Often referred to as the 'Gilded Age', the period spanning from 1870 to 1900 encompassed both extravagant wealth and dire poverty in America. Due to this disparity, political agitators and reformists armed with socialist and anarchist manifestos flourished and the distinction between urban life and rural life grew increasingly sharper, creating an entirely new set of living conditions and social customs.
Faculty Retirement: Best Practices for Navigating the Transition
Added by: miaow | Karma: 8463.40 | Other | 10 July 2015
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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.
Exploring how fiction works, this manual shows you how you can learn to understand it well enough to crack open any fictional narrative, and, if you like, start creating your own.
TweedleWink is a program for children ages newborn to six years old, and children and adults with special needs. It is designed to establish and ignite a child's passion for learning by creating a rich mental library of information, impressions and -- most importantly -- love.
In this book, Carol Craig reminds us of the well-known Scots saying, ‘Better sit still than rise up and fa’. Like many Scots I am aware of the influence such thinking has had on my own life. Not only have I witnessed others who have have been too scared to try to do new things but also I have often felt tempted myself to sit and watch rather than commit to something new and unknown. When Carol asked if I would help support the Centre in producing this book my habitual hesitancy almost triumphed. But the call to stand up and do something different was too strong....
