The practical guide to transforming your company is a concise handbook for conducting business transformations--defining and implementing a redirection in the company's core business or in its strategic positioning. Starting where such programs as LEAN and Six Sigma leave off, t…
"The contributors to Transformations explore the interactions between people and their urban surroundings through site-specific art and creative practices, tracing the ways in which people inhabit, imagine, and shape their cities. Drawing on the work of global artists, from Camb…
Looks at the nature of human rights challenges in two enduring liberal democracies - Germany and the United Kingdom. employing an ambitious data set that covers the compliance status of all European court of Human Rights judgments rendered until 2015, the author presents a cross…
"The collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study argues that Communist states had in fact long been shapers of an interconnecting world, with '1989' instead marking a choice by local elites …
Aimed at students and instructors, alongside practitioners and researchers, in landscape architecture and its allied disciplinary fields, this book provides the reader with a clear framework of theoretical and practical considerations for interpreting and designing post-industri…
This thesis explores architecture as an assemblage of realities. The rise in virtual and cybernetic technologies rapidly increases the convergence of multiple realities, revealing different ways of perceiving the environment. This shift in spatial perception presents the opportu…
The classical grounded theory method was used to examine the patterns of behavior demonstrated by current and former members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Nation of Islam. The data collection procedures included observations, interviews, and field notes. A …
The purpose of this exploratory inquiry is to begin to articulate traces of Sophia wisdom, a whole-making presence, as it appears throughout the development of Western mind. This inquiry explores specifically that aspect of the divine wisdom of Sophia that unites spiritual consc…
Events that could, and often do, crush us psychologically (and/or physically) can also be used for personal transformation and change. There are some individuals who find hope and opportunity in the midst of adversity and use their experience as a catalyst for positive social ch…
The 1995 Million Man March catered to a heterogeneous group of persons separated along demographic and psychographic lines. A reformation/protest-type March, such differences were problematic for the receipt of the main message delivered by Nation of Islam leader, Minister Louis…