Written principles of leadership are a common leadership tool in the German speaking part of Europe. It is assumed that by formulating explicit rules concerning leadership behaviour and cooperation, a higher level of standardization, motivation and efficiency can be reached in relationships between leaders and co-workers. This paper argues that...
Homoplot; the coming-out story and gay, lesbian, and bisexual identity. Saxey, Esther. Peter Lang Publishing Inc 2008 166 pages $32.95 Paperback Gender, sexuality, and culture; v.7 PR120 Saxey (PhD, English literature, U....
The historiographical concept 'system of philosophy'; its origin, nature, influence, and legitimacy. Catana, Leo. BRILL 2008 384 pages $129.00 Hardcover Brill's studies in intellectual history; v.165 B53 Catana (philosophy, U. of Copenhagen)...
Social networks of older adults; a comparative study of Americans and Taiwanese. Silverman, Philip et al. Cambria Press 2008 351 pages $104.95 Hardcover HQ1064 The authors (anthropology and sociology, California State U. Bakersfield) present...
During our careers as teachers, professional development specialists, and teacher educators, we have made perpetual attempts to develop instructional strategies and tools for engaging students in historical inquiry. Emphasis in recent years in the field of social studies education has been on the...
Anderson, H., & Gehart, D. (Eds.). (2007). Collaborative therapy: Relationships and conversations that make a difference. New York: Routledge, 443 pp., $85.00 hardback, $32.50 paperback. In the fall semester of 2007 I taught a first-year master's degree course in Postmodern Family Therapy. Among several other texts, I decided...
Adolescent fatherhood is often associated with negative stereotyping and deficiencies in the adolescent's situation or characteristics, which effect his investment in child rearing. Developmentally, adolescence is a time when parenthood is not conventional practice nor a well-accepted norm. Understanding how adolescent fathers make sense of transitioning to parenthood allows us...
Increasing energy consumption in New York City prompted Con Edison, one of the nation's largest investor-owned energy companies, to build a substation that would help meet the growing demand. Con Edison turned to D'Onofrio General Construction for the expertise and equipment that could easily handle backfilling material on the job...
Thornton Tomasetti, a leading structural engineering and design firm responsible for engineering of the world's tallest buildings, announced June 19 the topping out of Comcast Tower, Philadelphia's newest commercial icon. At 975 feet tall, the property is the tallest building between New York and Chicago, and has already gained a...
Disputing the subject of sex; sexuality and public school controversies. (reprint, 2004) Mayo, Cris. Rowman & Littlefield 2007 176 pages $22.95 Paperback Curriculum, cultures, and homosexualities HQ57 This is a paperbound reprint...
Feminist politics; identity, difference, and agency. Ed. by Deborah Orr et al. Rowman & Littlefield 2007 274 pages $29.95 Paperback HQ1190 This collection presents new and sophisticated ways of examining traditional political dichotomies, especially...
Gender is a ubiquitous social construct that wields power over every individual in our society. The traditional dichotomous gender paradigm is oppressive, especially for transgendered people whose sense of themselves as gendered people is incongruent with the gender they were assigned at birth. Transgendered individuals are targeted...
One billion new mobile phones were sold in 2006--each a node within multi-layered networks that envelope the globe and produce what Pierre Teilhard de Chardin anticipated as the noosphere sixty years ago. Via blogs, chats, instant messaging, pagers, cell phones, and I-pods, "Digital Natives" are co-creating Marshall...
Edited by Matthew Phair Liverpool, N.Y. Paving Firm Makes The Extra Effort For Community "Community involvement is a major priority at Barrett Paving Materials," reads the opening sentence of a letter that ultimately helped the firm...
ELECTING JUSTICE: FIXING THE SUPREME COURT NOMINATION PROCESS. By Richard Davis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 3, 211. $28. JUSTICE IN ROBES. By Ronald Dworkin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 1,308. $35. INTRODUCTION ...
Criticism of judicial activism has become commonplace in political debate. In recent years it has been political conservatives who have most often sounded the alarm that unelected, activist judges are intruding on the prerogatives of the elected branches. This criticism traces to the...
Wanderer, Jules J. Interpretive Origins of Classical Sociology: Weber, Husserl, Schutz, Durkheim, Simmel. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. 256 pages. Cloth, $109.95. Wanderer's book, Interpretive Origins of Classical Sociology: Weber, Husserl, Schutz, Durkheim, Simmel, does exactly what is advertised. It opens with a discussion...
By Matthew Phair Welcome to the 2007 edition of Constructioneer's Buyers' Guide and Association Directory. The bulk of this guide consists of products categorized, detailed and supported with in-depth buyer contact information. This guide begins with a list of approximately 150 ...
Story by Matthew Phair Some sectors will beriding high, while others are stuck in the barn Heavy contractors in the coming year will find some sectors that are running lean - if not out and out dry - while...
Research and policy approaches to risk are recognised as falling into two cultures, most commonly referred to as artefact and constructionist. Moreover, within constructionism, a continuum of positions exists from weak constructionist in which risks may be viewed as cultural mediations of 'real' dangers or hazards,...
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