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Identity matters. Who we are in terms of our intersecting
identities such as gender, race, social class, (dis)ability,
geography, and religion are integral to who we are and how we
navigate work and life. Unfortunately, many people have yet to
grasp this understanding and, as a result, so many of our work
spaces lack appropriate responses to what this means. Therefore,
Identity Intersectionalities, Mentoring, and Work?life (Im)
balance: Educators (Re)negotiate the Personal, Professional, and
Political, the most recent installment of the work?life balance
series, uses an intersectional perspective to critically examine
the concept of work?life balance. In an effort to build on the
first book in the series, that focused on professors in educational
leadership preparation programs, the authors here represent
educators across the P?20 pipeline (primary and secondary schools
in addition to higher education). This book is also unique in that
it includes the voices of practitioners, students, and academics
from a variety of related disciplines within the education
profession, enabling the editors to include a diverse group of
educators whose many voices speak to work?life balance in unique
and very personal ways. Contributing authors challenge whether the
concept of work?life balance might be conceived as a privileged
-and even an impractical?endeavor. Yet, the bottom line is,
conceptions of work?life balance are exceptionally complex and vary
widely depending on one's many roles and intersecting identities.
Moreover, this book considers how mentoring is important to
negotiating the politics that come with balancing work and life;
especially, if those intersecting identities are frequently
associated with unsolicited stereotypes that impede upon one's
academic, professional and personal pursuits in life. Finally, the
editors argue that the power to authentically "be ourselves" is not
only important to individual success, but also beneficial to
fostering an institutional culture and climate that is truly
supportive of and responsive to diversity, equity, and justice.
Taken together, the voices in this book are a clarion call for P?12
and higher education professionals and organizations to envision
how identity intersectionalities might become an every?day
understanding, a normalized appreciation, and a customary
commitment that translates into policy and practice.
Medical social work in Singapore traces its roots to the post-war
period. This textbook documents the historical development and
evolution of the medical social work profession in Singapore, as
well as the specialist work done in the profession.The first part
of the book gives an overview to the field in Singapore. It
provides information which is considered as fundamental and core to
medical social workers across the various medical or healthcare
settings. The second part focuses on the selected practice areas
and adopts an integral approach to discuss theory and practice.This
book is essential for social work students who wish to learn from a
range of examples of good social work practice, presented from
human developmental perspectives and in sufficient breadth to
provide a reasonable overview of social work practice in health
care. This book also provides added lens for medical, nursing and
other allied health students and practitioners who wish to better
understand their patients and families.
This book assesses the human rights condition in the People's
Republic of China during 1993-94, focusing on how abuses have
engendered difficulties for Bejing in international relations. It
considers changes in the political and legal systems and Communist
ideology (more correctly, its demise) in its appraisal. These, the
authors contend, are causative factors of human rights abuses and
need to be understood to put the human rights situation in its
proper perspective. Such matters as crime, forced labor, and
executions are examined in detail to deliniate the worst kinds of
human rights abuses as well as current trends. Dissidents,
religious advocates, and intellectuals are also a focus of
attention. Copublished with the East Asia Research Institute.
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Internet of Vehicles. Technologies and Services for Smart Cities - 4th International Conference, IOV 2017, Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Sheng-Lung Peng, Guan-Ling Lee, Reinhard Klette, Ching-Hsien Hsu
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R1,620
Discovery Miles 16 200
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International
Conference on Internet of Vehicles, IOV 2017, held in Kanazawa,
Japan, in November 2017. The 19 papers presented in this volume
were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They deal
with advances in the state of the art and practice of the IoV
architectures, protocols, services and applications, as well as
identifying emerging research topics and define the future
directions of Internet of Vehicles.
Identity matters. Who we are in terms of our intersecting
identities such as gender, race, social class, (dis)ability,
geography, and religion are integral to who we are and how we
navigate work and life. Unfortunately, many people have yet to
grasp this understanding and, as a result, so many of our work
spaces lack appropriate responses to what this means. Therefore,
Identity Intersectionalities, Mentoring, and Work?life (Im)
balance: Educators (Re)negotiate the Personal, Professional, and
Political, the most recent installment of the work?life balance
series, uses an intersectional perspective to critically examine
the concept of work?life balance. In an effort to build on the
first book in the series, that focused on professors in educational
leadership preparation programs, the authors here represent
educators across the P?20 pipeline (primary and secondary schools
in addition to higher education). This book is also unique in that
it includes the voices of practitioners, students, and academics
from a variety of related disciplines within the education
profession, enabling the editors to include a diverse group of
educators whose many voices speak to work?life balance in unique
and very personal ways. Contributing authors challenge whether the
concept of work?life balance might be conceived as a privileged
-and even an impractical?endeavor. Yet, the bottom line is,
conceptions of work?life balance are exceptionally complex and vary
widely depending on one's many roles and intersecting identities.
Moreover, this book considers how mentoring is important to
negotiating the politics that come with balancing work and life;
especially, if those intersecting identities are frequently
associated with unsolicited stereotypes that impede upon one's
academic, professional and personal pursuits in life. Finally, the
editors argue that the power to authentically "be ourselves" is not
only important to individual success, but also beneficial to
fostering an institutional culture and climate that is truly
supportive of and responsive to diversity, equity, and justice.
Taken together, the voices in this book are a clarion call for P?12
and higher education professionals and organizations to envision
how identity intersectionalities might become an every?day
understanding, a normalized appreciation, and a customary
commitment that translates into policy and practice.
Full of juicy details about what really goes on behind the bedroom
door, "The Education of a Very Young Madam" is a provocative expose
of the newest developments in the world's oldest profession.
A stripper at age fifteen, involved with majorleague gang
members before she was twenty, and a madam raking in over $20,000 a
day only a few years later, Ma-Ling Lee has a tale to tell about
life.
"The Education of a Very Young Madam" is the compulsively
readable, fast-paced story of how Ma-Ling Lee went from living in a
comfortable Connecticut suburb to founding a lucrative but illegal
"escort service."
Korean born and adopted by an American family, Ma-Ling began her
career in the sex business at the age of thirteen. "Taken in" by
strippers, pimps, and prostitutes, she soon became an expert at
negotiating the hard-and-fast ways of life on the streets.
Ma-Ling's natural knack for marketing and managing a business
led her to open her first brothel at the age of sixteen. After the
police shut her down, she knew it was time to take advantage of the
opportunities afforded by the anonymity of the Internet. She bought
her first Internet mailing list, set up an offshore server, and
targeted a huge middleclass clientele.
And business thrived.
In her own frank and candid voice, Ma-Ling describes the
difficulties -- and the economic advantages -- of running an
illegal business. From clients' outrageous and often hilarious
fetishes to the hardships of living off the grid to the heartbreak
of watching friends get destroyed by drug addiction, Ma-Ling
refuses to shy away from the truth of what the prostitution
business has become. The madam explains how technology has not only
revolutionized the sex industry but also regulated business by
ensuring quality, safety, and efficiency.
The business has never been better.
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