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“patrick reedy”

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  • The Manager's Tale

    Stories of Managerial Identity

    by Patrick Reedy ...
    What does being a manager mean to those who do managerial work and why has becoming a manager become so attractive for so many people? How does pursuing a managerial career fit with the wider project of constructing a life and a sense of self? This illuminating and thoughtful book answers these questions by considering the extended life histories of ten managers, allowing their own voices to be ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • The Dictionary of Alternatives

    Utopianism and Organization

    by Valerie Fournier, Patrick Reedy, Martin Parker ...
    'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism', is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. All too often, ordinary people across the world are being told that the problem of organization is already solved, or that it is being solved somewhere else, or that it need not concern them because they have no choices. This dictionary provides those who disagree with the evidence ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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  • Discourse: The Basics

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  • Advertising

    by Iain MacRury ...
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  • Jean Baudrillard

    Against Banality

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    This uniquely engaging introduction to Jean Baudrillard’s controversial writings covers his entire career focusing on Baudrillard’s central, but little understood, notion of symbolic exchange. Through the clarification of this key term a very different Baudrillard emerges: not the nihilistic postmodernist and enemy of Marxism and Feminism that his critics have constructed, but a thinker immersed ... Read more

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  • Media/Theory

    Thinking about Media and Communications

    by Shaun Moores ...
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  • Consumption

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