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Group genius : the creative power of collaboration / by Sawyer, R. Keith(Robert Keith)(CARDINAL)636747;
MARCIVE 1/2/13Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- The collaborative team -- The power of collaboration -- Improvising innovation -- Group flow -- From groupthink to group genius -- The collaborative mind -- Small sparks -- Collaboration over time -- Conversation and the mind -- The collaborative organization -- Organizing for improvisation -- The collaborative web -- Collaborating with customers -- Creating the collaborative economy -- References -- Index.Creativity has long been thought to be an individual gift, best pursued alone; schools, organizations, and whole industries are built on this idea. But what if the most common beliefs about how creativity works are wrong? Group Genius tears down some of the most popular myths about creativity, revealing that creativity is always collaborative - even when you're alone. Sharing the results of his own acclaimed research on jazz groups, theater ensembles, and conversation analysis, Keith Sawyer shows us how to be more creative in collaborative group settings, how to change organizational dynamics for the better, and how to tap into our own reserves of creativity.
Subjects: Creative thinking.; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Group work in art; Teams in the workplace; Group problem solving;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The polar bear scientists / by Lourie, Peter.(CARDINAL)340527;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-79) and index.The polar bear research project -- A conversation with Dr. Steven Amstrup about polar bear research -- The 2008 threatened species designation -- A polar bear capture -- Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) -- A conversation with Dr. Steven Amstrup about capture-recapture estimates and polar bears -- Another capture -- A conversation with Dr. Steven Amstrup about radio collars and polar nations -- Recording information -- An overview of samples taken in the field and what they are used for -- Searching the bone pile -- A final conversation with Dr. Steven Amstrup about climate change and the future of polar bears -- Glossary -- Polar bear field guide.Junior Library Guild"In the world there are probably fewer than 30 people who spend all or most of their effort working with polar bears. A veteran polar bear biologist, and the man in charge of Alaskan polar bear research for the past thirty years, Dr. Steven Amstrup has worked full time on polar bears since he joined the Polar Bear Project in 1980. The Polar Bear Project conducts ongoing research on polar bear populations and habitats in the Southern Beaufort Sea in Barrow, Alaska. Now under the leadership of George Durner, the Project has collected four decades of detailed, valuable data about how polar bears are responding to sea ice changes in the Arctic. This information has helped raised awareness about polar bears and their plight, and the same data may one day help scientists make new decisions for polar bear survival. Amstrup and Durner now spend most of their time 725 miles south of Barrow, Alaska at the University of Alaska, Anchorage campus, conducting research and drawing conclusions based on the discoveries that their team makes. Those scientists include polar bear biologists Kristin Simac and Mike Lockhart, based at times out of the abandoned Navy Arctic Research Laboratory in Barrow. Every spring scientists like Kristin and Mike go out for six to eight weeks to capture bears on the Southern Beaufort Sea. By capture one means "tranquilize, take samples and measurements, tag, and release" -- The Polar Bear Scientists begins on the first day of capture season and follows Kristin, Mike, and their helicopter mechanic as they fly through the skies over Barrow, looking for polar bears, and finding more water and less ice than they've seen in the past. The process of capturing polar bears is an exciting and challenging one. The polar bears have to be properly tranquilized in a safe area -- so just because the team spots a polar bear, doesn't mean they automatically try to capture it. Tranquilizing a bear too close to water or thin ice might mean the polar bear could stumble in and drown. It's also a challenge to tranq a mom bear and her babies, but when the opportunity presents itself, the team does its best to get the job done. Once they are on the ground with a captured bear, the research begins. All sorts of information and measurements are taken, blood is drawn, tags are affixed. What does it all mean? Are the polar bears getting smaller and moving further to find food every year? Is there more water and less ice than there was before? What can be done?"--7-11.2-6.NC1260LAccelerated Reader ARA Junior Library Guild selection
Subjects: Biographies.; Biologists; Polar bear; Biologists;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 15
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The war within [sound recording] : a secret White House history, 2006-2008 by Woodward, Bob,1943-(CARDINAL)121126; Gaines, Boyd.;
Read by Boyd Gaines.Bob Woodward offers an analysis of the Bush Administration. He discloses secret plans, conversations, and meetings held with political leaders that directly influenced the war in Iraq.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; Iraq War, 2003-2011.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Qualitative interviewing : the art of hearing data / by Rubin, Herbert J.(CARDINAL)270762; Rubin, Irene.(CARDINAL)155782;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index.Listening, hearing, and sharing social experiences -- Why we do what we do: philosophy of qualitative interviewing -- Design: choosing topics and anticipating data analysis -- Continuing the design: making the research credible -- Conversational partnerships -- The responsive interview as an extended conversation -- Structuring the interview -- Designing main questions and probes -- Preparing follow-up questions -- The first phase of analysis: preparing transcripts and coding data -- Analyzing coded data -- Presenting the results.
Subjects: Interviewing.; Interviewing in sociology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Canova / by Canova, Antonio,1757-1822.(CARDINAL)138481; Licht, Fred,1928-2019.(CARDINAL)121138; Finn, David,1921-2021.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-277) and index.Foreword: Photographing Canova's Sculpture -- Preface -- Introduction: Canova's Life and Fame -- Funeral Monuments and Religious Stature -- Civic Monuments -- Portraits -- Mythologies and Allegories -- Original Plasters and Sketches -- Reliefs -- Epilogue: Possagno -- Notes -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Index."Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event introduces a new approach to discourse analysis. In this innovative work, Wortham and Reyes argue that discourse analysts should look beyond fixed speech events and consider the development of discourses over time. Drawing on theories and methods from linguistic anthropology and related fields, this book is the first to present a systematic methodological approach to conducting discourse analysis of linked events, allowing researchers to understand not only individual events but also the patterns that emerge across them. Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event - Provides a method for detailed examination of speech, writing and other communication - Introduces students and researchers to the discourse analytic tools and techniques required to analyse the relationships between discourse events - Offers explicit guidelines that direct the reader through different stages of discourse analytic research, including worked examples from conversation, magazines and social media - Incorporates sample analyses from ethnographic, archival and new media data. This book is essential reading for advanced students and researchers working in the area of discourse analysis"--"Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event introduces a new approach to discourse analysis. In this innovative work, Wortham and Reyes argue that discourse analysts should look beyond fixed speech events and consider the development of discourses over time. Drawing on theories and methods from linguistic anthropology and related fields, this book is the first to present a systematic methodological approach to conducting discourse analysis of linked events, allowing researchers to understand not only individual events but also the patterns that emerge across them. Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech EventProvides a method for detailed examination of speech, writing and other communication Introduces students and researchers to the discourse analytic tools and techniques required to analyse the relationships between discourse events Offers explicit guidelines that direct the reader through different stages of discourse analytic research, including worked examples from conversation, magazines and social mediaIncorporates sample analyses from ethnographic, archival and new media data. This book is essential reading for advanced students and researchers working in the area of discourse analysis"--
Subjects: Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822.; Neoclassicism (Art);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Reaching for glory : the secret Johnson White House tapes, 1964-1965 / by Johnson, Lyndon B.(Lyndon Baines),1908-1973.(CARDINAL)149506; Beschloss, Michael R.(CARDINAL)147311;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: 1. Mudslinging Campaign 25 -- 2. Sex Scandal in the Throne Room 54 -- 3. A Landslide Can't Buy Happiness 103 -- 4. Girding for Battles 135 -- 5. "I Don't See Any Way of Winning" 166 -- 6. "It May Look Like I'm Stirring Up These Marches" 19; -- 7. "The Kids Are Led by Communist Groups" 251 -- 8. "Do We Let Castro Take Over?" 297 -- 9. "I Don't Believe They're Ever Going to Quit" 343 -- 10. "We Know It's Going to Be Bad" 378 -- EPILOGUE: Riding on a Crest 418 -- EDITOR'S NOTE 429 -- CAST OF CHARACTERS 435 -- APPENDIX 441 -- l : ACKNOW LEDGMENTS 447 -- INDEX 451.The second volume of Lyndon Johnson's secretly recorded White House conversations offers a fascinating portrait of the president during a crucial year of his administration and is accompanied by thought-provoking analysis and interpretation.
Subjects: Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The unofficial Harry Potter companion : an in-depth exploration. by Siggard, Alison,author.; Miller, Kat,author.(CARDINAL)500022; Haile, Katy Cartee,author.; Morris, Rosie,author.;
The Alohomora! podcast began five years after the release of the final Harry Potter book as a way to rediscover the original magic of the novels. Almost a decade later, the fandom - and the podcast - is bigger than ever, with more analysis and conversations happening about the Harry Potter story than ever before. This new companion series is designed to help readers discover new ideas, connections, and secrets embedded throughout the books and explore them in a whole new way. For each chapter of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, readers will find information gathered from a multitude of official sources, including a timeline that puts everything into an easily envisioned context. Readers will discover helpful information about characters, events, artifacts, and more. Insights and analysis drawn from the hosts and guests of the podcast starts a reader of the companion on their journey of their own analysis.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Rowling, J. K.; Potter, Harry (Fictitious character); Fantasy fiction, English;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Radical reparations : healing the soul of a nation / by Hunter, Marcus Anthony,author.(CARDINAL)883370;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-324)."In Radical Reparations, this conversation shifter, social justice pioneer, change agent, and inventor of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter, which redefined the global conversation on racism and social justice, offers a unifying and unconventional framework for achieving holistic and comprehensive healing of African American communities. Hunter reimagines reparations through a profound new lens as he defines seven types of compensation: political, intellectual, legal, economic, spatial, social, and spiritual, using analysis of historical documents, comparative international cases, and speculative parables"--
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; Reparations for historical injustices.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Keep your head up : America's new Black Christian leaders, social consciousness, and the Cosby conversation / by Bradley, Anthony B.,1971-(CARDINAL)497182;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.More than victims : the benefits of a theological vision / Vincente Bacote -- The Black family : the hope of "true religion" / Bruce Fields -- Sexuality in the Black community / Howard Brown -- Gangsta rap made me do it : What's really goin' on? / Ralph C. Watkins -- Black men and masculinity / Eric M. Mason -- The church and community / Lance Lewis -- Redeemed and healed for mission / Anthony B. Bradley -- The Black church and orthodoxy / Anthony Carter -- The prosperity gospel / Ken Jones -- Rev. Michael Eric Dyson : an analysis / Craig Mitchell.
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; Church and social problems;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Principles of sociology. Personal relationships & behavior / by Ortiz-Hartman, Kimberly,editor.(CARDINAL)832274;
Edition statement supplied by publisher.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Interpersonal relations.; Socialization.; Sociology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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