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This volume substantiates the island of Cyprus as an important player in the history of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, and presents new theoretical and analytical approaches. The Cypriot Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age are characterised by an increasing complexity of social and political organisation, economic systems, and networks.The book discusses and defines how specific types of material datasets and assemblages, such as architecture, artefacts, and ecofacts, and their contextualisation can form the basis of interpretative models of social structures and networks in ancient Cyprus.This is explored through four main themes: approaches to social dynamics; social and economic networks and connectivity; adaptability and agency; and social dynamics and inequality.The variety and transition of social structures on the island are discussed on multiple scales, from the local and relatively short-term to island-wide and eastern Mediterranean-wide and the longue durée.The focus of study ranges from urban to non-urban contexts and is reflected in settlement, funerary, and other ritual contexts.Connections, both within the island and to the broader Eastern Mediterranean, and how these impact social and economic developments on the island, are explored.Discussions revolve around the potential of consolidating the models based on specialised studies into a cohesive interpretation of society on ancient Cyprus and its strategic connections with surrounding regions in a diachronic perspective from the Neolithic through the end of the Bronze Age, i.e. from roughly the seventh millennium to the eleventh century BCE. Dynamics and Developments of Social Structures and Networks in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus is intended for researchers and students of the archaeology and history of ancient Cyprus, the Aegean, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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This volume substantiates the island of Cyprus as an important player in the history of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, and presents new theoretical and analytical approaches. The Cypriot Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age are characterised by an increasing complexity of social and political organisation, economic systems, and networks.The book discusses and defines how specific types of material datasets and assemblages, such as architecture, artefacts, and ecofacts, and their contextualisation can form the basis of interpretative models of social structures and networks in ancient Cyprus.This is explored through four main themes: approaches to social dynamics; social and economic networks and connectivity; adaptability and agency; and social dynamics and inequality.The variety and transition of social structures on the island are discussed on multiple scales, from the local and relatively short-term to island-wide and eastern Mediterranean-wide and the longue durée.The focus of study ranges from urban to non-urban contexts and is reflected in settlement, funerary, and other ritual contexts.Connections, both within the island and to the broader Eastern Mediterranean, and how these impact social and economic developments on the island, are explored.Discussions revolve around the potential of consolidating the models based on specialised studies into a cohesive interpretation of society on ancient Cyprus and its strategic connections with surrounding regions in a diachronic perspective from the Neolithic through the end of the Bronze Age, i.e. from roughly the seventh millennium to the eleventh century BCE. Dynamics and Developments of Social Structures and Networks in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus is intended for researchers and students of the archaeology and history of ancient Cyprus, the Aegean, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Approach To Human Social Evolution : Persistence Of Ancient Drives In Behaviour And Development
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This book provides an important examination into the role of evolution of human traits of dominance as central to understanding social and political events, proposing a new view on human social evolution.It also examines basic biological universal needs and behavioural profiles of non- human living beings, from which humans share essential survival components.It invites readers to think critically about the psychological evolution of the human brain.Using comparative psychology, it argues that the core of human behaviour lies in the ancient, animal, universal set of survival resources hidden under various socialization profiles.However, it generally fails to replace drives of dominance and aggression for physical and social survival.Genuine replacement of those primal behavioural drives would require fundamental neuro- socio- behavioural changes.This book supports the thesis that without education and the promotion of universal values involving environmental protection and individual opportunities to evolve, there will be negative consequences for individuals and communities.This book represents a critical tool for students of behavioural sciences, anthropology, politics, and evolutionary neurosciences, and will also greatly benefit other readers, such as teachers and professional researchers.
Taylor & Francis Ltd Personal, Social And Emotional Development In The Early Years Foundation Stage
26.67 GBP
The Practical Guidance in the Early Years Foundation Stage series will assist practitioners in the smooth and successful implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage. Each book gives clear and detailed explanations of each aspect of Learning and Development and encourages readers to consider each area within its broadest context to expand and develop their own knowledge and good practice. Practical ideas and activities for all age groups are offered along with a wealth of expertise of how elements from the practice guidance can be implemented within all early years settings.The books include suggestions for the innovative use of everyday ressources, popular books and stories. Using the clear and accessible material in this book practitioners will be guided through the process of helping children develop an understanding of themselves; to help them gain independence and to become excited and motivated about their learning.Practical examples and ideas are linked to the Practice Guidance to ensure that practitioners feel confident in their ability to support and develop children's emotional well-being and social skills as well as develop their own knowledge and understanding of this important aspect of the EYFS.
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Handbook Of Action Learning : The Go-To Source For Individual, Organizational And Social Development
27.59 GBP
Action learning is one of the most prominent individual and organisational development approaches used in all parts of the world, including in over 70 member states of the United Nations.From its early beginnings in the 1970s, it has been adopted in private, public and third-sector organisations and has produced several variations.Used for leadership and management development, to support teamwork and problem-solving, and to encourage creative thinking, it can help to develop and enhance the learning capacity for individuals and organisations. Applied as a discrete activity focused on a priority need or on new or changed roles; as a linkage between more formal programs and the workplace or blended with other elements in a program, this book distils current and previous practice and theory to provide an up-to-date guide to action learning.The book will provide readers with an understanding of action learning, including the major elements, the choice of issues, the key skills, the role of the facilitator and applications organisation-wide.It will address such important aspects as how action learning can adapt to different national and regional cultures and how it can be evaluated.It will also offer a range of resources for further and deeper understanding.
Taylor & Francis Ltd From Crowd Psychology To The Dynamics Of Large Groups : Historical, Theoretical And Practical Considerations
30.35 GBP
From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups offers transdisciplinary research on the history of the study of social formations, ranging from nineteenth-century crowd psychology in France and twentieth-century Freudian mass psychology, including the developments in critical theory, to the study of the psychodynamics of contemporary large groups. Carla Penna presents a unique combination of sociology, psychoanalysis, and group analysis in the study of social formations.This book revisits the epistemological basis of group analysis by introducing and discussing its historical path, especially in connection with the study of large groups and investigations of the social unconscious in persons, groups, and societies.It also explores early work on group relations and contemporary research on the basic-assumption group in England, particularly Hopper’s theory of Incohesion as a fourth basic assumption.From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups enables the reader to map out the field of the unconscious life of crowds illuminating the darkness of twenty-first century collective movements. The reflections in this book present new perspectives for psychologists, psychoanalysts, group analysts, sociologists, and historians to investigate the psychodynamics of contemporary crowds, masses, and social systems.
Taylor & Francis Ltd Navigating Digital Transformation : The Dynamics Of Educational Technology Adoption
36.79 GBP
This book explores the process of educators’ technology adoption, which is crucial for digital transformation in today's educational landscape.It is based on rigorous research which highlights the dynamics of technology adoption, the evolution of institutional culture, and the development of digital artifacts as educators navigate the incorporation of educational technology.Through a thorough analysis of the complex factors influencing technology adoption, the book seeks to bridge theory and practice, technology and teaching methods, policy, and execution, to promote more effective and meaningful educational innovation and transformation. This book confronts the challenges within this field by illustrating the development process of teachers' technology adoption.It introduces novel representations and analytics of technology adoption dynamics, offering new insights into the mechanisms behind teachers' technological understanding beyond mere self-reported acceptance.Through a thorough analysis of the complex factors influencing technology adoption, the book seeks to bridge theory and practice, technology and teaching methods, policy, and execution, to promote more effective and meaningful educational innovation and transformation.To study the short- and long-term effects that may improve the assessment of interventions, the author proposes a dynamic model.The reader is also introduced to a framework based on a downscaling scheme that can project cultural factors of the institution onto a teacher’s implementation behaviour.The book further considers navigating through technological integration by inspecting technology-related quality of teaching artifacts.It considers patterns of integrating digital tools and teaching practice that can be identified by examining the technology-specific quality of digital artifacts shaped by teachers. This book targets several key groups in the education sector, including educators, researchers, policymakers, and educational technology professionals.The author shares the knowledge to support the integration of technology and transformation in education by providing interdisciplinary perspectives and practical strategies.
Taylor & Francis Ltd Finding Wholeness Through The Science Of Connecting : An Introduction To The Dynamics Of Life Model
27.59 GBP
Drawing on the author’s decades of experience in social work, this book introduces readers to a systems approach to reconnecting in a complex, disconnected world applying the Dynamics of Life model. The systems sciences allow us to explore how we connect and disconnect, which can help us find ourselves again.Through his Dynamics of Life model, Victor MacGill presents this science in a simple, understandable way so that practitioners can build their skills and learn methods to apply with clients.The beginning of the book introduces theoretical concepts, such as complex adaptive systems, living systems and 4e cognition.The second half introduces tools for how to manage conflict and to reconnect and rebuild relationships with ourselves, individuals, family and community.The book is a manual for reconnecting ourselves to ourselves, others and the world to realise our greater potential. An essential resource in a disconnected and fragmented world, this book is for anyone in the helping professions, including counsellors, psychologists, social workers and coaches and so forth.
Taylor & Francis Ltd Coping With Dynamic Business Environments : Management Approaches For Resilience During Difficult Economies
48.75 GBP
This book discusses the existing management approaches for dealing with changes, namely readiness, maturity, and resilience.Although these concepts have been discussed for several years now, their importance grows when companies must deal with extended changes in economies.The changes are of a different nature: social, technological, and political, and they strongly impact every aspect of economies and companies’ activity.Is it possible to be ready for the changes? Should companies be resilient to disruption? These are the questions the managers are trying to answer, yet they need some support from academics.This book explores the synergy between the state-of-the-art knowledge and experience of companies to create a Contemporary Management Model.The scope of this book covers the methodology with an introduction and discussion of the key ideas and concludes with a presentation of the Contemporary Management Model followed by the practical validation and verification of the model based on case studies.This book is simply about developing the readiness and resilience of resources and processes, especially from a tactical perspective.
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Dynamics Of Managing Diversity And Inclusion : A Critical Approach
57.95 GBP
The Dynamics of Managing Diversity and Inclusion was one of the first books to respond to growing academic coverage of the topic of diversity management at degree level.This fifth edition has been fully updated to reflect new working practices, labour market data, organisational policies, and developments in equality and diversity law, as well as including new case studies and analysis of current and emerging areas of debate in the United Kingdom and across Europe. Diversity management is a term that covers not only policy and practice on race, disability, and sex discrimination, but also broader issues including other identity and cultural differences.The Dynamics of Managing Diversity and Inclusion, fifth edition, provides future HR professionals and business/organisational managers of the future with the legal information and research findings needed to enable them to participate in the development and implementation of meaningful diversity and inclusion policies in their organisations.This new edition offers:Inclusion of topical issues such as female and minority representation on executive boards, religious diversity, gender identity, Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements. Multiple analytical perspectives, such as socio-legal and feminist approaches, to provide rich insights into the subject matter. Practical case studies and exercises to illustrate the real-life issues in a local, international, and organisational context. The book deals with the subject of diversity management in a rigorous and structured manner, beginning each chapter with aims and objectives, providing key learning points and review and discussion questions at regular junctures, and ending with concluding thoughts and observations, making this book the perfect support resource for those teaching or studying in the field of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Taylor & Francis Ltd Dual Narrative Dynamics
36.79 GBP
Combining narratological and stylistic methods, this book theorizes dual narrative dynamics consisting of plot development and covert progression and demonstrates the consequences for the interpretation of literary works. In narratives with such dynamics, writers work simultaneously with overt and covert trajectories of signification, establishing a range of relationships between them.The two parallel narrative movements may complement, contradict or even subvert each other, and these relationships significantly influence readers’ understanding not just of events but also of characters, themes, and aesthetic values.The book provides a systematic theoretical account of such previously neglected dual narrative dynamics, substantiated and enriched by the textual analysis of works by Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Franz Kafka, and Katherine Mansfield.The study explores the many ways that these authors have used dual dynamics to increase the power of their narratives.In addition, the book identifies the challenges such dual dynamics present not only for narratology but also for stylistics and translation studies, and it develops sound and provocative proposals for meeting those challenges. In taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of narrative and literary theory, literary criticism, literary stylistics, and translation studies.
Taylor & Francis Ltd Professional Skills In Sport Psychology Consultancy : Personal And Interpersonal Dynamics
35.87 GBP
Professional Skills in Sport Psychology Consultancy raises awareness of intrapersonal and interpersonal professional practice skills.The book chapters focus on the aspiring practitioner’s personal and professional development when working with all kinds of recipients of psychological support in sport including individual athletes, teams, coaches, parents, and administrators. Organized in two sections – intrapersonal processes and interpersonal dynamics – this new book steers readers through the many subtle and complex factors that impact on the professional relationships that ultimately influence successful outcomes and provides guidance for students, researchers, and practitioners about the many intrapersonal and interpersonal processes involved in the working alliance, professional relationship, and sport psychology consultancy. Professional Skills in Sport Psychology Consultancy is a core text for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate sport psychology students, sport psychologists undergoing professional training, and early career sport psychologists.
Taylor & Francis Ltd Dynamics Of Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship : Business Strategy And Public Policy
142.6 GBP
Knowledge intensive entrepreneurship lies at the core of the structural shift necessary for the growth and development of a knowledge based economy, yet research reveals that the EU has fewer young leading innovators, and Europe’s new firms do not adequately contribute to industrial growth.This is especially true in the high R&D intensive, high-tech sectors.This structural malaise, undermining Europe’s growth potential, is well diagnosed, but poorly understood.This volume fills this important gap by exploring new firms that have significant knowledge intensity in their activity and develop and exploit innovative opportunities in diverse sectors.Through an evolutionary and systemic approach to entrepreneurship, focusing on knowledge intensive entrepreneurship as both a micro and a macro phenomena and analyzing firms in the context of various socio-economic models, the authors explore firms creation and origins around the world, their organization, strategies and business models as well as the role of innovation systems and institutions in their formation and growth. This comprehensive research text is vital reading for academics, researchers and students of high-tech and knowledge intensive entrepreneurship as well as those with an interest in industrial dynamics, innovation management and public policy.
Taylor & Francis Ltd Dynamics Of National Identity : Media And Societal Factors Of What We Are
38.63 GBP
Globalization, immigration and economic crisis challenge the conceptions of nations, trans-national institutions and post-ethnic societies which are central topics in social sciences' discourses.This book examines in an interdisciplinary and international comparative way structures of national identity which are in conflict with or supporting multi-ethnic diversity and trans-national connectivity.The book’s first section seeks to clarify the concepts of national identity, nationalism, patriotism and cosmopolitism and to operationalize them consistently.The next section regards the diversity within national states and the consequences for the management of identity and intra-national integration.The third section focuses on external integration between different nations by searching for the "squaring of the circle" between the bonding with co-patriots and the critical reflection of one's own national perspective in relation to others.The last section explores to what extent and in which ways media use shapes collective identity.
Taylor & Francis Ltd Public Governance Dynamics : Comparative Administrative Systems
33.11 GBP
This textbook examines public administration from a comparative perspective by incorporating theory and practice from two separate fields: Political Science and Development Administration.It explores the intricate interplay of diverse administrative frameworks, emphasising the adaptation and efficiency of governance models in varied political and cultural landscapes, especially in the selected five countries: the UK, the USA, France, Japan and India. This volume explores the evolution of comparative public administration and the approaches of F.W. Riggs, Ferrel Heady and John D. Montgomery to understand the major administrative systems around the world.It examines the extent to which the various forms of polities, regimes and public opinion can influence bureaucracies in multiple countries and analyses the role of public administration systems in their democratic frameworks. This book will be useful to students, researchers and teachers of Public Administration, Public Policy, Political Science and General Management.It will also be an invaluable companion to the policymakers in the government sector as it will strengthen their conceptual understanding of the subject.