Work It Out, Revised Edition: Using Personality Type to Improve Team Performance By Sandra Krebs Hirsh, Jane A.G. Kise
2006 | 263 Pages | ISBN: 0891062122 | PDF | 3 MB
Okay -- everyone has taken the MBTI assessment, knows his or her four letter type, and can identify the introverts and extroverts and thinkers and feelers. Maybe everyone understands himself and his colleagues a little better. But the team is still dysfunctional. There is conflict and misunderstanding, and the most well-intentioned colleagues drive each other nuts. How can you use the MBTI results to help resolve the conflict and enhance not just individual performance, but team effectiveness?This book provides superb guidance on how to use MBTI preferences as a tool in identifying and resolving work-related issues. Using plausible, realistic examples drawn from their own experience, the authors provide step by step guidance on how to detect issues that stem, in part, from type differences, and suggest approaches for addressing the issues. The examples show conflicts related to the introversion/extraversion dichotomy, the sensing/intuiting dichotomy, the thinking/feeling dichotomy, the judging/perceiving dichotomy, and from a new manager's efforts to behave in a manner inconsistent with her preferred type. None of the examples are overly simplified, so they provide tremdous insight for the reader.The authors also provide an excellent introduction to type preferences, and summaries of each of the 16 MBTI types, noting strengths, typical areas for growth, and suggested coaching approaches for each. In the appendices, the authors provide an outline for conducting a team-building and coaching sessions. Overall, an excellent choice for anyone interested in applying knowledge of type preferences to enhance team or individual performance. Although the authors do provide an excellent overview of type preferences, the book is not an introduction to MBTI and may be best-suited for those already fluent with MBTI and type preferences.

Carolyn Cocca, "Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel: Militarism and Feminism in Comics and Film "
English | ISBN: 0367894696 | 2020 | 110 pages | PDF | 16 MB
This book explores representations of Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel in comics and film, as well as political struggles over these works, to illuminate contemporary cultural concerns about gender, sexuality, race, migration, imperialism, and war.

Michelle Ballif, "Women's Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition"
English | ISBN: 0805844457 | 2008 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This volume explores how women in the fields of rhetoric and composition have succeeded, despite the challenges inherent in the circumstances of their work. Focusing on those women generally viewed as "successful" in rhetoric and composition, this volume relates their stories of successes (and failures) to serve as models for other women in the profession who aspire to "make it," too: to succeed as women academics in a sea of gender and disciplinary bias and to have a life, as well.

Sinu Joseph, "Women and Sabarimala : The Science behind Restrictions"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1647336333 | 106 pages | MOBI | 4.51 MB
Women and Sabarimala is an answer to the question "why aren't women of menstrual age allowed to enter Sabarimala?" This book presents a never-before discussed perspective on the science behind the restrictions on women in the Sabarimala temple.

Srimati Mukherjee, "Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema: A Freedom Incomplete "
English | ISBN: 1138120952 | 2016 | 172 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Historically, Indian cinema has positioned women at the intersection of tradition and a more evolving culture, portraying contradictory attitudes which affect women's roles in public and private spheres.

Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History by Cynthia J. Davis and Kathryn West
English | May 9, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0195090535 | 504 pages | PDF | 16,5 MB
Pick any year in this chronology and you will find an array of interesting and revealing information....this is a fascinating work....this work is a valuable source of contextualized information about women's writing and women's lives.

Women With Attitude by John Bank
English | ISBN 10: 0415287421 | 2002 | PDF | 232 pages | 4,7 MB
This book combines the inherent appeal of true-life success stories with the practical value of a management guide. Divided into two sections, one focusing on theory and analysis and the other on practice, the book investigates women in management.

Alpa Shah, "Windows into a Revolution: Ethnographies of Maoism in India and Nepal"
English | ISBN: 1138503983 | 2017 | 350 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Windows into a Revolution edited by Alpa Shah and Judith Pettigrew, the first book in the series offers glimpses into the spread of Maoism in India and Nepal by tracing some of its effects on the lives of ordinary people living amidst the revolutions. Weaving through the nostalgic reflections of former Bengali Naxalites; the resurgence of ancestral conflicts in the spread of the Maoists in the remote hills of western Nepal; the disillusionments of dalits of central Bihar in the policies of the cadres; to the complexities of the interrelationship between non-aligned civilians and insurgents in central Nepal, the book offers a series of windows into different stages of mobilization and transformation into what are, were or may become, revolutionary strongholds.

Why Religious Freedom Matters for Democracy: Comparative Reflections from Britain and France for a Democratic "Vivre Ensemble" (Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law) by Myriam Hunter-Henin
English | Jun 11, 2020 | ISBN: 1509904743 | 224 pages | PDF (conv) | 2,6 MB
Should an employee be allowed to wear a religious symbol at work? Should a religious employer be allowed to impose constraints on employees' private lives for the sake of enforcing a religious work ethos? Should an employee or service provider be allowed, on religious grounds, to refuse to work with customers of the opposite sex or of a same-sex sexual orientation? This book explores how judges decide these issues and defends a democratic approach, which is conducive to a more democratic understanding of our vivre ensemble. The normative democratic approach proposed in this book is grounded on a sociological and historical analysis of two national stories of the relationships between law, religion, diversity and the State, the British (mainly English) and the French stories. The book then puts the democratic paradigm to the test, by looking at cases involving clashes between religious freedoms and competing rights in the workplace. Contrary to the current alternative between the "accommodationist view", which defers to religious requests, and the "analogous" view, which undermines the importance of religious freedom for pluralism, this book offers a third way. It fills a gap in the literature on the relationships between law and religious freedoms and provides guidelines for judges confronted with difficult cases.

Mukulika Banerjee, "Why India Votes? "
English | ISBN: 1138019712 | 2014 | 326 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Why India Votes? offers a fascinating account of the Indian electorate through a series of comprehensive ethnographic explorations conducted across the country ― Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Rajasthan. It probes the motivations of ordinary voters, what they think about politicians, the electoral process, democracy and their own role within it. This book will be useful to scholars and students of political science, anthropology and sociology, those in media and politics, and those interested in elections and democracy as also the informed general reader.