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Learn how to think and act like a successful manager with the powerful insights, latest concepts and reader-friendly approach found in Griffin/Phillips' ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS, 14E. This edition equips you with the skills and practical understanding to meet today's management challenges. You examine the fundamentals of employee behavior with balanced coverage of classic management ideas and the most recent organizational behavior developments and contemporary trends. Updated learning features and examples from well-known organizations complement numerous cases and current content that focuses on pressing issues and practical solutions. You also identify personal strengths and explore areas where you need further development with self-assessment activities and end-of-chapter activities designed to improve your skills. MindTap digital resources are also available to further your personal success as you learn to effectively lead others.

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In this wide-ranging historical introduction to philosophical hermeneutics, Jean Grondin discusses the major figures from Philo to Habermas, analyzes conflicts between various interpretive schools, and provides a persuasive critique of Gadamer's view of hermeneutic history, though in other ways Gadamer's Truth and Method serves as a model for Grondin's approach.Grondin begins with brief overviews of the pre-nineteenth-century thinkers Philo, Origen, Augustine, Luther, Flacius, Dannhauer, Chladenius, Meier, Rambach, Ast, and Schlegel. Next he provides more extensive treatments of such major nineteenth-century figures as Schleiermacher, Böckh, Droysen, and Dilthey. There are full chapters devoted to Heidegger and Gadamer as well as shorter discussions of Betti, Habermas, and Derrida. Because he is the first to pay close attention to pre-Romantic figures, Grondin is able to show that the history of hermeneutics cannot be viewed as a gradual, steady progression in the direction of complete universalization. His book makes it clear that even in the early period, hermeneutic thinkers acknowledged a universal aspect in interpretation—that long before Schleiermacher, hermeneutics was philosophical and not merely practical. In revising and correcting the standard account, Grondin's book is not merely introductory but revisionary, suitable for beginners as well as advanced students in the field.

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This volume offers new practical and theoretical perspectives on one of the most complex questions regarding the formation of international law, namely that actors other than states contribute to the making of customary international law.Notwithstanding the International Law Commission’s valuable contribution, the making of customary international law remains riddled with acute practical and theoretical controversies that continue to be intensively debated. Making extensive reference to the case-law of international law courts and tribunals, as well as the most recent scholarly work on customary international law, this volume provides a comprehensive study of the contribution of international organisations and non-state actors to the formation of customary international law. With innovative tools and guidance for law students, legal scholars, and researchers in law, as well as legal practitioners, advisers, judges, arbitrators, and counsels, this collection is essential reading for those wishing to understand and address contemporary questions of international law-making.

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Topsy and Tim find fun and adventure in the real world. Their engaging stories are reassuring for young children having first experiences of their own. In Topsy and Tim Meet the Firefighters the twins have an exciting day out at the fire station! They get to see all the fire appliances and learn about fire safety.A trusted and well-loved pair who can help guide parents and children through 'first experiences', Topsy and Tim books have been beautifully updated with contemporary artwork. Topsy and Tim remain instantly recognisable to parents while in a fresh style that will appeal to a new generation of fans. These wonderful books deserve a place on every child's bookshelves.

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Topsy and Tim are always finding fun adventures in the real world, and this story is reassuring for young children having first experiences of their own. In Go on an Aeroplane share Topsy and Tim's aeroplane adventure as they meet the stewardess, the pilot. Also, learn all about the airport and discover that sucking sweets can stop little ears from popping!A trusted and well-loved pair who can help guide parents and children through 'first experiences', Topsy and Tim books have been beautifully updated with contemporary artwork. Topsy & Tim remain instantly recognisable to parents while in a fresh style that will appeal to a new generation of fans. Re-launching in April 2008 with the bestselling titles Learning to Swim, The New Baby, Start School, Go on an Aeroplane, Go Green and Have a Birthday Party these wonderful books deserve a place on the bookshelves of the next generation.

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Topsy and Tim find fun and adventure in the real world. Their engaging stories are reassuring for young children having first experiences of their own. In Topsy and Tim: Go to the Dentist children can find out how to keep their teeth healthy and discover that going to the dentist isn't such a scary experience after all.A trusted and well-loved pair who can help guide parents and children through 'first experiences', Topsy and Tim books have been beautifully updated with contemporary artwork. Topsy & Tim remain instantly recognisable to parents while in a fresh style that will appeal to a new generation of fans, these wonderful books deserve a place on every child's bookshelves.

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Join Topsy and Tim as they help a friend in need. In Topsy and Tim Help a Friend, Stevie Dunton is unhappy at school because he is being bullied. The twins do the right thing by speaking to Mummy and Miss Terry about it so they can stop the bullies picking on Stevie.Topsy and Tim are just like you! They find fun and adventure in the real world. A trusted and well-loved pair who can help guide parents and children through 'first experiences', Topsy and Tim books have been beautifully updated with contemporary artwork. Topsy & Tim remain instantly recognizable to parents while in a fresh style that will appeal to a new generation of fans. These wonderful books deserve a place on every child's bookshelves.Other titles are Topsy and Tim The New Baby, Topsy and Tim Have a Birthday party, Topsy and Tim Go on an Aeroplane, Topsy and Tim Play football, Topsy and Tim Go on a Train, Topsy and Tim Learn to Swim, Topsy and Tim Start School, Topsy and Tim Go Camping, Topsy and Tim Go to Hospital, Topsy and Tim Go to the Zoo, Topsy and Tim Go to the Dentist, Topsy and Tim At the Farm, Topsy and Tim Go to the Doctor, Topsy and Tim Have Itchy Heads, Topsy and Tim Meet the Firefighters, Topsy and Tim Meet the Police, Topsy and Tim Safety First, Topsy and Tim Go for Gold, Topsy and Tim Visit London, Topsy and Tim Meet Father Christmas, Topsy and Tim Move House

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Topsy and Tim find fun and adventure in the real world. Their engaging stories are reassuring for young children having first experiences of their own. In Topsy and Tim: Go on Holiday Topsy, Tim, Mummy and Dad are off on holiday, but the journey there is an eventful one! A trusted and well-loved pair who can help guide parents and children through 'first experiences', Topsy and Tim books have been beautifully updated with contemporary artwork. Topsy & Tim remain instantly recognizable to parents while in a fresh style that will appeal to a new generation of fans.

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century' Michele RobertsJean Rhys's masterpiece tells the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester.Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of another novel's heroine. This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys's brief, beautiful masterpiece. Edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith

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A laugh-out-loud page turner from Sean Taylor with wickedly hilarious graphic art from Jean Jullien.From masterful storyteller Sean Taylor and exciting, celebrated graphic artist Jean Jullien, comes the laugh-out-loud tale of Hoot Owl. Hoot Owl is no ordinary owl – oh no! – he’s a master of disguise! And he will use his expert camouflage powers to trick his unsuspecting prey into succumbing to him! Tiny animals of the night ... beware! But, somehow, Hoot Owl's prey keeps escaping... Hmmm, perhaps he isn't quite as masterful as he believes. Will he ever succeed in catching himself some dinner? Hilarity, ridiculousness and very bad costume changes abound in this wildly inventive new title.

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This charming book is just waiting to be filled with beautiful flower stickers. It includes colourful scenes of all kinds of gorgeous meadows, woodlands and gardens, all brimming with birds, bees, bugs and butterflies. With labels for the stickers, there's lots to learn and talk about.

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See how nature changes with the seasons, find out which creatures live in the garden and learn how flowers grow in this beautifully illustrated introduction to nature, with over 80 flaps to lift. There are counting and matching activities, and lots of things to look at and talk about on every page.

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Cet ouvrage se propose, a l'aide de textes du bouddhisme qui s'echelonnent de ses origines jusqu'aux premiers siecles de notre ere, d'illustrer les trois dogmes qui sont partie integrante de la pensee indienne en general, et du bouddhisme en particulier: l'acte retributif (karman), les renaissances (jati) et la ronde universelle et eternelle de celles-ci (sansara ou "transmigration").La premiere partie s'interesse au bouddhisme doctrinal. Sans taire les difficultes, voire les contradictions que ces dogmes offrent pour les esprits occidentaux, notamment parce que le Buddha soutient simultanement la sanction morale des actes et l'inexistence d'une ame substantielle et personnelle, on veut montrer l'omnipresence et la continuite des ces croyances dans les enseignements du fondateur lui-meme, dans les oeuvres qui debattent a leur propos, ainsi l'"Objet des discussions" (Kathavatthu) ou les "Questions du roi Menandre" (Milindapanha) puis dans des sources plus tardives comme Buddhaghosa ou l'un ou l'autre penseur du "Grand Vehicule". Au stock des questions fondamentales qui reste la meme d'age en age et qui concerne par exemple le passage de la mort a la renaissance, qu'elle soit humaine, celeste ou infernale, on a ajoute quelques breves considerations sur la causalite karmique, sur karman et instinct ou sur l'equivalence samsara-nirvana.La deuxieme partie porte sur les dogmes precites tels qu'ils sont vus par le bouddhisme populaire. On aborde des lors une litterature d'un type tres different: un enorme repertoire de recits et de contes moraux enrichi au long des siecles et ou se detachent les Jataka's, c'est-a-dire ces "[recits par le Buddha lui-meme de ses] naissances anterieures". On peut y suivre les odyssees transmigratoires de personnages tantot fameux (le Buddha lui-meme, ses disciples, ses contemporains, ses adversaires ideologiques), tantot anonymes, a qui leurs actes moraux ou immoraux, pieux (envers le Buddha et ses moines) ou impies ont valu de renaitre heureux ou malheureux ici-bas, dans les cieux ou les enfers, comme animaux ou fantomes. Cet ensemble narratif destine a instruire et edifier moines et laics bouddhistes permet aussi des remarques diverses, par exemple sur l'anamnese des vies anterieures ou sur la duree des diverses renaissances et sejours dans les spheres cosmiques.

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El escritor muestra la gesta como un acto irreductible, sin ningún juicio moral, estético o político. 'Zidane observaba el cielo de Berlín sinpensar en nada, un cielo blanco de nubes grisáceas y reflejos azulados, uno de esos cielos ventosos inmensos y cambiantes de lapintura flamenca. Zidane observaba el cielo de Berlín sobre el Estadio Olímpico aquella tarde del 9 de Julio de 2006, experimentandocon una intensidad desgarradora la sensación de estar allí, simplemente allí, en el Estadio Olímpico de Berlín, en ese preciso instante,la tarde de la final de la Copa Mundial de Fútbol'

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Hacia dónde se dirige el cine de nuestro tiempo? Es posible mantener la división tradicional entre cine de ficción y cine documental? Son los llamados ?falsos documentales? o ?documentales de creación? una mera moda o confirman un cambio de paradigma en el estatuto general de la imagen fílmica? El cine está sufriendo una transformación que parece anunciar una nueva etapa en la aún breve historia del llamado séptimo arte, y las películas de Abbas Kiarostami son, sin ninguna duda, una referencia imprescindible para entender el origen y el desarrollo de estos cambios.El filósofo Jean-Luc Nancy desarrolla en este ensayo sus reflexiones sobre el cine de Abbas Kiarostami y, más ampliamente, sobre el presente del medio cinematográfico. Nancy considera que la obra reciente del cineasta iraní supone la cristalización de un movimiento profundo que caracteriza al cine de nuestro tiempo y que rebasa las nociones de ficción, documento o re-presentación. Este cine sería entonces una apertura dire

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Esta obra, de espíritu evolutivo y gran calidad pedagógica, trata sobre el sistema linfático, su morfofisiología, su fisiopatología y las implicaciones que todo ello tiene para la práctica fisioterapéutica.El primer capítulo aborda la historia del sistema linfático de forma dinámica y reflexiva, desde la evolución ideológica y de saberes sobre la circulación general.El segundo capítulo muestra la iconografía del sistema linfático con bellas ilustraciones históricas que se completan con indicaciones prácticas de gran utilidad. Tras la morfología, los dos siguientes capítulos tratan la fisiología y fisiopatología desde un punto de vista progresivo y actual que permite disponer de los datos necesarios para la aplicación del razonamiento clínico. Continua con las implicaciones fisioterapéuticas de todo lo expuesto con anterioridad, donde tras una breve evolución histórica sobre el drenaje linfático manual, el autor describe las actualizaciones del citado procedimiento en base a su

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Este libro propone un acercamiento social y cultural a la historia de la sexualidad en España desde finales del siglo XVIII hasta mediados del XX en torno a diez capítulos agrupados en tres ejes: " El descubrimiento del sexo " ; " La prostitución, un mal necesario? " ; " Erotismo y pornografía. Un ?infierno? español " .El lector encontrará primero una aproximación a las colecciones populares de educación y de divulgación sexuales ( " el sexo revelado " ), así como al preservativo masculino, conocido en España desde la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII ( " el sexo por proteger " ).Este itinerario prosigue examinando el establecimiento y el funcionamiento del sistema médico y policial que regulabala prostitución ( " el sexo en venta " ) y analizando el burdel como un espacio de sociabilidad ( " el sexo tolerado " ), desembocando en la recepción en España de la cruzada abolicionista lanzada por la protestante inglesa Josephine Butler ( " el sexo denunciado " ).Se abordan después e

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Expongo solamente las razones por las cuales los pueblos modernos, que se creen libres, tienen representantes y por qué los pueblos antiguos no los tenían. De cualquier modo, en el instante en que un pueblo nombra representantes, ya no es libre, ya no existe. El contrato social es la gran obra política de Rousseau. En ella, a pesar de su reducida extensión, se encuentran expuestos los principios de su ideal político. Independientemente del significado que tuviera para el ginebrino, el escrito adquirió vida por sí mismo, y ha desempeñado un papel crucial en el pensamiento político occidental de los últimos doscientos años. De Biblia de los revolucionarios de 1789 a libro de cabecera de Fidel Castro, ha sido considerado como la plasmación por excelencia de la teoría democrática. Fue, sin embargo, el libro menos leído de Jean-Jacques hasta la Revolución francesa. Prohibido en Francia, y condenado a ser quemado en Ginebra por temerario, escandaloso, impío y destructor de todos los gobierno

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Los 125 árboles y arbustos de esta obra han sido cuidadosamente elegidos por los autores por su interés ornamental en el jardín y clasificados en orden alfabético para facilitar su consulta. Una ficha de poda específica para cada árbol y arbusto muestra todas las acciones necesarias explicadas paso a paso. Con este libro aprenderá a formar un árbol joven, a mantenerlo año tras año y a restaurarlo cuando envejezca.

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Sus castillos y sus vinos de fama mundial no son más que la punta del iceberg cuando se visita el valle del Loira y la Borgoña. Esta región acoge, además, una de las mayores concentraciones de cuevas trogloditas y de algunas de las principales muestras de arquitectura medieval de Europa. Incluye:Ideas, recomendaciones de expertos y maravillosas imágenes para que triunfe la inspiración.Descubrimiento de desvíos, rutas por carreteras y formas de enlazar por toda la red viaria.Moverse con facilidad gracias a mapas en color, con orientaciones detalladas y prácticos consejos.Además, sabias recomendaciones para planificar y ayudar a trazar la mejor ruta posible.

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Jean-Marie Delacroix recopila en esta obra las experiencias, vivencias y aprendizajes de su interacciÓn con tradiciones terapÉuticas de AmÉrica Latina y de otras latitudes del mundo; sin duda alguna, uno de los primeros textos de Índole clÍnico que explica cÓmo podemos utilizar el enfoque de la plena consciencia (mindfulness ) en el proceso terapÉutico. En este nuevo libro, Delacroix desarrolla las nociones de postura meditativa y de meditaciÓn intersubjetiva, como maneras de introducir la atenciÓn plena en la relaciÓn paciente-psicoterapeuta. Jean-Marie afirma que, en determinados momentos, la terapia se convierte en un tipo de meditaciÓn al servicio de la toma de consciencia del cliente, y por consiguiente, del cambio. Una consciencia compartida en el aquÍ y en el ahora, que sientelo que pasa de un cuerpo a otro de manera invisible. AdemÁs, el autor, pionero en el desarrollo de la Gestalt en Francia, ilustra sus postulados con casos clÍnicos reales, lo cual ayuda a explicar de forma prÁctica cÓmo se da este proceso relacional.Jean-Marie Delacroix has dedicated his life to the collection of life’s experiences and various therapeutic traditions found in Latin America and other parts of the world. This is one of the first clinical works to focus on how mindfulness can be used as a therapeutic tool. In his new book, Delacroix develops the notions that are needed for inner-subjective meditation, as a means of introducing patients to mindfulness as psychotherapy. Jean-Marie sheds light on how therapy becomes a type of meditation that helps patients reach a state of conscious awareness, all of which can lead to change. He also explores shared consciousness, which creates an invisible flow of energy from one person to another. Delacroix is a pioneer in the development of Gestalt therapy in France, and he discusses clinical cases in a practical manner that allows readers to process the information.

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