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  • Management and War

    How Organisations Navigate Conflict and Build Peace

    by Joanne Murphy ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    War and conflict are a reality of life throughout the world. While much is written about the impact of violence and disorder, how people and organisations adapt to these environments is poorly understood. This book tells the often hidden story of people managing, delivering services and sustaining economies through and beyond violent conflict. It is written for both general readers and academic ... Read more

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  • Policing Northern Ireland

    Leading Through Crisis and Change

    This book explores 25 years of policing in Northern Ireland in the context of conflict and change.In doing so, it provides a comprehensive narrative of the transition from the Royal Ulster Constabulary to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). By tracing each phase of organisational development, the work considers the impact of political progress and stagnation, the effect of repeated ... Read more

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  • Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States

    Edited by Joanne M.A. Murphy ...
    Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States explores the role of ritual in a variety of archaic states and generates discussion on how the decline in a state’s ability to continue in its current form affected the practices of ritual and how ritual as a culture-forming dynamic affected decline, collapse, and regeneration of the state.Chapters examine ritual in collapsing and ... Read more

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  • Death in Late Bronze Age Greece

    Variations on a Theme

    Edited by Joanne M. A. Murphy ...
    Late Bronze Age tombs in Greece and their attendant mortuary practices have been a topic of scholarly debate for over a century, dominated by the idea of a monolithic culture with the same developmental trajectories throughout the region. This book contributes to that body of scholarship by exploring both the level of variety and of similarity that we see in the practices at each site and thereby ... Read more

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  • Analgesia, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics: Exotic Animal Practice

    Analgesia, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics: Exotic Animal Practice

    Series Book Volume 14-1 - The Clinics: Veterinary Medicine
    This issue will explore the latest research and clinical information concerning analgesia of exotic pet species. The majority of the issue will cover the use of analgesics in pet birds, reptiles, rabbits, amphibians, fish, and small mammals. Other articles will cover cross species analgesimetry and pharmacokinetics, tramadol use in zoological medicine, clinical application of acupuncture in ... Read more

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  • Public Management and Complexity Theory

    Richer Decision-Making in Public Services

    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    That public services exhibit unpredictability, novelty and, on occasion, chaos, is an observation with which even a casual observer would agree. Existing theoretical frameworks in public management fail to address these features, relying more heavily on attempts to eliminate unpredictability through increased reliance on measurable performance objectives, improved financial and human resource ... Read more

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  • Engineering Rules

    Global Standard Setting since 1880

    Series series Hagley Library Studies in Business, Technology, and Politics
    The first global history of voluntary consensus standard setting.Finalist, Hagley Prize in Business History, The Hagley Museum and Library / The Business History ConferencePrivate, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been critical to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, including the rise ... Read more

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  • The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

    Global Governance through Voluntary Consensus

    Series series Global Institutions
    The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the first full-length study of the largest nongovernmental, global regulatory network whose scope and influence rivals that of the UN system.Much of the interest in the successes and failures of global governance focuses around high profile organisations such as the United Nations, World Bank and World Trade Organisation. This volume is ... Read more

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  • A View from the Balcony—Opera through Womanist Eyes

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    In this theological work, readers are seated in a metaphorical balcony as a counter melody is composed within America's operatic tradition. By using imaginary opera glasses, readers are invited to critically view American society and history. The most popular folk songs of white Southerners, Western settlers, and Northern elites were composed from chords of colonialism, white supremacy, patriarchy ... Read more

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    "Reminds us that the ultimate aim of Black freedom quests is, indeed, universal liberation." —Angela Y. Davis, author of Women, Race & ClassIn this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness ... Read more

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  • Our History Has Always Been Contraband

    In Defense of Black Studies

    "The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We’re ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." —Colin KaepernickSince its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an ... Read more

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