books about: contingencies

books about: contingencies

books:

Contingencies

Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left

Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, ...

Verso, 2000

better than most...
This book represents an attempt by (the) three social thinkers of our time to bring their differing views of what is to done together by beginning with what it is that they have in common, namely: Marx (and Gramsci), Lacan, and Derrida. Although all three critique the ...

Risk and Security Management: Protecting People and Sites Worldwide

Michael Blyth

Wiley, 2008

Review of Risk and Security Management
I was slightly taken aback by the price of the book, however the combination of specialized subject matter and potential value of the information (the security industry is well known as a lucrative endeavor) outweighed any hesitations I had. When the book arrived in ...

US Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1860-1941

Andrew J. Birtle

United States Government Printing, 1997

Solid Study of Small Wars
Andrew Birtle provides a succinct history of the U.S. Armies reluctance to embrace small scale wars and how it continues to focus on large wars and grand battles. Birtle's extensive research clearly details how soldiers became governors, constables, judges, ...

Applied Strategic Planning: How to Develop a Plan That Really Works

Leonard Goodstein, Timothy Nolan, ...

McGraw-Hill, 1993

Applied Strategic Planning by Leonard D Goodstein, Timothy M
In Applied Strategic Planning, the authors give a comprehensive step-by-step guide to conducting applied strategic planning. They clearly demonstrate organisations' need for strategic planning. The book is different from other strategic planning models in some ...

Prepare for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Disaster Preparedness and Recovery for Small Businesses
Donna R. Childs

Wiley, 2008

Now in its second edition, Prepare for the Worst, Plan for the Best presents you with a structured, time-tested blueprint to help you evaluate your business in terms of its vulnerability and guide you through developing a cost-effective, individualized disaster and recovery plan. This book is an essential handbook for anyone who owns, or plans ...

The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive
Mary Ann Doane

Harvard University Press, 2002

Hailed as the permanent record of fleeting moments, the cinema emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century as an unprecedented means of capturing time--and this at a moment when disciplines from physics to philosophy, and historical trends from industrialization to the expansion of capitalism, were transforming the very idea of time. In a work ...

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Richard Rorty

Cambridge University Press, 1989

A stimulating opportunity...
I've noticed a trend that various reviewers on philosophy books use this cyberspace as an opportunity to display their understanding and mastery over the work in question. This is, in ways, an interesting and useful phenomenon, but it can also be misleading. This is ...

After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency

Quentin Meillassoux

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008

A Great Work of Contemporary Philosophy
Meillassoux's first book is nothing less than a completely original and meticulously argued philosophical manifesto. Drawing upon the ontology of his teacher, Alain Badiou, Meillassoux aims to prove what was only implicit in Badiou's "Being and Event": the absolute ...

The Contingency Theory of Organizations (Foundations for Organizational Science)
Lex Donaldson

Sage Publications, Inc, 2001

Written by one of the foremost scholars in the field, this volume presents a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the theories, evidence and methodological issues of contingency theory - one of the major theoretical lenses used to view organizations. It includes both an appreciation of the coherency of contingency theory overall and a frank ...

The Didymus Contingency: A Time Travel Thriller

Jeremy Robinson

Breakneck Books, 2007

A Must Read - Great Book!
I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I particularly enjoy stories with time travel themes. I'm also a committed Christian. I've long felt that there's a lack of quality Christian fiction, and there's almost no Christian science fiction. I can understand the difficulty ...

On Aristotle's "Prior Analytics 1.14-22" (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)
Alexander of Aphrodisias

Cornell University Press, 1999

Planning for Real Time Event Response Management
David W. Ash, Vlad G. Dabija

Prentice Hall, 2000

Two leading artificial intelligence experts cover the key issues associated with real-time and reactive planning in intelligent agent systems. This book explains the technology in-depth, and shows how it can be employed for maximum impact. Includes a comprehensive real-world case study.

Policing Contingencies
Peter K. Manning

University Of Chicago Press, 2003

Despite constant calls for reform, policing in the United States and Britain has changed little over the past thirty years. In Policing Contingencies , Peter K. Manning draws on decades of fieldwork to investigate how law enforcement works on the ground and in the symbolic realm, and why most efforts to reform the way police work have failed so ...

Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology ...

The MIT Press, 2003

The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new conceptual framework with which to resolve such debates. DST views ontogeny as contingent cycles of interaction among a varied set of developmental ...

Contingency Planning and Disaster Recovery: A Small Business Guide

Donna R. Childs, Stefan Dietrich

Wiley, 2002

Yes it can happen to you!
A superbly practical and comprehensive guide - cogent and succinct but thorough. Having just gone through an office disaster similar to worked examples and real life situations presented in the book, incurring tens of thousands of dollars of damages and subsequent ...