[PDF] Shifting Priorities eBook

Author : Nanette Salomon
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780804744775

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This ground-breaking book offers the first sustained examination of Dutch seventeenth-century genre painting from a theoretically informed feminist perspective. Other recent works that deal with images of women in this field maintain the paradoxical combination of seeing the images as positivist reflections of “life as it was” and as emblems of virtue and vice. These reductionist practices deprive the works of their complex nature and of their place in visual culture, important frameworks that the book attempts to restore to them. Salomon expands the possibilities for understanding both familiar and unfamiliar paintings from this period by submitting them to a wide range of new and provocative questions. Paintings and prints from the first half of the century through to the second are analyzed to understand the changing social roles and values attributed to the sexes as they were introduced and reflected in the visual arts.

Author : Rémi Piet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 131705539X

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Given the resurgence of Russian economic capabilities and of Russia's role as a regional, even global, political actor, much of the literature written more than 4-5 years ago is already dated. The editor and contributors to this timely volume draw upon a broad range of analysts who deal with various aspects of Russian relations with its neighbours to the West and to the East. Implications for Russian foreign and security policy are key to understanding Russia's position in the 21st Century. Readers in Russian foreign and security policy; European, Eurasian, and Asian security; and contemporary international politics/security will find this volume invaluable.

Author : Robert W. Herdt
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : 9706480803

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Global food security; Global changes; Global physical and biological changes; Factors determining public sector research resource allocation; Challenges for agriculture; Implication of global change for public international agricultural research.

Author : Lynn Connaway Silipigni
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781556534737

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This report suggests that Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science can be reordered and reinterpreted to reflect today's library resources and services, as well as the behaviors that people demonstrate when engaging with them.

Author : Peter D. Eckel
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN :

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This edited volume explores the intersection of academic decision making with contemporary, cutting-edge challenges for which no simple solution exists. It moves the issue of decision making outside of the contested arena of stakeholder responsibilities, and presents a series of distinct and uniqe chapters that illustrate how colleges and universities are creating and sustaining dynamic and effective decision-making processes.

Author : T. Kono
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2001-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0333993896

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The period of economic decline during the 1990s produced a wave of studies focusing on the failure of Japanese management according to western criteria. Yet Japanese manufacturing firms have continued to hold competitive power in the world market. This book identifies the institutional specificity of Japanese Management and the reasons behind its continued competitiveness. Through an exploration of the strategy and structure of Japanese manufacturing corporations the authors discover the essential features and strength of Japanese management systems, their problems and new trends, and consider how management strategies have been developed for future success. This new, sophisticated analysis of Japanese manufacturing corporations, based on data from over two hundred corporations, will enable the reader to better understand Japanese management systems and their potential to lay a foundation for successful management systems throughout the world.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 32,96 MB
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309048362

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This book responds to a congressional request to evaluated criteria by which land is acquired under the Land and Water Conservation Fund. The committee reviews criteria and procedures by which four agencies acquire lands for conservation; examines the historic, public policy, and scientific bases of criteria and compares them with nongovernmental organizations; and assesses the effectiveness of the agencies in preserving natural resources while achieving agency objectives.

Author : Irvin C. Bupp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000007421

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Originally published in 1988. This book considers why some public policies succeed and others do not. It looks at the entrepreneurial process that creates public policies and examines whether they prosper or falter because of their political consequences. The programs and personnel of the Atomic Energy Commission are the empirical foundation for these arguments. The data generated by that agency's annual budget-making cycles, collected over time and organised by program, are used as evidence to test some propositions about policy formation within the executive branch of government. The author's concern is with questions of where and how priorities are established in a complex institutional environment. To answer the more fundamental causal question of why some programs prosper while others wither or die, use is made of more historical analysis and comparison of the fortunes of several of AEC's efforts to develop applied nuclear technology.

Author : Thomas A. Kochan
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Collective bargaining
ISBN :

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Labour administration pub. Final report on research priorities in labour relations for the 1980s in the USA - favours a more generous research policy to revive interest in research on collective bargaining, economic policy, state intervention and regulation, workers participation, dispute settlement, and other long term problems and labour policy issues. References.