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Every great scholar begins as a student. But what does it take to get there? And what is the journey like? This book explores the lifespan development of some of the best-known communication scholars in the United States. Grounded in 30 in-depth interviews, personal stories, and communication theory, the book reveals the nature of human development, the curvature of disciplinary thinking, and the values that drive communication professionals. ...

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An in-depth look at how the world's most influential business leaders are improving their bottom line by embracing ethical, sustainable business practices.

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Do you feel comfortable delivering bad news? Do you look forward to speaking in public? Do you enjoy networking? Is it easy for you to speak your mind and be assertive with friends and colleagues? If you answered no to any of these questions, this book can help! What often sets successful people apart is their willingness to do things most of us fear. What's more, we have the false notion that successful people like to do these things, when th...

In 2015, Magali Reus (born 1981) opened the first of four exhibitions co-commissioned by SculptureCenter, New York, Hepworth Wakefield, England, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy. The culmination of these projects is documented here.

Museo Museion, from Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli (born 1971), is designed like a fictitious old guide to a museum of peculiar, striking juxtapositions: the artist's sculptural works add new features to mutilated historic pieces, while contemporary pieces are juxtaposed with trompe l'oeil reproductions of the frames of classic paintings.

In 2009 Ida Applebroog's (born 1929) assistants found a box marked "Mercy Hospital." Inside was a series of drawings the artist made nearly 50 years ago, during a period of institutionalization after suffering a debilitating breakdown in San Diego in 1969. During this tumultuous period, Applebroog, by her own account, "withdrew from the world entirely, for a period hardly able to speak at all." Instead she turned to drawing, producing works in...

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Using the O.D.D. (Overview, Design concepts, Detail) protocol, this title explores the role of agent-based modeling in predicting the feasibility of various approaches to sustainability. The chapters incorporated in this volume consist of real case studies to illustrate the utility of agent-based modeling and complexity theory in discovering a path to more efficient and sustainable lifestyles. The topics covered within include: households' att...

Artists on Hanne Darboven is the first installment in a series culled from Dia Art Foundation's Artists on Artists lectures, focused on German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven (1941-2009). Established in 2001, the lecture series highlights the work of modern and contemporary artists from the perspective of their colleagues and peers. The inaugural Artists on Artists title is published in conjunction with the opening of Darboven's 1980-83 insta...

WHERE THERE'S SMOKE... Gabriel Raines still has a pair of cowboy boots in his closet, even though he's now a successful real-estate developer in Texas. And he continues to live by the same Wyoming values that he and his brothers were raised by-hard work, determination and fairness. But when two of his projects are set on fire, Gabe realizes he's crossed dangerous lines. The police suspect the arsonist is a troubled teen. But Mattie Baker, ...

Dieser Band zeigt ausgehend vom Zerfall der Sowjetunion die Unfähigkeit zentralistischer Staatswirtschaften zur Bewerkstelligung der Transformation hin zum Informationszeitalter. Aber Ungleichheit, Polarisierung und sozialer Ausschluss als Folgen der Globalisierung zeigen sich dem Autor weltweit, u.a. an städtischer Armut und der Not der Kinder. Zugleich zeigt Castells, dass und wie eine global organisierte Kriminalität Wirtschaft und Politik ...

Quelle: Wikipedia. Seiten: 99. Kapitel: Celle, Bergen, Hermannsburg, Eversen, Wietze, Eldingen, Eicklingen, Müden, Adelheidsdorf, Unterlüß, Lachendorf, Blumlage/Altstadt, Faßberg, Oldendorf, Sülze, Hohne, Nienhagen, Eschede, Wienhausen, Wathlingen, Becklingen, Weesen, Ahnsbeck, Lutterloh, Hassel, Jarnsen, Thören, Langlingen, Beedenbostel, Wietzenbruch, Hambühren, Winsen, Höfer, Westercelle, Gockenholz, Habighorst, Hetendorf, Beckedorf, Bleckma...

In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism. But not for all. Academic social scientists such as Richar

Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations--such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution--fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic...