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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $18.67
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Neuwirth
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 307.336
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Publication Date: 2006-03-28
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: In the middle of the night they quickly build houses and seize land before the police destroy their fragile homes. They're squatters--families that risk the wrath of governments and property owners by building dwellings on land they don't own--and they represent one out of every ten people on the planet.
Investigative journalist Robert Neuwirth lived among squatter communities from Rio to Bombay to Nairobi to Istanbul to give us an impassioned, inside view of squatter life and a glimpse into the urban future. He met people in Nairobi who built homes with their bare hands, Turkish families who plot land invasions, and children in Rio whose parents justify outfoxing the authorities as the only path to a better life. And he shows us that in cities like Rio, squatter settlements have become decent places to live for formerly landless people. Tracing the notion of private property from the enclosure movement in Europe to the settlement of the U.S., Neuwirth shows how squatting rights may actually be seen as more "natural" than the current laws practiced in the U.S.
In almost every country of the developing world, the most active builders are squatters, creating complex local economies with high rises, shopping strips, banks, and self-government. As they invent new social structures, Neuwirth argues, squatters are at the forefront of the worldwide movement to develop new visions of what constitutes property and community.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $9.50
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Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Arjun Appadurai
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8009049
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Publication Date: 2006-06
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic cleansing on the one hand and extreme forms of political violence against civilian populations on the other?
Fear of Small Numbers is Arjun Appadurai’s answer to that question. A leading theorist of globalization, Appadurai turns his attention to the complex dynamics fueling large-scale, culturally motivated violence, from the genocides that racked Eastern Europe, Rwanda, and India in the early 1990s to the contemporary “war on terror.” Providing a conceptually innovative framework for understanding sources of global violence, he describes how the nation-state has grown ambivalent about minorities at the same time that minorities, because of global communication technologies and migration flows, increasingly see themselves as parts of powerful global majorities. By exacerbating the inequalities produced by globalization, the volatile, slippery relationship between majorities and minorities foments the desire to eradicate cultural difference.
Appadurai analyzes the darker side of globalization: suicide bombings; anti-Americanism; the surplus of rage manifest in televised beheadings; the clash of global ideologies; and the difficulties that flexible, cellular organizations such as Al-Qaeda present to centralized, “vertebrate” structures such as national governments. Powerful, provocative, and timely, Fear of Small Numbers is a thoughtful invitation to rethink what violence is in an age of globalization.
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $45.00
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Manufacturer: Westview Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sheldon Anderson::Jeanne A.K. Hey::Mark Allen Peterson::Stanley W. Toops
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Publisher: Westview Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327
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Publication Date: 2007-12-24
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Reading Level: 472
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Description: No one social science can adequately provide explanations and solutions for problems that transcend national boundaries, such as international conflict, political and economic development, ethnic conflict, and terrorism. This core text is the first to provide a much-needed interdisciplinary approach to international studies.The authors include a geographer, a historian, a political scientist, and an anthropologist. Emphasizing their connectedness, each details the methodologies and subject matter of their respective disciplines to provide a fuller understanding of the world. The second part of the book applies these disciplines to regional chapters, providing students with an understanding of the issues facing these regions and their connection to the global community. Case studies at the end of the book give studies students a closer look at the geographic, historical, cultural, economic, and political elements of issues such as genocide and national identity. This disciplinary and regional combination provides professors with a cohesive framework to teach the broad spectrum of international affairs through a wholly unique interdisciplinary approach that is indispensable for students’ understanding of global issues.
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Price: $52.95
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Sale: $46.88
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Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael J. Bamberger::Jim Rugh::Linda Mabry
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Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 001.4
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Publication Date: 2006-02-13
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Reading Level: 504
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Description: "I was quite impressed with how this book balanced the technical aspects with practical advice for managing budget, time and political constraints. The use of case study examples and checklists/worksheets helped to make the book much more “grounded in practice” compared to other texts. I like to think of myself as an experienced, well-read evaluator, but I must confess that I learned quite a lot from this book!"
—Scott Bayley, Victorian Auditor-General's Office, Australia
"[The authors] have really broken new ground by providing the guidance on how to apply the theory to reality. I plan to recommend this book highly, and [the authors have] have given me some great ideas on how to improve our evaluation capacity building efforts (and that’s after reading just a few chapters!). Thanks for developing the RealWorld Evaluation approach to its full potential as a new way of thinking about and practicing evaluation."
—Paula Bilinsky, AED Senior Evaluation Analyst
"The breadth and depth of the authors’ experiences in international and national settings is apparent on every page."
—Donna M. Mertens, Gallaudet University
“Each page of this book contains nugget after nugget of useful, pragmatic, and practical advice.”
—Kent Glenzer, Director, Impact Measurement and Learning Team, CARE USA
RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints is the only textbook that provides specific guidance on how to conduct evaluations when working under resource and/or data constraints. Authors Michael Bamberger, Jim Rugh, and Linda Mabry illustrate options for addressing each constraint through practical examples from both developed and developing countries to show how adapting to different types of exigencies can lead to successful evaluations.
Key Features: - Provides practical guidance: Specific and well documented case studies are provided for addressing budget, time, and data constraints, and for dealing with political pressures. Guidelines are offered for protecting the validity of conclusions when measures must be taken to save costs and time.
- Uses a mixed-methods approach: Adapting a range of methods to real-world situations, this text draws on quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches. Design, methods, cultural sensitivity, validity, credibility, and reporting are among the many topics addressed. In addition, triangulation is encouraged for increasing the validity of findings.
- Incorporates a unique seven-step model: A systematic step-by-step approach that is logical and easy to follow is presented. Frameworks and checklists are provided for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of an evaluation and providing strategies to overcome the weaknesses and improve the design and validity.
Intended Audience:
Perfect supplementary text for any advanced undergraduate or graduate introductory program evaluation course across disciplines including Education, Public Administration, Management, Social Work, Public Health, and Nursing; in addition it will also appeal to researchers in government agencies, NGOs, evaluation consultants, and other evaluation practitioners.
Visit the authors' Web site at http://www.realworldevaluation.org/ (20061214)
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $23.63
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Manufacturer: Polity
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Polity
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.482
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Publication Date: 2003-08-08
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Reading Level: 624
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Description: The world is changing dramatically and a vigorous public debate is under way about the nature and historical significance of these changes. At the centre of this debate lie conflicting claims about the extent, form and consequences of contemporary globalization. On the one hand there are the globalists, who argue that the world is being fundamentally and irreversibly transformed by globalization. On the other hand there are the sceptics, who believe that the globalists' claims are exaggerated and poorly substantiated. The sceptics contest the very idea of globalization, arguing that the power of national governments, nationalism and geopolitics remain the determining features of our age.
This completely revised and fully updated edition of The Global Transformations Reader brings together the most original contributions from both sides of the argument and from a range of disciplines. Many new chapters have been added, which incorporate the most recent developments in the debate and set these in the context of a global order that is in a constant state of flux.
Organized as an accessible and comprehensive teaching text, the Reader is divided into six sections covering all the key issues in the debate:
* controversy over the meaning, causes and historical significance of 'globalization'
* the transformation of state power and civil society;
* changing patterns of national culture;
* the power of global markets;
* global inequality and its consequences; and
* the nature of the global order and normative aspirations for its future.
The volume includes an extensive introduction by the editors, reviewing, analysing and assessing the globalization debate. Short but highly informative introductions to each section situate and contextualize the individual readings.
This Reader will be of immense value to all those interested in one of the most important debates of our time. It will appeal to students of politics, international relations, economics, sociology, geography, business studies and cultural studies.
The Global Transformations Reader is part of the internationally acclaimed series on globalization, which also includes Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture and Governing Globalization: Power, Authority and Global Governance.
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Price: $20.95
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Sale: $8.43
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Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Cynthia Enloe
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.482
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Publication Date: 2007-02-28
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Reading Level: 200
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Description: Written by one of the world's leading feminist scholars, this masterful and provocative book considers the ways women's desires to be patriotic yet feminine and men's fears of being feminized explain how militarism is being globalized and thus what it will take to roll back militarization anywhere. Through explorations of how governments think so narrowly about national security, of how postwar reconstruction efforts have marginalized women, of how ideas about feminization were used to humiliate male prisoners in Abu Ghraib, and of why camo has become a fashion statement, Cynthia Enloe unravels militarism's both blatant and subtle workings. Focusing her lens on the big picture of international politics and on the small picture of women's and men's complex everyday lives, Enloe challenges us to recognize militarism in all its forms.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $12.01
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Manufacturer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1323
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Publication Date: 2007-02-28
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Reading Level: 310
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Description: John Perkins's sensational New York Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (more than 300,000 sold) revealed just the tip of the iceberg of the secret world of economic hit men and the web of global corruption. Now more economic hit men and investigators tell the whole shocking story.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.53
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.32509
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Publication Date: 2007-08-01
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Reading Level: 483
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Description: This authoritative work provides an essential perspective on terrorism by offering a rare opportunity for analysis and reflection at a time of ongoing violence, chilling threats, and renewed reprisals. In it, some of the best international specialists working on the subject today examine terrorism's long and complex history from antiquity to the present day and find that terror, long the weapon of the weak against the strong, is a tactic as old as warfare itself. Beginning with the Zealots of Antiquity, the contributors discuss the Assassins of the Middle Ages, the 1789 Terror movement in Europe, Bolshevik terrorism during the Russian Revolution, Stalinism, "resistance" terrorism during World War II, and Latin American revolutionary movements of the late 1960s. Finally, they consider the emergence of modern transnational terrorism, focusing on the roots of Islamic terrorism, al Qaeda, and the rise of the contemporary suicide martyr. Along the way, they provide a groundbreaking analysis of how terrorism has been perceived throughout history. What becomes powerfully clear is that only through deeper understanding can we fully grasp the present dangers of a phenomenon whose repercussions are far from over.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $13.47
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Robert J. Shapiro
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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.9
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Publication Date: 2008-04-01
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: In 2020, the man from whom both Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama are seeking economic guidance, looks into the future to tell us what our world will be like a dozen years off. Though the chronological difference seems small, the changes Shapiro foresees will be monumental as four major forces--globalization, demographics, politics and the status of energy sources influenced by constantly changing quality of the environment--will determine how nations rise and fall. Rob Shapiro thinks we can expect:
-US military hegemony will be a thing of the past while the new superpower rivalry will be between China and the US
-Mexico and Turkey will produce most of the world's cars
-The US will be the premiere source for sophisticated products and services, but our economy will be hostage to foreign lenders for capital to develop these products
-China will be able to offer less-developed countries a new model of political and economic success based on investment-led growth
-Japan and Europe will move to the periphery of world power
In the past, Shapiro's predictions have played out just as he suggested:
In 1992, he predicted that economic recovery that year would not help George H.W. Bush get re-elected because the real incomes of average families were still considerably lower than when Bush took office. This prediction morphed into Carville's famous "It's the economy, stupid" and took Clinton into the White House.
In 1998, when e-commerce represented a miniscule amount of total consumer purchases and there was much uncertainty about consumer response, he predicted the Internet would become a major channel for buying and selling. Today, e-commerce represents approximately $10 Billion in consumer purchases.
In 2003, he predicted the US would become more dependent on lending from China and Japan. By 2006, China held more than $350 billion in U.S. Treasury securities and Japan more than $670 billion accounting for 50 % of all foreign-held U.S. debt.
In a book as important as that of Thomas Friedman and Alvin Toffler, Shapiro gives us a clear-eyed vision of where we're headed. |
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Price: $55.95
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Sale: $45.32
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Manufacturer: Waveland Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lars Thoger Christensen::Theodore E. Zorn::Shiv Ganesh
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Publisher: Waveland Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 651
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Publication Date: 2003-06
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Reading Level: 544
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Description: This innovative book brings organizational communication into the twenty-first century. The text is organized topically, around the most important issues in organizational communication study, and it builds solid bridges between theory and practice. Other themes running through the book are: linkages between internal and external organizational communication, the "disciplinarity" and multidisciplinarity of organizational communication, the globalization of organizational communication, and critical thinking about pressing organizational problems. This text stimulates readers to think about, talk about, and experience organizational communication in entirely new ways! Cheney et al. stimulates critical thinking about contemporary work and organizational life; approaches the familiar as unfamiliar; asks probing questions about commonly accepted practices; considers cultural assumptions as strange rather than ordinary; offers more imaginative ways of working together; and examines the multiple levels of messages.
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