Knitting the fog

A young Guatemalan immigrant's adolescence is shaped by her journey to the US, as she grapples with Chapina tradition and American culture. 

Knives and scabbards

Catalogue of knives and scabbards found in London excavations, with discussion of date, technology, decoration and function.Knives were vital to medieval man for a whole range of uses, from the domestic to the wider social context: Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian burials bear silent witness to this dep...

Knock me up, knock me down

No longer is pregnancy a repulsive or shameful condition in Hollywood films, but an attractive attribute, often enhancing the romantic or comedic storyline of a female character. Kelly Oliver investigates this curious shift and its reflection of changing attitudes toward women's roles in reproduc...

Knocking on the door

Knocking on the Door is the first book-length work to analyze federal involvement in residential segregation from Reconstruction to the present. Providing a particularly detailed analysis of the period 1968 to 1973, the book examines how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ...

Know we are here

An essential look at the ways California’s Native nations are resisting colonialism today, from education reform to protests against environmental injustice and beyond.Collecting over twenty-five essays written by more than twenty California Indian authors, Know We Are Here surveys many of the wa...

Know your chances

Every day we are bombarded by television ads, public service announcements, and media reports warning of dire risks to our health and offering solutions to help us lower those risks. But many of these messages are incomplete, misleading, or exaggerated, leaving the average person misinformed and ...

Know your islam

Know your remedies

A cultural history of the concept of pharmacy, both the material nature of drugs and the trade in medicine, in early modern China Know Your Remedies presents a panoramic inquiry into China’s early modern cultural transformation through the lens of pharmacy. In the history of science and civilizat...

Know-how

Turn Your Know-How Into Someone Else’s Know-How-ToEveryone—whether subject matter experts, proficient performers, managers, coaches, or co-workers—will need to transfer knowledge to others at some point in their life. And, often, that responsibility falls to an occasional trainer, someone with co...

Knowing about genocide

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, ...

Knowing as moving

Starting from the assertion that knowing takes place through bodily movement, Susan Leigh Foster theorizes how the act of moving in and through the world creates the potential for individual and collective bodies to connect.

Knowing in performing

Knowing in Performing describes dynamic processes of artistic knowledge production in music and the performing arts. By exploring the field of artistic research as a constantly transforming space for participatory and experimental artistic practices, this anthology points the way forward for rese...

Knowing religiously

Focusing on the contemporary experience of cultural and religious pluralism, the authors in this volume work toward a reconception of the basic concepts in philosophy of religion—the idea of God and the religious ways of knowing that idea—as historically dynamic.Eliot Deutsch argues that aestheti...

Knowing the love of christ

Knowing the Love of Christ provides a thorough introduction to the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas in accessible language. As a complement to the many short introductions to St. Thomas’s philosophy, this book fills a gap in the literature on Thomas—a comprehensive introduction to his thought writt...

Knowing the unknowable god

In Knowing the Unknowable God, David Burrell traces the intellectual intermingling of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions that made possible the medieval synthesis that served as the basis for Western theology. He shows how Aquinas's study of the Muslim philosopher Ibn-Sina and the Jewish th...

Knowledge acts in modern china

This volume explores the introduction of new systems of knowledge in China during the first half of the twentieth century. The individuals portrayed here illustrate how modern systems of thought gave life to social institutions and generated new social roles and identities in China’s tumultuous t...

Knowledge assets and knowledge audits

With the rising importance of knowledge as a primary factor in global industries, it is increasingly necessary for knowledge management professionals to understand, engage with, and speak the language of investments and auditing. This exciting guide helps knowledge management professionals educat...

Knowledge discovery in the social sciences

Knowledge Discovery in the Social Sciences helps readers find valid, meaningful, and useful information. It is written for researchers and data analysts as well as students who have no prior experience in statistics or computer science. Suitable for a variety of classes—including upper-division c...

Knowledge economies and knowledge work

Our global economy is going through a major transformation, from an industrial economy, to a knowledge economy, rendering knowledge a primary factor in production. In this practical, real-world focused book, expert authors come together to define and discuss knowledge work.

Knowledge ethics for the knowledge economy

An extensive legal, moral, and ethical infrastructure supports business transactions and economic values in the industrial economy. This guide provides a proactive and forward-looking perspective for managers to adapt and shape to suit their work environments.

Knowledge lost

A compelling alternative account of the history of knowledge from the Renaissance to the EnlightenmentUntil now the history of knowledge has largely been about formal and documented accumulation, concentrating on systems, collections, academies, and institutions. The central narrative has been on...

Knowledge management and the practice of storytelling

Knowledge Management and the Practice of Storytelling offers practical advice and guidance on the skills and competencies needed to fully discover the power of storytelling to transform and transfer knowledge, and harness that power to meet business goal increases.

Knowledge management as a strategic asset

Jon-Arild Johannessen examines the history of knowledge management in order to highlight the contributions that the discipline can make to twenty-first-century strategic challenges.

Knowledge management basics

Knowledge management is an ongoing process designed to dispense company information in a user-friendly way for both current and future employees. Knowledge Management Basics explains the key concepts and the overall benefits of implementing that process, offers information assessment techniques a...

Knowledge management for leadership and communication

With the establishment of the innovation economy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is becoming a reality. As this occurs, new forms of leadership arise, generated by the interaction between leadership functions and neurology. This innovative book asks the question: what are the key value creation...

Knowledge management in the ai era

At its core, this work addresses critical questions: How does AI reshape what we define as knowledge? What are the risks, biases, and ethical dilemmas of relying on machine-generated insights? How can organisations balance the benefits of AI automation with the irreplaceable value of human expert...

Knowledge management philosophy

Knowledge Management is an important part of all business, and yet the discipline lacks a philosophy based on systemic thinking. Exploring this gap, expert author Jon-Arild Johannessen continues his research on knowledge management with the groundwork for a new philosophy.

Knowledge matters

Higher education can be a vital public good, providing opportunities for students, informed citizens for democracy, and knowledge to improve the human condition. Yet public investment in universities is widely being cut, often because public purposes are neglected while private benefits dominate....

Knowledge networks

Knowledge Networks describes the role of networks in the knowledge economy, explains network structures and behaviors, walks the reader through the design and setup of knowledge network analyses, and offers a step by step methodology for conducting a knowledge network analysis.

Knowledge of life

As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, François Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem has exerted tremendous influence on the philosophy of science and French philosophy more generally. In Knowledge of Life, a book that spans twenty years of his es...

Knowledge painfully acquired

Knowledge preservation and curation

In order to achieve its full value, knowledge must flow and be continuously used. Knowledge use, reuse, and repurposing has been a challenge discussed in knowledge sciences literature for over three decades. The authors investigate and offer solutions to two key challenges - how to preserve and c...

Knowledge resistance

Concerns about people's resistance to facts and knowledge are becoming increasingly serious. This book draws on the social, economic and evolutionary sciences to provide an integrated understanding of the phenomenon.

Knowledge risk and its mitigation

The life cycle of companies and enterprises, at present, is short-lived due to rapid social and technological changes. Despite the growing awareness on the importance of knowledge management (KM) among academic researchers, it is still not widely practiced in industry. Why is this?

Knowledge transfer to and within tourism

This volume presents and analyses 17 examples of knowledge transfer from countries around the world to identify future directions for business and government managers and academic researchers. Effective Knowledge transfer provides an opportunity to address unprecedented societal, environmental an...

Knowledge translation

Knowledge translation is a relatively new research topic originating in fields of health sciences and economic development. It is of great interest to knowledge management researchers and practitioners.

Knowledge within

Knowledge worlds

<i>Knowledge Worlds</i> reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that the material infrastructures of the modern university reveal the ways in which knowledge is created and reproduced in different ki...

Knowledge, belief, and witchcraft

First published in 1986, Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft remains the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken from within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy. Taking as its point of departure W. V. O. Quine's thesis about the indeterminac...

Knowledge, power, and academic freedom

This book presents a series of essays by the renowned historian Joan Wallach Scott that explore the history and theory of academic freedom and the value of critical inquiry today. Scott gives a nuanced reflection on the tensions within one of academia’s cherished concepts.

Knowledge, power, and practice

These original essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, constitute a state-of-the-art platform for future research in medical anthropology. Ranging in time and locale, the essays are based on research in historical and cultural settings. The contributors accept the n...

Knowledge-making from a postgraduate writers' circle

This book seeks to disrupt the narrative about the process of academic writing and the written products which are currently valued in the university. The author uses writing as both a subject and a method of enquiry in an ethnographic deep dive into her long-term engagement with a postgraduate wr...

Knuckleheads

These stories explore generational intersections - teens making, and adults looking back on, choices that define their lives.

Kojiki: the birth of japan

Take a step back in time to the origins of Japan's creation myth—told here for the very first time in illustrated form. In the beginning there was nothing—a void. Then the heavens and the earth took shape, as the ancient gods of Japan breathed the first sparks of life into these islands. The 1300...

Kokun

★ “An epic fantasy unlike any other, combining the fantastical environmentalism of works like Miyazaki’s film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Rachel Carson’s lyrical descriptions of nature, and the court intrigue of Game of Thrones.”—Booklist (starred review) A sweeping ecological fantasy fro...

Komeito

This volume sheds light on a long-ignored part of the Japanese political system, the Kōmeitō party, making the party more accessible to comparative political science. The contributors discuss Kōmeitō's history, its inner workings, and its way to power. The chapters also offer important insights i...

Kompositionen für hörbaren raum / compositions for audible space

The integration of audible space is a central aspect of electroacoustic music. Ever since the earliest analogue days of electroacoustic music, pioneers of the genre – including Pierre Schaeffer, Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Luigi Nono – used special devices and methods for their com...

Konspira

Konspira: Solidarity Underground offers a riveting and deeply personal account of the clandestine operations of Poland’s Solidarity movement during its underground phase. Built from extensive interviews with key activists, including Bogdan Borusewicz, Zbigniew Bujak, and Władysław Frasyniuk, the ...

Koorosh shishegaran

First monograph on one of the leading lights of the contemporary Iranian art movement.