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The prison system and its effects by Taylor, Antony

Table of Contents: “…The aetiology of present-day prisons and other places of captivity : from banishment and slavery to brutality and transportation : Britsh and American creations : Russian, Nazi, Japanese, and Chinese places of control -- The mounting consensus of informed opinion about the need for change -- Prison overcrowding -- Conceptualizing the prison as a social system -- Assessing the general effects of long-term imprisonment -- Pathological reactions to imprisonment -- The management of captives -- The development of prisons in New Zealand -- Recent official inquiries into the prison system in New Zealand -- Overview and conclusions.…”
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The prison system and its effects by Taylor, Antony

Table of Contents: “…The aetiology of present-day prisons and other places of captivity : from banishment and slavery to brutality and transportation : Britsh and American creations : Russian, Nazi, Japanese, and Chinese places of control -- The mounting consensus of informed opinion about the need for change -- Prison overcrowding -- Conceptualizing the prison as a social system -- Assessing the general effects of long-term imprisonment -- Pathological reactions to imprisonment -- The management of captives -- The development of prisons in New Zealand -- Recent official inquiries into the prison system in New Zealand -- Overview and conclusions.…”
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Moral gray zones side productions, identity, and regulation in an aeronautic plant / by Anteby, Michel, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The persistence of organizational gray zones -- The motivations and the setting -- Revisiting social systems in organizations -- The side production of homers in factories -- The Pierreville plant: setting and status divides -- The findings -- Retirement homers: an entry into the community -- Homers gone wrong: delimiting the gray zone -- Shades of homer meanings: occupational variations -- The rise and fall of craftsmanship -- Trading in hidden identity incentives -- The implications -- Organizational gray zones as identity distillers -- Identities, control, and moralities -- Appendix A: Data and methods -- Appendix B: Position in the field.…”
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Moral gray zones side productions, identity, and regulation in an aeronautic plant / by Anteby, Michel, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The persistence of organizational gray zones -- The motivations and the setting -- Revisiting social systems in organizations -- The side production of homers in factories -- The Pierreville plant: setting and status divides -- The findings -- Retirement homers: an entry into the community -- Homers gone wrong: delimiting the gray zone -- Shades of homer meanings: occupational variations -- The rise and fall of craftsmanship -- Trading in hidden identity incentives -- The implications -- Organizational gray zones as identity distillers -- Identities, control, and moralities -- Appendix A: Data and methods -- Appendix B: Position in the field.…”
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Knowledge management in the public sector a blueprint for innovation in government / by McNabb, David E.

Table of Contents: “…Historical foundations of KM -- KM : a self-regulating social system -- The technology and processes subsystem -- Knowledge processes and policy directives -- Principles and processes in implementing KM -- Building a collaborative learning culture -- KM and organizational learning -- KM and innovation in government -- Knowledge management in the public sector -- The public-sector chief knowledge officer -- Knowledge management at NASA / Edward Hoffman, Jon Boyle, and Anthony J. …”
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Knowledge management in the public sector a blueprint for innovation in government / by McNabb, David E.

Table of Contents: “…Historical foundations of KM -- KM : a self-regulating social system -- The technology and processes subsystem -- Knowledge processes and policy directives -- Principles and processes in implementing KM -- Building a collaborative learning culture -- KM and organizational learning -- KM and innovation in government -- Knowledge management in the public sector -- The public-sector chief knowledge officer -- Knowledge management at NASA / Edward Hoffman, Jon Boyle, and Anthony J. …”
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Risk and opportunity : managing risk for development /

Table of Contents: “…Risk management can be a powerful instrument for development -- Beyond the ideal : obstacles to risk management and ways to overcome them -- Part II. The role of key social systems -- ch. 3. Households are the first line of support to confront risk and pursue opportunity -- ch. 4. …”

Risk and opportunity : managing risk for development /

Table of Contents: “…Risk management can be a powerful instrument for development -- Beyond the ideal : obstacles to risk management and ways to overcome them -- Part II. The role of key social systems -- ch. 3. Households are the first line of support to confront risk and pursue opportunity -- ch. 4. …”

Crimes of punishment America's culture of violence / by Dorpat, Theodore L.

Table of Contents: “…-- Emotional abuse -- Social systems of domination and punishment -- The sociopathology of the prison system --…”
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Crimes of punishment America's culture of violence / by Dorpat, Theodore L.

Table of Contents: “…-- Emotional abuse -- Social systems of domination and punishment -- The sociopathology of the prison system --…”
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How capitalism was built the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia / by Åslund, Anders, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Vital : speed and legitimacy of property rights -- An inefficient social system. Incomes : differentiation and poverty. …”
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How capitalism was built the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia / by Åslund, Anders, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Vital : speed and legitimacy of property rights -- An inefficient social system. Incomes : differentiation and poverty. …”
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A Contemporary History of Exclusion : The Roma Issue in Hungary from 1945 to 2015 / by Majtenyi, Balázs

Table of Contents: “…-- "Comrades, if you have a heart" : the history of the Gypsy issue, 1945-1961 -- The construction and spread of the state socialist system -- Policy and Gypsies -- Modernization and Gypsy communities -- Disciplinary state -- The impossibility of self-organization -- Minority issue -- Discourses on social policy and equality -- "Life goes on" : the Hungarian party-state and assimilation -- Social policy and the Gypsies -- Wage work -- Housing -- Social system -- Education -- Scientific approaches -- Gypsy images -- The transformation of discourse -- Disciplinary power, disciplinary society -- Police and agents -- "Health supervisors" -- The national minority issue -- National movement -- The "ethnic interpretation" of history -- Roma policy after the regime change -- Minority issue -- Prospects for multiculturalism -- Minority (self- )government? …”
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A Contemporary History of Exclusion : The Roma Issue in Hungary from 1945 to 2015 / by Majtenyi, Balázs

Table of Contents: “…-- "Comrades, if you have a heart" : the history of the Gypsy issue, 1945-1961 -- The construction and spread of the state socialist system -- Policy and Gypsies -- Modernization and Gypsy communities -- Disciplinary state -- The impossibility of self-organization -- Minority issue -- Discourses on social policy and equality -- "Life goes on" : the Hungarian party-state and assimilation -- Social policy and the Gypsies -- Wage work -- Housing -- Social system -- Education -- Scientific approaches -- Gypsy images -- The transformation of discourse -- Disciplinary power, disciplinary society -- Police and agents -- "Health supervisors" -- The national minority issue -- National movement -- The "ethnic interpretation" of history -- Roma policy after the regime change -- Minority issue -- Prospects for multiculturalism -- Minority (self- )government? …”
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Ecocritical theory new European approaches /

Table of Contents: “…/ Christopher Cohoon -- Cybernetics and social systems theory / Hannes Bergthaller -- Ecocentric postmodern theory: interrelations between ecological, quantum, and postmodern theories / Serpil Oppermann -- Affinity studies and open systems: a non-equilibrium, ecocritical reading of Goethe's Faust / Heather I. …”
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Ecocritical theory new European approaches /

Table of Contents: “…/ Christopher Cohoon -- Cybernetics and social systems theory / Hannes Bergthaller -- Ecocentric postmodern theory: interrelations between ecological, quantum, and postmodern theories / Serpil Oppermann -- Affinity studies and open systems: a non-equilibrium, ecocritical reading of Goethe's Faust / Heather I. …”
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Everyday Life under Communism and After : Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945–2000 / by Valuch, Tibor

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Everyday Life under Communism and After : Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945–2000 / by Valuch, Tibor

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Migration from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe : Past Developments, Current Status and Future Potentials /

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Migration from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe : Past Developments, Current Status and Future Potentials /

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