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  • The Essential Handbook of Healthcare Simulation

    by Paul O'Connor, Angela O’Dea, Dara Byrne ...
    Healthcare simulation is the modern way to educate healthcare providers to achieve high performance and to improve patient safety. It encompasses mannikin based training for teamwork and nontechnical skills, task trainers for procedural skills, simulated participants for communication skills, and virtual/augmented reality simulation. Based on an award-winning postgraduate course, this text ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Words

    by Paul G. O'Connor ...
    One line of text with a cryptic message has appeared on every phone, computer, and video screen on Earth. It cannot be deleted.Student and activist GENEVIEVE PHILLIPS might have been too smart. She can’t stand LUX Corporation, the company her scientist father works for, and its involvement with Artificial Intelligence. So Gen downloads her anti-AI science project into the company’s server as a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Technocracy

    Knowledge and Power in the Information Age

    by Paul O'Connor ...
    Series series Contemporary Liminality
    In what is routinely described as a ‘knowledge society’, this book argues that contemporary knowledge is systematically filtered and distorted by the requirements of the bureaucratic-managerial organisations that constitute the structural core of hypermodernity. As knowledge becomes increasingly politicised, almost every ‘fact’ with which we are presented serves an agenda.This book traces the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Leisure of Grey Spaces, Urban Play and the Chromatic Turn

    Edited by Paul O’Connor, Indigo Willing, Benjamin Duester, Sander Hölsgens ...
    This book explores the concept of leisure through the lens of colour, offering a fresh and innovative perspective on how chromatic elements shape our understanding of health, wellbeing, and environmental ethics. By focusing on the material and symbolic significance of hues, particularly blue, green, and grey, the book delves into the ways these colours influence leisure spaces and activities. From ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Clouds Should Know Me By Now

    Buddhist Poet Monks of China

    Edited by Red Pine, Mike O'Connor ...
    This unique collection presents the verse, much of it translated for the first time, of fourteen eminent Chinese Buddhist poet monks. Featuring the original Chinese as well as english translations and historical introductions by Burton Watson, J.P. Seaton, Paul Hansen, James Sanford, and the editors, this book provides an appreciation and understanding of this elegant and traditional expression of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Anthropology

    Edited by Arpad Szakolczai, Paul O’Connor ...
    Series series Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series
    This Encyclopedia explores the anthropological underpinnings of politics. Featuring biographical entries that reconstruct the life-works of key theorists from across the globe alongside topical entries on a range of issues in political anthropology, it poses the question: what does it mean to be human in contemporary times?Entries examine classic and modern perspectives in philosophical ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Home: The Foundations of Belonging

    by Paul O'Connor ...
    Series series Contemporary Liminality
    Questions of home and belonging have never been more topical. Populist politicians in both Europe and America play on anxieties over globalisation by promising to reconstitute the national home, through cutting immigration and ‘taking back control’. Increasing numbers of young people are unable to afford home-ownership, a trend with implications for the future shape of families and communities. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Questions That Get Results

    Innovative Ideas Managers Can Use to Improve Their Teams' Performance

    by Paul Cherry, Patrick Connor ...
    Ask the right questions and get improved, sustained employee performanceSince technology has made it easy to access, share, and distribute company data, many managers avoid live interaction, instead relying on emails, text messages, Web-based seminars to manage their employees. But although technology has changed, people have not. There is still a need for effective face-to-face communication; ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • State of Denial

    by Paul Connor-Kearns ...
    state of denial focuses on the dynamic between indigenous australians and australian mainstream society. that dynamic is explored from the points of view and the inner worlds of the book's two main protagonists, a corrupt policeman and an advocate has forged strong ties with the aboriginal community.as it unfolds, the story look at the corruption that lies beneath the veneer of 'polite' society ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Skateboarding and Religion

    by Paul O'Connor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture.Drawing on scholarship from the sociology of religion and the cultural politics of lifestyle sports, this work combines ethnographic research with media analysis to argue that the rituals of skateboarding provide participants with a rich cultural canvas for emotional and spiritual engagement. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Technologisation of the Social

    A Political Anthropology of the Digital Machine

    Edited by Paul O'Connor, Marius Ion Benţa ...
    Series series Contemporary Liminality
    In an era of digital revolution, artificial intelligence, big data and augmented reality, technology has shifted from being a tool of communication to a primary medium of experience and sociality. Some of the most basic human capacities are increasingly being outsourced to machines and we increasingly experience and interpret the world through digital interfaces, with machines becoming ever more ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • If I Had You

    by Paul G. O'Connor ...
    A young man owes money to the mob in Boston, Massachusetts; his grandmother owes money to the mob in Dublin, Ireland, and there’s a young woman they both owe something to.Before he started college, NICK SULLIVAN fell in love the summer he went to visit his grandmother in Ireland. He promised to return and keep in touch, but never did.Years later, he learns his grandmother’s house is threatened ... Read more

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