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The War That Forged A Nation: Why The Civil War Still Matters
by James M. McPhersonMore than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations." In fact, five generations have passed, and Americans are still trying to measure the influence of the immense fratricidal conflict that nearly tore the nation apart. In The War that Forged a Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson considers why the Civil War remains so deeply embedded in our national psyche and identity. The drama and tragedy of the war, from its scope and size--an estimated death toll of 750,000, far more than the rest of the country's wars combined--to the nearly mythical individuals involved--Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson--help explain why the Civil War remains a topic of interest. But the legacy of the war extends far beyond historical interest or scholarly attention. Here, McPherson draws upon his work over the past fifty years to illuminate the war's continuing resonance across many dimensions of American life. Touching upon themes that include the war's causes and consequences; the naval war; slavery and its abolition; and Lincoln as commander in chief, McPherson ultimately proves the impossibility of understanding the issues of our own time unless we first understand their roots in the era of the Civil War. From racial inequality and conflict between the North and South to questions of state sovereignty or the role of government in social change--these issues, McPherson shows, are as salient and controversial today as they were in the 1860s. Thoughtful, provocative, and authoritative, The War that Forged a Nation looks anew at the reasons America's civil war has remained a subject of intense interest for the past century and a half, affirms the enduring relevance of the conflict for America today.
War Volunteering in Modern Times
by Christine G. Krüger Sonja LevsenExploring volunteering as a characteristic of modern wars, this book examines why individuals go to war. It studies the motivations, social backgrounds and military experiences of war volunteersin a wide range of conflicts since the French Revolution, and helps to interpret the relationship between war and society in modern times. "
The Ward
by Michael Mcclelland Tatum Taylor Ellen Scheinberg John LorincThe story of the growth and destruction of Toronto's first 'priority neighbourhood.' From the 1840s until the Second World War, waves of newcomers who migrated to Toronto - Irish, Jewish, Italian, African American and Chinese, among others - landed in 'The Ward.' Crammed with rundown housing and immigrant-owned businesses, this area, bordered by College and Queen, University and Yonge streets, was home to bootleggers, Chinese bachelors, workers from the nearby Eaton's garment factories and hard-working peddlers. But the City considered it a slum, and bulldozed the area in the late 1950s to make way for a new civic square. The Ward finally tells the diverse stories of this extraordinary and resilient neighbourhood through archival photos and contributions from a wide array of voices, including historians, politicians, architects, storytellers, journalists and descendants of Ward residents. Their perspectives on playgrounds, tuberculosis, sex workers, newsies and even bathing bring The Ward to life and, in the process, raise important questions about how contemporary cities handle immigration, poverty and the geography of difference. Contents & Contributors Introduction - John Lorinc Searching for the Old Ward - Shawn Micallef No Place Like Home - Howard Akler Before the Ward: Macauleytown - Stephen A. Otto My Grandmother the Bootlegger - Howard Moscoe Against All Odds: The Chinese Laundry - Arlene Chan VJ Day - Arlene Chan Merle Foster's Studio: 'A Spot Of Enchantment' - Terry Murray Missionary Work: The Fight for Jewish Souls - Ellen Scheinberg King of the Ward - Myer Siemiatycki Where the Rich Went for Vice - Michael Redhill A Fresh Start: Black Toronto in the 19th Century - Karolyn Smardz Frost Policing the Lord's Day - Mariana Valverde 'The Maniac Chinaman' - Edward Keenan Elsie's Story - Patte Roseban Lawren Harris's Ward Period - Jim Burant 'Fool's Paradise': Hastings' Anti-Slum Crusade - John Lorinc Strange Brew: The Underground Economy of Blind Pigs - Ellen Scheinberg The Consulate, the Padroni and the Labourers - Andrea Addario Excerpt: The Italians in Toronto - Emily P. Weaver Arthur Goss: Documenting Hardship - Stephen Bulger Fresh Air: The Fight Against TB - Cathy Crowe The Stone Yard - Gaetan Heroux William James: Toronto's First Photojournalist - Vincenzo Pietropaolo The Avenue Not Taken - Michael McClelland Timothy Eaton's Stern Fortifications - Michael Valpy Settling In: Central Neighbourhood House - Ratna Omidvar and Ranjit Bhaskar Toronto's Girl with the Curls - Ellen Scheinberg Chinese Cafés: Survival and Danger - Ellen Scheinberg and Paul Yee Defiance and Divisions: The Great Eaton's Strike - Ruth A. Frager Elizabeth Street: What the City Directories Reveal - Denise Balkissoon Growing Up on Walton Street - Cynthia MacDougall Revitalizing George Street: The Ward's Lessons - Alina Chatterjee and Derek Ballantyne Taking Care of Business in the Ward - Ellen Scheinberg 'A Magnificent Dome': The Great University Avenue Synagogue - Jack Lipinsky Reading the Ward: The Inevitability of Loss - Kim Storey and James Brown Toronto's First Little Italy - John Lorinc The Elizabeth Street Playground, Revisited - Bruce Kidd Divided Loyalties - Sandra Shaul Crowded by Any Measure - John Lorinc A Peddler and His Cart: The Ward's Rag Trade - Deena Nathanson Toronto's Original Tenement: Wineberg Apartments - Richard Dennis Excerpt: Tom Thomson's Diary - Tom Thomson An Untimely Death - Brian Banks Paper Pushers - Ellen Scheinberg The BMR's Wake-Up Call - Laurie Monsebraaten Excerpt: Report of the Medical Health Officer ... - Charles J. Hastings Dr. Clarke's Clinic - Thelma Wheatley Slum-Free: The Suburban Ideal - Richard Harris The Glionna Clan and Toronto's First Little Italy - John E. Zucchi 'The Hipp' - Michael Posner Before Yorkville - John Lorinc Sex Work and the Ward's Bachelor Society - Elise Chenier Public Baths: Schvitzing on Centre Avenue - Ellen Scheinberg The Health Advocates: McKeown on Hastings - John Lorinc Remembering Toronto's First Chinatown - Kristyn Wong-Tam Tabula Rasa - Mark Kingwell U...
The Ward
by Ellen Scheinberg Michael Mcclelland Tatum Taylor John LorincFrom the 1870s to the 1950s, waves of immigrants to Toronto - Irish, Jewish, Chinese and Italian, among others - landed in 'The Ward' in the centre of downtown. Deemed a slum, the area was crammed with derelict housing and 'ethnic' businesses; it was razed in the 1950s to make way for a grand civic plaza and modern city hall. Archival photos and contributions from a wide variety of voices finally tell the story of this complex neighbourhood and the lessons it offers about immigration and poverty in big cities. Contributors include historians, politicians, architects and descendents of Ward residents on subjects such as playgrounds, tuberculosis, bootlegging and Chinese laundries.With essays by Howard Akler, Denise Balkissoon, Steve Bulger, Jim Burant, Arlene Chan, Alina Chatterjee, Cathy Crowe, Richard Dennis, Ruth Frager, Richard Harris, Gaetan Heroux, Edward Keenan, Bruce Kidd, Mark Kingwell, Jack Lipinsky, John Lorinc, Shawn Micallef, Howard Moscoe, Laurie Monsebraaten, Terry Murray, Ratna Omidvar, Stephen Otto, Vincenzo Pietropaolo, Michael Posner, Michael Redhill, Victor Russell, Ellen Scheinberg, Sandra Shaul, Myer Siemiatycki, Mariana Valverde, Thelma Wheatley, Kristyn Wong-Tam and Paul Yee, among others.
The Ward Uncovered: The Archaeology of Everyday Life
by Holly Martelle Michael McClelland Tatum Taylor John LorincIn early 2015, a team of archaeologists began digging test trenches on a non-descript parking lot next to Toronto City Hall -- a site designated to become a major new court house. What they discovered was the rich buried history of an enclave that was part of The Ward -- that dense, poor, but vibrant 'arrival city' that took shape between the 1840s and the 1950s. Home to waves of immigrants and refugees -- Irish, African-Americans, Italians, eastern European Jews, and Chinese -- The Ward was stigmatized for decades by Toronto's politicians and residents, and eventually razed to make way for New City Hall. The archaeologists who excavated the lot, led by co-editor Holly Martelle, discovered almost half a million artifacts -- a spectacular collection of household items, tools, toys, shoes, musical instruments, bottles, industrial objects, food scraps, luxury items, and even a pre-contact Indigenous projectile point. Martelle's team also unearthed the foundations of a nineteenth-century Black church, a Russian synagogue, early-twentieth-century factories, cisterns, privies, wooden drains, and even row houses built by formerly enslaved African Americans. Following on the heels of the immensely popular The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood, which told the stories of some of the people who lived there, The Ward Uncovered digs up the tales of things, using these well-preserved artifacts to tell a different set of stories about life in this long-forgotten and much-maligned neighbourhood. Contributors include Abbey Flower, Sarah Hood, Ron Williamson, Cheryl Thompson, Peter Popkin, Arlene Chan, Karolyn Smardz Frost, Simon Rogers, Liz Driver, Vid Ingelvics, Bethany Good, Adrienne Chambon, Kathy Grant, Guylaine Petrin, Craig Heron, Tom Porawski, Wayne Reeves, Wenh-In Ng, Ellen Scheinberg, Nicole Brandon, Rosemary Sadlier, Matt Beaudoin, Natasha Henry, and Heather Murray.
Wardship and the Welfare State: Native Americans and the Formation of First-Class Citizenship in Mid-Twentieth-Century America (New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies)
by Mary KlannWardship and the Welfare State examines the ideological dimensions and practical intersections of public policy and Native American citizenship, Indian wardship, and social welfare rights after World War II. By examining Native wardship&’s intersections with three pieces of mid-twentieth-century welfare legislation—the 1935 Social Security Act, the 1942 Servicemen&’s Dependents Allowance Act, and the 1944 GI Bill—Mary Klann traces the development of a new conception of first-class citizenship.Wardship and the Welfare State explores how policymakers and legislators have defined first-class citizenship against its apparent opposite, the much older and fraught idea of Indian wardship. Wards were considered dependent, while first-class citizens were considered independent. Wards were thought to receive gratuitous aid from the government, while first-class citizens were considered responsible. Critics of the federal welfare state&’s expansion in the 1930s through 1960s feared that as more Americans received government aid, they too could become dependent wards, victims of the poverty they saw on reservations. Because critics believed wardship prevented Native men and women from fulfilling expectations of work, family, and political membership, they advocated terminating Natives&’ trust relationships with the federal government. As these critics mistakenly equated wardship with welfare, state officials also prevented Native people from accessing needed welfare benefits. But to Native peoples wardship was not welfare and welfare was not wardship. Native nations and pan-Native organizations insisted on Natives&’ government-to-government relationships with the United States and maintained their rights to welfare benefits. In so doing, they rejected stereotyped portrayals of Natives&’ perpetual poverty and dependency and asserted and defined tribal sovereignty. By illuminating how assumptions about &“gratuitous&” government benefits limit citizenship, Wardship and the Welfare State connects Native people to larger histories of race, inequality, gender, and welfare in the twentieth-century United States.
Waren – Wissen – Raum: Interdependenz von Produktion, Markt und Konsum in Lebensmittelwarenketten
by Nina Baur Julia Fülling Linda Hering Elmar KulkeDer Band betrachtet am Beispiel des Lebensmittelmarkts die drei Teilkontexte Produktion, Marktentnahme und Konsum in ihren wechselseitigen Handlungsbezügen sowie die Rolle von Macht und Wissen für die Koordination von Warenketten. Die Autorinnen und Autoren aus Geographie, Soziologie, Wirtschaftswissenschaften sowie der Stadt- und Regionalplanung widmen sich verschiedenen sich ergänzenden Aspekten der Koordination der Warenkette und der beteiligten Akteure von der Produktion, über die Logistik bis hin zum Handel und Konsum. Die Beiträge zeigen den unmittelbaren Zusammenhang zwischen Wissen und Handlungen der Akteure sowie deren Wirkungen auf die räumliche Organisation und Ordnung der Warenkette. Hinsichtlich der Rolle von Wissen geben die Beiträge eine Vielzahl an pointierten Analysen zu Teilaspekten der Gesamtinteraktionszusammenhänge.
The Warfare between Science & Religion: The Idea That Wouldn't Die
by Edited by Jeff Hardin, Ronald L. Numbers, and Ronald A. BinzleyA “very welcome volume” of essays questioning the presumption of irreconcilable conflict between science and religion (British Journal for the History of Science).The “conflict thesis”—the idea that an inevitable, irreconcilable conflict exists between science and religion—has long been part of the popular imagination. The Warfare between Science and Religion assembles a group of distinguished historians who explore the origin of the thesis, its reception, the responses it drew from various faith traditions, and its continued prominence in public discourse.Several essays examine the personal circumstances and theological idiosyncrasies of important intellectuals, including John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White, who through their polemical writings championed the conflict thesis relentlessly. Others consider what the thesis meant to different religious communities, including evangelicals, liberal Protestants, Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Finally, essays both historical and sociological explore the place of the conflict thesis in popular culture and intellectual discourse today.Based on original research and written in an accessible style, the essays in The Warfare between Science and Religion take an interdisciplinary approach to question the historical relationship between science and religion, and bring much-needed perspective to an often-bitter controversy.Contributors include: Thomas H. Aechtner, Ronald A. Binzley, John Hedley Brooke, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Noah Efron, John H. Evans, Maurice A. Finocchiaro, Frederick Gregory, Bradley J. Gundlach, Monte Harrell Hampton, Jeff Hardin, Peter Harrison, Bernard Lightman, David N. Livingstone, David Mislin, Efthymios Nicolaidis, Mark A. Noll, Ronald L. Numbers, Lawrence M. Principe, Jon H. Roberts, Christopher P. Scheitle, M. Alper Yalçinkaya
Warfare in African History
by Richard J. ReidThis book examines the role of war in shaping the African state, society, and economy. Richard J. Reid helps students understand different patterns of military organization through Africa's history; the evolution of weaponry, tactics, and strategy; and the increasing prevalence of warfare and militarism in African political and economic systems. He traces shifts in the culture and practice of war from the first millennium into the era of the external slave trades, and then into the nineteenth century, when a military revolution unfolded across much of Africa. The repercussions of that revolution, as well as the impact of colonial rule, continue to this day. The frequency of coups d'états and civil war in Africa's recent past is interpreted in terms of the continent's deeper past.
Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy
by Joy JamesThe United States has more than two million people locked away in federal, state, and local prisons. Although most of the U. S. population is non-Hispanic and white, the vast majority of the incarcerated--and policed--is not. In this compelling collection, scholars, activists, and current and former prisoners examine the sensibilities that enable a penal democracy to thrive. Some pieces are new to this volume; others are classic critiques of U. S. state power. Through biography, diary entries, and criticism, the contributors collectively assert that the United States wages war against enemies abroad and against its own people at home. Contributors consider the interning or policing of citizens of color, the activism of radicals, structural racism, destruction and death in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, and the FBI Counterintelligence Program designed to quash domestic dissent. Among the first-person accounts are an interview with Dhoruba Bin Wahad, a Black Panther and former political prisoner; a portrayal of life in prison by a Plowshares nun jailed for her antinuclear and antiwar activism; a discussion of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement by one of its members, now serving a seventy-year prison sentence for sedition; and an excerpt from a 1970 letter by the Black Panther George Jackson chronicling the abuses of inmates in California's Soledad Prison. Warfare in the American Homeland also includes the first English translation of an excerpt from a pamphlet by Michel Foucault and others. They argue that the 1971 shooting of George Jackson by prison guards was a murder premeditated in response to human-rights and justice organizing by black and brown prisoners and their supporters. Contributors. Hishaam Aidi, Dhoruba Bin Wahad (Richard Moore), Marilyn Buck, Marshall Eddie Conway, Susie Day, Daniel Defert, Madeleine Dwertman, Michel Foucault, Carol Gilbert, Sirne Harb, Rose Heyer, George Jackson, Joy James, Manning Marable, William F. Pinar, Oscar Lpez Rivera, Dylan Rodrguez, Jared Sexton, Catherine vn Bulow, Laura Whitehorn, Frank B. Wilderson III
Warring Souls: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-Revolution Iran
by Roxanne VarziWith the first Fulbright grant for research in Iran to be awarded since the Iranian revolution in 1979, Roxanne Varzi returned to the country her family left before the Iran-Iraq war. Drawing on ethnographic research she conducted in Tehran between 1991 and 2000, she provides an eloquent account of the beliefs and experiences of young, middle-class, urban Iranians. As the first generation to have come of age entirely in the period since the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran, twenty-something Iranians comprise a vital index of the success of the nation's Islamic Revolution. Varzi describes how, since 1979, the Iranian state has attempted to produce and enforce an Islamic public sphere by governing behavior and by manipulating images--particularly images related to religious martyrdom and the bloody war with Iraq during the 1980s--through films, murals, and television shows. Yet many of the young Iranians Varzi studied quietly resist the government's conflation of religious faith and political identity. Highlighting trends that belie the government's claim that Islamic values have taken hold--including rising rates of suicide, drug use, and sex outside of marriage--Varzi argues that by concentrating on images and the performance of proper behavior, the government's campaign to produce model Islamic citizens has affected only the appearance of religious orthodoxy, and that the strictly religious public sphere is partly a mirage masking a profound crisis of faith among many Iranians. Warring Souls is a powerful account of contemporary Iran made more vivid by Varzi's inclusion of excerpts from the diaries she maintained during her research and from journal entries written by Iranian university students with whom she formed a study group.
Warring with Words: Narrative and Metaphor in Politics (Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology Series)
by Michael Hanne William D. Crano Jeffrey Scott MioScholars in many of the disciplines surrounding politics explicitly utilize either a narrative perspective or a metaphor perspective (though rarely the two in combination) to analyze issues -- theoretical and practical, domestic and international -- in the broad field of politics. Among the topics they have studied are: competing metaphors for the state or nation which have been coined over the centuries in diverse cultures; the frequency with which communal and international conflicts are generated, at least in part, by the clashing religious and historical narratives held by opposing groups; the cognitive short-cuts employing metaphor by which citizens make sense of politics; the need for political candidates to project a convincing self-narrative; the extent to which the metaphors used to formulate social issues determine the policies which will be developed to resolve them; the failure of narratives around the security of the nation to take account of the individual experiences of women and children. This volume is the first in which eminent scholars from disciplines as diverse as social psychology, anthropology, political theory, international relations, feminist political science, and media studies, have sought to integrate the narrative and the metaphor perspectives on politics. It will appeal to any scholar interested in the many ways in which narrative and metaphor function in combination as cognitive and rhetorical instruments in discourse around politics.
The Warrior and the Pacifist: Competing Motifs in Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
by Lester R. KurtzThis book looks at two contradictory ethical motifs—the warrior and the pacifist—across four major faith traditions—Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and their role in shaping our understanding of violence and the morality of its use. The Warrior and the Pacifist explores how these faith traditions, which now mutually inhabit our life spaces, bring with them across the millennia the moral teachings that have traveled from prehistoric humanity, embedded in the beliefs, rituals, and institutions socially constructed by humans to deal with ultimate concerns, core aspects of daily personal and social life, and life transitions.
Warriors or Peacekeepers?: Building Military Cultural Competence
by Kjetil Enstad Paula Holmes-EberAs the past two decades of war in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Darfur and the Congo have revealed, war in the twenty-first century looks nothing like the traditional state-to-state conflicts of World Wars I and II which defined the previous century. Resolving today’s conflicts - typically based on complex ethnic, religious, economic and political dynamics - requires far more than mere military strength and technology. The military officer of today must simultaneously be a warrior and diplomat, combatant and humanitarian worker, soldier and peacekeeper. But how can today’s militaries prepare their leaders for such multifaceted roles? Warriors or Peacekeepers seeks to provide answers to this question, comparing and contrasting research on the successes and failures of military cultural education and training programs in seven different countries on three continents (U.S., Canada, Argentina Norway, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands). This anthology consists of three main sections. The first addresses the theoretical issues of developing the warrior-peacekeeper: what constitutes cultural competence in the officer profession and the pedagogical challenges associated with developing such competence. The second compares teaching practices from various military educational institutions and provides insight into such issues as: how language training can build cultural awareness, helping officers navigate the ethical and moral challenges of dealing with gender in radically different cultures and the best didactic models to develop reflective skills in military leaders. The third section examines the structural and organizational conditions which historically have aided or impeded educational and organizational change in the military. This book will appeal to military academic communities, educational institutions, scholars in security studies, peacekeeping and conflict studies; and to decision-makers in governments and administration.
The Wars of Afghanistan
by Peter TomsenThis revelatory, unprecedented, insiderOCOs account of AfghanistanOCOs history since the 1970s, and of U. S. involvement, is indispensable reading for anyone concerned about the current war"
The Wars We Inherit: Military Life, Gender Violence, and Memory
by Lori E. AmyBy combining personal memoir and critical analysis, Lori Amy links the violence we live in our homes to the violence that structures our larger culture. The Wars We Inherit brings insights from memory and trauma studies to the story of violence in the author's own family. In this brave, fascinating and compelling book, Amy concerns herself with the violence associated with the military, and how this institution of public, cultural violence, with its hypermasculinity, pervades society with physical, verbal, emotional and sexual aggression. She uses her war-veteran father to represent the chaotic and dehumanizing impact of war to show how violence is experienced and remembered. Amy provides examples that support the relationship between military structures and domestic violence, or how the sexual violence that permeates her family prompts debates about the nature of trauma and memory. In addition, Amy employs feminist psychoanalytic theory, cultural and trauma studies, and narrative theory, to explain how torture in Abu Ghraib is on a direct continuum with the ordinary violence inherent in our current systems of gender and nation. Placing individual experience in cultural context, Amy argues that "if we can begin, in our own lives, to transform the destructive ways that we have been shaped by violence, then we might begin to transform the cultural conditions that breed violence. "
Warsaw Housing Cooperative: City in Action (The Urban Book Series)
by Magdalena Matysek-ImielińskaThis book discusses the unknown and remote urban experiment of modernist social practices and dreams of a better tomorrow. It describes the history of the Warsaw Housing Cooperative not as a historical relic or a single case study, but instead analyses this working-class social housing estate – in itself an extremely interesting emancipatory project – from the perspective of contemporary urban studies.It focuses on issues related to the power of architecture, architects and the estate residents themselves: the city's performative actions, problems related to the polycentric character of the city authorities, the opportunities of building urban institutions, and social identities and urban common goods. Inspired by the history of the Warsaw Housing Cooperative, the book investigates how the estate residents, assisted by social reformers (today called urban activists), organised the urban space of performative democracy, and how they developed anti-capitalist, urban-survival strategies and created new lifestyles. It also analyses how passive tenants turned into active citizens claiming their right to the city.The inspiring book is intended for researchers in the field of performative studies, urban sociologists, critical urban studies researchers, animators of social life and urban activists.
Warum Achtsamkeit?: Coachingimpulse zur (Selbst-)Führung
by Nikola PlohrDas Buch folgt dem Anliegen, einen Dialog zu eröffnen und zum Nachdenken und Reflektieren anzuregen. Der Prozess, durch den das Buch die Leser*Innen leitet ist für alle geeignet, die sich mehr mit sich selbst und ihren inneren Mustern beschäftigen möchten und auch offen sind für neue Anregungen im Umgang mit anderen. Der Text führt von innen nach außen, aus der Theorie in die Praxis und aus der Reflexion ins Tun. Der erste Teil, Inner Leadership, widmet sich den vielschichtigen Möglichkeiten zur Selbstreflexion, die für das zeitgenössische Verständnis von Führung unabdinglich ist. Achtsamkeit hält als Praxis und Begriff den Raum für die Hinwendung zum Innenleben, den inneren Geschichtenerzähler*Innen, dem individuellen Umgang mit Kritik, Emotionen und dem allgegenwärtigen Streben nach Anerkennung. Im zweiten Teil wird die teambasierte Führungspraxis in den Fokus gerückt. Unter dem Schlagwort Mindful Leadership werden einige der vielen zwischenmenschlichen Ebenen und Verbindungen beleuchtet, die nicht nur das Arbeitsleben prägen. Darunter: Kommunikation, Inspiration, Mut, Entscheidungen, sowie Zugehörigkeit und Nachhaltigkeit. Jedes Kapitel endet mit Reflexionsfragen und Übungen, die aus der Theorie in die Praxis überleiten.
Warum der Spaß am Bösen ein Teil von uns ist
by Christoph KlotterIn der Auseinandersetzung mit de Sade und Freud erhält der Leser eine Anregung, die Geschichte des Bösen neu zu denken, das Böse als Teil des Menschen und seiner Kultur zu denken. Neben Errungenschaften wie Demokratie, Menschenrechten und persönlicher Freiheit wird nämlich zu oft vergessen, dass dieser Kultur auch Schattenseiten innewohnen. Dass der Mensch fragmentiert ist, widersprüchlich fühlt und handelt, wird negiert. Als Folge vertieft sich seine Zerrissenheit. Das Buch ist somit auch eine Anregung für die wachsende Anzahl derer, die sich derzeit darüber Gedanken machen, warum das Böse offenkundig erstarkt und sich ungehemmt zeigt.
Warum kaufen Kunden, was sie kaufen: So entsteht Shopper Motivation – Erkenntnisse der Neurowissenschaft für Marketing und Handel
by Enrique StrelowDieses Buch liefert eine Vielzahl von Anregungen, Ladengeschäfte und die Präsentation der Ware so zu gestalten, dass dem Kunden die Kaufentscheidung leichter fällt und die Kauffreude wächst. Der unterhaltsam geschriebene Text enthält viele Insights aus der Praxis. Enrique Strelow rückt die Marken- und Werbewirkung in eine neue Perspektive, weil er den Kaufakt aus der Sicht des Kaufenden betrachtet und mit den Erkenntnissen der Neuroscience analysiert. Das bereichert die Vorstellungswelt und Gestaltungsspielraum von Verkäufern, Händlern und Marketiers. Dies ist ein Buch für Praktiker. Es werden die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse der Shopper NeuroScience im Hinblick auf ihre praktische Relevanz „vor Ort“ verständlich dargestellt. Da es für alle Praktiker insbesondere um Umsatz geht, gibt es im Buch zahlreiche Anregungen, Beispiele und Bebilderungen. Ein wichtiges Buch für alle, die Umsätze generieren wollen oder müssen.Aus dem InhaltErkenntnisse der Hirnforschung und ihre Bedeutung für Marketing, Sales und HandelWarum zwei Drittel aller neu eingeführten Marken und Produkte floppen – und was man dagegen tun kannWarum der Preis eine wichtige Rolle spielt, aber beileibe nicht die einzige Möglichkeit ist, einen Shopper zu motivierenWie Licht und Beleuchtung die Shopper Motivation positiv beeinflussenLeserstimmenDieses Buch ist anders als andere Bücher. Es lockt nicht mit schnellen Patentlösungen, die oftmals zu folgenreichen und kostspieligen Entscheidungen führen, sondern bricht mit vertrauten Denk- und Handlungsmustern. Dabei zeigt es Optimierungspotenziale auf. Eine lohnenswerte Lektüre! Heinz Zurheide, Zurheide Feine Kost KG„Enrique Strelow begleitet uns schon seit vielen Jahren. Viele seiner innovativen und wirksamen Ideen haben die Umsätze unserer Märkte beflügelt.“ Karsten Nüsken, Edeka Nüsken, Soest„Seit einigen Jahren leistet Enrique Strelow wichtige Beiträge zur Inszenierung und Licht-Gestaltung unserer Neu-Eröffnungen und Markt-Modernisierungen. Die Umsatzentwicklung spricht eindeutig für die Qualität seiner Konzepte.“ Andreas Nolte, Edeka Nolte, Wiesbaden
Warum scheitern Manager?
by Uwe Peter KanningManagementfehler haben mitunter weitreichende Konsequenzen für viele Menschen, die davon unmittelbar oder indirekt betroffen sind. Fast jeder kennt Fälle in seinem Umfeld oder glaubt Betroffener von Managementfehlern zu sein. Wenn Sie wissen möchten, wie Managementfehler entstehen und wodurch sie sich ein Stück weit eindämmen lassen, ist dieses Buch genau richtig für Sie, denn hier werden beispielsweise die folgenden Fragen beantwortet: Wie wird man (Spitzen-)Manager*in?An welchen Eigenschaften scheitern Manager*innen? Warum treffen Manager*innen Fehlentscheidungen?Wie täuschen Manager*innen sich und andere?Warum werden sie nicht frühzeitig gestoppt? Anhand von interessanten Informationen und Stories erhalten Sie einen Einblick in konkrete und bekannte Fälle von Missmanagement. Aufgrund der augenöffnenden Analyse, die auf psychologischen Erkenntnissen basiert, können Sie wertvolle Schlussfolgerungen ziehen. Zielgruppen: Berufstätige und alle, die sich ein gutes Management wünschen, sowie diejenigen, die Führungskräfte, Manager und Managerinnen, einstellen, sie führen oder mit ihnen zusammenarbeiten. Zum Autor: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Uwe Peter Kanning ist Professor für Wirtschaftspsychologie an der Hochschule Osnabrück. Er ist Autor zahlreicher Bücher. Seine Arbeit wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. 2016 „Professor des Jahres“ (UnicumBeruf) oder 2019 Wahl unter die „40 führenden Köpfe des Personalwesens“ (Personalmagazin). Seit 1997 berät er Unternehmen und Behörden bei wirtschaftspsychologischen Fragestellungen.
Was bewirkt Psychologie in Arbeit und Gesellschaft? (Der Mensch im Unternehmen: Impulse für Fach- und Führungskräfte)
by Christoph Negri Maja GoedertierWas bewirkt Psychologie in Arbeit und Gesellschaft?Zum hundertjährigen Bestehen des IAP, dem Institut für Angewandte Psychologie in Zürich, bietet dieses IAP Jubiläumsbuch einen reflektierten Überblick sowie wertvolle Einblicke in die vielfältigen Tätigkeits- und Forschungsbereiche des IAP in der Angewandten Psychologie.Basierend auf dem Erkenntnisgewinn von einhundert Jahren zeigt es auf, wie die Angewandte Psychologie als zentrale Bereicherung für die Gesellschaft und die Arbeitswelt wirkt und wie sich die Angewandte Psychologie über diese Zeitspanne weiterentwickelt hat. Anschauliche Beispiele und fundierte Erkenntnisse von Psychologinnen und Psychologen zu folgenden Themengebieten machen diese Lektüre für jeden zu einer Bereicherung:Historie und Zukunft der psychologischen Tätigkeit am IAPPsychologische Diagnostik und BeratungFührungLehren und LernenCoachingLaufbahngestaltungOrganisationsberatung Jedes Kapitel enthält:Kurzreflexion mit Hinweisen, woher das Wissen am IAP stammtInsights in die aktuellen Tätigkeitsfelder und was das IAP bieten kannAusblick und zukunftsgerichtete TrendsZusätzlich ist das Buch mit digitalen Beiträgen, d.h. Videoclips, angereichert. Zu den HerausgebendenProf. Dr. Christoph Negri ist Leiter des IAP Institut für Angewandte Psychologie an der ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. Seit 2015 führt er am IAP verstärkt neue Entwicklungen im Bereich Lernen und Lehren ein und treibt den digitalen Wandel im Institut und in der Weiterbildung und Dienstleistung voran.Maja Goedertier ist Beraterin am IAP Institut für Angewandte Psychologie an der ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. Ihr psychologisches Wissen und Können, verbindet sie mit langjähriger Erfahrung als psychologische Beraterin.
Was bleibt - die DDR aus der Perspektive von Kindern: Eine qualitative Studie zum historisch-politischen Lernen im Sachunterricht (Sachlernen & kindliche Bildung – Bedingungen, Strukturen, Kontexte)
by Julia PeukeDer Zeitgeschichte wird aufgrund ihrer Nähe zur Gegenwart und der Zugänglichkeit zu Quellen besonderes Potenzial für das historisch-politische Lernen im Sachunterricht zugeschrieben. Ausgehend von diesem Grundgedanken befasst sich das vorliegende Buch mit der Frage, welche Theorien Kinder zur DDR und damit auch zur deutschen Teilungsgeschichte haben und wie sich diese in den Diskurs zum zeithistorischen Lernen in der Grundschule einordnen lassen. Dabei wird zudem das Machtkonzept der Kinder vertieft in den Blick genommen. Anhand der Befunde der qualitativen Studie wird die Verschränkung von Zeitgeschichte mit politischen Konzepten und somit auch dem historischen und politischen Lernen deutlich.
Was ist ein Migrationsregime? What Is a Migration Regime? (Migrationsgesellschaften Ser.)
by Andreas Pott Christoph Rass Frank WolffDer Begriff des Migrationsregimes erfreut sich großer Beliebtheit. Er verspricht einen analytischen Zugriff auf die Komplexität der Beziehung von Migration und Regulation. Dabei wird er jedoch sehr unterschiedlich genutzt und gedeutet. Die Herausgeber des Sammelbandes verstehen diese Vielstimmigkeit als einen Aufruf zur Debatte. Aufbauend auf einem längeren Austauschprozess auf Tagungen und Workshops haben sie Forscher*innen, die zentrale Fachrichtungen einer interdisziplinären Migrationsforschung und deren unterschiedliche Perspektiven vertreten, eingeladen, die Grundannahmen, Potentiale und Herausforderungen des Ansatzes zu diskutieren. Die so versammelten kritischen Einsichten in ein Schlüsselkonzept der modernen Migrationswissenschaft leuchten Wege aus, wie Fragen von Machtverteilung, Agency und Aushandlung systematischer in die Migrationsforschung einbezogen werden können.
Wash, Wear, and Care: Clothing and Laundry in Long-Term Residential Care
by Pat Armstrong Suzanne DayClothing and appearance are steeped in social and personal significance, conveying individuals’ gender, class, culture, and occupation. In the communal setting of long-term residential care, where residents’ autonomy and mobility are often limited but their dignity and identity are paramount, clothes have become crucial issues and the source of tension for residents, their families, and staff. Assessing the neglected but important labour involved in ensuring that clothes promote respect for both the washers and the wearers, Wash, Wear, and Care analyzes the roles that laundry and clothing play in nursing homes, and raises questions about the wider social, political, economic, and historical contexts of these facilities. Drawing on interviews and observations from twenty-seven long-term residential care homes across Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Pat Armstrong and Suzanne Day provide an extensive and vital base of information on the daily organization, tasks, meanings, and concerns associated with clothing, laundry, dressing, and appearance in care facilities. An original study of an overlooked subject, Wash, Wear, and Care illuminates the shifting political and economic dynamics at work in long-term residential care homes and the health care system, raising larger theoretical and policy questions in the process.