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This volume examines peace museums, a small and important (but often overlooked) series of museums whose numbers have multiplied internationally since the 1970s. It introduces the history and significance of peace museums and their different approaches through a selected series of peace museum sites. It attempts to categorize and distinguish between different types of museums that are linked to peace in name, theme or purpose and to urge a "critical peace museums studies" in examining their varied emphasis and content.

Matrix Inequalities and Their Extensions to Lie Groups gives a systematic and updated account of recent important extensions of classical matrix results, especially matrix inequalities, in the context of Lie groups. It is the first systematic work in the area and will appeal to linear algebraists and Lie group researchers.

Despite the significance and prevalence of errors in organizations, there has been no attempt within the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology to create a single source summarizing what we know regarding errors in organizations and providing a focused effort toward identifying future directions of research. This volume answers that need and provides contributions by researchers who have conducted a considerable amount of research on errors occurring in the work context. Students, academics and practitioners in a wide range of disciplines, i.e., industrial organizational psychology, medicine, aviation, human factors and systems engineering, will find this book of interest.

There is a huge elephant in the room: organizational decisions are often based on family relationships, rather than on the ΓÇÿrationalΓÇÖ approach advocated by many professionals. Textbooks on Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior, Economics, Public Administration, and a host of related areas seem to have entirely missed this important aspect of organizational decision making. This book seeks to change all of this. By clearly identifying and defining nepotism in organizations, this book pulls back the curtain on the primary basis for many of the important things that really happen in organizations, large and small. The authors skillfully weave examples of nepotism in real organizations with the usual scholarly textbook topics (hiring, leadership, employment law, career search, culture, etc.) in a way that defines an entire new field of quantitative organizational research. This new book in SIOP''s Organizational Frontiers series represents the first time IO psychologists have looked at the important subject of nepotism in organizations.

This edited volume in the SIOP Frontiers series is one of the first to look at the psychological factors behind politics and power in organizations. Noted contributors from schools of management, psychology, sociology and political science look at the theory, research, methodology and ethical issues related to organizational politics and climates. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 looks at the historical evolution of the field; Part 2 integrates organizational politics with important organizational behavior constructs and/or areas of inquiry, for example in the chapter by Lisa Leslie and Michele Gelfand which discusses the implications of cross-cultural politics on expatriates and within cross-national mergers; and Part 3 focuses on individual differences and organizational politics, focusing on the nature of political relationships.

This book collects Thomas Risse's most important articles together in a single volume. Covering a wide range of issues ¿ the end of the Cold War, transatlantic relations, the "democratic peace", human rights, governance in areas of limited statehood, Europeanization, European identity and public spheres, most recently comparative regionalism - it is testament to the breadth and excellence of this highly respected International Relations scholar's work.

The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing explores the fascinating lives, ideas, and discoveries of seven remarkable mathematicians. It tells the stories of the unsung heroes of the computer age - the logicians.

This book provides an updated, concise summary of forecasting air travel demand methodology. It looks at air travel demand forecasting research and outlines the intellectual landscape of demand forecasting. The book also discusses what to do when facing different forecasting problems.

Drawing from Foucault, Derrida, Nietzsche and Ranciere, this book explores questions of genealogy, ontology, the body and the institution, offering key examples of theoretical applications of post-structural theory, which testify to the generative and endlessly applicable potential of this work to inform different fields and avenues of thought.

This book brings C.G. Jung and his successors in type theory into conversation with the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. It takes a radical view of post-modernist theory which, the author argues, is relentlessly introverted. A turn to the face of the other signals the disruption of the introversion endemic to Western culture at the moment; this is both a moral and an existential turn. A conception of mediation as transformative, and thus therapeutic, practice requires a recognition of psychic worlds beyond our own and a considered, skilled extraverted turn that simultaneously engages different psychic functions and the potential for transformation of relationship and self.

This book, based upon a series of psychological research studies, examines Sierra Leone as a case study of a constructivist and narrative perspective on psychological responses to warfare, telling the stories of a range of survivors of the civil war. The authors explore previous research on psychological responses to warfare before providing background information on the Sierra Leone civil war and its context. The book also provides a critical consideration of the appropriateness of the use of Western concepts and methods in an African context.

Frank Tannenbaum and the Making of a Convict Criminologist is a historical biography about Columbia University professor Frank Tannenbaum and his contribution to American criminology. Tannenbaum was a major figure in criminology in the early twentieth century, and is known for his contributions to labeling theory, particularly his conception of the "dramatization of evil" presented in his 1938 book, Crime and Community. Tannenbaum served a year on BlackwellΓÇÖs Island in New York City for labor disturbances in 1914 and subsequently became a prison reformer, writing about his experiences with the American penal system and serving as the official reporter for the Wickersham CommissionΓÇÖs study on Penal Institutions, Probation, and Parole in 1931. This book explores his unique early career, and his influence on convict criminology, drawing on his personal papers housed at the Butler Library at Columbia University.

The book is based on contributions of leading experts in the field and it covers both hybrid modeling fundamentals and their applications. The application part covers the utilization of hybrid modeling for typical process operation and design applications in industries such as chemical, petrochemical, biochemical, food and pharmaceutical process engineering. .

This will be a substantial revision to a well regarded reference work in assitive technology for the disabled. Each chapter will be upgraded with the latest research developments.

An up-to-date reference that presents the most important information about each area of chemometrics used in chromatography, demonstrating its effective use when applied to a chromatographic separation.

This book covers the physics of semiconductor materials, basic concepts of quantum mechanics and nanoelectronics, band theory of solids, transport phenomena in semiconductors, and physics of low-dimensional quantum nanostructures, heterojunctions, and superlattices. The text is intended for junior- and senior-level undergraduate students.

Authorities ranging from philosophers to politicians nowadays question the existence of concepts of society, whether in the present or the past. This book argues that social concepts most definitely existed in late medieval and early modern England, laying the foundations for modern models of society. The book analyzes social paradigms and how they changed in the period. A pervasive medieval model was the "body social," which imagined a society of three estates ΓÇô the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty ΓÇô conjoined by interdependent functions, arranged in static hierarchies based upon birth, and rejecting wealth and championing poverty. Another model the book describes as "social humanist," that fundamentally questioned the body social, advancing merit over birth, mobility over stasis, and wealth over poverty. The theory of the body social was vigorously articulated between the 1480s and the 1550s. Parts of the old metaphor actually survived beyond 1550, but alternative models of social humanist thought challenged the body concept in the period, advancing a novel paradigm of merit, mobility, and wealth. The bookΓÇÖs methodology focuses on the intellectual context of a variety of contemporary texts.

This book sketches the history of higher education, in parallel with the development of science. Its goal is to draw attention to the historical tensions between the aims of higher education and those of science, in the hope of contributing to improving the contemporary university. A helpful tool in analyzing these intellectual and social tensions is Karl Popper''s philosophy of science demarcating science and its social context. Popper defines a society that encourages criticism as "open," and argues convincingly that an open society is the most appropriate one for the growth of science. A "closed society," on the other hand, is a tribal and dogmatic society. Despite being the universal home of science today, the university, as an institution that is thousands of years old, carries traces of different past cultural, social, and educational traditions. The book argues that, by and large, the university was, and still is, a closed society and does not serve the best interests of the development of science and of students'' education.

This book addresses the complexity of Islam in Thailand, by focusing on Islamic charities and institutions affiliated to the mosque. By extrapolating through Islam and the waqf (Islamic charity) in different regions of Thailand the diversity in races and institutions, it demonstrates the regional contrast within Thai Islam. The book also underlines the importance of internal histories of these separate spaces, and the processes by which institutions and ideologies become entrenched. It goes on to look at the socio economic transformation that is taking place within the context of trading networks through Islamic institutions and civil networks linked to mosques, madrasas and regional power brokers.

Research on European integration is facing the pressing question of what holds `Europe¿ together in times of crisis, growing distributional conflict and instability in its neighbourhood. This book departs from the ideas of group cohesion in the EU, and reflects on the newest dynamics and practices of European identity. Whilst applying innovative qualitative, quantitative and experimental research methods and an interdisciplinary approach, this volume looks at a variety of issues such as European citizenship, mobility of European citizens, space-based identities, dual identities, student identity and value-sharing. In doing so, this volume presents new perspectives on this complex and dynamic subject and points to potential solutions both in the academic discourse and the political practice of the EU.

This book provides practicing planners with the knowledge of how to bring real world planning projects to a successful and efficient. It applies the five process groups of project management as identified in Project Management Institute's PMBOK (R) Guide and put them in the language of planners.

This book describes the basic idea, history, structure, methodology and analysis of fractals, the relationship between fractals and nonlinear dynamics, the applications of fractal and multifractal analysis in biomedical science, and how fractal signals and images are modelled by Iterated Function system.

When was the last time you shook up your writing instruction? Shawna Coppola's new book is built on the premise that our students are ever-changing, and so is our global landscape. While there's nothing inherently wrong with relying on instructional strategies that have worked in the past, Shawna challenges writing teachers to rethink and revise their practice regularly.

This book uses communities of women as a framework for reading women¿s experience, rights and aspirations in Assam and Northeast India. It examines the diversity in ideologies across women¿s communities in these regions. This volume highlights multifaceted aspects of women¿s groups and their participation in various issues of the state, society and culture.

This is the first full length study of the theme of terror in the sub-continental novel in English from India. It places contemporary Indian literature it in the world context and analyzes the fictional coverage of the spread of terrorism through the length and breadth of the country and its cultural fallout.

This volume explores important questions that are an intrinsically linked to the making of modern India. It looks at the underlying foundations of the Indian nation state and the role of leaders likeGandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel and B. R. Ambedkar. The volume also explores the linkages and the dissonances between Gandhi¿s idea and the Indian Constitution.

This volume explores the linkages between education and empowerment of women, marginalized groups and other disadvantaged sections of society. The essays explore various educational policies, principles and practices as means to social order as well as tools for empowerment of the oppressed.

The India Higher Education Report 2015 traces the evolution of higher education and discusses the key role of committees and commissions whose reports and recommendations form the backdrop of contemporary developments. Authoritative and comprehensive, the volume examines a range of themes including equity, financing, employment, quality, and governance.

This exciting new volume examines the contemporary evidence that has been found to examine novel relationships between the manifestation of mental illness across broad categories including depression and schizophrenia and the potential to use probiotics therapeutic optimism.

The food addiction model is a new approach to understanding and treating overeating, an epidemic which is worsening with serious consequences. Clinical experience shows that applying classic addiction recovery protocols of withdrawal and abstinence are effective at establishing healthy eating habits.