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This book examines management and management-related activities as a feature of everyday life. Any person or group that attempts to influence or shape the behaviors or experiences of others may be understood as engaging in management activities. The study of management involves the study of achieving understanding, providing direction and coordinating activities with others across an endless array of humanly engaged terrains. Management Motifs provides a research agenda for an int...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

This reader shows the rich history and wide contemporary application of symbolic interaction theory.

«The Complete Tales & Poems», by Edgar Allan Poe. This digital edition brings together the text and its chapter structure for continuous reading. Contents include: The Tales ; Metzengerstein ; The Duc De L'omelette ; A Tale Of Jerusalem ; Loss Of Breath.

“Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.”In the early 1770s, right before the American Revolution, a man wandered off in the Catskill mountains to escape his wife and vanished. Twenty years later, Rip Van Winkle reappears – dressed in the same clothes and unaware that an...

The Knowledge Deficit illuminates the real issue in education today -- without an effective curriculum, American students are losing the global education race. In this persuasive book, the esteemed education critic, activist, and best-selling author E.D. Hirsch, Jr., shows that although schools are teaching the mechanics of reading, they fail to convey the knowledge needed for the more complex and essential skill of reading comprehension. Hirsch corrects popular misconceptions about hot is...

Pumpkins' Glow: 200+ Eerie Tales for Halloween is a rich anthology that weaves together an array of haunting narratives from the gothic shadows of the 19th century to the early thrills of the 20th century. This collection spans a myriad of literary styles, from horror to supernatural, offering readers a comprehensive panorama of eerie tales perfect for Halloween contemplation. As ominous narratives and uncanny atmospheres envelop the anthology, notable tales include chilling encounters, sp...

Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of research from the positivist-centered training they receive. This book is an authoritative examination of the concepts and processes underlying the design of an interpretive research project. Such an approach to design starts with the recogniti...

"A major contribution to both the pragmatist renaissance and the transnational turn toward theorizing in qualitative research." —Adele E. Clarke, author of Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory after the Postmodern TurnIn Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for theorizing qualitative research. They outline a way to think about observations, methods, and theories that nurtures theory formation without...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***Synopsis:Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving is a mostly interesting read. The book is a collection of small stories with the author serving only as a means to hear these tales from other characters in the book. The locales and stories vary greatly, ranging from good fun, to morals of living, to more serious tones of dangers and trials.

Most writing on sociological method has been concerned with how accurate facts can be obtained and how theory can thereby be more rigorously tested. In The Discovery of Grounded Theory, Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss address the equally Important enterprise of how the discovery of theory from data—systematically obtained and analyzed in social research—can be furthered. The discovery of theory from data—grounded theory—is a major task confronting sociology, for such a theory fits empiric...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, and Tales of a Traveller is a timeless collection of short stories written by Washington Irving, one of America's foremost literary figures. Originally published in the early years of XIX century, this collection has captivated readers for centuries with its haunting and humorous tales that have become iconic pieces of American literature. The book begins with the legendary tale of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, set in a small village in New York ...