1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455757603321

Autore

Turner Mark

Titolo

The literary mind [[electronic resource] /] / Mark Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c1996

ISBN

0-19-985300-2

0-585-33801-9

0-19-802640-4

1-280-45255-2

1-60256-112-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Disciplina

801/.92

Soggetti

Cognitive science

Literature - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Bedtime with Shahrazad; 2 Human Meaning; 3 Body Action; 4 Figured Tales; 5 Creative Blends; 6 Many Spaces; 7 Single Lives; 8 Language; Notes; Further Reading on Image Schemas; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X

Sommario/riassunto

We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop's Fables or The Thousand and One Nights, for example, as exotic tales set in strange lands, with spectacular images, talking animals, and fantastic plots--wonderful entertainments, often insightful, but well removed from logic and science, and entirely foreign to the world of everyday thought. But Mark Turner argues that this common wisdom is wrong. The



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910986145503321

Autore

Vries Michiel S. de <1957->

Titolo

35 Years of Public Sector Reform in Central Europe / / by Michiel S. de Vries, Juraj Nemec

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025

ISBN

9783031806681

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 pages)

Collana

Governance and Public Management, , 2524-7298

Altri autori (Persone)

NemecJuraj <1960->

Disciplina

320.6

Soggetti

Political planning

Public administration

Europe - History

Public Policy

Public Administration

European History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Institutional drivers of reforms and reformism -- 3. The development in the goals of reforms -- 4. Reform processes in practice: decentralization and recentralization -- 5. Reform processes in practice: towards and away from principles of good governance -- 6. Reform processes in practice: improving public service delivery -- 7. Reflections and Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines public administration reforms in Central and Eastern Europe during the last three decades. After 1989, so-called socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe started their transformation from centralistic to democratic societies. Their public administration systems changed dramatically, to adopt new norms and principles. Focusing on current EU-member states in the region, the book identifies similarities and differences in their public administrative reforms. Paying particular attention to three policy areas – education, health care, and local services – it assesses the historical roots of public administrative reforms, and how the legacy of being former members of the Warsaw Pact are still visible. The book argues that there are



important differences between administrations in Central and Eastern European countries compared to older EU-member states, and that even within these countries, significant differences can be seen between developments and administrative reforms at the national and local level. It concludes by assessing the implications of these arguments for candidate EU members, and the complexities and pitfalls they might encounter in this process. Michiel S. de Vries is Professor of Public Administration at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, and Emeritus Professor at Radboud University, the Netherlands. Juraj Nemec is Professor of Public Finance and Public Management, Masaryk University, Czechia. .