Bøker av Michael Burger

This collection of diverse primary sources introduces students to the essential skill of reading historical sources.

The heat of Chicago is a story of the fictional Cordoni mob family in Chicago in the 1920s. A man trying to put his life together get off track with the illegal goods, enough to keep his family above water during the prohibition and depression years.

Short and succinct, Reading History introduces students to different kinds of historical writing, acting as a guide to help them read and understand primary and secondary sources.

The Shaping of Western Civilization begins with the ancient Near East and ends with globalization. Unlike other textbooks that pile on dates and facts, Shaping is a more coherent and interpretive presentation.

This book investigates how bishops deployed reward and punishment to control their administrative subordinates in thirteenth-century England. Bishops had few effective avenues available to them for disciplining their clerks and rarely pursued them, preferring to secure their service and loyalty through rewards. The chief reward was the benefice, often granted for life. Episcopal administrators' security of tenure in these benefices, however, made them free agents, allowing them to transfer from diocese to diocese or even leave administration altogether; they did not constitute a standing episcopal civil service. This tenuous bureaucratic relationship made the personal relationship between bishop and clerk more important. Ultimately, many bishops communicated in terms of friendship with their administrators, who responded with expressions of devotion. Michael Burger's study brings together ecclesiastical, social, legal and cultural history, producing the first synoptic study of thirteenth-century English diocesan administration in decades. His research provides an ecclesiastical counterpoint to numerous studies of bastard feudalism in secular contexts.

Immer öfter entwickeln Menschen in helfenden Berufen ein Burnout-Syndrom. Zu den schwerwiegendsten Symptomen zählt dabei die emotionale Erschöpfung: Freude, Glück, Interesse und Wohlsein spielen keine Rolle mehr, Mitgefühl und Wertschätzung für andere gehen verloren. Diese Leere kann bis zum Suizid führen. Ärzte, Pflegepersonen und Therapeuten sind von dieser Gefahr besonders betroffen, wenn es ihnen nicht gelingt, die Ursachen des Burnouts zu erkennen und zu bewältigen. An sie richtet sich dieses Buch, das auf unkonventionelle und kreative Weise zur Selbstanalyse einlädt: Eine klinische Psychologin, ein Organisationsberater, ein Gruppendynamiker und ein Arzt geben praktische Anregungen, wie das innere Gleichgewicht und damit auch die Freude an Beruf und Privatleben wiederhergestellt werden können. Sie zeigen Wege auf, die aus dieser schwierigen Lebenssituation herausführen.Das Buch ist ein wertvoller Begleiter für alle, die neben ihrem beruflichen Einsatz für andere auch das eigene Wohlergehen nicht aus den Augen verlieren möchten.

The Shaping of Western Civilization: From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century begins with the ancient Near East and ends with the mid-eighteenth century. Unlike other textbooks that pile on dates and facts, Shaping is a more coherent and interpretive presentation.