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    Critical Systems Thinking

    Michael C. Jackson

    Understand the full range of systems approaches and how to use them with this innovative overview.

    Leaders and managers face increasing complexity and uncertainty because technical, organizational, socio-cultural, political, and…

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    Systems Methodology for the Management Sciences

    Michael C. Jackson

    The author thoroughly describes and analyzes the most significant systems methodologies-“organizations as systems,‘ hard, soft, cybernetic, and critical-and demonstrates the complementary strengths of different systems approaches.

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    Systems Methodology for the Management Sciences

    Michael C. Jackson

    The author thoroughly describes and analyzes the most significant systems methodologies-“organizations as systems,‘ hard, soft, cybernetic, and critical-and demonstrates the complementary strengths of different systems approaches.

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    Systems Approaches to Management

    Michael C. Jackson

    Offers a guide to the application of Systems Thinking. This book traces the emergence of holistic thinking in various disciplines. It details and provides a critique, based upon social theory…

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    Systems Approaches to Management

    Michael C. Jackson

    Systems Thinking is a new paradigm set to revolutionize management practice in the 21st century. This book traces the emergence of holistic thinking in disciplines such as biology, control engineering…

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    Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers

    Michael C. Jackson

    Too often, managers are sold simple solutions to complex problems. But as many soon discover, simplicity is rarely effective in the face of complexity, change and diversity. Despite apparent promise…

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    Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity

    MC Jackson

    From the winner of the INCOSE Pioneer Award 2022

    The world has become increasingly networked and unpredictable. Decision makers at all levels are required to manage the consequences of complexity…

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    Populations at Risk in America: Vulnerable Groups at the End of the Twentieth Century

    This book provides keen and powerful insights into the problems affecting the disadvantaged populations of this nation. The contributors’ informed perspectives are critically important if we are to comprehend the…

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    Populations at Risk in America: Vulnerable Groups at the End of the Twentieth Century

    This book provides keen and powerful insights into the problems affecting the disadvantaged populations of this nation. The contributors’ informed perspectives are critically important if we are to comprehend the…

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    Creative Problem Solving: Total Systems Intervention

    Robert L. Flood,Michael C. Jackson

    Proposes a total systems intervention approach to creative problem-solving that aims to enrich the way managers, decision-makers and their advisors perceive the diversity of difficulties they face.

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    Operational Research and the Social Sciences

    Twenty five years ago, in 1964, The Operational Research Society’s first International Conference (held at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge) took as its theme Operational Research and the Social Sciences…

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    Michael Jackson

    K C Kelley

    A brief biography of pop music icon Michael Jackson.

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    Systems Prospects: The Next Ten Years of Systems Research

    Systems Prospects is a record of the papers presented at the first con ference organised by the United Kingdom Systems Society (UKSS), held at Thwaite Hall, Hull University (UK), on…

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    Goodbye, Billie Jean: the Meaning of Michael Jackson

    Lorette C. Luzajic

    When Michael Jackson died, Lorette C. Luzajic wanted to do something special. Like just about everyone else in the world, she wanted to mark the loss of this legendary life…

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    Systems Thinking in Europe

    Examples of such systems thinking can be found in these proceedings, for example in the section entitled Applications of Systems Thinking .

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    Globalizing Justice: Critical Perspectives on Transnational Law and the Cross-Border Migration of Legal Norms

    Includes essays assessing the impact of globalization on law and court systems across the world.

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    John Dewey and the Art of Teaching: Toward Reflective and Imaginative Practice

    Douglas J. Simpson,Michael J. B. Jackson,Judy C. Simpson

    John Dewey and the Art of Teaching: Toward Reflective and Imaginative Practice is an engaging and accessible introduction to the art of teaching as seen through the eyes of John…

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    John Dewey and the Art of Teaching: Toward Reflective and Imaginative Practice

    Douglas J. Simpson,Michael J. B. Jackson,Judy C. Simpson

    John Dewey and the Art of Teaching: Toward Reflective and Imaginative Practice is an engaging and accessible introduction to the art of teaching as seen through the eyes of John…

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    Dark One Volume 1

    Brandon Sanderson,Jackson Lanzing,Collin Kelly

    From #1 New York Times Bestselling, Hugo Award-winning author, Brandon Sanderson (The Mistborn Trilogy, The Stormlight Archive series), along with Nathan Gooden, Jackson Lanzing, and Collin Kelly, comes Dark One…

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    Expression in Contested Public Spaces: Free Speech and Civic Engagement

    Expression in Contested Public Spaces affirms the principles of free speech and civic engagement by highlighting the myriad ways people express their voices in public spaces to uphold the core…

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    Dark One, Book 1

    Brandon Sanderson, Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly

    From #1 New York Times Bestselling, Hugo Award-winning author, Brandon Sanderson, comes DARK ONE - an action-packed fantasy adventure exploring good and evil. Paul Tanasin is haunted by visions of…

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    Assistive Technology for the Hearing-impaired, Deaf and Deafblind

    Their combined expertise makes Assistive Technology for the Hearing-impaired, Deaf and Deafblind an excellent text for advanced students in assistive and rehabilitation technology and to professional engineers and medics working…

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    Material Vernaculars: Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds

    While attending to the material world, these case studies explicate the manner in which the tangible and intangible, the material and the meaningful, are constantly entwined and co-constituted.

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    Material Vernaculars: Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds

    While attending to the material world, these case studies explicate the manner in which the tangible and intangible, the material and the meaningful, are constantly entwined and co-constituted.

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    Phenomenology in Anthropology: A Sense of Perspective

    The contributors broaden the application of phenomenology in anthropology beyond the areas in which it has been most influential–studies of sensory perception, emotion, bodiliness, and intersubjectivity–into new areas of inquiry…

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    Phenomenology in Anthropology: A Sense of Perspective

    The contributors broaden the application of phenomenology in anthropology beyond the areas in which it has been most influential–studies of sensory perception, emotion, bodiliness, and intersubjectivity–into new areas of inquiry…

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    Teaching Terror: Strategic and Tactical Learning in the Terrorist World

    In the world of terrorism, knowledge is a critical asset. This volume explores how, where, and what these terrorists learn, and highlights why the most lethal terrorist groups are committed…

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    The Diaconate in Ecumenical Perspective: Ecclesiology, Liturgy and Practice

    Frederick C. (Fritz) Bauerschmidt,Anne Keffer,Maylanne Maybee,George E. Newman

    A discussion of the historical development of the order of deacons, its theological basis in the Western and Eastern Churches, and the relevance and significance of the diaconate for the…

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    Teaching Terror: Strategic and Tactical Learning in the Terrorist World

    In the world of terrorism, knowledge is a critical asset. This volume explores how, where, and what these terrorists learn, and highlights why the most lethal terrorist groups are committed…

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    The Diaconate in Ecumenical Perspective: Ecclesiology, Liturgy and Practice

    Frederick C. (Fritz) Bauerschmidt,Anne Keffer,Maylanne Maybee,George E. Newman

    A discussion of the historical development of the order of deacons, its theological basis in the Western and Eastern Churches, and the relevance and significance of the diaconate for the…

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    March in Country [Dramatized Adaptation]

    E E Knight

    The race is on to claim the area between the Ohio River and Tennessee. What's left of the resistance is hiding out in the tangle of central Kentucky hills-leaving the…

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