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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 town halls and civic centres of the major towns and cities in
the North East of England are typically the grandest buildings in
the town and the primary statements of civic pride in the locality.
The buildings date from many different periods, from the Georgian
era to the present, and exhibit a wide range of architectural
styles, but all were built to demonstrate the confidence and
success of the region. In this book author Michael Johnson traces
the historical development of the town halls and civic centres of
the major conurbations in the region - Newcastle, Sunderland,
Durham, Middlesbrough, Gateshead, Jarrow, South Shields, North
Shields and Darlington. These buildings are extremely lavish and
well designed, and many replace older structures that were no
longer fit for purpose. They are also powerful statements of local
and regional pride. Together, they express the distinctive cultural
identity of the region. This book will be of interest to all those
who would like to know more about the history of the North-East of
England, as well as local architectural groups.
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.
Intersectional Media: Representations of Marginalized Identities
analyzes media depictions of a variety of intersecting identities.
Through a study examining how components of identity such as race,
class, ethnicity, age, ability, class, and sexuality mesh and form
a unique worldview, contributors to this collection frame their
understanding of media intersectionality as complex and
multi-layered studies of identity. Rather than focusing on any one
component of marginalized identity, this book broadens the scope of
inquiry and encourages audiences to recognize the complexity of
media analysis when a combination of marginalized identities is
depicted. Contributors demonstrate their understanding of how
different components of identity combine and create new, original
components of identity, paving the way for new studies of both
media and identity. Scholars of media studies, identity studies,
cultural studies, minority studies, gender studies, race studies,
and sociology will find this book particularly useful.
When Guinean Muslims leave their homeland, they encounter radically
new versions of Islam and new approaches to religion more
generally. In Remaking Islam in African Portugal, Michelle C.
Johnson explores the religious lives of these migrants in the
context of diaspora. Since Islam arrived in West Africa centuries
ago, Muslims in this region have long conflated ethnicity and
Islam, such that to be Mandinga or Fula is also to be Muslim. But
as they increasingly encounter Muslims not from Africa, as well as
other ways of being Muslim, they must question and revise their
understanding of "proper" Muslim belief and practice. Many men, in
particular, begin to separate African custom from global Islam.
Johnson maintains that this cultural intersection is highly
gendered as she shows how Guinean Muslim men in Lisbon-especially
those who can read Arabic, have made the pilgrimage to Mecca, and
attend Friday prayer at Lisbon's central mosque-aspire to be
cosmopolitan Muslims. By contrast, Guinean women-many of whom never
studied the Qur'an, do not read Arabic, and feel excluded from the
mosque-remain more comfortably rooted in African custom. In
response, these women have created a "culture club" as an
alternative Muslim space where they can celebrate life course
rituals and Muslim holidays on their own terms. Remaking Islam in
African Portugal highlights what being Muslim means in urban Europe
and how Guinean migrants' relationships to their ritual practices
must change as they remake themselves and their religion.
Michael Johnson is one of the world's leading graphic designers and
brand consultants. His studio, johnson banks, is responsible for
the rebranding of many notable clients, including Virgin Atlantic,
Think London, BFI, Christian Aid, and MORE TH>N, and he has
garnered a plethora of awards in the process. In Branding, Johnson
strips everyday brands down to their basic components, with case
studies that enable us to understand why we select one product or
service over another and allow us to comprehend how seemingly
subtle influences can affect key life decisions. The first part of
the book shows how the birth of a brand begins not with finding a
solution but rather with identifying the correct question the
missing gap in the market to which an answer is needed. Johnson
proceeds to unveil hidden elements involved in creating a
successful brand from the strapline that gives the brand a
narrative and a purpose to clever uses of typography that unite
design and language. With more than 1,000 illustrations showcasing
the world's most successful corporate identities, as well as
generic templates enabling you to create your own brand or ad with
ease, Branding explores every step of the development process
required to create the simplest and most immediately compelling
brands.
Paul Ricoeur's first book, Freedom and Nature, introduces many
themes that resurface in various ways throughout his later work,
but its significance has been mostly overlooked in the field of
Ricoeur studies. Gathering together an international group of
scholars, The Companion to Freedom and Nature is the first
book-length study to focus exclusively on Freedom and Nature. It
helps readers to understand this complex work by providing careful
textual analysis of specific arguments in the book and by situating
them in relation to Ricoeur's early influences, including
Merleau-Ponty, Nabert, and Ravaisson. But most importantly, this
book demonstrates that Freedom and Nature remains a compelling and
vital resource for readers today, precisely because it resonates
with recent developments in the areas of embodied cognition,
philosophical psychology, and philosophy of the will. Freedom and
Nature is fundamentally a book about embodiment, and it situates
the human body at the crossroads of activity and passivity,
motivation and causation, the voluntary and the involuntary. This
conception of the body informs Ricoeur's unique treatment of topics
such as effort, habit, and attention that are of much interest to
scholars today. Together the chapters of this book provide a
renewed appreciation of this important and innovative work.
A significant barrier to successful juvenile intervention is
misconduct committed against juveniles by the persons employed to
help them. Professional Misconduct with Juveniles explores the
nature of employee-on-youth misconduct, its extent, its
consequences, factors that increase its occurrence, and potential
solutions to the problem. Obviously, employee-on-youth misconduct
interferes with the effective treatment of delinquent and at-risk
youth, but it also harms the agency as a whole and creates a poor
working environment for all employees. Professional Misconduct with
Juveniles offers a practical, theory-based approach to preventing
or stopping such exploitation of vulnerable young men and women so
that we can focus on effective approaches to rehabilitation,
deterrence, and public safety.
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.
A significant barrier to successful juvenile intervention is
misconduct committed against juveniles by the persons employed to
help them. "Professional Misconduct with Juveniles" explores the
nature of employee-on-youth misconduct, its extent, its
consequences, factors that increase its occurrence, and potential
solutions to the problem. Obviously, employee-on-youth misconduct
interferes with the effective treatment of delinquent and at-risk
youth, but it also harms the agency as a whole and creates a poor
working environment for all employees. "Professional Misconduct
with Juveniles" offers a practical, theory-based approach to
preventing or stopping such exploitation of vulnerable young men
and women so that we can focus on effective approaches to
rehabilitation, deterrence, and public safety.
About the Real-World Criminology Series More than just
textbooks, the short books in the Real-World Criminology series are
designed to be of interest to particular fields within criminology.
They can be policy primers, spurring innovations in policing and
corrections, theoretical works dealing with policy implications, or
program evaluations incorporating theoretical foundations. Each
book covers something that is happening -or should be happening-in
the world of criminal justice.
Includes a typology developed to serve as a theoretical framework
for studying employee-on-youth misconduct Offers solutions for
prevention, detection, and intervention Ideal for use as a
supplemental text in many criminology courses or as one of a
collection of smaller texts for high-level theory courses
Infused with a warm, affable tone, Making Music in Montessori is
the Guide's guide to music education, providing Montessori teachers
all at once a snappy, practical handbook, music theory mentor,
pedagogical manual, and resource anthology. The book's goal: To
give teachers confidence in music, so that when their children walk
away from a lesson all fired up to compose their own music, their
teacher will know how to guide them. Before Making Music in
Montessori, teachers may have only dreamed of a classroom buzzing
with children working, learning, and growing with music alongside
all of the other subject areas in the Montessori curriculum. Now,
it's a reality. If children's minds are a fertile field, then
Making Music in Montessori will stir Montessori teachers of all
musical backgrounds to don their overalls, roll up their sleeves,
sow the musical seeds, and watch them blossom under their
children's flaming imagination.
Impressionism took its name from the title of a painting that
Claude Monet (1840-1926) exhibited in 1874. More than any other
artist, Monet was the creator of the Impressionist vision, which
has so forcefully shaped the way in which he habitually see nature
today. For sixty years he continuously explored ways of translating
his experiences into paint, in pictures that take us from the
bustling life of Paris in the 1860s to the seclusion of his own
water-garden, which he painted in his last years. John House's
introduction to Monet's life and work presents a sequence of
dazzling illustrations that chart the artist's progress as he
became increasingly preoccupied with colour and atmospheric effect,
and the direct studies of nature gave way to paintings of greater
richness and harmony, in which the play of varied colours replaced
the conventional drawing and modelling of forms.
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.
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.
Infused with a warm, affable tone, Making Music in Montessori is
the Guide's guide to music education, providing Montessori teachers
all at once a snappy, practical handbook, music theory mentor,
pedagogical manual, and resource anthology. The book's goal: To
give teachers confidence in music, so that when their children walk
away from a lesson all fired up to compose their own music, their
teacher will know how to guide them. Before Making Music in
Montessori, teachers may have only dreamed of a classroom buzzing
with children working, learning, and growing with music alongside
all of the other subject areas in the Montessori curriculum. Now,
it's a reality. If children's minds are a fertile field, then
Making Music in Montessori will stir Montessori teachers of all
musical backgrounds to don their overalls, roll up their sleeves,
sow the musical seeds, and watch them blossom under their
children's flaming imagination.
A primer in design and communication that offers solutions to the
recurring problems faced by by students and professionals. It
explores the ways creatives interpret their clients' brief, propose
new ideas and reinvent existing products and brands, referring to a
huge cross-section of different projects by acclaimed designers and
agencies, including Saatchi and Saatchi, Paul Rand, George Lois,
Bob Gill and Pentagram.
This is the refereed proceedings of the 11th International
Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology. The
book collects 24 revised full papers together with 3 system
demonstrations and 3 invited talks. Coverage includes current
issues in formal methods related to algebraic approaches and to
software engineering including abstract data types, process
algebras, algebraic specification, model checking, abstraction,
refinement, mu-calculus, state machines, rewriting, Kleene algebra,
programming logic, and formal software development.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th
International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software
Engineering, AMAST'97, held in Sydney, Australia, in December 1997.
The volume presents 48 revised full papers selected from an
unusually high number of submissions. One of the outstanding
features of AMAST is its mix of serious mathematical development of
formal methods in software engineering with practical concerns,
tools, case studies, and industrial development. The volume
addresses all current aspects of formal methods in software
engineering and programming methodology, with a certain emphasis on
algebraic and logical foundations.
For courses in human biology Explore Human Biology in Relation to
Current Issues Through his teaching, his textbook, and his online
blog, award-winning teacher Michael D. Johnson sparks interest in
human biology by connecting basic biology to real-world issues that
are relevant to students' lives. Using a storytelling approach and
extensive online support, Human Biology: Concepts and Current
Issues 8th Edition not only demystifies how the human body works
but also drives students to become a better, more discerning
consumer of health and science information. Each chapter opens with
Johnson's popular "Current Issues" essays, and within each chapter,
"BlogInFocus" references direct readers to his frequently-updated
blog for breaking human biology-related news.
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