James Ferguson Livres

Focusing on employee engagement, this guide by James Ferguson offers hotel managers strategies to enhance team contributions and foster a strong company culture. It emphasizes the importance of valuing employees, enabling them to excel, and aligning priorities to improve overall financial performance. The book provides a measurable framework for creating a workplace where employees feel empowered and motivated to deliver their best every day. Additional resources are available to support the implementation of these concepts.

Development, it is generally assumed, is good and necessary, and in its name the West has intervened, implementing all manner of projects in the impoverished regions of the world. When these projects fail, as they do with astonishing regularity, they nonetheless produce a host of regular and unacknowledged effects, including the expansion of bureaucratic state power and the translation of the political realities of poverty and powerlessness into "technical" problems awaiting solution by "development" agencies and experts. It is the political intelligibility of these effects, along with the process that produces them, that this book seeks to illuminate through a detailed case study of the workings of the "development" industry in one country, Lesotho, and in one "development" project. Using an anthropological approach grounded in the work of Foucault, James Ferguson analyzes the institutional framework within which such projects are crafted and the nature of "development discourse," revealing how it is that, despite all the "expertise" that goes into formulating development projects, they nonetheless often demonstrate a startling ignorance of the historical and political realities of the locale they are intended to help. In a close examination of the attempted implementation of the Thaba-Tseka project in Lesotho, Ferguson shows how such a misguided approach plays out, how, in fact, the "development" apparatus in Lesotho acts as an "anti-politics machine," everywhere whisking political realities out of sight and all the while performing, almost unnoticed, its own pre-eminently political operation of strengthening the state presence in the local region.James Ferguson is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California at Irvine.

DIVA collection of Ferguson's essays that bring the question of Africa into the center of current debates on globalization, modernity, and emerging forms of world order./div

First published in the mid-18th century, 'Ferguson's Astronomy' is a classic work of scientific inquiry that helped popularize the groundbreaking ideas of Sir Isaac Newton. Written by James Ferguson, a self-taught astronomer and instrument maker, this book offers a detailed account of the principles of modern astronomy, as well as the technological innovations that made these discoveries possible. With its clear prose and wealth of illustrations, Ferguson's work remains a landmark achievement in the history of science.

This collection of historical documents sheds light on the experiences of the Scots Brigade, a regiment of Scottish soldiers who served in the Dutch Republic for over two centuries. The papers included in this volume provide a detailed account of the Brigade's involvement in some of the most significant military conflicts of the early modern period.

The narrative intertwines the lives of two Scottish soldiers from different eras: one from 1688 and the Battle of Blenheim, and the other from the American Revolution. Additionally, it explores the legacy of a Jacobite laird and his ancestors. This historical account offers insights into the experiences and struggles faced by these characters, providing a rich tapestry of Scottish military history. The book is a faithful reprint of the original 1888 edition, preserving its historical significance and storytelling.