Community intervention, policy and program development, and program administration are among the macro level issues relating to family health practice addressed by social work researchers at a number
A main justification for public funding of the arts is to protect the arts from the marketplace and to encourage experimentation and innovation. But little is known about the actual innovation process
The authors show how such postmodernist thinkers as Derrida, Foucault, and Lyotard illuminate puzzling aspects of education. They argue that educational theory is currently at an impasse, and that we
Among many factors contributing to a corporation's success, none is more crucial than reputation. It affects the way management makes decisions and the positions it takes, and how it takes them, on cr
A comprehensive, case study portrait of the childrearing context of a predominantly Eskimo village in the remote Northwest Arctic, designed to look for evidence of "reinvention," "transformation," or
Positive organizational change does not have to be planned or managed top down in a linear, urgent manner. Rather, it can be "unleashed" or discovered by helping people within organizations to identif
Offers an alternative leadership paradigm, one that is especially well designed to face the "wicked" management problems in today's organizations: the contemplative paradigm.
Connor and Samuel explore the present state of a range of healing traditions in their Asian locales. The peoples examined include relatively remote populations such as the Iban of Sarawak, the Temiar
The product of 35 senior scholars' research, these volumes examine the psychology driving the religious, political, and economic forces that cause turbulence and violence in human society.
Abdallah looks at the future of the business environmnent in four Arab countries, plus Israel, and how it affects the way accounting, taxation, and business is done now and will be done in the first y
Examines the key facets of Western foreign direct investment activity in Turkey including location specific influences, strategic motives, partner selection criteria in joint ventures, management cont
A comprehensive, multi-disciplined description of the views and experiences of a national sample of families with children from China toward common encounters such as acknowledging Chinese cultural-he
Finding out who's who in the U.S. political marketplace is easy when you have this convenient and comprehensive sourcebook on hand. It is designed to serve as a virtual phone index of the non-governme
Demonstrates that much of social life involves taking roles in social dramas, either rituals from the past to reconfirm our guiding values or enactments of new visions of social life as we continue to
