Negotiating Control: Organizations and Mobile Communication
Author: Keri K. Stephens File Type: pdf The fast-food worker finds refuge in a bathroom stall to respond to her boyfriends fifth message in an hour. The human resources manager sees a colleague sending a stream of text messages during a meeting and quickly grabs her mobile to make sure shes also multitasking. These scenarios are common, but unique to the 21st century. Until the early 2000s, workplaces provided most of the computers and portable devices that employees used to perform their jobs and communicate with others. Today, people bring their own mobile devices to work and create new norms for how communication occurs in the workplace. Managers and organizations respond by setting and enforcing new policies that are intended to help them navigate the ever-changing mobile-communication environment. In Negotiating Control Organizations and Mobile Communication, Keri K. Stephens responds to the struggles of employees, organizations, and even friends and family, as they try to understand new norms for connectedness in the workplace. Drawing on over two decades of her own research and fieldwork, , representing people in over 35 different types of jobs, Stephens claims that though people assume mobile communication is a uniform practice, there are underlying -- and often hidden -- issues of control and power at play, which shape how people are permitted and expected to use mobiles to communicate while working. The accounts Stephens offers reveal the many ways that these portable tools are actually used across work environments today, integrating information, communication, and data, and connecting people in expected and often conflicting ways. **
Author: Kurt Greyfield
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Growing Herbs The Ultimate Guide to Herbalism and Herbs Gardening- From Beginner to a Natural with these Simple Steps If you are grabbing a Herbs guide...Why not grab the BEST? Due to the request Kurt is back with more herbs for you to grow, use and check out on your own! Want to learn how to grow your own herbs? Or do you want to learn the uses of each type of herb and what to watch out for? Look no further! This guide is perfect for you! UNLIKE the other guides out there...this book gives very clear and detailed information on each herb so you are not stuck asking more questions or with only pieces of how to grow and use herbs! So you can fully understand everything about each herb for you to use them and grow to your hearts content! Here youll find a composition of herbs that can be grown at home and have multiple uses in both cooking and medical. Note that this book is designed to be similar to The Ultimate Herbal Gardening Guide for Growing herbs and includes all new herbs to check out! Be sure to grab both so you get everything you need! Herbs are natural remedies, big pharma companies probably are not very excited about you exploring this book because it shows you valuable information on how you can use many different types of herbs, along with grow them on your own! You will get a clear and detailed explanation through a variety of herbs to allow you to grow these herbs yourself and empower you for great health and vitality! Grab this guide to give you access to great techniques on how to grow and use multiple herbs to benefit and change your life!
Author: Professor Solomon
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Professor Solomon claims to have found--and translated from the Hebrew--an old manuscript in the possession of his family. Titled THE BOOK OF KING SOLOMON and attributed to a court historian, it chronicles the life of the celebrated monarch. What was the wisest of men really like? How did he become king? What cases brought him fame as a judge? What were the powers of his ring? Did genies help him to build the Temple? Where did he travel on his flying carpet? What was his relationship with the Queen of Sheba? Did he once wander about as a beggar? And did his foreign wives lead him into idolatry? The answers are to be found in THE BOOK OF KING SOLOMON. It is a tale at once historical and reminiscent of the Arabian Nights. And the Professor has provided an erudite commentary. An entertaining and informative profile of the legendary king. Profusely illustrated.**About the Author Professor Solomon (who describes himself as an amateur professor) is also the author of HOW TO FIND LOST OBJECTS (Penguin, 1995), JAPAN IN A NUTSHELL (Top Hat, 1997), HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF A FLYING SAUCER EXPERIENCE (Top Hat, 1998), and CONEY ISLAND (Top Hat, 1999).
Author: Slava Gerovitch
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In this remarkable oral history, Slava Gerovitch presents interviews with the men and women who witnessed Soviet space efforts firsthand. Rather than comprising a master narrative, these fascinating and varied accounts bring to light the often divergent perspectives, experiences, and institutional cultures that defined the Soviet space program. bSlava Gerovitchb is Lecturer in History of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Author: Nabil Matar
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During the early modern period, hundreds of Turks and Moors traded in English and Welsh ports, dazzled English society with exotic cuisine and Arabian horses, and worked small jobs in London, while the Barbary Corsairs raided coastal towns and, if captured, lingered in Plymouth jails or stood trial in Southampton courtrooms. In turn, Britons fought in Muslim armies, traded and settled in Moroccan or Tunisian harbor towns, joined the international community of pirates in Mediterranean and Atlantic outposts, served in Algerian households and ships, and endured captivity from Salee to Alexandria and from Fez to Mocha.In Turks, Moors, and Englishmen, Nabil Matar vividly presents new data about Anglo-Islamic social and historical interactions. Rather than looking exclusively at literary works, which tended to present unidimensional stereotypes of MuslimsShakespeares superstitious Moor or Goffes raging Turke, to name only twoMatar delves into hitherto unexamined English prison depositions, captives memoirs, government documents, and Arabic chronicles and histories. The result is a significant alternative to the prevailing discourse on Islam, which nearly always centers around ethnocentrism and attempts at dominance over the non-Western world, and an astonishing revelation about the realities of exchange and familiarity between England and Muslim society in the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods.Concurrent with Englands engagement and discovery of the Muslims was the discovery of the American Indians. In an original analysis, Matar shows how Hakluyt and Purchas taught their readers not only about America but about the Muslim dominions, too how there were more reasons for Britons to venture eastward than westward and how, in the period under study, more Englishmen lived in North Africa than in North America. Although Matar notes the sharp political and colonial differences between the English encounter with the Muslims and their encounter with the Indians, he shows how Elizabethan and Stuart writers articulated Muslim in terms of Indian, and Indian in terms of Muslim. By superimposing the sexual constructions of the Indians onto the Muslims, and by applying to them the ideology of holy war which had legitimated the destruction of the Indians, English writers prepared the groundwork for orientalism and for the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century conquest of Mediterranean Islam.Matars detailed research provides a new direction in the study of Englands geographic imagination. It also illuminates the subtleties and interchangeability of stereotype, racism, and demonization that must be taken into account in any responsible depiction of English history.
Author: Diversen
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Stampvol verhalen bevat een verzameling prachtige korte verhalen van de beste en succesvolste Nederlandse en Vlaamse auteurs van dit moment. Humor, verdriet en ontroering, liefde, zonde en lust, bewondering, verwondering Elk verhaal neemt je mee naar een eigen wereld. Verhalen over vreemde landen en culturen, en over mensen die je leven veranderen. Verhalen die een nieuwe kijk op de wereld bieden. Verhalen voor het goede doelWant lang niet iedereen is in de gelegenheid om te leren lezen en schrijven, omdat er niet overal scholen zijn, of schoolboeken, of bibliotheken. De opbrengst van Stampvol verhalen komt ten goede aan de non-profitorganisatie Room to Read, die boeken en scholing verzorgt voor kinderen in Azie en Afrika. Wat u moet weten - Gebonden boek voor slechts 9,95 - Met elke euro die we per boek kunnen afdragen, kan Room to Read een schoolboek kopen - Nederlandse en Vlaamse bestsellerauteurs werken belangeloos mee aan Stampvol verhalen - Ook alle andere partijen die betrokken zijn bij de totstandkoming van dit boek werken belangeloos mee - Een ideaal cadeauboek voor een zeer breed publiek De volgende auteurs werken belangeloos mee aan de totstandkoming van Stampvol verhalen Herman Brusselmans - Daphne Deckers - Adriaan van Dis - Renate Dorrestein- Ronald Giphart - Kristien Hemmerechts - Tjitske Jansen - Arthur Japin - Wilfried de Jong - Kluun - Herman Koch - Auke Kok- Rascha Peper - Jan Siebelink - Susan Smit - Maarten Spanjer - Rosita Steenbeek - Ben Tiggelaar - Christophe Vekeman - Leon Verdonschot - Robert Vuijsje - Peter Winnen - Joost Zwagerman. Room to Read heeft sinds haar oprichting in 2000 al het leven van 3,1 miljoen kinderen veranderd. In 2000 zei John Wood zijn baan als senior executive bij Microsoft op om Room to Read op te richten. Room to Read werkt samen met lokale gemeenschappen in ontwikkelingslanden om kwalitatief goed onderwijs te kunnen aanbieden. Dit doen ze door het oprichten van bibliotheken, het bouwen van scholen, het bieden van onderwijs aan meisjes en het inrichten van computerlokalen. Bovendien maken ze kinderliteratuur in de lokale taal beschikbaar. Room to Read probeert het leven van jonge kinderen te beinvloeden, omdat ze geloven dat onderwijs mensen in staat stelt de sociaaleconomische levensomstandigheden voor hun familie, gemeenschap, land en voor toekomstige generaties te verbeteren. Alleen onderwijs biedt kinderen kansen om de cyclus van armoede te doorbreken.
Author: James R. Lewis
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When James R. Lewis, one of the editors of the current collection, first moved to Norway in late 2009, he was unprepared to discover that so many researchers in Nordic countries were producing innovative scholarship on new religions and on the new age subculture. In fact, over the past dozen years or so, an increasingly disproportionate percentage of new religions scholars have arisen in Nordic countries and teach at universities in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic countries. Nordic New Religions, co-edited with Inga B. Tllefsen, surveys this rich field of study in this area of the world, focusing on the scholarship being produced by scholars in this region of northern Europe. **
Author: J. A. Loader
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The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fr die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.
Author: John K. Young
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You can tell a true war story if you just keep on telling it, Tim OBrien writes in The Things They Carried. Widely regarded as the most important novelist to come out of the American war in Viet Nam, OBrien has kept on telling true war stories not only in narratives that cycle through multiple fictional and non-fictional versions of the wars defining experiences, but also by rewriting those stories again and again. Key moments of revision extend from early drafts, to the initial appearance of selected chapters in magazines, across typescripts and page proofs for first editions, and through continuing post-publication variants in reprints. How to Revise a True War Story is the first book-length study of OBriens archival papers at the University of Texass Harry Ransom Center. Drawing on extensive study of drafts and other prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published versions of OBriens works, John K. Young tells the untold stories behind the production of such key texts as Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried, and In the Lake of the Woods. By reading not just the texts that have been published, but also the versions they could have been, Young demonstrates the important choices OBrien and his editors have made about how to represent the traumas of the war in Viet Nam. The result is a series of texts that refuse to settle into a finished or stable form, just as the stories they present insist on being told and retold in new and changing ways. In their lack of textual stability, these variants across different versions enact for OBriens readers the kinds of narrative volatility that is key to the American literature emerging from the war in Viet Nam. Perhaps in this case, you can tell a true war story if you just keep on revising it.