Since 9/11, war literature has become a key element in American popular culture, spurring critical debate about depictions of combat--Who can write war literature? When can they do it? This book presents a new way to closely read war narratives, questioning the idea of "combat gnosticism"--the belief that the experience of war is impossible to communicate to those who have not seen it--that has dominated the discussion.Adapting Kenneth Burke's scapegoat mechanism to the criticism o...

Organization politics can be seen as a game in which players compete for different kinds of territory such as status, power, and influence.In Power, Politics and Organizational Change, David Buchanan and Richard Badham ask: What’s the relevance of politics to change and innovation? What kind of game is this? What, if any, are the rules? How is the game played? What ethical issues arise? Should one play this game to win, and if so, how? How can you develop political experti...

Originally published in 1989. Management styles in developed western countries are undergoing a crisis phase. Increased levels of international competition and volatile trading conditions are creating new demands of job skills and responsibilities. The management challenge is to find work organization and employment strategies that sustain and develop employee performance and commitment.This book analyses the ‘high performance work systems’ that a number of American and European co...

Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant limitations--in its power to generate belonging and advance social justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the forms of interplay between music-making and community-making as mutually creative processes. Contributors in the first section look at cases where music arrived in settings with little or no sense of community and formed social bonds that lasted beyond its departure. In the sections that follow, ...

Professional killers for hire. Do you need evil done, or justice? Did you hire one, or turn yourself into one when nobody was looking?What lurks in the darkness?

This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations of the past, while recognizing the wonderful archaeological traditions that created it. An ext...

Cat Burglar? Gentleman Thief? What happens when a stranger comes in through the window? What trouble will chase her back out afterwards?Find out when folks tackle those secrets in the night.

Taste, Memory traces the experiences of modern-day explorers who rediscover culturally rich forgotten foods and return them to our tables for all to experience and savor.In Taste, Memory author David Buchanan explores questions fundamental to the future of food and farming. How can we strike a balance between preserving the past, maintaining valuable agricultural and culinary traditions, and looking ahead to breed new plants? What place does a can...

Presidents and Place: America's Favorite Sons highlights the interrelationship between America's leading political icons and various facets of space and place, including places of birth and death as well as regional allegiances, among others. The chapters examine the legacy of relationships between presidents and place in a variety of social and cultural forms, ranging from famous political campaigns to television series to developments in tourism. Beginning with the political iconography ...

The new world order as it stood after the apparent end of the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR was greeted with enthusiasm and optimism almost everywhere, but especially in the West. Less than a quarter century later that optimism has faded dramatically, with the rise of populism, nationalism, religious extremism and civil discord disrupting political and social norms around the world. This book reveals the extent to which events that began as internal political crises in Europe, the ...

Secrets.We all have them. Sometimes, merely embarrassing. Sometimes, they fatal.See what happens when those secrets come into the light of day, and how lives are changed, and ended, as a result.Thrill Ride Magazine is an ongoing themed anthology of action-adventure fiction, where the stakesare high and the pay-offs are even higher.

He wakes to pain and a name that isn't his: N57. Engineered, erased, and expelled, he carries only fragments of a past he doesn't understand—a creator's conflicted gaze, the ghost of a brother with golden eyes, and powers that defy nature.His journey through a desolate America is one of brutal discovery, both of the world and of the immense, volatile potential within him. Guided by chance encounters and haunted by fractured visions, N57 searches for identity and purpose. But the or...