Download or read book The Manufacturing of a Dream written by DCC Nhc Huddleston and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A person must be motivated, inspired, and encouraged in what he or she is doing in life if they want others to believe in what they have envisioned. Dreams can be more than just dreams, they can become in sense; Reality. When will it ever be the right time, if not first you take the time to make some time?" -- Back cover.
Download or read book Marketing Dreams Manufacturing Heroes written by Anna Romina Guevarra and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a globalized economy that is heavily sustained by the labor of immigrants, why are certain nations defined as "ideal" labor resources and why do certain groups dominate a particular labor force? The Philippines has emerged as a lucrative source of labor for countries around the world. In Marketing Dreams, Manufacturing Heroes Anna Romina Guevarra focuses on the Philippines—which views itself as the "home of the great Filipino worker"—and the multilevel brokering process that manages and sends workers worldwide. She unravels the transnational production of Filipinos as ideal migrant workers by the state and explores how race, color, class, and gender operate. The experience of Filipino nurses and domestic workers—two of the country's prized exports—is at the core of the research, which utilizes interviews with employees at labor brokering agencies, state officials from governmental organizations in the Philippines, and nurses working in the United States. Guevarra's multisited ethnography reveals the disciplinary power that state and employment agencies exercise over care workers—managing migration and garnering wages—to govern social conduct, and brings this isolated yet widespread social problem to life.
Download or read book Databases for Production Management written by R. Companys and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with many aspects of the design, implementation and operation of databases for production management systems, this book presents research that is important to all those presently concerned with the computerisation of production management.
Download or read book China s New Silk Road Dreams written by Noesselt Nele and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions compiled in this issue engage in critical evaluation of China's "New Silk Road initiative" ("Belt and Road Initiative" [BRI]) by focusing on the potential long-term political and economic effects and implications for Sino-EUropean and Sino-African relations. The authors take the launching of the BRI (October 2013) as a starting point for a general, theory-guided qualitative re-evaluation of the basic patterns of Chinese foreign relations and global interactions under the fifth generation of Chinese political leaders. In 2013, the Chinese state president, Xi Jinping, framed BRI as a global connectivity network consisting of a multitude of overland passages and maritime transportation corridors. Xi Jinping's report to the 19th Party Congress (2017) set the BRI as an anchor concept of China's fine-tuned foreign strategy in the 21st century.
Download or read book Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong written by Ali F. Farhoomand and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The case studies are topically diverse, and span a range of managerial functions and sectors. This casebook is an anthology of 28 cases from the series. The cases are written with a strong management perspective to offer a practical and interesting look at how successful entrepreneur-managers in Hong Kong systematically generate innovations in the shape of successful new products, services, processes and technologies when faced with various organizational and environmental challenges. They constitute a comprehensive self-contained course of study; each case can also be considered on its own.
Download or read book Who Stole the American Dream written by Hedrick Smith and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smith takes us across America to show how seismic changes, sparked by a sequence of landmark political and economic decisions, have transformed America. As only a veteran reporter can, Smith fits the puzzle together, starting with Lewis Powell’s provocative memo that triggered a political rebellion that dramatically altered the landscape of power from then until today. This is a book full of surprises and revelations—the accidental beginnings of the 401(k) plan, with disastrous economic consequences for many; the major policy changes that began under Jimmy Carter; how the New Economy disrupted America’s engine of shared prosperity, the “virtuous circle” of growth, and how America lost the title of “Land of Opportunity.” Smith documents the transfer of $6 trillion in middle-class wealth from homeowners to banks even before the housing boom went bust, and how the U.S. policy tilt favoring the rich is stunting America’s economic growth. This book is essential reading for all of us who want to understand America today, or why average Americans are struggling to keep afloat. Smith reveals how pivotal laws and policies were altered while the public wasn’t looking, how Congress often ignores public opinion, why moderate politicians got shoved to the sidelines, and how Wall Street often wins politically by hiring over 1,400 former government officials as lobbyists. Smith talks to a wide range of people, telling the stories of Americans high and low. From political leaders such as Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and Martin Luther King, Jr., to CEOs such as Al Dunlap, Bob Galvin, and Andy Grove, to heartland Middle Americans such as airline mechanic Pat O’Neill, software systems manager Kristine Serrano, small businessman John Terboss, and subcontractor Eliseo Guardado, Smith puts a human face on how middle-class America and the American Dream have been undermined. This magnificent work of history and reportage is filled with the penetrating insights, provocative discoveries, and the great empathy of a master journalist. Finally, Smith offers ideas for restoring America’s great promise and reclaiming the American Dream. Praise for Who Stole the American Dream? “[A] sweeping, authoritative examination of the last four decades of the American economic experience.”—The Huffington Post “Some fine work has been done in explaining the mess we’re in. . . . But no book goes to the headwaters with the precision, detail and accessibility of Smith.”—The Seattle Times “Sweeping in scope . . . [Smith] posits some steps that could alleviate the problems of the United States.”—USA Today “Brilliant . . . [a] remarkably comprehensive and coherent analysis of and prescriptions for America’s contemporary economic malaise.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Smith enlivens his narrative with portraits of the people caught up in events, humanizing complex subjects often rendered sterile in economic analysis. . . . The human face of the story is inseparable from the history.”—Reuters
Download or read book The Necessary Dream written by Giuseppe Civitarese and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a hundred years of psychoanalysis, what has the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams now become? Are what Simic calls "the films of our lives" still the royal road to the unconscious or do we now have a different concept both of dreams and of the unconscious? What is the meaning of dreams in the analytic dialogue? Do they still have a key role to play in clinical practice or not? These are just some of the questions that this book seeks to answer. Nowadays psychoanalysts and psychotherapists do not work so much on dreams as with dreams, preferring to emphasise their function of transformation and symbolic creation, rather than decipher their obscure messages. Dreaming is the way in which we give personal meaning to experience and expand our unconscious. As such, it is a necessary activity which, as Bion says, takes place both in sleep and in waking.
Download or read book Real Cities written by Steve Pile and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is real about city life? Real Cities shows why it is necessary to take seriously the more imaginary, fantastic and emotional aspects of city life. Drawing inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud and Georg Simmel, Pile explores the dream-like and ghost-like experiences of the city. Such experiences are, he argues, best described as phantasmagorias. The phantasmagorias of city life, though commonplace, are far from self-evident and little understood. This book is a path-breaking exploration of urban phantasmagorias, grounded empirically in a series of unusual and exciting case studies. In this study, four substantial phantasmagorias are identified: dreams, magic, vampires and ghosts. The investigation of each phantasmagoria is developed using a wide variety of clear examples. Thus, voodoo in New York and New Orleans shows how ideas about magic are forged within cities. Meanwhile vampires reveal how specific fears about sex and death are expressed within, and circulate between, cities such as London and Singapore. Taken together, such examples build a unique picture of the diverse roles of the imaginary, fantastic and the emotional in modern city life. What is "real" about the city has radical consequences for how we think about improving city life, for all too often these are over-looked in utopian schemes for the city. Real Cities forcefully argues that an appreciation of urban phantasmagorias must be central to what is considered real about city life.
Download or read book Gotta Dream written by Troy Borden and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gotta Dream is a unique tool for professionals seeking motivation, single adults searching for happiness, homemakers trying to find an identity other than wife and mom, divorced adults looking for a fresh start, blue-collar workers yearning for more than a paycheck-to-paycheck existence, empty nesters trying to start over, and young adults trying to figure out what life is all about.Gotta Dream is a friendly and straight forward approach to dreams. It proves how rewarding designing and achieving a dream can be. Gotta Dream features a step-by-step process that flows at a relaxed pace, enabling readers to embrace their destiny and finally become the kind of person they really want to be.Gotta Dream also features the Dream Machine, an easy to understand workbook that poses 150 coaching questions on fourteen topics that are designed to help readers personally design their own dream. The Dream Machine workbook explores how to be sure your dream is possible and how to begin achieving it. So get 'plugged in' to the Dream Machine today.
Download or read book The Social Dream Drawing Workshop written by Rose Redding Mersky and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Dream-Drawing Workshop is a pioneering, practical guide for professionals who work with people going through major life transitions, such as career change, relocation or bereavement. These transitions can evoke enormous feelings of uncertainty and are times of vivid dreaming. Social Dream-Drawing is a highly effective method of group work that mobilizes the dream’s enormous capacity to help us adapt to life, whatever challenges it throws at us. This user-friendly book explains the underlying key concepts and basic steps of the Social Dream-Drawing method, from sharing dream drawings in a group environment to running digital sessions. It shows how working with these expressive drawings can bring an otherwise internal experience out into the open and serve as lifelong mementos of key times in our lives. Including drawings and testimonials from workshop participants and guidance on creating a safe and supportive environment, The Social Dream-Drawing Workshop will appeal to therapists and counsellors as well as social workers, coaches and anyone interested in exploring this fascinating practice.
Download or read book You Gotta Have a Dream written by Troy Borden and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you searching for your destiny but aren't quite sure what it is or how to get there? This book will guide you through the process of finding your destiny and becoming the kind of person you really want to be. In You Gotta Have A Dream author Troy Borden shares how to create your dream, achieve it, and manage it for the best results. Learn how to pursue more than just your financial needs, appearance, reputation, career, and education. Discover what you have been searching for all along: life's deeper meaning and the unique purpose for your life. With its Dream Machine Workbook, You Gotta Have A Dream includes thought-provoking questions organized into fifteen phases. Contained within the text, the questions guide you in discovering your destiny and designing a dream to achieve that destiny. As you answer each question, you'll be preparing for your life to change forever. Great for individuals or group study, this book helps you discover your hidden purpose and gives you what goals alone can never provide: a dynamic hope for the future.
Download or read book Requiem for the American Dream written by Noam Chomsky and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They're simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes, attack the solidarity of the people, let special interests run the regulators, engineer election results, use fear and the power of the state to keep the rabble in line, manufacture consent, marginalize the population. In Requiem for the American Dream, Chomsky devotes a chapter to each of these ten principles, and adds readings from some of the core texts that have influenced his thinking to bolster his argument. To create Requiem for the American Dream, Chomsky and his editors, the filmmakers Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, and Jared P. Scott, spent countless hours together over the course of five years, from 2011 to 2016. After the release of the film version, Chomsky and the editors returned to the many hours of tape and transcript and created a document that included three times as much text as was used in the film. The book that has resulted is nonetheless arguably the most succinct and tightly woven of Chomsky's long career, a beautiful vessel--including old-fashioned ligatures in the typeface--in which to carry Chomsky's bold and uncompromising vision, his perspective on the economic reality and its impact on our political and moral well-being as a nation. "During the Great Depression, which I'm old enough to remember, it was bad–much worse subjectively than today. But there was a sense that we'll get out of this somehow, an expectation that things were going to get better . . ." —from Requiem for the American Dream
Download or read book Artificial Intelligence in Real Time Control 1994 written by A. Crespo and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial Intelligence is one of the new technologies that has contributed to the successful development and implementation of powerful and friendly control systems. These systems are more attractive to end-users shortening the gap between control theory applications. The IFAC Symposia on Artificial Intelligence in Real Time Control provides the forum to exchange ideas and results among the leading researchers and practitioners in the field. This publication brings together the papers presented at the latest in the series and provides a key evaluation of present and future developments of Artificial Intelligence in Real Time Control system technologies.
Download or read book The Most Beautiful Job in the World written by Giulia Mensitieri and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A powerful exposé of Parisian haute couture” – Book of the Week, Times Higher Education Fashion is one of the most powerful industries in the world, accounting for 6% of global consumption and growing steadily. Since the 1980s and the birth of the neoliberal economy, it has emerged as the glittering face of capitalism, bringing together prestige, power and beauty and occupying a central place in media and consumer fantasies. Yet the fashion industry, which claims to offer highly desirable job opportunities, relies significantly on job instability, not just in outsourced garment production but at the very heart of its creative production of luxury. Based on an in-depth investigation involving stylists, models, designers, hairdressers, make-up artists, photographers and interns, anthropologist Giulia Mensitieri goes behind fashion's glamorous facade to explore the lived realities of working in the industry. This challenging book lays bare the working conditions of 'the most beautiful job in the world,' showing that exploitation isn't confined to sweatshops abroad or sexual harassment of models, but exists at the very heart of the powerful symbolic and economic centre of fashion.
Download or read book II written by 陳天聰、潘偉駿、陳勤業、廖寶城、陳伯強、高少偉、張原天、魏海青、宋延軍 and published by Red Publish. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 《持續改善》系列，載譽出版第二集！ 九位經驗豐富，畢業於史丹福大學、加拿大魁北克大學等名校的博士後，為你剖析中國企業的品質管理理論，分享寶貴心得及實踐經驗，詳細且精準地總結和歸納各大要訣。無論你是企業管理者，還是工商管理相關專業的學生，本書都可以作為優質的參考書。 加拿大魁北克大學蒙特利爾分校那士榮教授、嶺南大學校長鄭國漢教授、美國加州州立大學蒙特利灣分校創新及經濟發展學院院長陶翼青博士、香港立法會議員暨經民聯主席盧偉國博士、香港立法會前任議員暨香港工程師學會前會長何鍾泰博士、中聯辦教育科技部部長初志農教授、新華社亞太總分社俱孟軍社長——學者、專家、政商名人一致誠意推薦。 推薦序 我很高興，本書的作者，不僅發現了行為研究在改善中國的工業中所扮演的重要角色，還將其應用到電梯工業，尤其是將其應用到改善中國境內世界最大的電梯公司的產品和服務上。九位博士後包括全球排名第二的美國史丹福大學，加拿大魁北克大學和中國國家行政學院等，作者從事教學、管理、醫療、建築、製造、一帶一路、互聯網、仲裁、調解和智慧財產權工作，並為實現全要素生產率增長的行為研究和培訓系統提供指導。另外，他敏銳地認識到並鼓勵應用儒家智慧在人類和學習方面的作用，並努力將其發揚光大。 在過去的二十年，根據聯合國教科文組織有關人類未來一系列的宣言精神，全世界很多著名的學者致力於此。儒家思想具有整體性，它和中國古代思想關於人類是不斷地自我反省和自我調整的過程的理念相互呼應。人類是自由和奮鬥的。生活的目的在於愛和幸福，其是通過自我實現和為他人服務是實現的。面對著21世紀初期這麼多的自然災害和人造災害，人類必須放棄個人主義和貪婪，接受我們的生存必須依靠普遍意識並實踐孔子的智慧這一事實。 中國的企業面臨著來自國內外的史無前例的困難和挑戰，在此之際，本書的出版是非常及時的。本書是在中國的土地上為了提高企業總生產力所做的深入細緻的實驗，其對科學管理的建議將幫助中國的經理們作出改變並獲得成功。 初志農教授 中央人民政府駐香港特別行政區聯絡辦公室 教育科技部前部長 推薦序 本書作者為九位頂尖博士後，從事品質管理實戰的運用與研究十餘年。對品質管理理論及實踐經驗進行了詳細的總結和歸納，廣大品質管理工作者和愛好者可以將此書作為操作案頭手冊，亦可作為企業培訓教材，在工作中隨時可以從本書中找到對應的管理知識、工具、方法和案例解說，學以致用，以幫助企業提升全員的品質意識和管理技能從而提升產品品質增強企業的競爭力。此乃一本質量人的必讀書！ 俱孟軍 新華社亞太總分社社長
Download or read book I Had the Strangest Dream written by Kelly Sullivan Walden and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mega-selling tradition of The Dreamer’s Dictionary comes a comprehensive, contemporary guide to understanding dreams and the unconscious mind. With over 3,500 symbols and a 7-step guide to applying their definitions to one’s life, this is the ultimate guide for today’s dreamer. It's a double-caf low-fat Frappuccino-kind of world, and all that bustle doesn't stop just because it's time for bed. While you sleep, your mind is busy going over everything you've experienced during the day. Now, with the only dream book that interprets both classic and new twenty-first century symbols - everything from speed dating and Botox to text messages and iPods - you can tap into your unconscious with the turn of a page. Discover the messages hidden in your dreams, your hopes, your fears, your unrealized strengths and potential. You'll learn how to recognize life-altering opportunities and become the person you've always dreamed of being.
Download or read book India of My Dreams written by Surendra Kumar and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique collection of thoughts, ideas, views and vision of some of the brightest brains and most respected individuals—from senior cabinet ministers to role model captains of industry; from internationally acclaimed economists to diplomats par excellence and think-tank honchos; from IT innovators to provocative journalists—all jostle together in this volume sharing glimpses of India of their dreams. Sheer diversity of subjects, strength of arguments, force of articulation and the breadth of vision is sure to provoke the reader to think about India… Contributors / Discussants Mani Shankar Aiyar, M.J. Akbar, Mythili Bhusnurmath, Marshall Bouton, P. Chidambaram, Sadia Dehlvi, Meghnad Desai, Sheila Dikshit, N. Gopalaswami, Dipak C. Jain, Meira Kumar, Surendra Kumar, Wangari Muta Maathai, Sonal Mansingh, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Pranab Mukherjee, Satish Nambiar, Saeed Naqvi, Shivraj Patil, Sam Pitroda, Lalu Prasad, Azim Premji, Varun Sahni, Kapil Sibal, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Shashi Tharoor, J.S. Verma
