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Author: Allen Fisher
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2016-11-15
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0817358722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImperfect Fit is a dynamic study of the relationships between modern art and avant-garde poetry from the 1950s to the present that provides fascinating glimpses into both Allen Fisher's remarkable work as a poet, painter, and critic, as well as the state of avant-garde aesthetics as a whole.
Author: Martha King
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoetry. History as content has a sharper feel to more Americans post 9/11. Martha King's work shivers with awareness of mortality and the echoes of history's violence. Wars-even those removed in time by generations-dislocate the present in many of these poems. In others, war is the long loving/hating war of parents and children, or the imperfect fit between human activity and what is called the natural world. These poems, written over the past 20 years, celebrate the ability of humor to squelch sentimental responses and the requirement of wit for free-range chickens. As the late Paul Metcalf commented, `Martha sure can be funny about death."
Author: Michael J. Worth
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 808
ISBN-13: 1483376001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichael J. Worth’s student-friendly best-seller, Nonprofit Management: Principles and Practice, provides a broad, insightful overview of key topics affecting governance and management of nonprofit organizations. Worth covers the scope and structure of the nonprofit sector, leadership of nonprofits, managing the nonprofit organization, fundraising, earned income strategies, financial management, nonprofit lobbying and advocacy, managing international and global organizations, social entrepreneurship, and social innovation. Written specifically for students, this applied text balances research, theory, and practitioner literature, and is packed with current cases, timely examples, and updated data.
Author: Filippo Castiglione
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2015-04-07
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1466597496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book describes a computational model of the immune system reaction, C-ImmSim, built along the lines of the computer model known as the Celada-Seiden model (CS-model). The computational counterpart of the CS-model is called IMMSIM which stands for IMMune system SIMulator. IMMSIM was written in 1992 by the physicist Phil E. Seiden and the immunol
Author: John Kekes
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-08-14
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0191563129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book John Kekes examines the indispensable role enjoyment plays in a good life. The key to it is the development of a style of life that combines an attitude and a manner of living and acting that jointly express one's deepest concerns. Since such styles vary with characters and circumstances, a reasonable understanding of them requires attending to the particular and concrete details of individual lives. Reflection on works of literature is a better guide to this kind of understanding than the futile search for general theories and principles that preoccupies much of contemporary moral thought. Enjoyment proceeds by the detailed examination of particular cases, shows how this kind of reflection can be reasonably conducted, and how the quest for universality and impartiality is misguided in this context. Central to the argument is a practical, particular, pluralistic, and yet objective conception of reason that rejects the pervasive contemporary tendency to regard reasons as good only if they are binding on all who aspire to live reasonably and morally. Reason in morality is neither theoretical nor general. Reasons for living and acting in particular ways are individually variable and none the worse for that. Kekes aims to reorient moral thought from deontological, contractarian, and consequentialist preoccupations toward a reasonable but pluralistic reflection on what individuals can do to make their lives better.
Author: Edward Hadas
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2020-10-23
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 0813233313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than a century, the teaching authority of the Catholic Church has attempted to walk along with the modern world, criticizing what is bad and praising what is good. Counsels of Imperfection described the current state of that fairly bumpy journey. The book is divided into 11 chapters. First comes an introduction to ever-changing modernity and the unchanging Christian understanding of human nature and society. Then come two chapters on economics, including a careful delineation of the Catholic response, past and present, to socialism and capitalism. The next topic is government, with one chapter on Church and State, another on War, and a third that runs quickly through democracy, human rights, the welfare state, crimes and punishments (including the death penalty), anti-Semitism, and migration. Counsels of Imperfection then dedicates two chapters on ecology, including an enthusiastic analysis of Francis’s “technocratic paradigm”. The last topic is the family teaching, which presents the social aspects of the Church’s sexual teaching. A brief concluding chapter looks at the teaching’s changing response to the modern world, and at the ambiguous Catholic appreciation of the modern idea of progress. For each topic, Counsels of Imperfection provides biblical, historical and a broad philosophical background. Thomas Aquinas appears often, but so does G. W. F Hegel. The goal is not only to explain what the Church really says, but also how it got to its current position and who it is arguing with. In the spirit of a doctrine that is always in development, Counsels of Imperfection points out both strong-points and imperfections in the teaching. The book should be of interest to specialists in Catholic Social Teaching, but its main audience is curious newcomers, especially people who do not want to be told that there are simple Catholic answers to the complicated problems of the modern world.
Author: John M. Burkey
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781581128239
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Author: Adamantios Diamantopoulos
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1446276252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroducing Lisrel provides a comprehensive introduction to Lisrel for structural equation modeling using a non-technical, user-friendly approach. It shows the major steps associated with the formulation and testing of a model.
Author: Barry Dym
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2005-01-04
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1452212589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeadership in Nonprofit Organizations is about exemplary leadership as found in both corporate and nonprofit organizations. Taking a fresh approach to the study of leadership, the authors perform research in nonprofits both to understand and appreciate their complexities and to reach conclusions about the nature of leadership in any context, including for-profit and governmental entities. Features and Benefits: Case studies of nonprofit leadership that affirm public-minded, mission-driven leaders and acknowledge their contributions Critical review of literature on leadership that encourages diversity in leadership models and approaches Chapters on leadership constructs such as fit, dynamics, readiness and flow that provide useful insights and methods to enable success Overarching concept of alignment that reframes leadership as an active process where the awareness of and response to the interplay of multiple, relevant factors matters more than charisma, pedigree or power Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations is an ideal core text for graduate courses in nonprofit leadership. It could be used as a supplementary text in graduate courses in organization development and leadership, as well as courses in community development, human ecology, and human services. In addtion, practitioners, managers, and nonprofit organizational stakeholders will find it of great interest.
Author: Odontological Society of Pennsylvania
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 608
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