Tag: Imperative

Free Download Micere Mugo, "The imperative of Utu / Ubuntu in Africana scholarship"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1990263240 | PDF | pages: 40 | 2.1 mb
Written in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, this publication celebrates the birth of Black studies as a liberated academic zone. Professor Mũgo reflects upon the significance of Africana studies, specifically within the context of America’s predominantly White universities, revisiting the hers/his/torical context that birthed Black studies as a field of knowledge. She reflects on the ownership of knowledge, its production, dissemination and custodianship while proposing utu/ubuntu as imperatives in defining transformative education. The hypothesis and heart of the argument is that knowledge and scholarship can either be colonizing, alienating and enslaving; or, alternatively, they can be conscientizing, humanizing and liberating, creating new human beings with the agency to transform life and the world, for the better. he dismisses the false myth of dominating, colonizing and imperialist cultures that claim to have a monopoly of knowledge and whose purpose is to justify the dehumanization of the conquered, the attempted erasure of their knowledges, heritages and ultimately, entire cultures.

Free Download IT Governance, "The Data Governance Imperative"
English | ISBN: 1849280126 | 2009 | 168 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Every byte of data that resides inside your company, and some that resides outside its walls, has the potential to make you stronger by giving you the agility, speed and intelligence that none of your competitors yet have. This practical book covers both strategies and tactics around managing a data governance initiative.

Free Download Data & AI Imperative: Designing Strategies for Exponential Growth
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1394251955 | 415 Pages | PDF | 4.3 MB
In The Data & AI Imperative: Designing Strategies for Exponential Growth, celebrated data-driven growth leader, Lillian Pierson, delivers a masterclass in developing custom strategies to harness the full potential of data and AI within your organization. This book offers a clear, actionable roadmap for leveraging your company’s data and technology assets to drive significant, reliable growth.

Free Download Data & AI Imperative: Designing Strategies for Exponential Growth by Lillian Pierson
English | January 2nd, 2025 | ISBN: 1394251955 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 6.09 MB
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Free Download The Imperative of Integration by Elizabeth Anderson
English | September 27, 2010 | ISBN: 0691139814, 0691158118 | True EPUB | 264 pages | 1.2 MB
A powerful new argument for reviving the ideal of racial integration

Free Download Michael Sierra-Arévalo, "The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing"
English | ISBN: 0231198469 | 2024 | 368 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Winner, 2024 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological Association

Free Download The Ethical Imperative: Leading with Conscience to Shape the Future of Business by Andrew C. M. Cooper
English | August 13th, 2024 | ISBN: 1394274831 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 3.13 MB
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Free Download Jeffrey J. Anderson, "The Territorial Imperative: Pluralism, Corporatism and Economic Crisis"
English | 2007 | pages: 267 | ISBN: 0521413788, 0521036097 | PDF | 8,0 mb
The Territorial Imperative explores a growing area of interest in comparative political economy-the interaction of politics and economics and the meso-level of the polity. Noting the ubiquity of regional economic disparities within advanced industrial democracies, Jeffrey Anderson undertakes a sophisticated analysis of the complex political conflicts, involving myriad actors across multiple levels of the polity, which are generated by declining regional economies. The principal theoretical focus centers on the impact of constitutional orders as bona fide political institutions. Based on a carefully constructed comparison of four declining industrial regions embedded within a broader cross-national comparison of unitary Britain and federal Germany, Anderson concludes that constitutional orders as institutions do, in fact, matter. In short, the territorial distribution of power, encapsulated in the federal unitary distinction, is shown to exercise a strong political logic of influence on the distribution of interests and resources among subnational and national actors and on the strategies of cooperation and conflict available to them. In the course of the study, the author brings together in a creative manner theories of intergovernmental relations, center-periphery, corporatism, pluralism and the state. Viewed in this context of widespread optimism surrounding the future of regions in a post-1992 Europe, Anderson’s findings underscore the need for caution when assessing the horizons of action for subnational interests in advanced industrial democracies.

Free Download After Beethoven: The Imperative of Originality in the Symphony By Mark Evan Bonds
1997 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0674008553 | PDF | 12 MB
Beethoven cast a looming shadow over the nineteenth century. For composers he was a model both to emulate and to overcome. "You have no idea how it feels," Brahms confided, "when one always hears such a giant marching behind one." Exploring the response of five composers–Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Mahler–to what each clearly saw as the challenge of Beethoven’s symphonies, Evan Bonds richly enhances our understanding of the evolution of the symphony and Beethoven’s legacy. Overt borrowings from Beethoven–for example, the lyrical theme in the Finale of Brahms’ First Symphony, so like the "Ode to Joy" theme in Beethoven’s Ninth–have often been the subject of criticism. Bonds now shows us how composers imitate or allude to a Beethoven theme or compositional strategy precisely in order to turn away from it, creating a new musical solution. Berlioz’s Harold en Italie, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang, Schumann’s Fourth Symphony, Brahms’ First, and Mahler’s Fourth serve as illuminating examples. Discussion focuses on such core issues as Beethoven’s innovations in formal design, the role of text and voice, fusion of diverse genres, cyclical coherence of movements, and the function of the symphonic finale. Bonds lucidly argues that the great symphonists of the nineteenth century cleared creative space for themselves by both confronting and deviating from the practices of their potentially overpowering precursor. His analysis places familiar masterpieces in a new light.

Free Download The Ethical Imperative: Leading with Conscience to Shape the Future of Business
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1394274831 | 245 Pages | PDF | 3.4 MB
In an era marked by increasing profiteering and inequality, The Ethical Imperative: Leading with Conscience to Shape the Future of Business offers a compelling alternative vision-one where companies champion the collective prosperity of employees, shareholders, and communities. Author Andrew Cooper, a distinguished executive, leverages over twenty academic studies and fifty years of research to challenge the status quo. He exposes the critical threat of public disengagement from businesses and institutions, urging a departure from outdated, profit-only models that harm corporations, consumers, and communities alike.