Digital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. This short book sets out a methodical materialist understanding of digital technologies, where they come from, how they work, and what they do.
Prepare to revive your Jewish community with the transformative power of the Divine spirit. "Rabbi Baruch HaLevi and Ellen Frankel have correctly identified Ruakh as a key missing ingredient in Jewish institutional life, especially in the synagogue. Their call is for a revolution of spirit, a rejuvenation of our purpose, our worship, even our sacred spaces. It is recognition that the craving for community can bring people back to our institutions, if we welcome, engage and inspire them." —from the Foreword by Dr. Ron Wolfson In this practical and engaging guide to reinvigorating Jewish life, Rabbi Baruch HaLevi and Ellen Frankel identify the difference between a living synagogue and a dying one, and offer methods for reviving the Jewish spiritual centers—federations, community centers, institutions and synagogues—that serve as the heart of Jewish tradition and your life. They offer practical strategies for sustaining and expanding transformation, including tips for providing impassioned leadership, inspired programming and inviting sacred spaces. Whether you are clergy, congregant or community member, this guide will help you awaken your spirit and enliven your journey to a Ruakh-filled life.
This book is a learning aid and reference tool that provides all the important information pertaining to radioactive tracers within a single, easy-to-read volume. It introduces a new learning methodology that will help the reader to recall key facts on each tracer, including production, physical and chemical characteristics, study protocols, mechanism of action, distribution, and clearance. In addition, normal and abnormal tracer distributions are graphically reproduced on an outline of the human body using multiple colors. The book will be of value for all radiologists and medical students seeking a reliable source of essential information on radioactive tracers that can be readily consulted during everyday practice and used in preparation for examinations.
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. The Bible portrays King David as an exceptional man and a paragon of godly devotion. But was he? Some scholars deny that he existed at all. Did he? This challenging book examines the written and archaeological evidence critically in an effort to paint an accurate picture of one of the Bible's central figures. Neither defending nor rejecting the traditions about David, Baruch Halpern, a leading scholar of biblical history and the ancient Near East, traces the origins of development of David's persona. Because the biblical text clearly responds to concerns that can only be contemporary with David himself, we can believe that David was both real and a central actor in the historical drama of ancient Israel. Yet at the same time, the written record also shows that contemporaries understood David's character to be much more unsavory trhan the tradition has hitherto allowed. Halpern digs beneath the layers of tradition to understand David as an individual, as a person. The man he uncovers turns out to have been complex, ambiguous, and -- above all -- surprising. According to Halpern, the image of David grew over time. He was the founder of the dynasty that perpetuated the texts about him, and they progressively exaggerated his accomplishments. But in the earliest writings David remains a modest figure, as this book shows for the first time. To understand David as a human being, one must keep in mind that he was primarily a politicians who operated in a rough-and-tumble environment in which competitors were ready literally to slit throats. Halpern's work raises many provocative questions: Was David an Israelite or a Philistine? Was Solomon really David's son? Did David take the throne of Israel by the consent or against the will of the people? How many murders did he commit on his way to the crown? Indeed, was David someone it would have been wise to even invite to dinner? The challenging arguments in David's Secret Demons are sure to provoke all kinds of discussion among biblical scholars and general readers alike. In addition -- a big bonus -- Halpern's accessible, at times humorous prose will itself draw readers everywhere into the compelling story of David found between these covers.
The Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza was one of the foremost exponents of seventeenth century Rationalism and an early figure of the Enlightenment. His magnum opus, ‘Ethics’ (1677), opposed Descartes’ philosophy of mind–body dualism, earning Spinoza recognition as one of Western philosophy's most important thinkers. His works would leave a lasting impression on Hegel, Kant, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. This comprehensive eBook presents Spinoza’s collected (almost complete) works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Spinoza’s life and works * Concise introductions to the treatises * All of the major works, with individual contents tables * Features rare works appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Short Treatise on God, Man and His Well-Being’ * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * All works translated by R. H. M. Elwes, except for ‘Short Treatise on God, Man and His Well-Being’ (translated by A. Wolf) * Excellent formatting of the texts * All of the original Latin texts are also provided for the major works * Includes Spinoza’s selected letters – spend hours exploring the author’s personal correspondence * Special criticism section, with 8 essays by important thinkers such as Hegel and Nietzsche, evaluating Spinoza’s contribution to philosophy * Features two biographies – discover Spinoza’s intriguing life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Books Short Treatise on God, Man and His Well-Being Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect Theological-Political Treatise Ethics Political Treatise Selected Letters The Criticism The Relationship of Substantiality by G. W. F. Hegel Spinoza by Arthur Schopenhauer Examination of Spinoza by Voltaire Spinoza by Friedrich Nietzsche Critical Battle Against the French Revolution by Karl Marx Spinoza by James Anthony Froude Spinoza by Felix Adler Spinoza by William Hale White The Biographies Spinoza: The Man and the Philosopher by Arthur Bolles Lee Baruch Spinoza by Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
Organization Development and Society: Theory and Practice of Organization Development Consulting offers a new approach for the practice of organization development (OD). The new approach, a habitus oriented OD (HOOD), sees consultees' thinking and behavior a result of habitus, a cognitive structure developed historically in endless interactions between human behavior and social structures. HOOD has two goals: The first goal is to redefine the objectives of individually oriented OD. The focus on habitus and social structure allows individually oriented OD scholars and practitioners to keep their subjective approach, which searches for consultees' inner world. However, this subjectivity searches not only for consultees' psychological but their social dispositions. It views the individual level, the habitus, as a site of social dispositions that from within the individual consultees generate thoughts and behaviors in a way that closely corresponds with the organization's social structure; with power relations and social positions and with accepted metaphors and common language. The HOOD links the concept of habitus to the field of OD and in so doing provides an alternative way to incorporate the individual and the social in OD. HOOD's second goal is to re/position OD between organizations and society and thus to produce a consulting practice that is both pragmatic and human. It is pragmatic since incorporation of habitus enables the consultant to liberate consultees' perspectives and behavior from the organization's social and structural hoops and to use these perspectives in processes of change and development. Considering the habitus as central to consulting projects is human since it enables consultants (and consultees) to identify the responsibility for organizational problems (and other phenomena) not only at the level of the individual but also at the level of the organization and the environment outside the organization.
Combining a strong theoretical underpinning with a wide range of case studies and practical examples, this authoritative textbook provides a deep understanding of career systems, on both an individual and an organizational level. Taking a global approach, Managing Careers and Employability looks at recent labour market developments and explores contemporary topics such as entrepreneurial careers, career ecosystems and the dark side of careers. A wide range of learning features including reflective questions, key terms and exercises, empower you to reflect on and manage your own career. Online resources include a Tutor’s Guide, containing teaching notes for each chapter, as well as PowerPoint slides that can be adapted and edited to suit specific teaching needs. Suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying career management and related courses. Yehuda Baruch is Professor of Management at Southampton Business School, the University of Southampton.
In Baruch Gottlieb's artistic and philosophical analyses, the materiality of digital culture and art is exposed across scales from nano to macro. The digital desire for the infinitely small is continuously reliant on exploitative logistical relation to nature and laborers. Massive mate-rial operations and macroeconomics of intensified injustice give us the phantasy of innovation society that we constantly reproduce everyday rhetorics of digital economy. Gottlieb's provocative book offers to un-cover the human price of this situation.
Digital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. This short book sets out a methodical materialist understanding of digital technologies, where they come from, how they work, and what they do.
Resistance! this is the central theme of Gottlieb's dense and intense first book. The original thesis here is: if we truly want (to work towards) a society emancipated from the rule of the wealthy and privileged, if we truly want to feel empowered in our lives and our society, we must face the material and incontrovertible historical facts of how the things around us came into being. In fact, this is the radical destination of this book. That while a profound historical consciousness seems at times an immense and forbidding undertaking, Gottlieb proves that everything we need in order to develop one as far as we wish to go is immediately accessible to us right now within the surfaces of the things around us. How? The things around us, the screen you are reading this on right now, all have a distinct history. They were assembled at a particular time and place by particular people who were working together in particular circumstances. These are what Gottlieb calls the irrefutable facts of the origin of the technological surface. If we look deeply at all the intricate relationships at play at the historical time and place where your computer screen came into being, we will find keys to a radical new way of understanding our technologized society and the things we produce. Call it a Phenomenology of Technologys Spirit. Even though the surfaces of modernity, as Gottlieb calls them, are smooth and clean, they still store the historical facts of the human relationships which made them. A deeper reckoning and acknowledgment of these relationships, Gottlieb claims, will profoundly transform our society. One tool he suggests for this is Mimeolography, a kind of body language. Since this is a critique of elite culture, of the normal literary language, dominated by elites, Gottlieb proposes a form of bodily expression, more akin to that which was involved in actually creating the things we have around us. Somehow, Gottlieb is searching here for an incorruptible language of resistance. Resistance for Gottlieb is not militant, in fact, he makes no romantic revolutionary claims...actually he is quite sober in his outlook. He sees resistance like resistance in an electronic circuit, as an integral part of the political functioning of the society. Some are born resistant, some are not, if you are one of the resistant, especially if you are looking for refreshing insights on how a radical resistance can be described and manifested, this book is for you. A timely and original book in the provocative Atropos series.
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