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  • 'The Color of the Skin doesn't Matter'

    A Missioner's Tale of Faith and Politics

    by Janice McLaughlin ...
    Sr Janice McLaughlin (1942-2021) was a remarkable woman, an American Maryknoll nun who dedicated her life to the twin causes of education and justice. This memoir, completed just before her death, tells her story with refreshing candor. Acknowledging her naivety, which so often gives sustenance to idealism and the drive for a better world, she wanted to be a part of the struggles for freedom and ... Read more

    $119.39 USD

  • What About the Family?

    Practices of Responsibility in Care

    Edited by Hilde Lindemann, Janice McLaughlin, Marian A. Verkerk ...
    Health and social care decisions, and how they impact a family, are often viewed from the perspective of the individual family member making them--for example, the role of the parent in surrogacy questions, the care of the elderly, or decisionis that involve fetuses or organ donations. This volume represents a concerted, collaborative effort to depart from this practice--it shows, rather, that the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Disabled Childhoods

    Monitoring Differences and Emerging Identities

    by Janice McLaughlin, Edmund Coleman-Fountain, Emma Clavering ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
    A crucial contemporary dynamic around children and young people in the Global North is the multiple ways that have emerged to monitor their development, behaviour and character. In particular disabled children or children with unusual developmental patterns can find themselves surrounded by multiple practices through which they are examined.This rich book draws on a wide range of qualitative ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Valuing Technology

    Organisations, Culture and Change

    by Janice McLaughlin, Paul Rosen, David Skinner, Andrew Webster ...
    How does new information technology become part of the fabric of organisational life? Drawing on insights from social studies of technology, gender studies and the sociology of consumption, Valuing Technology opens up new directions in the analysis of sociotechnical change within organisations. Based on a major research project focused upon the introduction of management of information systems in ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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    Technology at the Limits of Comprehension

    by Samuel Arbesman ...
    Why did the New York Stock Exchange suspend trading without warning on July 8, 2015? Why did certain Toyota vehicles accelerate uncontrollably against the will of their drivers? Why does the programming inside our airplanes occasionally surprise its creators?After a thorough analysis by the top experts, the answers still elude us.You don’t understand the software running your car or your iPhone. ... Read more

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  • Dispatches from Juvenile Hall

    Fixing a Failing System

    by John Aarons, Lisa Smith, Linda Wagner ...
    A revolutionary book that offers a fresh, bold approach to confronting the juvenile crime epidemic With the rise of violent crimes committed by teenagers in recent years, heated discussion has arisen over the societal factors that lead to juvenile criminality and the ways that public institutions are failing to curtail them. Now a team of experts with decades of collective hands-on experience ... Read more

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  • Ready, Set, Curate

    8 Learning Experts Tell You How

    Edited by Ben Betts, Allison Anderson ...
    Good content is everywhere.In our digital world we are content rich, but quality poor. Good content surrounds us, but it begs to be collected, transformed, and shared. And who better to distill and dismantle it for the benefit of learning communities than today’s learning and development professional?Curation isn’t novel in itself, and there’s much to learn from the successes of others. News sites ... Read more

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  • The Price of Silence

    A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness

    by Liza Long ...
    Liza Long,the author of “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother"—as seen in the HBO® documentary A Dangerous Son—speaks out about mental illness.Like most of the nation, Liza Long spent December 14, 2012, mourning the victims of the Newtown shooting. As the mother of a child with a mental illness, however, she also wondered: “What if my son does that someday?”The emotional response she posted on her blog went ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Raising Henry

    A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery

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  • Sex and Disability

    Edited by Robert McRuer, Anna Mollow ...
    The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory, rarely mention disability, and foundational texts in disability studies do not discuss sex in much detail. What if "sex" and "disability" were understood as intimately related concepts? And what if ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Managing Digital Enterprise

    Ten Essential Topics

    by Jun Xu ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book describes the setup of digital enterprises and how to manage them, focusing primarily on the important knowledge and essential understanding of digital enterprise management required by managers and decision makers in organizations. It covers ten essential knowledge areas of this field:• Foundation of Digital Enterprise• Technology Foundation and Talent Management for Digital Enterprise• ... Read more

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  • The Impact of Diversity on Global Leadership Performance

    LEAD³

    by S. Storey ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book examines the cognitive, social and behavioural skills that leaders need to have within their capability portfolio and how this can be applied to drive a diversity agenda in their organizations. The book presents LEAD³ - an analytical tool that offers an integrated change management process to build leadership and diversity capability. ... Read more

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