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Book Selling One   s Favourite Piano to Emigrate

Download or read book Selling One s Favourite Piano to Emigrate written by Jakub Isański and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International migration is a common phenomenon of the contemporary world; however, not all the aspects of migration are adequately investigated. In this book, migration is described by academics from various European countries who see it not only as an economic, but mainly as a social process. Thirteen texts, written by authors from seven countries, consider migration from various perspectives regarding its social consequences for migrants, their families and entire societies. Although the majority of the texts pertain to the Polish context (connected with Poles as migrants, but not necessarily Poland as a country), in general, the book can be qualified as an illustration of current migration from the less developed parts of the unified Europe, which impacts on the economies and societies of the European continent. A few years ago, one had to sell their favourite belonging, a piano, to collect money for the journey. These days it is much more accessible, but not less complex, and various examples from this book offer a unique insight into the variety of human flows in the contemporary world.

Book Utopia s    Worlds and Frontiers of the Imaginary

Download or read book Utopia s Worlds and Frontiers of the Imaginary written by Maria do Rosário Monteiro and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of Utopia springs from a natural desire of transformation, of evolution pertaining to humankind and, therefore, one can find expressions of “utopian” desire in every civilization. Having to do explicitly with human condition, Utopia accompanies closely cultural evolution, almost as a symbiotic organism. Maintaining its roots deeply attached to ancient myths, utopian expression followed, and sometimes preceded cultural transformation. Through the next almost five hundred pages (virtually one for each year since Utopia was published) researchers in the fields of Architecture and Urbanism, Arts and Humanities present the results of their studies within the different areas of expertise under the umbrella of Utopia. Past, present, and future come together in one book. They do not offer their readers any golden key. Many questions will remain unanswered, as they should. The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities - UTOPIA(S) WORLDS AND FRONTIERS OF THE IMAGINARY were compiled with the intent to establish a platform for the presentation, interaction and dissemination of researches. It aims also to foster the awareness and discussion on the topics of Harmony and Proportion with a focus on different utopian visions and readings relevant to the arts, sciences and humanities and their importance and benefits for the community at large.

Book Circular Migration Between Europe and Its Neighbourhood

Download or read book Circular Migration Between Europe and Its Neighbourhood written by Anna Triandafyllidou and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers comparative and in depth analysis of circular migration by empirical analysis of seven pairs of countries.

Book Ethnologia Europaea 45 1

    Book Details:
  • Author : Regina F. Bendix
  • Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
  • Release : 2015-06-30
  • ISBN : 8763543419
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book Ethnologia Europaea 45 1 written by Regina F. Bendix and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue opens with Katarzyna Wolanik Boström and Magnus Öhlander's inquiry into mobile physicians and their pragmatic use of proto-ethnographic insights so as to facilitate their day to day work with culturally diverse patients. Gabriella Nilsson uncovers how school nurses, too, habitually draw on their knowledge of class and family background while implementing normative medical guidelines on childhood obesity. Maria Zackariasson seeks to show how members in a faith-based youth organization experience and handle the pull and push of faith and peer group sociability. Ewa Klekot examines different traces and registers of memorialization of recent Polish history in two districts of Warsaw. Disciplinary memory is augmented through Konrad J. Kuhn's analysis of Swiss scholars' participation in the Europeanization of Volkskunde. With Laura Hirvi's observations among young Finnish artists in Berlin, the issue concludes with another set of transnationally mobile actors.

Book Between History and Personal Narrative

Download or read book Between History and Personal Narrative written by Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on a variety of fictional and non-fictional East European women's migration narratives, multimodal narratives by migrant artists, and cyber narratives (blogs and personal stories posted on forums). The book negotiates the concept of narrative between conventional literary forms, digital discourses, and the social sciences. It brings together new perspectives on strategies of representation, trauma, dislocation, and gender roles. It also claims a place for Eastern Europe on the map of transnational feminism. (Series: Contributions to Transnational Feminism - Vol. 4) [Subject: Sociology, European Studies, Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Migration Studies]

Book Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe

Download or read book Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe written by Hana Cervinkova and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eleven ethnographic chapters of Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe examines how issues of global economic and cultural dependencies, mobilities, citizens activism, social movements, and socio-political aspects of post-socialist modernities articulate on the level of everyday discourse and practices.

Book Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science

Download or read book Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science written by Donald L. Opitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the modern sciences has long overlooked the significance of domesticity as a physical, social, and symbolic force in the shaping of knowledge production. This book provides a welcome reorientation to our understanding of the making of the modern sciences globally by emphasizing the centrality of domesticity in diverse scientific enterprises.

Book Ukrainian Migration to the European Union

Download or read book Ukrainian Migration to the European Union written by Olena Fedyuk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together research findings from a variety of disciplines in this integrated study of the migration of Ukrainian nationals to the EU. It contextualizes and historicizes this migration against the background of the series of crises experienced by Ukraine and the wider region over the last thirty or so years, from the dissolution of the USSR, through EU border changes, to the failed economic reforms of independent Ukraine. The book reviews major publications in a variety of disciplines and in several languages, including Russian, Ukrainian and English. It provides a critical analysis of these authoritative sources, linking historical and contemporary texts to establish a longitudinal perspective on migration trends and practices. The spatial, temporal, gender and geopolitical aspects of migration are examined, with expert analysis of the implications for economics, immigration policies, and migration studies. The contributors also draw on national and international academic research and country-specific data to describe the experience of Ukrainian migration in six European countries: Poland, the Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. These detailed portraits identify the principal trends and will help researchers, policy makers, and students to a better understanding of the dynamics of migration flow in the region as a whole. “A timely volume covering many cases and many facets of Ukrainian mobility in the EU. A must have for all libraries.” Anna Triandafyllidou, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) "Is Ukraine the Mexico of Europe, I once asked. It is one of the most eminent migration cases to study. This book fills an acute knowledge gap and is a rich and important contribution." Franck Düvell, University of Oxford “This collection offers a comprehensive historical and geographical analysis of various migratory patterns from Ukraine to different European countries. It is a must read for migration scholars and for anyone interested in this highly topical phenomenon.” Lena Näre, University of Helsinki

Book Practices of Ethics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fernanda Menéndez
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2013-07-26
  • ISBN : 1443850853
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book Practices of Ethics written by Fernanda Menéndez and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for social sciences researchers, in a variety of disciplines, including sociology, sociolinguistics, psychology, gerontology, and ethnography, who, during all stages of their research, be it quantitative or qualitative, are confronted with ethical dilemmas. As such, the chapters in this book provide the reader with examples of ethical reflection within the research process. The selection does not cover all the possible ethical issues they may face, but all of the chapters deal with the complex and unexpected, but fundamental, ethical questions that arise before, during and after fieldwork, and which do not always find clear guidance from the professional ethical codes they submit to. The studies in this book contribute to the present debate on ethical issues in social sciences research, in addition to problematizing a normative approach to ethics in social sciences research, and highlighting the importance of considering the social character of research activities when applying ethical guidelines or Research Ethic Committees’ prescriptive procedures. These essays document researchers’ practical moral reasoning in carrying out their research activities and in complying with the relevant legislation in relation to protecting research participants. Practices of ethics are identified and made describable; they are made the object of empirical documentation. This book shows that a new empirical approach to ethics as a discipline is emerging, having practices of ethics as its specific object of study.

Book EU Migrant Workers  Brexit and Precarity

Download or read book EU Migrant Workers Brexit and Precarity written by Duda-Mikulin, Eva A. and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has the Brexit vote affected EU migrants to the UK? This book presents a female Polish perspective, using findings from research carried out with migrants interviewed before and after the Brexit vote – voices of real people who made their home in the UK. It looks at how migrants view Brexit and what it means for them, how their experiences compare pre- and post-Brexit vote, and their future plans, as well as considering the wider implications of the migrant experience in relation to precarity and the British paid labour market.

Book Hofstede Matters

Download or read book Hofstede Matters written by Sławomir J. Magala and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hofstede Matters offers an updated presentation of the evolving views of academics and teachers who have worked with Hofstede’s research findings since the publication of the first edition of Culture’s Consequences in 1980. The authors reflect on their changing beliefs about the concept of cultural dimensions that led to a radical change in the way cultures were dealt with in business schools across Europe and beyond. Hofstede’s dimensions made "thinking" about culture more accessible overnight by creating a conceptual framework that teachers, students, managers, and consultants could grasp and easily apply in international comparisons. The book shows the man behind the value dimensions framework through the eyes of teachers and academics many of whom dealt with Hofstede personally. Contemporary contributors as well as younger academic fellow researchers evaluate the past paradigms and look behind the scenes to better understand the developments of the more recent ones. Jointly, they try to decide if Hofstede still helps us to overcome uncertainty when confronted with actions undertaken with different values in mind. Did he nudge us in the desirable direction? Offering a unique analysis of the strengths, criticisms, and legacy of Hofstede’s work, this book will appeal to academics and students across disciplines including cross-cultural management, critical management studies, and international management.

Book Democracy  Diaspora  Territory

Download or read book Democracy Diaspora Territory written by Olga Oleinikova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a profoundly new interpretation of the impact of modern diasporas on democracy, challenging the orthodox understanding that ties these two concepts to a bounded form of territory. Considering democracy and diaspora through a deterritorialised lens, it takes the post-Euromaidan Ukraine as a central case study to show how modern diasporas are actively involved in shaping democracy from a distance, and through their political activity are becoming increasingly democratised themselves. An examination of how power-sharing democracies function beyond the territorial state, Democracy, Diaspora, Territory: Europe and Cross-Border Politics compels us to reassess what we mean by democracy and diaspora today, and why we need to focus on the deterritorialised dimensions of these phenomena if we are to adequately address the crises confronting numerous democracies. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and politics with interests in migration and diaspora, political theory, citizenship and democracy.

Book The Moving Picture World

Download or read book The Moving Picture World written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Music Trade Indicator

Download or read book Music Trade Indicator written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 77 Best Practices in Negotiation

Download or read book 77 Best Practices in Negotiation written by Dr. Gary S. Goodman and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DR. GARY S. GOODMAN is the best-selling author of more than twentyfive books and thousands of articles. He is also creator of the applauded training program, “Best Practices in Negotiation,” offered at U.C. Berkeley and UCLA Extension, as well as at organizations worldwide. As an attorney, Fortune 1000 management consultant, and celebrated speaker and lecturer, Dr. Goodman has personally negotiated more than a thousand contracts for his companies and for his clients. Drawing from the best-published sources and his own ample experiences, Dr. Goodman shares tips and techniques for negotiating everyday transactions as well as mega-deals. You will discover: The six-step Anatomy of a Negotiation Transaction, a guide from the inception to the execution of an agreement How to avoid common pitfalls and dirty tricks when negotiating How not to give away the store The 3 “T”s in any negotiation: Text, Tone, and Timing When you should grab their first offer The secret to detecting 3 types of liars How to read your counterpart’s pain threshold The best way to counter dirty tricks No Job Offer? Negotiate Reconsideration! How to negotiate Less Job Stress! Five traps to avoid in preparing for a negotiation Unique and counter-intuitive advice to finding better bargains on cars and housing There is a lot of room for creativity in negotiating, but few folks pay attention to the possibilities. You need LOTS of tools, techniques, strategies, ploys, feints, and bluffs in order to come out on top. That’s why expert negotiator Dr. Gary Goodman has provided you with no fewer than 77 Best Practices!

Book Another One of Riley s Pianos

Download or read book Another One of Riley s Pianos written by John J. Riley and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of a small one man piano retail and restoration business over a period of 58 years. His life, times and the raising of his family.

Book Music Trades

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1382 pages

Download or read book Music Trades written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: