Author: Andy Bruce File Type: epub Learn how to plan, develop, and implement dynamic business and team strategies with Strategic Thinking. This concise and informative guide shows you how to identify the route to success by gathering and analyzing key information, setting short- and long-term objectives, developing your team-leadership skills, predicting future trends, and maintaining a flexible approach. It covers the essential tools of strategic management, from SWOT analysis and feasibility studies to budgeting forecasts and contingency plans, to help give youa competitive edge in todays fast-moving business world. The Essential Managerhave sold more than 1.9 million copies worldwide! Experienced and novice managers alike can benefit from these compact guides. The topics are relevant to every work environment, from largecorporations to small businesses. Concise treatments of dozens of business techniques, skills, methods, and problems are presented with hundreds of photos, charts, and diagrams. It is the most exciting and accessible approach to businessand self-improvement available.Learn about brainstorming, systems, logic, precedents, action plans, and goals.

Author: Carol Barner-Barry File Type: pdf This book explores the legal bias in the United States against Paganism and other non-Christian religions. Despite being one of the most religiously diverse countries in the world, the U.S. legal system developed when the population was predominantly Christian. Built into the law is the tacit assumption that all religions and religious practices resemble Christianity. Using the Pagans as a case study, Barner-Barry shows how their experiences demonstrate that both the law affecting nondominant religions and the judiciary that interprets this law are significantly biased in favor of the dominant religion, Christianity. This creates legal problems, as well as problems of intolerance, for religions with significantly different practices. Special attention is given to a series of Supreme Court decisions interpreting the Freedom of Religion Clause in terms of neutrality and interpreting the Establishment Clause loosely and its impact on nondominant religions in the US.ReviewContemporary Paganism is a very good book. Carol Barner-Barrys thorough research, penetrating insights, and graceful writing combine to produce a work of first-rate scholarship. All told, this is a stunning and controversial indictment of religious extremists and a compliant, if not duplicitous, High Court. However, Barner-Barrys research and analysis solidly and squarely support the charge. She approaches the question of the relations between majority and minority religions by examining the treatment of Pagans at the hands of members of majoritarian American religions. But the lessons that she draws from this disgraceful treatment, as revealed in far too many tales of oppression and harassment, apply equally to all minority religions in America. Anyone interested in understanding the reality of minority religions in a majoritarian America should run, not walk, to the nearest bookstore (or computer terminal) and buy this book and read it. And in the gentle spirit of its author, take up the challenge that Barner-Barry presents to all of us. --Michael deHaven Newsom, Professor of Law, Howard UniversityThis book is a fine example of Pagan scholarship. It analyzes a great deal of information all within the same framework, thus demonstrating how the minority status of Pagan religions creates challenges for their members in a culture which is not always tolerant of diversity. Carol Barner-Barry includes examples from Pagan experience, supported with examples of other minority religions, and how people deal with various issues. Contemporary Paganism offers a unique and powerful resource for Pagan leaders and scholars. If you run a Pagan business, church, coven, or other organization then you need this book. Im thrilled to see such serious material hitting the shelves now. Contemporary Paganism is most highly recommended.--Elizabeth Barrette, Managing Editor of PanGaiaFrom the Inside FlapContemporary Paganism is a very good book. Carol Barner-Barrys thorough research, penetrating insights, and graceful writing combine to produce a work of first-rate scholarship. All told, this is a stunning and controversial indictment of religious extremists and a compliant, if not duplicitous, High Court. However, Barner-Barrys research and analysis solidly and squarely support the charge. She approaches the question of the relations between majority and minority religions by examining the treatment of Pagans at the hands of members of majoritarian American religions. But the lessons that she draws from this disgraceful treatment, as revealed in far too many tales of oppression and harassment, apply equally to all minority religions in America. Anyone interested in understanding the reality of minority religions in a majoritarian America should run, not walk, to the nearest bookstore (or computer terminal) and buy this book and read it. And in the gentle spirit of its author, take up the challenge that Barner-Barry presents to all of us. --Michael deHaven Newsom, Professor of Law, Howard UniversityThis book is a fine example of Pagan scholarship. It analyzes a great deal of information all within the same framework, thus demonstrating how the minority status of Pagan religions creates challenges for their members in a culture which is not always tolerant of diversity. Carol Barner-Barry includes examples from Pagan experience, supported with examples of other minority religions, and how people deal with various issues. Contemporary Paganism offers a unique and powerful resource for Pagan leaders and scholars. If you run a Pagan business, church, coven, or other organization then you need this book. Im thrilled to see such serious material hitting the shelves now. Contemporary Paganism is most highly recommended.--Elizabeth Barrette, Managing Editor of PanGaia

Author: Paul Schimmel File Type: pdf Sigmund Freuds discovery of psychoanalysis explores links between Freuds development of his thinking and theory and his personal emotional journey. It follows his early career as a medical student, researcher and neurologist, and then as a psychotherapist, to focus on the critical period 1895-1900. During these years Freud submitted himself to the process that has become known as his self-analysis, and developed the core of his psychoanalytic theory. Drawing on Freuds letters to his friend and confidant Wilhelm Fliess, and on selected psychoanalytic writings in particular his dream of Irmas injection, Paul Schimmel formulates psychoanalytic dimensions to the biographical facts of Freuds life. In 1900 Freud wrote that he was not a thinker but a conquistador. In reality he was both, and was engaged in a lifelong emotional struggle to bring these contradictory sides of his personality into relationship. His psychoanalytic discoveries are conceptualized in the context of his need to achieve integration within his psyche, and in particular to forge a more creative collaboration between conquistador and thinker. ul l*l ul Sigmund Freuds discovery of psychoanalysis will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, academics and teachers of psychoanalysis, and to all serious students of the mind. **Review ** Schimmel offers a reading of Freud that is found in Freuds own words which adds an authenticity to his argument. He therefore has something important to say in the perennial question as to whether or not psychoanalysis is an art or ascienceThis is a thoughtful, well-researched book, which deserves to be read and added to the canon of Freudian literature that takes us. Alistair Ross, Oxford University*, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling* History is defined in many ways by many people. In 1906 William Osler said, History is simply the biography of the mind of man. The mind of man was deepened and we were given new ways to explore it by Freud. Keeping alive the spirit of open enquiry into the mind of man enriches all our lives. Paul Schimmels book makes a valuable contribution towards that ongoing study and I recommend this enjoyable and readable book. Maurice Whelan, Australasian Journal of Psychotherapy To maximize ones enrichment from Schimmels work one needs to have familiarity with the subjectexperienced readers of Freud, psychology historians, scholars, and clinicians interested in theory are those who will be most rewarded by this well-written, compact, very full treatment of critical periods and issues in the life and thinking of the founder of psychoanalysis. Thomas P. Kalman, Psychodynamic Psychiatry, March 2015 Paul Schimmel, in this concise volume, explores a particular tension in Freuds character and motivation between the conquistador and the thinker or man of science. A dialectical interplay between Freuds impassioned drive for discovery alongside a rational, deductive capacity for revision and reformulation of ideas is traced through his major ideas, from the Project through to Analysis terminable and interminable. His relationship with Fliess, studies with Charcot, self-analysis, dream of Irmas injection and ideas on mourning are also illuminated by this perspective. A fascinating, humanising study. Paul Williams, Training Analyst, British Psychoanalytical Society Joint Editor-in-Chief, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2001-2007 hr *Paul Schimmels wide scholarship adds intriguing perspectives on how, with the gradual integration of Freuds passionate will to greatness and his contained, intuitive reflective capacity, came increased self awareness and the discovery of the new universe of psychoanalysis, of the unconscious and transference.* Frances Thomson-Salo, Associate Professor Training Analyst Australian Psychoanalytical Society, and Honorary Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne** About the Author Paul Schimmel is a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and writer. He is member of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society, and has a private psychoanalytic practice in Sydney

Author: Fredric Jameson File Type: pdf This ground-breaking and influential study explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. It takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century.In this ground-breaking and influential study Fredric Jameson explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. At the time Jameson was actually writing the book, in the mid to late seventies, there was a major reaction against deconstruction and poststructuralism. As one of the most significant literary theorists, Jameson found himself in the unenviable position of wanting to defend his intellectual past yet keep an eye on the future. With this book he carried it off beautifully. A landmark publication, The Political Unconscious takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century.