Managing Ambiguity

Managing AmbiguityWhy do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Exploring the role of favors in social welfare systems in postwar, postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, this volume provides a new theoretical angle on links between ambiguity and power. It demonstrates that favors were not an instrumental tactic of survival, nor a way to reproduce oneself as a moral person. Instead, favors enabled the insertion of personal compassion into the heart of

food loss and waste in the world have grown alarmingly

Constructive Living brings together two psychotherapies-Morita and Naikan- and their associated lifeways

How did they cope

This book explores the memory of the war of independence in France as viewed by the former European settlers (pieds-noirs) and the harkis

The African condition is manifestly a Reversal of Fortune because in the 1950s

Focusing on issues of diversity

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The tales of Jewish life in Ghetto Comedies earned Zangwill comparisons to Dickens upon publication and helped to establish him as an author with a gift for intensive character study and a passion for political themes

surroundings

and includes a focus on the real and metaphorical journeys that bring about and perpetuate exile

Whether mystics' arguments are rational is investigated along with the relation of moral and non-moral values and the role of beliefs and values in enlightened mystics' ways of life

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