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  • Elsewhere in America

    The Crisis of Belonging in Contemporary Culture

    de David Trend ...
    Series series Critical Interventions
    Americans think of their country as a welcoming place where everyone has equal opportunity. Yet historical baggage and anxious times can restrain these possibilities. Newcomers often find that civic belonging comes with strings attached––riddled with limitations or legally punitive rites of passage. For those already here, new challenges to civic belonging emerge on the basis of belief, behavior, ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Anxious Creativity

    When Imagination Fails

    de David Trend ...
    Series series Critical Interventions
    Creativity is getting new attention in today’s America––along the way revealing fault lines in U.S. culture. Surveys show people overwhelmingly seeing creativity as both a desirable trait and a work enhancement, yet most say they just aren’t creative. Like beauty and wealth, creativity seems universally desired but insufficiently possessed. Businesses likewise see innovation as essential to ... Leer más

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  • The Cult of Creativity

    A Surprisingly Recent History

    de Samuel W. Franklin ...
    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year. "A beautifully written and well-documented account of how creativity gained the societal value it has today." —Vlad Glăveanu, author of CreativityCreativity is one of American society's signature values, but the idea that there is such a thing as "creativity"—and that it can be cultivated—is surprisingly recent, entering our everyday speech in the 1950s. As S ... Leer más

    $20.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Rational Ritual

    Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

    de Michael Suk-Young Chwe ...
    Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.Game theory shows that in order to ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • The Activist WPA

    Changing Stories About Writing and Writers

    de Linda Adler-Kassner ...
    One wonders if there is any academic field that doesn’t suffer from the way it is portrayed by the media, by politicians, by pundits and other publics. How well scholars in a discipline articulate their own definition can influence not only issues of image but the very success of the discipline in serving students and its other constituencies. The Activist WPA is an effort to address this range of ... Leer más

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  • Images of Organization

    de Gareth Morgan ...
    "What a "kick" I get out of teaching from Images of Organizations. What a head-snapping view of organizations it offers to my MBA students, as well as to the odd client/executive who is disposed to creep out of the practicality of business-as-usual and take in a vibrant thrilling view of organizations."— Ariane David, Ph.D., Senior Advisor/President, The Veritas GroupSince its first publication ... Leer más

    $100.79 USD

  • The Schooled Society

    The Educational Transformation of Global Culture

    de David P. Baker ...
    Only 150 years ago, the majority of the world's population was largely illiterate. Today, not only do most people over fifteen have basic reading and writing skills, but 20 percent of the population attends some form of higher education. What are the effects of such radical, large-scale change? David Baker argues that the education revolution has transformed our world into a schooled society—that ... Leer más

    $26.29 USD

  • The Public Administration Theory Primer

    de H. George Frederickson, Kevin B. Smith, Christopher Larimer, Michael J. Licari ...
    The Public Administration Theory Primer explores how the science and art of public administration is definable, describable, replicable, and cumulative. The authors survey a broad range of theories and analytical approaches—from public institutional theory to theories of governance—and consider which are the most promising, influential, and important for the field. This book paints a full picture ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Handbook of Anthropology in Business

    Edición de Rita M Denny, Patricia L Sunderland ...
    In recent years announcements of the birth of business anthropology have ricocheted around the globe. The first major reference work on this field, the Handbook of Anthropology in Business is a creative production of more than 60 international scholar-practitioners working in universities and corporate settings from high tech to health care. Offering broad coverage of theory and practice around ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • What Is Curriculum Theory?

    de William F. Pinar ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    This primer for prospective and practicing teachers asks students to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, reflect on their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to educate, and to become educated in the present moment in the places we inhabit.Not only the implementation of objectives to be assessed by standardized tests, curriculum is ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Popular Culture

    A User's Guide

    de Imre Szeman, Susie O'Brien ...
    Popular Culture: A User’s Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and analyze the contemporary cultural landscape that surrounds them.Moves beyond the history of pop culture to give students the vocabulary and tools to analyze popular culturesuitable for the study of popular culture across a range of disciplines, ... Leer más

    $39.00 USD

  • Empty Labor

    Idleness and Workplace Resistance

    de Roland Paulsen ...
    While most people work ever-longer hours, international statistics suggest that the average time spent on non-work activities per employee is around two hours a day. How is this possible, and what are the reasons behind employees withdrawing from work? In this thought-provoking book, Roland Paulsen examines organizational misbehavior, specifically the phenomenon of 'empty labor', defined as the ... Leer más

    $27.89 USD

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