Shaping Political Attitudes - Silvo Lenart - Bog - SAGE Publications Inc - Plusbog.dk

In recent years, research in the area of public opinion has focused most of its attention on the effects of the media. Television, in particular, has been the object of attention as a primary influencing agent. Shaping Political Attitudes argues that media effects are only half the equation when it comes to forming public opinions. In a model of "total information flow," author Silvo Lenart shows that mass media cannot be seen as the exclusive source of political information, and that the media must share the political information environment with interpersonal communication. This volume bridges the gap between media and interpersonal communication and examines their combined effect on political attitudes and cognition. Students and professionals in political science, communication, media studies, sociology, and psychology will find this volume an invaluable resource.

Story Revolutions - Helga Lenart Cheng - Bog - University of Virginia Press - Plusbog.dk

As recent movements such as #MeToo demonstrate, individual stories, pooled together in large enough numbers, can fuel political movements and bring important issues to mainstream consciousness. In this timely and important study, Helga Lenart-Cheng has uncovered the antecedents of this phenomenon and provided a historical and critical analysis of this seemingly new but in fact deeply rooted tradition. Story Revolutions features a rich variety of case studies, spanning the Enlightenment, the 1930s, and the twenty-first century-three historical periods marked by a convergence of mass movements and new methods of data collection that led to a boom in activism based in the aggregation of stories. Ultimately, this book offers readers a critical perspective on the concept of community itself, with incisive reflections on what it means to use storytelling to build democracy in the twenty-first century.

Story Revolutions - Helga Lenart Cheng - Bog - University of Virginia Press - Plusbog.dk

As recent movements such as #MeToo demonstrate, individual stories, pooled together in large enough numbers, can fuel political movements and bring important issues to mainstream consciousness. In this timely and important study, Helga Lenart-Cheng has uncovered the antecedents of this phenomenon and provided a historical and critical analysis of this seemingly new but in fact deeply rooted tradition. Story Revolutions features a rich variety of case studies, spanning the Enlightenment, the 1930s, and the twenty-first century-three historical periods marked by a convergence of mass movements and new methods of data collection that led to a boom in activism based in the aggregation of stories. Ultimately, this book offers readers a critical perspective on the concept of community itself, with incisive reflections on what it means to use storytelling to build democracy in the twenty-first century.

So, You Have to Write a Literature Review - Joshua B. Lenart - Bog - John Wiley & Sons Inc - Plusbog.dk

Is a literature review looming in your future? Are you procrastinating on writing a literature review at this very moment? If so, this is the book for you. Writing often causes trepidation and procrastination for engineering students—issues that compound while writing a literature review, a type of academic writing most engineers are never formally taught. Consider this workbook as a "couch-to-5k" program for engineering writers rather than runners: if you complete the activities in this book from beginning to end, you will have a literature review draft ready for revision and content editing by your research advisor. So, You Have to Write a Literature Review presents a dynamic and practical method in which engineering students—typically late-career undergraduates or graduate students—can learn to write literature reviews, and translate genre-based writing instruction into easy-to-follow, bite-sized activities and content. Written in a refreshingly conversational style while acknowledging that writing is quite difficult, Catherine Berdanier and Joshua Lenart leverage their unique disciplinary backgrounds with decades of experience teaching academic engineering writing in this user-friendly workbook.

Antigone's Sisters - Lenart Skof - Bog - State University of New York Press - Plusbog.dk

Antigone's Sisters - Lenart Skof - Bog - State University of New York Press - Plusbog.dk

Pragmatist Variations on Ethical and Intercultural Life - Lenart Skof - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The book is a contribution to the fields of pragmatism, intercultural philosophy, and social and political ethics. The argument in the book runs along two lines: firstly, four pragmatist philosophers (William James, John Dewey, Richard Rorty, and Roberto Mangabeira Unger) are discussed by putting them into their respective intercultural contexts. They are interpreted as philosophers that were/are either explicitly or implicitly linked to some of the key tenets in comparative and/or intercultural philosophy of the twentieth/twenty-first century. Secondly, the book looks to their particular works and discusses the role of the body and its important ethical potential. In their respective contexts, it looks at the possibilities for linking James, Dewey, Rorty, and Unger to the original idea of the interculturally oriented ethical pragmatism. In this endeavor, the book also approaches the philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer, Luce Irigaray, and Enrique Dussel in order to show their importance for a historical and contemporary (feminist and intercultural/global) debate about the philosophy of American pragmatism. The book concludes with two chapters — i.e. with a discussion of Irigaray’s ‘ethical pragmatism’ and finally with some reflections on contemporary Slovenian and French philosophy (Žižek, Badiou) as linked to the communism-democracy controversy. In both cases, again, pragmatist and intercultural methods are employed and the role of the body in their respective oeuvres is reflected.

God in Post-Christianity - Lenart Skof - Bog - State University of New York Press - Plusbog.dk

Argues for a new elemental and sensory experience of God. God in Post-Christianity combines Eastern and Western influences into a dazzling survey of the contemporary theological landscape. Reading "the age of the Spirit" as "the age of the Breath," the book argues for a material, elemental, and sensory theology of God following the death of the ontotheological God of metaphysics. Drawing inspiration equally from Irigaray and Feuerbach, it offers a vision of God that is both feminist and humanist, a divine becoming for humanity, a sacred alliance with Nature. By presenting and analyzing the modern philosophies of Hegel, Schelling, and Merleau-Ponty, as well as such contemporary figures as John Caputo and Catherine Keller, and by drawing on unexpected, forgotten, or neglected sources such as Vedic poetry and American Mormonism and figures such as Averroes and Amalric of Bène, the book makes an original argument about God that resonates with currents in new materialism, comparative theology, and affect theory. Both speculative and mythopoetic, it is intended to forge a way forward for humanity to achieve the intersubjective and interreligious peace we all crave and deserve.

Dry Gross Fretting of Rough Surfaces - Agnieszka Lenart - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

In this book, the authors present a comprehensive study of the effects of operating parameters (load, amplitude, frequency) on dry gross fretting of rough surfaces. It helps the reader to efficient surface preparations in order to monitor and reduce damage caused by fretting. It exposes the effect of surface topography on fretting, which is often neglected.

Exploring the Interplay of Edward Sapir's Anthropology and Lacanian Psychoanalysis - Lenart Kodre - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Was Edward Sapir's perspective on culture and personality groundbreaking, or should we regard it as just one more theory that reached a scientific dead-end? Culture and Subjectivity: Exploring the Interplay of Edward Sapir`s Anthropology and Lacanian Psychoanalysis introduces a fresh perspective to traditional anthropological discourse by exploring Edward Sapir's insights into culture and personality relationship alongside Jacques Lacan's theories on the individual and collective. This book reassesses the dynamics between subjective and social realms, paving the way for potentially a new anthropological model of subjectivity and the definition of Culture. Exploring the historical context of anthropology-psychoanalysis relationships, this book synthesizes diverse conceptions of culture and personality through an interdisciplinary lens. By leveraging Lacan's theoretical framework to interpret Sapir's bold ideas on culture-personality dyad, it assesses integrating Lacanian subjectivity into the culture-individual relationship, bridging commonalities between the two fields and introducing insights into their interdisciplinary interplay. This book summarizes key findings from Lacanian subjectivity theory and examines a new perspective on the process of cultural transmission and socialization by highlighting Sapir`s pioneering view on the relationship between the individual and society. It also addresses ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions in anthropology through Lacanian dynamics of desire.

Organizational Commitment and Knowledge Sharing in Contemporary Companies - Regina Lenart Gansiniec - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

When evaluating the success of an organization, the value of employees’ organizational commitment and the process of knowledge sharing among staff must be considered. As illustrated in this volume, these two concepts are key conditions for organizational success in the contemporary world. This book explores the concept of organizational commitment, what it is, and how to use and understand the value in knowledge management and sharing for both employees and organizations as a whole. A profound analysis of the global literature exposes organizational commitment and knowledge sharing as key determinants of the effectiveness of the organization management process, including human capital management. While much space in the literature on the subject is devoted to the exploration of the above-mentioned concepts, treated as categories subject to separate analysis, the diagnosis and analysis of the relationship between them should be treated as a poorly recognized process. This book fills a research gap, providing a theoretical foundation and important information on organizational commitment and knowledge sharing, highlighting the relationship between both research categories. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners, and students in the fields of human resource management, leadership, and organizational studies.

Complete Starter Guide to Needle Felting: Enchanted Forest - Claudia Marie Lenart - Bog - Fox Chapel Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Needle felting is a process that uses barbed needles to mash wool fibers together forming a denser material into an endless range of shapes and forms, a great way to make adorable fully dimensional soft sculptures. This guide features 20 step-by-step beginner needle crafting projects including birds, fairies, unicorns, and many other woodland friends. Learn which needles to use, how to dye custom colours, how to blend colours and shapes, and the materials needed to begin the fulfilling art of needle felting. Claudia''s felted artwork has been featured in two children''s books and in national commercials.

Shame, Gender Violence, and Ethics - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Shame, Gender Violence and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice draws from contemporary, concrete atrocities against women and marginalized communties to re-conceptualize moral shame and to set moral shame apart from dimensions of subordination, humiliation, and disgrace. The inter-disciplinary collection starts with a contribution from a a Yazidi-survivor of genocidal and sexual violence, whose case brings together core themes: gender, ethnic and religious identity, and violence and shame. Further accounts of shame and gendered violence in this collection take the reader to other and equally disturbing accounts of lesser- known atrocities from around the. Although shame is sometimes posited as an innevitable companion to human life, editors Lenart Škof and Shé M. Hawke situate the discussion in the theoretical landscape of shame, and the contributors challenge this concept through fields as diverse as law, journalism, activism, philosophy, theology, ecofeminism, and gender and cultural studies. Their discussion of gendered shame makes room for it to be both a negative and a redemptive concept. Combining junior and senior scholarship, this collection examines power relations in the cycle of shame and violence.

Shame, Gender Violence, and Ethics - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Shame, Gender Violence, and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice draws from contemporary, concrete atrocities against women and marginalized communities to re-conceptualize moral shame and to set moral shame apart from dimensions of subordination, humiliation, and disgrace. The interdisciplinary collection starts with a contribution from a Yazidi-survivor of genocidal and sexual violence, whose case brings together core themes: gender, ethnic and religious identity, and violence and shame. Further accounts of shame and gendered violence in this collection take the reader to other and equally disturbing accounts of lesser-known atrocities from around the world. Although shame is sometimes posited as an inevitable companion to human life, editors Lenart Škof and Shé M. Hawke situate the discussion in the theoretical landscape of shame, and the contributors challenge this concept through fields as diverse as law, journalism, activism, philosophy, theology, ecofeminism, and gender and cultural studies. Their discussion of gendered shame makes room for it to be both a negative and a redemptive concept. Combining junior and senior scholarship, this collection examines power relations in the cycle of shame and violence.

The Verbless Clause in Biblical Hebrew - - Bog - Pennsylvania State University Press - Plusbog.dk

Thirty years after seminal studies by Francis I. Andersen and Jacob Hoftijzer, members of the 1996 SBL section on Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew gathered to reconsider the topic of the verbless clause in Hebrew. The results are published here, demonstrating the gains made in the interim and providing direction for future research. Contents: Cynthia L. Miller, “Pivotal Issues in Analyzing the Verbless Clause”; Walter Gross, “Is There Really a Compound Nominal Clause in Biblical Hebrew”; Cameron Sinclair, “Are Nominal Clauses a Distinct Clausal Type?”; Randall Buth, “Word Order in the Verbless Clause: A Generative-Functional Approach”; Vincent DeCaen, “A Unified Analysis of Verbal and Verbless Clauses within Government-Binding Theory”; J. W. Dyk and E. Talstra, “Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Features in Identifying Subject and Predicate in Nominal Clauses”; Takamitsu Muraoka, “The Tripartite Nominal Clause Revisited”; Alviero Niccacci, “Types and Functions of the Nominal Sentence”; Kirk E. Lowery, “Relative Definiteness and the Verbless Clause”; Lenart J. de Regt, “Macrosyntactic Functions of Nominal Clauses Referring to Participants”; E. J. Revell, “Thematic Continuity and the Conditioning of Word Order in Verbless Clauses”; Ellen van Wolde, “The Verbless Clause and Its Textual Function