Nurturing intelligent automation

Nurturing Intelligent Automation offers a strategic roadmap for transforming HR through intelligent automation to build resilient, future-ready organizations in Industry 5.0. It explores AI-driven tools, workforce upskilling, and human-tech integration to enhance agility, efficiency, and sustaina...

Nurturing modalities of inquiry in entrepreneurship research

This edited collection stimulates discussion, shares practice and explores challenges around current and new approaches to inquiry - encompassing all aspects of entrepreneurship research, from its conception through to its execution and related issues such as education, training and learning.

Nurturing wellbeing in academia

Written with a core understanding of wellbeing and the different challenges and stresses on our mental health, this easily digestible and accessible text encourages those in academia to reflect upon how they are functioning, both in and out of the classroom, offering a range of suggestions for sm...

Nuthin' but a "g" thang

In the late 1980s, gangsta rap music emerged in urban America, giving voice to—and making money for—a social group widely considered to be in crisis: young, poor, black men. From its local origins, gangsta rap went on to flood the mainstream, generating enormous popularity and profits. Yet the hi...

Nutrient cycling and limitation

The availability or lack of nutrients shapes ecosystems in fundamental ways. From forest productivity to soil fertility, from the diversity of animals to the composition of microbial communities, nutrient cycling and limitation are the basic mechanisms underlying ecosystem ecology. In this book, ...

Nutritionism

An eye-opening study undermining our focus on nutrients as the key to healthy eating.

O body

A collection of moving and tender poems that delves into questions of masculinity, fatherhood, home, and learning to live in and love one’s own body.  In his second full-length poetry collection, Chicago-born poet Dan “Sully” Sullivan considers the male body—its momentum and privilege when moving...

O god of players

Between 1972 and 1974, the Mighty Macs of Immaculata College—a small Catholic women's school outside Philadelphia—made history by winning the first three women's national college basketball championships ever played. A true Cinderella team, this unlikely fifteenth-seeded squad triumphed against e...

O my friends, there is no friend

The porous renditions of being-together animated by friendship can spark a repoliticization of the political to surpass the foreclosures of the state, speak to a freedom of movement, and find renovated relationships with the more-than-human.

O solo homo

O, what a luxury

O, What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound is the first poetry collection written by Garrison Keillor, the celebrated radio host of A Prairie Home Companion. Although he has edited several anthologies of his favorite poems, this collection of his very own poems astounds us...

O-gî-mäw-kwě mit-i-gwä-kî

O-gî-mäw-kwě Mit-i-gwä-kî (1899) is a novel by Simon Pokagon. Published posthumously, the novel is a semi-autobiographical story of adventure, romance, and tragedy set in the American Midwest. O-gî-mäw-kwě Mit-i-gwä-kî reflects the themes and concerns that shaped Pokagon’s life as a writer and ac...

O.b.b.

Crafted through years-long collaborations, OBB aka The Original Brown Boy  is a postcolonial techno dream-pop comics poem that records two decades of the author’s experiences as an immigrant and artist

Oasis identities

The rising tide of ethnic nationalism that has swept across Central Asia in the past decade has energized efforts by the Chinese government to win favor among its ethnic minorities. As a result, China has granted the Uyghurs—a Turkic Muslim people who inhabit the oases of China's far northwestern...

Oath betrayed

The news that the United States tortured prisoners in the war on terror has brought shame to the nation, yet little has been written about the doctors and psychologists at these prisons. In Oath Betrayed, medical ethics expert and physician Steven H. Miles tells how doctors, psychologists, and me...

Oath keepers

Sam Jackson takes readers inside the world of the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, examining its extensive online presence to discover how it builds support for its goals and actions. He explores how Oath Keepers draws on core American values and pivotal historical moment...

Obama and america's public sector plague

Public-sector employees enjoy much more generous pay and benefit packages than private-sector workers, including guaranteed pensions and retiree health benefits whose long-term costs threaten to break the backs of state and local taxpayers. In this provocative Broadside, E.J. McMahon explains how...

Obama and the crash of 2013

Obama health law: what it says and how to overturn it

The fight against ObamaCare is just beginning. The new health law, signed on March 23, 2010, destroys our constitutional rights. For the first time in history, the federal government will dictate how doctors treat their privately insured patients. That will affect you, no matter what brand-name h...

Obama's betrayal of israel

Yasser Arafat's incremental conquest of Israel was learned at the feet of the North Vietnamese in 1970. The Vietnamese told the Arab leadership that they accepted the fact that victory in Vietnam would take many years, during which it would be necessary to temporarily accept the division of the ...

Obama's education takeover

President Obama has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented centralization of education policy under the guise of promoting educational innovation, accountability, and improved student achievement. In reality, Obama’s new national standards, curricula, and testing – in addition to huge spending ...

Obama's radical transformation of america: year one

In only one year, Obama has saddled Americans with a skyrocketing deficit that will leave future generations deeply in debt; a health-care plan that prescribes a cure worse than the illness; catastrophically expensive environmental schemes; and a foreign policy that appeases enemies and punishes ...

Obeah, orisa, and religious identity in trinidad, volume i, obeah

Tracey E. Hucks traces the history of the repression of Obeah practitioners in colonial Trinidad.

Obeah, orisa, and religious identity in trinidad, volume ii, orisa

Dianne M. Stewart analyzes the sacred poetics, religious imagination, and African heritage of Yoruba-Orisa devotees in Trinidad from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

Obits.

Can poems mourn the unmourned?

Objects and imagination

An exciting and innovative addition to the study of material culture, art and aethetics. Comprised by accomplished, previously published scholars in the field of art history and social anthropology. Explores how we conceptualise our social surroundings through the framework of the im...

Objects and objections of ethnography

The essays in this volume, in all their astonishing richness and diversity, focus on the question of the “other.” Brimming with whole flotillas of new ideas, they delineate subtle and various ways in which that question can be made the basis of an ethnographic project.In them, the author responds...

Objects tell stories

A completely new illustrated souvenir volume which showcases the American experience through photographs and maps, books and newspapers, letters and records, paintings and sculpture, toys and furniture, from the everyday to the extraordinary.The vast holdings of the New-York Historical reflect an...

Obligations of citizenship and demands of faith

Of the many challenges facing liberal democracy, none is as powerful and pervasive today as those posed by religion. These are the challenges taken up in Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith, an exploration of the place of religion in contemporary public life. The essays in this volume...

Obliterations

Every day we are forced to integrate the world's news into our personal lives; we all have to decide what parts of the flood of news resonate with us and what we need to turn away from, out of necessity or sensitivity. Obliterations—a collection of erasure poems that use The New York Times as the...

Oblivion

This masterful novel represents an epic literary attempt to examine a very troubled Russia.

Obscene gestures

Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century moralist controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer...

Observation: notation

Andrew Forge was an English painter and a teacher of painting (Yale University 1975–1994), renowned and respected on both sides of the Atlantic. But he was also known for his writing on the arts, spanning almost fifty years, which was admired for the delicacy and openness of his language and the ...

Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime

When originally published in 1960, this was the first complete English translation since 1799 of Kant's early work on aesthetics. More literary than philosophical, Observations shows Kant as a man of feeling rather than the dry thinker he often seemed to readers of the three Critiques.

Observing conflict escalation in world society

In this book Richard Bösch argues that conflicts can be observed as social systems.

Obsessive measurement disorder or pragmatic bureaucracy?

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Obsessive Measurement Disorder or Pragmatic Bureaucracy?Coping with Uncertainty in Development Aid Relations examines issues in performance measurement and monitoring in the context of the complex field of develop...

Obsolete communism

Obstetric violence and systemic disparities

The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to ...

Obstetricians speak

For the first time ever in a social science work, obstetricians tell their own stories of training, practice, fear, and transformation. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the ideologies and motives of individual ...

Obstinate hebrews

Enlightenment writers, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon discussed and wrote about France's tiny Jewish population at great length. Why was there so much thinking about Jews when they were a minority of less than one percent and had little economic and virtually no political power? In this unusu...

Occasional work and seven walks from the office for soft architecture

Pompoms, blackberries and Value Village: Take a stroll through the thoughts of one of Canada’s most intriguing poets and thinkers.

Occasions

A collection of Valéry’s occasional writingsThis selection of Paul Valéry’s occasional pieces—speeches, interviews, and articles—reveals his life as a public figure in constant demand. Included are his speech upon his reception to the French Academy; his address welcoming Marshal Pétain into the ...

Occupation and migration in eastern europe

This first hand account explores the nature of the military occupation of Ukraine by Russian forces and their proxies in Crimea, Donbas, and Southern regions of Ukraine.

Occupation in the east

A nuanced, eye-opening portrait of the lives of thousands of Germans, for whom Warsaw and Minsk became home, following their occupation by the Third Reich. Describes their unity in their self-conception as a “master race.” Examines how they engaged in acts of shocking brutality again...

Occupation: organizer

A trenchant history of community organizing and a must-read for the next generation of organizers seeking to learn from the successes, failures, and contradictions of the past. The community organizing tradition is long overdue for reexamination. In Occupation: Organizer, scholar and activist Cl...

Occupational hazards

Doing business in China can be hazardous to your health. Occupational Hazards follows a group of Chinese businessmen and government officials as they conduct business in Beijing and western Yunnan Province, exposing webs of informal networks that help businessmen access political favors. These ne...