A comprehensive guide to finding meaningful employment with tips on how to define what you have to offer employers, how to market and sell yourself, how to network effectively and how to use social media tools to find employment.

How to Find Work in the 21st Century: A Guide to Finding Employment in Today’s Workplace

Business & Money

McGowan, Ron

Job Hunting & Careers

First Hill Books

The University of Cambridge, having suffered hard times before and after the First World War, prospered during the post-war years up until the 1970s. During that period British governments were generous to universities, and respected their independence. As this attitude dissolved, Cambridge obtained a surge in non-government research grants and contracts, and became world famous. But it is now suffering from a financial squeeze caused by repeated cuts in government funding, accompanied by a tide of political intervention. Using the university’s financial records and other statistics, Robert Neild traces the nature and scale of these changes and how they have affected the character of the university, plotting its financial history from 1850 to the present day.

The Financial History of Cambridge University

Education & Teaching

Neild, Robert

Higher & Continuing Education

The first human organ transplant in 1950 at a suburban hospital is the focus of The Graft: How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants. The book examines the controversies the operation generated and the progress medicine has made in organ transplantation.

The Graft: How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants (Anthem symploke Studies in Theory)

Arts & Photography

Lawler, Edmund O.

History & Criticism

The book highlights expert interviews, stories, news events, and academic research impacting our contemporary world in the era of artificial intelligence. This book aims to be a thought-provoking reference guide for corporate executives looking to lead in a world of AI. It is poised to provide readers with game-changing insights on leadership and management in an artificial intelligence economy. Written with an equally educational and fun approach, the book covers practical business strategies that will help managers succeed in an AI world.

The AI Leader: Mastery of Humans and Machines in the Workplace

Naqvi, Al

Munoz, J. Mark

Economics

Starting from present and going back 30 years to 1990, the book about African-American jazz musician Ron Westray's life journey is written in reverse. The writing is rigorous--flanked by hip-hop, Southern, and ebonic dialects--and includes jazz lingo, texting-shorthand and use of emojis.&nbsp;

Life in Reverse

Biographies & Memoirs

Westray, Ron

Professionals & Academics

Spirituality for the Independent Thinker is a tough-minded but inspirational guide to the ways in which science, philosophy, and everyday experience converge into spiritual questions. It takes one of the greatest of all possible questions―why does anything exist instead of nothing―and draws from it a wide-awake spirituality that does not require meditation and does not lead to any bossy rules.

Spirituality for the Independent Thinker: Themes of Religious Exploration

Religion & Spirituality

Striner, Richard A.

Religious Studies

Ireland’s Great Famine, Britain’s Great Failure

This book provides readers with a unique, in-depth understanding of the background to the Irish Famine and a detailed account of the crisis, as well as the immediate and long-term results of the catastrophe. In addition to exploring the ecological and agriculture factors, this work shows how cultural, economic and political influences shaped British attitudes and policies. When the entire potato crop failed in the fall of 1846, what began as an ecological disaster quickly became a political one. Hampered by long-standing prejudice and Anglo-Irish tensions, the British government’s various attempts to deal with the humanitarian crisis were muddled by competing economic and social goals. Among these was the idea that the Famine represented an “opportunity” to purge Ireland of fragmented land holding and potato dependency by encouraging an English-type market-driven agriculture. Changes did occur, but the government’s imperial dreams eventually ran up against Irish realities.

History

Williams, William H. A.

Europe

The book is a concise and comprehensive resource for people who are middle-aged and beyond and are facing the prospects of their own aging and of caring for elderly relatives--an often overwhelming task for which little in life prepares us. Using an interdisciplinary approach and many personal anecdotes, Professor Hoffman develops recommendations for building sustainable social, legal, medical, and financial support systems for aging and caregiving. Aging with a Plan combines thorough research with engaging anecdotes and practical advice. It offers one-stop shopping for anyone in need of guidance without a lot of time for independent research. The book answers questions such as: What legal documents should you be sure to have? What expenses should you anticipate in retirement and how do you save for them? What do you need to know about medical care as you or your loved ones grow older? How should you approach conversations about the sensitive topic of safe driving with elderly loved ones? What options exist for end-of-life care, and how do you make sure that your wishes will be followed? The book is user-friendly and accessible to a general audience, and each chapter ends with a helpful checklist.

Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow, Second Edition

Humor & Entertainment

Hoffman, Sharona

Humor

Academia, Chernobyl, Expeditions and the Greeks: A Research Psychologist on the Move

Product Description The memoir Academia, Chernobyl, Expeditions and The Greeks: A Research Psychologist on the Move recounts memorable experiences over the course of the author’s career as an academic psychologist engaged in research on stress and coping in extreme environments. Throughout the memoir, the author presents short summaries of her research methods and findings; however, the focus of the book is on her personal experiences – the events, people, and the environment with its natural beauty or devastation that she encountered while conducting this research. About the Author Gloria Rakita Leon is professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Minnesota. She is internationally known for her research on stress and coping in extreme environments.

Leon, Gloria

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The memoir Academia, Chernobyl, Expeditions and The Greeks: A Research Psychologist on the Move recounts memorable experiences over the course of the author's career as an academic psychologist engaged in research on stress and coping in extreme environments. Throughout the memoir, the author presents short summaries of her research methods and findings; however, the focus of the book is on her personal experiences - the events, people, and the environment with its natural beauty or devastation that she encountered while conducting this research. There is an array of events, some quite unique, that are detailed in the book, starting with Academia - challenges of teaching a psychology course at an American army base in Orleans, France; completing a doctoral degree at the University of Maryland while raising a family; academic activities and a 1972 sex discrimination complaint against Rutgers University, one of the first cases in the country following the passage of the Federal Title IX civil rights law; initial research as an assistant professor in the psychology department at the University of Minnesota, including studies of Holocaust survivors and their families, and Vietnam nurses; The Russian Drama - continuing research on stress and coping through four trips to the Soviet Union/Russia during a period when an entire country disappeared and a new one was formed (travel to Chernobyl only six years after the disaster, Magadan in Siberia where the major gulags were/are located) and her sometimes rather unbelievable experiences during that time; Expedition Adventures as an analog for long-duration planetary missions - studies of single and mixed gender national and international civilian and military polar expedition teams to simulate aspects of long-duration lunar and Mars missions, studied on-site in the Canadian Nunavut Territories and during three trips to Danish military stations in Greenland; Greece Disaster Connections - psychosocial training workshops for disaster response and research on the aftermath of disasters through collaboration with colleagues from Athens and Cairo. The author's activities with the NASA Human Research Program over the years also is summarized.

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How to Find Work in the 21st Century: A Guide to Finding Employment in Today’s Workplace

The Financial History of Cambridge University

The Graft: How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants (Anthem symploke Studies in Theory)

The AI Leader: Mastery of Humans and Machines in the Workplace

Life in Reverse

Spirituality for the Independent Thinker: Themes of Religious Exploration

Ireland’s Great Famine, Britain’s Great Failure

Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow, Second Edition

Academia, Chernobyl, Expeditions and the Greeks: A Research Psychologist on the Move

Academia, Chernobyl, Expeditions and the Greeks: A Research Psychologist on the Move