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The complexity of African society entering the 21st century necessitates an interdisciplinary examination of Africa's political, social, and cultural developments and challenges. Focusing on Social Movements and Literature, Social Change and Culture, the book brings together a wide range of essays by committed scholars, writers, and activists concerned with progressive approaches to Africa's dilemmas. Beginning with an overview by anthropolog...

What is meant by "Western civilisation"? The term is undergoing an historic crisis, current philosophical schools define themselves as alternatives to, or critiques of, this concept. This book seeks to trace the development of Western civilisation and examine the reasons for its endurance.

Studies how British writers from the early 19th century to the mid 20th century have represented foreign women in literature.

This volume analyzes the links between the way we form our individual and collective identities and the type of society in which we live. The contributors focus on the issue of modern identity both on a conceptual level and in the context of European unification and progressive globalization.

A guide to the impact of mental health issues on the workplace, with special attention to complying with provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Focusing on post-war right-wing populism, this work presents a qualitative analysis of America's current trend toward populism. Tracing the intellectual origins of present populist movements, it explores the extent to which such movements complement the American constitutional tradition.

This work analyzes the emerging relationship between Moscow and the 15 successor states to the old USSR. These states have managed to stay largely intact and one explanation for this is the success of strategies of center-periphery relations. The book examines the cases of success and failure.

A collection of papers presented at a 1985 conference on work stress and health care. In this comprehensive volume, the authors, well-known experts in their field, present a broad spectrum of stress-related conditions in the workplace and discuss the relationship between prevention and therapy. Throughout the volume contributing researchers and practitioners present different aspects of stress and suggest a number of intervention strategies. E...

Targeted at managers and consultants who must diagnose organizational problems, this work is an accessible analysis of organizational cultures, social network, and cause mapping. With emphasis on the smaller business, it provides methods of detecting dysfunctions - demonstrated by actual cases.

Freedman focuses on investigation of employees by their companies and organizations, delineating the rights and obligations of the employer and the rights and privileges of the employee in the employment relationship. Internal company investigations have in recent years become widespread as companies and corporations seek to ferret out internal problems. Officers and directors as well as employees have been subjected to the internal investigat...

Project teams are the rule rather than the exception in today's organizations. But thanks to the pressure of performance goals, conflicting agendas, and political jockeying, few teams make superior decisions consistently. Instead, team members communicate poorly or not at all, avoid provocative discussion, occasionally stab each other in the back, or in many other ways forget that their job is to make decisions that lead the company forward. J...

This book summarizes the ideas about cognitive psychology expressed in the writings of medieval Europeans. Up until the 13th century, Christians who wrote about cognitive psychology, foremost of whom was St. Augustine, did so in the Neoplatonic tradition. The translation of the works of Aristotle and some of the works of Arab scholars into Latin during the 12th and 13th centuries brought a high level of sophistication to the theories. The auth...

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