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1. The Lean Practitioner Handbook

   By Charles Protzman, Fred Whiton, Joyce Kerpchar, Christopher Lewandowski, Steve Stenberg, Patrick Grounds

   This book introduces a concept call the Lean Practitioner. Unlike Six Sigma, there have not been great strides in standardizing Lean Practices. While there are Lean Certification programs, most companies have their own internal certification training paths or in most cases "job description" for...

   To Be Published November 25th 2013 by Productivity Press
2. Material Powers

   Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn

   Edited by Tony Bennett, Patrick Joyce

   Series: CRESC

   This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a ‘material turn’ in the social sciences and humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organization of state...

   Published October 3rd 2010 by Routledge
3. The Social in Question

   New Bearings

   Edited by Patrick Joyce

   With postmodernism has come the questioning of the very idea of 'the social'. Thinkers form across the social sciences and humanities now agree that this one foundational concept can no longer be taken for granted as an objective or real characteristic of the world. However, their uncertainty has...

   Published January 9th 2002 by Routledge