Allison E Carter

The Social Construction of Trust

The New Manager's Workbook: A Crash Course in Effective Management

The New Manager's Workbook: A Crash course in Effective Management is a workbook and guidebook to help new managers navigate the intricacies and pitfalls of being at a position of power over employees. Most everyone has experienced a manager who falls at one extreme or another, from the angry micro-...

Sync or Swim: 201 Organizing Tips You Need to Survive the Currents of Change

We live in a world of technology marvels, but it hasn’t necessarily meant less to do. We still have to take out the “old school” garbage plus “new school” garbage: trashing electronic files, shredding sensitive information, and blocking spam. We buy tools, gadgets and gizmos for more productivity, b...

A Fixed, Formal Arragement (Trenchart: Tracer Series)

Poetry. Fiction. Thalia Field says, "Allison Carter writes the small and indelible installments of domestic life; what fits in a pocket, a post-it, just below the radar. In lovely prose, she challenges us to imagine the bigger picture just outside the frame. [...] There is something both eerie and r...

The Social Construction of Trust (Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice)

Based on in-depth interviews designed to determine what trust is, how it is built, and how it is destroyed, this important new resource provides extensive insight into the fundamental process of interpersonal trust in the day-to-day lives of average people. It furnishes qualitative data analysis and...