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Public Secrets as a Phenomenon in Organizational Communication: How Public Knowledge Fails to Become Organizational Action
ISBN: 9780595273706 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Will I Be Killed?: (For Writing the Following Contents...)
ISBN: 9780595275915 / Angielski / Miękka / 684 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the 21st century. Space shuttles knock heavens' gates. At the same time, fidayeen blow people out of earth in the names of those very heavens. I found it impossible to disregard or circumvent this reality. Probing into the roots of the problem, I discovered the true reason for the manifestation of a social curse that had afflicted billions of people for 14 centuries. I traced the origins, the perpetrator(s) and the ways of the progression of this barbarism. In the process, I came across a lot many villains abetting this devil in direct or indirect terms. Finally, I convinced myself...
This is the 21st century. Space shuttles knock heavens' gates. At the same time, fidayeen blow people out of earth in the names of those very heavens....
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Somebody Else's Children: The Courts, the Kids, and the Struggle to Save America's Troubled Families
ISBN: 9780595300785 / Angielski / Miękka / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the narrative force of an epic novel and the urgency of first-rate investigative journalism, this important book delves into the daily workings and life-or-death decisions of a typical American family court system. It provides an intimate look at the lives of the parents and children whose fate it decides. A must for social workers and social work students, attorneys, judges, foster parents, law students, child advocates, teachers, journalists and anyone who cares about our nation's children.
With the narrative force of an epic novel and the urgency of first-rate investigative journalism, this important book delves into the daily workings a...
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The New Human Agreement: The 5000 Year Plan
ISBN: 9780595301744 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Individual, Society, and the World
ISBN: 9780595310050 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Individual, Society and the World" is a two-part book. Part I is titled "Behind the Masks" and Part II is called "Where We Should Be Going?" The quest for knowledge through education and information is important in moving a person towards quality of life. Surely, psychologically healthy individuals or leaders will always make better decisions for themselves and for society. We know that the world works, in reality, with power, money, connections, and knowledge. Umang Malhotra recognizes the value of personal experiences in confronting bureaucratic and powerful entities in the interest of...
"Individual, Society and the World" is a two-part book. Part I is titled "Behind the Masks" and Part II is called "Where We Should Be Going?" The ques...
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This Unbearable Boredom of Being: A Crisis of Meaning in America
ISBN: 9780595313099 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The late Dr. Viktor Frankl, one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and the author of the bestselling book, "Man's Search for Meaning," wrote over 50 years ago: "Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."
The gist of this book, "This Unbearable Boredom of Being," is that the most burning problems of today's America: crime, drugs, greed, ugly gender polarization, disintegration of family, decay in morals, racism, and so on, are the direct consequences of a crisis of meaning that has engulfed America. The author, Genrich Krasko, an acclaimed scientist... The late Dr. Viktor Frankl, one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and the author of the bestselling book, "Man's Search for Meaning," wrote ov...
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Haiku of Culture Critique: Search for Meaning
ISBN: 9780595313891 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Haiku of Culture Critique: Search for Meaning" is offered potentially to every individual, especially for those who are at home, quite satisfied with the world's course of things as better than heaven, but concerned with the perfection of needs, i.e., their satisfaction at every moment of life, which America tends to believe is guaranteed and attainable as "That's it " Coming up in place of its antithesis is a myth that eats it up, and in the end, the myth acquires terror as sacredness and truth as hope. With it the distinction of dreaming and waking fades, and the world seems to turn to a...
"Haiku of Culture Critique: Search for Meaning" is offered potentially to every individual, especially for those who are at home, quite satisfied with...
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The Rise of Selfishness in America
ISBN: 9780595351596 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A vibrant, sweeping analysis of the roots of American self-indulgence" "Wonderful...a delight to read, even exciting...There are few books that inspire real enthusiasm. This is one of them."
"A vibrant, sweeping analysis of the roots of American self-indulgence" |
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Redefining Success: Working Close to Home
ISBN: 9780595365678 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Follow a path cut by a country doctor who examines the lives of men and women who choose to live close to work to pursue a dream, a lifestyle, or even a practical reality. When people make the decision to work close to home, they say good-bye to the hassles of commuting, but along with that, all other aspects of life change. Family and community become enhanced with a strong sense of belonging through compromises that require a redefinition of success. A person finds him or herself frequently in a peer group of one, walking a sharper edge and more susceptible to the bipolarities of life....
Follow a path cut by a country doctor who examines the lives of men and women who choose to live close to work to pursue a dream, a lifestyle, or even...
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Perspectives on the Real War: Essays of a Human Condition in Crisis
ISBN: 9780595380381 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the nation is consumed with utilizing its time, talent and resources to fight a war on foreign soil, the real domestic battle continues to be ignored. This warfare can be found in any urbanized area in America. It can be found in our schools, in our single parent homes and in our correctional facilities. This combat can be detected on any city corner and in our once cohesive and loving communities. This conflict can be discovered in the prison of our minds. What must happen before those most affected realize that we must take ownership of this condition? When will we make a conscious...
While the nation is consumed with utilizing its time, talent and resources to fight a war on foreign soil, the real domestic battle continues to be ig...
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An Anatomy of Lying: In Personal Life and Society
ISBN: 9780595386024 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This remarkable work explores deep into human psyche and the society to reveal the secret of our startling susceptibility to deceptions, and the heroism required to pursue truth.
To different people, same event could make fundamentally different impressions, causing different responses, and ultimately leading us to our different destinies. For example, while topsy-turvy childhood produces subconscious filters that distort the world, peaceful and loving childhood nurture confidence, therefore allowing the subconscious filters to report reality to our consciousness. In the society, the... This remarkable work explores deep into human psyche and the society to reveal the secret of our startling susceptibility to deceptions, and the heroi...
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Terror of a New Age: A Vivid Glimpse at the State of Humanity in a New Millennium
ISBN: 9780595409976 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Excerpts
"The rise in global artillery, .international, confrontational issues; .the pre-2001 era; .the endless peace negotiations between Jews and Muslims; the unrelenting tumult between tribes and nations of earth; the aftershock of hideous tragedies, and.heightened secularism., all seem to be steering the tide toward a godless future." -Chapter 1 ."others face anguish-struggling to get perhaps even a morsel of rice per day, .; having to watch their family being murdered in cold blood, hustling to the nearest asylum., and so forth." "All these altercations and grievances are also... Excerpts
"The rise in global artillery, .international, confrontational issues; .the pre-2001 era; .the endless peace negotiations between Jews and... |
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Nobody's Perfect!: A Critique of Modern American Society
ISBN: 9780595420841 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you are a red blooded American who really loves and wants to help your country, then this book is a must read for you! It gives Americans of all walks of life the chance to sit down and calmly look at themselves with the hope that they will take to heart the author's analysis and common sense suggestions. The book is not intended to be a complete makeover of America, but rather a way to save what's great and improve what may be in the way of our survival as the world's greatest superpower in history. Remember, nobody is perfect!
If you are a red blooded American who really loves and wants to help your country, then this book is a must read for you! It gives Americans of all wa...
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Rationality
ISBN: 9780631099000 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rationality contains a selection of the best contemporary writing on one of the central issues in the philosophy of social science. The contributors address themselves to questions which have increasingly become the subject of a many-sided debate between philosophers, sociologists and anthropologists: How are we to understand the beliefs and actions of other men in other cultures? Can we translate the meanings and the reason of one culture into the language of another.
This volume is essential reading for courses on the methodology and philosophy of social science and is so arranged... Rationality contains a selection of the best contemporary writing on one of the central issues in the philosophy of social science. The contributors a...
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Public Choice
ISBN: 9780631138396 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1968 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to one of the founders of public choice theory, James Buchanan, yet many people have only the vaguest idea what public choice is. The book offers and unusually clear and accessible introduction to an important subject. McLean examines the workings of public choice from two related perspectives - collective action and the aggregation of individual preferences into social consensus.
The book highlights the paradox at the heart of collective action- that self-interest in the public domain is frequently counterproductive. National... The 1968 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to one of the founders of public choice theory, James Buchanan, yet many people have only the vaguest i...
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On the Freedom of the Will
ISBN: 9780631145523 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schopenhauer's prize essay On the Freedom of Will is one of the classics of Western philosophy, dealing with the question of free will versus determinism. His treatment of the problem of free will is by no means obsolete, containing penetrating reflections relevant to contemporary discussion.
The argument of the essay is clearly and rigorously presented, and reveals many basic features of Schopenhauer's thought. As such, it forms a useful introduction to Schopenhauer's philosophy in general. Equally, the essay can be studied with profit independently of Schopenhauer's... Schopenhauer's prize essay On the Freedom of Will is one of the classics of Western philosophy, dealing with the question of free will versus determin...
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Developmental Social Psychology
ISBN: 9780631148296 / Angielski / Miękka / 832 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first to synthesise this exciting new area for undergraduates. Taking a topic-based approach, it emphasises the social contexts of development and the developmental aspects of social reasoning and social behaviour.
This book is the first to synthesise this exciting new area for undergraduates. Taking a topic-based approach, it emphasises the social contexts of de...
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Another Modernity: A Different Rationality
ISBN: 9780631159391 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is Lash's most comprehensive statement in social and cultural theory. It is a book addressed to sociologists and philosophers, to students of urban life, modern languages, cultural studies and the visual arts.
Alongside the Enlightenment has emerged another modernity. This second modernity has - in opposition to the Enlightenment rationality of progress, order, homogeneity and cognition - initiated a different rationality of uncertainty, transience, experiment, and the unknowable. This second, this other modernity, is present in notions of 'difference' and 'reflexivity'... This book is Lash's most comprehensive statement in social and cultural theory. It is a book addressed to sociologists and philosophers, to students o...
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History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780631165835 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ambitious critical history of the variety of disciplines we group together as the social sciences argues that the defining characteristic of social science, both historically and in the present, is ideology. Based originally on a flawed ideal of science, the 'social sciences' have incorporated and refined a set of assumptions about the nature of state and society, assumptions which have been institutionalized with the growth of modern universities.
The book is in three main parts. It deals firstly with the history of certain key ides from the early modern period (assessing... This ambitious critical history of the variety of disciplines we group together as the social sciences argues that the defining characteristic of soci...
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Causal Attribution
ISBN: 9780631171652 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Attribution theory deals with how people explain social behavior - their causal attributions or common-sense explanations. Causal Attribution provides a major assessment of attribution theory in social psychology during the last forty years. It reviews in detail the variety of theoretical perspectives and established phenomena in attribution theory and provides a unique integration.
A brief introduction to the classic attribution theories is followed by a review of some of the fundamental questions. The core of the book is made up of four central chapters, one on each of... Attribution theory deals with how people explain social behavior - their causal attributions or common-sense explanations. Causal Attribution p...
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