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Excerpt from Revitalizing Large Companies In these turbulent times, many large companies in Europe and America are trying to cope with growing domestic and international competition, rapid technological change, sudden shifts in consumer preferences, and other changes in their business environments by making major changes in strategies, structures, and management systems all at once. The struggles of some corporate giants trying to transform t...

Integrates the classic foundations of pastoral care with current approaches to spiritual care, particularly in acute or long-term care facilities and rehabilitation centers. Experts in the field offer theological perspectives, theory and practical tools,

In the last two decades, there has been an increased awareness of the traditions and issues that link aboriginal people across the circumpolar North. One of the key aspects of the lives of circumpolar peoples, be they in Scandinavia, Alaska, Russia, or Canada, is their relationship to the wild animals that support them. Although divided for most of the 20th Century by various national trading blocks, and the Cold War, aboriginal people in each...

Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of "pristine nature" or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of consumption, production and unequal distribution, suggests that crit...

The sixteen essays in this volume were presented at a symposium to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Ocmulgee National Monument in Macon, GA. Among the topics discussed are platform mounds, settlement patterns, agronomic practices, earth lodges, human skeletal remains, and Macon Plateau culture origins.

The edited work contains one of the most interesting sets of northern papers to appear in a very long time . . . each paper is excellent . . . this book will hopefully provoke considerable thought. . . . This is a work that should be discussed in terms of the particulars of the various papers, but also for the overview it provides." - Polar Record In the last two decades, there has been an increased awareness of the traditions and issues tha...

5000 Jahre vor der Schlacht um Yavin steht das Sith- Imperium am Scheideweg. Bisher herrschte Marka Rangos als Dunkler Lord der Sith mit eiserner Faust. Er war der Mächtigste der Mächtigen, doch jetzt ist der tot und um seine Nachfolge entbrennt ein Streit. Die Erzrivalen Ludo Kressh und Naga Sadow stehen sich im erbitterten Kampf gegenüber. Ludo Kressh will die Tradition der Sith unverändert fortführen, aber Naga Sadow denkt daran, neue Wege ...