Tag: AIMS

Free Download Rakesh Khurana, "From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession"
English | 2007 | pages: 542 | ISBN: 069112020X | PDF | 2,1 mb
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself.

Free Download Christopher Alan Smith, "Icelandic Magic: Aims, tools and techniques of the Icelandic sorcerers"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1905297939, 1905297920 | PDF | pages: 172 | 2.6 mb
In this unprecedented work, the author Christopher A. Smith has meticulously studied no less than 6 original Icelandic manuscripts dating from 1500 to 1860 to extract a picture of the aims, tools and techniques of Icelandic sorcerers. Set against the context of the harsh economic, social and environmental conditions of this North Atlantic island, the book gives a detailed account of the types of spells that were used and the motivations behind them.

Free Download Kristin Scheible, "Reading the Mahāvamsa: The Literary Aims of a Theravada Buddhist History"
English | 2016 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0231171382 | EPUB | 4,0 mb
Vamsa is a dynamic genre of Buddhist history filled with otherworldly characters and the exploits of real-life heroes. These narratives collapse the temporal distance between Buddha and the reader, building an emotionally resonant connection with an outsized religious figure and a longed-for past. The fifth-century Pali text Mahavamsa is a particularly effective example, using metaphor and other rhetorical devices to ethically transform readers, to stimulate and then to calm them.

Free Download Research Methodology: The Aims, Practices and Ethics of Science by Peter Pruzan
English | PDF (True) | 2016 | 331 Pages | ISBN : 3319271660 | 3.2 MB
This book is an in-depth guide to effective scientific research. Ranging from the philosophical to the practical, it explains at the outset what science can – and can’t – achieve, and discusses its relationship to mathematics and laws. The author then pays extensive attention to the scientific method, including experimental design, verification, uncertainty and statistics. A major aim of the book is to help young scientists reflect upon the deeper aims of their work and make the best use of their talents in contributing to progress. To this end, it also includes sections on planning research, on presenting one’s findings in writing, as well as on ethics and the responsibilities of scientists.

Free Download Research Methodology: The Aims, Practices and Ethics of Science by Peter Pruzan
English | PDF (True) | 2016 | 331 Pages | ISBN : 3319271660 | 3.2 MB
This book is an in-depth guide to effective scientific research. Ranging from the philosophical to the practical, it explains at the outset what science can – and can’t – achieve, and discusses its relationship to mathematics and laws. The author then pays extensive attention to the scientific method, including experimental design, verification, uncertainty and statistics. A major aim of the book is to help young scientists reflect upon the deeper aims of their work and make the best use of their talents in contributing to progress. To this end, it also includes sections on planning research, on presenting one’s findings in writing, as well as on ethics and the responsibilities of scientists.

Free Download Jacques Waardenburg, Russell T. McCutcheon, "Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion: Aims, Methods, and Theories of Research. Introduction and Anthology"
English | 2017 | pages: 751 | ISBN: 3110469529 | EPUB | 5,8 mb
Waardenburg’s magisterial essay traces the rise and development of the academic study of religion from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, outlining the establishment of the discipline, its connections with other fields, religion as a subject of research, and perspectives on a phenomenological study of religion. Futhermore a second part comprises an anthology of texts from 41 scholars whose work was programmatic in the evolution of the academic study of religion. Each chapter presents a particular approach, theory, and method relevant to the study of religion. The pieces selected for this volume were taken from the discipline of religious studies as well as from related fields, such as anthropology, sociology, and psychology, to name a few.