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"Second Changes" begins a narrative describing the events
surrounding the resettlement of German refugees throughout the
cosmos following World War II. Their patrons unwittingly unlease
the evil of Naziism, while at the same time establishing a new
Germania founded on the principles of peace and harmony.
Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academia: A Cultured Critique
is different in that it calls attention to the role mentoring has
played on the "glass ceiling" phenomenon in higher education.
Narratives by and about the experiences of women of diverse
backgrounds in the United States and beyond the borders of this
nation shed needed light on the ways in which mentoring influences
identity formation and internal coping mechanisms in environments
often characterized by marginalization. Through these narratives,
these women serve as "quasi mentors" and create spaces for other
women to survive and thrive within the educational arena. This text
honors and extends previous work on the experiences of women
academics from diverse backgrounds. Through this book, there is a
call for new ways of understanding the vital role that narratives
play in speaking truth to the power of mentoring. The insights
present an expose of the extent to which politics, policies, and
equity agendas for mentoring have supported or failed women.
Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves
as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society
and television's prominent voice and place in the home, it is
likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories.
These narratives are not simply entertainment, but powerful
socializing agents that shape and reflect the world and our role in
it. Television and the Self: Knowledge, Identity, and Media
Representation brings together a diverse group of scholars to
investigate the role television plays in shaping our understanding
of self and family. This edited collection's rich and diverse
research demonstrates how television plays an important role in
negotiating self, and goes far beyond the treacly "very special"
episodes found in family sit-coms in the 1980s. Instead, the
authors show how television reflects our reality and helps us to
sort out what it means to be a twenty-first-century man or woman.
The chapters in this volume address a variety of issues surrounding
quotation, such as whether it is a pragmatic or semantic
phenomenon, what varieties of quotation exist, and what speech acts
are involved in quoting. Quotation poses problems for many
prevailing theories of language. One fundamental principle is that
for a language to be learnable, speakers must be able to derive the
truth-conditions of sentences from the meanings of their parts.
Another popular view is that indexical expressions like "I" display
a certain fixity -- that they always refer to the speaker using
them. Both of these tenets appear to be violated by quotation. This
volume is suitable for scholars in philosophy of language,
semantics, and pragmatics, and for graduate students in philosophy
and linguistics. The book will also be useful for researchers in
other fields that study quotation, including psychology and
computer science.
This study examines France's determination to remain aloof and
unaffected as the world economy threatens the French way of doing
business. Describing the difficulty in initiating change in French
organizations, the author tells of the obstacles he encountered in
attempting to modernize the working practices of a Paris firm. His
observations are based upon customs and habits peculiar to the
French, yet they apply equally to all foreign cultures. Management
methods, attitudes to the outside world, and the historic roots of
the French mentality are viewed and explained anecdotally, based on
the author's experience of living and working in France, and are
accompanied by humorous illustrations.
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