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Author : J. C. Morris
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780741422774
Author : Steven Weber,Bruce W. Jentleson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674058187
The authors argue that in the 21st century, U.S. foreign policy must be more focused on strategy, making trade-offs & specific, attainable goals, rather than the outmoded doctrine of hegemony.
Author : Steven Weber,Bruce W. Jentleson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674268302
Free-market capitalism, hegemony, Western culture, peace, and democracy—the ideas that shaped world politics in the twentieth century and underpinned American foreign policy—have lost a good deal of their strength. Authority is now more contested and power more diffuse. Hegemony (benign or otherwise) is no longer a choice, not for the United States, for China, or for anyone else. Steven Weber and Bruce Jentleson are not declinists, but they argue that the United States must take a different stance toward the rest of the world in this, the twenty-first century. Now that we can’t dominate others, we must rely on strategy, making trade-offs and focusing our efforts. And they do not mean military strategy, such as “the global war on terror.” Rather, we must compete in the global marketplace of ideas—with state-directed capitalism, with charismatic authoritarian leaders, with jihadism. In politics, ideas and influence are now critical currency. At the core of our efforts must be a new conception of the world order based on mutuality, and of a just society that inspires and embraces people around the world.
Author : Helmut Danner
Publisher : East African Educ Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9966258388
What determines the African social structure? What does this mean for the ethical orientation? Can the African Spirituality be considered to be 'metaphysical? Conversely, what are the foundations of the west that determine society, religion, politics and science? What do the mental and cultural differences mean for the relationship between Africa and the West? What impact do they specifically have on development cooperation? These are some of the questions Danner attempts to grapple with in "End of Arrogance: Africa and the West - Understanding their differences." A critical and honest observer will often notice a subtle condescension by Westerners towards Africans and resentment on the part of Africans towards the West. Where does this tensed and unfortunate relationship originate from? There are two essential reasons: Africa and the West have a common history that can neither be forgotten nor forgiven by Africans - contempt, subjugation, and exploitation through slave trade, missionary, and colonization. Both have never been able to appreciate or understand the cultural and mental orientation of each other. An approach of mutual understanding - contrary to quantitative measuring - might help counter the arrogance of the West and the distrust by Africans.
Author : Michael Farr
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780762768172
What is the arrogance cycle? We’ve just lived through it. As market bubbles build, our confidence level rises (dis)proportionately. Everyone wants in on the action. We want to believe Wall Street, and once we do, the inevitable happens. Like Dr. Frankenstein breathing life into inanimate flesh, investment professionals sought ever more novel ways to create wealth. The only problem was that it was all artificial. In this book, Michael Farr examines the forces at work on individuals and markets and explains in clear, concise, layman’s terms how we got to where we are. Farr focuses on individual factors—such as rampant consumerism, a sense of entitlement, narcissism, resentment toward the upper class—that combined to create the perfect economic storm. By consulting with leading psychologists and relaying first-hand experience with investment clients, he provides a case study of the arrogant investor. In reviewing failed enterprises like Enron, AIG, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns, as well as the illegal activities of Bernie Madoff and others through the lens of arrogance, the book sheds light on those disasters and offers a means to detect the insidious presence of arrogance so that in the future we can contain the damage before it spreads.
Author : A Submitter
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781304853479
Travel on a journey through the great Semite's history, where the world colludes we should use those who love God and reverence God, as though they are like those who win souls, and use the writing of the Messiah to want to share in the spoil with the proud, rather be lowly in spirit with the afflicted
Author : Giuseppe Civitarese
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781003851691
This book explores the notion of arrogance from a broadly psychoanalytic perspective, and examines its importance in the consulting room and the wider world. Starting from the writings of Freud and Bion, Civitarese explores how much our inner and outer worlds may be shaped by arrogance, both our own and that of others. The author proposes that much of psychological suffering can be explained by non-recognition, of our own needs and desires, or those of others. It can be argued that arrogance is a symptom of lack of mutual recognition and in itself a significant obstacle to psychic growth. This book is an interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalysis, literature, and philosophy, which offers a non-reductive view of arrogance to make visible the psychological suffering it conceals. With a broad psychoanalytic basis, On Arrogance will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, scholars in humanities and anyone wishing to broaden their understanding of arrogance in clinical work and beyond.
Author : Anne Mather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:53061166
Author : William A. Zingrone
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781483458731
A provocative, challenging, and irreverent expose' of the obnoxious arrogance inherent in all religious thinking: condemning one another to eternal torment, relegating women and gays to second class citizenship, dividing humanity into arbitrary factions, sexual repression, denial of knowledge, promoting delusions of god and the afterlife, upholding phony patriarchal authority, claiming eternal truth without evidence, and child indoctrination. Religion is not good for the human race. We would be better off dropping these bad habits on which we give religion a free pass. We must stop lying to our children that religions are true. Dr. Zingrone is a college instructor and secular activist with a PhD in Developmental Psychology exploring research interests in cognitive development and evolution. His driving motivation is to dispel outdated religious based ideas about human nature that are ingrained in the folk beliefs of our modern culture.
Author : Steve WEBER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780674044999
Much of the innovative programming that powers the Internet, creates operating systems, and produces software is the result of "open source" code, that is, code that is freely distributed--as opposed to being kept secret--by those who write it. Leaving source code open has generated some of the most sophisticated developments in computer technology, including, most notably, Linux and Apache, which pose a significant challenge to Microsoft in the marketplace. As Steven Weber discusses, open source's success in a highly competitive industry has subverted many assumptions about how businesses are run, and how intellectual products are created and protected. Traditionally, intellectual property law has allowed companies to control knowledge and has guarded the rights of the innovator, at the expense of industry-wide cooperation. In turn, engineers of new software code are richly rewarded; but, as Weber shows, in spite of the conventional wisdom that innovation is driven by the promise of individual and corporate wealth, ensuring the free distribution of code among computer programmers can empower a more effective process for building intellectual products. In the case of Open Source, independent programmers--sometimes hundreds or thousands of them--make unpaid contributions to software that develops organically, through trial and error. Weber argues that the success of open source is not a freakish exception to economic principles. The open source community is guided by standards, rules, decisionmaking procedures, and sanctioning mechanisms. Weber explains the political and economic dynamics of this mysterious but important market development. Table of Contents: Preface 1. Property and the Problem of Software 2. The Early History of Open Source 3. What Is Open Source and How Does It Work? 4. A Maturing Model of Production 5. Explaining Open Source: Microfoundations 6. Explaining Open Source: Macro-Organization 7. Business Models and the Law 8. The Code That Changed the World? Notes Index Reviews of this book: In the world of open-source software, true believers can be a fervent bunch. Linux, for example, may act as a credo as well as an operating system. But there is much substance beyond zealotry, says Steven Weber, the author of The Success of Open Source...An open-source operating system offers its source code up to be played with, extended, debugged, and otherwise tweaked in an orgy of user collaboration. The author traces the roots of that ethos and process in the early years of computers...He also analyzes the interface between open source and the worlds of business and law, as well as wider issues in the clash between hierarchical structures and networks, a subject with relevance beyond the software industry to the war on terrorism. --Nina C. Ayoub, Chronicle of Higher Education Reviews of this book: A valuable new account of the [open-source software] movement. --Edward Rothstein, New York Times We can blindly continue to develop, reward, protect, and organize around knowledge assets on the comfortable assumption that their traditional property rights remain inviolate. Or we can listen to Steven Weber and begin to make our peace with the uncomfortable fact that the very foundations of our familiar "knowledge as property" world have irrevocably shifted. --Alan Kantrow, Chief Knowledge Officer, Monitor Group Ever since the invention of agriculture, human beings have had only three social-engineering tools for organizing any large-scale division of labor: markets (and the carrots of material benefits they offer), hierarchies (and the sticks of punishment they impose), and charisma (and the promises of rapture they offer). Now there is the possibility of a fourth mode of effective social organization--one that we perhaps see in embryo in the creation and maintenance of open-source software. My Berkeley colleague Steven Weber's book is a brilliant exploration of this fascinating topic. --J. Bradford DeLong, Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley Steven Weber has produced a significant, insightful book that is both smart and important. The most impressive achievement of this volume is that Weber has spent the time to learn and think about the technological, sociological, business, and legal perspectives related to open source. The Success of Open Source is timely and more thought provoking than almost anything I've come across in the past several years. It deserves careful reading by a wide audience. --Jonathan Aronson, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
Author : Nicolas Petrusi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153090577X
Arrogance and conceitedness appear in many different forms, and unfortunately, your life will certainly have its share of encounters with difficult and haughty people. You can sometimes minimize your contact with people who rub you the wrong way, but other times it can be in your best interest to learn how to interact with these individuals (or choose to confront and stand up to them). In this book, I'm going to provide you with knowledge, including some powerful psychological tools and practical approaches to better deal with arrogant and conceited people. You will also become aware of "situational arrogance," which may actually be an indication that you're doing something right, and the more you push through it, the more confidence you will gain. You see, dealing with an arrogant person usually forces you to take a long introspective look at yourself and your own insecurities. There are things you unknowingly do that attract the attention and, eventually, the disparagement of arrogant people. By better understanding this, you will also be able to decide when it shouldn't matter to you how much they esteem you, since they are operating from a cracked frame of reference. Appropriately dealing with these type of people begins with productive introspection, and similarly, should end with it. You should come to view this challenge as an opportunity for self-improvement. Perhaps you have arrogant tendencies of your own. Or maybe there are aspects of your own worldview that are overly fragile and worthy of reevaluation. In any case, my hope for you is that you use this book not only to learn how to feel more confident when dealing with arrogance in others, but also as an attempt to learn more about yourself through this experience. It's a win-win situation, so let's get started!
Author : Richard Z. Chesnoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1595230106
Imagine the fun Mark Twain would have had with France's undeclared war on America. That's the kind of humorous insight that journalist Chesnoff delivers in this amusing look at America's oldest love-hate relationship.
Author : Gerry M. Goertzen
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781456721442
Relationships are the best of times and worst of times. There seems to be no getting around the fact we can get stressed out with people we relate to and love. This book will help you understand yourself under relational stress, and guide you through steps that can transform your way of thinking, feeling and behaving. It will also help you put your finger on why other people react the way they do, and help you with new responses to old problems. As you follow the principles on these pages, I sincerely hope you will discover a pathway toward fulfillment in your most important relationships. - Gerry
Author : David W. Ehrenfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195028904
Attacks nothing less than the currently prevailing world philosophy--humanism, which the author feels is exceedingly dangerous in its hidden assumptions.
Author : Bernard Goldberg
Publisher : Warner Books (NY)
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Journalism
ISBN : 044653191X
The #1 NewYork Times bestselling author of Bias exposes the culture of narrow-minded elitism in the media-and reveals what must be done to change it. In December of 2001, Emmy Award-winning journalist Bernard Goldberg charged the mainstream media with slanting the news and created a firestorm with his controversial bestseller Bias. Now Goldberg goes beyond identifying the media's partiality and explains how the slanting of the news is all but inevitable in the current climate-and why the media's stars continue to deny the industry's condition. In this fascinating report, Goldberg lays out his rallying cry, unafraid to name names, and prescribes the difficult remedies that