Alban Institute

This small volume by former leaders of the Berkana Institute, a non-profit international leadership organization, showcases the stories of communities that have looked outside the traditional answers

Schuster, an author and mentor/coach who serves on the faculty for coaching programs at Columbia U. and the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, describes a method for using the past as a resource to ma

Published as part of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series, and through a series of thought-provoking articles, Wind, Life, Health: Anthropological and Historica

Grace Alban has spent twenty years away from Alban House, but when her mother's unexpected death brings Grace and her daughter home, she finds more than her own personal demons haunting the halls. Soo

For five years, Alban Institute senior consultant Susan Beaumont has been giving voice to the organizational and leadership demands of large congregations. Through her work, she has identified five ba

This study analyzes the work of composer Alban Berg through his biography. It discusses his personality, including his creativity, asthma, love of nature, religiosity, and commitment to radical modern

"The business leader's guide to creating a great workplace from the Great Place to Work(r) Institute. In this follow-up guide to The Great Workplace, experts from Great Place to Work(r) Institute, Inc

From award-winning novelist Wendy Webb comes a spine-tingling mystery about family secrets set in a big, old haunted house on Lake Superior.Grace Alban has spent twenty years away from her childhood h

如何突破被科技巨獸掌控的社群平台？知名媒體評論家從心理到技術創意的分析和陪伴，帶你重新奪回你的網際網路！唐鳳 推薦林穎資（烏特列支大學地理系、INC客座研究員）黃豆泥（分散自治與數位主權探求者，前數發部工程師） 黃祥昀（哲學與社會學背景的策展人與創作者）專文推薦社群平台衍生各式難解的困境，大至結構制度失衡的雲端封建主義，小至個人層次的doomscrolling（像殭屍一樣，盲目地滑動捲動，不再意識到自己在做什麼）。在資訊超載的失序狀態下，我們越來越自戀，越來越習慣公開談論自我的內心，也越來越憂鬱。不僅如此，我們還越來越容易受到陰謀論和假新聞的影響，也容易被引戰。我們都意識到這個現象，卻奮不顧身、持續被社群平台綁架，不論是心甘情願或放棄抵抗。這一切不是我們自恃不足，更多是平台本身Sad by Design （你的悲傷是被設計出來的）。曾經，網際網路許諾了一個光明的未來，是人類追求平等解放的道路。結果卻在歷史洪流的發展中，轉變成問題的一部分，無法扭轉從自身蘊生的破壞力。在當今生態、經濟、金融危機相互交織、彼此影響的「危機的堆疊」裡，網際網路的失敗更加深了危機的不可解。設計，不然就等著被設計（program or be programmed）！作者是歐陸知名媒體理論家，也是網絡文化研究所（Institute of Network Cultures）的創始人。他從哲學和媒體理論的觀察出發，綜論各種變革的可能間隙，實驗各種可能的替代平台，他認為我們得放棄一體適用的解決方案，轉而尋求一系列多樣化、因地制宜的網路工具，來協助完成特定的工作。任何天馬行空的想像力都是起點。在本書裡，作者探討網際網路的困境，診斷我們目前所處的停滯階段，同時也探問如何「解困」，把平台變得不那麼平台。作者認為社群平台已經凌駕原先網際網路的角色，我們必須等待時機，將這兩者適當區分開來，以修復破碎的網路，建立「會面點」。社群平台的目的是進行經濟交流和搾取數據，「會面點」的目的則是創造共通性。「會面點」可以有千千萬萬個跳躍連結，然而在扁平而缺乏深度的社群平台裡，可能性非常有限。在這個故事裡，終極解決之道並不是替代平台的崛起，而是群眾奪回鄉民的能動性與對網際網路的想像力。集體退散卡住眾生的平台，轉而建立自主協作，創造連結動能的網絡。行動的第一步，始自對於數位衰退的深刻理解。【推薦語】本書金句不斷，將許多我們日常中

Created by the experts at The Securities Institute of America, Inc., Wiley Securities Industry Essentials Exam Review Study Guide 2019 arms you with what you need to score high on the test a

Aircraft Control Allocation Wayne Durham, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Kenneth A. Bordignon, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA Roger Beck, Dynamic Concepts, Inc., U

Produced in association with the Big History Institute and aligned with the online course of the Big History Project LLC created by David Christian and supported by Bill Gates,Big History provides a c

Seeber (Institute for Blood Management, Germany) and Shander (anesthesiology; Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, New Jersey, and Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City) revise their 2007 guide to inc

"Mandatory reading for all involved or interested in politics today, so they will undertand the foundations of our system."---Jerry Climer. The Congressional Institute. Inc."In this outstanding book,

In 1977, Elizabeth Lesser cofounded the Omega Institute, now America's largest adult-education center focusing on wellness and spirituality. Working with many of the eminent thinkers of our times, inc

Praise for Mike Russill, Vice-President, Retail, Sunoco Inc. Catherine Neville, President, Quality Management Institute Dan Plashkes, President, S&P Data Philip C. Brown, Senior Vice-President, Teleba

This book is the outcome of two symposia, 'Maturity, Spirituality, and Theological Reconstruction' and 'Maturity in Ministry,' sponsored by Maturity Studies Institute, Inc. The following chapters are

Featuring a foreword by the father of Big History, David Christian, and produced in association with the Big History Institute, Big History provides a comprehensive understanding of the major events t

Williams (of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the U. of California in Los Angeles, the Minority Health Institute Inc., and the Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural and Minority Medicin

In the highlands of Alban near the waters of the Inbhir Nis, Lady Athebryn waits for her dragon to bring word of the enemy across the sea. At her side is her beloved Princess Thalynder. Once handmaide

Presents some of the animals that live at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, including the Aldabra tortoise, red panda, and double-wattled cassowary.

In their mission to eradicate fear, necromancer Johannes Cabal and the Fear Institute, believing that they have discovered where fear lives, enter the Dreamlands where they become trapped in a nightma

Lies and Epiphanies offers case studies of "inspiration" in five composers -- Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Richard Strauss, and Alban Berg. Their own tales of their "epiphanies"

The fresh and insightful guide to etiquette in a digital world from the Emily Post Institute, Inc., the definitive standard-bearer of good manners For generations of Americans, the Emily Post Instit

The church year is often seen as a framework for church programs, but well-known Alban author Charles Olsen shows readers how it can be a prism through which congregations more deeply understand their

No other contracts are more widely used in the construction industry than the American Institute of Architects’ standard forms. The American Institute of Architects Official Guide to the 2007 AI

Drawing on his extensive and fruitful consulting work in diverse synagogue contexts, Alban senior consultant Robert Leventhal presents his Synagogue Visioning and Planning (SVP) model to a wider audie

This new book in Alban's Harvesting the Learnings Series gathers the collected wisdom of over 10 years of Alban research and reflection on what it means to be a leader in a congregation, how our perce

Adorno was twenty-one years old when he traveled to Vienna in March 1925 to study musical composition with Alban Berg. Twenty years later, Adorno wrote: "how much of my writing will remain is beyond m

In this study, Alban examines mythological and literary references to the serpent goddess Melusine from ancient to modern times. Early chapters provide background information on various aquatic great

Shur (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Wilson (Foster Miller, Inc.), and Urban (The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory) present 43 papers highlighting recent research results in this relatively new are

When Graham Blake - model parent, marketing guru of the hugely successful Clean Earth, Inc. - suffers a mental breakdown, he checks into the Corporate Life Therapy Institute, where the self-assured,

Read, Write, Rhyme Institute: Educators, Entertainers, and Entrepreneurs Engaging in Hip-Hop Discourse describes how entertainers, entrepreneurs and educators, participating in Read Write Rhyme Instit

The ultimate study package for the new PMI-ACP exam The PMI-ACP Project Management Institute Agile Certified Practitioner Exam Study Guide is an all-in-one package for comprehensive exam preparation.

Color the Classics lets you put your own creative spin on 30 masterpieces like Grant Wood's American Gothic and Monet's Water Lilies which are part of the vast Art Institute of Chicago catalog. Create your own work of art by replicating the classics or add your own creative flair to masterpieces admired for centuries. Artists included are: Pablo Picasso, Georgia O'Keeffe, Katsushika Hokusai,Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood and many more.

This book record achievements of the East Asian Institute (EAI), one of the top five think tanks in the world under the leadership of Dr Goh Keng Swee, Professors Wang Gungwu, John Wong and Zheng Yong

This book record achievements of the East Asian Institute (EAI), one of the top five think tanks in the world under the leadership of Dr Goh Keng Swee, Professors Wang Gungwu, John Wong and Zheng Yong

Take Your Cooking to a Whole New Level with Chef Watson and the Institute of Culinary Education!You don't have to be a culinary genius to be a great cook. But when it comes to thinking outside the box