Society and Social Sciences

One current challenge of conducting research from the leadership-as-practice perspective is a practical one: how to capture and analyse the elusive practice of leadership within the web of mundane organising processes.

Faith-based organizations continue to play a significant role in the provision of social work services in many countries but their role within the welfare state is often contested.

This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme.

Work is, and always will be, a central institution of society.

Originally published in 1989, this is a unique reference source to the social attitudes of British adolescents of the time.

Volume XIII of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers covers the twelve months between the UNIA's second international convention in New York in August 1921 and the third convention in August 1922.

This volume explores multiple examples of how to connect classrooms to communities through service learning and participatory research to teach issues of social justice.

In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived.

First Published in 1995.

Offers an instructive look at the role modern telecommunications infrastructures play in promoting vibrant rural economies.

This accessible text provides a clear overview of the contemporary themes and challenges within critical pedagogy, and suggests a path towards a more conscientious world for all through education.

Digital Governance provides managers with a simple and jargon-free introduction to the impact that digital technology can have on the governance of their organisations.

This book intervenes in the immigration debate, showing how moving away from a racialized local/ migrant dichotomy can help to unite people on the basis of their common humanity.

This book introduces a new framework for analyzing second language (L2) learners' written texts.

Based on award-winning research, Love and revolution brings classical and contemporary anarchist thought into a mutually beneficial dialogue with a global cross-section of ecological, anti-capitalist, feminist and anti-racist activists - discussing real-life examples of the loving-caring relations that underpin many contemporary struggles.

From the Arab Spring to the Spanish Indignados, from Occupy Wall Street in New York to Nuit Debout in Paris, contemporary protest bears the mark of citizenism, a libertarian and participatory brand of populism which appeals to ordinary citizens outraged at the arrogance of political and financial elites in the wake of the Great Recession.

Christianity Today 2020 Book Award (Award of Merit, Theology/Ethics)Outreach 2020 Recommended Resource of the Year (Theology and Biblical Studies)The question of what makes life worth living is more vital now than ever.

This book responds to the increasing speed with which the domain of electronic procurement has been evolving, as well to the significant advances predicted to take place in the near future.

The concept of the imaginary is pervasive within contemporary thought, yet can be a baffling and often controversial term.

In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Educating the next generation of chemists about green chemistry issues, such as waste minimisation and clean synthesis, is vital for environmental sustainability.

Guild and State examines the values of social solidarity and fraternity that emerged from medieval guilds and city-communes, and the effect of traditional corporate organization of labor on socioeconomic attitudes and theories of the state.

Der Zusammenhang zwischen "Menschenrechten und Revolutionen" steht auf der politischen Tagesordnung: In jüngster Zeit wurden wir Zeugen von Massenprotesten, Aufständen, Rebellionen und Revolutionen in der Ukraine, in Tunesien, Ägypten, Libyen oder Syrien, in denen der Bezug auf Menschenrechte mitunter eine zentrale, manchmal eine eher nebensächliche und – erstaunlich genug – gelegentlich auch gar keine Rolle spielte.

This book examines the social construction and representation of 'youth on the move' in the context of the migration process, using El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as a case study to reinterpret the immigration process under the frameworks of coloniality and epistemologies of the South.

During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions, and none.

Exploring how a Freudian-Lacanian approach to psychoanalysis intersects with social and cultural theory, Lacan, Jouissance, and the Social Sciences demonstrates the significance of subjectivity as a concept for the study of leadership, social psychology, culture, and political theory.

First Published in 1987.

Aus dem Inhalt:•Musik und Zeitempfinden – Historische, akustische und psychologische Aspekte•Influence of distortion on guitar chord structures: Acoustic effects and perceptual cor-relates•Musikstile als Prototypen – Teilreplikation einer Studie von Reiner Niketta (1990) am Beispiel von Black Metal•Der Klang der Marken – Untersuchungen zu branchentypischen Eigenschaften von Audiologos•Audio-visual quality perception in musical performance videos•Auftrittsangst und Auftrittserlebnis bei Musikstudierenden – eine Mixed-Methods-Studie zu Einflussfaktoren, biografischer Entwicklung und Vorbereitungsstil•Anreize für die Teilnahme am mittelhessischen Regionalwettbewerb "Jugend Musi-ziert" – eine Fragebogenstudie

This book offers an original and insightful analysis of the human rights inadequacies that arise in the practice of UN territorial administration by analysing and assessing the practice of UNMIK.

In this comprehensive history, Ashley D.

This book analyses the gendered nature of patent law and the knowledge governance system it supports.

This book offers a comprehensive investigation of the ways in which social media has affected change to the constitution of mainstream journalism.

Many dyslexic children are well above the average in intelligence yet their disability makes progress at school extra hard and reading is often such an effort that they are deprived of the enjoyment from books.

Play and the Artist's Creative Process explores a continuity between childhood play and adult creativity.

Rana Siu Inboden analyses China''s role in the international human rights regime from the early 1980s until 2017.

First Published in 1999.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the workshops co-located with the 19th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2021, held in Salamanca, Spain, in October 2021.

Cultural Production and the Politics of Women's Work in American Literature and Film emphasizes the interrelation among women's workplace roles, modes of authorship, and processes of subject-formation, pointing to some of the reasons for the persistence of limiting gender roles and occupational hierarchies that arose during the first 60 years of the 20th century.

This completely revised and updated edition, previously published as Special Educational Needs for NQTs and TAs, addresses the latest Teachers' Standards, and their application in meeting the most recent developments and changes in the special educational needs system and the new SEN Code of Practice.

Guide to Forensic Pathology provides a concise overview of forensic pathology to those who wish to know the basics but lack formal forensic training.

The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a Sao Paulo prison gang that since the 1990s has expanded into the most powerful criminal network in Brazil.

This book offers a unique and timely political analysis of war, international law and human rights, and the important interconnections among them.

This book explores 'efficacious intimacy' as an embodied concept of worldmaking, and a framework for studying belief practices in religious and political domains.

Produzierende Unternehmen stehen heute in einem Spannungsfeld, das von unterschiedlichen Anspruchsgruppen und einer hohen wirtschaftlichen Dynamik geprägt ist.

The invocation of 'the market' has been omnipresent in media discussions of 'crisis Europe'.