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Burning Bush 2.0: How Pop Culture Replaced the Prophet
by Paul AsayMaybe God doesn’t speak through prophets as often these days because he knows people wouldn’t listen. Maybe God speaks to us in different ways—and in the places he knows where we congregate: in our movie theaters, living rooms, iPods, and smartphones. Maybe God still longs to connect with us, and so goes into the places where we’re most likely to listen. Burning Bush 2.0 is a whimsical and sincere examination of the ways God communicates with us—sometimes subtly and secretly—through our media and entertainment streams. Asay examines how faith and God’s fingerprints mark movies and music, television and technology. Through word and picture, God still speaks to us through unsuspecting voices—in ways we’re best able to hear—even if we don’t fully comprehend it completely in the moment. God is everywhere, and doesn’t ask permission to speak, shout out, or whisper his name. Includes study guide for individuals and church groups.
Burning Dislike: Ethnic Violence in High Schools
by Martín Sánchez-JankowskiViolence in schools has more potential to involve large numbers of students, produce injuries, disrupt instructional time, and cause property damage than any other form of youth violence. Burning Dislike is the first book to use direct observation of everyday violent interactions to explore ethnic conflict in high schools. Why do young people engage in violence while in school? What is it about ethnicity that leads to fights? Through the use of two direct observational studies conducted twenty-six years apart, Martín Sánchez-Jankowski documents the process of ethnic school violence from start to finish. In addition to shedding light on what causes this type of violence and how it progresses over time, Burning Dislike provides strategic policy suggestions to address this troubling phenomenon.
Burning Down The House: Recycling Domesticity
by Rosemary Marangoly GeorgeThis book views domesticity through multiple frames and surveys the rhetoric and practices of domestication in contemporary cultures. It also examines the consequences and costs of homemaking in various geographic and textual locations.
Burning Table Mountain
by Simon PooleyThis is an environmental history of humans and wildfire on the Cape Peninsula, from the practices of Khoikhoi herders to the conflagrations of January 2000. The book examines how the region's unique, famously diverse fynbos vegetation has been transformed since European colonial settlement, through urbanisation and biological modifications.
Burnout While Working: Lessons from Pandemic and Beyond (Current Issues In Work And Organizational Psychology Ser.)
by Cary L. Cooper Michael P. LeiterThis book offers an extensive look into the ways living through the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened our understanding of the crises people experience in their relationships with work. Leading experts explore burnout as an occupational phenomenon that arises through mismatches between workplace and individuals on the day-to-day patterns in work life. By disrupting where, when, and how people worked, pandemic measures upset the delicate balances in place regarding core areas of work life. Chapters examine the profound implications of social distancing on the quality and frequency of social encounters among colleagues, with management, and with clientele. The book covers a variety of occupational groups such as those in the healthcare and education sectors, and demonstrates the advantages and strains that come with working from home. The authors also consider the broader social context of working through the pandemic regarding risks and rewards for essential workers. By focusing on changes in organizational structures, policies, and practices, this book looks at effective ways forward in both recovering from this pandemic and preparing for further workplace disruptions. A wide audience of students and researchers in psychology, management, business, healthcare, and social sciences, as well as policy makers in government and professional organizations, will benefit from this detailed insight into the ways COVID-19 has affected contemporary work attitudes and practices.
Burnout and Trauma Related Employment Stress: Acceptance and Commitment Strategies in the Helping Professions
by Stephen E. Brock Melissa L. Holland Taylor Oren Maciel van EckhardtBurnout and trauma related employment stress (TRES), which includes compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and vicarious trauma, are increasing in prevalence as attrition rates, mental health disturbances, and suicide rates are climbing for those in the helping professions. This book highlights the imperative for prevention and early intervention using acceptance and commitment strategies. It includes cognitive, acceptance, and mindfulness techniques to assist the individual in achieving goals through values-based living. Among the topics discussed: Definitions of Burnout and TRESPrevalence rates of burnout and TRES in the helping professionsMindfulness and acceptance practicesDefusion and cognitive techniquesValues based goal settingOrganizational responsibilities and strategiesAssessment resources Burnout and Trauma Related Employment Stress will be a valuable resource for clinicians working with those experiencing the symptoms of TRES and burnout, as well as the individuals themselves.
Burnout at Work: A psychological perspective
by Michael P. Leiter Christina Maslach Arnold B. BakkerThe psychological concept of burnout refers to long-term exhaustion from, and diminished interest in, the work we do. It’s a phenomenon that most of us have some understanding of, even if we haven’t always been affected directly. Many people start their working lives full of energy and enthusiasm, but far fewer are able to maintain that level of engagement. Burnout at Work: A Psychological Perspective provides a comprehensive overview of how the concept of burnout has been conceived over recent decades, as well as discussing the challenges and possible interventions that can help confront this pervasive issue. Including contributions from the most eminent researchers in this field, the book examines a range of topics including: The links between burnout and health How our individual relationships at work can affect levels of burnout The role of leadership in mediating or causing burnout The strategies that individuals can pursue to avoid burnout, as well as wider interventions. The book will be required reading for anyone studying organizational or occupational psychology, and will also interest students of business and management, and health psychology.
Burnout in Social Work Field Education: Mitigating the Risk (SpringerBriefs in Social Work)
by Mary Powell Linda Riggs MayfieldThis book informs social work students about the context and potential for burnout in their field experience, their first work with clients, and equips them to recognize, prevent, and address it. With its emphasis on role ambiguity and self-care based on current research, the volume uniquely fills the gap in available texts and prepares them for successful professional practice with personal mental health. Job burnout and self-care have received attention in research and education in social work and other caring professions, but social work students must successfully complete managed learning assignments in the field before they can become social workers, and those experiences can put the student at risk for burnout. Until very recently, however, student burnout has been a 'silent' issue in the profession and the literature. With this compact book, readers learn the risks of burnout in field assignments for students and new professionals, the organizational andpersonal factors that contribute to it, appropriate self-care strategies to reduce its incidence, and effective coping strategies to limit its effect. Stakeholders gain understanding about burnout incidence, prevention, and self-care that prepares them to take appropriate preventive and prescriptive action. Burnout in Social Work Field Education: Mitigating the Risk is a timely and essential resource for social work instructors, students, field interns, instructors, and supervisors. It can serve as a supplementary text to aid students in understanding what factors will increase their risk of burnout and help them identify which coping strategies are most likely to be effective, based on research. It is a highly desirable complementary text for adoption in social work courses and in-service education in early social work practice. The book also should interest administrators in social service agencies and presenters of in-service education opportunities for social workers and social work educators.
Burnout to Breakthrough: Building Resilience to Refuel, Recharge, and Reclaim What Matters
by Eileen McDargh"Eileen delivers a new perspective on the burnout crisis with humor, good sense, and unique ideas on how to manage our brains. I owe my daily well-being to her. Keep this book at your side to help you glide through your workday." —Marcia Reynolds, PsyD, author of The Discomfort ZoneIt's official. For the first time, the World Health Organization has classified burnout as a health problem. Renowned motivational speaker Eileen McDargh proposes that to tackle it, we must learn to break out of energy-draining thoughts and behaviors.Resilience, she argues, is strictly a matter of energy management--by better managing your energy, you can both build resiliency and overcome burnout. Breakthrough happens when our energy is consciously distributed to what matters most in our lives. So after a short survey that will tell you where you fit in a burnout and resiliency profile, McDargh helps pinpoint the causes of your burnout and examine the energy demands that keep you from refueling and recharging. She provides an in-depth energy analysis and gives you the keys to master the four dimensions that can give you a resilience breakthrough: head, heart, hands, and humor.McDargh guides the reader through the process of identifying energy drains and implementing strategies for handling them, whatever phase of life you are in. Her intention is to help you not only to successfully manage work and life demands but also make even larger strides in understanding how to put together a life by design and not by default.
Burnout: Von Betroffenen lernen!
by Peter Buchenau Manfred NeltingDie Leser des Buches werden von 13 Burnout-betroffenen Menschen in ihre Lebenserzählungen mitgenommen. Diese Erzählungen konnten sie alle erst jetzt aus der rückwärtigen Perspektive aufschreiben, obwohl bei allen so etwas wie eine Ahnung der Zusammenhänge während des Burnout-Prozesses anklang. Zu schmerzlich wäre es gewesen, sich einzugestehen, dass die eingeschlagene Richtung nicht stimmt bzw. den jeweiligen Alltag nicht schaffen zu können, da wir in einem Burnout-Prozess unserer Gesellschaft meist die Deutungshoheit lassen: Du bist zu schwach, Du bist ein Versager, andere schaffen das, das musst Du auch schaffen, denk dran, was Du dafür investiert hast!' Doch im Nachhinein haben sich alle erlaubt, selbst zu deuten, was sie erlebt haben, und bezeichnen die Erfahrung im Burnout als entscheidend wichtiges Erleben in ihrem Leben hin zu einem wesensnäheren Alltag. Die Retroperspektive erlaubt es allen den Prozess als wichtige Richtungsänderung und Reifung zu sehen und doch hätten alle sehr gerne ihren Burnout-Prozess frühzeitiger verlassen, hätten sie gewusst wie. Alle haben aber auch verstanden und dargestellt, warum es bei ihnen zum Burnout kommen ,musste'. Von Betroffenen lernen heißt also auch die Frage zu beantworten, inwieweit sich ein Burnout-Prozess frühzeitig bemerken lässt und ob es bewährte Exit-Strategien dafür gibt. Des weiteren kommt die Frage auf, ob es eine Burnout-Prävention geben kann. Dieses Buch gibt daher 13 persönliche Antworten.
Burnt by Democracy: Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life
by Jacqueline KennellyBurnt by Democracy traces the political ascendance of neoliberalism and its effects on youth. The book explores democracy and citizenship as described in interviews with over forty young people – ages 16 to 30 – who have either experienced homelessness or identify as an activist, living in five liberal democracies: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Highlighting significant cuts to social and affordable housing, astronomical increases in the costs of higher education, and the transformation and erosion of state benefits systems, Jacqueline Kennelly argues that democracy’s decline is not occurring because young people are apathetic, or focused on informal politics, or unaware of their civic duties. Rather, it is because of collective misunderstanding about how democracy is actually structured, how individuals learn to participate, and how growing wealth inequality has undermined the capacity of those at the bottom to meaningfully advocate for changes that might improve their conditions. Against a vivid and often heart-breaking backdrop of stories from young people struggling to survive and thrive under conditions of ever-expanding state retrenchment and inequality, Burnt by Democracy makes a timely and impassioned plea for protecting and strengthening democracy by truly levelling the playing field for all.
Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America
by Ranya Tabari IdlibyFor many Americans, the words ‘American' and ‘Muslim' simply do not marry well; for many the combination is an anathema, a contradiction in values, loyalties, and identities. This is the story of one American Muslim family—the story of how, through their lives, their schools, their friends, and their neighbors, they end up living the challenges, myths, fears, hopes, and dreams of all Americans. They are challenged by both Muslims who speak for them and by Americans who reject them. In this moving memoir, Idliby discusses not only coming to terms with what it means to be Muslim today, but how to raise and teach her children about their heritage and religious legacy. She explores life as a Muslim in a world where hostility towards Muslims runs rampant, where there is an entire industry financed and supported by think tanks, authors, film makers, and individual vigilantes whose sole purpose is to vilify and spread fear about all things Muslim. Her story is quintessentially American, a story of the struggles of assimilation and acceptance in a climate of confusion and prejudice—a story for anyone who has experienced being an "outsider" inside your own home country.
Burying the Beloved
by Amy MotlaghBurying the Beloved traces the relationship between the law and literature in Iran to reveal the profound ambiguities at the heart of Iranian ideas of modernity regarding women's rights and social status. The book reveals how novels mediate legal reforms and examines how authors have used realism to challenge and re-imagine notions of "the real." It examines seminal works that foreground acute anxieties about female subjectivity in an Iran negotiating its modernity from the Constitutional Revolution of 1905 up to and beyond the Islamic Revolution of 1979. By focusing on marriage as the central metaphor through which both law and fiction read gender, Motlagh critically engages and highlights the difficulties that arise as gender norms and laws change over time. She examines the recurrent foregrounding of marriage at five critical periods of legal reform, documenting how texts were understood both at first publication and as their importance changed over time.
Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers: Women's Lives Through War and Peace in Sierra Leone
by Chris CoulterThe civil war in Sierra Leone caused innumerable atrocities. One of the worst was the kidnapping, rape and enslavement of young women by the rebel forces. Coulter (anthropology Uppsala U. ) spent several years interviewing many of these women. Her conclusions do not simply paint these women as victims, although all of them are. Coulter studies how they survived, the way in which they were treated when they returned home, often with children, and how the kinship and gender relationships of their villages affected their ability to reintegrate. The women interviewed are not seen as statistics but individuals, each with her own story. Coulter includes women who fought with the rebels, some willingly, others by force. She also makes the point that silence is one way of coping, something long realized about men in war but not often applied to women. Another important comment is that there has been little serious research on the male culture of rape in war. Lastly, Coulter looks at the impact of various humanitarian aid groups and UN peacekeeping forces on the women, something that needs to be evaluated more thoroughly. Her obvious emotional involvement with the people of Sierra Leone does affect the objectivity of her conclusions. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
Bushwick's Bohemia: Art and Revitalization in Gentrifying Brooklyn
by Mario HernandezViewed as a symbol of urban blight and decline in the late 1970s and 1980s, Bushwick today is bustling and bursting with color, creativity, and commerce. Cozy and cool cafes, small boutiques, trendy restaurants, vibrant street murals, and art galleries now adorn the neighborhood in the northern part of Brooklyn, stoking its growing reputation as one of the more desirable places to live, work in, and visit. In this book, Mario Hernandez paints a precise picture that portrays the redevelopment, evolution, and ensuing gentrification of the Brooklyn neighborhood over recent decades. Drawing on interviews, developer reports, and historical and civic records, the author focuses closely on the artists and creative industries that moved to Bushwick and, over time, shaped the Bohemian art scene in the neighborhood and contributed to the growth of its vibrant urban economy. The book connects the emergence and ongoing development of the neighborhood’s art scene to neoliberal policies and city planning efforts that have also facilitated and led to the increasing displacement of long-time Black and Latinx residents. It also documents community efforts to counteract forces of displacement and development, revealing the complex, competing, and collective efforts to shape Bushwick and its future. Culture and capital collide, converge, and contribute to rapid and radical change in Bushwick’s bohemia, making this an important read for those interested in urban life, gentrification, and social issues.
Bushwick's Bohemia: Art and Revitalization in Gentrifying Brooklyn
by Mario HernandezViewed as a symbol of urban blight and decline in the late 1970s and 1980s, Bushwick today is bustling and bursting with color, creativity, and commerce. Cozy and cool cafes, small boutiques, trendy restaurants, vibrant street murals, and art galleries now adorn the neighborhood in the northern part of Brooklyn, stoking its growing reputation as one of the more desirable places to live, work in, and visit.In this book, Mario Hernandez paints a precise picture that portrays the redevelopment, evolution, and ensuing gentrification of the Brooklyn neighborhood over recent decades. Drawing on interviews, developer reports, and historical and civic records, the author focuses closely on the artists and creative industries that moved to Bushwick and, over time, shaped the Bohemian art scene in the neighborhood and contributed to the growth of its vibrant urban economy. The book connects the emergence and ongoing development of the neighborhood’s art scene to neoliberal policies and city planning efforts that have also facilitated and led to the increasing displacement of long-time Black and Latinx residents. It also documents community efforts to counteract forces of displacement and development, revealing the complex, competing, and collective efforts to shape Bushwick and its future.Culture and capital collide, converge, and contribute to rapid and radical change in Bushwick’s bohemia, making this an important read for those interested in urban life, gentrification, and social issues.
Business 4.0 as a Subject of the Digital Economy (Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation)
by Elena G. PopkovaThis book substantiates the transformation processes in the system of modern entrepreneurship in the conditions of formation of Industry 4.0. The authors develop a scientific concept of business 4.0, determine the specific features of business 4.0 and current problems and perspectives of its development in developed and developing markets, study the infrastructural provision of business 4.0 in view of its sectorial specifics, outline the perspectives and recommendations in the sphere of development of business 4.0, and offer the scientific and practical recommendations for state and corporate management.
Business Analytics: Data Science for Business Problems
by Walter R. PaczkowskiThis book focuses on three core knowledge requirements for effective and thorough data analysis for solving business problems. These are a foundational understanding of: 1. statistical, econometric, and machine learning techniques; 2. data handling capabilities; 3. at least one programming language. Practical in orientation, the volume offers illustrative case studies throughout and examples using Python in the context of Jupyter notebooks. Covered topics include demand measurement and forecasting, predictive modeling, pricing analytics, customer satisfaction assessment, market and advertising research, and new product development and research. This volume will be useful to business data analysts, data scientists, and market research professionals, as well as aspiring practitioners in business data analytics. It can also be used in colleges and universities offering courses and certifications in business data analytics, data science, and market research.
Business And Education In The Middle East
by Nehme AzouryBusiness and Education in the Middle East brings together academic and business expertise in order to come up with long-term strategies that will have a great effect on the university performance and governance. The book shares experiences and knowledge to explore innovative strategies and plans with a new perspective for the future.
Business Cases in Organisation Behaviour and HRM: Perspectives from India (Springer Business Cases)
by Gopal P. MahapatraThis book provides perspectives on various dimensions of organizational behavior (OB) and human resource management (HRM) in an ever-changing world. The world has been experiencing disruptions and technological changes at an unprecedented level in the last two decades. This book is a collection of handpicked cases and teaching notes on the various critical dimensions of OB, such as organization transformation, leadership, organization culture, training and development, innovation, CSR, competencies for enhancing entrepreneurship, and women leadership. These dimensions have been covered extensively with an emphasis on COVID-19 pandemic in a few cases. While academicians can use this book to cover the critical concepts and dimensions of change, leadership, and innovation, they can highlight its relevance for young professionals in their journey of growth and development. Through these cases, the postgraduate students are likely to benefit enormously from the recent changes in various industries, MNCs, and Indian organizations operating during changing times. Overall, this book of OB & HRM cases is a great value addition to the management field, equally for the teachers, practitioners, and students. It is a valuable supplement to popular OB & HRM textbooks.
Business Competitiveness and Sustainability: Theory, Practice, and Future Challenges (Innovation and Technology Horizons)
by João J. Ferreira Marco ArrayaThis book presents seven internal dimensions that have a direct impact on an organization’s global competitiveness and sustainability: purpose, leadership, passion, people-centered, customer-centric, infrastructure, and viability.An organization operates as a complex adaptive system that is impacted by external factors that make up its environment. These external factors, in turn, compel managers to make decisions and take deliberate actions that stimulate the organization's internal dimensions to enhance its competitiveness. Therefore, a competitive organization achieves a sustained level of productivity that leads to growth and the attainment of its objectives, resulting in increased income and well-being. Chapters in this book provide readers with a framework that demonstrates how these dimensions can be studied and analyzed individually, as well as how cultivating a coherent, mutually reinforcing system can enhance an organization's competitive advantage. This book also includes illustrative case studies and proposes an instrument to measure an organization's competitiveness.Providing a strategic framework for enhancing competitiveness in VUCA environments, this book will interest scholars and students in strategic management, competitiveness, innovation, and international business.
Business Continuity Management: Significant Insights from Practice
by Kush Srivastava Waddah S Ghanem Al HashmiAn essential resource to navigate a fast-changing and challenging world, this book presents core concepts and practical insights for enterprise risk management, business continuity management, and organizational resilience. Business continuity management is a critical aspect that investors and company directors evaluate in terms of an organizations’ sustainability and future value propositions in the face of supply chain disruptions, threats of economic recession, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This guide demonstrates a simple and systematic way to ensure that businesses are prepared for any crisis or emergency, including steps to meet the specific requirements prescribed in the international Business Continuity Standard ISO 22201, with a particular focus on the oil and gas sector. The seasoned author team brings their experience to bear on critical issues such as: Where managers lose focus on the need for business continuity – and how to regain it How to select and implement a business continuity management tool How to plan for the "macro scenario" that combines supply chain management, risk management, business continuity, and crisis management How to best utilize "peace time" to explore business continuity plans and strategies Why organizations should invest in business continuity even when the “going is tough in revenue and sales” This guide to understanding the role of business continuity and management as an organizational strategy will earn its place on the desks of senior leaders, health and safety directors, consultants, corporate trainers, and business continuity and risk management professionals.
Business Data Analytics: First International Conference, ICBDA 2022, Dehradun, India, October 7–8, 2022, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1742)
by Valentina Emilia Balas Rajesh Singh Arpan Kumar Kar Anita Gehlot Shahab ShamshirbandThis book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Business Data Analytics (ICBDA 2022) held in Dehradun, India, in October 7–8, 2022. The purpose of conference is to bring the diverse community of data scientist, machine learning, analytics, and data specialist from all over the world to share their original piece research. The 6 full papers included in this proceedings were selected among 107 submissions in a single-blind review process. The theme of conference includes three sub categories: Predictive Modelling and Data Analytics, Decision Analytics and Support System and Business data Analytics.
Business Development Culture: Taking Sales Culture Beyond the Sales Team
by Alex MoyleBusiness Development Culture defines how to facilitate a sales-oriented perspective throughout a company culture, enabling it to sell more on an ongoing and consistent basis. Highly practical in its approach, this book empowers readers to break away from the frustrations of missed opportunities and lost leads, and to escape the repetitive 'feast and famine' sales patterns. Providing direct guidance on the implementation of an immersive business development culture, this book will ensure that the wider objective of generating business profit is embraced by the entire organization, not just the sales team. Easily tailored to maximize current processes, Business Development Culture features numerous tools and market-tested insights to support leaders in adapting their approach at both team and strategy levels. This invaluable guidance to an ever-widening issue is driven through the author's extensive experience as a trainer, and a series of impacting interviews from across the industry. Insightful, practical and directly relevant, this book is an essential read to achieve stable, consistent growth, and ultimately, long-term profits.
Business Development: Customer-oriented Business Development for successful companies
by Andreas KohneThe book provides a compact overview of the increasingly important topic of Business Development (BD). The author not only describes the role of the Business Development Manager and its tasks, but also shows how Business Development can be integrated organizationally into a company. In addition, a prototypical Business Development Process is presented in concrete terms and explained using a case study. The book shows why enterprises fail, deals with new creative techniques such as Hackthons and dedicates itself more comprehensively than so far to the topic of communication in the course of changes.The book helps all, which want to introduce and/or optimize Business Development in the enterprise as responsible ones or work in the future in this range.