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Just Another Car Factory? - Christopher Huxley - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Just Another Car Factory? - Christopher Huxley - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

This study of CAMI Automotive, a unionized joint venture between General Motors and Suzuki, is the most comprehensive ever undertaken of a lean production plant. James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson address a topic that has inspired fierce debate in industrial relations, sociology, labor studies, and human resource management. Heralded as a model of lean production when it opened in 1989, CAMI promised workers something different from traditional plants—a humane environment, empowerment, and cooperative labor-management relations. However, the enthusiasm workers felt during the orientation and early phases of production steadily declined, as did their involvement in participatory activities. Workers came to describe CAMI as "just another car factory." Union challenges and shopfloor resistance to key elements of the lean system grew, capped by a five-week strike in 1992. The authors attribute workers'' disillusionment to lean production itself rather than to North American managers'' inadequate implementation.

DKK 296.00
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Just Another Car Factory? - Christopher Huxley - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Just Another Car Factory? - Christopher Huxley - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

This study of CAMI Automotive, a unionized joint venture between General Motors and Suzuki, is the most comprehensive ever undertaken of a lean production plant. James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson address a topic that has inspired fierce debate in industrial relations, sociology, labor studies, and human resource management. Heralded as a model of lean production when it opened in 1989, CAMI promised workers something different from traditional plants—a humane environment, empowerment, and cooperative labor-management relations. However, the enthusiasm workers felt during the orientation and early phases of production steadily declined, as did their involvement in participatory activities. Workers came to describe CAMI as "just another car factory." Union challenges and shopfloor resistance to key elements of the lean system grew, capped by a five-week strike in 1992. The authors attribute workers'' disillusionment to lean production itself rather than to North American managers'' inadequate implementation.

DKK 959.00
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Playing with Fire - Chong Rae Cho - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Playing with Fire - Chong Rae Cho - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

In this work, the smoldering hatred of the Korean War period resurfaces decades later in the form of a ruthless quest for justice. The main character, a successful Seoul businessman, has a secret past: unknown to his wife and son, he once led another life under another name as a ruthless communist partisan. After a lifelong search, the son of one of his wartime victims discovers his true identity, then proceeds calmly and deliberately to exact a terrible revenge.

DKK 203.00
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Hawthorne - Henry James - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Hawthorne - Henry James - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

"The first extended study ever made of an American writer. It still remains one of the best."—Edmund Wilson Originally published in 1879, Henry James''s Hawthorne has been out of print for many years. Cornell University Press is proud to make this American classic available again in a new paperback edition. In this critique of one literary genius by another, James not only considers Hawthorne as a man and a writer, for whom he has a tender, if critical, regard, but he uses his subject as a vantage point from which to present his views on American culture. With his customary urbanity, James assesses the place of the writer in nineteenth-century America, and touches upon the antithetical values of the Old World and the New. Hawthorne''s preoccupation with evil and guilt, his portentous imagination, and his otherworldliness are brought out in the critique of his works, together with James''s keen appreciation of Hawthorne''s remarkable gifts.

DKK 195.00
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Principles of Insect Morphology - R. E. Snodgrass - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Principles of Insect Morphology - R. E. Snodgrass - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

This classic text, first published in 1935, is once again available. Still the standard reference in the English language, Principles of Insect Morphology is considered the author''s masterpiece. A talented artist as well as one of the leading entomologists of his day, Robert E. Snodgrass produced a wealth of publications that display an accuracy and precision still unsurpassed. The 19 chapters in this volume cover each group of insect organs and their associated structures, at the same time providing a coherent morphological view of their fundamental nature and apparent evolution. To accomplish this aim, Snodgrass compares insect organs with those of other arthropods. Each chapter concludes with a glossary of terms. The 319 multipart illustrations are an invaluable source of information and have never been duplicated. This edition includes a new foreword by George Eickwort, Professor of Entomology at Cornell University, which relates the book to today''s courses in insect morphology. Republication of this textbook will provide another generation of students with an essential foundation for their studies in entomology.

DKK 464.00
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Beyond Description - - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Beyond Description - - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it produced? These questions lie at the heart of recent public crises of confidence in expertise, political representation, and classic liberal visions of whom we can rely on for true and trustworthy accounts. In a world beset by events and processes that seem to defy expert predictions of their impossibility, and in which post-hoc accounts can often feel more like rationalizations than explanations, competing voices vie for public presence and seek to silence one another. Anthropology and the social sciences face such questions too, making contemporary explanatory practice both an empirical and a reflexive challenge. By combining ethnographic studies of practices of explanation in a range of contemporary political, medical, artistic, religious, and bureaucratic settings, the essays in Beyond Description offer critical examinations of changing norms and forms of explanation in the world and within anthropology itself.

DKK 959.00
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Principles of Insect Morphology - R. E. Snodgrass - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Principles of Insect Morphology - R. E. Snodgrass - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

This classic text, first published in 1935, is once again available. Still the standard reference in the English language, Principles of Insect Morphology is considered the author''s masterpiece. A talented artist as well as one of the leading entomologists of his day, Robert E. Snodgrass produced a wealth of publications that display an accuracy and precision still unsurpassed. The 19 chapters in this volume cover each group of insect organs and their associated structures, at the same time providing a coherent morphological view of their fundamental nature and apparent evolution. To accomplish this aim, Snodgrass compares insect organs with those of other arthropods. Each chapter concludes with a glossary of terms. The 319 multipart illustrations are an invaluable source of information and have never been duplicated. This edition includes a new foreword by George Eickwort, Professor of Entomology at Cornell University, which relates the book to today''s courses in insect morphology. Republication of this textbook will provide another generation of students with an essential foundation for their studies in entomology.

DKK 381.00
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Beyond Description - - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Beyond Description - - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it produced? These questions lie at the heart of recent public crises of confidence in expertise, political representation, and classic liberal visions of whom we can rely on for true and trustworthy accounts. In a world beset by events and processes that seem to defy expert predictions of their impossibility, and in which post-hoc accounts can often feel more like rationalizations than explanations, competing voices vie for public presence and seek to silence one another. Anthropology and the social sciences face such questions too, making contemporary explanatory practice both an empirical and a reflexive challenge. By combining ethnographic studies of practices of explanation in a range of contemporary political, medical, artistic, religious, and bureaucratic settings, the essays in Beyond Description offer critical examinations of changing norms and forms of explanation in the world and within anthropology itself.

DKK 295.00
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The Discourse of Modernism - Timothy J. Reiss - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Discourse of Modernism - Timothy J. Reiss - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Timothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he believes that this form of thought, still our own, may itself soon be giving way. In The Discourse of Modernism , Reiss sets up a theoretical model to describe the process by which one dominant class of discourse is replaced by another. He seeks to demonstrate that each new mode does not constitute a radical break from the past but in fact develops directly from its predecessor.

DKK 526.00
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