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Wabi Sabi: Intermediated Textures of Impermanence and Imperfection

Belas Infiéis, 2019
Mark Reibstein and Ed Young’s 2008 picture book Wabi Sabi tells the story of a Kyoto cat in search of the meaning of its name. This award-wining children’s book explores identity through the composition of various layers of meaning and complexity in form
Paul Venzo
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Lists as dynamic devices in early Buddhist doctrine and textual tradition [PDF]

, 2013
This article discusses the origin of the Abhidharma genre of Buddhist literature in the Indian context of an oral religious tradition, and shows how the textual format of the Abhidharma texts, in their turn, shaped the development of Buddhist ...
Dessein, Bart
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

Developing Workforce Capability in the Context of HR Ecosystem Learning

Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For many organizations, developing workforce capabilities is central as it involves refining critical human resource processes such as upskilling or the acquisition of new profiles. These processes are becoming increasingly complex to manage as organizations collaborate within larger work ecosystems. Surprisingly, little research has addressed
Sophie D'Armagnac, Eric Michael Laviolette, Thierry Ruaud, Juani Swart   +3 more
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Ephemeral drawing. Street art between conservation and impermanence

Agathón, 2018
The debate on the relationship between street art and contemporary culture is still alive and offers always new spaces for discussion. Starting from the specific discipline of drawing, this paper deals with the need to set up the documentation path ...
Giovanni Caffio
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Resisting Hubris: For A Stoic Ethics of Power in Leadership Development

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay advances a philosophical and Stoic reinterpretation of hubris that challenges the reductionist treatment it has received in contemporary management research. Whereas most studies, shaped by a positivist epistemology, have sought to quantify the effects of leader hubris on performance, this essay reclaims the concept's original ...
Valérie Petit, Xavier Pavie
wiley   +1 more source

You should try lying more: the nomadic impermanence of Bill Drummond [PDF]

Bill Drummond’s work straddles the worlds of popular music, literature and art. Through his books, music and artistic interventions Drummond has engaged with the (im)permanence of culture while manifesting a network of creative associations that give ...
Wiseman-Trowse, Nathan J B
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Meditation Based Awareness Training (MBAT) for psychological wellbeing: a qualitative examination of participant experiences [forthcoming] [PDF]

, 2014
Mindfulness-based interventions are reported as being efficacious treatments for a variety of psychological and somatic conditions. However, concerns have arisen relating to how mindfulness is operationalized in mindfulness-based interventions and ...
Griffiths, MD, Shonin, E, Van Gordon, W
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What makes you not a Buddhist? : a preliminary mapping of values [PDF]

, 2012
This study sets out to establish which Buddhist values contrasted with or were shared by adolescents from a non-Buddhist population. A survey of attitude toward a variety of Buddhist values was fielded in a sample of 352 non-Buddhist schoolchildren aged ...
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Parenting Support for Mothers Raised in Out‐Of‐Home Care

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research and social indicators consistently confirm that young people who exit statutory out‐of‐home care (OOHC) tend to remain socially and economically disadvantaged through young adulthood. The present article reports findings from a qualitative study of the perceived parenting support needs of eight mothers (aged 17–30 years) who had spent
Jamie Ussher, Sarah Whitcombe‐Dobbs, Michael Tarren‐Sweeney   +2 more
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