How should we decide whether to experience something that is unlike anything we have ever encountered? Philosophers have recently argued that we are in situations of this kind for more of our decisions than we usually recognize. This volume brings together philosophers and psych…
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"In this book, Rick Iedema shows with profound analytical precision the existential strength of 'being moved' and being affected. Departing from a life being shattered, the books exposes with the help of Spinoza, Sloterdijk, and others, the many dimensions of 'becoming'. Written…
In this book, Rick Iedema shows with profound analytical precision the existential strength of being moved and being affected. Departing from a life being shattered, the books exposes with the help of Spinoza, Sloterdijk, and others, the many dimensions of becoming. Written duri…
This book shows how the Appreciative Inquiry process helps organizational development and human resource professionals tap into inspiring “high point” accounts of personal or collective capacity. This new edition puts the focus on how AI really works and adds guidelines on how t…
Experts examine ways in which the use of increasingly powerful and versatile digital information and communication technologies are transforming research activities across all disciplines.
"In The Ingenuity Gap, Thomas Homer-Dixon asks: Is our world becoming too complex and fast-paced to manage? The challenges facing human societies - from international financial crises and global climate change to pandemics of tuberculosis and AIDS - converge, intertwine, and oft…
The recent economic crisis was not just caused by a failure of regulation or economic policy; it was a story of the failure of management in a fundamental sense—a deeply flawed approach to management that encouraged bankers to pursue opportunities without regard for their long-t…
An einem regnerischen Tag im Winter 2009 treffen 60 Experten aus Militär und Finanzwelt an einem geheimen Ort zusammen, um ein gewagtes Experiment durchzuführen: die Simulation einen Krieges! Mit einer Besonderheit: ohne Truppen, ohne Kriegsschiffe und ohne Armeen oder Kampfjets…
All over the world, efforts are being made to preserve landscapes facing fundamental change as a consequence of widespread agricultural intensification, land abandonment and urbanisation. The 'cultural landscape' and 'resilience' approaches have, until now, largely been viewed …
How may we understand new experiences of such things as space and time, or reality and spectacle? This collection aims to bring together cultural theorists from different disciplines who offer radical reformulations of cultural theory in response to political, economic and techn…
The idea that innovation and technological change is important for economic growth and human development has long been recognized. This book explores this idea, providing an overview of current research on determinants of innovation of firms from the perspective of economics and…
The rapidly changing nature of animal production systems, especially increasing intensification and globalization, is playing out in complex ways around the world. Over the last century, livestock keeping evolved from a means of harnessing marginal resources to produce items fo…
