Tech and Learning - April/May 2010Tech and Learning is compiling a compendium of the people most important to the creation and advancement of the use of technology in education. Our first 30 honorees are plucked from the past: the founding fathers and mothers whose inventions, declarations, and theories set the table for where we are today.
The NeXt Revolution: What Gen X Women Want at Work and How Their Boomer Bosses Can Help Them Get itWritten by a Boomer mother and Gen X daughter, this perceptive book explores the deep satisfaction that professional Gen Xers are experiencing at work-especially women who expected to enter the equal-opportunity workplace their feminist mothers fought for
Through her research on twins and the genetic components of aggression, scientist Jeannie Ferrami makes a startling discovery. Using a restricted FBI database, she finds two young men who appear to be identical twins: Steve, a law student, and Dennis: a convicted murderer. Yet they were born on different days, to different mothers, in hospitals hundreds of miles apart…
Revealing the maternal as not a core identity but a site of profound psychic and social division, Hansen illuminates recent decades of feminist thought and explores novels by Jane Rule, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, and Fay Weldon. Unlike traditional stories of abandoned children and bad mothers, these narratives refuse to sentimentalize motherhood's losses and impasses.
An exploration of the meaning and significance of money in the 21st century. Using candid interviews with economic, financial and spiritual leaders, American families, prison inmates, welfare mothers and lottery winners, it investigates how money is made, acquired and desired in today's society.
