Susan Steeves (3 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. American Library Edition. 100 + vi pp. Vol. XVII, No. 3, 1981 issue only! Solidly and tightly bound copy with minimal external and overall wear and use. Copy with crisp pages and clean text. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request. 'Portrait of A Lady', ca. 1859, by Edouard Manet (Cover Illustration) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2003 University of Rochester Press hardcover edition. Unread copy still shrinkwrapped. An examination of the difficulties in fundamentally differentiating humans from all other animals. The way in which humans articulate identities, social hierarchies, and their inversions through relations with animals has been a fruitful topic in anthropological and historical investigations for the last several years. The contributors to this volume call attention to the symbolic meanings of animals, from the casting of first-year students as goats in medieval universities to the representation of vermin as greedy thieves in early modern England. But the essays in this volume are also concerned with the more material and bodily aspects of animal-human relations, like eating regulations, aggression, and transplanting of animal organs into human beings [xenotransplantation]. Modern biologists have increasingly problematized the human-animal boundary. Researchers have challenged the supposedly unique ability of humans to use language. Chimpanzees and gorillas, it has been argued, have learned to communicate using American Sign Language. In addition, some scientists regard the sophistication of modes of communication in species like dolphins and songbirds as undermining the view of humans as uniquely capable of complex expressions. As studies of nonhuman primates threaten to compromise the long-held assumption that only humans possess self-awareness. The question becomes: How can one firmly differentiate human beings from other animals.…

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Unpaginated. [pp. 141]. Square 8vo. White silk over boards with silver lettering to the spine, and front board. Replete with black-and-white, and colour photographs, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. The Future Office isn't a distant depiction of what the workplace can look like it's the best practices of today being amplified for the majority of the workplace as a whole tomorrow. The way computers are used in pretty much every business and help us achieve far more productivity than we could have twenty years ago, is the same as taking what is systematically working well in the office and watching it explode as the norm, as people discover it's untapped potential. When society as a whole can find a significant benefit from a relatively simple process change, we adapt, or as the social-media-era would put it we trend. "A quiet revolution is happening in the places we work. And this time, the transformation is only partly driven by technology. It's also a response to a new generation of workers with new ideas about life and work, ready and willing to abandon the conventions that have long governed office life the 9-to-5 workday, the coat and tie, the once-coveted private office. Change has come and we are just beginning to see what it will look like. …