Adopting an intersectional lens, this timely volume explores the lived experiences of members of the queer and trans community in post-secondary STEM culture in the US to provide critical insights into progressing socially just STEM education pathways. Offering contributions from students, faculty, practitioners, and administrators, the volume highlights prevailing issues of heteronormativity and marginalization across a range of STEM disciplines. Autoethnographic accounts place minority experiences within the broader context of social and cultural phenomena to reveal subtle and overt forms of exclusion, and systematic barriers to participation in STEM professions, academia, and research. Finally, the book offers key recommendations to inform future research and practice. This volume will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in higher education, engineering education, and the sociology of education more broadly. Those involved with diversity, equity, and inclusion within education, queer theory, and gender and sexuality studies will also benefit from this volume.

Advance Praise for "Informal Learning"

"The key to the twenty-first century will be in learning how to leverage informal learning for us all. Jay provides us with an evocative road map to how we can do this."
--John Seely Brown, coauthor, Social Life of Information, and former chief scientist, Xerox Corp.

"Informal learning is the perfect theme for exploring the next wave of our field. Jay Cross continues to push our thinking on the transformational forces of knowledge, learning, and performance. A must read!"
--Elliott Masie, founder, The MASIE Center's Learning CONSORTIUM

"In an outsourced, automated age, informal learning has become the key to high performance and personal fulfillment. And now Jay Cross has written the very best primer on this woefully neglected topic. This is a book for both sides of your brain!"
--Daniel H. Pink, author, "A Whole New Mind"

"Jay Cross provides an important challenge for us all--to move our focus from the classroom to the workplace, and in doing so, reframe what we do in ways that much more closely reflect how people actually learn and perform on the job. "Informal Learning" has profound implications for how we--from trainers to chief learning officers and from frontline business managers to executives--must rethink our ideas and practices, not in some distant future, but right now."
--Marc J. Rosenberg, management consultant, and author, "Beyond E-Learning"

"This book shows how informal learning experiences connect us with information, help us share ideas, and obtain new perspectives, and even help us create new knowledge together."
--Ellen Wagner, director, Worldwide eLearning, Adobe Systems

"The onesentence from this book that hit me like a train: 'Most corporations invest their training budget where it will have the least impact.' Wow. In an era of demanding ROI, shrinking budgets, and the insistence to do more with less, think of the impact that informal learning could have if it could truly focus learning and efforts for maximum impact."
--Mark Oehlert, learning strategy architect, Booz Allen Hamilton

A smart, small book for any manager s pocket. In every manager s career there are moments where decisions need to be made in order to achieve success and this smart, nicely packaged little book can be there to help each time. The trick to succeeding in these moments is to identify each of these situations ahead of time and understand how to act and what to do to reduce the chances of failure. That is exactly what The Little Black Book for Managers has done. The authors have listed a whole host of situations most managers face, based on thousands of personal experiences, and have mapped out how to deal with each situation. The book contains specific examples of words and phrases that can be used as well as illustrations and exercises to analyse your current performance. It is short on waffle and high on practical wisdom. It is designed to be dipped in and out of reached for whenever a situation arises. This is a practical support tool for managers at all levels, from shop-floor supervisor to main board director. The Little Black Book for Managers explains how to deal with scenarios such as; * Having a lack of confidence to deal with other people in the way that is needed * Times when you have to assert your authority more * Allocating critical work. Who to choose? * Needing to get extra effort from the team when under pressure * Incentivising * Delegation * Having to deal with under-performers * Personality clashes between work colleagues * Managing a meeting with senior leaders

Advice, information, and guidance on how to be a good parent and a good coach when involved in youth sports.

In 2009, Anna, Elizabeth and Debbie were called upon, by God, to do His will. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, they were able to save many souls and perform supernatural feats. They give all the glory to God and operate through the power of prayer. They are called Jesus' Angels. Their latest mission is to save a 15-year old girl named Astrid. A strong believer in Christ, she is in a constant struggle with her backslidden parents. To make matters worse, Astrid has been targeted. The Jesus' Angels are being watched by someone only known as the Hooded Man. Knowing everything about them, he waits patiently for them to make a mistake. When the sin of pride, fear and putting a relationship above God creeps its way into their hearts, the Hooded Man knows that it is time for his attack. Now, the Jesus' Angels must find a way to get over their sin and get back in God's grace so they can fight the Hooded Man and save Astrid from a horrible life. That can only be done by facing their Inner Demons.

And In The Elements Of Political Economy, By Ricardo. This Book Is In Two Volumes.

As a police officer, Debbie seeks justice against criminals. After capturing a thief and helping him turn to Jesus she receives the calling. As a reporter, Elizabeth seeks the truth in what she does. When she is fired by her boss for refusing his advances she receives the calling. As a nurse, Anna seeks mercy to all her patients. After saving the life of a gang member she receives the calling. God has called upon all three of them to be his angels on earth. Guided by a strange junk food addict, the three women seek out to find and save a man that the world has forgotten . . . but God hasn't.

And In The Elements Of Political Economy, By Ricardo. This Book Is In Two Volumes.