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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lancaster since the mid-s risk management has undergone a dramatic expansion in its reach and significance, being transformed from an aspect of management control to become a benchmark of good governance for banks, hospitals, schools, charities and many other organizationsthe legalization and bureacratization of organizational life has increased because risk management has created new demands for proof and evidence of actionin turn, these demands have generated new risks to reputationin short, this important book traces the rise of the managerial concept of risk and the different logics and values which underpin it, showing that it has much less to do with real dangers and opportunities than might be thought, and more to do with organizational accountability and legitimacywhile these many designs and blueprints are accompanied by ideals of enterprise, value production, and good governance, it is argued that the rise of risk management has also coincided with an intensification of auditing and control processesnumerous standards for risk management practice have been produced by a variety of transnational organizations
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oxfam books & music lancaster  gallimardsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebible-thin paper, leather bound octavo, pp (xxviii)edited by henri mondor and gbibliotheque de la pleiadefine copy in like dust jacket & plastic cover as issued
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oxfam books & music lancaster this book presents a formal methodology that develops principles of software metrics based on mathematical principles and the attributes of software behavioursee oxfam website for delivery information read morealso included is coverage of programming structures, design principles and the problems and solutions of documentationthe problems and attributes of software are discussed in some depth, allowing the reader to gain a closer picture of software manufacturing processes
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oxfam books & music lancaster applause booksover 400 hirschfeld drawings and photographs many never before collectedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebook is in excellent conditionhard bound with dust coverincludes essays by whoopi goldberg, arthur miller, mel gussow, kurt vonnegut, grace mirabella, louise kerz hirschfeld and more commentary by hirschfeld throughoutslight wear on the dust cover
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Book is a rare one in excellent condition see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lancaster who devised britain's road numbering scheme and what was its purpose? when were roads first numbered? are there anomalies and why are so many road numbers never shown on a map or signs? these and many other fascinating topics are all discussed in this book together with something about the history of the highways, byways and motorways of great britain and the irish republic
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lancaster this book describes a large-scale, cross-cultural study of emotional experience and emotional reaction which was conducted in israel and seven european countries: the uk, west germany, france, belgium, switzerland, italy, and spainuntil the publication of this book in , most research on emotion has been conducted under laboratory conditions, but the contributors to this study used a questionnaire approach to gather material covering a wide range of topicsbook is in excellent conditionfirst page has handwritten dedicationdo certain situations elicit emotion-specific responses? do emotion-specific symptom and reaction patterns exist? do the common stereotypes of northern and southern emotional responses reflect the existence of real cross-cultural differences in emotional experiences and responses? four emotions were studied - joy, sadness, fear and anger - and the results provide not only a wealth of quantitative data, but also, at the descriptive level, a fascinating overview of the ways in which people experience emotion
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lancaster the volume the spectacle of the body in late medieval england represents a study on the human body representation in medieval england by approaching the concept of the spectacle as a space of manifestationthe author clarifies the ways of understanding the body as a physical and metaphorical reality, but also the medieval conceptualization of violencethe approach of the volume is dominantly christian reviewing the representations of the body through outstanding figures of christianity (crucifixion of jesus christ, body of virgin mary)on top of that, the author is making an investigation on the violent character of spectacles -Â representation in pursuit of picturing this subject more clearly and more relevant
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lancaster published to accompany an exhibition at the royal academy of arts, london, and the guggenheim museum, bilbao, this ambitious and wide ranging catalogue charts the influential progress of the visual arts in pariscomes with dust jacketbook is in excellent conditionnine essays and 250 works, chart the intellectual and social focus of the period
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oxfam books & music lancaster the art of looking sideways is a primer in visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imaginationsee oxfam website for delivery information read moredescribing himself as a visual jackdaw, master designer alan fletcher has distilled a lifetime of experience and reflection into a brilliantly witty and inimitable exploration of such subjects as perception, colour, pattern, proportion, paradox, illusion, language, alphabets, words, letters, ideas, creativity, culture, style, aesthetics and valuethe art of looking sideways is the ultimate guide to visual awareness, a magical compilation that will entertain and inspire all those who enjoy the interplay between word and image, and who relish the odd and the unexpectedloosely arranged in 72 chapters, all this material is presented in a wonderfully inventive series of pages that are themselves masterly demonstrations of the expressive use of type, space, colour and imageryit is an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, curious facts and useless information, oddities, serious science, jokes and memories, all concerned with the interplay between the verbal and the visual, and the limitless resources of the human mindthis book does not set out to teach lessons, but it is full of wisdom and insight collected from all over the world
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oxfam books & music lancaster revenantssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreat once a collection of secret blueprints for a raw musics revolution and a testament to the enduring power of great art to shock, confound, inspire and sustainyet their recordings have made an indelible place for themselves in our world by dint of their capacity to inspire wonderbiographical ciphers who emerged from their anonymous dark, made 78 rpm recordings, and were promptly swallowed up by darkness againslight rip in bottom corner of spinerevenant's long-awaited follow-up to s much-saluted american primitive voljohn fahey's final curated work for revenant
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oxfam books & music lancaster the modern world is full of diasporassee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut what is a diaspora ? derived from jewish tradition, the word is now often applied to any minority which has migrated from its place of originafrican americans, and muslims and hindus in europe, are some of the best known among themthe present volume explores the ways in which the term 'diaspora' has been applied in past and present to various religious communities in different contextsincreasingly, the criterion used by journalists and academics for identifying such minorities is ethnic identity rather than religious allegiancethe concept of 'diaspora' has spread rapidly in academic writing and the popular pressit considers under what circumstances people may be classified as living in a diaspora, and the consequences this has for their position in societyspecific chapters study africans in modern europe, jews in ancient egypt, syrians throughout the roman empire, hindus in britain and muslims in the netherlands today, and other so-called diaspora communities
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oxfam books & music lancaster the discovery of mirror neurons in the s led to an explosion of research and debate about the imitative capacities of the human brainsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoughourlian's analyses shake the very foundations of psychiatry as we know it and open up new avenues for both theoretical research and clinical practicesome herald a paradigm shift on the order of dna in biology, while others remain skepticalin this revolutionary volume jean- michel oughourlian shows how the hypotheses of rené girard can be combined with the insights of neuroscientists to shed new light on the "mimetic brain" offering up clinical studies and a complete reevaluation of classical psychiatry, oughourlian explores the interaction among reason, emotions, and imitation and reveals that rivalry-the blind spot in contemporary neuroscientific understandings of imitation-is a misunderstood driving force behind mental illness
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oxfam books & music lancaster creating ethnicity raises the important question of what is ethnic? using case studies from canada, zaire, belgium and bolivia, roosens shows that ethnicity does not always stem from ancient tradition, but can be shaped, modified, recreated or even manufactured in modern societyfinally, roosens examines a contemporary european city, brussels, see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe author largely focuses on the huron indians of quebec, an ethnic group that had all but disappeared, but which manufactured an ethnic tradition almost from scratch in the midst of a modern, industrialized nationthey are contrasted with other ethnic groups in other countries, whose paths to ethnic identity were very different
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oxfam books & music lancaster according to political theory, the primary function of the modern state is to protect its citizens-both from each other and from external enemiessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreif they cannot-if we cannot-find enemies outside the state, they will find them insidein this book paul dumouchel argues that this paradoxical reversal of the state's primary function into violence against its own members is not a mere accident but an ever-present possibility that is inscribed in the structure of the modern statethat is why the violent sacrifices that they ask from us, in wars and even in times of peace, have now become barrenyet it is the states that essentially commit major forms of violence, such as genocides, ethnic cleansings, and large-scale massacres, against their own citizenshowever, this institution is today coming to an end, not in the sense that states are disappearing, but in the sense that they are increasingly failing to protect us from our own violencemodern states need enemies to exist and to persist, not because they are essentially evil but because modern politics constitutes a violent means of protecting us against our own violence
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lancaster from his groundbreaking violence and the sacred and things hidden since the foundation of the world, rené girard's mimetic theory is presented as elucidating "the origins of culturejoining disciplinary worlds, this book aims to explore this ambitious claim, invoking viewpoints as diverse as evolutionary culture theory, cultural anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, ethology, and philosophythe contributors provide major evidence in favor of girard's hypothesis" french philosopher of science michel serres states that girard's theory provides a darwinian theory of culture because it "proposes a dynamic, shows an evolution and gives a universal explanationequally, girard's theory is presented as having the potential to become for the human and social sciences something akin to the integrating framework that present-day biological science owes to darwin-something compatible with it and complementary to it in accounting for the still remarkably little understood phenomenon of human emergence" he posits that archaic religion (or "the sacred"), particularly in its dynamics of sacrifice and ritual, is a neglected and major key to unlocking the enigma of "how we became human" this major claim has, however, remained underscrutinized by scholars working on girard's theory, and it is mostly overlooked within the natural and social sciences
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oxfam books & music lancaster diaspora & hybridity deals with those theoretical issues which concern social theory and social change in the new millenniumsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe authors demonstrate how diaspora and hybridity serve as problematic tools, cutting across traditional boundaries of nations and groups, where trans-national spaces for a range of contested cultural, political and economic outcomes might ariseit relates the topics to contemporary social struggles and cultural contexts, providing the reader with a framework to evaluate and displace the key ideological arguments, theories and narratives deployed in culturalist academic circles todaywide ranging, richly illustrated and challenging, it will be of interest to students of cultural studies, sociology, ethnicity and nationalismthe volume provides a refreshing, critical and illuminating analysis of concepts of diaspora and hybridity and their impact on multi-ethnic and multi-cultural societies - dr rohit barot, department of archaeology and anthropology, university of bristol what do we mean by 'diaspora' and 'hybridity'? why are they pivotal concepts in contemporary debates on race, culture and society? this book is an exhaustive, politically inflected, assessment of the key debates on diaspora and hybridity
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oxfam books & music lancaster there is constant pressure on managers to improve the efficiency of their supply chains, allowing materials to move quickly and at low costsee oxfam website for delivery information read more these unexpected events define the risks, and supply chain risk management is the function responsible for managing themthis pressure has encouraged a stream of new initiatives and methodsit takes a straightforward approach, developing ideas in a logical sequence without being diverted into philosophical discussion or getting lost in the latest jargonin particular, they increase the supply chain's vulnerability to disruptionsbut there is a growing realization that these new methods also bring unforeseen problemsby removing the slack that used to protect supply chains from unforeseen events, they create inflexible chains where even a small, unexpected event can bring everything to a standstill supply chain risk management introduces the principles of this functionit reviews the current thinking on the subject, describes methods that are most widely used, and shows where the subject is heading this book is aimed at anyone who wants to know about risk management and its growing impact on the supply chainthe early chapters outline the importance of the subject and review the core areas of risk and supply chain managementthen the book develops the principles of supply chain risk management, from the steps needed to introduce it to the complexities of emergency planning
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lancaster systems engineering guidebook: a process for developing systems and products is intended to provide readers with a guide to understanding and becoming familiar with the systems engineering process, its application, and its value to the successful implementation of systems development projectsthe book describes the systems engineering process as a multidisciplinary effortthe process is defined in terms of specific tasks to be accomplished, with great emphasis placed on defining the problem that is being addressed prior to designing the solutionprevious owner's name on ffep
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oxfam books & music lancaster in this book wsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe system of profound knowledge, as it is called, consists of four parts: appreciation for a system, knowledge about variation, theory of knowledge, and psychologydescribing prevailing management style as a prison, deming shows how a style based on cooperation rather than competition can help people develop joy in work and learning at the same time that it brings about long-term success in the marketindicative of deming's philosophy is his advice to abolish performance reviews on the job and grades in schoolcompetition, we see now, is destructiveit would be better if everyone would work together as a system, with the aim for everybody to winedwards deming details the system of transformation that underlies the 14 points for management presented in out of the crisisedwards deming details the system of transformation that underlies the 14 points for management presented in out of the crisiswhat we need is cooperation and transformation to a new style of management
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oxfam books & music lancaster this book from watts humphrey broadens his disciplined approach to software engineeringsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein this book, he scales down those methods to a personal level, helping software practitioners develop the skills and habits they need to plan, track, and analyze large and complex projects more carefully and successfullyin his earlier book, managing the software process, humphrey developed concrete methods for managing software development and maintenancethese methods, now commonly practiced, provide programmers and managers specific steps for evaluating and improving their software capabilities
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lancaster in this book the author, who is both a feminist and a muslim, aims to shed light on the status of women in islam by examining and reassessing the literary sources as far back as seventh-century islamshe portrays how, far from being the oppressor of women that his detractors have claimed, the prophet upheld the equality of all true believerslater restrictions and impositions on women such as the veil were never, she finds, the intention of the prophetsifting through the mass of literature surrounding the life, works and teachings of muhammad, some surprising facts emerge such as descriptions of how the wives of the prophet discussed politics with him, and even went to war
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oxfam books & music lancaster for resilience engineering, 'failure' is the result of the adaptations necessary to cope with the complexity of the real world, rather than a breakdown or malfunctionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit is written for those responsible for system safety on managerial or operational levels alike, including safety managers and engineers (line and maintenance), security experts, risk and safety consultants, human factors professionals and accident investigatorsthis definitive new book explores this groundbreaking new development in safety and risk management, where 'success' is based on the ability of organizations, groups and individuals to anticipate the changing shape of risk before failures and harm occurthe performance of individuals and organizations must continually adjust to current conditions and, because resources and time are finite, such adjustments are always approximatethe book provides an introduction to resilience engineering of systems, covering both the theoretical and practical aspectsfeaturing contributions from many of the worlds leading figures in the fields of human factors and safety, resilience engineering provides thought-provoking insights into system safety as an aggregate of its various components, subsystems, software, organizations, human behaviours, and the way in which they interact
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lancaster a study of a remarkable body of material: the fine objects that were so often buried in hoards or deposited in watery locations such as rivers or bogssuch finds are made throughout northern and western europe and characterise the entire sequence from the mesolithic to the early historical periodthe book traces the main outlines of this sequence and attempts to relate the changing character of these deposits to the broader processes taking place in prehistoric society
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oxfam books & music lancaster in excellent condition, no scratchescom/sri-aurobindo-ashram-chorus-shobha-mitra-loving-homage/release/ see oxfam website for delivery information read morecompare at https://www
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oxfam books & music lancaster no scratches, a few spindle marks as shown in photocom/archie-shepp-blas%c3%a9/release/ see oxfam website for delivery information read moreverify version here: https://www
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oxfam books & music lancaster re-issueitem in shrink wrap but has been openedcom/wayne-shorter-juju/release/ see oxfam website for delivery information read moreverify version here:Â https://wwwvinyl and cover in near mint condition
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oxfam books & music lancaster near mint condition, no spindle marks or scratchessee oxfam website for delivery information read morevery slight vinyl ring-wear on sleeve
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oxfam books & music lancaster vinyl very goodsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreno spindle markssmall encircled letter "h" written in red ballpoint on the covera couple of light scratches (see photos)
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oxfam books & music lancaster cover and vinyl in excellent condition - no scratches see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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oxfam books & music lancaster a ground-breaking book when first published in it is now a classic for all those involved in the textile worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebeautifully illustrated, it is structured in six chapters, covering: * backgrounds, often using experimental or unusual materials * raising the surface a little to produce highly textured, low-relief embroideries * the next step - raising the surface even more * using applied motifs for high-relief textiles * frames, masks and high-relief panels * three-dimensional constructions, bowls, vessels and towers lavishly illustrated with over 95 colour photgraphs, the book includes clear diagrams and detailed instructions, step-by-step where necessaryall you need is enthusiasm and a swing needle sewing machine to make the wonderful textures featured within these pagesit features exciting, innovative and modern machine embroidery from one of the most accomplished writers on the subject'raising the surface with machine embroidery' is a book for everyone who is interested in texture in embroidery
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