Author: Pauline Greenhill Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 9780773516151 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 332
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Redressing a neglect of women's traditions and feminist perspectives in Canadian folklore studies, 20 contributions discuss female experiences of traditional culture from feminist viewpoints. The authors look at the effect of gender on the collecting and interpreting of women's folklore, negative and positive images of women in traditional and popular culture, and women's use of creativity in their everyday lives. Some contributors are nonacademics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Nihad Farooq Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479806994 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 261
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Reciprocity, Wonder, Consequence : Object Lessons in the Land of Fire -- Of Blindness, Blood, and Second Sight : Transpersonal Journeys from Brazil to Ethiopia -- Creole Authenticity and Cultural Performance : Ethnographic Personhood in the Twentieth Century -- Performing Diaspora : The Science of Speaking for Haiti -- Conclusion : "I Danced, I Don't Know How" : Media, Race, and the Posthuman
Author: Martin Brueckner Publisher: Springer ISBN: 331971449X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 271
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This book explores how the interrelated concepts of responsible citizenship, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability can be interpreted, researched and taught. It contributes to the much-needed debate on the role of universities – and business schools in particular – in the context of rising social and environmental stakes and growing calls for 'doing business the right way'. The book offers diverse perspectives on the concepts of responsible citizenship, CSR and sustainability, with individual contributions focusing on the conceptual implications for specific disciplines, exploring associated challenges and opportunities, and raising methodological and theoretical concerns for the teaching and research of these concepts laden with complexity and ambiguity. The book is divided into three major parts, the first of which presents conceptual, theoretical and ethical issues. In turn, part two explores specific disciplines' perspectives. Lastly, part three presents hands-on experiences from the field. Thanks to this threefold approach, the book not only offers a guide to direct future research, but can also be used as a text for advanced courses on responsible citizenship, CSR and sustainability.
Author: Jane Katjavivi Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 1920397043 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 324
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When Jane Katjavivi becomes involved in London in support of change in Southern Africa, she meets and marries a Namibian activist in exile. Moving with him to Namibia at the time of Independence in 1990, she faces a new life in a starkly beautiful country. She starts to publish Namibian writing and opens a bookshop. In Windhoek she develops friendships with a group of strong, independent women, who have also come from other countries, and are engaged in different ways to overcome the divisions of the past. Over coffee, drinks and food, they support each other through times of happiness and sadness, through juggling careers and family, and through illness and death. When her husband is made Ambassador to the Benelux countries and the European Union, and later Berlin, Jane has to build a new identity as the wife of an ambassador, and come to terms with her own ill-health without her friends around her to support her. Set against the backdrop of the historical, political and social development of newly independent Namibia, Undisciplined Heart tells the story of Janeís love for her family, friends and her adopted country, in a gentle and honest way that reflects the joys and tragedies of life
Author: Pär Segerdahl Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443831425 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 195
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Animal studies is not a discipline of its own, but emerged simultaneously within many disciplines, such as sociology, geography, biology, art history, education research, philosophy, anthropology, film studies, political science, and gender research. Animal studies stands for a transformed way of doing scholarly work, always through the lens of the human/animal relationship. If anything keeps the field together, it is the productive “incoherence” that it creates wherever it challenges human-centred modes of work. What does it mean to do animal studies? Due to the essential “undisciplinarity” of the field, a traditional textbook approach could not answer the question. Undisciplined Animals is a series of confessions: “this is how I and my basic outlook changed through the efforts of unruly animals, neither of us happily adapting to human-centred perspectives.” The hope is that readers will recognize the same productive tensions in their own work; that the book will help them use these tensions and not hide them as breaches of disciplinary rules. Undisciplined Animals is a collection of invitations to animal studies, addressed to emerging scholars in a variety of fields who want to see how animal studies can vitalize work in their disciplines. The chapters are intersected by short interludes that describe an experience, a notion, or a thought that secretly drives the author’s work. These interludes reveal animal studies to transgress not only disciplinary borders, but also borders between the academic and the personal.
Author: Morris L. Barer Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773599479 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages :
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For four decades Robert Evans has been Canada’s foremost health policy analyst and commentator, playing a leadership role in the development of both health economics and population health at home and internationally. An Undisciplined Economist collects Evans’ most important contributions and includes two new articles. The topics addressed range widely, from the peculiar structure of the health care industry to the social determinants of the health of entire populations to the misleading role that economists have sometimes played in health policy debates. Written with Evans' characteristic clarity, candour, and wit, these essays unabashedly expose health policy myths and the special interests that lie behind them. He refutes claims that public health insurance is unsustainable, that the health care costs of an aging population will bankrupt Canada, that user charges will make the health care system more efficient, and that health care is the most important determinant of a population’s health. An Undisciplined Economist is a valuable collection for those familiar with Evans’ work, a lucid introduction for those new to the fields of health economics, health policy, and population health, and a fitting tribute to an outstanding scholar.
Author: Frank E. Denkins Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1483648877 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 83
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My undisciplined Life is a story that trails my life, my journey. It's about a little boy who didn't quite fit in and felt he was never wanted. For him, love never existed because he never felt it. It was as if his life was taken before he was given a chance to have one. This book was written because I know I'm not the only man, not to exclude women because I'm sure they experienced this feeling of unwantedness also. But I'm not the only one to feel lost or to ask the question, why was I allowed to enter this world and feel like i'm out of place? God has a reason for all of us being here. Some of us feel the pain more than others. Some of us set it so deep within that we have not a clue as to who we really are which sets us up for insecurities, self consciousness, isolation and living as well as becoming a lie just to fit in. I pray this testimony allows u to release you from you. Sometimes your situations are reflections of the mess you created Thank you sincerely, Enjoy the read May our Father who is in heaven bless you.
Author: Simone Janson Publisher: Best of HR - Berufebilder.de® ISBN: 3965963996 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 85
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What the 3rd edition brings you: You support climate protection, quickly recive compact information and checklists from experts (overview and press reviews in the book preview) as well as advice proven in practice, which leads to success step by step - also thanks to add-on. Because creative, often slightly chaotic people in particular suffer from the pressure to be efficient in our society and the call to manage their time better sounds almost like a mockery to many of them. At the same time, digitization, employers, and customers are demanding ever more efficient, faster, and, at the same time, high-quality work. Success also requires an ever greater degree of self-organization. All of this leads to stress and excessive demands on creative people in particular, because they lack the right methods to be successful despite the pressure to perform. Burnout is often the result. This book gives tips and instructions for self- and time management, also for creative-chaotic people, and shows how to successfully avoid stress, increase motivation and concentration, and gain quality of life and thus quality of work despite increasing demands in the job. Good luck and have fun reading. We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance. For this purpose, we gather in each book the best experts in their field as authors - detailed biographies in the book - , who give a comprehensive overview of the topic and additionally offer you success planner workbooks in printed form. Our guidebooks are aimed primarily at beginners. Readers who are looking for more in-depth information can get it for free as an add-on with individual content in German and English as desired. This concept is made possible by a particularly efficient, innovative digital process and Deep Learning, AI systems that use neural networks in translation. Moreover, we give at least 5 percent of our proceeds from book sales to social and sustainable projects. For example, we endow scholarships or support innovative ideas as well as climate protection initiatives and in some cases also receive government funding for this. With our translations from German into English we improve the quality of neural machine learning and thus contribute to international understanding. You can find out more on the website of our Berufebilder Yourweb Institute. Publisher Simone Janson is also a bestselling author as well as one of the 10 most important German bloggers according to the Blogger-Relevance-Index, furthermore she was a columnist and author of renowned media such as WELT, Wirtschaftswoche or ZEIT - more about her in Wikipedia.
Author: Eduardo Kairuz Publisher: ISBN: 9781839982606 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
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Undisciplined is concerned with questions of the transformative effects of crisis in architecture as a discipline. Framing the discussion with narratives that immerse the reader in spaces overshadowed by conflict, Undisciplined posits an unorthodox form of architectural production engaged with the contingent elaboration of new and increasingly necessary spatial narratives.
Author: Pauline Greenhill
Author: Nihad Farooq
Author: Martin Brueckner
Author: Jane Katjavivi
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Author: Pär Segerdahl
Author: Morris L. Barer
Author: Frank E. Denkins
Author: Simone Janson
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