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“Brilliant, ambitious, and often surprising. A remarkable
contribution to the current global debate about Empire and a small
masterpiece of research and conceptual reimagining.” —William
Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate
Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire An award-winning historian
places the corporation—more than the Crown—at the heart of
British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed
global empire, raising questions about public and private power
that were just as troubling four hundred years ago as they are
today. Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas
to Africa and Australia, British colonialism was above all the
business of corporations. Corporations conceived, promoted,
financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over
territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial
society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures. Colonial
companies were also relentlessly controversial, frequently in debt,
and prone to failure. The corporation was well-suited to overseas
expansion not because it was an inevitable juggernaut but because,
like empire itself, it was an elusive contradiction: public and
private; person and society; subordinate and autonomous;
centralized and diffuse; immortal and precarious; national and
cosmopolitan—a legal fiction with very real power. Breaking from
traditional histories in which corporations take a supporting role
by doing the dirty work of sovereign states in exchange for
commercial monopolies, Philip Stern argues that corporations took
the lead in global expansion and administration. Whether in
sixteenth-century Ireland and North America or the Falklands in the
early 1980s, corporations were key players. And, as Empire,
Incorporated makes clear, venture colonialism did not cease with
the end of empire. Its legacies continue to raise questions about
corporate power that are just as relevant today as they were 400
years ago. Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is
held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm
distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a
new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the
corporation.
This newly updated and streamlined edition of Group Psychotherapy
with Addicted Populations provides proven strategies for combating
alcohol and drug addiction through group psychotherapy. The
interventions discussed in the book build on a foundation of
addiction as an attachment disorder rooted in the understanding of
addiction as a family disease. An appreciation of group and
organizational dynamics is used to address the complex experience
of developmental trauma that underlies addiction. Having identified
the essential theoretical underpinnings of supporting recovery from
addiction, the second half of the book gives a thorough nuts and
bolts description of constructing a psychotherapy group and
engaging productively in the successive phases of its development
from initiation of treatment to termination. The book concludes
with specific recommendations for group psychotherapists to
increase their competence with groups, deepen their appreciation of
group and organizational dynamics and develop a community of
support for their own well-being. These methods are important for
psychotherapists working with addicted populations who are
inexperienced with group psychotherapy as well as seasoned group
psychotherapists wishing to enhance their work.
Survival and thriving in today's business environment require
companies to continuously strive for operational excellence at all
levels of the organization. Simply working to maintain existing
operations is not an adequate or sustainable business strategy,
especially when competing in a global market. To remain relevant,
companies must adopt a process control and continuous improvement
mentality as an integral part of their daily work activities. These
two operational disciplines form the foundation and stepping stones
for manufacturing excellence. Processes must be stable, capable,
and controlled as a prerequisite for sustainable improvement.
Sustainable improvements must be strategic, continuous, and focused
on process optimization. Modern-day manufacturing is rapidly
changing in the face of technological, geopolitical, social, and
environmental developments. These challenges are altering the way
we think and act to transform raw materials into finished goods.
Meeting these challenges requires particular attention to how we
develop and engage people and apply technology for long-term
sustainability and competitive advantage. This book takes you on a
journey to explore the fundamental elements, management practices,
improvement methods, and future direction of shop floor management.
Part 1 of this five-part manuscript considers workplace culture,
organizational structure, operational discipline, and employee
accountability as the foundation for a robust manufacturing system.
Part 2 studies the impact of process standardization, data
analytics, information sharing, communication, and people on daily
shop floor management. Once the management system has been
adequately described, Part 3 concentrates on its effective
execution, monitoring, and control with a deep look into the
people, methods, machines, materials, and environment that make it
possible. Like every good manufacturing text, efficiency and
productivity are key topics. That's why Part 4 explores various
methods, tools, and techniques associated with product and process
development, productivity improvement, agile methods, shop floor
optimization, and manufacturing excellence. The final section, Part
5, shifts focus to emerging technologies, engaging the reader to
contemplate technology's impact on the digital transformation of
the manufacturing industry.
A new go-to text for in-service professionals concerned about
violence and trauma in schools Driven by an original three-pillar
model that addresses safety, support, and mental health. Lead
authored by a pioneer of school crisis assistance and featuring
interview quotations from experts in the fields of school safety,
mental health, and education Dispels myths about problematic
policies such as zero tolerance and staff firearms training while
proposing alternatives strategies like restorative justice and peer
mediation
Although Freud makes only occasional, brief references to China and
Chinese culture in his works, for almost a hundred years many
leading Chinese intellectuals have studied and appropriated various
Freudian theories. However, whilst some features of Freud's views
have been warmly embraced from the start and appreciated for their
various explanatory and therapeutic values, other aspects have been
vigorously criticized as implausible or inapplicable to the Chinese
context. This book explores the history, reception, and use of
Freud and his theories in China, and makes an original and
substantial contribution to our understanding of the Chinese people
and their culture as well as to our appreciation of western
attempts to understand the people and culture of China. The essays
are organised around three key areas of research. First, it
examines the historical background concerning the China-Freud
connection in the 20th century, before going on to use
reconstructed Freudian theories in order to provide a modernist
critique of Chinese culture. Finally, the book deploys traditional
Chinese thought in order to challenge various aspects of the
Freudian project. Both Freudianism's universal appeal and its
cultural particularity are in full display throughout the book. At
the same time, the allure of Chinese cultural and literary
expressions, both in terms of their commonality with other cultures
and their distinctive characteristics, are also scrutinized. This
collection of essays will be welcomed by those interested in early
modern and contemporary China, as well as the work and influence of
Freud. It will also be of great interest to students and scholars
of psychology, psychoanalysis, literature, philosophy, religion,
and cultural studies more generally.
• Addresses a gap in the literature, bringing communication
studies to bear on the field of Higher Education • Addresses a
current and pressing need at research universities, undergraduate
programs, and community colleges • Author received the
Outstanding Member Award for Contributions to the Discipline and
the Association from the Organizational Communication Division of
the International Communication Association.
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Organizational Stress - A Review and Critique of Theory, Research, and Applications (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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What price do organizations and nations pay for a poor fit between
employees and their work environments? Negative stress imposes a
high cost on individual health and well-being as well as
organizational health and productivity. This comprehensive textbook
examines the definitions of job-related stress and the methods used
to assess levels and consequences of occupational stress, along
with strategies that may be used by individuals and organizations
to confront negative stress and its associated problems. From
sources of stress to organizational interventions, and from
job-related burnout to coping with stress, Organizational Stress
gives the reader - whether researcher, student, or practitioner - a
basis for tailoring work environments which contribute to the
health and well-being of individuals, organizations, and even the
societies in which they live. This new edition has been updated to
reflect the most relevant research in the field of organisational
stress, including a completely new chapter on stress and the brain.
It also focusses on the future of work in our rapidly changing
world - dealing with contemporary contexts such as the COVID-19
pandemic and the rise of the gig economy. Christina G.L. Nerstad is
a Professor at BI Norwegian Business School Ingvild M. Seljeseth is
an Associate Professor Kristiana University College Astrid M.
Richardsen is Professor Emerita at BI Norwegian Business School
Cary L Cooper is a Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School
Philip J. Dewe is Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck, University of
London Michael P. O'Driscoll is Emeritus Professor at University of
Waikato
A new go-to text for in-service professionals concerned about
violence and trauma in schools Driven by an original three-pillar
model that addresses safety, support, and mental health. Lead
authored by a pioneer of school crisis assistance and featuring
interview quotations from experts in the fields of school safety,
mental health, and education Dispels myths about problematic
policies such as zero tolerance and staff firearms training while
proposing alternatives strategies like restorative justice and peer
mediation
This newly updated and streamlined edition of Group Psychotherapy
with Addicted Populations provides proven strategies for combating
alcohol and drug addiction through group psychotherapy. The
interventions discussed in the book build on a foundation of
addiction as an attachment disorder rooted in the understanding of
addiction as a family disease. An appreciation of group and
organizational dynamics is used to address the complex experience
of developmental trauma that underlies addiction. Having identified
the essential theoretical underpinnings of supporting recovery from
addiction, the second half of the book gives a thorough nuts and
bolts description of constructing a psychotherapy group and
engaging productively in the successive phases of its development
from initiation of treatment to termination. The book concludes
with specific recommendations for group psychotherapists to
increase their competence with groups, deepen their appreciation of
group and organizational dynamics and develop a community of
support for their own well-being. These methods are important for
psychotherapists working with addicted populations who are
inexperienced with group psychotherapy as well as seasoned group
psychotherapists wishing to enhance their work.
This book is a collection of papers presented in the NDT Conference
held on February 20-23, 1996 at San Diego, California. The
conference provided an opportunity to share experience and provide
additional input to the Federal Highway Administration.
Survival and thriving in today's business environment require
companies to continuously strive for operational excellence at all
levels of the organization. Simply working to maintain existing
operations is not an adequate or sustainable business strategy,
especially when competing in a global market. To remain relevant,
companies must adopt a process control and continuous improvement
mentality as an integral part of their daily work activities. These
two operational disciplines form the foundation and stepping stones
for manufacturing excellence. Processes must be stable, capable,
and controlled as a prerequisite for sustainable improvement.
Sustainable improvements must be strategic, continuous, and focused
on process optimization. Modern-day manufacturing is rapidly
changing in the face of technological, geopolitical, social, and
environmental developments. These challenges are altering the way
we think and act to transform raw materials into finished goods.
Meeting these challenges requires particular attention to how we
develop and engage people and apply technology for long-term
sustainability and competitive advantage. This book takes you on a
journey to explore the fundamental elements, management practices,
improvement methods, and future direction of shop floor management.
Part 1 of this five-part manuscript considers workplace culture,
organizational structure, operational discipline, and employee
accountability as the foundation for a robust manufacturing system.
Part 2 studies the impact of process standardization, data
analytics, information sharing, communication, and people on daily
shop floor management. Once the management system has been
adequately described, Part 3 concentrates on its effective
execution, monitoring, and control with a deep look into the
people, methods, machines, materials, and environment that make it
possible. Like every good manufacturing text, efficiency and
productivity are key topics. That's why Part 4 explores various
methods, tools, and techniques associated with product and process
development, productivity improvement, agile methods, shop floor
optimization, and manufacturing excellence. The final section, Part
5, shifts focus to emerging technologies, engaging the reader to
contemplate technology's impact on the digital transformation of
the manufacturing industry.
This book takes an in-depth look at Covid-19-generated societal
trends and develops scenarios for possible future directions of
urban lifestyles. Drawing on examples from Brazil, China, and
Israel, and with a particular focus on cities, this book explores
the short and long-term changes in individual consumers and citizen
behavior as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. On the basis of
extensive market and opinion research data, aggregate data,
observational evidence, and news reports, the authors provide a
detailed account of the transformations that have occurred as a
result of a triple shock of public health emergency, economic
shutdown, and social isolation. They also examine which of these
behavioral changes are likely to become permanent and consider
whether this may ultimately promote or restrain sustainable
lifestyle choices. Innovative and timely, this book will be of
great interest to students, scholars, and professionals researching
and working in the areas of sustainable consumption, urban and land
use planning, and public health.
Talent management is a way banks acquire competitive advantage.
Practices such as personality profiling with effective
knowledge-based productivity and the application of
high-performance work systems help to set a company apart from its
competition and maintain this competitive advantage. This book
provides an in-depth look at the relationship between personality
types and individual-level performance in knowledge-based
environments, through cases in Australia's banking and finance
sector. This book also examines how high-performance workplace
systems influence individual performance in relation to
productivity through a multi-level analysis of micro- and
meso-level factors. The findings in this book have relevant
implications not only for the Australian system but also for other
banking and financial service contexts outside of Australia.
This book engages with a controversial issue, namely the
establishment of penal colonies and concentration camps in imperial
spaces, which have informed ongoing debates on the repressive
practices of colonial rule and popular resistance against it. The
contributors offer a reassessment of the history of politically
motivated incarceration based upon a multi-disciplinary perspective
in a global, imperial setting during the twentieth century. The
introduction and seven chapters engage with comparative and
transnational perspectives on political persecution, forced
confinement and colonial rule in British, French, German, Belgian
and Portuguese dominions in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin
America. Addressing political incarceration's global imperial
dimensions, they focus upon the organisation, strategies,
narratives and practices associated with political internment in
Africa (Angola, Tanzania, Rhodesia, South Africa), Latin America
(French Guyana) and the Pacific region (New Caledonia). Penal
legislation, policies of convict transport and political
imprisonment, resettlement, prison regimes, resistance and
liberation struggles, counter insurgency, prisoner agency, and
prisons as cultural spaces and of memory are discussed here for
different time periods from the mid-1800s to the late twentieth
century. The chapters build upon the ongoing debate on political
incarceration in the empire and the remarkable dynamic scientific
research witnessed over the last decades. As a result, they provide
novel insights into the nature of legal systems, colonial
discourse, memory, racial segregation and persecution, prisoners’
narratives of practices of punishment and incarceration, and human
rights abuses in imperial spaces. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Imperial
and Commonwealth History. The editors have also written an original
conclusion to the present volume.
Mixtures is of central importance for Galen's views on the human
body. It presents his influential typology of the human organism
according to nine mixtures (or 'temperaments') of hot, cold, dry
and wet. It also develops Galen's ideal of the 'well-tempered'
person, whose perfect balance ensures excellent performance both
physically and psychologically. Mixtures teaches the aspiring
doctor how to assess the patient's mixture by training one's sense
of touch and by a sophisticated use of diagnostic indicators. It
presents a therapeutic regime based on the interaction between
foods, drinks, drugs and the body's mixture. Mixtures is a work of
natural philosophy as well as medicine. It acknowledges Aristotle's
profound influence whilst engaging with Hippocratic ideas on health
and nutrition, and with Stoic, Pneumatist and Peripatetic physics.
It appears here in a new translation, with generous annotation,
introduction and glossaries elucidating the argument and setting
the work in its intellectual context.
This book takes an in-depth look at Covid-19-generated societal
trends and develops scenarios for possible future directions of
urban lifestyles. Drawing on examples from Brazil, China, and
Israel, and with a particular focus on cities, this book explores
the short and long-term changes in individual consumers and citizen
behavior as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. On the basis of
extensive market and opinion research data, aggregate data,
observational evidence, and news reports, the authors provide a
detailed account of the transformations that have occurred as a
result of a triple shock of public health emergency, economic
shutdown, and social isolation. They also examine which of these
behavioral changes are likely to become permanent and consider
whether this may ultimately promote or restrain sustainable
lifestyle choices. Innovative and timely, this book will be of
great interest to students, scholars, and professionals researching
and working in the areas of sustainable consumption, urban and land
use planning, and public health.
For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning,
the war on cancer. We’re better than ever at treating the
disease, yet cancer still claims the lives of one in five men and
one in six women in the US. The astonishing news is that up to
two-thirds of all cancer cases are linked to preventable
environmental causes. If we can stop cancer before it begins, why
don’t we? That was the question that motivated Kristina
Marusic’s revelatory inquiry into cancer prevention. In searching
for answers, she met remarkable doctors, scientists, and advocates
who are upending our understanding of cancer and how to fight it.
They recognise that we will never reduce cancer rates without
ridding our lives of the chemicals that increasingly trigger this
deadly disease. Most never imagined this role for themselves. One
scientist grew up without seeing examples of Indian-American women
in the field, yet went on to make shocking discoveries about racial
disparities in cancer risk. Another leader knew her calling was
children’s health, but realised only later in her career that
children can be harmed by invisible pollutants at their nursery.
Others uncovered surprising links between cancer and the everyday
items that fill our homes and offices. For these individuals, the
fight has become personal. And it certainly is personal for Berry,
a young woman whose battle with breast cancer is woven throughout
these pages. Might Berry have dodged cancer had she not grown up in
Oil City, Pennsylvania, in the shadow of refineries? There is no
way to know for sure. But she is certain that, even with the best
treatment available, her life was changed irrevocably by her
diagnosis. Marusic shows that, collectively, we have the power to
prevent many cases like Berry’s. The war on cancer is winnable -
if we revolutionise the way we fight.
The Tidal Model represents a significant alternative to mainstream
mental health theories, emphasising how those suffering from mental
health problems can benefit from taking a more active role in their
own treatment. Based on extensive research, The Tidal Model charts
the development of this approach, outlining the theoretical basis
of the model to illustrate the benefits of a holistic model of care
which promotes self-management and recovery. Clinical examples are
also employed to show how, by exploring rather than ignoring a
client's narrative, practitioners can encourage the individual's
greater involvement in the decisions affecting their assessment and
treatment. The appendices guide the reader in developing their own
assessment and care plans. The Tidal Model's comprehensive coverage
of the theory and practice of this model will be of great use to a
range of mental health professionals and those in training in the
fields of mental health nursing, social work, psychotherapy,
clinical psychology and occupational therapy.
Snow Leopards: Biodiversity of the World: Conservation from Genes
to Landscapes is the only comprehensive work on the biology,
behavior, and conservation status of the snow leopard, a species
that has long been one of the least studied, and hence poorly
understood, of the large cats. Breakthroughs in technologies and
methodologies to study this elusive cat have come rapidly,
including non-invasive genetics, camera traps, and GPS-satellite
collaring. The book begins with chapters on the genetic standing
and taxonomy of the snow leopard, followed by chapters on their
behavior and ecology. Additional contributions follow on the
current and emerging threats to the species, which include
longstanding concerns, such as poaching and conflicts with
livestock, and new and emerging threats such as mining and climate
change. A section on conservation solutions, backed by valuable
case studies, starts with an overview of the important role
mountain communities play in assuring the snow leopard's long-term
persistence. In addition, chapters on the role of captive snow
leopards for the conservation of the species, state-of-the-art
techniques and technologies for studying and monitoring snow
leopards, status reports from around the region, and future
perspectives, such as transboundary conservation initiatives,
international conventions (CITES, CMS, etc.), the role of the IUCN
Cat Specialist Group and the Snow Leopard Network, and undertakings
such as the Global Snow Leopard Forum facilitated by the World Bank
are also included.
Key features: * Presents a concise, accessible guide to regional
and clinically applied anatomy, that clearly demonstrates to
students the level of knowledge that is required for medical and
healthcare-related curricula. * Uses high-quality clinical and
intra-operative images integrated into the text which emphasizes
important topics through bullet points. * Features logically
arranged seven sections, each devoted to a body region or system,
which includes a self-test quiz, with the single best answer and
spotter-style questions.
Stimulated by the increasing importance of chiral molecules as
pharmaceuticals and the need for enantiomerically pure drugs,
techniques in chiral chemistry have been expanded and refined,
especially in the areas of chromatography, asymmetric synthesis,
and spectroscopic methods for chiral molecule structural
characterization. In addition to synthetic chiral molecules,
naturally occurring molecules, which are invariably chiral and
generally enantiomerically enriched, are of potential interest as
leads for new drugs. VCD Spectroscopy for Organic Chemists
discusses the applications of vibrational circular dichroism (VCD)
spectroscopy to the structural characterization of chiral organic
molecules. The book provides all of the information about VCD
spectroscopy that an organic chemist needs in order to make use of
the technique. The authors, experts responsible for much of the
existing literature in this field, discuss the experimental
measurement of VCD and the theoretical prediction of VCD. In
addition, they evaluate the advantages and limitations of the
technique in determining molecular structure. Given the
availability of commercial VCD instrumentation and quantum
chemistry software, it became possible in the late 1990s for
chemists to use VCD in elucidating the stereochemistries of chiral
organic molecules. This book helps organic chemists become more
aware of the utility of VCD spectroscopy and provides them with
sufficient knowledge to incorporate the technique into their own
research.
In the present volume, Phillip J. Siemens, who has been a seminal
contributor to our understanding of the nucleus as a many-body
system, and his able collaborator, Aksel S. Jensen, introduce
graduate students and colleagues in other fields to the basic
concepts of nuclear physics in a way which connects clearly the
methods of nuclear physics with those of condensed matter, atomic,
and particle physics. Their book thus provides a lucid introduction
to the key facts and concepts of nuclei, including many of the most
recent developments, while emphasizing the similarities and the
differences between the behavior of nuclei, atoms, elementary
particles, and condensed matter, It should thus prove useful, not
only as a text for an introductory graduate course in nuclear
physics, but as a reference book for all scientists interested in a
unified picture of our understanding of physical phenomena
associated with many-body systems.
Complex Psychological Trauma takes clinicians beyond the standard
approaches for treating simple, single-stressor incident PTSD. Here
the focus is on the major choice points that establish the
relational conditions for growth and change. In these pages, new
and experienced clinicians alike will find specific guidance for
acting in a relationally healing manner and refreshingly practical,
real-life advice on what to say in challenging therapy situations.
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