This study of the pursuit of the "automatic factory" focuses on the key industry of metalworking in Britain, Italy, Japan and the United States. It unveils a recurring historical conflict between two logics of factory management and organization: workshop principles and principles of a standardized factory. Case studies of "Flexible Manufacturing Systems" in these four countries and their sociopolitical contexts show national variations and tensions between factory and workshop principles continuing into the age of computerization.

Forcing the Factory of the Future: Cybernation and Societal Institutions

Business & Money

Jones, Bryn

Economics

Cambridge University Press

The church has never been as numerically strong or as globally widespread as it is today. Christianity is presently the world's largest religion - with 1.6 billion adherents. Yet, as we prepare to enter the third millennium, the Church is wrestling within itself to identify both its moral base in a culture that has generally abandoned moral absolutes and its role in a world that tends to view the religious establishment as irrelevantly archaic, Internally riddled with dissension, the Church's testimony has become blunted by mediocrity and its voice muted by compromise. As a result, today's Church is in danger of simply meandering across the millennial line, having lost sight of God's original purpose. 
The crisis of the Church is serious, and it must be successfully confronted if the Church is to be in the next millennium what it was in the first: alight shining in the darkness of the moral maze and hand the hand of God reaching out to heal the sick, bless the underclass, lift the downtrodden, and give hope and life to the hurting masses.

Radical Church

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Destiny Image Publishers

Worship: A Heart for God

Religion & Spirituality

Harvestime Services

Dramatherapy: Reflections and Praxis

This unique text is both an accessible introduction and specialist review of contemporary dramatherapy practice today. The collected chapters introduce critical and cohesive perspectives on dramatherapy as it is being practiced, developed and advanced in diverse contexts, and also investigate the connections between the discipline of dramatherapy both as an allied health profession, a form of psychotherapy and a traditional form of theatre and healing. In so doing, the volume unpicks the relationship between drama and therapy, exploring some of its key philosophies and practices, and examining its efficacy.  Edited by two experienced lecturers and dramatherapists, the book stands as a timely and crucial resource for students and practitioners alike in this growing field. It is essential reading for students on Dramatherapy, Arts Therapy and Applied Theatre degree programmes, and useful background reading for students of Theatre and Performance, Counselling and Psychotherapy. 

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hougham, Richard

Psychology & Counseling

Red Globe Press

This unique text is both an accessible introduction and specialist review of contemporary dramatherapy practice today. The collected chapters introduce critical and cohesive perspectives on dramatherapy as it is being practiced, developed and advanced in diverse contexts, and also investigate the connections between the discipline of dramatherapy both as an allied health profession, a form of psychotherapy and a traditional form of theatre and healing. In so doing, the volume unpicks the relationship between drama and therapy, exploring some of its key philosophies and practices, and examining its efficacy. 
Edited by two experienced lecturers and dramatherapists, the book stands as a timely and crucial resource for students and practitioners alike in this growing field. It is essential reading for students on Dramatherapy, Arts Therapy and Applied Theatre degree programmes, and useful background reading for students of Theatre and Performance, Counselling and Psychotherapy.

<div>For anyone in need of a pithy one-liner, a harrowing phrase, or a jaunty quip for their next story or role-playing game, this collection of fantasy artwork and phrases will be the ultimate resource for fun and creativity. When attacked by a dragon, some might say, "My shield is strong and my sword is sharp. Stand behind me if you want to live." Others might say, "Dead or alive, that thing is going in my lunch-pack." Even more players, however, might not know what to say at all, and need a little help. Things Heroes Say is a collection of fantasy illustrations alongside some go-to phrases for when you're playing a tabletop RPG -&nbsp;a companion book to help start conversations or unleash that killer one-liner when it's time to fight. For storytelling, character building, or the occasional hilarious catchphrase, this book will be a source of inspiration for years to come.</div>

Things Heroes Say: A Fantasy Artbook & Phrasebook

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Andrews McMeel Publishing

Can business corporations be made more responsible for their actions? Abuses of corporate power, its responsibilities and scandals, pervade political, academic and public debates. In this important book, Bryn Jones locates the sources of this 'corporate over-reach' in key features of the share-traded corporations which dominate global economies and national societies. Focussing on the disembedding of businesses from their social roots, he assesses alternative types of business system and prospects for shifting from 'social responsibility' to social accountability.Split into three parts, this book brings together a multitude of ideas and evidence from different fields to address: context and history, the social embedding and disembedding of business systems, and the pursuit and pitfalls of responsible capitalism. It concludes by recommending potential models for reform in the UK.Undergraduate and postgraduate students in politics, sociology, public policy and management programs will find this book both accessible and useful for its summaries of diverse literatures on business-society relations.The points of discussion will also be valuable for media commentators on business and politics, policy makers in the areas of business-society relations and campaigners and political activists.

Corporate Power and Responsible Capitalism?: Towards Social Accountability

Business Culture

Edward Elgar Publishing

'Major scandals, disasters and crises have turned shareholder capitalism, so recently trumpeted as among contemporary society's most successful achievements, into one of its most worrying problem children. In this highly readable account Bryn Jones rehearses in detail the negative consequences of the growing economic and political power of the modern corporation. He then reviews a wide range of alternative ways of organizing a market economy, examples of which are found in a variety of modern economies.' - Colin Crouch, University of Warwick Business School, UK and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany
Can business corporations be made more responsible for their actions? Abuses of corporate power, its responsibilities and scandals, pervade political, academic and public debates. In this important book, Bryn Jones locates the sources of this 'corporate over-reach' in key features of the share-traded corporations which dominate global economies and national societies. Focussing on the disembedding of businesses from their social roots, he assesses alternative types of business system and prospects for shifting from 'social responsibility' to social accountability.
Split into three parts, this book brings together a multitude of ideas and evidence from different fields to address: context and history, the social embedding and disembedding of business systems, and the pursuit and pitfalls of responsible capitalism. It concludes by recommending potential models for reform in the UK.
Undergraduate and postgraduate students in politics, sociology, public policy and management programs will find this book both accessible and useful for its summaries of diverse literatures on business-society relations. The points of discussion will also be valuable for media commentators on business and politics, policy makers in the areas of business-society relations and campaigners and political activists.

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Forcing the Factory of the Future: Cybernation and Societal Institutions

Radical Church

Worship: A Heart for God

Dramatherapy: Reflections and Praxis

Dramatherapy: Reflections and Praxis

Things Heroes Say: A Fantasy Artbook & Phrasebook

Corporate Power and Responsible Capitalism?: Towards Social Accountability

Corporate Power and Responsible Capitalism?: Towards Social Accountability