David Stark

Kathleen Hackett

Jane Schulak

At the Artisan's Table

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Skum kanin med ananassmak

Emma Stark

Arnold a Saltzman Professor of Sociology and International Studies David Stark

Sarah-Jane Biggart

Sam Robertson

John Hansford

Micah Hayden

Live every day like a victorious warrior! This unique devotional unleashes explosive, supernatural power in bite-sized prophetic words.Lion Bites is a daily "call to arms!" Carrying the full weight of Scripture and God's rhema word, these prophetic declarations pack a punch, helping you live each day as a victorious warrior...

Daily Prophetic Words That Awaken the Spiritual Warrior in You!

Lion Bites

Michael Hutter

Ariane Berthoin Antal

The outcome of innovation processes are determined by complex, historically grown valuation practices. In this book, a wide range of innovations are taken into consideration, from small inventions like entertainment novelties to large societal changes through new technologies. The chapters observe the particular local or distributed sites in which their episodes of innovation take place, and they identify the initial dissonance among those judging a newly proposed alternative. The emphasis of the inquiry, however, is on the practices of valuation that are at work when something succeeds in being "new". The authors represent a wide variety of sub-disciplines and national backgrounds in the social sciences. They share an interest in social valuation and a pragmatist approach. The differences between their empirical evidence reflect the wide variety of appearances that valuation takes in contemporary society. They are anthropologists, economic or cultural sociologists, organization researchers, historians or political scientists. A number of chapters deals with aesthetic valuation, as in the tasting of a new vintage, or in the socio-technical process that shaped successful synthesizer sounds. Other chapters discuss the judgment processes in organizations, like architect offices or consultancy firms, and processes of evaluation and valorization in larger fields of practice, like accounting or mathematics. The studies are both of interest in their various professional fields, and contribute to a more general understanding of the social and cultural conditions under which innovations fail and succeed.

Exploring Sites of Dissonance

Moments of Valuation

David Stark could not find a book which explained climate change and related energy policy in appropriate detail without being patronising and alarmist so after seven years of research he wrote one himself. He believes that the contagion circulating through young people of the 21st century, eco-anxiety has spread because the agenda was set by activism where rational and informed debate is precluded. With this comprehensive - but entirely accessible - guide to climate change, debate and the healing process can now start. We can all begin to understand why efforts to date to ‘save the planet’ have hurt the economies of Western democracies and placed our energy and manufacturing security in the hands of autocracies. This book discusses the different arguments that are often heard in documentaries and news reports but breaks them down with facts and empirical scientific evidence, cutting through the hyperbole to see whether they are actually the cause for panic that we’ve been told they are and whether the solutions being proposed will really help. The current energy crisis suggests that the cure is worse than the disease.

The Antidote to Eco-anxiety

Climate Change for Young People

Live every day like a victorious warrior! This unique devotional unleashes explosive, supernatural power in bite-sized prophetic words. Lion Bites is a daily call to arms! Carrying the full weight of Scripture and Gods rhema word, these prophetic declarations pack a punch, helping you live each day as a victorious warrior through Jesus! Compiled by the team of prophetic warriors from the Global Prophetic Alliance, this powerful devotional includes contributions from Emma Stark, David Stark, Sarah Jane Biggart, Sam Robertson, John Hansford, and Micah Hayden. Spend every day in this life-changing devotional book, and hear the Lion of Judah roaring victory over your life!

Avi Adler

Two leading event planners provide a helpful handbook for brides-to-be that presents more than 150 unique and innovative bouquets that incorporate a wide variety of seasonal flowers, branches, leaves, feathers, lace, herbs, and other unusual items.

Magical Wedding Bouquets

To Have & to Hold

What counts? In work, as in other areas of life, it is not always clear what standards we are being judged by or how our worth is being determined. This can be disorienting and disconcerting. Because of this, many organizations devote considerable resources to limiting and clarifying the logics used for evaluating worth. But as David Stark argues, firms would often be better off, especially in managing change, if they allowed multiple logics of worth and did not necessarily discourage uncertainty. In fact, in many cases multiple orders of worth are unavoidable, so organizations and firms should learn to harness the benefits of such "heterarchy" rather than seeking to purge it. Stark makes this argument with ethnographic case studies of three companies attempting to cope with rapid change: a machine-tool company in late and postcommunist Hungary, a new-media startup in New York during and after the collapse of the Internet bubble, and a Wall Street investment bank whose trading room was destroyed on 9/11. In each case, the friction of competing criteria of worth promoted an organizational reflexivity that made it easier for the company to change and deal with market uncertainty. Drawing on John Dewey's notion that "perplexing situations" provide opportunities for innovative inquiry, Stark argues that the dissonance of diverse principles can lead to discovery.

Accounts of Worth in Economic Life

The Sense of Dissonance

Sandra Krebs Hirsh

Jane A. G. Kise

This updated comprehensive guide helps people discover how God has uniquely created them. Engaging stories, inventories, self-tests, and other easy-to-use exercises make Discover Who You Are a one-of-a-kind tool. It will help those longing to find or deepen meaning in life, considering volunteer opportunities, contemplating career changes, or desiring to become more useful to God. The book, workbook, and leader's material provide all that's needed for a LifeKeys workshop.

Discover Who You Are

LifeKeys

Puts the exercises of Lifekeys in a convenient workbook form.

Who You Are, Why You're Here, What You Do Best

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Bureaucratization and Informalization in Capitalism and Socialism

Bending the Bars of the Iron Cage

It's All Too Much

What's valuable? Market competition provides one kind of answer. Competitions offer another. On one side, competition is an ongoing and seemingly endless process of pricings; on the other, competitions are discrete and bounded in time and location, with entry rules, judges, scores, and prizes. This book examines what happens when ever more activities in domains of everyday life are evaluated and experienced in terms of performance metrics. Unlike organized competitions, such systems are ceaseless and without formal entry. Instead of producing resolutions, their scorings create addictions. To understand these developments, this book explores discrete contests (architectural competitions, international music competitions, and world press photo competitions); shows how the continuous updating of rankings is both a device for navigating the social world and an engine of anxiety; and examines the production of such anxiety in settings ranging from the pedagogy of performance in business schools to struggling musicians coping with new performance metrics in online platforms. In the performance society, networks of observation - in which all are performing and keeping score - are entangled with a system of emotionally charged preoccupations with one's positioning within the rankings. From the bedroom to the boardroom, pharmaceutical companies and management consultants promise enhanced performance. This assemblage of metrics, networks, and their attendant emotional pathologies is herein regarded as the performance complex.

Competition and Competitions in Social Life

The Performance Complex

David Stark

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