Crisis And Commitment

Author : Robert Accinelli
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807822593
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crisis and Commitment written by Robert Accinelli and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Accinelli examines in comprehensive detail the making of the American military and political commitment to Taiwan during the first half of the 1950s. Starting with President Truman's declaration in January 1950 that the United States would not militarily assist Taiwan's Nationalist Chinese government, he shows why the United States subsequently reversed this position and ultimately chose to embrace Taiwan as a highly valued ally. In addition to describing the growth of a close but uneasy association between the United States and the Nationalist regime, he focuses on the importance of the Taiwan issue in America's relations with the People's Republic of China and Great Britain.

Author : Sonia Alland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113443717X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crisis and Commitment written by Sonia Alland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using ethnographic field data from the Larzac plateau in Southern France, Alexander and Sonia Alland document one of the longest and most successful popular protests in modern French history - the Larzac movement. More than a record of events, the book describes the transformation from the early 1970s of rural defiance into a symbol of left-wing action for France and the world. This revised edition examines the activities of the movement since 1995, including the demonstrations at the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organisation, the 'great hamburger war' against McDonalds, and the broadening of the movement to embrace struggles elsewhere, such as the anti-nuclear protests in French Polynesia. Particular attention is paid to the charismatic Jose Bove, who has become the figurehead and focus of the campaign during this period. This account will be of particular interest to anthropologists and historians of contemporary France and Europe as well as students of protest and social movements, and of contemporary politics in general

Author : Alexander Alland
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058231987
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crisis and Commitment written by Alexander Alland and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition documents one of the longest and most successful popular protests in modern French history - the Larzac movement. Drawing on ethnographic field data from the Larzac plateau, it examines the activities of the movement since 1995.

Author : Shyama Charan Dube
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
ISBN 13 : 8170171695
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Crisis and Commitment in Social Sciences written by Shyama Charan Dube and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Berislav Marusic
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191023434
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evidence and Agency written by Berislav Marusic and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence and Agency is concerned with the question of how, as agents, we should take evidence into account when thinking about our future actions. Suppose you are promising or resolving to do something that you have evidence is difficult for you to do. For example, suppose you are promising to be faithful for the rest of your life, or you are resolving to quit smoking. Should you believe that you will follow through, or should you believe that there is a good chance that you won't? If you believe the former, you seem to be irrational since you believe against the evidence. Yet if you believe the latter, you seem to be insincere since you can't sincerely say that you will follow through. Hence, it seems, your promise or resolution must be improper. Nonetheless, we make such promises and resolutions all the time. Indeed, as the examples illustrate, such promises and resolutions are very important to us. The challenge is to explain this apparent inconsistency in our practice of promising and resolving. To meet this challenge, Berislav Marusic considers a number of possible responses, including an appeal to 'trying', an appeal to non-cognitivism about practical reason, an appeal to 'practical knowledge', and an appeal to evidential constraints on practical reasoning. He rejects all these and defends a solution inspired by the Kantian tradition and by Sartre in particular: as agents, we have a distinct view of what we will do. If something is up to us, we can decide what to do, rather than predict what we will do. But the reasons in light of which a decision is rational are not the same as the reasons in light of which a prediction is rational. That is why, provided it is important to us to do something we can rationally believe that we will do it, even if our belief goes against the evidence.

Author : Germaine Brée
Publisher : Calder & Boyars
ISBN 13 : 9780714510101
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Camus and Sartre written by Germaine Brée and published by Calder & Boyars. This book was released on 1974 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. Edwards Deming
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262350033
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Crisis, reissue written by W. Edwards Deming and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for managers and leaders based on Deming’s famous 14 Points for Management This is the classic and deeply influential work on business management, leadership, problem solving, and quality control, reissued for readers today Translated into 12 languages and continuously in print since its original publication in 1982, this highly influential framework presents the foundations for a completely transformational way to lead and manage people, processes, and resources. According to Deming, American company management’s failure to plan for the future brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to: • stay in business • protect investment • ensure future dividends • provide more jobs through improved product and service In simple, direct language, Deming explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them. This edition includes a foreword by Deming’s grandson, Kevin Edwards Cahill, and Kelly Allan, business consultant and Deming expert. “Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.” —W. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crisis

Author : Peter I. Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780779849550
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Crisis Intervention for Law Enforcement Officers written by Peter I. Collins and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lee Horton, Ph.D.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435718089
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crumbling Commitment: Managing a Marital Crisis written by Lee Horton, Ph.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year there are over one million divorces in America. Each divorce is preceded by a marital crisis. A crisis begins when a spouse's commitment to the marriage becomes uncertain. The message, "I'm not sure I want to be married" brings a cascade of emotion. Deeply hurt and wanting desperately to save the marriage, the rejected mate grasps-often destructively-for something to preserve the relationship. Crumbling Commitment: Managing a Marital Crisis is a lifeline for those who are left feeling helpless and powerless to respond to their distancing mate. From the initial shock that comes with the knowledge that one's spouse is not committed to the marriage to the final decision to reconcile or divorce, this book helps the reader to make decisions and regain power in each stage of the marital crisis.

Author : James E. Marcia
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461383307
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ego Identity written by James E. Marcia and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ego Identity: A Handbook for Psychosocial Research contains an integrated presentation of identity theory, literature reviews covering the hundreds of research studies on identity, a discussion of the techniques of interviewing for psychosocial constructs, and model Identity Status Interviews and scoring manuals for three age groups: early- and middle- adolescence, the college years and adulthood. Special attention is devoted to questions of the personality and social patterns associ ated with differing approaches to the task of identity formation, the processes and patterns of identity development, and the similarities and differences with which females and males form their sense of identity. Theory and research on Erikson's concept of intimacy is presented, including the Intimacy Status Interview and scoring manual. This handbook is also designed to serve as a model for those interested in developing and using interview techniques for any of the other Eriksonian stages of psychosocial development. This book is ideal for researchers of ego identity and intimacy, practitioners and graduate students in developmental, personality, and social psychology as well as to psychiatrists.