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Book Strategic Affection

Download or read book Strategic Affection written by Irma Thoen and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early days of humanity, gifts as varied as valued objects, hospitality, and works of art have been an essential means of establishing and maintaining social ties. Strategic Affection? studies the exchange of gifts in order to explore the nature of seventeenth-century Dutch social relations. Looking at such widely divergent figures as schoolmasters, artisans, poets, and nobles, Irma Thoen compares seventeenth-century Dutch gifts with contemporary gift exchanges to show that both strategy and affection are necessary elements of any social relations—and that what changes most is not the system but the discourse of exchange.

Book Communicating Affection

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kory Floyd
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2006-05-08
  • ISBN : 1107320577
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book Communicating Affection written by Kory Floyd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few behavioral processes are more central to the development and maintenance of intimate relationships than the communication of affection. Indeed, affectionate expressions often initiate and accelerate relational development. By contrast, their absence in established relationships frequently coincides with relational deterioration. This text explores the scientific research on affection exchange to emerge from the disciplines of communication, social psychology, family studies, psychophysiology, anthropology, and nursing. Specific foci include the individual and relational benefits (including health benefits) of affectionate behavior, as well as the significant risks often associated with expressing affection. A new, comprehensive theory of human affection exchange is offered, and its merits relative to existing theories are explored.

Book Food and Drug Alucinatum for Human Soul

Download or read book Food and Drug Alucinatum for Human Soul written by The Wandering Jew and published by Bengaliska Magasinet. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book “Food and Drug Alucinatum for Human Soul” has been retrieved from a USB Thumb Drive which was “Lost and Found” in Overby of Gjovik, written by someone called “The Wandering Jew”. According to the Holy Bible, The Wandering Jew has been walking for the last two thousand years, and he cannot stop until the Second Advent. To find what Jesus meant by “Man cannot live with bread alone” and what are the others, “The Wandering Jew” became infatuated like Eva, being eager for eating the fruit of knowledge, and infatuated like Pandora, being curious for opening the mysterious box. At last, just a few decades before the Second Advent to come in the year 2060, as Isaac Newton calculated, “The Wandering Jew” has come to learn what are the items in addition to bread without which man cannot live and man needs to feed the soul. Some of these undetectable and immaterial food and drug for our souls were used by our ancestors. Such food and drug items exist in Holy water, Holy smell, Holy sign, Holy sight, and Holy sound. “The Wandering Jew” named the immaterial ingredients in all of such items as “Alucinatum”.

Book Where Great Powers Meet

Download or read book Where Great Powers Meet written by David Shambaugh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Great Powers Meet explores the global competition for power between the United States and China. Focusing on Southeast Asia, David Shambaugh looks at how ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and the countries within it maneuver between the US and China and the degree to which they align with one or the other power. Not simply an analysis of the region's place within an evolving international system, Where Great Powers Meetprovides us with a comprehensive strategy that advances the American position while exploiting Chinese weaknesses.

Book The Tiki King

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stacy Tintocalis
  • Publisher : Ohio University Press
  • Release : 2010-07-16
  • ISBN : 0804040427
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book The Tiki King written by Stacy Tintocalis and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lebanese housewife, a former horror-film maker, and a cantankerous Russian librarian are among the inhabitants of the offbeat world found in this impressive debut collection. Stacy Tintocalis’s stories take us from a defunct women’s shelter off a Missouri country road to the streets of low-income Hollywood, where her characters yearn for the love that is always just out of reach. The title story explores the conflicted emotions an adolescent boy feels toward a father who obsessively returns to his childhood home. In “Too Bad about Howie,” a divorced poet finds comfort in stolen moments with his ex-wife’s dog. Despite their longing for connection, these characters are victims of their own foibles, trapped in terrifying moments of psychic violence that risk driving away the very people they love.

Book The Science of Romantic Relationships

Download or read book The Science of Romantic Relationships written by Theresa DiDonato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the lifecycle of romantic relationships, this textbook offers a fresh, diversity-infused introduction to relationship science.

Book The Merchant Republics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Lindemann
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2014-12-11
  • ISBN : 1316195317
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book The Merchant Republics written by Mary Lindemann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Merchant Republics analyzes the ways in which three major economic powerhouses - Amsterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg - developed dual identities as 'communities of commerce' and as republics over the course of the long eighteenth century (c.1648–1790). In addition to discussing the qualities that made these three cities alike, this volume also considers the very real differences that derived from their dissimilar histories, political structures, economic fates and cultural expectations. While all valued both their republicanism and their merchant identities, each presented a different face to the world and each made the transition from an early modern republic to a modern city in a different manner.

Book Strategic Communication

Download or read book Strategic Communication written by Kevin Marsh and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook for the study of strategic communication in the fields of politics, diplomacy and civill society. Contains theory, practice and case studies.

Book Advances in Personal Relationships

Download or read book Advances in Personal Relationships written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A research annual.

Book Communication Yearbooks Vols 6 33 Set

Download or read book Communication Yearbooks Vols 6 33 Set written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 17176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Communication Yearbook annuals originally published between 1977 and 2009 publish diverse, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems, processes, and impacts across the discipline. Topics dealt with include Communication as Process, Research Methodology in Communication, Communication Effects, Taxonomy of Communication and European Communication Theory, Information Systems Division, Mass Communication Research, Mapping the Domain of Intercultural Communication, Public Relations, Feminist Scholarship, Communication Law and Policy, Visual Communication, Communication and Cross-Sex Friendships Across the Life Cycle, Television Programming and Sex Stereotyping, InterCultural Communication Training, Leadership and Relationships, Media Performance Assessment, Cognitive Approaches to Communication.

Book The Routledge Handbook of Strategic Communication

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Strategic Communication written by Derina Holtzhausen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Strategic Communication provides a comprehensive review of research in the strategic communication domain and offers educators and graduate-level students a compilation of approaches to and studies of varying aspects of the field. The volume provides insights into ongoing discussions that build an emerging body of knowledge. Focusing on the metatheoretical, philosophical, and applied aspects of strategic communication, the parts of the volume cover: • Conceptual foundations, • Institutional and organizational dimensions, • Implementing strategic communication, and • Domains of practice An international set of authors contributes to this volume, illustrating the broad arena in which this work is taking place. A timely volume surveying the current state of scholarship, this Handbook is essential reading for scholars in strategic communication at all levels of experience.

Book Strategic Capabilities and Knowledge Transfer Within and Between Organizations

Download or read book Strategic Capabilities and Knowledge Transfer Within and Between Organizations written by Arturo Capasso and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A remarkably insightful collection of contributions, combining the strategy capability and the knowledge creation and sharing perspectives. Very useful reading for the serious scholar.' - Yves L. Doz, INSEAD, France This volume is the imaginative outcome of several international strategy scholars who have cultivated original research on the broad relationship between strategic capabilities and knowledge transfer at both intra- and inter-organizational levels.

Book The Strategy of Letters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mette Hjort
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780674840522
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The Strategy of Letters written by Mette Hjort and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although literary theories describe a world of strategies--textual, discursive, interpretive, and political--what is missing is the strategist. Poststructuralists try to explain agency as the effect of large-scale systems or formations; as a result, intuitions about individual action and responsibility are expressed in terms of impersonal strategies. Mette Hjort's book responds to this situation by proposing an alternative account of strategic action, one that brings the strategist back into the picture. Hjort analyzes influential statements made by Derrida, Foucault, and others to show how proposed conceptions of strategy are contradictory, underdeveloped, and at odds with the actual use of the term. Why, then, has the term acquired such rhetorical force? Since "strategy" evokes conflict, Hjort suggests, its very use calls into question various pieties of idealism and humanism, and emphasizes a desired break between modernism and postmodernism. It follows that a theory of strategy must explore some of the psychological implications of conflict, and Hjort pursues these implications through traditions as diverse as game theory, discourse ethics, and the philosophy of war. Unstable frames, self deception, promiscuous pragmatism, and social emotion are some of the phenomena she explores as she develops her account of strategic action in the highly competitive domain of letters. In her reflection on strategy, Hjort draws on such literary examples as Troilus and Cressida, Tartuffe, the autobiographical writings of Holberg, and early modern French and English treatises on theater. For its well-informed and incisive arguments and literary historical case studies, this book will be invaluable to literary theorists and will appeal to readers interested in drama, philosophy and literature, aesthetics, and theories of agency and rationality.

Book The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion written by Sonya Pritzker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion offers a variety of critical theoretical and methodological perspectives that interrogate the ways in which ideas about and experiences of emotion are shaped by linguistic encounters, and vice versa. Taking an interdisciplinary approach which incorporates disciplines such as linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, psychology, communication studies, education, sociology, folklore, religious studies, and literature, this book: explores and illustrates the relationship between language and emotion in the five key areas of language socialisation; culture, translation and transformation; poetry, pragmatics and power; the affective body-self; and emotion communities; situates our present-day thinking about language and emotion by providing a historical and cultural overview of distinctions and moral values that have traditionally dominated Western thought relating to emotions and their management; provides a unique insight into the multiple ways in which language incites emotion, and vice versa, especially in the context of culture. With contributions from an international range of leading and emerging scholars in their fields, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion is an indispensable resource for students and researchers who are interested in incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives on language and emotion into their work.

Book The Sourcebook of Listening Research

Download or read book The Sourcebook of Listening Research written by Debra L. Worthington and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Distinguished Book Award from the Communication and Social Cognition Division of the National Communication Association. Essential reading for listening researchers across a range of disciplines, The Sourcebook of Listening Research: Methodology and Measures is a landmark publication that defines the field of listening research and its best practices. the definitive guide to listening methodology and measurement with contributions from leading listening scholars and researchers Evaluates current listening methods and measures, with attention to scale development, qualitative methods, operationalizing cognitive processes, and measuring affective and behavioral components A variety of theoretical models for assessing the cognitive, affective, and behavioral facets of listening are presented alongside 65 measurement profiles Outlines cutting-edge trends in listening research, as well as the complexities involved in performing successful research in this area

Book Pretty Gentlemen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter McNeil
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2018-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300217463
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Pretty Gentlemen written by Peter McNeil and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The term "macaroni" was once as familiar a label as "punk" or "hipster" is today. In this handsomely illustrated book devoted to notable 18th-century British male fashion, award-winning author and fashion historian Peter McNeil brings together dress, biography, and historical events with the broader visual and material culture of the late 18th century. For thirty years, macaroni was a highly topical word, yielding a complex set of social, sexual, and cultural associations. Pretty Gentlemen is grounded in surviving dress, archival documents, and art spanning hierarchies and genres, from scurrilous caricature to respectful portrait painting. Celebrities hailed and mocked as macaroni include politician Charles James Fox, painter Richard Cosway, freed slave Julius "Soubise," and criminal parson Reverend Dodd. The style also rapidly spread to neighboring countries in cross-cultural exchange, while Horace Walpole, George III, and Queen Charlotte were active critics and observers of these foppish men."--Publisher's website.

Book Emotion  Cognition  and Their Marvellous Interplay in Managerial Decision Making

Download or read book Emotion Cognition and Their Marvellous Interplay in Managerial Decision Making written by Matteo Cristofaro and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do affect, cognition, and their interplay influence managerial decision-making at the individual, group, and organizational levels? How can these influences be fostered or reduced? This book conceptually and empirically answers such questions, and considers important theoretical issues for future research about the complex functioning of the human mind in managerial decision-making.