Space in the Tropics from Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana or Interviewing

Space in the Tropics - from Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana

Author: Peter Redfield

Rockets roar into space--bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites--from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two disparate European projects in French Guiana a gleaming web of ideas about the intersections of nature and culture. In comparing the Franco-European Ariane rocket program with the earlier penal experiment, Redfield connects the myth of Robinson Crusoe, nineteenth-century prison reform, the Dreyfus Affair, tropical medicine, postwar exploration of outer space, satellite technology, development, and ecotourism with a focus on place, and the incorporation of this particular place into greater extended systems. Examining the wider context of the Ariane program, he argues that technology and nature must be understood within a greater ecology of displacement and makes a case for the importance of margins in understanding the trajectories of modern life.

Interesting book: No Salt Lowest Sodium Baking Book or Happiest Baby on the Block

Interviewing: Principles and Practices

Author: Charles J Stewart

The most widely-used text for the interviewing course, Interviewing: Principles and Practices offers comprehensive coverage of a wide range of interviews, as well as the most thorough treatment of the basics of interviewing (including the complex interpersonal communication process, types and uses of questions, and the structuring of interviews from opening to closing). Relevant theory is carefully integrated as a foundation for the practical aspects of interviewing--for both the interviewer and the interviewee. The 11th edition continues to reflect the growing sophistication with which interviewing is being approached, the ever-expanding body of research on all types of interview settings, recent interpersonal communication theory, and the effect of equal opportunity laws on interviewing practices.

Table of Contents:

	An introduction to interviewing	1
	The essential elements of interviews	1
	A relational form of communication	4
	Electronic interviews	7
	An interpersonal communication process	15
	Two parties in the interview	15
	Interchanging roles during interviews	15
	Perceptions of interviewer and interviewee	18
	Communication interactions	20
	Feedback	29
	The interview situation	33
	Questions and their uses	47
	Open and closed questions	48
	Primary and secondary questions	51
	Neutral and leading questions	57
	Common question pitfalls	60
	Structuring the interview	69
	Opening the interview	69
	The body of the interview	76
	Closing the interview	84
	The probing interview	95
	Preparing the interview	95
	Selecting interviewees and interviewers	99
	Conducting the interview	102
	Preparing the report or story	113
	The interviewee in the probing interview	114
	The survey interview	125
	Purpose and research	125
	Structuring the interview	127
	Survey questions	129
	Selecting interviewees	138
	Selecting and training interviewers	141
	Conducting survey interviews	143
	Coding, tabulation, and analysis	145
	The respondent in survey interviews	147
	The recruiting interview	157
	Recruiting in a rapidly changing world	157
	Preparing the recruiting effort	159
	Obtaining and reviewing information on applicants	166
	Structuring the interview	170
	Conducting the interview	173
	Evaluating the interview	180
	The employment interview	191
	Where are the jobs?	192
	Analyzing yourself	192
	Doing your homework	194
	Conducting the search	199
	Preparing credentials	204
	Creating a favorable first impression	214
	Answering questions	217
	Asking questions	224
	The closing	227
	Evaluation and follow-up	227
	The performance interview	237
	New visions for new organizations	238
	Preparing for the performance interview	239
	Selecting an appropriate review model	243
	Conducting the performance review interview	251
	The employee in the performance review	255
	The performance problem interview	256
	The persuasive interview : the persuader	269
	Five interrelated conditions for persuasion	269
	The ethics of persuasion	270
	Analyzing the interviewee	271
	Studying the situation	274
	Researching the issue	275
	Planning the interview	276
	Structuring the interview	279
	Conducting the interview	285
	The persuasive interview : the persuadee	301
	Be a responsible participant	301
	Be an informed participant	303
	Be a critical participant	308
	Be an active participant	311
	The counseling interview	319
	Preparing for the counseling interview	319
	Structuring the interview	323
	Conducting the interview	327
	The health care interview	341
	Changing views on the health care interview	341
	Creating a collaborative relationship	343
	Opening the interview	347
	Getting information	349
	Giving information	353
	Counseling and persuading	357