Systems" by Ross Ashby (originally published in
1962) "General Systems Theory: The Skeleton of Science" by Kenneth
Boulding (originally published in 1956) "Science and Complexity" by
Warren Weaver (originally published in 1948) "Emergence" by Stephen
Pepper (originally published in 1926)
Organizations of all kinds struggle to understand, adapt, respond
and manipulate changing conditions in their internal and external
environments. Approaches based on the causal, linear logic of
mechanistic sciences and engineering continue to play an important
role, given people's ability to create order. But such approaches
are valid only within carefully circumscribed boundaries. They
become counterproductive when the same organizations display the
highly reflexive, context-dependent, dynamic nature of systems in
which agents learn and adapt and new patterns emerge. The rapidly
expanding discussion about complex systems offers important
contributions to the integration of diverse perspectives and
ultimately new insights into organizational effectiveness. There is
increasing interest in complexity in mainstream business education,
as well as in specialist business disciplines such as knowledge
management. Real world systems can't be completely designed,
controlled, understood or predicted, even by the so-called sciences
of complexity, but they can be more effective when understood as
complex systems. While many scientific disciplines explore
complexity through mathematical models and simulations, Emergence:
Complexity & Organization explores the emerging understanding
of human systems that is informed by this research. This 2005
Annual includes articles from Max Boisot, Ken Baskin, Robert E.
Ulanowicz, Heather H pfl, Victoria Alexander, and many more, which
explore a range of complexity-related topics from philosophical
concerns through to the practical application of complexity ideas,
concepts and frameworks in human organizations. Also included are a
series of four reproductions of classical papers in the fields of
complexity and systems: "Futurology and the Future of Systems
Analysis" by Ida R. Hoos (originally published in 1972) "A Form of
Logic Suited for Biology" by Walter M. Elsasser (originally
published in 1981) "Beyond Open Systems Models of Organization" by
Louis R. Pondy (originally unpublished conference paper from 1976)
"The Architecture of Complexity" by Herbert A. Simon (originally
published in 1962)
This book is based on a research project, funded by the Hans
Bockler Stiftung, on different employee relations systems in German
owned subsidiaries in the UK. The study investigated whether German
firms used the liberal institutional system for employee relations
in the UK as a means to escape from the heavily regulated system in
German firms. The main thrust of the study was to examine the
performance implications of the different types of employee
relations used by German owned subsidiaries. This book examines the
debate on the links between employee relation systems in
multinational corporations and performance as well as the debate on
convergence of employee relations systems in multinational
corporations.
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Alcohol (Hardcover)
Martha M. Allen
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R1,526
Discovery Miles 15 260
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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.
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.
How do the environments, in which businesses operate, condition
their success or failure? Such questions have long been of interest
in the fields of business, economics and politics. This book
thoroughly examines the main claims of the most important
contribution - the Varieties of Capitalism paradigm - to this
debate in recent years.
Organizations of all kinds struggle to understand, adapt, respond
and manipulate changing conditions in their internal and external
environments. Approaches based on the causal, linear logic of
mechanistic sciences and engineering continue to play an important
role, given people's ability to create order. But such approaches
are valid only within carefully circumscribed boundaries. They
become counterproductive when the same organizations display the
highly reflexive, context-dependent, dynamic nature of systems in
which agents learn and adapt and new patterns emerge. The rapidly
expanding discussion about complex systems offers important
contributions to the integration of diverse perspectives and
ultimately new insights into organizational effectiveness. There is
increasing interest in complexity in mainstream business education,
as well as in specialist business disciplines such as knowledge
management. Real world systems can't be completely designed,
controlled, understood or predicted, even by the so-called sciences
of complexity, but they can be more effective when understood as
complex systems. While many scientific disciplines explore
complexity principally through abstract mathematical models and
simulations, Emergence: Complexity & Organization explores the
emerging understanding of human systems from both the 'hard'
quantitative sciences and the 'soft' qualitative perspectives. This
2007 Annual includes articles from Alice MacGillivray, Dale
Lockwood, L. Deborah Sword, Gerald Midgley, Viveca Asporth, Jack
Meek, and many more, which explore a range of complexity-related
topics from philosophical concerns through to the practical
application of complexity ideas, concepts and frameworks in human
organizations. Also included are a series of four reproductions of
classical papers in the fields of complexity and systems, each with
critical introductions that explore their modern relevance: "The
Philosophy of the Present" by George Herbert Mead (originally
published in 1932), "Emergence" by Michael Polanyi (originally
published in 1966), "The Theory of Complex Phenomena" by Friedrich
August von Hayek (originally published in 1967), and "The Pretence
of Knowledge" by Friedrich August von Hayek (originally published
in 1975).
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