Now available in a new second edition, Working World: Careers in International Education, Exchange, and Development offers an engaging guide for cause-oriented people dedicated to begin or enhance careers in the now burgeoning fields of international affairs. Mueller and Overmann expand their original dialogue between a career veteran and a young professional to address issues that recognize the meteoric rise of social media and dramatic geopolitical events. They explore how the idea of an international career has shifted: nearly every industry taking on more and more international dimensions, while international skills-linguistic ability, intercultural management, and sensitivity-become ever more highly prized by potential employers. This second edition of Working World offers ten new and four significantly updated profiles as well as new and expanded concepts that include work-life balance, the importance of informational interviews, moving on, and key building blocks for international careers.Like the award-winning first edition, Working World is a rare and valuable resource to students and graduates interested in careers in international affairs, mid-career professionals who want to make a career change or shift, as well as guidance counselors and career center specialists at universities.

The chaotic events of A.D. 395-400 marked a momentous turning point for the Roman Empire and its relationship to the barbarian peoples under and beyond its command. In this masterly study, Alan Cameron and Jacqueline Long propose a complete rewriting of received wisdom concerning the social and political history of these years. Our knowledge of the period comes to us in part through Synesius of Cyrene, who recorded his view of events in his De regno and De providentia. By redating these works, Cameron and Long offer a vital new interpretation of the interactions of pagans and Christians, Goths and Romans. In 394/95, during the last four months of his life, the emperor Theodosius I ruled as sole Augustus over a united Roman Empire that had been divided between at least two emperors for most of the preceding one hundred years. Not only did the death of Theodosius set off a struggle between Roman officeholders of the two empires, but it also set off renewed efforts by the barbarian Goths to seize both territory and office. Theodosius had encouraged high-ranking Goths to enter Roman military service; thus well placed, their efforts would lead to Alaric's sack of Rome in 410. Though the authors' interest is in the particularities of events, Barbarians and Politics at the Court Of Arcadius conveys a wonderful sense of the general time and place. Cameron and Long's rebuttal of modern scholarship, which pervades the narrative, enhances the reader's engagement with the complexities of interpretation. The result is a sophisticated recounting of a period of crucial change in the Roman Empire's relationship to the non-Roman world. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

Literary Learning explores the nature of literary knowledge and offers guidance for effective teaching of literature at the college level. What do English majors need to learn? How can we help them develop the skills and knowledge they need? By identifying the habits of mind that literary scholars use in their own research and writing, Sherry Lee Linkon articulates the strategic knowledge that lies at the heart of the discipline, offering important insights and models for beginning and experienced teachers.

If American Idol had been around in 1953 during mid-to-late summer and had stopped in Memphis to spot Tennessee talent, young Elvis Presley might have tried his luck on the Idol stage. More than five decades later, one wonders how Idol judges would have critiqued Elvis the Pelvis. Would they have praised or derided how he took others' music and restyled it with his own brand of intensity and delivery? Would they have condemned his quavering vibrato and disparaged his natural falsetto range-or would they have given him a standing ovation? And, what would they have made of his flashy clothes and "weird wiggles"? In the end, all of these elements (and others-including a fascination with black music and an accidental progression into the "rockabilly" style that melded rhythm/blues and country, blurring genre lines) came together to create Elvis' idiosyncratic style. My Way traces the evolution of this legendary style that holds the key to his prolonged popularity and identifies a wide range of influences contributing to his persona.

How can I find the strength to go on living without my spouse? Exactly what happens after death? How can I deal with the "why's" and "if only's" that haunt me? If I can't find peace, does that mean my faith isn't real? Will there ever be an end to my grieving? These and countless other questions swirl through our minds when death steals a beloved spouse. Heartbroken and alone, our spirit thirsts for nourishment. In the early stages of loss when our insides are heaving, though, a sip of sustenance is likely all we can swallow. Words of wisdom must come in small doses. Dr. Sherry Hoppe, author of A Matter of Conscience, shares sips of sustenance to help you through the grief journey. Tapping the wisdom of well-known writers, Dr. Hoppe explores the many difficult aspects of grieving, offering insight on how to survive sorrow and find life again on the other side of despair. While Dr. Hoppe writes about the experience of losing her husband, her words offer hope to anyone struggling with grief and looking for guideposts to climb from the chasm.

FACES OF GRIEF shares wisdom from well-known writers, along with the personal stories of more than 20 individuals who have found strength to go on with their lives after losing a precious child, a loving parent, a special sibling, or other loved ones. Though the tapestry of their lives may forever be woven with poignant threads of grief and sorrow, their courageous stories are testimonies of hope--hope that even though you may never get over your grief, you can get through it.

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A book of inspirational poems, written by a disabled Christian Author, during a turmoil period, in her life married to a man who she was not evenly yoked with. Her only child and family 3,000 miles away and she only saw her child eight weeks out of the year, and literally felt all she had in life was Jesus He pulled her through the loneliest time in her life. I also learned all I needed was Jesus, I was lead to the desert to spiritual and physically heal. Although my marriage did not work out, the Lord made all things good. As he promises in Romans 8:28 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." These poems are spiritually uplifting and very much written from my heart.

Portraying the harrowing extremes of abuse and the traumatic effects of parent alienation, For the Love of My Boys: A Mother's Story of Parent Alienation implores fellow parents involved in divorce to leave the children in peace, to grow happy and healthy free of adult worries and jealousies. What Sherri-Lee has experienced is tragic. While Sherri-Lee commits to counseling and therapy to get her life back and happily re-marries, the tumult, and the effects of parent alienation that is damaging all of those in the family, tragically results in suicide of one of the main people involved. Sherri-Lee James was born into the life of an army brat and spent her youth on small military bases across western Canada. Moving every three years or so, her life is a lonely and isolated one as she is unable to develop any support system apart from her parents. As a teenager her family is stationed in the big city of Edmonton and when she meets an older guy with a good job and a seemingly bright future...well, it is something like finding the magical city of Oz. With her low self-esteem and craving for a stability she has long lacked, they are married when she is just eighteen. Quickly establishing a home and starting a family with Eddie who is an alcoholic she soon finds the thought of a wonderful new life taking a turn for the worse. Eddie's constant abuse, manipulation, and control is a harrowing downward spiral and while she does all she can to please him-whether what he wants is in her own best interests or not-her life devolves into a degrading, dehumanizing experience. Finally, after five years of marriage and two years of trying to keep the marriage alive after he has an affair, she summons the courage to give up and leave. This, however, leads to stalking, physical attacks, and finally, his plan of last resort: teaching-and convincing-their five and six year-old sons to hate their own mother. Out of concern for the wellbeing of her children she continues to aid her ex-husband financially, only to see it continue the cycle with her children. Feeling impotent and with no other recourse, she watches as the havoc and devastation wrought by his behavior impacts her boys: the oldest son is car-jacked due to his father's business debts while her youngest suffers from bouts of homelessness and continuously finds trouble with the law. An excerpt from the book: The peace in the house lasted for about four months before the arguments started again. During one of our arguments Eddie's actions crossed the line once again. This time we were in the middle of a very heated argument and Eddie grabbed a kitchen knife and held it to my throat. The frequency of these incidents didn't make them any less frightening. You never knew what he was going to do. Was this the time he would lose control and kill me? While he was holding the knife to me throat he said: "First I'm going to kill your mother and then I'm going to kill you." I was terrified. My adrenalin was rushing through my body giving me a bit of strength and courage. I managed to push myself away from him and when I did he seemed to realize what he was doing. It was as if his anger caused him tozone out. My mother was thousands of miles away in Ontario so I wasn't worried about her but I knew I should be very worried for me.

An authors reflection of poignant moments in time through prose and poetry. "We can learn so much about ourselves and the world we live in when we take time to reflect back to days gone by." It is the authors' hope that at the end of your read, you will have some reflections of your own. Enjoy!

Since the 1970s, working-class individuals have made up an increasing proportion of students enrolled in institutions of higher education. At the same time, working-class studies has emerged as an academic discipline, updating a long tradition of scholarship on labour history and proletarian literature to include discussions of working-class culture, intersections of class with ethnicity, and studies of the representation of the working class in popular culture. These developments have generated ideas about teaching that incorporate both a sensitivity to the working-class roots of many students and the inclusion of course content informed by an awareness of class culture. This volume brings together 19 essays that offer approaches to a class-conscious pedagogy. Although the contributors represent several fields - including English, history, labour studies, literature, speech communication and American studies - they are united by the conviction that class matters in all kinds of courses. Their essays offer models for interdisciplinary teaching as well as guidance, encouragement and insight for those wishing to incorporate class into their courses.

"We put the working class, in all its varieties, at the center of our work. The new working-class studies is not only about the labor movement, or about workers of any particular kind, or workers in any particular place even in the workplace. Instead, we ask questions about how class works for people at work, at home, and in the community. We explore how class both unites and divides working-class people, which highlights the importance of understanding how class shapes and is shaped by race, gender, ethnicity, and place. We reflect on the common interests as well as the divisions between the most commonly imagined version of the working class industrial, blue-collar workers and workers in the 'new economy' whose work and personal lives seem, at first glance, to place them solidly in the middle class." from the Introduction

In John Russo and Sherry LeeLinkon's book, contributors trace the origins of the new working-class studies, explore how it is being developed both within and across fields, and identify key themes and issues. Historians, economists, geographers, sociologists, and scholars of literature and cultural studies introduce many and varied aspects of this emerging field. Throughout, they consider how the study of working-class life transforms traditional disciplines and stress the importance of popular and artistic representations of working-class life.

Contributors: Robert Bruno, University of Illinois; Renny Christopher, California State University Channel Islands; Jim Daniels, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh; Elizabeth Faue, Wayne State University; Lisa Jordan, University of Minnesota; Paul Lauter, Trinity College; Sherry Lee Linkon, Youngstown State University; Jack Metzgar, Roosevelt University in Chicago; Don Mitchell, Syracuse University; Kimberley L. Phillips, The College of William and Mary; Alessandro Portelli, University of Rome La Sapienza; David Roediger, University of Illinois, Rachel Lee Rubin, University of Massachusetts Boston; John Russo, Youngstown State University; Tim Strangleman, London Metropolitan University; Tom Zaniello, Northern Kentucky University and George Meany Center for Labor Studies; Michael Zweig, State University of New York at Stony Brook"

In John Russo and Sherry Lee Linkon's book, contributors trace the origins of the new working-class studies, explore how it is being developed both within and across fields, and identify key themes and issues. Historians, economists, geographers, sociologists, and scholars of literature and cultural studies introduce many and varied aspects of this emerging field. Throughout, they consider how the study of working-class life transforms traditional disciplines and stress the importance of popular and artistic representations of working-class life.

Literary Learning explores the nature of literary knowledge and offers guidance for effective teaching of literature at the college level. What do English majors need to learn? How can we help them develop the skills and knowledge they need? By identifying the habits of mind that literary scholars use in their own research and writing, Sherry Lee Linkon articulates the strategic knowledge that lies at the heart of the discipline, offering important insights and models for beginning and experienced teachers.