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Author: Peter W. G. Morris File Type: pdf This hugely informative and wide-ranging analysis on the management of projects, past, present and future, is written both for practitioners and scholars. Beginning with a history of the disciplines development, Reconstructing Project Management provides an extensive commentary on its practices and theoretical underpinnings, and concludes with proposals to improve its relevancy and value. Written not without a hint of attitude, this is by no means simply another project management textbook.The thesis of the book is that it all depends on how you define the subject that much of our present thinking about project management as traditionally defined is sometimes boring, conceptually weak, and of limited application, whereas in reality it can be exciting, challenging and enormously important. The book draws on leading scholarship and case studies to explore this thesis.The book is divided into three major parts. Following an Introduction setting the scene, Part 1 covers the origins of modern project management how the discipline has come to be what it is typically said to be how it has been constructed and the limitations of this traditional model. Part 2 presents an enlarged view of the discipline and then deconstructs this into its principal elements. Part 3 then reconstructs these elements to address the challenges facing society, and the implications for the discipline, in the years ahead. A final section reprises the sweep of the disciplines development and summarises the principal insights from the book.This thoughtful commentary on project (and program, and portfolio) management as it has developed and has been practiced over the last 60-plus years, and as it may be over the next 20 to 40, draws on examples from many industry sectors around the world. It is a seminal work, required reading for everyone interested in projects and their management.

Author: M. C. Bodden File Type: pdf Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England Speaking as a Woman makes the provocative argument thatdespite extensive evidence indicating a wholesale suppression of early womens speech, women were actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies. M.C. Bodden ably demonstrates that not only did women have their own epistemologies, but they were alsosimultaneously complicit with patriarchal ideology and subversive in undermining that ideology.ReviewAgainst a background of traditional patriarchal anxieties and constraints in regard to womens speech, Boddens important new study explores the transgressive nature of womens voices, the cultural authorization of bold speech, and agency that women were able to exercise especially within the law courts and in mysticism. This insightful study will be of particular interest to scholars in Medieval and Early European Studies and Womens Studies.--Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, Professor of History in the Department of Liberal Studies, DCS, and Medieval and Womens Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Bodden offers the reader abeautifully conceptualized analysis of the engendering politics of language in medieval and early modern England. In so doing,herbook joins the ranks of such classics as Michel de Certeau on mystic speech and Helen Solterer on disputing women.In engaging with the serpent, she emerges as a serpent whisperer.--Kathleen Biddick,Professor of History, Temple University About the AuthorM. C. Bodden is an Associate Professor in English Studies and Medieval Literature at Marquette University. She is the author of The Old English Finding of the True Cross and many articles on early and late medieval authors. She has been the recipient of the British Fulbright Scholar Research Award, the Canada Council Killam Award, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Research Award.

Author: Mustafa Menshawy File Type: pdf This bookexplores and problematises the war discourse regarding Egypts victory in the 1973 War. It traces the process through which this discourse was constructed and reconstructed by the state throughout the periods of President Anwar Sadat, his successor Hosni Mubarak, and afterwards.It uses Critical Discourse Analysis to combine analysis of texts commemorating the war with a study of the socio-political milieu related to personal authoritarianism and the states intricate relations with the army, the press and Islamists.