This book addresses the critical and looming issue of retirement in higher education as the cohort of boomer generation faculty come to the close of their careers. On the one hand institutions need to replenish themselves, and so need older employees to retire. On the other, mass retirements can decimate departments, creating the need for mass hiring that will create another crisis in the future.

The editor's job encompasses much more than correcting commas and catching typos. Your chief mission is to help writers communicate effectively--which is no small feat. Whether you edit books, magazines, newspapers, or online publications, your ability to develop clear, concise, and focused writing is the key to your success.

Jokelopedia, Third Edition, is an all-encompassing, gut-busting collection of more than 1,700 kid-friendly jokes, tongue twisters, riddles, and puns. The perfect gift for incurable jokesters, class clowns, comedians-to-be, and aspiring ventriloquists—not to mention the quieter kids who still love a good laugh—it features doctor jokes, robber jokes, teacher jokes, why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road jokes, lightbulb jokes, movie star jokes, gross-out jokes, vampire jokes, and elephant jokes. Plus, it has the classics, fresh variations on the classics, and jokes with nothing classic about them. And all jokes are organized into categories for easy reference.

So why do we continue to administer this modern cod liver oil-or even demand a larger dose? Kohn’s incisive analysis reveals how a set of misconceptions about learning and a misguided focus on competitiveness has left our kids with less free time, and our families with more conflict. Pointing to stories of parents who have fought back-and schools that have proved educational excellence is possible without homework-Kohn demonstrates how we can rethink what happens during and after school in order to rescue our families and our children’s love of learning.

Basics Film-Making: Screenwriting is the second in the Basics Film-Making series and is aimed both at students on film production courses, as well as those wishing to write a short film. The book teaches the key elements of screenwriting through examining areas such as dialogue, sound, setting, shots and structure. It also provides advice to new film-makers on how to market their productions. This is an essential guide to screenwriting and will teach the reader to write and produce artistically satisfying shorts.