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| Author | : Brittany Simmons |
| Publisher | : Raghava Appikatla |
| Total Pages | : 84 |
| Release | : 2024-10-24 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : |
Prepare to transcend the boundaries of conventional wisdom and step into a realm where exceptional achievements thrive. "Beyond the Norm" unveils the enigmatic forces that drive individuals and organizations towards extraordinary success, leaving you inspired and empowered to redefine your own potential. Within these pages, you'll uncover a tapestry of case studies, scientific research, and practical insights that will illuminate the path to greatness. Discover how visionary leaders harness the power of intentionality, strategic alliances, and adaptive resilience to overcome adversity and achieve their audacious goals. This book serves as an indispensable guide for entrepreneurs, executives, innovators, and anyone seeking to unlock their true potential. By exploring the hidden dynamics that shape unprecedented success, you'll gain invaluable knowledge to navigate the complexities of the modern world and emerge as a catalyst for transformative change. Whether you aspire to expand your business, cultivate personal excellence, or create a positive impact on society, "Beyond the Norm" provides the blueprints and strategies to propel you towards your aspirations. Prepare to shatter conventional thinking and embrace the limitless possibilities that lie beyond the horizon of mediocrity.
| Author | : Norm Miller |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780785276746 |
Here is the story behind the phenomenal success of Norm Miller, chairman of Interstate Batteries and businessman extraordinare. From his early years in sales to becoming chairman of the largest independent replacement battery company in the U.S., Miller talks about the principles that have been the guiding force in his life. This is a great success story and the compelling spiritual journey of an innovative leader. 8-pp photo insert.
| Author | : Šárka Kolmašová |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2023-03-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3031250095 |
This book explores norm diffusion in non-Western contexts. It analyzes how norms transfer and what mechanisms or sources of leverage facilitate their diffusion. The individual chapters follow an interdisciplinary framework that analyzes social norms beyond the theoretical tradition of international relations, and focus on particular cases of diffusion—both successful and unsuccessful—across the non-Western world. In this way, the book challenges existing perspectives and advances critical norm research that diversifies the agency of norm entrepreneurs beyond processes of norm localization. It makes a twofold contribution—by deepening our theoretical understanding of norms and their dynamics and by broadening the geographical scope of norms research.
| Author | : Subhadeep Paul |
| Publisher | : Lexington Books |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2024-03-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1666910945 |
Beyond the Heteronorm: Interrogating Critical Alterities in Global Art and Literature explores exclusionary practices inspired by the construct of gender and how these conventions often misconstrue and convolute sex, gender, and sexual orientation. The contributors to this collection examine literary and visual representations of critical alterities from around the globe to produce empathic and inclusive analyses of experiences shared between diverse subordinated and minoritized socio-cultural entities and collectives. Organized into three parts, the chapters critique the concepts of personhood, performativity, and the post-binary. This edited collection deconstructs gender essentialism and embraces gender inclusivity in both theory and practice.
| Author | : Norm Macdonald |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2016-09-20 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 0812993632 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Driving, wild and hilarious” (The Washington Post), here is the incredible “memoir” of the legendary actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran. When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre “one step below instruction manuals.” Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, “Call it anything you damn like.”
| Author | : Zoran Oklopcic |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2018-05-31 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0192519840 |
Beyond the People develops a provocative, interdisciplinary, and meta-theoretical critique of the idea of popular sovereignty. It asks simple but far-reaching questions: Can 'imagined' communities, or 'invented' peoples, ever be theorized without, at the same time, being re-imagined and re-invented anew? Can polemical concepts, such as popular sovereignty or constituent power, be theorized objectively? If, as this book argues, the answer to these questions is no, theorists who approach the figure of a sovereign people must acknowledge that their activity is inseparable from the practice of constituent imagination. Though widely accepted as important, even vital, for the development of political concepts, the social practice of imagination is almost always presumed to operate either historically or impersonally, but seldom individually. Those who theorize the figures of popular sovereignty do not see that they are, in effect, 'conjurors' of peoplehood. This book invites constitutional, international, normative, and other political and legal theorists of sovereign peoplehood to embrace the conjuring-side of their professional identities, as a way of exploring the possibility of moving beyond eternally recurring, insolvable, and increasingly irrelevant questions. Instead of asking: Who is the people? What is the function of constituent power? Where may the people exercise its right to self-determination? Beyond the People asks the reader to consider the prospect of a riskier and more adventurous theoretical road, that opens with the question: What do I as a 'theorist-imaginer', or 'conjuror of peoplehood', assume, anticipate, and aspire to as I theorize the vehicles that mediate the assumptions, anticipations, and aspirations of others? This question is examined throughout the book as it interrogates the idea of peoplehood beyond disciplinary boundaries, showing how polemical, visual, affective, conceptual, and allegorical language critically shapes our idea of peoplehood. It offers a nuanced account of the contested relationship between the social imaginary of peoplehood on the ground, and the imaginative practices of the professional 'conjurors' of peoplehood in the academy.
| Author | : Jens Beckert |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2009-01-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 140082544X |
Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behavior as cooperation, innovation, and action under conditions of uncertainty--phenomena he identifies as the proper starting point for a sociology of economic action. Beckert levels an enlightened critique at neoclassical economics, arguing that understanding efficiency requires looking well beyond the market to the social, cultural, political, and cognitive factors that influence the coordination of economic action. Beckert searches social theory for the components of an alternative theory of action, one that accounts for the social embedding of economic behavior. In Durkheim and Parsons he finds especially useful approaches to cooperation; in Luhmann, a way to understand how people act under highly contingent conditions; and in Giddens, an understanding of creative action and innovation. Together, these provide building blocks for a research program that will yield a theoretically sophisticated understanding of how economic processes are coordinated and the ways that markets are embedded in social, cultural, and cognitive structures. Containing one of the most fully informed critiques of the neoclassical analysis of economic efficiency--as well as one of the most thoughtful blueprints for economic sociology--this book reclaims for sociology the study of one of the most important arenas of human action.
| Author | : Sasha Roseneil |
| Publisher | : UCL Press |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2020-11-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1787358895 |
The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm explores the ongoing strength and insidious grip of couple-normativity across changing landscapes of law, policy and everyday life in four contrasting national contexts: the UK, Bulgaria, Norway and Portugal. By investigating how the couple-norm is lived and experienced, how it has changed over time, and how it varies between places and social groups, this book provides a detailed analysis of changing intimate citizenship regimes in Europe, and makes a major intervention in understandings of the contemporary condition of personal life. The authors develop the feminist concept of ‘intimate citizenship’ and propose the new concept of ‘intimate citizenship regime’, offering a study of intimate citizenship regimes as normative systems that have been undergoing profound change in recent decades. Against the backdrop of processes of de-patriarchalization, liberalization, pluralization and homonormalization, the ongoing potency of the couple-norm becomes ever clearer.
| Author | : Manuel Bastias Saavedra |
| Publisher | : Max Planck Studies in Global L |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2021-11-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9789004472822 |
"Norms beyond Empire seeks to rethink the relationship between law and empire by emphasizing the role of local normative production. While European imperialism is often viewed as being able to shape colonial law and government to its image, this volume argues that early modern empires could never monolithically control how these processes unfolded. Examining the Iberian empires in Asia, it seeks to look at norms as a means of escaping the often too narrow concept of law and look beyond empire to highlight the ways in which law-making and local normativities frequently acted beyond colonial rule. The ten chapters explore normative production from this perspective by focusing on case studies from China, India, Japan, and the Philippines. Contributors are: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Marya Svetlana T. Camacho, Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva, Rômulo da Silva Ehalt, Patricia Souza de Faria, Fupeng Li, Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço, Abisai Perez Zamarripa, Marina Torres Trimállez, and Ângela Barreto Xavier"--
| Author | : David Spiegelhalter |
| Publisher | : Profile Books |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2013-05-30 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1847658296 |
Meet Norm. He's 31, 5'9", just over 13 stone, and works a 39 hour week. He likes a drink, doesn't do enough exercise and occasionally treats himself to a bar of chocolate (milk). He's a pretty average kind of guy. In fact, he is the average guy in this clever and unusual take on statistical risk, chance, and how these two factors affect our everyday choices. Watch as Norm (who, like all average specimens, feels himself to be uniquely special), and his friends careful Prudence and reckless Kelvin, turns to statistics to help him in life's endless series of choices - should I fly or take the train? Have a baby? Another drink? Or another sausage? Do a charity skydive or get a lift on a motorbike? Because chance and risk aren't just about numbers - it's about what we believe, who we trust and how we feel about the world around us. From a world expert in risk and the bestselling author of The Tiger That Isn't (and creator of BBC Radio 4's More or Less), this is a commonsense (and wildly entertaining) guide to personal risk and decoding the statistics that represent it.
