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Intro -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface to the 25th anniversary edition -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Introduction -- part I Personal effectiveness -- Introduction to Part I -- Chapter 1 Self-awareness -- Introduction -- The need for self-awareness -- How we affect others -- Listening -- Practice focus 1.1 -- Barriers -- Bullying -- Anger -- Mixed messages -- How others affect us -- Transference -- Triggers -- Blind spots -- Fear -- Own needs -- Practice focus 1.2 -- Conclusion -- Exercise 1 -- Developing self-awareness -- Questions -- Build your knowledge, practise your skills -- Chapter 2 Time management -- Introduction -- What is time management? -- How time management works -- Organizing your time -- Invest time to save time -- Practice focus 2.1 -- Set priorities -- Keep a clear focus -- Avoid waste -- Use of diary -- The three-minute rule -- Working together -- Managing energy levels -- Timing -- The best person for the job -- Practice focus 2.2 -- The worst-first rule -- Take a break -- The expanding workload -- Be positive -- Working together -- Conclusion -- Exercise 2 -- Questions -- Build your knowledge, practise your skills -- Chapter 3 Stress management -- Introduction -- Pressure and stress -- The effects of stress -- Practice focus 3.1 -- Understanding your own potential for stress -- Skills and strategies -- Practice focus 3.2 -- Conclusion -- Exercise 3 -- Stress, coping and support -- Questions -- Build your knowledge, practise your skills -- Chapter 4 Information management -- Introduction -- Receiving information -- Correspondence -- Forms -- Reports -- Telephone calls -- Emails -- Practice focus 4.1 -- Trade journals and newsletters -- Circulars and discussion papers -- Information storage, retrieval and disposal -- Storage and retrieval -- Practice focus 4.2 -- Disposal.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Author's Note -- Prologue: The Russian Unicorn -- PART I: RESISTANCE (1854-1914) -- 1. The Doomed Dynasty -- 2. The Sons of Simbirsk -- 3. The Distorting Mirror -- 4. The Young Madmen -- 5. The Calamitous Kaiser -- 6. The Accidental Terrorist -- 7. The Dress Rehearsal -- 8. The Romantic Assassin -- 9. The Kerensky Ascent -- PART II: REVOLUTION (1914-1917) -- 10. The Damn Fool Thing -- 11. The Iron Hurricane -- 12. The Great Retreat -- 13. The Flashes of Lightning -- 14. The February Revolution -- 15. The End of Tsarism -- 16. The Return of the Exiles

"A former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory draws on those disciplines in this review of controversial strategic and tactical decisions of World War II. Allied leadership-although outstanding in many ways-sometimes botched what now is termed meta-decision making or deciding how to decide. Operation Jubilee, a single-division amphibious raid on Dieppe in August 1942, illustrates the pitfalls of groupthink. Prior to the invasion of North Africa in November, American and British leaders fell victim to the planning fallacy, going in with rosy expectations for easily achievable objectives. In the conquest of Sicily, they violated the millennia-old principle of command unity-now re-endorsed and elaborated on by modern theorists. Had Allied tacticians understood the game-theoretic significance of the terrain and conditions for success at Anzio, they might well not have and landed two-plus divisions there to fight a months-long stalemate in the first half of 1944."

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Note on Language -- Part 1 -- 1. Bass Reeves -- 2. Shoo -- 3. Peas in a Pod -- 4. Ice -- 5. Books -- 6. The Pussytoes -- 7. The Wallows -- 8. Friends -- Part 2 -- 9. The Sticks -- 10. A Good One -- 11. A Sire Mule -- 12. The Bottle -- 13. Rub -- 14. Cracker King -- 15. Crumbs and Raindrops -- Part 3 -- 16. The Seed -- 17. What a N- Wants -- 18. A Revelation -- 19. The Quiet Places -- 20. Walpurgisnacht -- 21. Now That There's Space -- 22. Closer -- 23. A Little Red Church -- 24. Left -- 25. Thataway -- Acknowledgments.

This book explores the purpose, practice and effects of public relations (PR) at a time that has been variously described as an era of populism, post-truth and fake news. It considers how PR processes have contributed to the current social condition of post-truth and what constitutes PR work in this environment. Post-Truth Public Relations: Communication in an Era of Digital Disinformation proposes that while we can now look back upon the last 80-100 years as a period of classical PR, that style is being supplemented by the emergence of a post-classical form of PR that has emerged in response to the post-truth era. This new style of PR consists of a mixed repertoire of communicative work that matches the new geometry of digital media and delivers a mix of online engagement and persuasion in order to meet the needs of increasingly partisan audiences. Using contemporary case studies and original interviews with PR practitioners in several countries, including China and the Philippines, the book investigates how PR workers have reconciled their role as communicative intermediaries with the post-truth era of digital disinformation. This thought-provoking book will be of great interest to researchers and advanced students interested in the changing nature of PR and its practice.

"Georg Lukács was one of the most important intellectuals and philosophers of the 20th century. His last great work was an systematic social ontology that was an attempt to ground an ethical and critical form of Marxism. This work has only now begun to attract the interest of critical theorists and philosophers intent on reconstructing a critical theory of society as well as a more sophisticated framework for Marxian philosophy. This collection of essays explores the concept of critical social ontology as it was outlined by Georg Lukács and the ways that his ideas can help us construct a more grounded and socially relevant form of social critique. This work will of special interest to social, moral and political philosophers as well as those who study critical theory, social theory and Marxism. It is also of interest to those working within the area of social ontology"--

Intro -- BRIEF CONTENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- THE AUTHOR -- INTRODUCTION -- Structure and outline -- Important note -- CHAPTER 1: EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE -- CHAPTER OVERVIEW -- Introduction -- What is discrimination? -- Good practice is anti-discriminatory practice -- A sophisticated understanding of discrimination is called for -- Equality -- Diversity -- Social justice -- Oppression -- Multiple oppressions -- Avoiding medicalization -- Conclusion -- Food for thought -- Further resources -- CHAPTER 2: THE THEORY BASE -- CHAPTER OVERVIEW -- Introduction -- Social divisions and social structure -- Class -- Gender -- Race and ethnicity -- Age -- Disability -- Sexuality -- Religion -- PCS analysis -- Structured inequalities and institutional discrimination -- PCS analysis: a note of caution -- Ideology: the power of ideas -- The role of language -- Discrimination -- Oppression -- Anti-discriminatory practice -- Equality -- Equal opportunities -- Diversity -- Prejudice -- Commonalities and differences -- Food for thought -- Further resources -- CHAPTER 3: GENDER AND SEXISM -- CHAPTER OVERVIEW -- Introduction -- What is sexism? -- The implications for social work -- The feminist response -- Sexism and men -- Towards anti-sexist practice -- Food for thought -- Further resources -- CHAPTER 4: ETHNICITY AND RACISM -- CHAPTER OVERVIEW -- Introduction -- What is racism? -- Language, nation and region -- The implications for social work -- The anti-racist response -- Race, class and gender -- Towards anti-racist practice -- Food for thought -- Further resources -- CHAPTER 5: AGEISM AND ALIENATION -- CHAPTER OVERVIEW -- Introduction -- What is ageism? -- The implications for social work -- The anti-ageist response -- Multiple oppressions -- Towards anti-ageist practice -- Food for thought.

Introduction: Cybernetic society and the crisis of modernity -- Part 1. In the courtyard of Babel: Postmetaphysics and the failure of critical judgment. A critique of the judgment paradigm in contemporary political philosophy -- Hannah Arendt's reconstruction of political judgment -- The discursive fallacy: Language and power in practical reason -- Recognition theory and the obfuscation of critique -- Part 2. Beyond Babel: Social ontology and the reconstruction of critical reason. Recovering the ontological infrastructure of political judgment -- The properties and modes of critical social ontology -- An ontological framework for practical reason -- Obligation and disobedience: The practice of critical judgment.