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The Professional Identity of Teacher Educators

Career on the cusp?

By: Ronnie Davey

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The Professional Identity of Teacher Educators

Career on the cusp?

By: Ronnie Davey

The Professional Identity of Teacher Educators offers a contemporary study of teacher education in a period of huge international, institutional and professional change. The book explores the experiences, understandings, and beliefs that guide the professional practices of teacher educators, and paints a picture of a profession that offers huge rew

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Integral Economics

Releasing the Economic Genius of Your Society

By: Ronnie Lessem,Alexander Schieffer

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Integral Economics

Releasing the Economic Genius of Your Society

By: Ronnie Lessem,Alexander Schieffer

Why on earth is economics perceived to come in only one or at best two different a-cultural if not a-moral guises? There are real, and many, alternatives to the economic mainstream. The trouble is, of course, that they are hidden from us. In Integral Economics Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer pave the way for a sustainable approach to economics, building on the richness of diverse economic approaches from all over the globe. By introducing the most evolved economic perspectives and bringing them into creative dialogue they argue that neither individual enterprises nor wider society will be transformed for the better without a new economic perspective. Here, they introduce a comprehensive framework based on the same 'Four Worlds' model that is applied to enterprise and research in their earlier works. Given the richness of even mainstream economic theory reviewed in this book, let alone the variety of alternative approaches introduced, it is frustrating that policymakers and business practitioners are impoverished by a lack of apparent economic choice - between a seemingly failing capitalism and an already failed communism. The 'villains of the piece' in relation to this lack of choice are not so much the financial community and governments, though they do have much to answer, but the schools of economics and the business schools, that have created the very social ethos, the philosophical principles, and the mathematical models, that influence events. Integral Economics is partly addressed to academics and students in those very schools, who have either realized the error of their ways, or, less dramatically, are curious to explore whether our businesses and communities could be run in a different way. It will be welcomed by informed senior practitioners, eager to understand the current rethink of economic theory and practice and to discover how to position themselves, their organizations, and their society within a new framework.

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1317115562

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The Enigma of Childhood

The Profound Impact of the First Years of Life on Adults as Couples and Parents

By: Ronnie Solan

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The Enigma of Childhood

The Profound Impact of the First Years of Life on Adults as Couples and Parents

By: Ronnie Solan

In this book the author traces the way that early psychic development from birth up to three years is reflected throughout our lifespan, including adulthood, couplehood and parenthood. The inner child reverberating within us (consciously and unconsciously) and thus present in our ongoing interactions with others, often colours and guides our current experiences, whether with our life partner or children, and as psychotherapists, with our patients. Our openness to its resonance allows us to become more attuned to and emotionally accessible to ourselves and others.The author's primary aim is to familiarize the reader with her innovative idea of the emotional immune system managed by a healthy narcissism and operating via the inner reverberations of hidden childhood narratives. Our sense of familiar self is accordingly consolidated and immunised to an invasion by foreign sensations.

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0429920628

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Integral Advantage

Revisiting Emerging Markets and Societies

By: Ronnie Lessem

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Integral Advantage

Revisiting Emerging Markets and Societies

By: Ronnie Lessem

The BRICS countries are heralded for their double digit economic growth rates and while this has indeed been impressive, particularly in India and China, it is clear that significant social and environmental fault-lines have developed in these regions. Building on the integral heritage of Ronnie Lessem’s previous work through Trans4m’s Centre for Integral Development, here he makes the case for ’integral advantage’, a philosophy inclusive of nature and culture, technology and economy, altogether accommodated by an integral polity. Moreover, and as will be illustrated in each of the cases of the five BRICS countries, each one is an integral entity in its own particular right, and needs to be viewed, and duly evolved, as such. In the final analysis, he argues, then, that around the world, the failure of a society to develop is not due to its economic limitations, in isolation, but to the failure of nature and culture, technology and economy, to co-evolve in unison, under the rubric of an integral polity, altogether aligned with that particular society. Drawing on the approach he has developed towards the release of a society’s genius, in each case, he demonstrates how the pursuit of integral advantage may actually arise. Most specifically, he indicates how a balance between the spiritual and the material, on the one hand, and the natural and the social, on the other, needs to be achieved.

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1134804180

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A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Criminology

By: Ronnie Lippens

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A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Criminology

By: Ronnie Lippens

In Studying Criminology, the author explores the interplay between philosophical and criminological theories to provide a stimulating and insightful overview of the subject. It offers students a fresh way of thinking about crime, giving them an opportunity to develop their understanding and to hone their critical skills. Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way. Suitable for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students of Criminology and anybody interested in the field of Criminological studies.

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1473903610

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Addiction - This Being Human

A New Perspective

By: Ronnie Aaronson

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Addiction - This Being Human

A New Perspective

By: Ronnie Aaronson

This is a compassionate, unique and innovative book about addictive behaviour. Who is likely to develop an addictive habit? What draws people to use addictive substances? How do addictive substances serve the user? What are the possible conscious and unconscious reasons behind their use? The author, using vignettes and actual case histories, presents a clear, dense and compelling narrative to offer answers to these and many other questions by expanding upon theories taken from different orientations within psychotherapy, including body psychotherapy. She considers the part that shame and fear can play in addictive behaviour and how it can get acted out in treatment. She identifies building a strong sense of self and the ability to self-soothe as essential for long-term abstinence and presents a clear and convincing case for bodywork and long-term counselling or psychotherapy to be included in treatment so that the recovery process can be completed. This book is useful for anyone in the helping professions who works with or around individuals who present addictive behaviour. It is essential for counsellors and psychotherapists and a must for anyone working in the drug and/or alcohol field.

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Management Development Through Cultural Diversity

By: Ronnie Lessem

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Management Development Through Cultural Diversity

By: Ronnie Lessem

This stimulating, clearly written and well-structured text is a comprehensive introduction to the principles of management and organizational behavior, as well as a corrective to the Eurocentric bias of most management texts. This book focuses on four domains of management--primal, rational, developmental and metaphysical. It develops a transcultural perspective drawing on insights from across the world to examine different management styles, cultures and stages of business development. Each section examines core management theory and literature, cultural orientation and related prominent theo.

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Integral Development

Realising the Transformative Potential of Individuals, Organisations and Societies

By: Alexander Schieffer,Ronnie Lessem

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Integral Development

Realising the Transformative Potential of Individuals, Organisations and Societies

By: Alexander Schieffer,Ronnie Lessem

Alexander Schieffer and Ronnie Lessem introduce a groundbreaking development framework and process to address the most burning issues that humanity faces. While conventional top-down, outside-in development has reached a cul-de-sac, a new, integral form of development is emerging around the world. Integral Development uniquely articulates this emergent approach, and invites us to fully participate in this process. The integral approach has been researched and framed over decades of in-depth experience in transformative development education and practice all over the world. It uniquely combines four mutually reinforcing perspectives: nature and community; culture and spirituality; science, systems and technology; and enterprise and economics. Conventional development theory and practice has prioritized the latter two perspectives, neglecting the former two. This has caused massive imbalances in today’s world. The four interconnected perspectives allow for a transformative and integrated engagement with core development issues in a way that is locally relevant and globally resonant. Throughout, the practical impact of Integral Development is brought to life through highly innovative cases from around the globe, drawing on the authors` first-hand experience. This makes the book a living demonstration of the power of this pioneering approach. Integral Development shows how individual, organizational and societal developments need to be interconnected to release a society’s full potential. It shifts the responsibility for large-scale development from often-distant experts and organizations to each individual, community, enterprise and institution within the society. It is essential reading - and a call to action - for everyone concerned with the current state of local and global development.

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Undermining the Gospel

The Case and Guide for Church Discipline

By: Ronnie W. Rogers

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Undermining the Gospel

The Case and Guide for Church Discipline

By: Ronnie W. Rogers

The cruelest thing we can do is to let people remain in their sin when there is liberty to be lived. Ronnie W. Rogers Pastor Ronnie Rogers superb volume on disciplinehas provided the most detailed study that to my knowledge has been written in recent years. Dr. Paige Patterson, president of Southwestern Seminary Writing as a biblical theologian, Ronnie Rogersestablishes the foundation for church discipline.But Ronnie writes also as an experienced pastor who has worked out the biblical teaching on church discipline in real life. Dr. C. Richard Wells, distinguished professor of pastoral theology, The Criswell College Senior Pastor, South Canyon Baptist Church, Rapid City, SD Its hypocrisy for a local church to claim to believe the Bible and then willingly ignore the Bibles teaching on church discipline. Its refreshing to see a local church pastor like Ronnie Rogers cry out so clearly against the apathy and disobedience that prevails in most churches on this issue. Dr. Donald S. Whitney, associate professor of spiritual formation, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

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1512706760

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The Vulgarization of Christ’s Church

Combating Progressivism’s Damning Influence upon Christian Thinking and Preaching

By: Ronnie W. Rogers

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The Vulgarization of Christ’s Church

Combating Progressivism’s Damning Influence upon Christian Thinking and Preaching

By: Ronnie W. Rogers

This book seeks to clarify and demonstrate the incalculable and injurious influence that progressive education has had and is having upon preaching, thinking Christianly, and the local church. Progressive education began at the turn of the twentieth century, replacing classical education with what is purportedly a science-based education, which necessarily results in scientism. This seismic shift in public education has not only affected what we learn but how we think. In order to enable the church to detect progressivism's deleterious sway and protect herself by being equipped with the progressive revelation of God, and thereby counter the influence of progressive education of man, I seek to highlight some of the underlying intolerable essentials of progressive education. In the companion book to this one, The Equipping Church: Somewhere Between Fundamentalism and Fluff, I explain the biblical model for the local church and how to build such a church.

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1498240046

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The Unhurried Pastor

Redefining Productivity for a More Sustainable Ministry

By: Brian Croft,Ronnie Martin

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The Unhurried Pastor

Redefining Productivity for a More Sustainable Ministry

By: Brian Croft,Ronnie Martin

Helps pastors adopt an approach to ministry that is effective, enjoyable, and sustainable. Being a pastor is not a regular 9-to-5 job. There is an unending list of important things to do as you seek to serve others sacrificially. The demands of ministry make it difficult to find a healthy rhythm of life and work, and can leave you running on empty. How can we develop a sustainable pattern of ministry that both honors the Lord and the people we care for and that will also protect us from burnout? Ronnie Martin and Brian Croft have each spent decades pastoring churches and supporting ministry leaders. Here they encourage fellow shepherds to embrace a more present-focused, unhurried approach to ministry. They show how this starts with accepting their humanity, pursuing humility, and remembering the hope they have in Christ. They also exhort pastors to fuel their ministry with self-awareness, prayer, and contemplation of Jesus. After giving a framework for this approach to ministry, the authors offer lots of practical advice regarding prioritization, managing schedules, and cultivating supportive friendships. Read this book to deepen your joy, help yourself to serve others more effectively and continue serving God in ministry for many years to come.

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1784989584

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Nhakanomics: Harvesting Knowledge and Value for Re-generation Through Social Innovation

By: Ronnie Lessem,Munyaradzi Mawere

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Nhakanomics: Harvesting Knowledge and Value for Re-generation Through Social Innovation

By: Ronnie Lessem,Munyaradzi Mawere

Nhakanomics: Harvesting Knowledge and Value for Re-generation Through Social Innovation is a radical departure from the commonly held belief that neo-liberal economics from the US and the West is universal, and is the only solution to underdevelopment and poverty throughout the world. Instead, the book teases out and theorises the intellectually rutted terrain of development studies, and neo-liberal economics from a decolonial Pan-Africanist perspective. Following a path of social innovation, with perspectives drawn from social anthropology, economics, and business and management studies Nhakanomics is a unique socio-economic approach applicable in the Global South and in Southern Africa in particular. The study argues that the process and substance of nhakanomics with its pre-emphasis on the relational South provides a robust and holistic approach to social innovation and social transformation grounded in relational networks and meshworks. The central idea is a call to re-GENE-rate society, through local Grounding and Origination, and tapping into local-global Emergent Foundations via a newly global Emancipatory Navigation, while ultimately culminating in global-local transformative Effects in four recursive cycles of re-GENE-rating C(K)umusha, Culture, Communication, and Capital after re-Constituting Africa-the 5Cs. With a novel and radical approach the book is an interrogation of neo-liberal economics in the Global South. As such, this book is remarkably handy to students and practitioners in the fields of economics, development studies, political science, science and technology studies, business management, sociology, transformation studies, and development related non-Governmental Organisations working with grassroots communities.

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1779295340

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Confucianism

An Introduction

By: Ronnie L. Littlejohn

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Confucianism

An Introduction

By: Ronnie L. Littlejohn

It is arguably Confucianism, not Communism, which lies at the core of China's deepest sense of self. Although reviled by Chinese intellectuals of the 1950s-1990s, who spoke of it as 'yellow silt clotting the arteries of the country', Confucianism has defied eradication, remaining a fundamental part of the nation's soul for 2500 years. And now, as China assumes greater ascendancy on the world economic stage, it is making a strong comeback as a pragmatic philosophy of personal as well as corporate transformation, popular in both home and boardroom. What is this complex system of ideology that stems from the teachings of a remarkable man called Confucius (Kongzi), who lived in the distant sixth century BCE? Though he left no writings of his own, the oral teachings recorded by the founder's disciples in the 'Analects' left a profound mark on later Chinese politics and governance. They outline a system of social cohesiveness dependent upon personal virtue and self-control. For Confucius, society's harmony relied upon the appropriate behaviour of each individual within the social hierarchy; and its emphasis on practical ethics has led many to think of Confucianism as a secular philosophy rather than a religion. In this new, comprehensive introduction, Ronnie Littlejohn argues rather that Confucianism is profoundly spiritual, and must be treated as such. He offers full coverage of the tradition's sometimes neglected metaphysics, as well as its varied manifestations in education, art, literature and culture.

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0857718924

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The Apprentice of Peace

An Uncommon Dialogue

By: Ronnie 'Qi' Harvey

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The Apprentice of Peace

An Uncommon Dialogue

By: Ronnie 'Qi' Harvey

The Apprentice of Peace: An Uncommon Dialogue, is a unique platform from which we can all learn and grow, and find the peace missing in our life. We find this peace by addressing the issues of our self growth to realize our potential, committing ourselves to the realization of what that potential looks like, and accepting the circumstances we have created for ourselves, whether good or bad. What we see in the world is a reflection of what is going on inside of people. Their inner turmoil translates into a world of chaos, frustration, anger, hostility, and ultimately death; mentally, as well as physically. The Apprentice of Peace is the example that will encourage a change in the mind state and attitudes of the people and how we treat each other. This uncommon dialogue challenge's you to be the highest example of yourself that you can be. We are to take our roles in the world as it's peacekeepers and peacemakers and be the shining beacons of social responsibility and common sense through heart centered conduct and righteous action.

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1499059671

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Worldviews and the Problem of Evil

A Comparative Approach

By: Ronnie P. Campbell, Jr.

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Worldviews and the Problem of Evil

A Comparative Approach

By: Ronnie P. Campbell, Jr.

How does the Christian response to the problem of evil contrast with that of other worldviews? Most attempts at answering the problem of evil either present a straightforward account of the truth claims of Christianity or defend a minimalist concept of God. This book is different. Inside, you'll examine four worldviews' responses to the problem of evil. Then, you'll hear the author's argument that Christian theism makes better sense of the phenomenon of evil in the worldâ€"equipping you to reach an informed conclusion. This book's unique approachâ€"integrating worldviews with apologetics with theologyâ€"will give you a better understanding of the debate surrounding the problem of evil, in both philosophy and theology. Learn to think cogently and theologically about the problem of evil and Christianity's ability to answer its challenges with Worldviews and the Problem of Evil as your guide.

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Lexham Press

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1683593065

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Derivatives in Financial Markets with Stochastic Volatility

By: Jean-Pierre Fouque,George Papanicolaou,K. Ronnie Sircar

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Derivatives in Financial Markets with Stochastic Volatility

By: Jean-Pierre Fouque,George Papanicolaou,K. Ronnie Sircar

This book, first published in 2000, addresses pricing and hedging derivative securities in uncertain and changing market volatility.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521791634

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Decolonizing images

A new history of photographic cultures in Egypt

By: Ronnie Close

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Decolonizing images

A new history of photographic cultures in Egypt

By: Ronnie Close

The 2011 revolution put Egypt at the centre of discussions around radical transformations in global photographic cultures. But Egypt and photography share a longer, richer history rarely included in western accounts of the medium. Decolonizing images focuses on the country’s local visual heritage, continuing the urgent process of decolonizing the canon of photography. It presents a new account of the visual cultures produced and exhibited in Egypt by interpreting the camera’s ability to conceal as much as it reveals. The book moves from the initial encounters between local knowledge and western-led modernity to explore how the image intersects with the politics of representation, censorship, activism and aesthetics. It overturns Eurocentric understandings of the photograph through a compelling narrative of contemporary Egypt’s indigenous visual culture.

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1526165945

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DataPower SOA Appliance Administration, Deployment, and Best Practices

By: Gerry Kaplan,Jan Bechtold,Daniel Dickerson,Richard Kinard,Ronnie Mitra,Helio L. P. Mota,David Shute,John Walczyk,IBM Redbooks

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DataPower SOA Appliance Administration, Deployment, and Best Practices

By: Gerry Kaplan,Jan Bechtold,Daniel Dickerson,Richard Kinard,Ronnie Mitra,Helio L. P. Mota,David Shute,John Walczyk,IBM Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication focuses on operational and managerial aspects for DataPower® appliance deployments. DataPower appliances provide functionality that crosses both functional and organizational boundaries, which introduces unique management and operational challenges. For example, a DataPower appliance can provide network functionality, such as load balancing, and at the same time, provide enterprise service bus (ESB) capabilities, such as transformation and intelligent content-based routing. This IBM Redbooks publication provides guidance at both a general and technical level for individuals who are responsible for planning, installation, development, and deployment. It is not intended to be a "how-to" guide, but rather to help educate you about the various options and methodologies that apply to DataPower appliances. In addition, many chapters provide a list of suggestions.

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0738435708

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Ethics

Studying the Art of Moral Appraisal

By: Ronnie Littlejohn

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Ethics

Studying the Art of Moral Appraisal

By: Ronnie Littlejohn

Iran's heritage is as varied as it is complex, and the archaeological, philological, and linguisitc scholarship of the region has not been the focus of a a synoptic study for many decades. Thus, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran fills a longstanding gap in the literature of the ancient Near East, providing up-to-date, authoritative essays by leading specialists based both inside and outside of Iran on a wide range of topics extending from the earliest Paleolithic settlements in the Pleistocene era to the Islamic conquest in the 7th century AD. The volume is divided into sections covering prehstory, the Chalcolithic, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Achaemenid period, the Seleucid and Arsacid periods, and the Sasanian period, concluding with the Arab conquest of Iran. In addition, more specialized chapters are included that treat numismatics (Elymaean, Arsacid, Persid and Sasanian), religion (the Avesta and Zoroastrianism), languages (proto-Elamite, Elamite, Akkadian, OldPersian, Greek, Aramaic, Parthian and Middle Persian), political ideology, calendrics, textiles, administrative seals and sealing, Sasanian silver and reliefs, and political relations with Rome and Byzantium. No other single volume covers as much of Iran's archaeology and history with the same degree of authority. This work will be of vast interest to a wide range of students and scholars, from archaeologists and art historians to philologists, Classicists, ancient historians, religious historians, and numismatists.

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University Press of America

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0819189189

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Integral Renewal

A Relational and Renewal Perspective

By: Ronnie Lessem,Alexander Schieffer

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Integral Renewal

A Relational and Renewal Perspective

By: Ronnie Lessem,Alexander Schieffer

In 2010 Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer published their seminal work on Integral Research and Innovation, whereby they identified the four R’s; relational and renewal, reason and realization based research paths that altogether encompass the major qualitative research methods and methodologies. Within each path they identified a trajectory from origination to transformation via foundation and emancipation. However these paths, underlying the research process, conventionally termed 'method', were disconnected from the integral economic and enterprise content, conventionally termed 'literature', with which they were concerned. In this book, Integral Renewal they seek to remedy such, in two major respects. As transformative masters and PhD programs are focused on the 'Global South', where the vast majority of the world’s population is based, as well as those developmental agencies focused on such, the great majority of the people with whom the authors deal select the relational research path, and the path of renewal, over and above the paths of reason and realization. The focus of this book will be on these two paths of integral research, now interconnected with integral enterprise and economics. Uniquely, the authors pursue research and innovation in a systematic way. In that respect, while their prior Integral Research book still provides the research foundation for the four southern and eastern, northern and western paths, this book will focus on the former two relational (southern) and renewal (eastern) from the combined perspectives of research process and economic and enterprise content.

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1317115414

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Integral Dynamics

Political Economy, Cultural Dynamics and the Future of the University

By: Ronnie Lessem,Alexander Schieffer,Samuel D. Rima

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Integral Dynamics

Political Economy, Cultural Dynamics and the Future of the University

By: Ronnie Lessem,Alexander Schieffer,Samuel D. Rima

The theory of integral dynamics is based on the view that the development of individual leaders or entrepreneurs requires the simultaneous development of institutions and societies. It seeks a specific way forward for each society, fundamentally different from, but drawing on, its past. Nearly every natural science has been transformed from an analytically-based approach to a dynamic one: now it is time for society and culture to follow suit locally and globally. Each culture, discipline and person is incomplete and is in need of others in order to develop and evolve. This book sets out a curriculum for a new integral, trans-cultural and trans-disciplinary area of study, inclusive of, but extending beyond, economics and enterprise. It embraces a trans-personal perspective, linking self with community, enterprise and society, and focusing on the vital relationship between local identity and global integrity. For the government policy maker, the enlightened business practitioner, and the student and researcher into economics and enterprise, the new discipline is set out here in complete detail by a multi-national team of Gower's Transformation and Innovation Series authors. Illuminated with examples relating the conceptual to the practical, this is a text, not for a pre-modern, modern, or even post-modern era, but for what has been called our trans-modern age.

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1317115597

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9781317115595

Chinese Philosophy

An Introduction

By: Ronnie L. Littlejohn

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Chinese Philosophy

An Introduction

By: Ronnie L. Littlejohn

The philosophical traditions of China have arguably influenced more human beings than any other. China has been the home not only of its indigenous philosophical traditions of Confucianism and Daoism, but also of uniquely modified forms of Buddhism. As Ronnie L Littlejohn shows, these traditions have for thousands of years formed the bedrock of the longest continuing civilization on the planet; and Chinese philosophy has profoundly shaped the institutions, social practices and psychological character of East and Southeast Asia. The author here surveys the key texts and philosophical systems of Chinese thinkers in a completely original and illuminating way. Ranging from the Han dynasty to the present, he discusses the six classical schools of Chinese philosophy (Yin-Yang, Ru, Mo, Ming, Fa and Dao-De); the arrival of Buddhism in China and its distinctive development; the central figures and movements from the end of the Tang dynasty to the introduction into China of Western thought; and the impact of Chinese philosophers ranging from Confucius and Laozi to Tu Weiming on their equivalents in the West.

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0857726587

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Integral Polity

Integrating Nature, Culture, Society and Economy

By: Ronnie Lessem,Ibrahim Abouleish,Louis Herman

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Integral Polity

Integrating Nature, Culture, Society and Economy

By: Ronnie Lessem,Ibrahim Abouleish,Louis Herman

Releasing the genius of an individual, an enterprise and a society is a central pre-occupation of the contemporary business environment. A fascinating approach to how we can begin to tackle this challenge is presented by the authors of Integral Polity. Integral spirituality, integral philosophy and the integral age, at an overall or holistic level of consciousness, has therefore become a strong enough idea to form the genesis of a movement over the course of the last half century. Taking as a starting point the ground-breaking work of the Trans4m Centre for Integral Development this book applies such an ’integral’ notion to the realms of business, economics and enterprise. To be successful, an integral approach must recognise the nuances of its environment - an integral approach in India is different from that in Indonesia, or Iceland, and they may in fact complement rather than conflict. Therefore this book also provides a fascinating alignment of such ’integrality’ with, and between different ’southern’ and ’eastern’, ’northern’ and ’western’ worlds. Using case studies ranging across the globe this review of a newly integral theory and practice provides a new lease of life to what may increasingly be perceived as the self-seeking, insulated and occasionally violent and corrupt, realm of the political.

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It's Your Choice

By: Ronnie Jerome Dufeal

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It's Your Choice

By: Ronnie Jerome Dufeal

This book can change your life. In this book you will discover a number of things for your happy amazing prosperity. You will experience a complete change of attitude. What you discover will amaze you. See life as youve never seen life before. Your self-esteem will dramatically increase. You like me will discover that your positive emotional feelings are a protective shield around you. The natural laws and principles presented here will help you easily solve your problems. They will instill in you the energy of self-motivation. You will come to the awareness that what we do we do for the Experience of it. Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. You will attract people and things of your predominant thoughts, your strongest thoughts. You will realize that you can easily feel proud to own the person you are. Yes you can be proud of the person that is you. You will discover that it is much easier to do things when you are happy. Yes you can easily solve any problem you may have by discovering and applying these natural laws and principles. The book will help you so you could help yourself. The book will program new thoughts in you. Your new thoughts will enable you to do and have things you never thought possible for you. I ask of you two things as you start this journey. I ask that you read with an open mind and be honest and true to yourself. Have the courage to admit certain lack or shortcomings of yours to you. When you do you put yourself in a position to change you. You may not understand or agree with everything in these pages but certain things will ring true. To believe someone or something is special you just have to continue to think they are special. People do just that in everyday life without being quite aware of it. As long as you continue to think they are special you will believe they are special. If you believe they are special you will treat them in special ways. The Breath Method takes away the pain. As you use the Breath Method you will come to later you will notice that it takes away emotional pain. There is a saying amongst teachers. Teachers said that repetition is the mother of retention. The repetition methods I have used in my books have proven to be very successful for retention of knowledge. As you go through the material you will discover this to be true. These laws and principles will make it easier for you to do and have anything you want including money.

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Transformation Management

Towards the Integral Enterprise

By: Ronnie Lessem,Alexander Schieffer

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Transformation Management

Towards the Integral Enterprise

By: Ronnie Lessem,Alexander Schieffer

The concept of transformation has long been known to the sciences and has been around in the popular vocabulary for several decades. Because it has never been fully developed as a managed process and applied to our organizations, the way in which we have been trying to deal with the complex issues we face today is looking increasingly inadequate. Transformation management, argue the authors of this inspirational book, now provides the opportunity for the application of the first significant world-wide innovation in the way we manage since Drucker put management itself on the map in the 1950s. In a book that draws on seminal theses and practical examples from the four corners of the world, Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer provide leaders, students of leadership, managers and change agents with a trans-culturally tested, integrated approach to leadership and management. Only through a redefinition of what leadership, management and entrepreneurship amount to, say the authors, can organizations be transformed into sustainable enterprises capable of dealing with the burning issues of our time. Leaders are coming to realise that it is no longer possible for organizations to operate in any sort of isolation from the society and the wider world in which they exist, but paying lip service to notions of either social responsibility or globality is not good enough. From this indispensable book, those whose enterprises are to have any hope of becoming authentically socially responsible or authentically global will learn to understand and activate the process that dynamically links any organization with the society in which it is embedded and that links the local with the global. The practice of transformation management is about creating real value... for organizations, people, and society. This book, from the Transformation and Innovation Series, makes that practice possible.

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Family Life Illustrated for Women

By: Ronnie W. Floyd,Ronnie Floyd

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Family Life Illustrated for Women

By: Ronnie W. Floyd,Ronnie Floyd

Christian women are pressured by the whims of the world to conform to secular trends, while still finding their identity in Christ. Pastor Ronnie Floyd, with the help of his wife, Jeana, gently and carefully draws some lines for Christian women and shows through scriptural examples what God expects of his daughters. Their desire is that Christian women would become stronger in their walk with Christ.

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Integral Research and Innovation

Transforming Enterprise and Society

By: Ronnie Lessem,Alexander Schieffer

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Integral Research and Innovation

Transforming Enterprise and Society

By: Ronnie Lessem,Alexander Schieffer

The core question underlying Integral Research and Innovation is: 'How can social research be turned into social or indeed "integral" innovation?' Complementing their acclaimed Transformation Management, this second book in the Transformation and Innovation Series explains how the knowledge creation that underpins transformative processes occurs. The authors show how research has to be transformative, rather than just informative if it is to contribute usefully to building integrated and sustainable enterprises. At a time when business practitioners and others responsible for organizational development are desperate for usable knowledge the authors contend that social science research is failing to support business and management generally. Instead, academic researchers engage in esoteric arguments about research methodology which do not contribute usefully to the resolution of real world problems. Drawing on their experience of environments where researchers and practitioners do engage constructively, resulting in research that is active, participative, and genuinely innovative, Professor Lessem and Dr Schieffer are in territory that is far beyond that covered by standard works on research methodology. This is a book not just for academics and researchers wanting to make a meaningful contribution, but also for reflective practitioners from the corporate organizational, and consultancy based worlds who operate in the area of interface between business and management, education, learning, and society, and who need to know how research can be used to make a real difference.

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Shattered Assumptions

By: Ronnie Janoff-Bulman

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Shattered Assumptions

By: Ronnie Janoff-Bulman

This book investigates the psychology of victimization. It shows how fundamental assumptions about the world's meaningfulness and benevolence are shattered by traumatic events, and how victims become subject to self-blame in an attempt to accommodate brutality. The book is aimed at all those who for personal or professional reasons seek to understand what psychological trauma is and how to recover from it.

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145160372X

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Integral Economics

Releasing the Economic Genius of Your Society

By: Dr Alexander Schieffer,Professor Ronnie Lessem

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Integral Economics

Releasing the Economic Genius of Your Society

By: Dr Alexander Schieffer,Professor Ronnie Lessem

Why on earth is economics perceived to come in only one or at best two different a-cultural if not a-moral guises? There are real, and many, alternatives to the economic mainstream. The trouble is, of course, that they are hidden from us. In Integral Economics Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer pave the way for a sustainable approach to economics, building on the richness of diverse economic approaches from all over the globe. By introducing the most evolved economic perspectives and bringing them into creative dialogue they argue that neither individual enterprises nor wider society will be transformed for the better without a new economic perspective. Here, they introduce a comprehensive framework based on the same 'Four Worlds' model that is applied to enterprise and research in their earlier works. Given the richness of even mainstream economic theory reviewed in this book, let alone the variety of alternative approaches introduced, it is frustrating that policymakers and business practitioners are impoverished by a lack of apparent economic choice – between a seemingly failing capitalism and an already failed communism. The 'villains of the piece' in relation to this lack of choice are not so much the financial community and governments, though they do have much to answer, but the schools of economics and the business schools, that have created the very social ethos, the philosophical principles, and the mathematical models, that influence events. Integral Economics is partly addressed to academics and students in those very schools, who have either realized the error of their ways, or, less dramatically, are curious to explore whether our businesses and communities could be run in a different way. It will be welcomed by informed senior practitioners, eager to understand the current rethink of economic theory and practice and to discover how to position themselves, their organizations, and their society within a new framework.

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1409459799

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I Am Dad

Navigating Divorce, Defying Narcissism, and Fighting for My Children

By: Ronnie Patrick

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I Am Dad

Navigating Divorce, Defying Narcissism, and Fighting for My Children

By: Ronnie Patrick

Embark on a Quest for Healing and Empowerment Through the Eyes of a Devoted Father In the heart-wrenching yet inspiring tale of "I Am Dad: Navigating Divorce, Defying Narcissism, and Fighting for My Children," readers are invited on a soul-stirring journey through the tempestuous seas of divorce, the sinister shadows of narcissism, and the unyielding battle for a father's greatest treasures--his children. This book is a beacon of hope for anyone navigating the tumultuous aftermath of a relationship marred by manipulation and control, offering a roadmap to personal liberation and unconditional love. The narrative unfolds with an honest and poignant Introduction: The Storm Before Calm, setting the stage for a deep dive into the emotional whirlwind that ensues when the dark clouds of an impending divorce gather. Through the eyes of a father determined to shield his offspring from harm, readers are taken on an emotional rollercoaster, from the pangs of lost love in Chapter 1: The Echoes of Love Lost, through the harrowing trenches of Chapter 2: In the Throes of Legal Warfare, and into the heart of darkness in Chapter 4: The Narcissist's Web. Yet, like the first rays of dawn after a long night, "I Am Dad" is imbued with hopeful insights and practical advice on reclaiming one's identity, healing from psychological wounds, and embracing the role of a solo parent. From the strategies in Chapter 10: Co-Parenting with a Narcissist to the empowering tales of resilience in Chapter 13: Solo Parenting Strengths, this book doesn't just chronicle a journey--it guides readers through their own. In the face of adversity, A Father's Love: Unyielding and Eternal emerges as the ultimate message of "I Am Dad." This story transcends the pages of a personal account, evolving into a universal call to action for parents everywhere to rise above their circumstances, armed with love, wisdom, and an indomitable spirit. The journey towards healing, rediscovery, and boundless love awaits. Whether you're a survivor of a narcissistic relationship, navigating the rough waters of a divorce, or seeking solace and strength in the aftermath, "I Am Dad" is your compass in the storm, guiding you home to a place of inner peace, resilience, and unwavering love for your children.

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145664842X

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The Interaction between World Trade Organisation (WTO) Law and External International Law

The Constrained Openness of WTO Law (A Prologue to a Theory)

By: Ronnie R.F. Yearwood

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The Interaction between World Trade Organisation (WTO) Law and External International Law

The Constrained Openness of WTO Law (A Prologue to a Theory)

By: Ronnie R.F. Yearwood

International legal scholarship is concerned with the fragmentation of international law into specialised legal systems such as trade, environment and human rights. Fragmentation raises questions about the inter-systemic interaction between the various specialised systems of international law. This study conceptually focuses on the interaction between World Trade Organisation (WTO) law and external international law. It introduces a legal theory of WTO law, constrained openness, as a way to understand that interaction. The idea is that WTO law, from its own internal point of view, constructs its own law. The effect is that external international law is not incorporated into WTO law wholesale, but is (re)constructed as WTO law. It follows that legal systems do not directly communicate with each other. Therefore, to influence WTO law, an indirect strategic approach is required, which recognises the functional nature of the differentiated systems of the fragmented international legal system.

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Principles and Practice of Geriatric Surgery

By: Ronnie A. Rosenthal

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Principles and Practice of Geriatric Surgery

By: Ronnie A. Rosenthal

Principles and Practice of Geriatric Surgery presents the fundamentals of surgical care for the fastest growing segment of the US population, providing a vital integration of operative strategies with the physiological changes of aging. Among the topics covered are the endocrine system, otolaryngology, respiratory system, cardiovascular system, GI system, hepatobiliary system, urogenital system, soft tissue and musculoskeletal system, neurosurgery, and transplantation.

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0387983937

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