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Will Schooling Ever Change?: School Culture, Distance Learning and the COVID-19 Pandemic (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
by Piotr Mikiewicz Marta Jurczak-MorrisThis book is an insightful meta-narrative about schooling which explores the global natural experiment of the COVID-19 pandemic and its potential impact on school culture. The proposed book discusses how the abrupt and somewhat forced digital transformation of schooling on a global scale (caused by the COVID-19 pandemic) did not change the educational status quo. It states that online teaching and learning failed to transform the role of the key school actors, students and teachers as well as the relationship between them, despite megatrends such as digitalisation, automation and the development of artificial intelligence. This focus text discusses why the global experience of distance education did not translate into a significant qualitative change and provides a theoretical framework which enables the reader to interpret and explain the processes that occurred during distance education, as well as understand why extraordinarily little (if nothing) has changed in school culture. It will appeal to scholars and students from the sociology of education and from education studies, particularly those interested in school culture, innovation in education, online teaching and learning, curriculum studies and education policy.
Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants
by Chen Guidi Wu ChuntaoA prize-winning investigative expos(r) of the poverty and injustice experienced by China's 900 million peasants, told through a series of dramatic personal narratives.
Willful: How We Choose What We Do
by Richard RobbA revelatory alternative to the standard economic models of human behavior that proposes an exciting new way to understand decision‑making Why do we do the things we do? The classical view of economics is that we are rational individuals, making decisions with the intention of maximizing our preferences. Behaviorists, on the other hand, see us as relying on mental shortcuts and conforming to preexisting biases. Richard Robb argues that neither explanation accounts for those things that we do for their own sake, and without understanding these sorts of actions, our picture of decision‑making is at best incomplete. Robb explains how these choices made seemingly without reason belong to a realm of behavior he identifies as &“for‑itself.&” A provocative combination of philosophy and economics that offers a key to many of our quixotic choices, this groundbreaking volume provides a new way to understand everything from investing to how hard we work to how we manage daily interactions.
William Dilthey (International Library of Sociology #Vol. 22)
by M. A. HodgesFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The William O. Douglas Inquiry Into The State Of Individual Freedom
by Harry S AshmoreThis volume, an inventory of aspects of individual freedom in a rapidly changing society bound by the Bills of Rights, is the result of a project of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions to monitor concerns of individual freedom that marked the career of Justice William O. Douglas.
William Robertson Smith (Anthropology's Ancestors #2)
by Aleksandar BoškovićWilliam Robertson Smith’s influence on anthropology ranged from his relationship with John Ferguson McLennan, to advising James George Frazer to write about “Totem” and “Taboo” for the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he edited. This biography places a special emphasis on the notes and observations from his travels to Arabia, as well as on his influence on the representatives of the “Myth and Ritual School.” With his discussion of myth and ritual, Smith influenced generations of scholars, and his insistence on the connection between the people, their God, and the land they inhabited inspired many of the concepts later developed by Émile Durkheim.
William Tinsley (1831-1902) (1831-1902) (1831-1902) (1831-1902): Speculative Publisher: Speculative Publisher
by Peter NewboltThis title was first published in 2001. An account of the activities of 19th-century publisher William Tinsley, particularly in relation to his authors and his chosen way of making a living. In considering the library-publishing system that dominated all aspects of fiction in the latter part of the 19th century, when down-payments rather than loyalties were the rewards of novelists, it may be surprising to find how wide were the variations in prices that publishers paid for such work. Differences appeared when individual publishers developed soft spots for particular authors, and in consequence they sometimes made fools of themselves. William Tinsley certainly did so, on several occasions, but was blessed, at least in later life, with the grace of never seriously regretting any of his mistakes. Examples of the nature of this good-hearted man are found in these pages. This account relies to an extent on Tinsley's two volumes of memoirs.
Willkommen am Wendepunkt!: Reiseführer in Ihre Zukunft – Mit Selbstcoaching auf neuen Wegen
by Melanie CordiniDieses Buch ist ein Reiseführer in Ihre Zukunft und zu Ihnen selbst!Wir alle erleben Wendepunkte. Sie sind zeitlos, weil sie zum Leben gehören. Sie sind Weichen, die über unsere Zukunft entscheiden, beruflich und privat. Welche Rolle spielt unser Innenleben am Wendepunkt? Woher kommen Schuld- und Angstgefühle? Welche Rolle spielen soziale Normen, Bauchgefühl, inneres Team und Glaubenssätze?Was lernen wir aus typischen Wendepunkten wie Familiengründung, Ruhestand, Schulabschluss oder privater Trennung? Wie helfen uns Krankheitssymptome glücklicher zu werden? Wie gewinnen wir eine positive Lebenseinstellung?Treffen Sie Ihre Wahl sowohl mit sachlichem Abstand als auch mit emotionaler Tiefe. Befreien Sie sich von unnötigem Ballast auf Ihrem Weg! Hinterfragen Sie Beweggründe und Ziele und finden Sie Ihr individuelles Lösungsmuster. Sie können mehr beeinflussen als Sie glauben!Dieser Ratgeber liefert alle erforderlichen Informationen für Ihre Wendepunkte, sortiert Ihr emotionales Gepäck und gibt unterhaltsam Empfehlungen für die optimale Reiseroute. In vielen Stories und humorvollen Beispielen aus dem Leben der Autorin und ihrer Coaching-Praxis werden Sie sich wiederfinden. Als Proviant für den Weg erhalten Sie zusätzlich den passenden Reise-Soundtrack, Ihr Trainings-Camp mit Praxisübungen sowie den Schnelldurchlauf aller Kapitel in handlichen Reisenotizen.
Willkommen am Wendepunkt!: Reiseführer in Ihre Zukunft – Mit Selbstcoaching auf neuen Wegen
by Melanie CordiniDieses Buch ist ein Reiseführer in Ihre Zukunft und zu Ihnen selbst!Wir alle erleben Wendepunkte. Sie sind zeitlos, weil sie zum Leben gehören. Sie sind Weichen, die über unsere Zukunft entscheiden, beruflich und privat. Welche Rolle spielt unser Innenleben am Wendepunkt? Woher kommen Schuld- und Angstgefühle? Welche Rolle spielen soziale Normen, Bauchgefühl, inneres Team und Glaubenssätze?Was lernen wir aus typischen Wendepunkten wie Familiengründung, Ruhestand, Schulabschluss oder privater Trennung? Wie helfen uns Krankheitssymptome glücklicher zu werden? Wie gewinnen wir eine positive Lebenseinstellung?Treffen Sie Ihre Wahl sowohl mit sachlichem Abstand als auch mit emotionaler Tiefe. Befreien Sie sich von unnötigem Ballast auf Ihrem Weg! Hinterfragen Sie Beweggründe und Ziele und finden Sie Ihr individuelles Lösungsmuster. Sie können mehr beeinflussen als Sie glauben!Dieser Ratgeber liefert alle erforderlichen Informationen für Ihre Wendepunkte, sortiert Ihr emotionales Gepäck und gibt unterhaltsam Empfehlungen für die optimale Reiseroute. In vielen Stories und humorvollen Beispielen aus dem Leben der Autorin und ihrer Coaching-Praxis werden Sie sich wiederfinden. Als Proviant für den Weg erhalten Sie Ihr Trainings-Camp mit Praxisübungen sowie den Schnelldurchlauf aller Kapitel in handlichen Reisenotizen.
The Willowbrook Wars: Bringing the Mentally Disabled into the Community
by David J. RothmanThe Willowbrook Wars is a dramatic and illuminating account of the effort to close down a scandal-ridden institution and return its 5,400 handicapped residents to communities in New York. The wars began in 1972 with Geraldo Rivera's televised raid on the Willowbrook State School. They continued for three years in a federal courtroom, with civil libertarian lawyers persuading a conservative and conscience-stricken judge to expand the rights of the disabled, and they culminated in a 1975 consent decree, with the state of New York pledging to accomplish the unprecedented assignment in six years.From 1975 to 1982, David and Sheila Rothman observed this remarkable chapter in American reform of mental disabilities care. Would the state live up to its agreement without "dumping" residents into other nightmarish institutions? Would the lawyers prove as interested in meeting client needs as in securing client rights? Could a tradition-bound bureaucracy create a new network of community services? And finally, would a governor and a legislature tolerate such outside intervention, and if so, for how long? In answering these questions,The Willowbrook Wars takes us behind the scenes to clarify the role of the judiciary, the fate of the underprivileged, and the potential for social justice. In their new afterword, the authors bring the story up to date, describing the results of the closing of the institution in 1987 from the experiences of integrating the former residents into communities to the legal battles between the state of New York and advocates for the mentally handicapped.
Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
by Scott Adams"If you watched the entire election cycle and concluded that Trump was nothing but a lucky clown, you missed one of the most important perceptual shifts in the history of humankind. I'll fix that for you in this book." Adams was one of the earliest public figures to predict Trump’s win, doing so a week after Nate Silver put Trump’s odds at 2 percent in his FiveThirtyEight.com blog. The mainstream media regarded Trump as a novelty and a sideshow. But Adams recognized in Trump a level of persuasion you only see once in a generation. Trump triggered massive cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias on both the left and the right. We’re hardwired to respond to emotion, not reason. We might listen to 10 percent of a speech—a hand gesture here, a phrase there—and if the right buttons are pushed, we decide we agree with the speaker and invent reasons to justify that decision after the fact. The point isn’t whether Trump was right or wrong, good or bad. Win Bigly goes beyond politics to look at persuasion tools that can work in any setting—the same ones Adams saw in Steve Jobs when he invested in Apple decades ago. For instance: · If you need to convince people that something is important, make a claim that’s directionally accurate but has a big exaggeration in it. Everyone will spend endless hours talking about how wrong it is and will remember the issue as high priority. · Stop wasting time on elaborate presentation preparations. Inside, you’ll learn which components of your messaging matter, and where you can wing it. · Planting simple, sticky ideas (such as “Crooked Hillary”) is more powerful than stating facts. Just find a phrase without previous baggage that grabs your audience at an emotional level. Adams offers nothing less than “access to the admin passwords to human beings.” This is a must read if you care about persuading others in any field—or if you just want to resist the tactics of emotional persuasion when they’re used on you.
Win from Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage
by James HeskettThere is significant evidence that an effective organizational culture provides a major competitive edge—higher levels of employee and customer engagement and loyalty translate into higher growth and profits. Many business leaders know this, yet few are doing much to improve their organizations’ cultures. They are discouraged by misguided beliefs that an executive’s tenure and an organization’s attention span are too short for meaningful transformation.James Heskett provides a roadmap for achievable and fast-paced culture change. He demonstrates that an effective culture supplies the trust that makes managing change of all kinds easier. It provides a foundation on which changes in strategy can be based, and it’s a competitive edge that can’t easily be hacked or copied. Examining leading companies around the world, Heskett details how organizational culture makes employees more loyal, more productive, and more creative. He discusses how to quantify its effects in order to sell the notion of culture change to the organization and considers how to preserve an organization’s culture in the face of the trend toward remote work hastened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Showing how leadership can bring about significant changes in a surprisingly short time span, Win from Within offers a playbook for developing and deploying culture that enables outsized results. It is a groundbreaking demonstration of organizational culture’s role as a foundation for strategic success—and its measurable impact on the bottom line.
Win the Crowd: Unlock the Secrets of Influence, Charisma, and Showmanship
by Steve CohenWould You Like to Become More Commanding, Convincing, And Charismatic?In this book, Steve Cohen, master magician and star of the long-running Chamber Magic show in New York City, will reveal the secrets of all great showmen and magicians—how to persuade, influence, and charm, and ultimately accomplish the things you've always wanted to do. As Cohen writes, "You'll discover how to take over a room, read people, and build anticipation to a feverish pitch so people are burning to hear what you have to say."Win the Crowd will teach you Steve Cohen's Maxims of Magic, simple rules you can use to take charge of practically any situation, from on-the-job disagreements to dating to important cocktail parties. The Maxims of Magic will wash away insecurities and hesitations, and replace them with confidence, poise, and leadership. What's more, Steve Cohen will show you:How to Create a Magic Moment. Capturing people's imaginations and attention so they listen carefully to every word you say.How to Command a Room. Showing everyone in the room that you are speaking right to them, making them all feel unique—and completely focused on you. How to Read People. Learning to sense what people are feeling and thinking as you speak, what they want from you, and how to make them feel like they are getting it. Misdirection. The most important trick in all of magic—getting inside people's heads, and directing what they are thinking at every minute. When you strip away the sleight of hand tricks, magicians are essentially masters of attracting and holding attention and impressing audiences, exactly the psychological secrets you need to be successful in life and business.
Win the Heart: How to Create a Culture of Full Engagement (The\high Performance Ser. #4)
by Mark MillerEvery great company has an engaged workforce, and nurturing a culture of engagement is at the heart of great leadership—employees who really care about their work, their coworkers, and the organization can supercharge a company's success. But for many years, engagement has been suffering. Gallop reports that 70 percent of employees are not fully engaged on the job. Mark Miller draws on more than forty years of leadership experience to show leaders at all levels how to change the conversation and create real competitive advantage in the process.In the fourth book in Miller's High Performance Series, CEO Blake Brown sets out to discover how to create the kind of workplace where everyone feels excited to come to work, passionate about what he or she brings to the company, and energized at the end of the day. It's a journey that takes him literally all over the world—from Italy to Greece to Green Bay and more. What he discovers from the pages of history is as relevant as the evening news. Engagement unleashes untapped potential buried deep within the hearts of your people. An engaged workforce is more creative, more driven, and more enthusiastic about reaching company goals. If you put the lessons in this book to work, your people will never look at work, or their leaders, the same way again.
The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories from the U. S. -Mexico Borderlands
by Tyche HendricksTyche Hendricks has explored the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by car and by foot, on horseback, and in the back of a pickup truck. She has shared meals with border residents, listened to their stories, and visited their homes, churches, hospitals, farms, and jails.
Wind Power and Power Politics: International Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society)
by Strachan Peter Lal David David TokeThe aim of the book is to analyse the factors that have influenced wind power outcomes in a range of countries which have featured significant wind power deployment programmes. A central theme is the relationship between patterns of ownership and the outcomes. These flow from different social environments, but they are associated with different types of planning outcome and deployment rates. Grass roots ownership is more widespread than is commonly thought, although it is not a panacea for effective wind power programmes. Financial policies used to promote wind power also have important influences of the rates of deployment. However, what seems to be most important for wind power deployment is a double coincidence of widespread social support for wind power deployment and effective financial support systems for wind power.
Wind Power Policies and Diffusion in the Nordic Countries: Comparative Patterns
by Jon Birger Skjærseth Teis Hansen Jakob Donner-Amnell Jens Hanson Helle Ørsted Nielsen Birgitte Nygaard Markus Steen Tor Håkon InderbergThis book focuses specifically on policy mixes and wind power diffusion in four Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Although these Nordic welfare states have much in common, they have adopted different wind power policies and experienced dissimilar diffusion trajectories. Understanding these patterns across the Nordic countries is the central puzzle that this book investigates. Empirically, this book provides a first-of-its-kind comparative study of wind power policies in the Nordic countries. Analytically, the authors contribute to the transition policy mix literature, which remains largely insensitive to political feasibility. This book will be of interest to researchers and students as well as private and public decision makers looking for tools to enable the energy transition.
The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys
by Daniel BellThis collection brings together Daniel Bell's best work in essay form. It deals with a variety of topics: technology and culture, religion and personal identity, intellectuals and their societies, and the uses and abuses of doctrines of social class. The Winding Passage demonstrates the author's continuing concern with the salient issues of our times, while its inspiration draws upon an older, humanistic sociological tradition.
Winding Paths to Success: Chart a Career in Uncertain Times
by Nobuko KobayashiAn inspirational compilation of stories from successful Japanese professional women In Winding Paths to Success: Chart a Career in Uncertain Times, experienced management consultant Nobuko Kobayashi delivers an engaging and insightful discussion of the professional and personal successes of senior Japanese women executives, academics, and entrepreneurs who started their career in the late ‘80s to ‘90s, the dawn of gender equity at work in Japan. You’ll discover how these remarkable people carved out a long and rewarding career in a challenging environment. The author describes the substantial diversity of Japanese professional life, exploring the rich and varied histories of women who are often stereotyped and relegated to a one-size-fits-all story. Their creative navigation amid uncertainties inspires anyone who wishes to establish a career in the highly volatile world of today. You’ll also find: Personal and forthcoming stories from women executives Recommendations for public and private sector employers to further enhance diversity and inclusiveness in the workplace Individual strategies for crafting successful careers from a minority positionPerfect for those building a career, managers, executives, entrepreneurs, founders, and other business leaders, Winding Paths to Success is a must-have resource for aspiring and practicing business leaders in Japan and other countries.
Windows 8.1 Plain & Simple
by Joli Ballew Nancy MuirLearn the simplest ways to get things done with Windows 8.1 Get the full-color, visual guide that makes learning Windows 8.1 plain and simple! Follow the book's easy steps and screenshots and clear, concise language to learn the most expedient way to perform tasks and solve problems in Windows 8.1. Here's WHAT You'll Learn: Personalize your Start screen in cool new ways Use apps such as Mail, People, Calendar, Skype, and Paint Surf the web, and send and receive email and messages Explore redesigned apps for Music, Video, and Windows Store Search your files, media, and the web--all at once Access your files from the cloud with Microsoft SkyDrive Here's HOW You'll Learn It Jump in wherever you need answers Follow easy steps and screenshots to see exactly what to do Get handy tips for new techniques and shortcuts Use Try This! exercises to apply what you learn right away
Windows 8 for Tablets Plain & Simple
by Simon May<p>Your easy, colorful, SEE-HOW guide to Windows® 8 for tablets! You’ll learn the quickest ways to set up and use Windows 8 with easy-to-follow steps, screenshots, and concise, straightforward language that make learning plain and simple!</p>
Windows 8 Hacks: Tips & Tools for Unlocking the Power of Tablets and Desktops
by Preston GrallaWindows 8 is quite different than previous Microsoft operating systems, but it’s still eminently hackable. With this book, you’ll learn how to make a variety of modifications, from speeding up boot time and disabling the Lock screen to hacking native apps and running Windows 8 on a Mac. And that’s just the beginning. You’ll find more than 100 standalone hacks on performance, multimedia, networking, the cloud, security, email, hardware, and more. Not only will you learn how to use each hack, you’ll also discover why it works.Add folders and other objects to the Start screenRun other Windows versions inside Windows 8Juice up performance and track down bottlenecksUse the SkyDrive cloud service to sync your files everywhereSpeed up web browsing and use other PCs on your home networkSecure portable storage and set up a virtual private networkHack Windows 8 Mail and services such as OutlookCombine storage from different devices into one big virtual diskTake control of Window 8 setting with the Registry
Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency
by Jay David Bolter Diane GromalaThe relationship of digital art to innovation in the practice of design is the subject of Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency by Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala. Centered on a conception of art practice that emphasizes the function of experimental forms, Gromala and Bolter postulate that digital art can directly inform the trajectory of interaction design. By shaping a discourse around issues of artistic practice, Windows and Mirrors is an analysis of the material engagement and desire to define the computer as media.
Windows® Phone 7 Plain & Simple
by Michael StrohLearn the simplest ways to get things done with Windows® Phone 7 Get the guide that makes learning Windows Phone 7 plain and simple! This full-color, no-nonsense book shows you the quickest ways to set up and use your new phone -- with easy-to-follow steps, screenshots and concise, straightforward language. Here's WHAT you'll learn: Set up and use your new phone in a few easy steps Make calls, send e-mail, and browse the Web Play music, watch movies, and listen to FM radio Get cool apps and games, and sync them with your PC Edit Microsoft® Office documents and manage appointments Take and share pictures and videos Here's HOW you'll learn it: Jump in wherever you need answers Easy-to-follow STEPS and SCREENSHOTS show exactly what to do Handy TIPS teach new techniques and shortcuts Quick TRY THIS! exercises help apply what you learn right away
The Winds of Ixtepeji: World View and Society in a Zapotec Town
by Michael KearneyThis anthropological case study deals primarily with the world view & social organization in the Zapotec town of Ixtepiji in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.