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Enjoy tales from Mexico while sharpening your new language skills!
Practice and improve your reading skills in your new language while
enjoying the support of your native tongue with Stories from
Mexico, Third Edition. Both insightful and practical, this book
features Spanish and English stories presented in a side-by-side
format that saves you the inconvenience of constantly having to
look up unfamiliar words and expressions in a dictionary. Simply
read as much as you can understand in your new language and refer
to the facing page for help, if needed. A bilingual vocabulary list
featured at the end of the book serves as a handy reference for new
words. The best way to learn about a new culture is through its
folktales and legends. The sixteen fascinating stories offer
valuable insights into the rich culture of Mexico. And now you can
hear the stories read aloud by native Spanish speakers online and
via app. This new edition gives you access to a full 60 minutes of
audio-all of the stories included in the book. Hearing the stories
read aloud in their original language will help increase your
comprehension and pronunciation skills even more. Stories from
Mexico, Third Edition brings you: * A convenient side-by-side
presentation with English on one page and Spanish on the facing
page * Sixteen short stories from Mexico * Extensive
English-Spanish and Spanish-English vocabulary lists * 60 minutes
of audio recordings read by native Spanish speakers and available
online or via app Genevieve Barlow and William N. Stivers are
experienced Spanish language educators.
This anthology addresses several of the most central ideas in the
field of public administration. These ideas are as relevant to
public budgeting as they are to performance measurement or human
resource management. Collectively and individually the essays
explore what Dwight Waldo referred to as the ?political theories?
of public administration: issues that are ultimately unresolvable
yet crucial to understanding the nature of public administrative
practice. How can democracy and efficiency be balanced? Can there
be a science of administration? How should we think about
administrative accountability? What is the nature of the
relationship between citizen and state? Is professionalism an
adequate mechanism for ensuring accountability? How efficient can
or should bureaucracy be? What is proper leadership by
administrators hoping to address political democracy and managerial
efficiency? This ASPA Classics Volumes serves to connect the
practice of public policy and administration with the normative
theory base that has accrued and the models for practice that may
be deduced from this theory.
Ever since Max Weber and Frederick Taylor, public organizations
have been told that effective practice lies in maximizing
rationality through science. Yet science-based management reforms
have had only marginal impact on performance. People in entry-level
positions possess knowledge from direct experience of the work,
management knowledge is often science-based and distanced from the
work, and appointed top executives struggle to join bureaucratic
rationality with political exigencies. Knowledge and Power in
Public Bureaucracies: From Pyramid to Circle offers fresh thinking
about public organizations, arguing that conflicting forms of
knowledge may be found within the bureaucratic pyramid. Answering
the question of why management reforms over the past century have
failed on their own terms, this book examines the existence of
conflicting forms of knowledge within public bureaucracies, how
these contradictory perspectives interact (or fail to interact),
and the ways in which these systems preserve managerial efforts to
control workers. Authors Carnevale and Stivers argue that
bureaucratic rationality is not the "one best way," as Taylor
promised, and indeed, there is no one best way or model that can be
deployed in all situations. The bureaucratic pyramid can, however,
be made more effective by paying attention to circular processes
that are widespread within the hierarchy, the authors argue,
describing such circular processes as "facework." This book will
serve as an ideal supplement to introductory public administration
and organizational theory courses, as well as courses for
mid-career professionals, helping to frame their work experiences.
86 short papers originating from the 13th International
Symposium on Intracranial Pressure and Brain Monitoring held in
July 2007 in San Francisco present experimental as well as clinical
research data on invasive and non-invasive intracranial pressure
and brain biochemistry monitoring. The papers have undergone a
peer-reviewing and are organized in eight sections: brain injury:
ICP management and cerebral physiology; hydrocephalus and
cerebrospinal fluid dynamics; advanced neuromonitoring; biomedical
informatics; imaging; ICP: brain compliance, biophysics, and
biomechanics; stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and intracerebral
hematoma; and experimental studies and models. The papers address
the increasing use of decompressive craniectomy for the treatment
of brain edema as well after brain injury and the rapidly expanding
field of advanced neuromonitoring and neuroimaging.
'The Mother Code is a dystopian tale for all, which is scarily
relevant right now' Press Association What it means to be human-and
a mother-is put to the test in Carole Stivers' debut novel set in a
world that is more chilling and precarious than ever. Steven
Spielberg's Amblin Partners has acquired the worldwide film rights
for THE MOTHER CODE. It's 2049, and the survival of the human race
is at risk. Earth's inhabitants must turn to their last resort: a
plan to place genetically engineered children inside the cocoons of
large-scale robots-to be incubated, birthed, and raised by
machines. But there is yet one hope of preserving the human
order-an intelligence programmed into these machines that renders
each unique in its own right-the Mother Code. Kai is born in
America's desert southwest, his only companion is his robot Mother,
Rho-Z. Equipped with the knowledge and motivations of a human
mother, Rho-Z raises Kai and teaches him how to survive. But as
children like Kai come of age, their Mothers transform too-in ways
that were never predicted. When government survivors decide that
the Mothers must be destroyed, Kai must make a choice. Will he
break the bond he shares with Rho-Z? Or will he fight to save the
only parent he has ever known? In a future that could be our own,
The Mother Code explores what truly makes us human-and the tenuous
nature of the boundaries between us and the machines we create.
I have attended quite a few conferences and meetings devoted to the
ideas of Kurt Lewin. Among these the 1984 conference at Temple was
out standing for its high quality. What made it so successful?
Several things. The conference included a stimulating mix of
generations. The first generation of women who obtained their Ph.
D. 's in psychology in Berlin in the 1920's strike me as a
remarkable group. Now in their 80's, they are characterized by
enormous vigor and energy. They are still professionally active.
Two of them - Tamara Dembo and Maria Rickers Ovsienkina - joined
us. Other participants in the Temple conference had been in Iowa in
the 1930's and 1940's, or at MIT. Of course there were many who had
learned about Lewin from their own teachers, and in some cases,
their teachers' teachers. There was a good mixture of ap plied
psychologists and academics. Father said on several occasions that
he did not want to found a school of psychology as such. Rather he
wanted to introduce the field theoretical viewpoint and approach. I
think he would have been stimulated by and enthusiastic about the
many diverse areas to which Lewinian analy ses, ideas, and concepts
are applied today, as illustrated by this volume. He would have
been pleased to see so many people applying basic theoreti cal
concepts to important social problems. Father loved to discover new
things about America."
"The Culture of Cynicism" is the most wide-ranging and
thought-provoking book yet written on American morality. It traces
the intellectual history of American morality from its European
origins in the Middle Ages to the 1990s.
American culture, Professor Stivers argues, is a culture of
cynicism. The pursuit of the mystical values of success, survival,
happiness, and health has produced a corrosive and pervasive
morality which is actually an "anti-morality." The result is a
world in which there are norms without meaning, and everyday life
is reduced to an empty struggle for power and satisfaction. This
leads to boredom, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, addiction,
susceptibility to religious cults, bizarre psychotherapies,
widespread divorce, and damaged personal relationships.
"The Culture of Cynicism" not only lays bare the internal
contradictions of American morality, but also charts the new forms
it has assumed. It demonstrates compellingly that neither liberal
nor conservative commentators on America's moral decline have
grasped what is really the case: that American morality itself is
the source of this decline. What we need is not a "return" to
higher moral standards, but a complete revision of America's
foundational ethics.
This new text provides a lively introduction to the remarkable
developments in philosophy of language in this century, and to the
way these developments have impinged upon religious language,
particularly Christian discourse.
Most treatments of this subject focus on the relevance of
analytical philosophy of language with its verificational and
functional phases. These important movements are included, but this
text also covers historical debates about religious language along
with several other contemporary movements that have had increasing
impact upon biblical studies and theology, such as hermeneutical
philosophy, philosophy of metaphor, narrative, structuralism, and
poststructuralism.
"The Philosophy of Religious Language" focuses on exposition of
the different approaches, with attention upon central thinkers and
texts. In each case, however, the philosophy of language is also
connected with its major appropriation in religious studies. Since
one cannot exactly keep these approaches distinct, places of
cross-fertilization and reaction are indicated, with the intent of
providing an expanding conversation as the book progresses.
Ever since Max Weber and Frederick Taylor, public organizations
have been told that effective practice lies in maximizing
rationality through science. Yet science-based management reforms
have had only marginal impact on performance. People in entry-level
positions possess knowledge from direct experience of the work,
management knowledge is often science-based and distanced from the
work, and appointed top executives struggle to join bureaucratic
rationality with political exigencies. Knowledge and Power in
Public Bureaucracies: From Pyramid to Circle offers fresh thinking
about public organizations, arguing that conflicting forms of
knowledge may be found within the bureaucratic pyramid. Answering
the question of why management reforms over the past century have
failed on their own terms, this book examines the existence of
conflicting forms of knowledge within public bureaucracies, how
these contradictory perspectives interact (or fail to interact),
and the ways in which these systems preserve managerial efforts to
control workers. Authors Carnevale and Stivers argue that
bureaucratic rationality is not the "one best way," as Taylor
promised, and indeed, there is no one best way or model that can be
deployed in all situations. The bureaucratic pyramid can, however,
be made more effective by paying attention to circular processes
that are widespread within the hierarchy, the authors argue,
describing such circular processes as "facework." This book will
serve as an ideal supplement to introductory public administration
and organizational theory courses, as well as courses for
mid-career professionals, helping to frame their work experiences.
Change in education is inevitable. Throughout their careers,
teachers will face a myriad of changes, both inside and outside of
the classroom. This valuable professional development resource
demonstrates how K-12 teachers can anticipate and respond to change
in creative, advantageous ways that can enhance their career
satisfaction and effectiveness as professionals. Emphasizing that
change is something teachers can understand, manage, become
invested in, and even champion, the authors provide practical
skills for facing and adjusting to change, whether it is mandated
or a personal choice. Offering a wealth of conceptual, reflective,
interpersonal, and strategic tools, this guide also includes: -
Reflections from a survey of 100 teachers who share their
experiences with change as well as advice and encouragement,
inviting educators to learn from each other - A five-step process
for initiating and implementing plans for change - Research-based
strategies for leading change, both in smaller and larger spheres
of influence - Vivid examples that can be directly applied to
personal experience Reflective exercises to assist teachers in
understanding and approaching change This accessible resource is
invaluable for both new and experienced teachers. Whether or not
change is voluntary, opportunities for professional growth are
abundant, leading to improved student learning and greater teacher
retention.
Protestantism, at its best, grounds both its religious and its
social critique in the faith of the prophets and the life and
teachings of Jesus Christ as understood and lived by the church.
Its teachings and desired practice stand in start contrast to
complacent religion that seems to be at ease with imperial greed,
domination, and violence. Resistance and Theological Ethics
collects the edited and updated essays that emerged from the
meeting of the Theological Educators for Presbyterian Social
Witness in Geneva, Switzerland and southern France in 1999.
Inspired there by the sixteenth century forces of renewal unleashed
through resistance to an imperial church and society, the writings
of these educators and ethicists combine to sound a clarion call
for the church to stand in resistance to social, economic and
political forces that threaten while embracing those that foster
social justice, peace and human welfare. Each author emphasizes a
specific call to nonviolent resistance against powers grounded in
particular forms of sin: religious pride, greed, violence and
domination. Divided into three parts, the book details social
forces to be resisted, presents historical and biblical examples of
resistance, and concludes with theological analysis and advocacy
for action in contemporary American society."
REDUCED PRICING A new guide to the more than 175 historic Covered
Bridges in the New England area. Up to date information on each
one.. Included for each bridge are detailed directions and GPS
coordinates. If you've ever spent time looking for a Covered Bridge
and couldn't find it, or found that it was no longer there, you
understand why it is important to have current information. There
is a photo of each site as well as photo tips peculiar to that
bridge. Some history and construction details will add to your
enjoyment. There are also Step by Step directions for your own Self
Guided Tour for 10 areas spread throughout the region. If you live
in or travel in the New England area, you will treasure having this
guide available.
This anthology addresses several of the most central ideas in the
field of public administration. These ideas are as relevant to
public budgeting as they are to performance measurement or human
resource management. Collectively and individually the essays
explore what Dwight Waldo referred to as the "political theories"
of public administration: issues that are ultimately unresolvable
yet crucial to understanding the nature of public administrative
practice. How can democracy and efficiency be balanced? Can there
be a science of administration? How should we think about
administrative accountability? What is the nature of the
relationship between citizen and state? Is professionalism an
adequate mechanism for ensuring accountability? How efficient can
or should bureaucracy be? What is proper leadership by
administrators hoping to address political democracy and managerial
efficiency? This ASPA Classics Volumes serves to connect the
practice of public policy and administration with the normative
theory base that has accrued and the models for practice that may
be deduced from this theory.
Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Body extends the scope of Paul Ricoeur's
reflections and analyses of the body as one's own through
explorations into the ethical, cultural, and affective dimensions
of our corporeal existence. Starting with the fact that each of us
has a place in the world by reason of our mode of incarnation as
flesh, the contributors to this volume address a range of diverse
themes in which the lived body figures. Edited by Roger W. H.
Savage, this book investigates the construction of narrative
identities and the social assignment of gender and race, the
passions and an ethics of respect, affect theory, feeling, the
carnal imagination, and the cultural and social milieu that
comprises the conditions of our embodiment as subjects who have
deeply held conditions and beliefs. That one's own body is also an
object among objects is an invitation on the part of an
objectifying attitude to overlook the reality of the experience of
one's body as lived. By acknowledging that the lived body is
irreducible to an object in the world, the essays in this volume
have a common point: our assurance in acting and suffering is
rooted in the mode of our incarnate existence as fragile yet
capable human beings.
Enjoy tales from Spain while sharpening your new language skills!
Practice and improve your reading skills in your new language while
enjoying the support of your native tongue with Stories from Spain,
Third Edition. Both insightful and practical, this book features
Spanish and English stories presented in a side-by-side format that
saves you the inconvenience of constantly having to look up
unfamiliar words and expressions in a dictionary. Simply read as
much as you can understand in your new language and refer to the
facing page for help, if needed. A bilingual vocabulary list
featured at the end of the book serves as a handy reference for new
words. The best way to learn about a new culture is through its
folktales and legends. The eighteenth fascinating stories offer
valuable insights into the rich culture of Spain. And now you can
hear the stories read aloud by native Spanish speakers online and
via app. This new edition gives you access to a full 60 minutes of
audio-twelve of the stories included in the book. Hearing the
stories read aloud in their original language will help increase
your comprehension and pronunciation skills even more. Stories from
Spain, Third Edition brings you: * A convenient side-by-side
presentation with English on one page and Spanish on the facing
page * Eighteen short stories from Spain * Extensive
English-Spanish and Spanish-English vocabulary lists * 60 minutes
of audio recordings read by native Spanish speakers and available
online or via app Genevieve Barlow and William N. Stivers are
experienced Spanish language educators.
Change in education is inevitable. Throughout their careers,
teachers will face a myriad of changes, both inside and outside of
the classroom. This valuable professional development resource
demonstrates how K-12 teachers can anticipate and respond to change
in creative, advantageous ways that can enhance their career
satisfaction and effectiveness as professionals. Emphasizing that
change is something teachers can understand, manage, become
invested in, and even champion, the authors provide practical
skills for facing and adjusting to change, whether it is mandated
or a personal choice. Offering a wealth of conceptual, reflective,
interpersonal, and strategic tools, this guide also includes: -
Reflections from a survey of 100 teachers who share their
experiences with change as well as advice and encouragement,
inviting educators to learn from each other - A five-step process
for initiating and implementing plans for change - Research-based
strategies for leading change, both in smaller and larger spheres
of influence - Vivid examples that can be directly applied to
personal experience Reflective exercises to assist teachers in
understanding and approaching change This accessible resource is
invaluable for both new and experienced teachers. Whether or not
change is voluntary, opportunities for professional growth are
abundant, leading to improved student learning and greater teacher
retention.
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