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Reliability has become a watchword in the business community. It refers to anticipation and resilience organizations' ability to plan for, absorb, and rebound from shocks. This book addresses the severe limits of formal design and technology relative to operational skills, experience, and knowledge.

This book explores a prominent medieval kabbalist's approach to prayer, meditative contemplation, and the transmission of mystical wisdom.

Tells about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. This book combines methods of anthropological research and an engagement with the work of theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and Henri Lefebvre.

This collection of recent papers authored or co-authored by James G. March explores contemporary issues in the study of organizations.

Hale has written intellectual and career biography of an eminent Mexican jurist and politician from the old regime whose ideas survived the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20, despite years of opposition and exile.

This book examines the various mechanisms through which violent conflict undermines the health and well-being of populations.

The Fringes of Belief is the first literary study of freethinking and religious skepticism in the English Enlightenment.

Through the pioneering work of Duchenne de Boulogne, Franois Delaporte provides a remarkable philosophical and historical examination of expressive physiology during the mid-19th century, and considers the science of emotion as a means of revealing inner life-thoughts, feelings-upon the surface of the face.

The captivating story of a controversial group of Palestinians who volunteer to serve in the Israeli military.

Empire of Law shows how seventeenth-century Indian claimants, by litigating and petitioning before Mexico City tribunals, became full participants in an early modern cosmopolitan legality that gave rise to a colonial politics of justice that struggled, with some success, against the utter degradation of subject peoples.

In Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession, Khalip approaches romantic subjectivity's fascination with anonymity as an ethics of engaged withdrawal or strategic reticence, arguing that anonymity is an alternative model of being that resists the requirement to inhabit a social category and remains open to change and re-description.

In a sweeping reassessment of early American literature, The Gender of Freedom explores the workings of the literary public sphere-from its colonial emergence through the antebellum flourishing of sentimentalism-and places representations of and by women at the center rather than the margin of the public sphere and the politics of liberalism.

This book shows how department stores and marketplaces in China have become important sites where Chinese people understand, and perform, unequal social relations.

Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity is a study of the emergence and development of the cultural image of the Iberian peninsula's foremost modern city.

This is the definitive book on Russo-Japanese relations by the leading authority on the topic.

Poetic Affairs deals with the complex and fascinating interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920-70), the Leningrad native, US poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940-96), and the most significant contemporary German poet, Durs Grunbein (born 1962).

Counterfeit Capital is a comparative and interdisciplinary study exploring the unexpected yet essential relationship between irony and capital in the texts of Baudelaire and Marx and arguing for the renewed relevance of their work to contemporary thinking about the place of aesthetic and cultural experience in social and political life.

This book argues that toxic leadership presents organizations with opportunities for positive transformation, innovation, growth, and development. The author offers a unique 'Model of Leader Detoxification' as a central blueprint for successfully managing toxic leaders and growing healthier, visionary companies.

In the closing months of the Bush administration, bewildered Americans overwhelmingly responded to its disastrous domestic and foreign policies with a single question: How did this happen? This work explores the administration's key players to explain what happened - and why.

This book is a comprehensive study of faithful maidenhood in late imperial China from the vantage points of state policy, local history, scholarly debate, and the faithful maiden's own subjective point of view.

Judging Policy analyzes the causes and consequences of the increasingly prominent role courts are being asked to play in the public policy process in Latin America's largest nation, Brazil.

This book is a history of the Mexican workers' revolution that took place within the larger Mexican revolution of 1910.

A history of perceptions of the blind and of their integration or lack thereof in French society, this book introduces us to a host of fictional and real individuals and paints a moving picture of their advances and disappointments, concluding with the triumphant invention of Louis Braille.

Skirting the Ethical presents highly original readings of six pivotal works that, disrupting our conventional concept of morality, point us towards a non-prescriptive mode of ethics, as an ever-to-be-renewed rethinking that has much to do with the act of interpretation.

This book chronicles the struggles of undocumented migrant women in France as they fight to become rights-bearing citizens, revealing how concepts of citizenship and nationality intersect with gender, sexuality, and immigration.

Local Liberalisms shows how early nineteenth-century Mexicans-be they indigenous villagers, government officials, or local elites-worked to incorporate the institutions of liberalism into their daily political lives, and how those local institutions interacted with a national liberal movement that often contradicted them.

This book is about the heroic, ambivalent concept of the self within modernity as outlined in philosophy and exemplified in the filmic genres of the Western and crime and science fiction movies.

This book provides a penetrating and original reconstruction of Hobbes's materialist accounts of self-consciousness, cognition, and agency and shows how such an account of subjectivity demands that we pursue peace in our ethical and political lives.

This book explains what factors make certain products and services "special" (and extremely profitable), suggesting how other companies can succeed by harnessing this prized quality.

Addresses the need to understand a workplace by examining how people communicate and learn in one of the industry structures: the automobile industry. The combination of global scale, and the nature of the relationships between the manufacturers and the dealerships make the barriers to communication and learning quite high.