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Book Beyond Token Change

Download or read book Beyond Token Change written by Anne Bishop and published by Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood. This book was released on 2005 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a case study as its starting point, this guide examines the patterns of oppression built into organizations and institutions. Such systems of discrimination and oppression originate not with individuals within the institution, but rather the dynamics within the institutions themselves. Attention is given to the tactics employed to achieve equality and overcome oppressive attitudes in the workplace. According to this analysis, the true test of an institution's intentions is whether its policies achieve only token change or transform its deeper structure.

Book Trends in Distributed Systems  CORBA and Beyond

Download or read book Trends in Distributed Systems CORBA and Beyond written by Otto Spaniol and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996-09-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings -- Parallel Computing.

Book Beyond Organizational Change

Download or read book Beyond Organizational Change written by G. Morgan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this distinctive and valuable contribution to understanding organisational change, different levels and types of analysis are drawn on and connected. This is achieved through an exploration of the conditions, processes and outcomes of change in the field of UK financial services.

Book Empowering Workers and Clients for Organizational Change

Download or read book Empowering Workers and Clients for Organizational Change written by Marcia B. Cohen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowering Workers and Clients for Organizational Change teaches students to effectively engage in organizational change at the service delivery level ... The contributors discuss strategies for assessing the structural characteristics of agencies, organizational culture, and empowerment, and provide information on the use of force field analysis as an assessment framework that can help bring about change within human service agencies"--Back cover

Book Becoming an Ally  3rd Edition

Download or read book Becoming an Ally 3rd Edition written by Anne Bishop and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-27T00:00:00Z with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming an Ally is a book for men who want to end sexism, white people who want to end racism, straight people who want to end heterosexism, able-bodied people who want to end ableism — for all people who recognize their privilege and want to move toward a more just world by learning to act as allies. Has oppression always been with us, just part of “human nature”? What does individual healing have to do with social justice? What does social justice have to do with individual healing? Why do members of the same oppressed group fight one another, sometimes more viciously than they fight their oppressors? Why do some who experience oppression develop a life-long commitment to fighting oppression, while others turn around and oppress those with less power? In this accessible and enlightening book, now in its third edition, Anne Bishop examines history, economic and political structures, and individual psychology in a search for the origins of racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, ageism and all the other forms of oppression that divide us. Becoming an Ally looks for paths to justice and lays out guidelines for becoming allies of oppressed peoples when we are in the privileged role. A new chapter in this third edition offers a greatly expanded discussion of effective approaches to educating allies, which is meant for teachers of adults, particularly those who teach about diversity, equity and anti-oppression. In this chapter, Bishop examines the ways in which Western culture prevents us from recognizing our roles as members of privileged groups and explores how to challenge this with participatory exercises and group discussion.

Book Beyond The Charts  A Guide to Wealth Creation in Defi Without Trading

Download or read book Beyond The Charts A Guide to Wealth Creation in Defi Without Trading written by Olaseni Kehinde Precious and published by Olaseni Kehinde Precious. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond The Charts: A Guide to Wealth Creation in Defi Without Trading by Olaseni Kehinde Precious encompasses the hidden wealth of cryptocurrency beyond shorting and longing cryptocurrencies for profit.

Book Going Beyond the Traditional Tools of Implementation Science

Download or read book Going Beyond the Traditional Tools of Implementation Science written by Kristin Thomas and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond Bitcoin

Download or read book Beyond Bitcoin written by Hanna Halaburda and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last few years, we have witnessed an upsurge of enthusiasm about cryptocurrencies and, more generally, the so-called blockchain technology. In this new and updated edition, the authors explore what exactly these new technologies entail and promise. They argue that to understand the potential challenges and further developments in the market, one needs to develop an understanding of what needs these innovations fulfill and what business models are consistent with their use. For that, we need to sufficiently understand both the technology and how it affects the economic forces at play. This book goes beyond the headlines that say “blockchain will decentralize everything” and provides in-depth, rigorous analysis of what can be effectively decentralized and how this decentralization will work. The book draws not only on the general knowledge of digital currencies and blockchain technologies, but also on recent academic research on the topic. Featuring a fully updated chapter on cryptocurrencies and new chapters on smart contracts and enterprise blockchains, this book is critical reading for those interested in how technology developments impact business and society.

Book Corpus Linguistics Beyond the Word

Download or read book Corpus Linguistics Beyond the Word written by Eileen Fitzpatrick and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will be of particular interest to readers interested in expanding the applications of corpus linguistics techniques through new tools and approaches. The text includes selected papers from the Fifth North American Symposium, hosted by the Linguistics Department at Montclair State University in Montclair New Jersey in May 2004. The symposium papers represented several areas of corpus studies including language development, syntactic analysis, pragmatics and discourse, language change, register variation, corpus creation and annotation, and practical applications of corpus work, primarily in language teaching, but also in medical training and machine translation. A common thread through most of the papers was the use of corpora to study domains longer than the word. Not surprisingly, fully half of the papers deal with the computational tools and linguistic strategies needed to search for and analyze these longer spans of language while most of the remaining papers examine particular syntactic and rhetorical properties of one or more corpora.

Book In Search of Decency

Download or read book In Search of Decency written by Michael Heyn and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vision and practical path of a new partnership of rich and poor to create a better world. An uncommon memoir, Michael Heyn’s cross-cultural journey through pervasive human adversity unexpectedly reveals a positive global vision of human decency and caring relevant as much to America as to Yemen. His journey passes through 50 years living and working across countries spanning from the United States to India, Pakistan, Ethiopia, South Pacific Islands, Nepal, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Thailand, Kosovo, Bangladesh, South Sudan, Vietnam, and Yemen. His story stretches from an unsettling childhood to a lifetime in support of the struggle for justice, opportunity and change of those left on the far sides of an ever expanding divide between rich and poor. From living as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a remote Peruvian mountain village to innumerable confrontations with prejudice, abuse, deprivation, conflict and war over a long career in service of the United Nations, Heyn shares what he learned from those caught up on either side of the chasm. A unique insight into and historical understanding of both alienation and aspiration that cut through all human cultures and relations, Heyn envisions a break from the past isolation of greed and selfishness on the one hand and a stark hopelessness on the other. This is a voyage of accumulating discovery that exposes what must change if people are to cross over the divide to come together for their common good, no matter how antithetical this may seem. It is a belief in the basic decency of people both rich and poor as the magic to realise such change. Heyn sets out a practical path to achieve this goal to be actively pursued and managed by those bridging the divide. In the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, it is an exhilarating path that will benefit all engaged and instill reform of our societies’ values and governing systems. It is the vision of an immense new power of rich and poor to realise an altered way of life and a better world. In Search of Decency is a gripping memoir that provides cross cultural and political analysis, and views on international development. “My hope is to inspire people, rich and poor, young and old, corporate leaders and agents of change, that the world can be a more just and decent place, and that their commitment to join together is the power to make this happen,” says author Michael Heyn.

Book Beyond Soviet Studies

Download or read book Beyond Soviet Studies written by Daniel Orlovsky and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 1995-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They offer constructive criticisms of the field and set out research questions for an uncertain future.

Book The Palgrave Handbook of Women   s Political Rights

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Women s Political Rights written by Susan Franceschet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Palgrave Handbook provides a definitive account of women’s political rights across all major regions of the world, focusing both on women’s right to vote and women’s right to run for political office. This dual focus makes this the first book to combine historical overviews of debates about enfranchising women alongside analyses of more contemporary efforts to increase women’s political representation around the globe. Chapter authors map and assess the impact of these groundbreaking reforms, providing insight into these dynamics in a wide array of countries where women’s suffrage and representation have taken different paths and led to varying degrees of transformation. On the eve of many countries celebrating a century of women’s suffrage, as well as record numbers of women elected and appointed to political office, this timely volume offers an important introduction to ongoing developments related to women’s political empowerment worldwide. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the fields of gender and politics, women’s studies, history and sociology.

Book Beyond Rhetoric

    Book Details:
  • Author : Samuel George Hines
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2011-04-01
  • ISBN : 1610972147
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Beyond Rhetoric written by Samuel George Hines and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond Rhetoric, the late Samuel Hines and Curtiss DeYoung place reconciliation at the very center of God's agenda for humankind. In so doing, they provide both inspiration and guidance for faithful Christian living that embraces a passionate pursuit of reconciliation.Ê

Book Beyond the Learning Curve

Download or read book Beyond the Learning Curve written by Craig Speelman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-10-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years now, learning has been at the heart of research within cognitive psychology. How do we acquire new knowledge and new skills? Are the principles underlying skill acquisition unique to learning, or similar to those underlying other behaviours? Is the mental system essentially modular, or is the mental system a simple product of experience, a product that, inevitably, reflects the shape of the external world with all of its specialisms and similarities? This new book takes the view that learning is a major influence on the nature of the processes and representations that fill our minds. Throughout, the authors review and consider the areas of skill acquisition and lexical representation to illustrate the effects that practice can have on cognitive processes. They also draw parallels between theories in physical and biological domains to propose not only a new theory of mental function but also demonstrate that the mind is essentially subject to the same natural laws as the physical world. In so doing Speelman and Kirsner present a new perspective on psychology - one that identifies universal principles underlying all behaviours and one which contrasts markedly from our current focus on highly specific behaviours. Accessibly written, Beyond the Learning Curve is a thought provoking and challenging new text for students and researchers in the cognitive sciences.

Book Revolution Beyond the Event

Download or read book Revolution Beyond the Event written by Charlotte Al-Khalili and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolution Beyond the Event brings together leading international anthropologists alongside emerging scholars to examine revolutionary legacies from the MENA region, Latin America and the Caribbean. It explores the idea that revolutions have varied afterlives that complicate the assumptions about their duration, pace and progression, and argues that a renewed focus on the temporality of radical politics is essential to our understanding of revolution. Approaching revolution through its relationship to time, the book is a critical intervention into attempts to define revolutions as bounded events that act as sequential transitions from one political system to another. It pursues an ethnographically driven rethinking of the temporal horizons that are at stake in revolutionary processes, arguing that linear views of revolution are inextricably tied to notions of progress and modernity. Through a careful selection of case studies, the book provides a critical perspective on the lived realities of revolutionary afterlives, challenging the liberal humanist assumptions implicit in the ‘modern’ idea of revolution, and reappraising the political agency of people caught up in revolutionary situations across a variety of ethnographic contexts.

Book Beyond Nudge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin Ewert
  • Publisher : Policy Press
  • Release : 2023-12-15
  • ISBN : 1447369157
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Beyond Nudge written by Benjamin Ewert and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a wave of reforms known as ‘nudges’ or ‘behavioural interventions’ have emerged in public policy and administration. ‘Nudge’ policies are created to lightly influence groups in society to change their behaviour, using behavioural insights to solve complex policy problems. Generally, behavioural approaches focus on the psychology underlying the implementation and effects of policies in practice. First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics journal, this book situates these reforms within a broader tradition of methodological individualism. With contributions from international scholars, it demonstrates that when behavioural policies expand their focus beyond the individual, they have the potential to better understand, investigate, and shape social outcomes.

Book Doing Anti Oppressive Practice  Third Edition

Download or read book Doing Anti Oppressive Practice Third Edition written by Donna Baines and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated third edition of the immensely popular Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice introduces students to anti-oppressive social work, its historical and theoretical roots and the specific contexts of anti-oppressive social work practice. Key to this practice is the understanding that the problems faced by an individual are rooted in the inequalities and oppression of the socio-political structure of society rather than in personal characteristics or individual choices. Moreover, the contributors show that social justice and social change — working against racism, sexism and class oppression — can and must be a key component of social work practice. Drawing on concrete examples from specific practice contexts, personal experience and case work, including child welfare, poverty, mental health, addictions and disability, the contributors demonstrate how to translate social justice theory into everyday practice. This new edition adds chapters on working with refugee, immigrant and racialized families; children; older adults; cognitive behavioural therapy; and using social media as a tool for social change.