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Prairie Dog Alert!: A Nasty Bite Leads to Big Trouble (XBooks: Medical)
by Christen BrownleeThe family had no idea that adopting a prairie dog could result in contracting a life-threatening illness.Schyan Kautzer and her parents want a new pet, so they adopt a prarie dog. But one day Schyan gets a fever, and her body is suddenly covered with sores. The only clue to her illness is a bite from her pet prairie dog.High-interest topics, real stories, engaging design and astonishing photos are the building blocks of the XBooks, a new series of books designed to engage and motivate reluctant and enthusiastic readers alike. How can a bite from a pet prairie dog cause a life-threatening illness? Where does the guinea worm, a parasite that lives under human skin, come from? How can a virus that attacks the brain be related to birds dropping dead at the zoo? With topics based in science, these action-packed books will help students unlock the power and pleasure of reading... and always ask for more!
Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985 (Studies in Gender and History)
by Valerie KorinekPrairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the prairies. Focusing on five major urban centres, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Edmonton, and Calgary, Prairie Fairies explores the regional experiences and activism of queer men and women by looking at the community centres, newsletters, magazines, and organizations that they created from 1930 to 1985. Challenging the preconceived narratives of queer history, Valerie J. Korinek argues that the LGBTTQ community has a long history in the prairie west, and that its history, previously marginalized or omitted, deserves attention. Korinek pays tribute to the prairie activists and actors who were responsible for creating spaces for socializing, politicizing, and organizing this community, both in cities and rural areas. Far from the stereotype of the isolated, insular Canadian prairies of small towns and farming communities populated by faithful farm families, Prairie Fairies historicizes the transformation of prairie cities, and ultimately the region itself, into a predominantly urban and diverse place.
Prairie Imperialists: The Indian Country Origins of American Empire (America in the Nineteenth Century)
by Katharine BjorkThe Spanish-American War marked the emergence of the United States as an imperial power. It was when the United States first landed troops overseas and established governments of occupation in the Philippines, Cuba, and other formerly Spanish colonies. But such actions to extend U.S. sovereignty abroad, argues Katharine Bjork, had a precedent in earlier relations with Native nations at home. In Prairie Imperialists, Bjork traces the arc of American expansion by showing how the Army's conquests of what its soldiers called "Indian Country" generated a repertoire of actions and understandings that structured encounters with the racial others of America's new island territories following the War of 1898.Prairie Imperialists follows the colonial careers of three Army officers from the domestic frontier to overseas posts in Cuba and the Philippines. The men profiled—Hugh Lenox Scott, Robert Lee Bullard, and John J. Pershing—internalized ways of behaving in Indian Country that shaped their approach to later colonial appointments abroad. Scott's ethnographic knowledge and experience with Native Americans were valorized as an asset for colonial service; Bullard and Pershing, who had commanded African American troops, were regarded as particularly suited for roles in the pacification and administration of colonial peoples overseas. After returning to the mainland, these three men played prominent roles in the "Punitive Expedition" President Woodrow Wilson sent across the southern border in 1916, during which Mexico figured as the next iteration of "Indian Country."With rich biographical detail and ambitious historical scope, Prairie Imperialists makes fundamental connections between American colonialism and the racial dimensions of domestic political and social life—during peacetime and while at war. Ultimately, Bjork contends, the concept of "Indian Country" has served as the guiding force of American imperial expansion and nation building for the past two and a half centuries and endures to this day.
Prairie Justice: The Hanging of Mike Hack (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History)
by Wayne SumnerIn May 1928, the body of George Edey was discovered on his Saskatchewan farm, leading to the swift arrest of a deaf and mentally disabled farmhand named Mike Hack. Following a three-day murder trial, Hack was quickly convicted and sentenced to death. Denied clemency, in January 1929 he was hanged in the courtyard of the Regina Jail at twenty-seven years of age and buried in an unmarked grave. Prairie Justice dissects this case, revealing its implications for important themes in the history of the Canadian criminal justice system. Wayne Sumner meticulously traces the narrative of the case, analysing each step from the initial murder investigation to the subsequent arrest, trial, conviction, denial of clemency, and execution of the man accused. Drawing on a personal connection to the case rooted in his family history – his father’s hometown was the village where the crime occurred, and both his grandfather and great-grandfather were involved in the investigation – Sumner uncovers deeper and more universal reasons to share the story. The book punctuates the narrative with insightful analysis on key criminal justice themes illustrated by the case: unfitness to stand trial, the defence of insanity, ineffective assistance of counsel, wrongful conviction, and miscarriage of justice. Ultimately, Prairie Justice exposes how access to justice can be merely illusory for the poor and marginalized.
Prairie Metropolis: New Essays on Winnipeg Social History
by Gerald Friesen Esyllt W. JonesAt the turn of the twentieth century, Winnipeg was the fastest-growing city in North America. But its days as a diverse and culturally rich metropolis did not end when the boom collapsed. Prairie Metropolis brings together some of the best new graduate research on the history of Winnipeg and makes a groundbreaking contribution to the history of the city between 1900 and the 1980s. The essays in this collection explore the development of social institutions such as the city’s police force, juvenile court, health care institutions, volunteer organizations, and cultural centres. They offer critical analyses on ethnic, gender, and class inequality and conflict, while placing Winnipeg’s experiences in national and international contexts.
Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889
by Jon K. LauckAMERICAN DEMOCRATIC IDEALS, civic republicanism, and Christianity were the dominant forces at work during South Dakota's formative decade. Territorial politics in the late nineteenth-century West is typically viewed as a game of unprincipled opportunism or as a drunken exercise in bombast and rascality. Now, Jon K. Lauck examines anew the values we like to think were at work during the founding of our western states. Taking Dakota Territory as a laboratory for examining a formative stage of western politics, Lauck finds that settlers from New England and the Midwest brought democratic practices and republican values to the northern plains and invoked them as guiding principles in the drive for South Dakota statehood. Prairie Republic corrects an overemphasis on class conflict and economic determinism, factors posited decades ago by such historians as Howard R. Lamar. Instead, Lauck finds South Dakota's political founders to be agents of Protestant Christianity and of civic republicanism-- an age- old ideology that entrusted the polity to independent, landowning citizens who placed the common interest above private interest. Focusing on the political culture widely shared among settlers attracted to the Great Dakota Boom of the 1880s, Lauck shows how they embraced civic virtue, broad political participation, and agrarian ideals. Family was central in their lives, as were common- school education, work, and Christian community. In rescuing the story of Dakota's settlers from historical obscurity, Prairie Republic dissents from the recent darker portrayals of western history and expands our view and understanding of the American democratic tradition.
Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention
by Jaskiran K DhillonIn 2016, Canada’s newly elected federal government publically committed to reconciling the social and material deprivation of Indigenous communities across the country. Does this outward shift in the Canadian state’s approach to longstanding injustices facing Indigenous peoples reflect a “transformation with teeth,” or is it merely a reconstructed attempt at colonial Indigenous-settler relations?Prairie Rising provides a series of critical reflections about the changing face of settler colonialism in Canada through an ethnographic investigation of Indigenous-state relations in the city of Saskatoon. Jaskiran Dhillon uncovers how various groups including state agents, youth workers, and community organizations utilize participatory politics in order to intervene in the lives of Indigenous youth living under conditions of colonial occupation and marginality. In doing so, this accessibly written book sheds light on the changing forms of settler governance and the interlocking systems of education, child welfare, and criminal justice that sustain it. Dhillon’s nuanced and fine-grained analysis exposes how the push for inclusionary governance ultimately reinstates colonial settler authority and raises startling questions about the federal
Prairie Silence: A Memoir
by Melanie HoffertA rural expatriate's struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people Melanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. A land where she imagines standing at the bottom of the ancient lake that preceded the prairie: crop rows become the patterned sand ripples of the lake floor; trees are the large alien plants reaching for the light; and the sky is the water's vast surface, reflecting the sun. Like most rural kids, she followed the out-migration pattern to a better life. The prairie is a hard place to stay--particularly if you are gay, and your home state is the last to know. For Hoffert, returning home has not been easy. When the farmers ask if she's found a "fella," rather than explain that--actually--she dates women, she stops breathing and changes the subject. Meanwhile, as time passes, her hometown continues to lose more buildings to decay, growing to resemble the mouth of an old woman missing teeth. This loss prompts Hoffert to take a break from the city and spend a harvest season at her family's farm. While home, working alongside her dad in the shop and listening to her mom warn, "Honey, you do not want to be a farmer," Hoffert meets the people of the prairie. Her stories about returning home and exploring abandoned towns are woven into a coming-of-age tale about falling in love, making peace with faith, and belonging to a place where neighbors are as close as blood but are often unable to share their deepest truths. In this evocative memoir, Hoffert offers a deeply personal and poignant meditation on land and community, taking readers on a journey of self-acceptance and reconciliation.
PrairyErth: A Deep Map
by William Least Heat-Moon(from flaps) PrairyErth is a vigorous and exalted evocation of the American land, its people, its past, its hopes. The very word "prairyerth," an old geologic term for the soils of our central grasslands, captures the essence of the American tall- grass country. Only a writer of William Least Heat-Moon's gifts could find in a single Kansas county the narrative of an epic, the nonfiction equivalent of the great American novel. Robert Penn Warren pronounced Heat-Moon's Blue Highways "a masterpiece ... a magnificent and unique tour." That best-selling book described a 13,000-mile, 38-state automobile journey into America. Now Heat-Moon has pulled to the side of the road and set off on foot. Instead of traveling endless miles, he takes us on an exploration of time and space, landscape and history, in one fragment of the Great Plains. Most American readers know three things about Kansas: it is flat, it has something to do with The Wizard of Oz, and the events of In Cold Blood took place there. Three illusions: the first is a lie, the second a fairy tale, the third a nightmare. Chase County is, however, a sparsely populated tract in the Flint Hills of central Kansas, "the last remaining grand expanse of tallgrass prairie in America," and PrairyErth lovingly details its 744 square miles and 3,000 souls till it looms as large as the universe while remaining as intimate as a village. PrairyErth is rich with Chase County's voices past and present, and is filled with anecdotes, gossip from its bars and cafes, Native American lore, and rueful tales of man's inhumanity to man and nature and of nature's indifference to humanity. Heat-Moon recounts the story of a farm couple swept aloft "by a tornado; reveals an Indian recipe to avert lightning; unearths a century-old unsolved murder; interviews a retired postmistress, a cowboy, a quarryman, a coyote hunter, a young feminist rancher. PrairyErth sets the story of a nineteenth- century tycoon, who dreamed of building a rail line to China through the county, against the memories of a retired Mexican railroad worker who can still recall every tie he spiked for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe. It speaks of the passion of the slavery wars of Bleeding Kansas and the sad fate of the Kaw tribe, and gives us a hundred new ways to see stones, creeks, grasses, birds, beasts, and weather. Each of the book's vivid and evocative chapters is totally unexpected, yet "unexpected Kansas must be sought in its remoteness, a place you find only with effort." The millions who have read Blue Highway,), and those who have yet to encounter the genius of William Least Heat-Moon's writing, will find that he is one of those rare modern writers who can change forever the way we see ourselves and our country.
Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic (Lannan Translations Selection Series)
by Aída Cartagena Portalatin Angela Hernández Núñez Ylonka Nacidit-PerdomoAs tropical as it is topical, this landmark anthology gives voice to three powerful women poets from the Dominican Republic. Together they present a wide array of linguistic and stylistic elements, and they address shared political and cultural issues that illuminate what it means to be a woman in the modern-day Dominican Republic. Translator Judith Kerman, who began the anthology as a Senior Fulbright Scholar, notes that "contemporary women poets from the Dominican Republic are the most underserved group when it comes to English-language translations." This anthology remedies that omission with poetry that is smart, edgy, and groundbreaking.
Praising His Name In The Dance: Spirit Possession in the Spiritual Baptist Faith and Orisha Work in Trinidad, West Indies (Studies In Latin America And The Caribbean Ser. #Vol. 1)
by Kenneth Anthony LumThe author provides a detailed portrait of the Spiritual Baptist Faith and Orisha Work, two religions that share a common basis in the traditional religion of the Yoruba in West Africa. Specifically, the author studies the phenomenon of spirit possession, an integral aspect of worship in both religions. In the Spiritual Baptist Faith, a person who
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Praktiken Jugendlicher im öffentlichen Raum – Zwischen Selbstdarstellung und Teilhabeansprüchen: Ein Beitrag zur Partizipationsdebatte (Sozialraumforschung und Sozialraumarbeit #19)
by Christian Reutlinger Andreas Walther Axel Pohl Annegret WiggerWie gelingt es einer Gesellschaft, die nachkommende Generation zu überzeugen, bestehende Strukturen und Prozesse zu akzeptieren, diese selbst mitzutragen und sich darüber an der zu-künftigen Gestaltung von Gesellschaft zu beteiligen? Das Buch leistet einen Beitrag zur Klärung dieser Fragen, indem der aktuelle Partizipationsdiskurs kritisch beleuchtet und eine erste Heuristik entwickelt wird, wie Potenziale für Partizipation in unterschiedlichsten Praktiken Jugendlicher aufgedeckt werden können. Auf dieser Basis werden verschiedene Praktiken junger Menschen im öffentlichen Raum auf ihre Teilhabeansprüche hin untersucht. Die Beiträge setzen sich schließlich mit biographischen wie gesellschaftlichen Realisierungsbedingungen von Teilhabeansprüche auseinander.
Praktiken der Überwachten: Öffentlichkeit und Privatheit im Web 2.0
by Martin Stempfhuber Elke WagnerDie forschungsleitende These des Sammelbandes ist, dass die Genese von Öffentlichkeit und Privatheit sich spezifischen, empirisch nachvollziehbaren Herstellungspraktiken verdankt, die jeweils an mediale Bedingungen gekoppelt ist. Diese Ausgangsthese schließt einerseits an eine soziologisch fundierte Tradition in der Erforschung der Hervorbringung von öffentlichen und privaten Räumen an und erprobt andererseits ihre in historischen Analysen bewährte Überzeugungskraft für eine empirische Rekonstruktion gegenwärtiger Medienkontexte.
Praktiken von Transdiskursen: Ein multidisziplinärer Zugang
by Claudia Maier-Höfer Gerhard SchreiberDer Band versammelt Beiträge ausgewiesener Expert*innen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis zu Transsexualität/Transidentität. Wesentliche Intention der multidisziplinären Beiträge ist die Öffnung und Sensibilisierung bestehender Diskurse über geschlechtliche Selbstbestimmung für ethische und lebensweltliche Fragestellungen. Der Band richtet sich an Menschen, die sich als Fachpersonen verschiedener Disziplinen mit der Thematik der Selbstbestimmung des Geschlechts in Bezug zu ethischen Fragen auseinandersetzen wollen, und dient als Orientierung für die praktische Arbeit und für die Ausbildung. Darüber hinaus stellt der Band eine Plattform dar, welche die gegenwärtigen Diskussionen aufnimmt, weiterentwickelt sowie methodologische Aspekte und disziplinäre Bindungen bezogen auf ethische Implikationen hinterfragt.
Praktikumsknigge: Der Leitfaden zum Berufseinstieg
by Stefan Rippler Nadine LuckDer Praktikumsknigge erklärt auf knapp 140 Seiten, wie Schulabgänger, Studenten oder auch Absolventen ein Praktikum zum wirklichen Karrierebaustein machen. Von den Spielarten der Praktika (vor, während und nach dem Studium) und ihren teils gravierenden Auswirkungen auf Steuer, Versicherung, Arbeitsrecht und BAföG bis zum richtigen Netzwerken nach dem Unternehmensbesuch. Der Praktikumsknigge beschreibt die Methoden intelligenter Stellensuche, zeigt, wie aus einem selbstkritischen Auftreten eine selbstbewusste Bewerbung wird. Daneben vermittelt er die klassischen „Knigge“-Regeln: Die Kollegen am ersten Tag duzen oder siezen? Aufmucken oder Akzeptieren? Kopieren ohne Ende oder das klärende Gespräch und eine sinnvolle Beschäftigung suchen? Auf Dutzende solcher Fragen gibt der Praktikumsknigge Antworten.
Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World
by Kembrew McLeodFrom BenjaminFranklin's newspaper hoax that faked the death of his rival to Abbie Hoffman’sattempt to levitate the Pentagon, pranksters, hoaxers, and con artists have causedconfusion, disorder, and laughter in Western society for centuries. Profilingthe most notorious mischief makers from the 1600s to the present day, Prankstersexplores how “pranks” are part of a long tradition of speaking truth to powerand social critique.Invoking such historical and contemporary figures as P.T. Barnum,Jonathan Swift, WITCH, The Yes Men, and Stephen Colbert, Kembrew McLeod showshow staged spectacles that balance the serious and humorous can spark importantpublic conversations. In some instances, tricksters have incited social change(and unfortunate prank blowback) by manipulating various forms of media, fromnewspapers to YouTube. For example, in the 1960s, self-proclaimed “professionalhoaxer” Alan Abel lampooned America’s hypocritical sexual mores by usingconservative rhetoric to fool the news media into covering a satirical organizationthat advocated clothing naked animals. In the 1990s, Sub Pop Recordsthen-receptionist Megan Jasper satirized the commodification of alternativemusic culture by pranking the New YorkTimes into reporting on her fake lexicon of “grunge speak.” Throughout thisbook, McLeod shows how pranks interrupt the daily flow of approved informationand news, using humor to underscore larger, pointed truths.Written in an accessible, story-driven style, Prankstersreveals how mischief makers have left their shocking, entertaining, andeducational mark on modern political and social life.
Prastavik Sukshma Arthashastra First Semester FYBA New NEP Syllabus - RTMNU: प्रास्ताविक सूक्ष्म अर्थशास्त्र पहिले सत्र एफ.वाय.बी.ए. नवीन एन.इ.पी. अभ्यासक्रम - राष्ट्रसंत तुकडोजी महाराज नागपूर विद्यापीठ
by Prof. B. L. Jibhkateप्रास्ताविक सूक्ष्म अर्थशास्त्र हे प्रा. बी. एल. जिभकाटे लिखित पुस्तक रा.तु.म. नागपूर विद्यापीठाच्या बी.ए. प्रथम वर्ष, सेमेस्टर १ च्या नवीन (NEP 2020) अभ्यासक्रमानुसार तयार करण्यात आलेले आहे. हे पुस्तक सूक्ष्म अर्थशास्त्राच्या मूलभूत संकल्पनांचे सुलभ व समजण्यासारखे स्पष्टीकरण करते. यामध्ये मागणी व पुरवठा, उपयोगिता, उत्पादन फलन, किंमत निश्चिती, वितरणाचे सिद्धांत, आणि विविध बाजाररचना यांचा अभ्यास सुसंगत पद्धतीने मांडला आहे. लेखकाने विद्यार्थ्यांना जड वाटणाऱ्या संकल्पना सोप्या भाषेत समजावून सांगण्याचा प्रयत्न केला आहे. आर्थिक संज्ञांची परिभाषा, उदाहरणे आणि आकृतींच्या सहाय्याने विषय अधिक सुलभ झाला आहे. ॲडम स्मिथ, मार्शल, रॉबिन्स यांसारख्या अर्थशास्त्रज्ञांच्या व्याख्यांचा विश्लेषणात्मक अभ्यास यात आहे. हे पुस्तक विद्यार्थ्यांच्या परीक्षाभिमुख तयारीसाठी उपयुक्त ठरणारे असून, आर्थिक संकल्पनांमागील तर्कशुद्ध विचार आणि सामाजिक व्यवहारातील उपयोग या दोन्ही अंगांचा समतोल राखतो. व्यावहारिक दृष्टिकोन, संक्षिप्त उत्तरांची रचना व विविध अभ्यासप्रश्न हे याचे महत्त्वाचे वैशिष्ट्य आहे. त्यामुळे हे पुस्तक बी.ए. स्तरावरील विद्यार्थ्यांसाठी तसेच अर्थशास्त्र विषयाच्या मूलभूत अभ्यासासाठी अत्यंत उपयुक्त आहे.
Praxeological Political Analysis (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
by Beate Littig Michael JonasWith the interest in practice theory and praxeology on the rise, praxeology can be considered an emerging new methodological as well as theoretical paradigm which successfully overcomes epistemological dichotomies of conventional approaches. The articles in this volume serve as starting points for rendering contemporary practice theory approaches useful for the analysis of political events and processes, without reducing the political aspect a priori to the formal policy sphere. In this context, Praxeological Political Analysis demonstrates that praxeological research is now increasingly addressing issues which are considered virulent in, for instance, the consumer, sustainability or political spheres. Following on from this key focus on political analysis, this title also seeks to expand the current status of primarily political science adaptions of practice theory approaches to the analysis of predominantly narrowly defined political practices. Written with an explicit focus on diverse political aspects and dimensions in the performative enactment of social practices, this title will appeal to post-graduate students and scholars interested in sociology of politics, social and public policy, development in social theory and political research methods.
Praxeology and the Rothbardians
by Adam KnottPraxeology and the Rothbardians is an essay by Adam Knott in which Knott argues that the normative property theories of Murray Rothbard and Hans-Hermann Hoppe are not part of praxeology, the general science of human action.
Praxis and Politics: Knowledge Production in Social Movements (New Approaches in Sociology)
by Janet M. ConwayPraxis and Politics explores the knowledge arising from activist praxis and its significance for reimagining radical and democratic politics. It is based on five years of direct involvement in the Toronto-based Metro Network for Social Justice and their work in coalition building, campaign-organizing and 'economic and political literacy' work in the aftermath of the signing of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement. The book breaks new theoretical and methodological ground in social movement studies in drawing on a wide range of traditions including cultural studies, urban studies, political economy and feminism.
Praxis der Sinus-Milieus®: Gegenwart und Zukunft eines modernen Gesellschafts- und Zielgruppenmodells
by Bertram Barth Berthold Bodo Flaig Norbert Schäuble Manfred TautscherSeit 2018 gibt es das Grundlagenwerk „Praxis der Sinus-Milieus® - eine autoritative Darstellung des Milieuansatzes von SINUS und dessen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten, also eine Publikation, die die Gültigkeit der Sinus-Milieus im Kontext der soziokulturellen Dynamik begründet, ihre Aktualität in Zeiten von Digitalisierung und Globalisierung untermauert und ihren Nutzwert für Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft wie für den institutionellen Bereich deutlich macht.Diese Grundsatzveröffentlichung ist jetzt komplett überarbeitet, aktualisiert und ergänzt worden. Die vorliegende Neuauflage enthält die zwischenzeitlich upgedateten, d.h. neu konstituierten Sinus-Milieumodelle für Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz, das neue Migranten-Milieumodell und das neue internationale Meta-Milieumodell. Außerdem wurden wichtige Anwendungsbereiche der Sinus-Milieus ergänzt: ein Kapitel zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit, ein Kapitel zur Markenwahrnehmung, ein Kapitel zur politischen Transformationsberatung, ein Kapitel zur milieuspezifischen Entwicklung von Personas und anderes mehr.Das vorliegende Buch liefert Informationen über die Sinus-Milieus „direkt von der Quelle“, aus Sicht der Erfinder, Entwickler und Anwender des Ansatzes. Geschrieben haben die hier zusammengestellten Essays die wissenschaftlichen Beiräte, Gesellschafter, Mitarbeiter, Kunden und Partner der für die Sinus-Milieus verantwortlich zeichnenden Schwesterinstitute SINUS (Heidelberg/Berlin/Singapur) und INTEGRAL (Wien). Die Beiträge zeigen auf, aus ihrer je eigenen Perspektive und Erfahrung, was es mit den Sinus-Milieus auf sich hat und wozu sie gut sind.
Praxisbuch Interkulturelle Handlungskompetenz: Für Fach- und Führungskräfte mit globalen Herausforderungen
by Alexander ThomasFit für das Leben und erfolgreiches Arbeiten in einer globalen Welt! Dieses Buch hilft Ihnen in internationalen und interkulturellen Kontexten - sowohl im beruflichen Arbeitsalltag wie auch in privaten Lebensbereichen - verständnisvoller, toleranter und effizienter zusammenarbeiten zu können. Das Buch basiert auf empirischen Befunden und praxisnahen Fallbeispielen, die aus der Zusammenarbeit zwischen 40 Ländern weltweit entstanden sind. Gespickt mit vielen Anregungen eröffnet es Ihnen ein Verständnis dafür, welche Fallstricke es bei der Interaktion mit Menschen aus fremden Kulturen zu vermeiden gilt. Dadurch können kulturspezifische Missverständnisse reduziert und das Verständnis untereinander verbessert werden. Dazu erfahren Sie, welche Persönlichkeitseigenschaften für den Aufbau und die Wirkungen interkultureller Handlungskompetenz besonders förderlich sind. Dadurch erhalten Sie wertvolle Einblicke und Strategien zur Vermeidung und Bewältigung interkulturell bedingter Problemstellungen um Irritationen, Frustration und Verärgerung auf beiden Seiten zu vermeiden und die Ergebnisse der Zusammenarbeit zu verbessern. Zielgruppen:Fach- und Führungskräfte aus den Bereichen Wirtschaft und Verwaltung, Fort- und Weiterbildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Lehre, soziale Arbeit, berufliche Auslandseinsätze und die Zusammenarbeit in internationalen Unternehmen. Zum Autor: Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. Alexander Thomas war bis zu seiner Pensionierung Professor für Sozialpsychologie und Angewandte Psychologie an der Universität Regensburg und ist Honorarprofessor an der Ostbayerischen Technischen Hochschule in Regensburg (OTH). Die Konzepte „interkulturelle Handlungskompetenz“ und „Kulturstandards“ sind vom Autor auf der Basis der Ergebnisse empirischer Forschungsarbeiten im In- und Ausland entwickelt worden.
Praxishandbuch Habitussensibilität und Diversität in der Hochschullehre (Prekarisierung und soziale Entkopplung – transdisziplinäre Studien)
by David Kergel Birte HeidkampDas Praxishandbuch vermittelt handlungsorientiert zentrale Konzepte für eine habitus- und diversitätssensible Hochschullehre. Themen wie Gendersensibilität, Migrationspädagogik, Habitussensibilität, kritisches E-Learning 2.0 und Interkulturalität werden theoriefundiert vorgestellt. Im Sinne eines Theorie-Praxistransfers werden jeweils angemessene Kommunikationsstrategien für ein habitus- bzw. diversitätssensibles Handeln in der Lehre dargestellt. Im Fokus des Praxishandbuchs steht folglich die Vermittlung von theoretisch fundierten Kommunikations- und Handlungsstrategien, die ein habitus- und diversitätssensibles Lehrhandeln ermöglichen.
Praxishandbuch Wirtschaft in Afrika
by Thomas Schmidt Kay Pfaffenberger Stefan LiebingAfrika ist ein Kontinent im Aufschwung, der eine große wirtschaftliche Dynamik entwickelt. Wenn deutsche Unternehmen am Aufschwung Afrikas partizipieren wollen, müssen sie mit einigen Besonderheiten vertraut sein. Das Buch zeigt diesen Weg zu erfolgreichen Geschäften in Afrika. Es ist ein praxisorientierter, gleichwohl wissenschaftlich fundierter Ratgeber für alle Unternehmer und wirtschaftlich Interessierten, die in Afrika erfolgreich sein wollen. Es vereint dabei die Erfahrungen vieler Unternehmen mit der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive und den Erkenntnissen des Centre for Business und Technology in Africa der Hochschule Flensburg. In der 2. Auflage werden neue Entwicklungen auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent aufgegriffen und aktuelle Antworten gegeben auf die klassischen Fragen, die jeder Akteur für sich beantworten muss, der in Afrika wirtschaftlich erfolgreich sein will: WARUM Afrika für das Geschäft interessant ist, WO die größten Erfolgsaussichten bestehen, WIE vorzugehen ist und WELCHE Ansätze zur künftigen Gestaltung der Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Afrika erfolgsvorsprechend sind. Das Buch beschreibt, wie in Afrika investiert werden kann und bündelt die aktuellen Erfahrungen von Managern großer Konzerne und Familienunternehmen mit langjähriger Geschichte auf dem Kontinent.