The authors examine the nature of the relationship between social science and philosophy and address the sort of work social science should do, and the role and sorts of claims that an accompanying philosophy should engage in. In particular, the authors reintroduce the question of ontology, an area long overlooked by philosophers of social science, and present a cricital engagement with the work of Roy Bhaskar. The book argues against the excesses of philosophising and commits itself to a philosophical approach more deeply grounded in the social sciences.

Colleges and universities benefit from diversity in their leadership roles and profess to value diversity - of thought, of experience, of person. Yet why do women remain under-represented in top academic leadership positions and in key positions along the academic career ladder?Why don't they advance at a rate proportional to that of their male peers? How do internal and external environmental contexts still influence who enters academic leadership and who survives and thrives in those roles?""Women in Academic Leadership"" complements its companion volumes in the ""Women in Academe"" series, provoking readers to think critically about the gendered nature of academic leadership across the spectrum of institutional types. It argues that leadership, the academy, and the nexus of academic leadership, remain gendered structures steeped in male-oriented norms and mores. Blending research and reflection, it explores the barriers and dilemmas that these structures present and the professional strategies and the personal choices women make in order to successfully surmount them.The authors pose questions about how women leaders negotiate between their public and private selves. They consider how women develop a vital sense of self-efficacy along with the essential skills and knowledge they need in order to lead effectively; how they cultivate opportunity; and how they gain legitimacy and maintain authenticity in a male-gendered arena.For those who seek to create an institutional environment conducive to equity and opportunity, this book offers insight into the pervasive barriers facing women of all colors and evidence of the need for a more complex, multi-dimensional view of leadership. For women in academe who seek to reach their professional potential and maintain authenticity, it offers encouragement and a myriad of strategies for their growth and development.

The authors examine the relationship between social science and philosophy and ask what sort of work social science and an accompanying philosophy should do. They reintroduce the question of ontology, through the work of Roy Bhaskar. The book argues against philosophising and is committed to a philosophical approach grounded in the social sciences.

Over 100 recipes to get up and running with the modern Linux administration ecosystem Key Features Understand and implement the core system administration tasks in Linux Discover tools and techniques to troubleshoot your Linux system Maintain a healthy system with good security and backup practices Book DescriptionLinux is one of the most widely used operating systems among system administrators,and even modern application and server development is heavily reliant on the Linux platform. The Linux Administration Cookbook is your go-to guide to get started on your Linux journey. It will help you understand what that strange little server is doing in the corner of your office, what the mysterious virtual machine languishing in Azure is crunching through, what that circuit-board-like thing is doing under your office TV, and why the LEDs on it are blinking rapidly. This book will get you started with administering Linux, giving you the knowledge and tools you need to troubleshoot day-to-day problems, ranging from a Raspberry Pi to a server in Azure, while giving you a good understanding of the fundamentals of how GNU/Linux works. Through the course of the book, you'll install and configure a system, while the author regales you with errors and anecdotes from his vast experience as a data center hardware engineer, systems administrator, and DevOps consultant. By the end of the book, you will have gained practical knowledge of Linux, which will serve as a bedrock for learning Linux administration and aid you in your Linux journey. What you will learn Install and manage a Linux server, both locally and in the cloud Understand how to perform administration across all Linux distros Work through evolving concepts such as IaaS versus PaaS, containers, and automation Explore security and configuration best practices Troubleshoot your system if something goes wrong Discover and mitigate hardware issues, such as faulty memory and failing drives Who this book is forIf you are a system engineer or system administrator with basic experience of working with Linux, this book is for you.

Mordecai Palms has a very normal life. A normal family, a normal school. He has a semi-normal best friend. But that's exactly the problem. Normal has become boring. Mordecai decides to set out on a journey to escape normal. After meeting Petulia Finke, he discovers that there's so much more to life than normal. But as their journey goes on, Mordecai finds that an ancient curse isn't all just superstition. Mordecai struggles with the realization that everything that he knows of Petulia and her entire universe could be a lie.

Gruesome Twosome--Drew Ganson, Tiffany Roe--is a bullet-blazing, murder and mayhem-filled tragic love story. At the age of 10, After witnessing a police officer murder his mother, Drew stabs the police, bringing an attempted murder charge on his head. He is taken to juvenile lockup, where he is diagnosed as psychotic, and from there he sent to the state mental facility for juveniles, until after his 18th birthday. Tiffany Roe grew up poor in the mean, sanity-eating streets of the Chicago ghetto. At the age of 16, after being abused for so long, she goes on a revenge-filled rampage: killing her exes dogs, firebombing their homes and cars, beating up their girlfriends; then she slits the throat of one of her exes, earning herself an attmpter murder charge. Diagnosed as psychotic, she is sent to the state mental facility for juveniles. At the state mental facility, Drew and Tiffany fall madly n love, vowing to one another that, together, they were going to have a beautiful life: money, cars, a home, children. Released back onto the dream-devouring streets of Chicago, Drew & Tiffany so on come to believe that because they have been diagnosed as "psychotic," they will not get hired for good paying jobs; so, earning good money to help fullfil their dreams was not going to happen, therefore crushing their dreams. But refusing to let their dreams die, in a rob-'em-and-kill-'em fashion that would make Bonnie & Clyde look like clowns--in pursuit of their dreams--Drew and Tiffany go on a robbing and killing srpee, Gruesomely murdering all of their victims. In their robberies, they are successful, looting for bags of bucks. Feeling that they have made more than enough money from robbing to help make their dreams come true, Drew decides its time to stop, ready to pursue a life of happiness with the woman he loves--Tiffany. But when the past pains confront the present predictaments...