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Paradox Towards a Metatheory

The Human Paradox Worlds Apart in a Connected World

The Human Paradox Worlds Apart in a Connected World

In The Human Paradox: Worlds Apart in a Connected World author Frank Gaffikin probes widely and meticulously into our past and present to analyse the connections between the many acute polarisations that mark contemporary times. Addressing profound issues related to Trumpism Brexit the outbreak of Covid-19 and ensuing pandemic and environmental change the book argues that beneath all the present social tumult lies a fundamental dilemma for human stability and progress namely how we can be estranged from what we refer to as humanity. The book begins with an appraisal of populism and authoritarian nationalism and later explores whether in our human development we are bound for enhancement or extinction. Interrogating these big ideas further the book identifies three central challenges that confront us as a society: living on the planet living with the planet and living with one another on the planet. These challenges prompt a re-think of what it is to be human and social and hinging on these key themes the book thus concludes with consideration of a radical agenda for future social improvement. Rather than peering through the conventional lenses offered by separate disciplines this book argues for interdisciplinary appreciation and recognition especially so if we are to address the dilemma at the center of its concern. The Human Paradox will appeal to readers interested in the major conflicts of our times as well as students of subjects including sociology politics history and economics. | The Human Paradox Worlds Apart in a Connected World

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The Environmental Policy Paradox

Korean Shamanism The Cultural Paradox

Korean Shamanism The Cultural Paradox

Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma Techniques and Tools for Working with Suicidality and Dissociation

Language Democracy and the Paradox of Constituent Power Declarations of Independence in Comparative Perspective

Visible Learning: Feedback

Lying Truthtelling and Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Telling It Slant

Lying Truthtelling and Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Telling It Slant

Even though we instruct our children not to lie the truth is that lying is a fundamental part of children’s development—socially cognitively emotionally morally. Lying can sometimes be more compassionate than telling the truth even more ethical. Reading specific children’s books can instruct child readers how to be guided by an etiquette of lying to know when to tell the truth and when to lie. Equally important these stories can help prevent them from being prey to those liars who are intent on taking advantage of them. Becoming a critical reader requires that one learn how to lie judiciously as well as to see through others’ lies. When humans first began to speak we began to lie. When we began to lie we started telling stories. This is the paradox that in order to tell truthful stories we must be good liars. Novels about child-artists showcased here illustrate how the protagonist embraces this paradox accepting the stigma that a writer is a liar who tells the truth. Emily Dickinson’s phrase “tell it slant” best expresses the vision of how writers for children and young adults negotiate the conundrum of both protecting child readers and teaching them to protect themselves. This volume explores the pervasiveness of lying as well as the necessity for lying in our society; the origins of lying as connected to language acquisition; the realization that storytelling is both lying and truthtelling; and the negotiations child-artists must process in order to grasp the paradox that to become storytellers they must become expert liars and lie-detectors. | Lying Truthtelling and Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Telling It Slant

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Corporate Share Buybacks Impact on Equity Incentive Pay and Shareholder Value

Corporate Share Buybacks Impact on Equity Incentive Pay and Shareholder Value

This book integrates elements from agency theory and signalling theory and draws upon recent changes in the Australian payout policy and incentives pay for risk-averse employees to provide theoretical and empirical analyses that explain the paradox of the popularity of on-market stock buyback activities in a market environment characterised by reasonably high share prices. The authors utilise a dynamic model that rationalises this paradox which is divided into three components. The first component predicts that executives may be conducting on-market stock buyback programmes (SBPs) to adjust equity-based remuneration for risk-averse employees thereby motivating their performance without granting them additional costly equity incentive plans (EIPs); the second component predicts that companies are likely to invest in SBPs to increase the ownership stakes of employees in the firm thereby inducing risk-averse employees to increase their productivity which increases firm value; while the third component predicts that shareholders would benefit from incentives-induced buybacks if a firm’s opportunity cost of funds spent on buybacks is less than its inverse price-to-earnings ratio. The authors’ findings highlight differences in the market responses towards announced repurchase motives implying that not all incentives-induced buybacks are value-destructive buybacks. Specifically the widespread assumption that SBPs stifle investments in human and capital stock may be subjective as the findings show that incentives-induced buybacks may be value-creative or value-destructive depending on share repurchase motives of SBPs. This book will be a useful guide for scholars and researchers of finance corporate finance financial economics and financial accounting. | Corporate Share Buybacks Impact on Equity Incentive Pay and Shareholder Value

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Yeats Eliot Pound and the Politics of Poetry Richest to the Richest

Adjustment Poverty and Employment in Mexico

Adjustment Poverty and Employment in Mexico

Clothed in the Body Asceticism the Body and the Spiritual in the Late Antique Era

The Healthy Mind Mindfulness True Self and the Stream of Consciousness

Kinetic Beauty The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport

South Africa's Struggle to Remember Contested Memories of Squatter Resistance in the Western Cape

South Africa's Struggle to Remember Contested Memories of Squatter Resistance in the Western Cape

Transitional justice studies typically focuses on how nations remember face and deal with histories of past violence. This book however shifts the frame from national discourses of transitional justice onto local memory actors who attempt to engage with these broader systems of meaning from below. The case study is based on the memory struggles of individuals and groups who are attempting to gain access to the discourses and benefits associated with dominant memory identities of ‘victim’ and ‘veteran’ in the context of post-transition South Africa. They share a common history of squatter resistance in the Western Cape in the 1980s and a common struggle for inclusion in dominant memory frameworks. The main theme of this book is the politics of memory as it relates to the conversation between national and local memory. Integrated within this theme is the further theme of alternative histories and counter-memories of struggle from below. In focusing on counter memories of violence and transition this book aims to tell a different version of South African liberation history in relation to the dominant narrative. It analyses local memory actors' attempts to bring their lived histories into conversation with national discourses of reconciliation and the national liberation struggle. In doing so it unpacks a memory paradox occurring within these narratives which highlights the politics of inclusion and exclusion within the frames of transitional justice knowledge. On the one hand this alternate story exposes the paradox between local and national memory while on the other hand it brings into focus the local experience of the intersection between international transitional justice discourses and national transition politics. This book will be of local and international interest to scholars and students in the field of transitional justice memory politics national liberation struggle and South African historiography. It will also be of interest to a broader South Africa public as it offers a deeper understanding of South Africa’s history which challenges taken for granted transitional justice frames of knowledge. | South Africa's Struggle to Remember Contested Memories of Squatter Resistance in the Western Cape

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Neuropsychological Aspects of Brain Injury Litigation A Medicolegal Handbook for Lawyers and Clinicians

Digital Media and Risk Culture in China’s Financial Markets

Dangers of Deterrence Philosophers on Nuclear Strategy

Not the Future We Ordered Peak Oil Psychology and the Myth of Progress

The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity Essays in Imagination and Religion

Radical Organisation Development

The Spiritual Psyche in Psychotherapy Mysticism Intersubjectivity and Psychoanalysis

The Spiritual Psyche in Psychotherapy Mysticism Intersubjectivity and Psychoanalysis

This book examines the interaction of spiritual and psychoanalytic lineages with psychotherapy in everyday practice. Written by a team of seasoned clinicians and illustrated through clinical vignettes chapters explore topics pertaining to the mystical dimensions of psychological and spiritual life and how it may be integrated into clinical practice. Topics discussed include dreams dissociation creativity therapeutic relationship free association transcendence poetry paradox doubleness loss death grief mystery embodiment and soul. The authors clinicians with decades of experience in psychotherapy psychoanalysis and spiritual practice draw from their deep engagement with spirituality and psychoanalysis focusing on a particular theme and its application to clinical work that is supported by the generative conversation among these lineages. At once applied and theoretical this book weaves insights from the heart of Vajrayana Buddhism Zen Buddhism Christianity Catholicism Ecumenicism Integral Spirituality Judaism Kabbalah Non-violence Sufism and Vedanta. They are in conversation with psychoanalytic perspectives including Jungian Post-Jungian Winnicottian Bionian Post-Bionian and Relational. A felt sense of the spiritual psyche in clinical practice emerges from this conversation among spiritual and psychoanalytic lineages beckoning clinicians ever further on the path of spiritually rooted psychodynamic practice. | The Spiritual Psyche in Psychotherapy Mysticism Intersubjectivity and Psychoanalysis

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