Karl Alexander: 20 books

The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural...

In almost 60 articles this book reviews the current state of second-order cybernetics and investigates which new research methods second-order cybernetics can offer to tackle wicked problems in science and in society. The contributions explore its application to both scientific fields (such as mathematics,...

Edited by internationally recognized authorities in the field, this expanded and updated new edition of the bestselling Handbook, containing more than 100 new articles, is aimed at the design and operation of modern particle accelerators. It is intended as a vade mecum for professional engineers and...

Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life examines the ways in which rural people and places are being portrayed by popular television, reality television, film, literature, and news media in the United States. It is also an examination of the social processes that reinforce urbanormative...

Kein Bereich ist derzeit so großen Herausforderungen unterworfen wie die Führung. Führungskräfte sollen die richtigen Mitarbeiter finden und halten, sie sollen werteorientiert und sinnhaft führen, das Unternehmen strategisch gut aufstellen und - last but not least - vor allem sich selbst gut...

In diesem Buch wird die Methodik der systemischen Therapie mit den Grundsätzen moderner Psychotraumatologie und Traumatherapie in Verbindung gebracht. Ziel ist es, traumatisierten Familien Lösungswege zu eröffnen, die ihnen dazu verhelfen können, nach erlittener Traumatisierung ein möglichst...