A History of the Indiana State Teachers Association, 1854-2004
On Christmas Day in 1854, teachers and advocates of education came together to form the Indiana State Teachers Association. At that time, many Hoosiers did not embrace the concept of ""free education,"" instead believing that schools ought to be funded by those who were being educated. Immediately after ISTA's founding, its members began their ......
Violence and increasing public awareness of violence mark our contemporary condition. September 11, 2001 made this condition even more indelible. Cultural Shaping of Violence proposes that violence cannot be described, let alone understood or addressed, unless tied to the cultural settings that influence it. Its 27 chapters researched and written ......
Focusing on the Technological Revolution, the Service Sector Expansion,and the Cultural, Ideological, and Demographic Changes
This book provides a detailed analysis of U.S. economic transformation in the last 50 years, including the principal drivers for economic growth, U.S. demographic transformation, and the changing sector structure of the U.S. economy. Economic Transformation of the United States, 1950-2000, provides contemporary and historical contexts to ......
In all organizational settings, managing projects is an ever-increasing necessity. While large corporations have departments that institute procedures for implementing and tracking projects, smaller organizations can benefit from becoming aware of the steps in creating a project in order to maximize planned outcomes. Mitchell Springer, an expert ......
In The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction, Jin Feng discusses representations of women in May Fourth fiction, issues of gender, modernity, individualism, subjectivity, and narrative strategy. In this thought-provoking book about a crucial period of Chinese literature, Feng argues that male writers such as Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Ba Jin, ......
Concurrent with the dawn of multiparty politics in 1990, Mirko Pejanovic emerged in Bosnia-Herzegovina as the leader of the Socialist Alliance. His organization was in charge of implementing policies of the League of Communists. This memoir, beginning in 1990, tells the story of his experiences as a public and political leader. Through Bosnian ......
The genius of this arrangement, the first edition declared, is that church-state tensions were worked out symbolically rather than coercively, legally, or economically. The Political Pulpit Revisited updates this argument and then offers reflections by eight distinguished scholars who reexamine the contract in light of recent events. The result is ......
Covering the Business Beat is targeted specifically to the millions of Americans in business - from the entrepreneur who wants to be known as an expert in her field, to the guy in the mailroom who dreams of being a freelance writer. The authors advise readers to start in the industry they're working in now, drawing on their knowledge, background ......
Violence and increasing public awareness of violence mark our contemporary condition. September 11, 2001 made this condition even more indelible. Cultural Shaping of Violence proposes that violence cannot be described, let alone understood or addressed, unless tied to the cultural settings that influence it. Its 27 chapters researched and written ......
