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Understanding Facilitationby Christine Hogan
Kogan Page 2002; US$ 37.50This introduction to facilitation should provide educators and trainers with all they need to understand and develop facilitation skills. With a critical synthesis of established and current theory the book marries rigorous academic research with real world examples. more...
Breaking Robert's Rulesby Lawrence E. Susskind; Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 25.95Every day in communities across America, hundreds of committees, boards, church groups, and social clubs hold meetings where they spend their time engaged in shouting matches and acrimonious debate. This book outlines the five key steps toward consensus building, and addresses the specific problems that often get in the way of a group's progress. more...
Habermasby Pauline Johnson
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 39.95Reconstructs developments in Habermas' thinking about the public sphere. This book marshals the significance of Habermas' lifetime of work on this topic to illuminate what is at stake in a contemporary interest in rescuing an embattled modern public sphere. It describes Habermas' project as one that is still informed by utopian energies. more...
Communicating Social Supportby Daena J. Goldsmith
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 22.00When we experience daily stresses or major crises, we often talk to our friends, family, spouses, and partners. Some of these observations are helpful; some are not. This book provides a communication-based approach for understanding why some conversations about problems are more helpful than others. more...
The World Caféby Juanita Brown; David Isaacs; World Cafe Community
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2005; US$ 24.95The World Cafe is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. Based on living systems thinking, this innovative approach creates dynamic networks of conversation that can catalyze an organization or community's own collective intelligence around its most important questions. Filled with stories of actual Cafe dialogues in business, education, government, and community organizations across the globe, this uniquely crafted book demonstrates how the World Cafe can be adapted to any setting or culture. Examples from such varied organizations as Hewlett-Packard, American Society for Quality, the nation of Singapore, the University of Texas, and many... more...
Collective Guiltby Nyla R. Branscombe; Bertjan Doosje
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 24.00Considers the nature of collective guilt, and the antecedent conditions necessary for it to be experienced. more...
Handbook of Research Methods on Trustby Fergus Lyon; Guido Mollering; Mark N. K. Saunders
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 60.00The Handbook of Research Methods on Trust provides an authoritative in-depth consideration of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical study of trust in the social sciences. As this topic has matured, a growing number of practical approaches and techniques have been utilised across the broad, multidisciplinary community of trust research, providing both insights and challenges. This unique Handbook draws together a wealth of research methods knowledge gained by trust researchers into one essential volume. The contributors examine different methodological issues and particular methods, as well as share their experiences of what works, what does not work, challenges and innovations. Identifying innovative methods for researching trust,... more...
Blogging For Dummiesby Susannah Gardner; Shane Birley
John Wiley & Sons 2011; US$ 24.99This proven bestseller is fully updated and better than ever! Now in its fourth edition, Blogging For Dummies is fully updated and more practical than ever for today's bloggers. Whether you're just beginning or are already a full-tilt blogging maven, you'll find the up-to-date information you need in these friendly pages. Want to integrate your blog with social media? Jump into the fast-moving world of microblogging on Twitter or Tumblr? Choose which blogging software to use? Optimize your current blog for search? This detailed book guide covers it all, and then some. Buy the book, build a better blog, and blog about it! Provides up-to-date information on blogging software choices and utilities Explains how to identify your unique niche... more...
Signifying Identitiesby Anthony P. Cohen
Routledge 1999; US$ 46.95The theoretical arguments and ethnographic perspectives of this book place it at the cutting edge of contemporary anthropological scholarship on identity with respect to the study of ethnicity, nationalism, localism and gender. more...
Intellectual as Strangerby Dick Pels
Routledge 2000; US$ 160.00This volume uses detailed case studies to examine the ambiguous strangerhood of political intellectuals such as Marx, Durkheim, Sorel, Freyer and Hendrik de Man. more...









