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Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of
nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just
what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from
even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it
will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing
tale that maintains, to the very end, a relentless atmosphere of
disorientation. Superficially about bureaucracy, it is in the last
resort a description of the absurdity of 'normal' human nature.
Still more enigmatic is The Castle. Is it an allegory of a
quasi-feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject?
The search by a central European Jew for acceptance into a dominant
culture? A spiritual quest for grace or salvation? An individual's
struggle between his sense of independence and his need for
approval? Is it all of these things? And K? Is he opportunist,
victim, or an outsider battling against elusive authority? Finally,
in his fables, Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with
the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance, and
no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional
uncertainties and anxieties.
As a conflict ends and the parties begin working towards a durable
peace, practitioners and peacebuilders are faced with the
possibilities and challenges of building new or reformed political,
security, judicial, social, and economic structures. This Handbook
analyzes these elements of post-conflict state building through the
lens of international law, which provides a framework through which
the authors contextualize and examine the many facets of state
building in relation to the legal norms, processes, and procedures
that guide such efforts across the globe. The volume aims to
provide not only an introduction to and explanation of prominent
topics in state building, but also a perceptive analysis that
augments ongoing conversations among researchers, lawyers, and
advocates engaged in the field. The Research Handbook on
Post-Conflict State Building provides keen insights for faculty,
graduate and undergraduate students in programs related to peace
and conflict, governance, and international justice and law.
Practitioners such as United Nations staff, government officials,
international institution and think tanks engaged in post-conflict
state building will glean important lessons and guidance from the
Handbook's chapters. Contributors include: T. Beckelman, S.-T.
Bounfour, M.J. Day, M. de Hoon, Y.M. Dutton, R. Friedrich, C.M.
Goebel, S.L. Hodgkinson, D.E.W. Johnson, R. Kraemer, C.D.
Kreutzner, J.C. Levy, A.C. Mann, B. McGonigle Leyh, N. Narayan, S.
Pearlman, F.J. Pecci, R.M. Perito, D.J. Planty, B. Popken, M.
Sterio, J. Trahan, G. Visoka, P.R. Williams, J.P. Worboys
This tenth edition of Sales Management continues the tradition of
blending the most recent sales management research with the
real-life "best practices" of leading sales organizations. The
authors teach sales management courses, and interact with sales
managers and sales management professors on a regular basis. Their
text focuses on the importance of employing different sales
strategies for different customer groups, as well as integrating
corporate, business, marketing, and sales strategies. Sales
Management includes coverage of the current trends and issues in
sales management, along with numerous real-world examples from the
contemporary business world that are used throughout the text to
illuminate chapter discussions. Key changes in this edition
include: Updates in each chapter to reflect the latest sales
management research, and leading sales management trends and
practices; Revised end-of-chapter cases; Revised ethical dilemma
boxes; All new chapter opening vignettes about well-known companies
that illustrate key topics from that chapter; and New or updated
comments from sales managers in "Sales Management in the 21st
Century" boxes. An online instructor's manual with test questions
and PowerPoints is available to adopters.
Top voices highlight important changes in the role of bishop.
Compelling essays, written by bishops, other clergy, and academics
from across the Episcopal Church, reflect the breadth of thinking
on the history, current state, and future of the role of leadership
within the denomination and the wider Anglican Communion. Topics
include the transformation of the role over the last fifty years, a
review of historic documents on the episcopacy, issues of race and
gender, and the definition of ministry and leadership. This volume
will be of interest to leaders across denominations as well as
scholars.
Ecological Education in Action celebrates the work of innovative
educators in North America who explore ecological issues in school
and non-school settings. These educators demonstrate how to reshape
the thinking of children and adults to affirm the value of
sufficiency, mutual support, and community.
Courses in environmental education often focus on scientific
analysis and social policy -- not cultural change. Children are
exposed to information regarding environmental problems and explore
Such topics as endangered species, the logging of tropical
rainforests, or the monitoring of water quality in local streams
and rivers. Some adopt manatees or whales, or create school-wide
recycling programs. These topics and efforts are without question
commendable, however, missing is a recognition of the deeper
cultural transformations that must accompany the shift to a more
ecologically sustainable way of life.
Contributors to this volume describe courses, programs, or
projects that are transformative in nature, aimed at engendering
the experience of connectedness that lies at the heart of moral
action. The first six chapters describe educational efforts in K-12
schools throughout North America. The next six chapters consider
the work of people in higher education and nonformal educational
settings and their attempts to instill an ecological perspective
into the learning of college students and adult community members.
The book thus creates an image of what an ecologically grounded
form of education for our own era could look like.
Exam Board: ISEB Level: 11 Plus Subject: Non-Verbal Reasoning First
Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: Spring 2017 Practice exam
papers to prepare children for the most challenging of pre-tests
and 11 plus independent school entrance exams. Includes 9 levelled
exam papers that will test pupils' skills in Non-Verbal Reasoning.
- Develops exam techniques tested in all major pre-tests and 11
plus independent school examinations including CEM, GL and ISEB -
Features papers written to measured levels of difficulty to help
build skills - Teaches pupils to improve their response rates with
timed papers - Builds exam-room confidence by practicing with a
variety of exam paper styles - Identifies weaker areas and improves
results with detailed answers and commentary Also available for 11
Plus Non-Verbal Reasoning preparation: - 11 Plus Non-Verbal
Reasoning Revision Guide - Non-Verbal Reasoning Workbook Age 8-10 -
Non-Verbal Reasoning Workbook Age 9-11 - Non-Verbal Reasoning
Workbook Age 10-12
Originally published in 1979, Ends and Means in Social Work was the
first book to provide research-based evidence on what social
workers actually do, what they were aiming to achieve, and what
sense their activities made, both in terms of their own subjective
perspectives and those of their clients. The authors describe and
analyse a series of surveys and action studies based on a year’s
referrals and the long-term clientele of an area office. They aimed
first to find out what the clients thought of and expected from the
newly reorganised social services, and how social workers saw the
changes and their new responsibilities. The second aim was to
discover how social work skills and other resources were being used
to meet different client needs. Third, the research was designed to
enable social workers, by developing a new monitoring tool, the
Case Review System, to become more explicit about both the ends and
means of their activities. Widespread interest had been aroused by
the Case Review System. It had raised intriguing questions about
who gets what and why. On an individual level, the Case Review
System can enable social workers to evaluate their practice by
comparing plan with achievement; as an educational tool it can
assist supervision; as a management tool it can provide aggregated
data on client characteristics, the use of resources, and outcomes;
as a research tool it can answer questions on the relationships
between client characteristics, problems and social work practice,
and provide longitudinal data on client careers. It is in response
to insistent demands for a rounded account of this research project
and its results that this book has been written. It endeavours to
bring together all the aspects of the specific research studies and
to discuss their wider implications for the organisation of the
personal social services. Particularly valuable for students and
practitioners alike will be the concluding discussion in which the
evidence which emerged about the use of social work resources is
subjected to critical review. Questions are raised about the
current deployment of social work skills, and suggestions are made
about how these skills might be redeployed, tasks defined more
realistically, and how statutory functions could mesh more easily
with voluntary activities.
At some point, most home-owners have to make a choice: whether to
move or extend their property. In the case of the latter, there is
a further choice - to put the whole matter into other hands or to
try to understand the processes involved so that the whole business
is carried out efficiently and cost-effectively. Those working or
planning to work in the construction industry also need to be
reminded of the pitfalls of local authority requirements, building
control and planning, and this text provides an account of the
necessary action.
This is a book for the Single Market Economy (SEM) and for the real
estate professionals operating within it. With the rapidly
increasing harmonization within Europe there is a need for the
development of expertise in the handling of different national
systems and the non-tariff barriers they present. This guide is
designed to help professionals to develop this expertise. It offers
more than a dictionary of specialist and technical terminology;
there is a supplementary section giving longer translations of
particularly tricky terms where more detailed information is
needed. There are also sections on the real estate and planning
systems in the different European countries, government and
planning hierarchies and real estate associations throughout
Europe. None of these are intended to be definitive guides, but
simply highlight the key questions the real estate professional
needs to be aware of and goes on to provide sources for further
reading.
Peacemaker had a long road to the spotlight and he's not alone.
There are dozens of unique, sometimes absurd, and yet truly
memorable characters waiting for their chance to shine. Strange and
Unsung All-Stars of the DC Multiverse celebrates some of the
quirkiest, most compelling, and ready-for-primetime characters from
throughout DC's history. With peculiar powers-like Matter-Eater Lad
to Arm-Fall-Off Boy-and one-of-a-kind costumes-from Red Tornado
with her red long johns and a cooking pot for a helmet to Blue
Snowman with her wintry robotic armour-these characters are truly
unforgettable. Dive in and discover your next favourite DC Super
Hero or Villain.
A major study on the theology of Beloved Community. This
long-awaited work by the church's top clergy, scholars, and thought
leaders examines the theological foundation of Beloved Community
and its threats. It addresses such important topics as the legacy
and sin of white supremacy, economic disparity, racial healing, and
the call for reparations. The committee's work sheds light on the
societal and cultural implications of the largest obstacle to the
core mission of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and outlines what is
necessary for the future of racial justice. "I am so grateful for
the... work of the theologians and bishops who have spent the last
five years working on [this study] . . . This is hard and holy
work, not to hurt or harm, but to help and heal." -Michael B.
Curry, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
Originally published in 1987, this is a thorough and lucid
introduction and commentary to the whole of Goethe's Faust. It
gives the student of German and European literature valuable
insights into the most important work of Germany's foremost poet.
German quotations are translated or paraphrased in English and a
detailed knowledge of German literature is not assumed. The book
traces Goethe's work on the play over 60 years of his creative
career and surveys its critical reception over the 200 years since
its first appearance. Part One is analysed as a mimetic tragedy,
Part Two as an historical and cultural profile of Goethe's own
times. The commentary guides the reader carefully through its
subtleties and multi-layered references and provides a broad and
coherent structure for the overall understanding of the work. It
suggests provocative interpretations of some figures and episodes
in Part Two and places renewed emphasis on parts of the work that
often receive relatively little attention. An appendix surveys the
metres and verse forms of the play.
In the late 1960s, student protests broke out throughout much of
the world, and while Britain's anti-Vietnam protestors and China's
Red Guards were clearly radically different, these movements at
times shared inspirations, aspirations and aesthetics. Within
Western popular media, Mao's China was portrayed as a danger to
world peace, but at the same time, for some on the counter-cultural
left, the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) contained ideas worthy of
exploration. Moreover, because of Britain's continued colonial
possession of Hong Kong, Britain had a specific interest in ongoing
events in China, and information was highly sought after. Thus, the
objects that China exported - propaganda posters, paintings, Mao
badges, periodicals, ceramics etc - became a crucial avenue through
which China was known at this time, and interest in them crossed
the political divide. Collecting the Revolution uses the objects
that the Chinese government sent abroad and that visitors brought
back with them to open up the stories of diplomats, journalists,
activists, students and others, and how they imagined, engaged with
and later remembered Mao's China through its objects. It chronicles
the story of how these objects were later incorporated into the
collections of some of Britain's most prominent museums, thus
allowing later generations to continue to engage with one of the
most controversial and important periods of China's recent history.
Cinematic Virtual Reality brings a combination of documentary,
narrative and game design principles to the medical profession and,
in the healthcare arena, collaboration is a key component for
creating intellectually- and emotionally- rich immersive
experiences. "The Power of Virtual Reality Cinema for Healthcare
Training" gathers more than a dozen experts from both the
production and healthcare fields to break down best practices for
creating successful cine-VR projects. Designed for
multi-disciplinary teams interested in integrating cine-VR
production into their healthcare training and educational programs,
this book has been written for two audiences: the healthcare
professional interested in what production experts consider when
approaching a project, and the media expert curious about how this
new technology can be used in the medical field. Highlights
include: Cutting edge medical education techniques developed by
Ohio University's GRID Lab, including: PREality (creating a forced
sense of deja-vu to increase acclimation time), a unique approach
to eye-tracking to enhance team performance, and the low-CRIS
technique (a low-cost rapid implementation strategy to capture
patient care for rapid graduate student training). Insightful
production techniques that will enhance your cine-VR projects
including advanced plating methods to hide lighting set-ups,
immersive audio considerations, and new ways to consider 360
storytelling including the Lovrick montage and the Christmas Carol
continuum for story development. Detailed explanations of the
production considerations and results of specific cine-VR
productions (from funding approaches to distribution) including
access to more than five hours of cine-VR examples of the actual
productions available for download. Details on a wide variety of
medical cine-VR projects, including 100 images that illustrate best
practices for topics such as recording in active medical
facilities, building successful multi-disciplinary teams, working
within HIPAA regulations, conceptualizing cine-VR libraries for
graduate education, and implementing innovative distribution
models.
Originally published in 1979, Ends and Means in Social Work was the
first book to provide research-based evidence on what social
workers actually do, what they were aiming to achieve, and what
sense their activities made, both in terms of their own subjective
perspectives and those of their clients. The authors describe and
analyse a series of surveys and action studies based on a year's
referrals and the long-term clientele of an area office. They aimed
first to find out what the clients thought of and expected from the
newly reorganised social services, and how social workers saw the
changes and their new responsibilities. The second aim was to
discover how social work skills and other resources were being used
to meet different client needs. Third, the research was designed to
enable social workers, by developing a new monitoring tool, the
Case Review System, to become more explicit about both the ends and
means of their activities. Widespread interest had been aroused by
the Case Review System. It had raised intriguing questions about
who gets what and why. On an individual level, the Case Review
System can enable social workers to evaluate their practice by
comparing plan with achievement; as an educational tool it can
assist supervision; as a management tool it can provide aggregated
data on client characteristics, the use of resources, and outcomes;
as a research tool it can answer questions on the relationships
between client characteristics, problems and social work practice,
and provide longitudinal data on client careers. It is in response
to insistent demands for a rounded account of this research project
and its results that this book has been written. It endeavours to
bring together all the aspects of the specific research studies and
to discuss their wider implications for the organisation of the
personal social services. Particularly valuable for students and
practitioners alike will be the concluding discussion in which the
evidence which emerged about the use of social work resources is
subjected to critical review. Questions are raised about the
current deployment of social work skills, and suggestions are made
about how these skills might be redeployed, tasks defined more
realistically, and how statutory functions could mesh more easily
with voluntary activities.
Developing Performance Support for Computer Systems: A Strategy for
Maximizing Usability and Learnability provides detailed planning,
design, and development guidance for generating performance support
for new or upgraded computer systems. Performance support includes
documentation, online help, coaches and wizards, training, and
other materials necessary to enable users to perform their jobs
more efficiently and effectively. This volume offers a strategy for
maximizing ease-of-use and ease-of-learning through an integrated
performance support systems approach. The text provides how-to
guidance throughout that developers can apply directly to the
design of their performance support tools and products. Rather than
cover a few specific topic areas, it examines the entire spectrum
of performance support. The book explains how to match performance
support methods to task requirements, gives an overview of
important user characteristics, and provides general guidance for
presentation, layout, formatting, media selection, the use of color
and icons, and accessibility. Evaluation checklists are included in
the appendices and are also available online. Although this book
primarily addresses the development of performance support for
large software systems, the principles and approaches are valuable
for any systems development environment.
Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams.
Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the
fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and
knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet.
Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan, it charts
the life of a deeply flawed individual and his struggle against the
nihilism of his diabolical companion Mephistopheles. Part One
presents Faust's pact with the Devil and the harrowing tragedy of
his love affair with the young Gretchen. Part Two shows Faust's
experience in the world of public affairs, including his encounter
with Helen of Troy, the emblem of classical beauty and culture. The
whole is a symbolic and panoramic commentary on the human condition
and on modern European history and civilisation. This new
translation of both parts of Faust preserves the poetic character
of the original, its tragic pathos and hilarious comedy. In
addition, John Williams has translated the Urfaust, a fascinating
glimpse into the young Goethe's imagination, and a selection from
the draft scenarios for the Walpurgis Night witches' sabbath -
material so ribald and blasphemous that Goethe did not dare publish
it.
The final decades of the Ottoman Empire and the period of the
French mandate in Syria and Lebanon coincided with a critical
period of transformation in agricultural technologies and
administration. Chemical fertilizers and mechanized equipment
inspired model farms while government officials and technocratic
elites pursued new land tenure, credit-lending, and tax collection
policies to maximize revenue. These policies transformed rural
communities and environments and were central to projects of reform
and colonial control—as well as to resistance of that control.
States of Cultivation examines the processes and effects of
agrarian transformation over more than a century as Ottoman,
Syrian, Lebanese, and French officials grappled with these new
technologies, albeit with different end goals. Elizabeth Williams
investigates the increasingly fragmented natures produced by these
contrasting priorities and the results of their intersection with
regional environmental limits. Not only did post–World War I
policies realign the economic space of the mandate states, but they
shaped an agricultural legacy that continued to impact Syria and
Lebanon post-independence. With this book, Williams offers the
first comprehensive account of the shared technocratic ideals that
animated these policies and the divergent imperial goals that not
only reshaped the region's agrarian institutions, but produced
representations of the region with repercussions well beyond the
mandate's end.
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