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1	Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms in Essential Knowledge for Social Work Practice more books like this by Joe M Schriver add to wishlist This text compares and contrasts both traditional (dominant) and alternative paradigms or worldviews in examining human behavior and the social environment. Professor Schriver's text is innovative in its examination of new paradigms that include diversity, feminism, client empowerment, and other perspectives that are mandated by CSWE. Both ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $89.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future more books like this by Joel Arthur Barker add to wishlist With this book, readers learn how to break out of old patterns that are now outdated and slowing down progress. Joel Barker shares his ideas for change that he has taught to thousands of executives from such companies as General Mills, 3M, Texaco, AT&T and General Foods. The author explains how to find the people in an organization most likely to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Future Edge: Discovering the New Rules of Sucess more books like this by Joel Arthur Barker add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World more books like this by Ervin Laszlo add to wishlist Ervin Laszlo presents a 'reality map' to guide us through today's quantum world shifts. We need this map to understand what we must do during this time of great transition as old ways of thinking yield to new multi-dimensional realities. see all copies from $6.99! new only from $7.99! \| SVS
5	The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics more books like this by Dr. Amitai Etzioni add to wishlist Blending elements of psychology, philosophy, and sociology with economics, Etzioni presents a bold new vision of the social sciences - one which proposes that broader moral, social and political concerns modify economic behaviour and shape individual decision-making. In establishing the necessitary of moral and social considerations in economic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.59! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Paradigm Dialog more books like this by Dr. Egon G Guba add to wishlist Is scientific positivism, long the reigning paradigm for research in the social sciences, the 'best way' to conduct social research? This is the central question examined in The Paradigm Dialog. Recently three key challenges have appeared - positivism, critical theory and constructivism. All three offer researchers new methodological approaches ... see all copies from $18.80! new only from $61.56! \| SVS
7	Organizational Theory and Inquiry: The Paradigm Revolution more books like this by Dr. Yvonna S Lincoln add to wishlist The transition from viewing organizations as bureaucracies towards seeing them in metaphoric terms is a contemporary break with past organizational theory. But to investigate the similarities between real organizations and the metaphors describing their functions and context, a shift in both methods of inquiry and organizational theory must take ... see all copies from $24.70! new only from $54.77! \| SVS
8	Sociology and Organization Theory: Positivism, Paradigms, and Postmodernity more books like this by Professor John Hassard add to wishlist This title traces the history of the orthodox systems theory paradigm in organization studies from its foundations to its recent deconstruction by postmodernists. The analysis offers support for the "sociology-in-crisis" thesis, then takes issue with one of its main propositions, that paradigms are incommensurable. see all copies from $13.83! new only from $33.58! \| SVS
9	The Paradigm Conspiracy: How Our Systems of Government, Church, School, and Culture Violate Our Human Potential more books like this by Denise Breton, Christopher Largent, Steve Lehman (Editor) add to wishlist Based on the idea that individuals cannot be fully healthy in a society filled with dysfunctional sysytems, the authors provide ananalysis of our current social systems and offera behavioral model for change. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.97!
10	Doing Naturalistic Inquiry: A Guide to Methods more books like this by David A Erlandson, Prof. Edward L Harris, Barbara L Skipper add to wishlist Based on the theoretical work of Lincoln and Guba, this practical text is designed to help new researchers apply the constructivist paradigm. The authors show how these ideas shape the practice of conducting alternative paradigm research. Covering the research process from design, through data-collection analysis and presentation, as well as ... see all copies from $11.25! new only from $54.78! \| SVS
11 view cover	Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms Inessential Knowledge for Social Work Practice more books like this by Joe M Schriver add to wishlist This is a revision of a book that was the first to thoroughly integrate new perspectives into the traditional Human Behavior and Social Environment field. Researchers are constantly looking for new information on topics like feminism, creativity, religion, multiple intelligences, violence, technology, etc. This book meets all new Council on Social ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.89! \| first editions
12 view cover	Corporate DNA: Learning from Life more books like this by Ken Baskin, Ph.D. add to wishlist "Corporate DNA" explores what happens when managers think about and run their companies as if they were living things. An organic model is at the heart of the transformation of companies like AT&T and EDS, working to redesign the bureaucracies that they were built upon. This book addresses the frustrations felt among corporations by focusing on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.41! \| SVS
13 view cover	Leadershift more books like this by Doug Murren add to wishlist Doug Murren will help you get a grasp on the com-plex dynamics of change. He provides practical steps for introducing and managing change in your ministry, helping you as a leader to step forward into the future without making unnecessary mistakes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.00! \| first editions
14	Discovering the Future: The Business of Paradigms more books like this by Joel Arthur Barker add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Intellectual Trespassing as a Way of Life: Essays in Philosophy, Economics, and Mathematics more books like this by David P Ellerman add to wishlist Revolutions in a field of science are often made by outsiders ("trespassers") who are not limited by established approaches. Each essay in this collection shows the fruits of intellectual trespassing in fields such as economics, Kantian ethics, Platonic philosophy, and others. see all copies from $24.46! new only from $45.73! \| first editions
16 view cover	Human Inquiry in Action: Developments in New Paradigm Research more books like this by Professor Peter W Reason (Editor) add to wishlist An important practical sourcebook for new ways of undertaking research, this volume presents both an up-to-date assessment of the state of theoretical and methodological debates in collaborative human research and a summary of projects undertaken using collaborative methodologies. It addresses some of the difficulties involved with the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99!
17 view cover	Evolution of Cognitive Maps: New Paradigms for the Twenty-First Century more books like this by Ervin Laszlo add to wishlist Bringing together diverse disciplines - cognitive and social psychology, biopsychology, history, physics, cosmology, chemistry, population ecology, economics and philosophy of science - this series of essays explores the development of cognitive maps from their biological and historical bases to their contemporary forms. Featuring work by a series ... see all copies from $73.99! new only from $107.63!
18 view cover	Metaphor and Organizations more books like this by Dr. David Grant (Editor), Dr. Clifford Oswick (Editor) add to wishlist Metaphors are, according to Gareth Morgan 'a way of thinking and a way of seeing'. The use of metaphor underpins the expectations, behaviour and strategies governing all aspects of organizational life. Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars, this collection of critical essays analyzes the role of metaphor in the theory of ... see all copies from $34.95! new only from $47.28! \| first editions
19 view cover	Models and Interpretations more books like this by J A Barnes add to wishlist John Barnes's collection of essays, published over the last forty years, covers a variety of topics in sociology and anthropology, including lineage systems, social networks, colonialism, underlying assumptions of social science, and the significance of time in social analysis. Together they identify the author's particular view of social science: ... see all copies from $43.52! new only from $61.00! \| first editions
20 view cover	Human Inquiry: A Sourcebook of New Paradigm Research more books like this by Peter Reason add to wishlist Sets forth a new paradigm for the philosophy and practice of research in fields of human activity: a collaborative, experimental approach in which inquiry is firmly rooted in subjects' experience of their lives. Covers the philosophy, methodology, practice and prospects of the new paradigm, showing how to do research with people rather than on ... see all copies from $4.05! new only from $52.42! \| first editions
21 view cover	Energy and the Ecological Economics of Sustainability more books like this by John Peet add to wishlist "Energy and the Ecological Economics of Sustainability" examines the roots of the present environmental crisis in the neoclassical economics upon which modern industrial society is based. The author explains that only when we view ourselves in the larger context of the global ecosystem and accept the physical limits to what is possible can ... see all copies from $7.17! new only from $43.87! \| first editions
22 view cover	Contemplative Leadership for Entrepreneurial Organizations: Paradigms, Metaphors, and Wicked Problems more books like this by Nancy J Eggert add to wishlist Using elements from linguistics, philosophy, and the histories of science and spirituality, this study introduces new ways of thinking, perceiving, valuing, inquiring and acting for leaders of entrepreneurial organizations. It offers an alternative to the dominant leadership paradigm. see all copies from $78.00! new only from $78.00! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	On the Role of Paradigms in Finance more books like this by Kavous Ardalan add to wishlist Social theory can usefully be conceived in terms of four key paradigms: functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist and radical structuralist. The four paradigms are founded upon different assumptions about the nature of society and each generates distinctive theories, concepts and analytical tools. Finance theory is based on the functionalist ... see all copies from $59.37! new only from $90.50!
24 view cover	Futureproofing more books like this by Roy C Lilley add to wishlist If you can imagine it, it will happen... if you can't, you're out of it This book is a white-knuckle ride. It drills down into what we are doing now, and comes up in the future to see what comes next. The book is a commentary and a clarion call and an invitation to see round corners and a clarion call to respond to what's there. Roy Lilley has ... see all copies from $29.90! new only from $29.90! \| SVS
25 view cover	Cloudhand Clenched more books like this by Rhea Y Miller add to wishlist Social activist Rhea Miller contrasts "clenched fist" establishment mentality with t'ai chi's "Cloudhand" stance to demonstrate the infinite possibility inherent in chaos, and shares transforming insights into the relationships among cosmic, social, and spiritual forces. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $33.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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