Governance and Social Leadership examines the inadequacies of current theories on leadership in order to help us better understand the process of leadership and to suggest mechanisms for change. The proliferation of examples of poor...
Social aspects
- Author:Campbell, Robert A.Summary:
- Author:Droyd, AnnSummary:
In the bright buzzing room, it is time to power down. Here is a modern bedtime story about bidding our gadgets goodnight. Don't worry, though. They'll be waiting for us, fully charged, in the morning.
- Author:Wermuth, Laurie Ann.Summary:
This book uses a critical theoretical perspective to explore the links between social variables like race, class, and gender, and the health of populations around the world.Global Inequality and Human Needs includes case studies from...
- Author:Wright, Jennifer AshleySummary:
Throughout history, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the plagues they've suffered. Get Well Soon delivers the gruesome and morbid details of some of the worst plagues in human history as well as the stories of the heroic...
- Author:Milestone, KatieSummary:
This book examines the role of popular culture in the construction of gendered identities in contemporary society. It draws on a wide range of popular cultural forms - including popular music, newspapers and television - to illustrate...
- Author:Frost, MarkSummary:
Frost takes listeners back to the 1975 World Series in this thrilling account of the greatest baseball game ever played. The Reds and Red Sox endured three soggy days of inactivity to reach game six. But all that downtime could not...
- Author:Rambukkana, NathanSummary:
Adultery scandals involving politicians. Dating websites for married women and men. News reports on raids of polygamous communities. It seems that non-monogamy is everywhere: in popular culture, in the news, and before the courts....
- Author:Butler, JudithSummary:
"In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to...
- Author:Johnson, HaroldSummary:
In a passionate call to action, Harold Johnson, Cree trapper and Crown Prosecutor, examines alcohol--its history, its myths, and its devastating impact on his community. Confronting what he calls a crime against humanity--one in every...
- Author:O'Brien, Christopher MarkSummary:
Fermenting Revolution delivers an empowering message about how individuals can change the world through the simple act of having a beer. It is also the first book to view all of the important trends in human history as fundamentally...
- Author:Hanley, PaulSummary:
The sweeping changes that make a 'full world' work-involving dual processes of destruction and reconstruction-will transform global culture, agriculture, and ultimately the human race. Eleven is a call to consciousness. Only an 'ethical...
- Author:Mirowsky, JohnSummary:
Education forms a unique dimension of social status, with qualities that make it especially important to health. It influences health in ways that are varied, present at all stages of adult life, cumulative, self-amplifying, and...
- Author:Swanson, GillianSummary:
Examines the ways in which urban modernity reshapes 'cultural experience'. This work explores the ways that categories of sexual identity and behaviour were reformulated in relation to the restructuring of urban space and the...
- Author:Abu-Lughod, LilaSummary:
- Author:LeVay, SimonSummary:
- Author:LeVay, SimonSummary:
- Author:Specter, MichaelSummary:
Specter fervently argues that people are turning away from new technologies and engaging in a kind of magical thinking that is hindering scientific progress.
- Author:Howe, MilesSummary:
In 2009, the New Brunswick provincial government provided a licence to search over a million hectares of land to Texas-based Southwestern Energy for the purposes of natural gas extraction. For years, tens of thousands of New...
- Author:Ferrell, JeffSummary:
- Author:Hollis, LeoSummary:
Cities are where the twenty-first century is really going to happen. Already at the beginning of the century, we became 50% urban as a global population, and by 2050 we're going to be up to 70% urban. So cities could either be our...