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\"Making Sense of Change Management is the best-selling classic text, providing a thorough overview of the subject of change for both students and professionals. Along with explaining the theory and practice of change management and comprehensively covering the models, tools, and techniques of successful change management, this completely revised and updated fourth edition includes more international examples and case studies throughout the book. The chapter on cultural change has been re-written to reflect the emerging new thinking and practice in this area, offering ways to help managers implement cultural change processes within their organization. It also explores cultural sensitivity and what to do when cultures collide.Additionally, the chapter on IT based process change has now been replaced with one on the inter-relationship with project management (PM) and change management. It defines \"project success,\" explains how PM approaches are increasingly being used to manage transformational change, and covers complexity models, agile approaches, and stakeholder management.With free online resources for professors/instructors, this is an ideal textbook for MBA or graduate students focusing on leading or managing change\"-- Provided by publisher.

Garnet-inlaid metalwork was an emblem of elite culture in the early medieval North Sea world. This study compares three Anglo-Saxon garnet-inlaid brooches that are exceptionally similar in design and appearance. All three date to the seventh century, a period that saw the emergence of leading families that used such deluxe dress items to enhance their political position. The central hypothesis explored here is that the brooches were produced by the same, or by closely linked, goldsmiths working under the patronage of such a family. Integrated analysis was conducted using microscopy, CT scans, XRF and XRD, in part to establish whether the garnets used came from the same or different sources.

The seventh-century ship burial at Sutton Hoo Mound 1, excavated in 1939, contained an impressive display of gold, silver and bronze objects, weapons and other offerings. Organic materials such as wood, textiles and leather were also present. The leather items were studied, and the results published in 1983, when two pairs of shoes were identified from the extremely fragmented remains that survived. Recently, a reassessment of the leather fragments revised the identification to two bags and a single pair of shoes. Multiple reconstruction techniques, developed over the last twenty years, were used to examine the leather fragments and associated metal fittings to provide a new understanding of the leather items and how they had been placed in the burial.

In 2009, a metal-detector find of a rare garnet-inlaid composite disc brooch at West Hanney, Oxfordshire, led to the excavation of an apparently isolated female burial sited in a prominent position overlooking the Ock valley. The burial dates to the middle decades of the seventh century, a period of rapid socio-political development in the region, which formed the early heartland of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. The de luxe brooch links the wearer to two other burials furnished with very similar brooches at Milton, some 10km to the east and only c 1km from the Anglo-Saxon great hall complex at Sutton Courtenay / Drayton, just south of Abingdon. All three women must have been members of the region’s politically dominant group, known as the Gewisse. The burial’s grave goods and setting add a new dimension to our understanding of the richly furnished female burials that are such a prominent feature of the funerary record of seventh-century England. En 2009, un rare exemple de fibule circulaire composite incrustée de grenats fut découvert au moyen d’un détecteur de métaux à West Hanney, dans l’Oxfordshire. Cette trouvaille a entraîné la fouille d’une sépulture féminine apparemment isolée, située un endroit proéminent donnant sur la vallée de l’Ock. La sépulture date des décennies du milieu du viie siècle, période d’expansion socio-politique rapide dans la région, qui forma au début le cœur du royaume anglo-saxon de Wessex. Cette fibule somptueuse relie sa propriétaire à deux autres sépultures qui recélaient des fibules très semblables et ont été découvertes à Milton, à environ 10km à l’est et à seulement 1km du « Great Hall » complex (Complexe de la grande salle) de Sutton Courtenay / Drayton, tout de suite au sud d’Abingdon. Ces trois femmes devaient être membres de la classe politique dominante de la région, les Gewissae. Le mobilier funéraire découvert dans la sépulture ainsi que son cadre apportent une dimension nouvelle à ce que nous savons sur les sépultures féminines richement garnies si caractéristiques des vestiges funéraires de l’Angleterre du viie siècle. Als im Jahr 2009 eine äußerst seltene, mit Granaten eingelegte Scheibenfibel aus Verbundstoff mit einem Metalldetektor in West Hanney, Oxfordshire, gefunden wurde, hatte dies die Ausgrabung einer scheinbar abgesonderten weiblichen Grabanlage in einer dominanten Lage über dem Ock-Tal zur Folge. Die Beisetzung geht auf die mittleren Jahrzehnte des siebten Jahrhunderts zurück, auf eine Zeit rapider gesellschaftspolitischer Entwicklungen in der Region, die das frühe Herzland des angelsächsischen Königreichs von Wessex bildete. Die luxuriöse Fibel stellt eine Beziehung der Trägerin zu zwei anderen Beisetzungen mit sehr ähnlichen Fibeln in Milton her, das rund 10km östlich davon und nur ca. 1km vom angelsächsischen Palaskomplex in Sutton Courtenay / Drayton, südlich von Abingdon liegt. Alle drei Frauen gehörten mit ziemlicher Gewissheit der politisch dominanten Gruppe in der Region, Gewisse genannt, an. Die Grabbeigaben in der Grabstätte und deren Lage verleihen unserem Verständnis von den reich ausgestatteten weiblichen Grabstätten, die für die Bestattungskultur Englands im siebten Jahrhundert ein so vorstehendes Merkmal sind, eine ganz neue Dimension.

In 2009, a metal-detector find of a rare garnet-inlaid composite disc brooch at West Hanney, Oxfordshire, led to the excavation of an apparently isolated female burial sited in a prominent position overlooking the Ock valley. The burial dates to the middle decades of the seventh century, a period of rapid socio-political development in the region, which formed the early heartland of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. The de luxe brooch links the wearer to two other burials furnished with very similar brooches at Milton, some 10km to the east and only c 1km from the Anglo-Saxon great hall complex at Sutton Courtenay / Drayton, just south of Abingdon. All three women must have been members of the regions politically dominant group, known as the Gewisse. The burials grave goods and setting add a new dimension to our understanding of the richly furnished female burials that are such a prominent feature of the funerary record of seventh-century England. (Author abstract)