Organizational Change: An Action-Oriented Toolkit, Fifth Edition is the ultimate guide that combines theory, practical tools, and real-world examples to awaken, mobilize, and accelerate change while ensuring sustainable growth and achieving your organization's objectives.

Deviance, Second Edition leaves no stone unturned in its exploration of the sociology of deviance, presenting a well-rounded, sociologically-grounded look into the vast spectrums of deviant behavior. Through this comprehensive approach, students will not only learn to analyze, but also question social and criminal justice policies, ultimately enhancing their critical thinking skills.

Wide ranging text offering a developmental approach and contextual understanding of intellectual disabilities, with chapters dedicated to specific conditions such as autism, ADHD, Down syndrome, and foetal alcohol spectrum conditions.

The textbook provides a practical and accessible overview of qualitative research methods and their philosophical underpinnings. It will empower you with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the dynamic landscape of qualitative research.

In this first volume of essential texts, on the history of anthropological theory, the rise and fall of the notion of structure is certainly one of the most important to note. In this book, this development is traced and held against an understanding of ethnographic practice. The book intently starts with a contemporary ethnographic example that serves as a backdrop for testing theoretical notions.The movement through theory is one that oscillates between structure and no-thing (and perhaps b...

In a growing number of countries, inquiries into past intercountry adoptions take place that identify systemic abuses and irregularities and conclude that adoption stakeholders encouraged or facilitated illegal intercountry adoptions. However, so far, the response from these stakeholders has been inadequate in addressing the profound human rights violations endured by those affected by illegal adoptions. Despite the growing movement of adoptees advocating for justice on behalf of themselves a...

Twenty years after he wrote Bezieling en Kwaliteit in Organisaties, Daniel Ofman, the creator of the Core Quadrant, has tackled the conditions needed to allow enthusiasm and commitment to flourish within organizations. His clearly argued contention is that organizations must set limits on what they strive to achieve and must decide if and when change itself should be a goal in its own right. His integrated approach towards life, work and organization provides insights into why traditional man...

The Taiwan Strait is a liminal space, and a natural incubator. These two conditions create a unique opportunity for implementing a future city-making process.

The Conscious City concept brings together all the challenges facing contemporary city-making. It is a concept for the urban curation processes required for future cities; for adapting to the impacts of climate change, emerging intelligences, a growing population, affordable housing, the need for a new pact with nature, as well as navi...

More than a century ago, Einstein made the theory of relativity workable by assuming the constant speed of light, he showed that time passes more slowly in a moving system. But another of his conclusions that a moving object must shrink in the direction of motion remained a matter of debate.

To examine the latter conclusion the author very precisely followed Einsteins line of thought and he found that this conclusion was the result of an incorrect physical insight. The inevitable outcome of t...