In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past, to ...

Suitable as a training manual and a day-to-day reference, Shiphandling is the comprehensive and up to date guide to the theory and practice of ship handling procedures. Its covers the requirements of all STCW-level marine qualifications, provides expert guidance on all the hardware that marine professionals will make use of in the control and operation of their vessel and offers a broad focus on many shiphandling scenarios.

This research-based study helps administrators create a school environment that responds to teacher emotions and results in higher teacher retention, instructional effectiveness, and student achievement.

This comprehensive manual offers direction for every step of the thesis or dissertation process, from choosing an appropriate topic to adapting the finished work for publication.

The Divine Siddha-Method of The Ruchira Avatar is a four-volume "Source-Text" by Avatar Adi Da Samraj-of which My "Bright" Word is the first volume. This series of volumes brings together many of Avatar Adi Da's most summary Discourses, Given throughout the years of His Compassionate Instruction of His devotees and the entire world. In My "Bright" Word, Avatar Adi Da elucidates the fundamentals of "radical" self-understanding, which principles are the foundation of His Revelation of the Way o...

The Hidden Lives of Learners takes the reader deep into the hitherto undiscovered world of the learner. It explores the three worlds which together shape a student's learning - the public world of the teacher, the highly influential world of peers, and the student's own private world and experiences. What becomes clear is that just because a teacher is teaching, does not mean students are learning. Using a unique method of data collection through meticulous recording - audio, video, observati...

Dit boek is de neerslag van ruim 30 jaar mediation. In 1974 begon Prof. Hoefnagels, de auteur van dit Handboek. met bemiddelen. Praktijk en wetenschap gingen al die jaren hand in hand. In 1987 zette hij op verzoek van de Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten de cursus voor advocatenscheidingsbemiddelaars op.In Deel I 'Geschiedenis en plaatsbepaling' worden nationale en internationale discussies over bemiddeling beschreven. Op goede gronden heeft de auteur voor het primaat van overeenkomst en bemidde...

Elke organisatie heeft een verhaal nodig, een corporate story. Een verhaal waarin duidelijk wordt wie je bent, hoe je zo geworden bent en waar je naar op weg bent.

Goede corporate stories zijn verhalen van vlees en bloed. Rond een held met een streven. Met helpers en tegenslag. En bovenal: met een ommekeer, waardoor begin, midden en einde zichtbaar worden. Goede verhalen worden doorverteld. Veelal omdat de lezer of toehoorder de waarachtigheid ervan herkent en een verbinding aangaat met het v...