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Focusing on the developing economic challenges confronting Korea
and the US in response to the aging of their populations, this
timely book examines how public policies are evolving in light of
demographic changes, the impact of aging on governmental
expenditures, and transitions in the labor force associated with
aging. International contributors comparatively analyze government
approaches to population aging, illustrating the similar challenges
faced across nations. Chapters draw attention to those particular
issues that public policy plans must surmount, including funding
pressures on retirement plans and the effects of an aging labor
force on economic growth and productivity. They offer evidence on
the scale of these challenges in Korea and the US and empirically
evaluate how governments, employers, and individuals may respond to
these issues in the years to come. Addressing fiscal sustainability
and key social security programs, including the implications of the
2015 Korean pension reform and the economic difficulties entailed
by the future of Medicare, this book investigates the implications
of managing and sustaining welfare for an aging population. This
cutting-edge book will be ideal reading for economists focusing on
public policy and welfare programs, benefiting from the comparative
approach to fiscal accountability and sustainability. It will also
appeal to practitioners and policymakers seeking insights into the
consequences of an aging population and hoping to develop
innovative methods and approaches to welfare.
This is the first in-depth study of Sharpeville, the South African township that was the site of the infamous police massacre of March 21, 1960, the event that prompted the United Nations to declare apartheid a "crime against humanity."
Voices of Sharpeville brings to life the destruction of Sharpeville’s predecessor, Top Location, and the careful planning of its isolated and carceral design by apartheid architects. A unique set of eyewitness testimonies from Sharpeville’s inhabitants reveals how they coped with apartheid and why they rose up to protest this system, narrating this massacre for the first time in the words of the participants themselves. Previously understood only through the iconic photos of fleeing protestors and dead bodies, the timeline is reconstructed using an extensive archive of new documentary and oral sources including unused police records, personal interviews with survivors and their families, and maps and family photos. By identifying nearly all the victims, many omitted from earlier accounts, the authors upend the official narrative of the massacre.
Amid worldwide struggles against racial discrimination and efforts to give voices to protestors and victims of state violence, this book provides a deeper understanding of this pivotal event for a newly engaged international audience.
Self-care is a topic that is often challenging in education.
Educators are required to learn to teach, advise, and cope with
organizational change as well as encourage their students to take
responsibility for their actions, say no, identify burnout,
establish a network of family and friends, schedule breaks, do
things they enjoy, and take care of themselves physically. However,
teachers often do not follow these guidelines themselves. It is
important that teachers allow themselves the time and space to do
the same things that they insist their students do. Moreover, it is
important that administrators recognize and support these efforts
as well. Self-Care and Stress Management for Academic Well-Being
discusses why self-care for educators is needed in order for them
to sustain the growth of the students at their institutions. It
explores the ways in which educators devote themselves to helping
students develop their creativity and their academic voices but do
not always give themselves the same permission. Covering a range of
topics such as physical care, stress, and self-advocacy, this
reference work is ideal for researchers, academicians,
practitioners, scholars, administrators, instructors, and students.
The implications of the Queen Bee Syndrome matter greatly in higher
education as women in higher education come well prepared; however,
they may not be ready for the lack of support from female
colleagues and may have increased intentions to quit their current
jobs in response to unpleasant experiences. Due to this, further
study is required in order to improve workplace culture in higher
education. Addressing the Queen Bee Syndrome in Academia: Searching
for Sisterhood in the Professoriate discusses the Queen Bee
Syndrome and the relationships between women in higher education
settings, as well as their paths to leadership positions. Covering
key topics such as bullying, sisterhood, intimidation, and gender
bias, this premier reference source is ideal for administrators,
policymakers, scholars, researchers, academicians, practitioners,
instructors, and students.
This study was well-established as a pioneer work on archaeological
methodology, the theoretical basis of all archaeological analysis
whatever the period or era. The first edition of the book presented
and evaluated the radical changes in methodology which derived from
developments in other disciplines, such as cybernetics, computer
science and geography, during the 1950s and '60s. It argued that
archaeology was a coherent discipline with its own methods and
procedures and attempted to define the entities (attributes,
artefacts, types, assemblages, cultures and culture groups)
rigorously and consistently so that they could be applied to
archaeological data. The later edition continued the same general
theory, which is unparalleled in its scope and depth, adding notes
to help understanding of the advances in method and theory to
support the student and professional archaeologist. Review of the
original publication: "One might venture that this is the most
important archaeological work for twenty or thirty years, and it
will undoubtedly influence several future generations of
archaeologists." The Times Literary Supplement
The poems in this collection have to do with the passing of time -
its relentlessness, speed and events - and people facing sadness,
humor, joy, social upheavals such as wars, inequities, corruption,
goodness, apprehensions about life and death, love, hatred, dreams,
disappointments, fears, injustices, blessings, sacrifice, sloth,
industriousness, physical impairments/strengths, spirituality, God,
worry, specific battles in various wars, elation, jealousy, greed,
generosity, meanness, aging - in short, the everyday
happenings/abstractions that, totaled, simply make life what it is
for everyone, both individually and collectively. While the book
includes both free verse and traditional poetry as defined
consensually, most of the poems feature rhythm and rhyme, not the
sing-song type of thing, but serious and consistent style
presenting subjects in a manner conducive to reading them aloud and
remembering. Though this is a departure from the styles mostly in
vogue today, it features form that has withstood the testing of
time while demanding more of the creator, just as in the case of
classical music - perhaps an interesting change of pace for the
reader.
The similarities between the United States and South Africa with
respect to race, power, oppression and economic inequities are
striking, and a better understanding of these parallels can provide
educational gains for students and educators in both countries.
Through shared experiences and perspectives, this volume presents
scholarly work from U.S. and South African scholars that advance
educational practice in support of social justice and
transformative learning. It provides a comprehensive framework for
developing transformational learning experiences that facilitates
leadership for social justice, and a deeper understanding of the
factors influencing personal, national and global identity.
Unlike humans, Lucifer is ineligible for redemption and therefore
doomed to eternal hell. Playing on God's sense of fairness, Lucifer
appeals to the Archangel Michael for a chance to redeem himself by
turning a person he corrupted into a paragon of virtue. Against his
own wishes, Michael makes the deal. However, since moral perfection
is impossible for anyone, he decrees that Lucifer must attain
redemption by seeing that his subject does not break nine of the
Ten Commandments
We as individuals share the world with others we fear, hate, or
envy. We inhabit the earth with individuals we respect, love, and
admire. There are many individuals we can't quite figure out and
this makes us disregard them. Why is it that we spend the most
physical and mental energy on those individuals who fall into the
negative categories of fear, hate, or envy? In this collection of
essays, Leonard Clark explores the philosophical, psychological,
political, and cultural manifestations of these negative emotional
states. Why are we all so paranoid, irritated and agitated?
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Boxford (Hardcover)
Martha L Clark, Brenda Moore Stickney
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R627
Discovery Miles 6 270
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Clarke examines the role of North American and European armed
forces in support of civil authorities in domestic contingencies.
He seeks to answer the question of what roles are - and are not -
appropriate for contemporary armed forces in carrying out task and
functions within national borders. The book takes as its starting
point, two key elements in the North American and European security
debate: the decline of both the external threats to most North
American and European states and that of budgetary resources
available for defense. These twin declines are coupled with a
desire on the part of civil leaders to engage the military in more
domestic tasks and the desire of senior military leaders to
preserve force structure, resulting in a dynamic in which civil
leaders will ask their militaries to do more, and military leaders
will be more inclined to say yes. As such, this book focuses on the
enormous increase in the provision of non-military services and
support asked of North American and European military
establishments. Looking at the historical context for how North
America's and Europe's armed forces have been employed in the past,
this book establishes guidelines for their employment in the
future.
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