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The Handbook of Conflict Resolutionby Morton Deutsch; Peter T. Coleman; Eric C. Marcus
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011; US$ 75.00The Handbook of Conflict Resolution, Second Edition is written for both the seasoned professional and the student who wants to deepen their understanding of the processes involved in conflicts and their knowledge of how to manage them constructively. It provides the theoretical underpinnings that throw light on the fundamental social psychological processes involved in understanding and managing conflicts at all levels—interpersonal, intergroup, organizational, and international. The Handbook covers a broad range of topics including information on cooperation and competition, justice, trust development and repair, resolving intractable conflict, and working with culture and conflict. Comprehensive in scope, this new edition includes... more...
The Quest for a General Theory of Leadershipby G. R. Goethals; G.L.J. Sorenson
Edward Elgar Publishing 2006; US$ 40.00Presents the story of an intellectual venture taken by top scholars to develop a general theory of leadership. This book describes the progress made in the venture and provides the conclusions and questions that arose from it. It is of interest to leaders, students and scholars of leadership. more...
Social Exclusionby David Byrne
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 47.98The second edition of this widely read book explores developments in social theory, social experience and social policy in relation to Social Exclusion. The first part examines the origins of the term and implications of the difference between the ideas of 'exclusion', 'underclass', 'residuum' and related concepts. The discussion is informed by the application of Complexity Theory. In the updated second part, the theoretical account is developed through a detailed review of the dynamics of individual lives in a changing social order. Income equality, spatial division, and exclusion in relation to health, education and cultural provision and processes are examined in a range of societies in Europe and North America. The last part contains a... more...
Public Relations Writing Worktextby Joseph M. Zappala; Ann R. Carden
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 54.95Public Relations Worktext is a writing and planning resource for public relations students and practitioners. more...
Drift into Failureby Sidney Dekker
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 29.95This book explores complexity theory and systems thinking to better understand how complex systems drift into failure. It studies sensitive dependence on initial conditions, unruly technology, tipping points, diversity - and finds that failure emerges opp more...
Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind, Third Editionby Geert Hofstede; Gert Jan Hofstede; Michael Minkov
McGraw-Hill 2010; US$ 29.95The revolutionary study of how the place where we grew up shapes the way we think, feel, and act-- with new dimensions and perspectives Based on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span, Cultures and Organizations examines what drives people apart—when cooperation is so clearly in everyone’s interest. With major new contributions from Michael Minkov’s analysis of data from the World Values Survey, as well as an account of the evolution of cultures by Gert Jan Hofstede, this revised and expanded edition: Reveals the “moral circles” from which national societies are built and the unexamined rules by which people think, feel, and act Explores how national cultures... more...
Why?by Charles Tilly
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 19.95Why? is a book about the explanations we give and how we give them--a fascinating look at the way the reasons we offer every day are dictated by, and help constitute, social relationships. Written in an easy-to-read style by distinguished social historian Charles Tilly, the book explores the manner in which people claim, establish, negotiate, repair, rework, or terminate relations with others through the reasons they give. Tilly examines a number of different types of reason giving. For example, he shows how an air traffic controller would explain the near miss of two aircraft in several different ways, depending upon the intended audience: for an acquaintance at a cocktail party, he might shrug it off by saying "This happens all the time,"... more...
Social Influencesby Kevin Wren
Routledge 1999; US$ 17.00Explores areas of human behaviour as diverse as mob violence, the need to obey, gender behaviour, groups of individuals and their leaders. more...
Interpersonal Relationshipsby Diana Dwyer
Routledge 2000; US$ 17.00Considers friendships and more intimate relationships including why we need them, how they are formed, what we get out of them and the stages through which they go. more...
Social Cognitionby Donald C. Pennington
Routledge 2000; US$ 17.00The book considers the way in which humans interpret analyse and remember information about the social world. Topics covered include: attribution, social schemas and social representations, prejudice and discrimination. more...