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Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessmentof the robust popular literary culture that has developed in theUnited States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describeshow a once solitary and print-based experience has become anexuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as onthe page. Fueled by Oprah's Book Club, Miramax film adaptations,superstore bookshops, and new technologies such as the Kindledigital reader, literary fiction has been transformed intobest-selling, high-concept entertainment. Collins highlights theinfrastructural and cultural changes that have given rise to aflourishing reading public at a time when the future of the bookhas been called into question. Book reading, he claims, has notbecome obsolete; it has become integrated into popular visualmedia. Collins explores how digital technologies and the convergence ofliterary, visual, and consumer cultures have changed what counts asa "literary experience" in phenomena ranging from lush filmadaptations such as The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love to the customer communities at Amazon.Central to Collins's analysis and, he argues, to contemporaryliterary culture, is the notion that refined taste is now easilyacquired; it is just a matter of knowing where to access it andwhose advice to trust. Using recent novels, he shows that theredefined literary landscape has affected not just how books arebeing read, but also what sort of novels are being written forthese passionate readers. Collins connects literary bestsellersfrom The Jane Austen Book Club and Literacy andLonging in L.A. to Saturday and The Line of Beauty, highlighting their depictions of fictional worldsfilled with avid readers and their equations of reading with cultivated consumer taste.
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Meetings --- Social groups --- Discussion --- Social interaction
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This book is about meetings and providing a new perspective from behavioural economics called nudging to make meetings more productive and enjoyable. Nudging hacks into the fast, automatic, subconscious system in human reasoning to breed success in every get-together. Once you know the foundations of focus, orientation, involvement, and commitment, the advantages of nudging are evident. The authors provide an explanation of nudge theory and 6 principles of how nudging affects our behavior. Examples from the actions and choices of the Dalai Lama, Ray Dalio, and Barack Obama demonstrate how nudging can make a difference. Based on theory, the book also gives 100 very practical nudges to improve meeting productivity that can be used by any meeting leader or participant.
Meetings. --- Conferences --- Congresses and conventions --- Discussion
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Jürgen Habermas s'emploie ici à reconstruire la critique kantienne : reprenant l'idée selon laquelle la raison doit être contenue dans sa " juridiction légitime " - le domaine pratique -, il postule que la raison ne se situe ni dans l'histoire, ni dans la nature, mais dans le médium même dans lequel la pensée se forme et s'effectue, c'est-à-dire dans le langage, à la fois sphère de représentation et de communication. Il est alors possible de définir la fonction primordiale des " idéalisations " et de leur conférer le statut qui leur revient, en liaison avec une raison que l'on dira " communicationnelle ". Parallèlement, Habermas confronte sa position à celles que développent quelques-uns des principaux courants de la philosophie analytique anglo-saxonne, avec laquelle il entretient depuis toujours un dialogue serré. Idéalisations et communication met à nu ce qui est la pierre de touche de l'édifice théorique habermassien dans son état le plus récent, et éclaire fondamentalement la théorie de l'agir communicationnel, le grand œuvre du philosophe allemand.
Morale --- Discours --- Ethique de la discussion
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Droit constitutionnel --- Pouvoir législatif --- Procédure parlementaire --- Discussion
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The Guidance is intended to offer host governments the tools they need to assemble and manage a multidisciplinary team, and engage effectively in extractives contract negotiations. The Guidance aims to help governments to put in place recommended processes and identify the skills that ...
Negotiation. --- Bargaining --- Dickering --- Haggling --- Higgling --- Negotiating --- Negotiations --- Discussion --- Psychology, Applied
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"This book is a contribution to the philosophical discourse on education. Education is considered as a tool of philosophy. Education (paideia) and politics (politeia) are equal in importance for building a sustainable society free from feud and unhappiness. Discursive thinking through of education is based on Plato's dialogues and the results of epistemological, metaphysical and ethical research in the fields of cosmology, biology and neuroscience. The author demonstrates the potential of the threefold scheme of philosophy, a Platone philosophandi ratio triplex, for ordering individual and collective discourse and way of life in strict accordance with the intelligible complexity of the expanding cosmos. An essential read for students and scholars interested in the crossroad between education and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.
Plato --- Education --- Education, Greek. --- Thought and thinking. --- Discussion. --- Influence. --- Philosophy.
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The numerous stakeholders involved in the development of universal health coverage (UHC) policies are likely to have diverging interests about which dimensions to prioritize, hence the importance of ensuring an effective and transparent policy dialogue. This paper aims to investigate whether or not UHC policy dialogue processes are functioning well in Benin and Senegal. Based on a literature review, we have identified a number of characteristics guaranteeing the quality of policy dialogue processes, which we have integrated into an analytical grid. The quality criteria identified were classified along four dimensions: stakeholder participation, dialogue/negotiation process, quality of situation analysis and decision criteria, and results from the negotiation process. Based on data collected through documentary review, interviews, an electronic survey and the authors’ own experience, we applied that analytical grid to the cases of Benin and Senegal. In both countries, the policy dialogue processes are largely imperfect in terms of many of the quality criteria identified. Decisions were made under strong political leadership, ensuring government coordination and ownership, and strong emphasis has been put on expanding financial risk protection. Yet, both countries perform poorly in a number of dimensions, especially with regards to conflicts of interest, transparency and accountability. None of them has really institutionalized a UHC policy dialogue process, and the UHC policymaking processes have actually bypassed existing health sector coordination mechanisms. The two countries perform well regarding the quality of situation analysis. A small (in the case of Benin) or broader (in the case of Senegal) governmental coalition managed to impose its views, given insufficient stakeholder participation. Policy networks were particularly influential in Senegal. Overall, there are important gaps that reduce the quality of UHC policy dialogue processes, hence explaining the weaknesses in their results in terms of transparency and accountability. Our analytical framework enables usto identify rooms for improvement with regard to country-led negotiation processes relating to UHC.
Health insurance --- Health insurance --- Health insurance --- Discussion --- Consensus (Social sciences)
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internet --- sociologie de la traduction --- forums de discussion
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College teaching. --- Discussion --- Critical thinking --- Study and teaching.
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