Discover how to quickly and easily harness humor and use your Comic Vision (tm) to be able to use humor as a business skill and overcome everyday adversity. Would you like to discover for yourself how to choose to see the world through the lens of your own Comic Vision to defuse stressors and how your positive attitude can inspire others.There are so many serious things we have to deal with daily, it's important to be able to use all the tools available to be able do that "voodoo w...

The one habit that can improve almost every leadership skillThere is a simple practice that can improve nearly every component of leadership excellence and it doesn't require adding anything to your busy schedule. In The Mindfulness Edge, you'll discover how a subtle inner shift, called mindfulness, can transform things that you already do every day into opportunities to become a better leader. Author Matt Tenney has trained leaders around the world in the...

This book argues that issues of sexual diversity are inextricably interwoven into the basic concerns of pre-service teacher education. How do we make our students aware of assumptions regarding masculinity, femininity, and sexuality that arise from what is presented, represented, or omitted from curricula and classroom practice? What do we say about homophobia and heterosexism as we anticipate the administrative hierarchies, school cultures, parent and community politics they will encounte...

Sprookjes … we groeiden er allemaal mee op. Ze zitten in ons collectieve geheugen. In de hedendaagse Nederlandstalige SF/F/H-scene zie je sprookjes niet heel vaak opduiken. Daarom riep het online magazine Out of this World in 2023 auteurs op om eigen sprookjes in te sturen. De redactie was overweldigd door het succes van de oproep. Eerst werden de sprookjes online geplaatst. Nu is er deze bundel, Onwereldse sprookjes, met een selectie van de inzendingen. We vroegen enkele auteurs om bonusv...

The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy presents a range of chapters written by a highly international group of scholars from disciplines such as literary studies, arts, theatre, and philosophy to analyze the ambitions of avant-garde artists. Together, these essays highlight the interdisciplinary scope of the historic avant-garde and the interconnectedness of its artists.Contributors analyze topics such as abstraction and estrangement across the arts, the...

A comprehensive and accessible guide to learning and successfully applying QCASocial phenomena can rarely be attributed to single causes—instead, they typically stem from a myriad of interwoven factors that are often difficult to untangle. Drawing on set theory and the language of necessary and sufficient conditions, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is ideally suited to capturing this causal complexity. A case-based research method, QCA regards cases as combinations of condit...