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Leaving school, whether to move on to training, work or education,
is a fundamental rite of passage the world over. This volume draws
on a wealth of international sources and studies in its analysis of
the 'transitions' young students make as they move on from their
secondary schooling. It identifies how these transitions are
planned for by policymakers, enacted by school staff and engaged
with by students themselves. With data from a range of nations with
advanced industrial economies, the book delineates how the policies
relating to these transitions need to be conceived and implemented,
how the transitions themselves are negotiated by young people, and
how they might be shaped to meet the varied needs of the students
they are designed to help. The authors argue that the relationship,
often complex, between what schools provide in the way of
preparation, and the ways in which students take up what is on
offer, is the crucial nexus for understanding the experience of
transitions by young people, and for enhancing that experience.
With a host of case studies of transition policies themselves, as
well as evaluative data on how they were received by the school
leavers whom they were designed for, this valuable addition to the
educational literature deserves to be read by all those with roles
in preparing the young for their journey into a complex adult world
full of pitfalls as well as opportunity.
Why are there so many nature metaphors - clouds, rivers, streams,
viruses, and bugs - in the language of the internet? Why do we
adorn our screens with exotic images of forests, waterfalls,
animals and beaches? In Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace, Sue
Thomas interrogates the prevalence online of nature-derived
metaphors and imagery and comes to a surprising conclusion. The
root of this trend, she believes, lies in biophilia, defined by
biologist E.O. Wilson as 'the innate attraction to life and
lifelike processes'. In this wide-ranging transdisciplinary study
she explores the strong thread of biophilia which runs through our
online lives, a phenomenon she calls 'technobiophilia', or, the
'innate attraction to life and lifelike processes as they appear in
technology'. The restorative qualities of biophilia can alleviate
mental fatigue and enhance our capacity for directed attention,
soothing our connected minds and easing our relationship with
computers. Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace offers new
insights on what is commonly known as 'work-life balance'. It
explores ways to make our peace with technology-induced anxiety and
achieve a 'tech-nature balance' through practical experiments
designed to enhance our digital lives indoors, outdoors, and
online. The book draws on a long history of literature on nature
and technology and breaks new ground as the first to link the two.
Its accessible style will attract the general reader, whilst the
clear definition of key terms and concepts throughout should appeal
to undergraduates and postgraduates of new media and communication
studies, internet studies, environmental psychology, and
human-computer interaction. www.technobiophilia.com
This edition of Women and Elective Office offers the latest
research on women as candidates and officeholders. It provides a
comprehensive look at at the history and status of women in
elective office, their prospects for the future, and why women in
elected office matter to American democracy. It features all-new
essays and up-to-the-minute research by leading experts in the
field, including the latest political trends and events such as
Hillary Rodham Clinton's run for the presidency, women's
representation on the state and local level, the diversity of women
officeholders' experiences and circumstances, and female judges.
Women and Elective Office is an essential guide to understanding
the past, present, and future of women in all echelons of
government.
The 1992 American election saw more women running for office, at
both local and national level, than ever before. The number of
women elected increased by 50% in the House of Representatives and
by a staggering 300% in the Senate. This book describes these key
races, revealing the underlying tales of voter and institutional
reactions to the women candidates and highlights the unprecedented
levels of support garnered on their behalf.
Addressing Jean Rhys's composition and positioning of her fiction,
this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and
explicit textual bearings she offers and reveals new insights about
the formation, scope and complexity of Rhys's experimental
aesthetics. Tracing the distinctive and shifting evolution of
Rhys's experimental aesthetics over her career, Sue Thomas explores
Rhys's practices of composition in her fiction and drafts, as well
as her self-reflective comment on her writing. The author examines
patterns of interrelation, intertextuality, intermediality and
allusion, both diachronic and synchronic, as well as the cultural
histories entwined within them. Through close analysis of these,
this book reveals new experimental, thematic, generic and political
reaches of Rhys's fiction and sharpens our insight into her complex
writerly affiliations and lineages.
Best known as the author of "Wide Sargasso Sea, " Jean Rhys
continues to draw growing amounts of popular and scholarly
attention. This book explores Rhys's sense of world, the
cross-cultural and the international in her novels, stories, and
autobiographical writing. The volume situates Rhys's writing in
relation to the Dominican cultural production with which she was
familiar, to Rhys's family's history on the island, and to European
ethnographic discourses about white creole people. Special
attention is given to the political and ethical locations of Rhys's
authorial and narrative voices with respect to discourses of
empire, gender, sex, race, class, ethnicity, and desire. The book
demonstrates that an historical reading of Rhys's work poses
questions for a number of current theoretical approaches.
Where and how does Jean Rhys write herself, her fiction, and her
characters into history? To address this question, Sue Thomas has
conducted wide-ranging primary and original research to elucidate
Rhys's sense of world, the cross-cultural and the international in
her novels, stories, and autobiographical writing. She situates
Rhys's writing in relation to the Dominican cultural production and
traffic with which she was familiar, to Rhys's family's history on
the island, and to European ethnographic discourses about white
creole people.
In her reading of Rhys's fiction and autobiographical texts she
analyzes the political and ethical locations of Rhys's authorial
and narrative voices with respect to discourses of empire, gender,
sex, race, class, ethnicity, and desire that shaped Rhys's sense of
the materiality of the world. In doing so, Thomas draws out new
dimensions of the racial, ethnic, and sexual formation of Rhys's
modernism. As a result, she demonstrates that an historical reading
of Rhys's work poses questions for a number of current theoretical
approaches.
This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which
writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons,
collectively understood as "tropical weather." Historically,
literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of
symbolic language and technical device, making use of violent
storms in the form of plot, drama, trope, and image in order to
highlight their relationship to the political, social, and
psychological realms of human affairs. Charting this relationship
through writers such as Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Gisele
Pineau, and other writers from places like Australia, Japan,
Mauritius, the Caribbean, and the Philippines, this ground-breaking
collection of essays illuminates the specificities of the ways
local, national, and regional communities have made sense and even
relied upon the literary to endure the devastation caused by deadly
tropical weather.
The 1992 American election saw more women running for office, at
both local and national level, than ever before. The number of
women elected increased by 50% in the House of Representatives and
by a staggering 300% in the Senate. This book describes these key
races, revealing the underlying tales of voter and institutional
reactions to the women candidates and highlights the unprecedented
levels of support garnered on their behalf.
Fashion Ethics provides a comprehensive overview of the ethical
issues in the fashion industry, from collection design concept to
upcycling and closed loop production. This book answers an urgent
need for a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental ethics of
the fashion industry. Sue Thomas goes beyond the usual contentious
issues of environmental impact and human rights, taking the reader
deeper into the endemic issues including sizeism, ageism, animal
rights, and the lack of diversity in models and in the media. The
book lays out the significant ethical issues within the fashion
supply chain by mapping the lifecycle of a garment and exploring
key topics such as deep ecology, cultural copyright speciesism, the
role of the customer, and technology in future ethics. It also
features current international industry information and
industry-relevant case studies from brands, media and mobile
technology, and NGOs including Oxfam (UK), Redress (Hong Kong),
Nimany (US), Labor Link (US), People Tree (UK), and Peppermint
(Australia). Fashion Ethics provides much-needed information for
fashion students, industry professionals, and customers.
This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which
writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons,
collectively understood as "tropical weather." Historically,
literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of
symbolic language and technical device, making use of violent
storms in the form of plot, drama, trope, and image in order to
highlight their relationship to the political, social, and
psychological realms of human affairs. Charting this relationship
through writers such as Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Gisele
Pineau, and other writers from places like Australia, Japan,
Mauritius, the Caribbean, and the Philippines, this ground-breaking
collection of essays illuminates the specificities of the ways
local, national, and regional communities have made sense and even
relied upon the literary to endure the devastation caused by deadly
tropical weather.
Leaving school, whether to move on to training, work or education,
is a fundamental rite of passage the world over. This volume draws
on a wealth of international sources and studies in its analysis of
the 'transitions' young students make as they move on from their
secondary schooling. It identifies how these transitions are
planned for by policymakers, enacted by school staff and engaged
with by students themselves. With data from a range of nations with
advanced industrial economies, the book delineates how the policies
relating to these transitions need to be conceived and implemented,
how the transitions themselves are negotiated by young people, and
how they might be shaped to meet the varied needs of the students
they are designed to help. The authors argue that the relationship,
often complex, between what schools provide in the way of
preparation, and the ways in which students take up what is on
offer, is the crucial nexus for understanding the experience of
transitions by young people, and for enhancing that experience.
With a host of case studies of transition policies themselves, as
well as evaluative data on how they were received by the school
leavers whom they were designed for, this valuable addition to the
educational literature deserves to be read by all those with roles
in preparing the young for their journey into a complex adult world
full of pitfalls as well as opportunity.
Fashion Ethics provides a comprehensive overview of the ethical
issues in the fashion industry, from collection design concept to
upcycling and closed loop production. This book answers an urgent
need for a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental ethics of
the fashion industry. Sue Thomas goes beyond the usual contentious
issues of environmental impact and human rights, taking the reader
deeper into the endemic issues including sizeism, ageism, animal
rights, and the lack of diversity in models and in the media. The
book lays out the significant ethical issues within the fashion
supply chain by mapping the lifecycle of a garment and exploring
key topics such as deep ecology, cultural copyright speciesism, the
role of the customer, and technology in future ethics. It also
features current international industry information and
industry-relevant case studies from brands, media and mobile
technology, and NGOs including Oxfam (UK), Redress (Hong Kong),
Nimany (US), Labor Link (US), People Tree (UK), and Peppermint
(Australia). Fashion Ethics provides much-needed information for
fashion students, industry professionals, and customers.
Addressing Jean Rhys's composition and positioning of her fiction,
this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and
explicit textual bearings she offers and reveals new insights about
the formation, scope and complexity of Rhys's experimental
aesthetics. Tracing the distinctive and shifting evolution of
Rhys's experimental aesthetics over her career, Sue Thomas explores
Rhys's practices of composition in her fiction and drafts, as well
as her self-reflective comment on her writing. The author examines
patterns of interrelation, intertextuality, intermediality and
allusion, both diachronic and synchronic, as well as the cultural
histories entwined within them. Through close analysis of these,
this book reveals new experimental, thematic, generic and political
reaches of Rhys's fiction and sharpens our insight into her complex
writerly affiliations and lineages.
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