The One-Hat Solution: Roger's Strategy for Creative Middle Management

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The chapters in volume 15 of ROCD address a wide array of topics, challenges, and gaps in our knowledge of organizational change. Purser, Bluedorn and Petranker explore the dynamics of time in organizational change, proposing the use of the concept of "flow time." Falkenberg and her colleagues examine the issue of excessive change in organizations, which they define as the simultaneous pursuit of multiple unrelated changes. Real and Poole develop a framework for classifying approaches to conceptualizing and measuring innovation implementation. Roth provides a case description of knowledge creation stemming from a team composed of university, business, and consulting organizations. Ferdig and Ludema examine change via self-organizing processes at the U.S. National Regulatory Commission, the government agency that monitors nuclear reactors. Wischnevsky and Damanpour explore the punctuated equilibrium model of organizational transformation in the banking industry. Golembiewski and his colleagues address the application of organization development across cultures, specifically the use of OD within those cultures where Confucian ideas are prominent. Coghlan and Coughlan report on the CO-IMPROVE project-an action research initiative funded by the European Union. Finally, Yeager, Sorensen and Bengtsson assess the current state of the use of appreciative inquiry in programs of organizational change.

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For more than 150 years, the tales of hundreds of slaves and free people of color who used the judicial system to negotiate their freedom lay buried deep within the dusty records of the New Orleans district courts. Then Judith Kelleher Schafer spent fourteen years poring over Minute Books and trial transcripts, uncovering fascinating cases. In Becoming Free, Remaining Free, Schafer presents her findings and offers a profound analysis of slavery and manumission in the Crescent City.

Louisiana state law was unique in allowing slaves to contract for their freedom and to initiate a lawsuit for liberty. Schafer describes the ingenious and remarkably sophisticated ways slaves used the legal system to gain their independence and find a voice in a society that ordinarily gave them none. Showing that remaining free was often as challenging as becoming free, she also recounts numerous cases in which free people of color were forced to use the courts to prove their status. She further documents seventeen free blacks who, when faced with deportation, amazingly sued to enslave themselves.

Schafer's impressive detective work achieves a rare feat in the historical profession-the unveiling of an entirely new facet of the slave experience in the American South. With a rich bibliography sure to ease future research, Becoming Free, Remaining Free is a milestone in the historiography of slavery.

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Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian
Les Baltimore
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Title: Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862.(Book Review)
Author: Les Baltimore
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
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Volume: 67 Issue: 1 Page: 133(2)

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Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
Dennis C. Rousey
Manufacturer: Southern Historical Association
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00096ZDUM
Release Date: 2005-07-13

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on February 1, 2005. The length of the article is 571 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862.(Book Review)
Author: Dennis C. Rousey
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2005
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 71 Issue: 1 Page: 151(2)

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Immune Mechanisms of Pain and Analgesia is the first volume to discuss a new concept of immune-neural interplays leading to pain or analgesia. It argues the classical view that pain and its control are restricted to the nervous system, offering a comprehensive overview of the emerging area of immune mechanisms in pain and its control. It challenges the traditional view that pain sensation or suppression is attributed exclusively to the nervous system and presents a critical analysis of this new concept. The book is written by an internationally recognized group of researchers and discusses complex and controversial issues such as cytokines and their pain-exacerbating but also analgesic effects, the production of opioids by immune cells, peripheral analgesic and anti-inflammatory actions of opioids, immunomodulatory effects of opiates, and immunosuppressive effects of pain.

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Immune Mechanisms of Pain and Analgesia
Halina Machelska
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: B000OSRGYG

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The new dawn of science textbooks.......2000-12-04

This book blends impeccable research with beautiful art and tasteful design for the most innovative and modern of science textbooks. Enjoyable for pleasure reading, even for those with little or no science background. Highly recommended.

ISBN 0716727897 Overhead Transparency Set for Environmental Geology An Earth System Science Approach

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ISBN 0716727897 Overhead Transparency Set for Environmental Geology An Earth System Science Approach
Dorothy Merritts , Andrew de Wet , and Kirsten Menking
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Environmental Geology Test Bank For, An Earth System Science Approach ISBN#0716732408
Merritts
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All about the journey.......2002-12-17

I gotta admit I liked it!
This book begins with the colorful story of how civilization came to be Indian style. The animated journey of not quite human humans as they travel through four worlds before settling down in the fith glittering world.
The books then proceeds to a journey in which the narrator starts at home on the reservation and rebeliously travels the country. From living on the streets to completing a MFA from Cornell, the narrator eventually completes the physical and metaphoric inner journey back home.
This book was not as mystic and symbolicially laden as its contemporary American Indian Literature, but it does not take away from the feelings one eventually shares with the narrator.
The creation story at the begining is an added treat!

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Thoroughly revised and updated analytical articles written by acknowledged experts covering the issues affecting the area as a whole.
* Over 1,400 pages of economic and demographic statistics, wide-ranging directory material and authoritative articles
* Contributions from over 50 leading experts on African affairs
* Incisive analysis of the latest available information.

General Survey
* Thoroughly revised and updated analytical articles written by acknowledged experts covering the issues affecting the area as a whole: Reforming Africa: Continuities and Changes; Economic Trends in Africa South of the Sahara 2005; Health and Medical Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa; The Privatization of Security in Sub-Saharan Africa and European Colonial Rule in Africa
* A political map of contemporary Africa and a chronological list of the dates of independence of African countries.

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Individual chapters on every country incorporating:

* An introductory survey, containing essays on the physical and social geography, recent history and economy of each country
* An extensive statistical survey of economic indicators, which include area and population, health and welfare, agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, industry, finance, trade, transport, tourism, media and education
* A full directory containing names, addresses and contact numbers for key areas such as the government, political organizations, diplomatic representation, the judiciary, religion, the media, finance, trade and industry, tourism, defence and education
* A useful bibliography, providing sources for further research.

Regional Information
* Detailed information on the following: regional organizations; major commodities; calendars, time reckoning, and weights and measures; research institutes concerned with Africa and a select periodicals bibliography.

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America and the World.......2007-05-15

As the world's first democracy with a written constitution and Bill of Rights, the United States has stood for global aspirations for democratic liberty, equality, and solidarity since its formation in 1776. However, as it developed into an empire by the late nineteenth century, the Unted States also has threatened the liberties of other peoples, including Native Americans, Hawaiian, Latin Americans, Asians, and Africans. The American role in world affairs has long been polarized around two conflicting images and strategies.

In the name of counter terrrorism, the Bush administration pursued a largely unilateralist policy in the Middle East and elsewhere. Yet, in the name of protecting its national sovereignty, the United Stated also has rejected most of the recent multilateral treaties that strive to contain violence by fortifying the rule of international law. A unilateralist strategy also goes largely against the U.S. postwar multilateralism, which established the Uited Nations and its specialized agencies. This volume explores these contradictions.
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Exploring the interactions that swirl around scientific uncertainty and its coverage by the mass media, this volume breaks new ground by looking at these issues from three different perspectives: that of communication scholars who have studied uncertainty in a number of ways; that of science journalists who have covered these issues; and that of scientists who have been actively involved in researching uncertain science and talking to reporters about it. In particular, Communicating Uncertainty examines how well the mass media convey to the public the complexities, ambiguities, and controversies that are part of scientific uncertainty.

In addition to its new approach to scientific uncertainty and mass media interactions, this book distinguishes itself in the quality of work it assembles by some of the best known science communication scholars in the world. This volume continues the exploration of interactions between scientists and journalists that the three coeditors first documented in their highly successful volume, Scientists and Journalists: Reporting Science as News, which was used for many years as a text in science journalism courses around the world.

COMMUNICATING UNCERTAINTY: MEDIA COVERAGE OF NEW AND CONTROVERSIAL SCIENCE.(Review) (book review): An article from: Technical Communication

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COMMUNICATING UNCERTAINTY: MEDIA COVERAGE OF NEW AND CONTROVERSIAL SCIENCE.(Review) (book review): An article from: Technical Communication
Deborah L. Illman
Manufacturer: Society for Technical Communication
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This digital document is an article from Technical Communication, published by Society for Technical Communication on August 1, 1999. The length of the article is 2309 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: COMMUNICATING UNCERTAINTY: MEDIA COVERAGE OF NEW AND CONTROVERSIAL SCIENCE.(Review) (book review)
Author: Deborah L. Illman
Publication: Technical Communication (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 1999
Publisher: Society for Technical Communication
Volume: 46 Issue: 3 Page: 411

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Filling a gap in British political literature, this title provides the most comprehensive account yet of this part of key radical environmental movement strategy, which has been used recently to address issues from road building to G M foods, consumerism and global financial institutions. It is essential reading for students of Politics and Environmental Studies as well as all those interested in the development and impact of direct action in environmentalism.

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