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Author:   Cascio
Publisher:   Berrett-Koehler
Imprint:   Berrett-Koehler
Dimensions:   Width: 6.50cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 9.50cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781576751299

ISBN 10:   1576751295
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   02 September 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors About This Book Introduction: Why Look at Plants? Giovanni Aloi Part 1: Forest 1 Lost in the Post-Sublime Forest Giovanni Aloi 2 The Humblest Props Now Play a Role Caroline Picard 3 Ungrid-able Ecologies: Becoming Sensor in a Black Oak Savannah Natasha Myers 4 An Open Book of Grass Jenny Kendler Part 2: Trees 5 Trees: Upside-Down, Inside-Out, and Moving Giovanni Aloi 6 Animation, Animism ... Dukun Dukun & DNA Lucy Davis 7 Tree Wound Portraits Shannon Lee Castleman 8 Contested Sites: Forest as Uncommon Ground Greg Lee Ruffing 9 Quercus velutina, Art of Fiction, No. 11111011 Lindsey French Part 3: Garden 10 Falling from Grace Giovanni Aloi 11 Hortus Conclusus: The Garden of Earthly Mind Wendy Wheeler 12 Eden's Heirs: Biopolitics and Vegetal Affinities in the Gardens of Literature Joela Jacobs 13 Thoreau's Beans Michael Marder Part 4: Greenhouse 14 The Greenhouse Effects Giovanni Aloi 15 Solarise Luftwerk 16 The Glass Shields the Eyes of the Plant: Darwin's Glasshouse Study Heidi Norton 17 The Lichen Museum Laurie Palmer Part 5: Store 18 Hyperplant Shelf-Life Giovanni Aloi 19 Life in the Aisles Linda Tegg 20 Roomba Rumba: Interview with Katherine Behar Fatma Colakoglu and Ulya Soley 21 Home Depot Throwing Out Plants Various Contributors Part 6: House 22 Presence, Bareness, and Being-With Giovanni Aloi 23 Houseplants as Fictional Subjects Susan McHugh 24 Seeing Green: The Climbing Other Dawn Sanders 25 Plant Radio Amanda White Part 7: Laboratory 26 Psychoactives and Biogenetics Giovanni Aloi 27 Of Plants and Robots: Art, Architecture and Technoscience for Mixed Societies Monika Bakke 28 Boundary Plants Sara Black 29 The Illustrated Herbal Tova Flores Index Part 8: Of Other Spaces 30 (Brief) Encounters Giovanni Aloi 31 Places of Maybe: Plants Making Do Without the Belly of the Beast Andrew Yang 32 The Neophyte Lois Weinberger 33 Herbarium Perrine: Interview with Mark Dion Interviewer:Giovanni Aloi 34 Burning Flowers: Interview with Mat Collishaw Interviewer:Giovanni Aloi 35 A Program for Plants: In Conversation, Coda Giovanni Aloi, Brian M. John, Linda Tegg and Joshi Radin Bibliography Index

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Responsible Restructuring is a thoughtful, responsible and necessary outline for management of all levels of Corporate America. Professor Cascio has with a short, but powerful, book issued a common-sense blueprint for restructuring in today's rapidly changing business world. A mustread for all levels of management. - Eugene K. Anthony, U.S. Administrative Law Judge, Ret.

"""Responsible Restructuring is a thoughtful, responsible and necessary outline for management of all levels of Corporate America. Professor Cascio has with a short, but powerful, book issued a common-sense blueprint for restructuring in today's rapidly changing business world. A mustread for all levels of management. - Eugene K. Anthony, U.S. Administrative Law Judge, Ret."

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Wayne F. Cascio has written extensively about employment downsizing and restructuring, and has consulted with a wide variety of firms on six continents. He is past chair of the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management, past president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and is currently a professor of management at the University of Colorado-Denver.

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