This book explores disruption and artificial intelligence in an organisational context to inform and prepare those that are in management positions now and into the future.
Within The Loggeras Encyclopedia there lie the brief bios and stories of men who risked their lives and family fortune to build a young nation. Trees were harvested to make the land tillable for farming the crops to feed a growing population of immigrants. Lumber was milled to construct the buildings required for the economic growth of a young nation. Many of these men had made their fortunes in harvesting timber in the Lake States. As an incentive, timberlands were given to pioneering homesteaders at little or no cost. As a business incentive, vast timberlands were granted to railroads to push on to the Pacific Ocean. A young nation, not sure of itself, failed to reforest the logged-off timberlands. My sincere hope is that after reading The Loggeras Encyclopedia, authors will be compelled to write the numerous books that lie within these pages.
SURREAL TALES OF BOTH HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION -- Thirty Four Wondrous Stories by Four Unique Talents in the Horror / Science Fiction Field -- Each Writer is well known for his Deranged Dreams and Night Gaunts brought to Life * MF Korn - Louisiana Author of twelve Novels and 240 short stories published -- * DF Lewis - Winner of the British Fantasy Award and 1500 stories published, editor/publisher of famed magazine Nemonymous -- * Mike Philbin - Crazed aesthetic Author of over a hundred stories and several novels published -- * David Mathew - Seminal reviewer for Interzone, Author of several novels and 400 stories published ---
This book explores neoliberalism as an account of contemporary society and considers what this means for our understanding of religion. Neoliberalism is a perspective grounded in free market economics and distinguished by a celebration of competition and consumer choice. It has had a profound influence in societies across the world, and has extended its reach into all areas of human experience. And yet neoliberalism is not just about enterprise and opportunity. It also comes with authoritarian leadership, gross inequality and the manipulation of information. How should we make sense of these changes, and what do they mean for the status of religion in the 21st century? Has religion been transformed into a market commodity or consumer product? Does the embrace of business methods make religious movements more culturally relevant, or can they be used to reinforce inequalities of gender or ethnicity? How might neoliberal contexts demand we think differently about matters of religious identity and power? This book provides an accessible discussion about religion in the 21st century. Mathew Guest asks what distinguishes neoliberal religion and explores the sociological and ethical questions that arise from considering its wider significance.
Lost Freedom addresses the widespread feeling that there has been a fundamental change in the social life of children in recent decades: the loss of childhood freedom, and in particular, the loss of freedom to roam beyond the safety of home. Mathew Thomson explores this phenomenon, concentrating on the period from the Second World War until the 1970s, and considering the roles of psychological theory, traffic, safety consciousness, anxiety about sexual danger, and television in the erosion of freedom. Thomson argues that the Second World War has an important place in this story, with war-borne anxieties encouraging an emphasis on the central importance of a landscape of home. War also encouraged the development of specially designed spaces for the cultivation of the child, including the adventure playground, and the virtual landscape of children's television. However, before the 1970s, British children still had much more physical freedom than they do today. Lost Freedom explores why this situation has changed. The volume pays particular attention to the 1970s as a period of transition, and one which saw radical visions of child liberation, but with anxieties about child protection also escalating in response. This is strikingly demonstrated in the story of how the paedophile emerged as a figure of major public concern. Thomson argues that this crisis of concern over child freedom is indicative of some of the broader problems of the social settlements that had been forged out of the Second World War.
Building on an ethnographic study of St. Michael-le-Belfrey Church in York, a recognized leader in charismatic renewal, mission, and evangelical innovation since the 1960s, this book explores how a persistent tradition of cultural engagement may generate growth, while at the same time bringing about significant changes in the structure and function of the evangelical congregation, and in the social construction of Christian identity itself. This is the first sociological study of St. Michael-le-Belfrey and the first to take seriously the question of how blazing the trail in terms of mission, worship, and fellowship influences the way in which congregations exist as Christian communities within the contemporary British context.
Thank you for visiting our website. Would you like to provide feedback on how we could improve your experience?
This site does not use any third party cookies with one exception — it uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic.Learn More.