Compelling evidence exists to support the hypothesis that both formal and informal mentoring practices that provide access to information and resources are effective in promoting career advancement, especially for women. Such associations provide opportunities to improve the status, effectiveness, and visibility of a faculty member via introductions to new colleagues, knowledge of information about the organizational system, and awareness of innovative projects and new challenges.
This volume developed from the symposium "Successful Mentoring Strategies to Facilitate the Advancement of Women Faculty" held at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco in March 2010. The organizers of the symposium, also serving as the editors of this volume, aimed to feature an array of successful mechanisms for enhancing the leadership, visibility, and recognition of academic women scientists using various mentoring strategies. It was their goal to have contributors share creative approaches to address the challenge of broadening the participation and advancement of women in science and engineering at all career stages and from a wide range of institutional types. Inspired by the successful outcomes of the editors' own NSF-ADVANCE project that involved the formation of horizontal peer mentoring alliances, this book is a collection of valuable practices and insights to both share how their horizontal mentoring strategy has impacted their professional and personal lives and to learn of other effective mechanisms for advancing women faculty.

Die wind skep die nota en dit kom op Meneer Snippel se fiets te lande. Meneer Vogel is vreeslik bly hieroor. Hy vra: “Kan dit waar wees? Kan ek dit sommerso saamneem?” Meneer Snippel pluk nog appels in die boom en roep van bo uit die takke: “Ja, sekerlik, neem gerus, neem gerus!” “Dankie!” roep Meneer Vogel. “Tot siens!” roep albei, en Meneer Vogel ry met die fiets weg. Meneer Snippel sit 'n nota met die woorde “Neem gerus!” Op 'n mandjie appels sodat sy bure daarvan sal saamneem, maar as die wind die briefie skep, lei dit tot 'n reeks misverstande...

Crisis Cities blends critical theoretical insight with a historically grounded comparative study to examine the form, trajectory, and contradictions of redevelopment efforts following the 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina disasters. Based on years of research in the two cities, Gotham and Greenberg contend that New York and New Orleans have emerged as paradigmatic crisis cities, representing a free-market approach to post-disaster redevelopment that is increasingly dominant for crisis-stricken cities around the world. This approach, which Gotham and Greenberg term crisis driven urbanization, emphasizes the privatization of disaster aid and resources, the devolution of disaster recovery responsibilities to the local state, and the use of generous tax incentives to bolster revitalization. Crisis driven urbanization also involves global branding campaigns and public media events to repair a city's image for business and tourism, as well as internally-focused political campaigns and events that associate post-crisis political leaders and public-private partnerships with this revitalized urban image. By focusing on past and present conditions in New York and New Orleans, Gotham and Greenberg show how crises expose long-neglected injustices, underlying power structures, and social inequalities. In doing so, they reveal the impact of specific policy reforms, public-private actions, and socio-legal regulatory strategies on the creation and reproduction of risk and vulnerability to disasters. Crisis Cities questions the widespread narrative of resilience and reveals the uneven and contradictory effects of redevelopment activities in the two cities.

Miriam Van hee is tans een van die mees gelese digters in die Lae Lande. In hierdie keuse uit haar poesie het Daniel Hugo, die vertaler, hom in sy keuse eerstens laat lei deur die vertaalbaarheid van die verse, maar ook probeer om die Afrikaanse leser ’n oorsig te bied van haar werk. Van hee se poesie is so gestroop soos takke wat hulle blare verloor in die herfs, die seisoen wat dikwels in haar gedigte genoem word. Stemmings van stilte, afwagting en leegheid is oorheersend. Al is die landskappe waaroor sy skryf, met sneeu bedek, en al is die stede en huise waarin die verse geplaas word, die van ’n vreemde land, sal die Suid-Afrikaanse leser die emosies van verlies, weemoed en verlange maklik kan herken en daarmee identifiseer. Daniel Hugo slaag uitmuntend daarin om die delikate wereld van hierdie Vlaamse woordkunstenaar in glashelder Afrikaans oor te sit.

Senobia Arendse, ’n taalversorger van Prins Albert, se toekoms lê en wink waar sy vroegoggend in Bellville op haar nuwe woonstelmaat wag. Palesa word vergesel deur drie dashing jongmanne. En dis veral die selfversekerde DJ, Ayanda Ngubane, met sy breë glimlag, wat haar beïndruk. Maar net wanneer Senobia begin dink haar nuwe lewe is maanskyn en rose, stap die verlede saam met Palesa by die voordeur in. Mondeo Hendricks, haar eerste liefde, is terug asof dit nog altyd in die sterre voorspel is.  

This timely book explores the innovative non-doctrinal methods currently being used in environmental law research. Drawing on their extensive experience, expert contributors provide insight on how creative approaches to research can improve understanding of law and policy, leading to more effective legal protection for the environment. Focusing on qualitative research, chapters explain how to use non-doctrinal methods in environmental law research, including in-depth examples of successful uses. Contributors identify the theoretical and practical challenges facing contemporary environmental law researchers, providing guidance on designing productive research programs. Alongside practical tips, the book examines the scholarly philosophy of environmental law research, determining how and why it differs from other areas of research. It focuses in particular on how to respect scientific principles when moving away from traditional doctrinal research methods. Non-Doctrinal Research Methods in Environmental Law will be an invaluable guide for environmental law academics and researchers seeking to expand their understanding of modern research methods. With extensive case studies and practical guidance, it will also be a useful resource for research methods scholars and teachers.

One morning, Mel Toews put on his coat and hat, walked out of town, and took his own life. A loving husband and father, a faithful member of the Mennonite church, and an immensely popular schoolteacher, Mel was a pillar of his close-knit community. Yet after a lifetime of struggling with bipolar disorder, he could no longer face the darkness that clouded his world. In this moving meditation on illness, family, faith, and love, Mel's daughter, critically acclaimed novelist and reporter Miriam Toews, recounts her father's life as he would have told it, in his own voice, right up to the day of his final walk.

"Swing Low" is a bold, gracefully written, and compassionate recounting of one man's heartbreaking battle with depression.

This book blends science and spirituality to see whole truths that "make all things new." Its aim is to help us realize that we who are people of faith cannot continue to practice our faith in isolation anymore. A quantum universe is telling us that we are all connected; that the God of one is the God of all; that diversity is a blessing; that the suffering of any of earth's people or any part of the planet is a desecration to us all.

The benefit of the book is to jumpstart us in a new spiritual direction that is as energizing as it is surprising. It encourages us to look at life through a new lens that will help us see more than we have ever seen before. It is one of those rare books on quantum science that transcends information and offers us a way of transformation.

In Observations Miriam King puts herself into other people's shoes then writes how she would feel in the same circumstances; though some of the poems are about her own life - she leaves you to judge which. Miriam lives in Woodbridge, Suffolk with her husband and grandson. She is also an artist and craftsperson and gives shows to the elderly.

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