“…Gallup surveys indicate that up to 67% of the global workforce is disengaged, with disengaged workers costing companies significant money and lost time. Managers and supervisors are in a unique position to change this bleak reality by utilizing best practices to keep their direct reports motivated and engaged. …”

“…The Media Were American demonstrates that both the United States and its mass media have lost their previous moral leadership. Instead of sole American control of the world news flow, we now see a world media structure comprised of interlocking national, regional, and cultural systems. …”

“…Bennett draws on his experience as a lawyer, judge, and law teacher, as well as upon oral histories of lawyers and judges, in his exploration of how and why the legal profession has lost its ennobling mythology. Effectively using examples from history, philosophy, psychology, mythology, and literature, Bennett shows that the loss of professionalism is more than merely the emergence of win-at-all-cost strategies and a scramble for personal wealth. …”
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“…As a consequence, its sources are seldom clearly exposed and, as word, object and meaning change, are sometimes lost. They reach from an English translation of the 1916 inaugural lecture of the first Chair in Legal Significs at the Amsterdam University, via mid 20th century studies on "property" or "contract," to equally fascinating essays on contemporary semiotic problems produced by former students of the Roberta Kevelson Semiotics Roundtable Seminar at Penn State University 2012 and 2013. …”

“…Silent Night, by renowned military historian Stanley Weintraub, magically restores the 1914 Christmas truce to history. It had been lost in the tide of horror that filled the battlefields of Europe for months and years afterward. …”

“…"When the Spanish empire lost the greater part of its American territories in the early nineteenth century, the Spanish government was forced to reformulate the colonial policies applied in the Philippines, updating and adjusting them constantly throughout the remainder of the century, until they arrived at the process of reform and modernization of the last third of the nineteenth century, with its lights and shadows. …”

“…A century later it was a fraction of the size, its eastern provinces torn away by the early Islamic conquests in the middle of the seventh century. It had lost three-quarters of its lands and probably more of its tax revenues. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Historians interpret the welfare state, 1975-1995 / Maurizio Vaudagna -- Reconciling European integration and the national welfare state : a neo-Weberian perspective / Maurizio Ferrera -- Democracy after the welfare state : an interview / Ira Katznelson -- Privatization and self-responsibility : patterns of welfare state development in Europe and the United States since the 1990s / Christian Lammert -- Paradise lost? : social citizenship in Norway and Sweden / Gro Hagemann -- Social citizenship in the U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Historico-geographical explorations of Ireland's heritages : towards a critical understanding of the nature of memory and identity / Mark McCarthy -- Commemorative heritage and the dialectics of memory / Guy Beiner -- A lost heritage : the Connaught Rangers and multivocal Irishness / John Morrissey -- Memory and identity in 'Irish' Australia : constructing alterity in Belfast (Port Fairy), c. 1855-1873 / Lindsay Proudfoot and Dianne Hall -- Performing Irish-American heritage : the Irish historic pageant, New York, 1913 / Deborah Sugg Ryan -- Newgrange, heritage and the Irish nation : two moments of transformation / David C. …”

“…Latin sources suggest they once had an extensive literature of history, law, philosophy and religion; but all now is lost. Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, Semitic people. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Concluding remarks: Part I -- Part II From Revolution to Coup d'État -- 1 In lieu of an introduction -- 2 The army's return to politics: Neither a conspiracy nor just a contingency -- 3 The lost opportunities and the deepening rift -- 4 Sectarian strife, social protest and fears of instability -- 5 The Selmi Document, the events of Mohammed Mahmoud 1 and parliamentary elections -- 6 The Constituent Assembly, presidential elections in a chaotic climate and the elected president -- 7 The deterioration: Unlike a Greek tragedy, it was not fate but politics -- 8 The coup -- 9 Egyptian public opinion during the transition and after the coup -- 10 International reactions from the fall of Mubarak to the coup -- Final observations -- Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright…”

“…The first section, 'Historiography', looks at a small group of chronicles and breviaria whose texts are fundamental for our reconstruction of the history of the third and fourth centuries, some well known, others much less so: Eusebius of Caesarea, Jerome, the lost Kaisergeschichte, and Eutropius. In this section the goal in each case is a specific attempt to come to a better understanding of the structure, composition, date, or author of these historical texts. …”

“…Many already receiving SNAP lost jobs and became eligible for UI. While both programs were stressed, they proved to be flexible enough to respond to the needs of many of the victims of the recession. …”

“…Likewise soils are also an archive or memory of past climates, environments and ecosystems and thus if they are lost these archives of Earth history also will be lost. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2 Confronting Enemies outside and within the Community -- 3 Empathising with the 'Noble Savage' in Pigeon English -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 Breaking the Cycle of Heathcliff: Precarious Subjects from Emily Brontë to Caryl Phillips -- 1 Brontë's Lost Child -- 2 The Lost Child Writing back -- 3 Being Outcast - Between Nature and Nurture -- 4 The Precarity of Orphanhood and Familial Bonds -- 5 Cycles of Loss -- 6 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part 3 (Publication) Politics and Precarity -- Chapter 8 Voices of Ugandan Women Writers: Positioning femrite Since 2006 -- 1 femrite within the Ugandan Literary Landscape: The First Ten Years -- 2 femrite: Challenges and Achievements Since 2006 -- 3 Recent Developments in femrite -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9 Poverty, Precarity and the Ethics of Representing Africa -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Africa and the Paradox of the Migration Impulse -- 3 African Literary Production and the "Extroverted" Narrative -- 4 Rethinking the Role of African Writers -- 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part 4 Environmental Precarity -- Chapter 10 Sovereignty at the Margins: The Oceanic Future of the Subaltern -- 1 The Oceanic Turn -- 2 The Muddy Texture of Precarity -- 3 Sovereignty at the Margins -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11 Plantation and Planet: Environmental Precarity in Anglophone Caribbean World Writing -- 1 Introduction -- 2 World Writing as Ethical Imperative -- 3 Poet(h)ic Visions of the World -- 4 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part 5 Representing Refugees and Immigrants -- Chapter 12 Narrative Zones of Refuge in The Lost Boy by Aher Arop Bol and A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Home and Unhoming -- 3 Aher Arop Bol, The Lost Boy (2009) - A Refugee Memoir -- 4 Jonny Steinberg, A Man of Good Hope (2014) - A Mediated Narrative -- 5 Living between Zones -- 6 Refiguring the Refugee -- 7 Conclusion -- Works Cited…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….: Alzheimer's clinical cases and histological research The case -- The discourse of degeneration -- The definition of the disease -- The reaction to the definition of the disease -- Degeneration: The old and new narrative of loss and decline in medico-scientific literature on dementia and Alzheimer's disease -- There Were No Windows: The patient's illness experience in the modernist novel -- Part II The ageing perspective -- 3 Culture shapes politics shapes science -- Researching old age: From medical science to old-age psychiatry -- At The Jerusalem: Dementia defines the elderly in 1960s new realist fiction 4 The loss of self in healthcare and cultural discourse -- Caregiver guides: Helpers in the face of loss and decline -- Out of Mind: The postmodern novel delves into the mind of the patient -- Part III The cognitive picture -- 5 The narrative of loss in a growing biomedical and literary marketplace of Alzheimer's disease -- Neurodegeneration: The biochemical narrative of lost molecules, pathways and communication -- On genes and genealogy: The patient as specimen, carrier and type in research and popular science Death in Slow Motion: Past identities, lost plots and old age in caregiver life-writing -- 6 Neurotechnologies and narrative examine the failing mind -- The visual exploration of the brain and fascination with the mind -- The Dying of the Light: Detective fiction claims back patient authority -- Who Will I Be When I Die? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter Seven: Musical Hauntings and Otherworldly Erotics in The Lost Stradivarius and "A Wicked Voice" -- "Acoustical Affinities": The Lost Stradivarius -- The Murmur of the Castrato: "A Wicked Voice" -- Is the Concert Hall Haunted? …”