Max von Laue - Jost Lemmerich - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This biography gives an insider view of 20th century German science in the making. The discovery by Max von Laue in 1912 of interference effects demonstrated the wave-like nature of X-rays and the atomic lattice structure of crystals. This major advance for research on solids earned him the Nobel Prize two years later, the ultimate acclaim as an exceptional theoretician. As an early supporter of Einstein''s relativity theory, he published fundamental papers on light scattering as well as on matter waves and superconductivity. Laue may be counted among the few persons of influence in Germany who - as Einstein put it - managed to "stay morally upright" under Nazism. It is thus surprising that this is the first extensive biography of this famous scientist. Jost Lemmerich could hardly have been better equipped to describe German physics and physicists in the 1920s. His copiously illustrated historical account is based as much on scientific material as on private correspondence, creating a fascinating and convincingly detailed portrait.

Values at Work

Values at Work

Feedback at Work - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book delivers an evidence-based summary of best practices in providing and utilizing feedback in organizational settings. Bringing together a range of renowned experts, the chapters in this book discuss the current state of feedback theory and research, as well as practical recommendations for using the evidence to improve feedback processes in organizations. This book is intended for scholars and managers, but anyone on the giving or receiving end of feedback will benefit from a better understanding of the process. The chapters in this volume take the reader deep into the current literature, set a research agenda for the future, and provide key take-aways to enhance intentionality in the feedback process.

Power and Class in Political Fiction - David Smit - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book introduces Elite Theory to the literary study of class as a framework for addressing issues of the nature of governance in political fiction. The book describes the historical development and major tenets of Elite Theory, and shows how each of four post-war Washington novels-Gore Vidal''s Washington, D.C.; Allen Drury''s Advise and Consent ; Joan Didion''s Democracy ; and Ward Just''s Echo House -illustrates the way class-based political elites exhibit forms of "ruling-class consciousness" and maintain their legitimacy in an ostensibly democratic form of government by promoting themselves as models of behavior, promulgating an ideology that justifies their rule through their control of the media, and accepting new members from the lower classes. Reading these novels through a socio-political lens, David Smit offers suggestions for ways to work for a more just and equitable society in light of what this analysis reveals about the "culture" that produces our political elites.

Power and Class in Political Fiction - David Smit - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book introduces Elite Theory to the literary study of class as a framework for addressing issues of the nature of governance in political fiction. The book describes the historical development and major tenets of Elite Theory, and shows how each of four post-war Washington novels-Gore Vidal''s Washington, D.C.; Allen Drury''s Advise and Consent ; Joan Didion''s Democracy ; and Ward Just''s Echo House -illustrates the way class-based political elites exhibit forms of "ruling-class consciousness" and maintain their legitimacy in an ostensibly democratic form of government by promoting themselves as models of behavior, promulgating an ideology that justifies their rule through their control of the media, and accepting new members from the lower classes. Reading these novels through a socio-political lens, David Smit offers suggestions for ways to work for a more just and equitable society in light of what this analysis reveals about the "culture" that produces our political elites.

Better Work - Bog af Monique Kremer - Hardback

Better Work - Bog af Monique Kremer - Hardback

A New Meaning-Mission Fit - Aligning Life and Work in Business - Bog af Michelle French-Holloway - Hardback

This book offers a clear process for managers, professionals, and future leaders to help discover their personal meaning in life and apply it to their work.

Cognitive Structural Realism - A Radical Solution to the Problem of Scientific Representation - Bog af Majid Davoody Beni - Hardback

In this book, the author develops a new form of structural realism and deals with the problem of representation. The work combines two distinguished developments of the Semantic View of Theories, namely Structural Realism (SR), a flourishing theory from contemporary philosophy of science, and Ronald Giere and colleagues' Cognitive Models of Science approach (CMSA).Readers will see how replacing the model-theoretic structures that are at issue in SR with connectionist networks and activations patterns..

Strategic Leadership in Social Work Education - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Social work leaders constantly strive to incorporate cutting-edge research and promote international collaboration in a dynamic contemporary environment. To address these ongoing concerns, this unique book focuses specifically on strategic leadership, asking critical questions about change-making, political strategy, and the opportunities that present themselves to lead new directions in social work education. Among the topics covered: - - Disruptive agendas and research dialogues in social work education - - Diversity leadership and perspectives beyond the mainstream - - The role of international bodies in advancing social work education - Intellectual leadership and anticipating future advances in teaching strategies - Democratising social work education - - Collaborative leadership models - Strategic Leadership in Social Work Education examines the ability of social work to shape futures through education, training, and effective leadership, and suggests strategies for advancing responsible social work education in order to best meet tomorrow''s needs and aspirations.

European Social Work After 1989 - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book presents a unique analysis of the learning derived from East-West contacts in social work and reflects on the discipline''s inalienable trans-national dimensions, of high actuality in the face of the re-emergence of nationalisms. The fundamental transformations in Europe subsequent to the revolutions of 1989 had a profound impact on social work in terms of raising sharply the profession''s relationship with politics. The exchanges between western schools of social work and the emergent academic partner institutions in former Communist countries formed a valuable testing ground for the essential principles and competences of social work in terms of their universal scientific basis on the one hand and their regard for cultural and national values and contexts on the other. The chapters in this contributed volume focus on lessons derived from fundamental social and political transformations, highlighted by East-West encounters and intra-national divisions, and thereby have important messages for mastering impending transformations in the light of the global COVID-19 health crisis. They demonstrate how cultural and social divisions can be addressed constructively with direct implications for training and practice in dramatically changing contexts: - Lithuanian social work''s claim to professional autonomy vs. authoritarianism in popular and political culture - Social work between civil society and the state - lessons for and from Hungary in a European context - When Europe''s East, West, North and South meet: learning from cross-country collaboration in creating an international social work master programme - Nordic-Baltic cooperation in social work researcher education: A Finnish perspective on the impact on scientific, historical and linguistic similarities and differences - Intra-national similarities and differences in social work and their significance for developing European dimensions of research and education - Social work, political conflict and European society: reflections from Northern Ireland - European Social Work After 1989: East-West Exchanges Between Universal Principles and Cultural Sensitivity is an invaluable resource for social work educators; social work practitioners confronted with national and international divisions; students of social work, of social administration and policy; and any policy researcher with a comparative focus.

Strategic Leadership in Social Work Education - Bog - Hardback

Social work leaders constantly strive to incorporate cutting-edge research and promote international collaboration in a dynamic contemporary environment. To address these ongoing concerns, this unique book focuses specifically on strategic leadership, asking critical questions about change-making, political strategy, and the opportunities that present themselves to lead new directions in social work education.Among the topics covered: Disruptive agendas and research dialogues in social work education..

Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Social Work - James W. Drisko

The second edition of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Social Work continues to bridge the gap between social work research and clinical practice, presenting EBP as both an effective approach to social work and a broader social movement.

A New Meaning-Mission Fit - Michelle French Holloway - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book offers a clear process for managers, professionals, and future leaders to help discover their personal meaning in life and apply it to their work. The author uses research outcomes and theories to refute the contemporary philosophy that stresses following an individual''s passion alone when choosing a particular job or career. Instead, she recommends employing a personal meaning-oriented approach to life and work, and then becoming passionate about one''s work organically. The book also highlights the positive outcomes to organizations and societies when individuals engage with finding meaning in work, focusing on physical and emotional health and satisfaction. The author provides numerous examples of leaders who have aligned their personal meaning and organizational mission, also known as "meaning-mission fit," and the relationship of this alignment to their emotional well-being. Together, the research, theory, and evidence in this book equip leaders and managers with an inspiring model to find their own meaning-mission fit, as well as create opportunities for the employees to do the same.

Max von Laue - Jost Lemmerich - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Narratives of Social Work Practice and Education in Sweden - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book brings a novel approach to issues of connecting social work practice to theory and the personal life narrative. The authors each find their own unique way of integrating the self, theory, and practice, in different social work practice and education settings. Contributors use the methodology of narrative to tell their story about their social work journey, be that in research, teaching, or practice. The backdrop for this book is Sweden. The country''s rich heritage of welfare provision but also recent cultural diversity offers a unique Nordic context to the subject matter. The contributors engage with these new conditions for Swedish social work through an intersectional lens. Topics explored include: - Digging in the present: A day in the life of a school counsellor - We live in a political world: Between needs and money - The problematic labour market situation of immigrants to Sweden: Consequences and causes - Tackling the contradictory nature of social work - Using anti-oppressive practice to promote social inclusion in social work education The result is a book that is personal and reflexive, and positions the contributors'' narratives as a window to understand and address social problems. Narratives of Social Work Practice and Education in Sweden should engage those interested in the Swedish welfare state, and who want to learn about how social work is taught and practised in this country. Intended to be a general introduction, the book provides guidance to those considering working in the field and for those newly qualified. It also provides examples for students of social work to connect personal narratives to social work settings.