|
|
|
 Dark Matter: In Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity: A Fieldguide to Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt by Richard Langston English | August 4, 2020 | ISBN: 178873517X | 368 pages | MOBI | 4.43 Mb Unravelling the thought of Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt  Dave Rasdal, "Czech Village & New Bohemia: History in the Heartland" English | ISBN: 1540202127 | 2016 | 194 pages | EPUB | 5 MB Beginning in the 1870s, thousands of Bohemians flocked to Cedar Rapids in search of a better life. Czech immigrants courageously overcame the difficult conditions of the local packinghouse and the challenge of creating a new home. They maintained a strong cultural identity with Czech music, literature and an undying dedication to family. In the wake of a devastating flood in 2008, the people of Czech Village and New Bohemia re-imagined traditional principles to forge a remarkable resurgence toward a promising future. Author Dave Rasdal travels from the Charles Bridge to the Bridge of Lions in a celebration of Czech heritage and history in Cedar Rapids.  Customer Value Starvation Can Kill: Prevention and Cure by Gautam Mahajan English | 2021 | ISBN: 1952538580 | 227 pages | PDF | 2.55 Mb Read Customer Value Starvation Can Kill, and make life easier for your customers and yourself, and win in the marketplace!!Customer value starvation is a common disease in companies, both small and large - which is difficult to diagnose. It is a silent killer, like many cancers. By the time it is diagnosed, it is generally late, sometimes, too late!Mahajan and Vieira have put their expertise together to show how companies overlook value starvation. This causes irritation and frustration to customers in their interaction with the company and its personnel - in person, on telephone, net or mail.The book identifies customer DNA (Do Not Annoy) factors, and suggests how to minimize complaints; ensure customer loyalty; and long term company profitability and success. Philip Kotler, the world's guru on marketing, said, "This book will help you think freshly about your business mission and success."Seven well-known experts on the subject like Shep Hyken have contributed to this book. Read Customer Value Starvation Can Kill, and make life easier for your customers and yourself, and win in the marketplace!!  Gay Hawkins, Stephen Muecke professor of creative writing Flinders University, John Frow, "Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value" English | 2002 | pages: 164 | ISBN: 0742519813, 0742519821 | PDF | 6,5 mb Waste is a key category for understanding cultural value. It is not just the 'bad stuff' we dispose of; it is material we constantly struggle to redeem. Cultures seem to spend as much energy reclassifying negativity as they do on establishing the negative itself. The huge tertiary sector devoted to waste management converts garbage into money, while ecological movements continue to stress human values and 'the natural.' But the problems waste poses are never simply economic or environmental. The international contributors to this collection ask us to pause and consider the complex ways in which value is created and destroyed. Their diverse approaches of ethics, philosophy, cultural studies, and politics are at the forefront of a new field of 'ecohumanites.'  Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui by Sonia Haoa Cardinali, Kathleen B. Ingersoll English | 2018 | ISBN: 113824001X | 224 Pages | True PDF | 5.35 MB  Zachary Beckstead, "Cultural Psychology of Recursive Processes" English | 2015 | pages: 276 | ISBN: 1681230186, 1681230194 | PDF | 4,7 mb Cultural Psychology of Recursivity illustrates how recursivity, often neglected in the social sciences, can be an important concept for illuminating meaning-making processes. Recusrivity is a fascinating though abstract concept with a wide array of often incompatible definitions. Rooted in mathematics and linguistics, this book brings recursion and recursive processes to the foreground of psychological processes. One unifying claim among the diverse chapters in this book is that recursion and recursive processes are at the core of complex social and psychological processes. Recursion is bound up with the notion of re-turning, re-examining, re-flecting and circling back, and these processes allow for human beings to simultaneously distance themselves from the here-and-now settings (by imaging the past and future) while being immersed in them. The objective of this book is not simply to celebrate the complexity of human living, but to extend the notion of recursion, recursivity and recursive processes into the realm of social and psychological processes beyond the arenas in which these ideas have currently thrived. Cultural Psychology of Recursivity shows that in spite of the difficulty in defining recursivity, self-referencing (looping), transformation (generativity), complexity, and holism constitute its core characteristics and provide the basis for which authors in this book explore and elaborate this concept. Still, each contribution has its own unique take on recursivity and how it is applied to their phenomenon of investigation. Chapters in this book examine how recursive processes are related to and basic aspects of play and ritual, imitation, identity exploration, managing stigma, and commemorative practices. This book is intended for psychologists, sociologists, and mathematicians. Use of the book in post-graduate and graduate level of university teaching is expected in seminar format teaching occasions.  Sergio Salvatore, Tania Zittoun, "Cultural Psychology and Psychoanalysis: Pathways to Synthesis" English | 2011 | pages: 300 | ISBN: 1617355143, 1617355151 | PDF | 7,2 mb This book explores how psychoanalysis can enrich and complement sociocultural psychology. It presents theoretical integrations of psychoanalytical notions in the sociocultural framework, analyzes the historical similarities, if not intricacies, of the two fields, and presents papers that have tried to apply an enriched theoretical framework in developmental and clinical empirical work. The first section presents editors' theoretical proposition for an integration of one particular stream of psychoanalysis within sociocultural psychology, which emphasizes both the dialogical and the semiotic nature of psychological dynamics. The second section pursues this theoretical dialogue through a historical perspective. The third section pursues the implications of this parallel reasoning. It invites researchers that propose further syntheses between some strands of psychoanalysis and approaches within social and cultural psychology. The contributions collected in this section show how sociocultural psychology and psychoanalysis can complement each other, when it comes to tracing the emergence of meaning in actual interactive settings. Showing historical common roots, epistemological similarities, and theoretical complementarities, this book intends to suggests how the encounter and reciprocal contamination between cultural psychology and psychoanalysis could provide innovative theoretical and methodological syntheses. Through the various contributions three directions of development emerge as particularly promising for psychological science. Firstly, the semiotic conceptualization of affects, emerging from several of the contributors, appears to be a significant step ahead in the understanding of the dynamics of sense-making. A second promising direction of development concerns methodology. The reader will find several invitations to rethink the way of analyzing the phenomena of sense-making. Finally, the volume highlights how the connection between theory and practice in psychology is not a mere matter of application. Rather, the psychological intervention could be needs to be a theoretical object for cultural psychology, as it already is for psychoanalysis. At the same time, the intervention could be a fertile domain where a psychological practice endowed with reflexive capability generates new theoretical constructions.  Cultural Entrepreneurship: New Societal Trends English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811927707 | 326 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB Cultural entrepreneurship uses culture as a way to understand innovative business ventures. Culture in this edited book involves the beliefs and values associated with certain forms of behaviour. This means the way individuals are involved in business ventures is based on their cultural ideas. This edited book focuses on how cultural entrepreneurship is an important way to understand how cultural products and services such as art, food, music and literature influence the development of business ventures. Thereby highlighting the interesting and unique way cultural ideas are embedded in entrepreneurial activities.  Marv Aden, "Creami Ninja Ice Cream Cookbook: Complete, Easy, Simple and Tasty Ice Creams Mix-Ins, Shakes, Sorbets, and Smoothies Recipes for Beginners and Advanced Users" English | 2022 | ASIN: B0B5KQSLPR, B0B61CF2FT, B0B61CF2FT | EPUB | pages: 115 | 1.9 mb Beginner - Friendly Ninja Creami Ice Cream Cookbook with Several Options - Super Simple!  Corinne: A Novel by Rebecca Morrow English | July 12, 2022 | ISBN: 1250279992 | True EPUB | 432 pages | 2.1 MB "I was riveted...A modern-day Romeo & Juliet."―Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways |
: 