Социология
5875 кн.
Those who speak up about poor, corrupt or unethical practice often do so at a great personal cost. This timely book explores our understanding of the ethics of whistleblowing and shows how managers and organisations can support individuals speaking out. While some professional guidelines formalize duties to speak out where there are concerns about poor or harmful practice, workplace cultures often do not encourage or support this, and individuals frequently find themselves victims of a...
| Автор | Angie Ash |
In her debut essay collection, New Zealand native Toni Nealie examines journeys, homelands, family, and motherhood. She details humiliating confrontations with airport security, muses on the color brown, and intimately investigates her grandfather's complicated and criminal past, all while hearkening home—wherever and whatever that is. Toni Nealie is a writer, journalist, and teacher. Her work has appeared in Guernica , the Offing , the Rumpus , and the Prague Review . She...
| Автор | Toni Nealie |
Barbaarse misdade is deel van die Suid-Afrikaanse werklikheid, en hier is tien bondige en spannende oorvertellings van sommige van die verfoeilikste gebeure nog, dikwels met ’n grieselrige en onheilspellende kinkel. Alison glo haar oorlewing van die onbeskryflike wrede aanval deur twee (met-die-duiwel?) besetenes is aan wonderwerke te danke. Ewe boos en bisar is die optredes van die psigopatiese skroewedraaiermaniak, die pedofiel wat die skuld aan die deur van sy meervoudige persoonlikhede lê,...
| Автор | Chris Karsten |
Aimed at patients, their families and healthcare practitioners, this is an invaluable practical guide, relevant to South Africans and to South African conditions. it is packed with helpful information. The book highlights the fact that drug and alcohol abuse is not a sign of moral weakness, but rather a result of the complex interaction between biological, psychological and social factors. The End of Addiction offers insight and assistance with addiction in South Africa.
| Автор | Dr Volker Hitzeroth |
Ná haar sterk debuutbundel Die vloedbos sal weer vlieg keer Carina Stander terug met ’n ewe indrukwekkende tweede bundel. Mens en natuur, verval en groei, en boosheid en spiritualiteit vleg hier inmekaar. Natuur en emosie gaan hand aan hand en bly gevang in ’n beleë ewewig, soos byvoorbeeld in haar gedigte oor swangerskap en geboorte waar biologiese groei en artistieke ontwikkeling tot sintese kom.Die digter het die vermoë om betekenis en klank tot ’n eenheid te verwerk. Sy “konfronteer” die...
| Автор | Carina Stander |
W rozmowie na temat płci trzeba mieć na uwadze i róznice, i podobieństwa między mężczyzną a kobietą. Niestety jednak, w momencie kiedy jedno chce przewyższyć drugie, może ona nabrać odcienia sporu. Co do nauki, nie wdaje się w tego typu dyskusje, a raczej skupia na zgromadzeniu danych i wszelkich informacji na temat różnic i podobieństw między mężczyzną a kobietą. Niniejsza praca odkrywa przed czytelnikiem wyniki ostatnich badań nad tymi różnicami, przeprowadzonych przez naukowców z całego...
| Автор | Dr. Juan Moisés De La Serna |
In 2008, the University of the Free State was thrust into the international spotlight when the racist Reitz video became public. Have South Africans changed in any significant way since 1994, or are black and white still constrained by racial stereotypes? This is the question American-born Donna Bryson asks herself as she goes to investigate. Over the next five years, Bryson returns again and again to Bloemfontein and realises that the university is a microcosm of the rest of the country. ...
| Автор | Donna Bryson |
Schabir Shaik, Jackie Selebi, Tony Yengeni, 'Oilgate', Jacob Zuma, Judge Hlophe and the JSC, 'Travelgate' – what has happened to morality in South Africa? With this book, respected academic and community leader Paulus Zulu cuts right to the heart of our current malaise. Drawing equally on Western concepts and on African traditional thought, he provides a searing indictment of the state of the nation, casting new light on corruption, incompetence and mismanagement. ...
| Автор | Paulus Zulu |
'It is a gruesome tale – how we have moved so rapidly from the era of hope to the bleak landscape ushered in by Zuma's ascent to power …' Yet Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, acclaimed author and international expert on reconciliation, wants to rekindle our hope. As a clinical psychologist who has worked for the TRC, in Rwanda and with Holocaust survivors, she offers unique perspectives on healing the wounded South African nation. In this selection of her best local and...
| Автор | Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela |
Picture South Africa ten years from now: Are the angry poor rising up and seizing land and businesses? Or has economic reform created jobs and growth? Is an increasingly desperate government clamping down on freedoms? Or do the middle classes still braai in suburban bliss? South Africa is at a tipping point, and small shifts in political and economic conditions can bring about dramatic changes. Unemployment, slow growth, threats to freedom of speech, and poor education can send the country in...
| Автор | Frans Cronje |
