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Kia Persia Literary Agency
KIA Literary Agency was founded in 2002 in Tehran with the aim of promoting and supporting fine literary works in all forms throughout the world. It brings about opportunities for authors, illustrators, publishers, translators, and those involved in this field to meet their counterparts. And at the same time, it introduces them to the world and will inform them of all the related events which take place in the world of art and literature.
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July 2021Patchwork Power!
So wird die Sache mit der Bonusfamilie zum echten Bonus
by Marita Strubelt
"Patchwork Power!" von Marita Strubelt ist ein wegweisender Ratgeber für Eltern in Patchworkfamilien, der praktische Lösungen und Strategien für den Umgang mit den Herausforderungen des Patchwork-Lebens bietet. Strubelt, selbst eine erfahrene Patchwork-Familien-Expertin, teilt ihr umfassendes Wissen und persönliche Erfahrungen, um Leserinnen und Lesern zu helfen, die Dynamiken ihrer eigenen Patchworkfamilien besser zu verstehen und positiv zu gestalten. Das Buch legt einen starken Fokus auf die Selbstfürsorge, den Perspektivwechsel und die Wertschätzung aller Familienmitglieder. Es leitet dazu an, aus Problemen Kraft zu schöpfen und die einzigartige Struktur einer Patchworkfamilie als echten Bonus zu begreifen. Durch seine enge Anbindung an das Magazin "Leben & erziehen" und eine aktive Facebook-Gruppe bietet es eine kontinuierliche Unterstützung und Gemeinschaft für Leserinnen und Leser. "Patchwork Power!" richtet sich an Patchwork-Eltern, die nach einem modernen, empathischen und praxisnahen Ansatz suchen, um ihr Familienleben zu bereichern und zu harmonisieren. Modern und praxisnah: Bietet einen zeitgemäßen Ratgeber, der auf den neuesten Erkenntnissen und realen Erfahrungen basiert. Lösungsorientierte Ansätze: Stellt konkrete, umsetzbare Strategien zur Verfügung, die aus dem Alltag einer Patchwork-Coachin stammen. Fokus auf Selbstfürsorge und Empathie: Betont die Bedeutung von Selbstfürsorge und einem empathischen Umgang innerhalb der Familie. Unterstützung durch eine aktive Community: Zugang zu einer hilfreichen Facebook-Gruppe und der Expertise einer Patchwork-Familien-Expertin. Vielseitig einsetzbar: Bietet wertvolle Einsichten und Tipps, die über die Patchwork-Thematik hinaus in vielen Lebensbereichen anwendbar sind. Empathische und wertschätzende Sprache: Spricht Leserinnen und Leser auf eine persönliche und respektvolle Weise an. Bewältigung spezifischer Herausforderungen: Geht gezielt auf typische Fallstricke und Lösungswege in Patchworkfamilien ein. Für verschiedene Familienmodelle geeignet: Das Buch bietet einen soliden Grundstock an Rat und Unterstützung für viele Konstellationen innerhalb der Patchwork-Dynamik.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Unfit for heroes
Reconstruction and soldier settlement in the empire between the wars
by Kent Fedorowich
Research on soldier settlement has to be set within the wider history of emigration and immigration. This book examines two parallel but complementary themes: the settlement of British soldiers in the overseas or 'white' dominions, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, between 1915 and 1930. One must place soldier settlement within the larger context of imperial migration prior to 1914 in order to elicit the changes in attitude and policy which occurred after the armistice. The book discusses the changes to Anglo-dominion relations that were consequent upon the incorporation of British ex-service personnel into several overseas soldier settlement programmes, and unravels the responses of the dominion governments to such programmes. For instance, Canadians and Australians complained about the number of ex-imperials who arrived physically unfit and unable to undertake employment of any kind. The First World War made the British government to commit itself to a free passage scheme for its ex-service personnel between 1914 and 1922. The efforts of men such as L. S. Amery who attempted to establish a landed imperial yeomanry overseas is described. Anglicisation was revived in South Africa after the second Anglo-Boer War, and politicisation of the country's soldier settlement was an integral part of the larger debate on British immigration to South Africa. The Australian experience of resettling ex-servicemen on the land after World War I came at a great social and financial cost, and New Zealand's disappointing results demonstrated the nation's vulnerability to outside economic factors.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025The four dimensions of power
Understanding domination, empowerment and democracy
by Mark Haugaard
In this accessible and sophisticated exploration of the nature and workings of social and political power, Haugaard examines the interrelation between domination and empowerment. Building upon the perspectives of Steven Lukes, Michel Foucault, Amy Allen, Hannah Arendt, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu and others, he offers a clear theoretical framework, delineating power in four interrelated dimensions. The first and second dimensions of power entail two different types of social conflict. The third dimension concerns tacit knowledge, uses of truth and reification. Drawing upon genealogical theory and accounts of slavery as social death, the fourth dimension of power concerns the power to create social subjects. The book concludes with an original normative pragmatist power-based account of democracy. Offering lucid and entertaining illustrations of complex theoretical perspectives, this book is essential reading for scholars and activists.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2022The power of citizens and professionals in welfare encounters
The influence of bureaucracy, market and psychology
by Nanna Mik-Meyer
This book is about power in welfare encounters. Present-day citizens are no longer the passive clients of the bureaucracy and welfare workers are no longer automatically the powerful party of the encounter. Instead, citizens are expected to engage in active, responsible and coproducing relationships with welfare workers. However, other factors impact these interactions; factors which often pull in different directions. Welfare encounters are thus influenced by bureaucratic principles and market values as well. Consequently, this book engages with both Weberian (bureaucracy) and Foucauldian (market values/NPM) studies when investigating the powerful welfare encounter. The book is targeted Academics, post-graduates, and undergraduates within sociology, anthropology and political science.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2020The Dark Triad of Personality in Personnel Selection
by Schwarzinger, Dominik
How to use the dark triad in personnel selection • Presents the latest research and theories • Highlights the gains and risks of these traits• Concrete recommendations for use in selection process• Summarizes legal and professional guidelines Learn how people high in narcissism, Machiavellianism, and subclinical psychopathy can experience individual career success and show adaptive performance as well as present severe risks to others in the workplace with abusive and destructive leadership and counterproductive behavior. This practical book also summarizes the legal and professional guidelines when assessing the dark personality characteristics of job applicants, examines the acceptance and social validity of such assessments, evaluates the available instruments, and makes recommendations for practical applications and further research. For:• psychotherapists• clinical psychologists• counselors• work, organizational, and business psychologists
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025Arctic state identity
Geography, history, and geopolitical relations
by Ingrid A. Medby
This book sets out to answer what it means to hold a formal title as one of the eight 'Arctic states'; is there such a thing as an Arctic state identity, and if so, what does this mean for state personnel? It charts the thoughtful reflections and stories of state personnel from three Arctic states: Norway, Iceland, and Canada, alongside analysis of documents and discourses. This book shows how state identities are narrated as both geographical and temporal - understood through environments, territories, pasts and futures - and that any identity is always relational and contextual. As such, demonstrating that to understand Arctic geopolitics we need to pay attention to the people whose job it is to represent the state on a daily basis. And more broadly, it offers a 'peopled' view of geopolitics, introducing the concept and framework of 'state identity'.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020Defense of the West
by Stanley R. Sloan, Lawrence Freedman
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceMay 2025US diplomacy and the Good Friday Agreement in post-conflict Northern Ireland
by Richard Hargy
Richard Haass and Mitchell Reiss, as autonomous diplomats in the George W. Bush State Department, were able to alter US intervention in Northern Ireland and play critical roles in the post-1998 peace process. Their contributions have not been fully appreciated or understood. The restoration of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government in 2007 was made possible by State Department-led intervention in the peace process. There are few references to Northern Ireland in work examining the foreign policy legacy of the George W. Bush presidency. Moreover, the ability to control US foreign policy towards the region brought one of George W. Bush's Northern Ireland special envoys into direct diplomatic conflict with the most senior actors inside the British government. This book will uncover the extent of this fall-out and provide original accounts on how diplomatic relations between these old allies became so fraught.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2020Defense policies of East-Central European countries after 1989
by James W. Peterson, Jacek Lubecki
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September 2014Dein Crack ist in der Post
Wie das Internet die Welt der Drogen revolutioniert
by Power, Mike
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2022The anthropology of power, agency and morality
by Victor de Munck, Elisa J. Sobo
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2023Soft power and the future of US foreign policy
by Hendrik W. Ohnesorge
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2020Toleration, power and the right to justification
by Rainer Forst, Bert van den Brink, Anthony Laden, Peter Niesen, David Owen
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022Russian grand strategy in the era of global power competition
by Andrew Monaghan, Richard Connolly
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2021Higher education in a globalising world
Community engagement and lifelong learning
by Peter Mayo
This book focuses on current policy discourse in Higher Education, with special reference to Europe. It discusses globalisation, Lifelong Learning, the EU's Higher Education discourse, this discourse's regional ramifications and alternative practices in Higher Education from both the minority and majority worlds with their different learning traditions and epistemologies. It argues that these alternative practices could well provide the germs for the shape of a public good oriented Higher Education for the future. It theoretically expounds on important elements to consider when engaging Higher Education and communities, discussing the nature of the term 'community' itself. Special reference is accorded to the difference that lies at the core of these ever-changing communities. It then provides an analysis of an 'on the ground project' in University community engagement, before suggesting signposts for further action at the level of policy and provision. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4, Quality education
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2021Justice and mercy
Moral theology and the exercise of law in twelfth-century England
by Philippa Byrne
This book examines one of the most fundamental issues in twelfth-century English politics: justice. It demonstrates that during the foundational period for the common law, the question of judgement and judicial ethics was a topic of heated debate - a common problem with multiple different answers. How to be a judge, and how to judge well, was a concern shared by humble and high, keeping both kings and parish priests awake at night. Using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections, the book explores how moralists attempted to provide guidance for uncertain judges. It argues that mercy was always the most difficult challenge for a judge, fitting uncomfortably within the law and of disputed value. Shining a new light on English legal history, Justice and mercy reveals the moral dilemmas created by the establishment of the common law.
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April 2003Office-Break
Wellness-Pause im Büro: Regeneration & Energie (mit 7 x 7-Minuten-Programm)
by Traczinski, Christa G.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2024
US public diplomacy in socialist Yugoslavia, 1950–70
Soft culture, cold partners
by Carla Konta
The first comprehensive account of the public and cultural diplomacy campaigns carried out by the US in Yugoslavia during the height of the Cold War, this book examines the political role of culture in US-Yugoslav bilateral relations and the fluid links between information and propaganda. Tito allowed the US Information Agency and the State Department's cultural programmes to enter Yugoslavia, liberated from Soviet control. The exchange of intellectual and political personnel helped foster the US-Yugoslav relationship, yet it posed severe ideological challenges for both sides. By providing new insights into porous borders between freedom and coercion in Tito's regime, this book shows how public diplomacy acted as an external input for Yugoslav liberalisation and dissident movements. Using extensive archival research and interviews, Konta analyses the links between information and propaganda, and the unintended effects of propaganda beyond the control of producers and receivers.
