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Book The unofficial book of Group Dynamization

Download or read book The unofficial book of Group Dynamization written by Sardón Gall and published by José Manuel Ferro Veiga. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Group techniques are defined as the ways, procedures or systematized means of organizing and developing group activity, based on the knowledge provided by the theory of Group Dynamics. The Techniques are useful depending on the objective pursued, therefore they must be adapted to the achievement of a specific purpose. The group dynamics , is a designation sociological . They are processes of interaction between people, through fictitious situations, raised with specific objectives. Learning, both theoretical and practical, through participatory experiential experience, that is, from what the participant "feels and lives". Group dynamics allow us to deepen human relationships and enable the development of personal attitudes through free expression. The German-American psychologist Kurt Lewin was the pioneer in the study of groups, developing the field theory of behavior . It founded not only the study of individual behavior, but has also allowed the interpretation of group and social phenomena. A clear example can be represented in a prison or desert island, where a group of individuals must devise an escape, different routes, people and materials are provided. Each option has its advantages and disadvantages. The team must make choices and argue for them. This book was created with the sole intention of entertaining, without further pretense. It is not a technical or educational book.

Book The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present

Download or read book The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present written by Christoph Cornelissen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India’s struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.

Book The Foucault Effect

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michel Foucault
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1991-07-09
  • ISBN : 9780226080451
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book The Foucault Effect written by Michel Foucault and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-07-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures on rationalities of government, this work examines the art or activity of government and the different ways in which it has been made thinkable and practicable. There are also contributions of other scholars exploring modern manifestations of government.

Book The Liberation of the Camps

Download or read book The Liberation of the Camps written by Dan Stone and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving, deeply researched account of survivors’ experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed When tortured inmates of Hitler’s concentration and extermination camps were liberated in 1944 and 1945, the horror of the atrocities came fully to light. It was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners, yet for those who had survived the unimaginable, the experience of liberation was a slow, grueling journey back to life. In this unprecedented inquiry into the days, months, and years following the arrival of Allied forces at the Nazi camps, a foremost historian of the Holocaust draws on archival sources and especially on eyewitness testimonies to reveal the complex challenges liberated victims faced and the daunting tasks their liberators undertook to help them reclaim their shattered lives. Historian Dan Stone focuses on the survivors—their feelings of guilt, exhaustion, fear, shame for having survived, and devastating grief for lost family members; their immense medical problems; and their later demands to be released from Displaced Persons camps and resettled in countries of their own choosing. Stone also tracks the efforts of British, American, Canadian, and Russian liberators as they contended with survivors’ immediate needs, then grappled with longer-term issues that shaped the postwar world and ushered in the first chill of the Cold War years ahead.

Book The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics written by Michael Haugh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociopragmatics is a rapidly growing field and this is the first ever handbook dedicated to this exciting area of study. Bringing together an international team of leading editors and contributors, it provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge overview of the key concepts, topics, settings and methodologies involved in sociopragmatic research. The chapters are organised in a systematic fashion, and span a wide range of theoretical research on how language communicates multiple meanings in context, how it influences our daily interactions and relationships with others, and how it helps construct our social worlds. Providing insight into a fascinating array of phenomena and novel research directions, the Handbook is not only relevant to experts of pragmatics but to any reader with an interest in language and its use in different contexts, including researchers in sociology, anthropology and communication, and students of applied linguistics and related areas, as well as professional practitioners in communication research.

Book Public Sphere and Experience

Download or read book Public Sphere and Experience written by Alexander Kluge and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “public sphere” is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces spread over diverse collectivities? In Kluge and Negt’s groundbreaking book they examine the material conditions of experience in an arena that had previously figured only as an abstract term: the media of mass and consumer culture. With a new, up-to-date introduction from Alexander Kluge.

Book The Palgrave Handbook of Mass Dictatorship

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Mass Dictatorship written by Paul Corner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh and original approach to the study of one of the dominant features of the twentieth century. Adopting a truly global approach to the realities of modern dictatorship, this handbook examines the multiple ways in which dictatorship functions - both for the rulers and for the ruled - and draws on the expertise of more than twenty five distinguished contributors coming from European, American, and Asian universities. While confronting the immense complexities of repression and popular response under dictatorship, the volume also poses a series of wide-ranging questions about the political organization of present-day mass society.

Book Studying Film

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nathan Abrams
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
  • Release : 2011-03-15
  • ISBN : 9780340984468
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Studying Film written by Nathan Abrams and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying Film is an all-encompassing guide to cinema and film which explores the key concepts, terms and events that have shaped film study and criticism, all of which is illustrated by reference to classic and contemporary movies from around the world, from The Great Train Robbery to Pulp Fiction via Un Chien Andalou and Cinema Paradiso. This accessible introduction to the study of film aims to stimulate students' enjoyment and understanding of a wide range of different types of film, and to give them an awareness of the nature of cinema as a medium, as an art form, and as a social and economic institution. Contemporary film is seen in context by tracing its development from 1895 to the present, exploring film production in a variety of countries in a range of styles, and placing film next to other media.

Book The Great War in History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jay Winter
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-12-03
  • ISBN : 1108843166
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book The Great War in History written by Jay Winter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous edition of this translation: 2005.

Book Entrepreneurship and Business

Download or read book Entrepreneurship and Business written by Miguel-Angel Galindo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miguel-Ángel Galindo Martín, Joaquín Guzman Cuevas and Domingo Ribeiro Soriano University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain The economic growth and the progress of the nations have been two issues that have worried to the economists during centuries. The classical eco- mics books have developed different theories and considered several f- tors that could explain those processes. Unfortunately, a single answer has not been obtained and nowadays economists try also to achieve a response to the mechanism of economic growth. Economic growth has been considered as one of the most relevant e- nomic policy. As it is well known, the validity of an economic policy is measured in terms of economic growth rate. It is supposed that those countries that obtain a higher economic growth rate are designing more efficient economic policies than those that show lower rates. The main corollary to this hypothesis is that the developing countries must follow and copy the economic policies designed by the developed countries.

Book Documenting the Documentary

Download or read book Documenting the Documentary written by Barry Keith Grant and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally released in 1998, Documenting the Documentary responded to a scholarly landscape in which documentary film was largely understudied and undervalued aesthetically, and analyzed instead through issues of ethics, politics, and film technology. Editors Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski addressed this gap by presenting a useful survey of the artistic and persuasive aspects of documentary film from a range of critical viewpoints. This new edition of Documenting the Documentary adds five new essays on more recent films in addition to the text of the first edition. Thirty-one film and media scholars, many of them among the most important voices in the area of documentary film, cover the significant developments in the history of documentary filmmaking from Nanook of the North (1922), the first commercially released documentary feature, to contemporary independent film and video productions like Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man (2005) and the controversial Borat (2006). The works discussed also include representative examples of many important national and stylistic movements and various production contexts, from mainstream to avant-garde. In all, this volume offers a series of rich and revealing analyses of those "regimes of truth" that still fascinate filmgoers as much today as they did at the very beginnings of film history. As documentary film and visual media become increasingly important ways for audiences to process news and information, Documenting the Documentary continues to be a vital resource to understanding the genre. Students and teachers of film studies and fans of documentary film will appreciate this expanded classic volume.

Book The Utopian Impulse in Latin America

Download or read book The Utopian Impulse in Latin America written by K. Beauchesne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production, the carefully selected essays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the most important Latin Americanists working in North American academia today.

Book Social Work and the Community

Download or read book Social Work and the Community written by Keith Popple and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How important is the notion of community to skilled social work? This book explores how the concept relates to policy, theory and professional practice. With analysis of contemporary social problems throughout a variety of community settings, this book demonstrates how important community-based approaches are to all social workers today.

Book Borders and Border Regions in Europe

Download or read book Borders and Border Regions in Europe written by Arnaud Lechevalier and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing European borders: The book provides insight into a variety of changes in the nature of borders in Europe and its neighborhood from various disciplinary perspectives. Special attention is paid to the history and contemporary dynamics at Polish and German borders. Of particular interest are the creation of Euroregions, mutual perceptions of Poles and Germans at the border, EU Regional Policy, media debates on the extension of the Schengen area. Analysis of cross-border mobility between Abkhazia and Georgia or the impact of Israel's »Security Fence« to Palestine on society complement the focus on Europe with a wider view.

Book Storyplaying

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sebastian Domsch
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2013-08-28
  • ISBN : 3110272458
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Storyplaying written by Sebastian Domsch and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incontestably, Future Narratives are most conspicuous in video games: they combine narrative with the major element of all games: agency. The persons who perceive these narratives are not simply readers or spectators but active agents with a range of choices at their disposal that will influence the very narrative they are experiencing: they are players. The narratives thus created are realizations of the multiple possibilities contained in the present of any given gameplay situation. Surveying the latest trends in the field, the volume discusses the complex relationship of narrative and gameplay.

Book Technological Entrepreneurship

Download or read book Technological Entrepreneurship written by Ian Chaston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive book responds to the growing demand to study entrepreneurship as a key driver of innovation and competitive advantage. Challenging the existing idea that technological entrepreneurship exists predominantly in SMEs and as a result of market demands, the author argues that a commitment to entrepreneurship remains the most effective strategy for sustaining wealth generation for both organisations and entire nations. The aim of Technological Entrepreneurship is to provide the reader with additional knowledge and understanding of the concepts associated with the exploitation of technological entrepreneurship, and to demonstrate how associated management principles are somewhat different to those utilised in market-driven entrepreneurship. Validation of presented theoretical concepts is achieved through coverage of processes and practices utilised by real world organisations seeking to achieve maximum wealth generation, with specific emphasis on how technological entrepreneurship is the source of disruptive innovation within service sector organisations and how the philosophy is causing fundamental change in the provision of healthcare.

Book Working in Language and Law

Download or read book Working in Language and Law written by H. Kniffka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working in Language and Law is a detailed account of the forensic linguistic work done by the author in the last 35 years. It provides exemplary insights into an ever-expanding field of expert testimony, focusing on the situation in Germany since the seventies and covering all major areas of the field.