Continumental Stories: Volume 1

Continumental Stories: Volume 1
Author: Khorum Ahmed
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2016-04-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1326657585

In various points throughout the universe, a set of alternate dimensions known as Timeless Fields exist. Infinites have been the only beings to have lived within them. Though no one has actually seen an Infinite or even had any knowledge of them, they have been around for countless of centuries, in the wake of many existences. Not until Time showed signs of deteriorating, had those in the worlds outside Timeless Fields taken up the responsibility to preserve its natural state. The Matter-Fabric's first Bearers had surfaced to rule as the authority that governed a Nation to protect Time against those who would cause it harm. For hundreds of years the Bearers enforced Continumental Law over the whole of the universe, yet efforts to thwart any lasting damage to the continuum were being rendered useless as Time's natural state was found as the root cause of the problem. It was said that Darkness would blind the universe of all light and the continuum would know an end

Stars and Bones

Stars and Bones
Author: Gareth L. Powell
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1789094291

A stunningly inventive action-packed science-fiction epic adventure for fans of Becky Chambers and Ann Leckie from the multi BSFA award-winner, Gareth L. Powell. Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks—each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and eccentricities. When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious alien distress call, Eryn insists on being part of the crew sent to look for her. What she discovers on Candidate-623 is both terrifying and deadly. When the threat follows her back to the fleet and people start dying, she is tasked with seeking out a legendary recluse who may just hold the key to humanity’s survival. Gareth L. Powell’s Embers of War won 2018 BSFA Award for Best Novel and was shortlisted for the 2019 Locus Awards and the 2021 Seiun Awards in Japan. Its sequels, Fleet of Knives and Light of Impossible Stars, were both shortlisted for the BSFA Award for Best Novel, and Fleet of Knives was also shortlisted for the 2020 Locus Awards.

Framing Work

Framing Work
Author: Edmund Heery
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199569460

This book presents a broad-ranging survey of contemporary writing about work and employment. It identifies three broad traditions of research and commentary on work - the unitary perspective, the pluralist perspective and the critical perspective - and describes the contemporary output of these traditions; i.e. it surveys current research and argument found within these traditions. The book also surveys debate between these traditions, and the second part of the book presents a detailed account of debate over four current issues. These issues are employee participation, customer culture, equality and diversity and the impact of the global financial crisis. The source material for the book comes from the UK, USA and other countries and the arguments contained within it have international relevance. The book provides an overview of recent work on the employment relationship and the debate and controversy that can be seen in this area of study. Framing Work will be of interest to academics researching and writing about employment and to advanced students in Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management, Organization Studies, and Sociology.

Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu
Author: Nicholas Brown
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780847693894

The work of Pierre Bourdieu has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. This is a collection of essays focusing on the contribution of Bourdieu's thought to the study of cultural production.

New Queries in Aesthetics and Metaphysics

New Queries in Aesthetics and Metaphysics
Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 498
Release: 1991-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780792311959

This collection is the final volume of a four book survey of the state of phenomenology fifty years after the death of Edmund Husserl. Its publication represents a landmark in the comprehensive treatment of contemporary phenomenology in all its vastness and richness. The diversity of the issues raised here is dazzling, but the main themes of Husserl's thought are all either explicitly treated, or else they underlie the ingenious approaches found here. Time, historicity, intentionality, eidos, meaning, possibility/reality, and teleology are the main concerns of this collection devoted to studies in aesthetics, metaphysics and literary interpretation, written by such authors as, among others, R. Cobb-Stevens, C. Moreno Marquez, J. Swiecimski, Sitansu Ray and M. Kronegger. These original studies of phenomenological aesthetics and literary theory by scholars from all parts of the world were gathered by the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learn ing during the year 1988/89 during its assessment of the phenomeno logical movement, fifty years after Husserl's death. IX A -T. Tymieniecka (ed.), Analecta Husserliana, Vol. XXXVII, ix.

Perspectives on Contemporary Professional Work

Perspectives on Contemporary Professional Work
Author: Adrian Wilkinson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2016-01-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1783475587

How is the world of professions and professional work changing? This book offers both an overview of current debates surrounding the nature of professional work, and the implications for change brought about by the managerialist agenda. The relationships professionals have with their organizations are variable, indeterminate and uncertain, and there is still debate over the ways in which these should be characterized and theorized. The contributors discuss these implications with topics including hybrid organizations and hybrid professionalism; the changing nature of professional and managerial work; profession and identity; and the emergence of HRM as a new managerial profession. This book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students seeking a comparative study on contemporary professional work. It will also be of use to a number of practitioners, namely human resource managers, looking for ways in which to approach the changing professional world.

Recreating Newton

Recreating Newton
Author: Rebekah Higgitt
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2016-09-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0822981793

Higgitt examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century. She focuses on 1820-1870, a period that saw the creation of the specialized and secularized role of the "scientist." At the same time, researchers gained better access to Newton's archives. These were used both by those who wished to undermine the traditional, idealised depiction of scientific genius and those who felt obliged to defend Newtonian hagiography. Higgitt shows how debates about Newton's character stimulated historical scholarship and led to the development of a new expertise in the history of science.