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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...
Equal Opportunities Handbookby P. Clements
Kogan Page 2005; US$ 35.00Now in its fourth edition, The Equal Opportunities Handbook has been fully revised and updated to take account of new important policies such as equal opportunities in the workplace, and updates on legislation including the Disability Discrimination Act. more...
Multi-Level Issues in Social Systemsby Francis Yammarino; Fred Dansereau
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 99.95Provides an outlet for the discussion of multi-level problems and solutions across a variety of fields of study more...
Seeing Systemsby Barry Oshry
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2007; US$ 32.95In a wonderfully readable and fun way, SEEING SYSTEMS (over 30,000 copies sold) presents a unique and innovative theory of power dynamics that provides the reader with a new way of looking at, understanding, surviving, and prospering in the many systems of which we are part. more...
Accountability Without Democracyby Lily L. Tsai
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00How citizens get government officials to provide them with public services in rural China. more...
Collective Beingsby Gianfranco Minati; Eliano Pessa
Springer 2006; US$ 149.00Collective behaviors play a fundamental role in many scientific and technical disciplines. This book introduces the concept of Collective Being as a Multiple System established by processes of emergence and self-organization of the same agents simultaneously or dynamically interacting in different ways. more...
Managing Complexityby Dirk Helbing
Springer 2007; US$ 129.00Each chapter in Managing Complexity focuses on analyzing real-world complex systems and transferring knowledge from the complex-systems sciences to applications in business, industry and society. The interdisciplinary contributions range from markets and production through logistics, traffic control, and critical infrastructures, up to network design, information systems, social conflicts and building consensus. They serve to raise readers' awareness concerning the often counter-intuitive behavior of complex systems and to help them integrate insights gained in complexity research into everyday planning, decision making, strategic optimization, and policy. Intended for a broad readership, the contributions have been kept largely non-technical... more...
Transatlantic Divideby Alberto Martinelli
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 45.00The United States of America and the European Union are the two strongest economic powers in the contemporary world. This volume describes, interprets, and analyzes the key social trends in the EU and the USA over the last 50 years. - ;The book describes, interprets, and analyzes the key features of European society and American society and major social trends in the United States and in the European Union in the last 50 years. The United States of America and the European Union are the two strongest economic powers in the contemporary world, roughly equivalent in terms of GNP, market size and scientific potential, but asymmetrical in terms of political influence and military might. The US and the EU can be both. seen as successful examples... more...
Children and Citizenshipby Antonella Invernizzi; Jane Williams
Sage Publications Ltd. 2007; US$ 53.00`This collection..is outstanding. It has an excellent grasp of the field and students in fields of both social studies of childhood and children's rights and citizenship will gain a lot from reading and studying the book' - Jens Qvortrup, Professor of Sociology, University of Trondheim. `Anyone who is concerned with citizenship should grapple with the thesis in this collection. This stimulating book will provoke discussion of what is involved in recognising that children are as much part of our society as adults' - Professor Michael Freeman, Editor of International Journal of Children's Rights. Children and Citizenship offers a contemporary and critical approach to notions of children's citizenship. Drawing on different... more...
The Handbook of Social Capitalby Dario Castiglione; Jan W. van Deth; Guglielmo Wolleb
Oxford University Press, UK 2008; US$ 170.00The study of social capital is one of the most exciting recent developments in the social sciences. Written by some of the main experts in the field this Handbook is an authoritative, critical, and innovative introduction to the study of social capital. - ;Social capital is a relatively new concept in the social sciences. In the last twenty or so years it has come to indicate that networks of social relationships represent a 'resource' for both the individual and society, since they provide support for the individual and facilitate collective action. Although this is not an entirely new idea, the more systematic way in which social capital captures such an intuition has created a new theoretical paradigm and helped to develop a series.... more...