Il mondo sta cambiando, e alla sua evoluzione stanno dando un contributo decisivo le Donne Alfa: milioni di professioniste, dirigenti, imprenditrici che hanno fatto studi di qualità, abbracciando carriere di prestigio un tempo riservate ai loro padri e ai loro mariti. Hanno perso tardi la verginità, scegliendo di sposarsi con uomini del loro valore; hanno avuto meno figli e in età più avanzata delle loro amiche; e guadagnano quanto gli uomini più bravi, e tre volte le altre donne. Dietro q...

"Education, education, education" has become an obsession for politicians and the public alike. It is seen as an economic panacea: an engine for growth and prosperity. But is there a link between increased spending on higher eductaion and economicgrowth? Professor Alison Wolf takes a critical look at successive governments' education policy and challenges many of the tenets of received wisdom: there are no economic reasons for spending more on higher education in order to stimulate growth....

Noted British academic and journalist Alison Wolf offers a surprising and thoughtful study of the professional elite, and examines the causes—and limits—of women’s rise and the consequences of their difficult choices.The gender gap is closing. Today, for the first time in history, tens of millions of women are spending more time at the boardroom table than the kitchen table. These professional women are highly ambitious and highly educated, enjoying the same lifest...

İnsanlar genel olarak kuram okumaya pek hevesli değillerdir. Onu okullar, fabrikalar ve banliyöler ile seçimler, düğünler, grevler, oyunlar ve futbol maçlarından muteşekkil 'gerçek dünya'nın üstünde serbestçe yüzen bir bilmeceler öbeği gibi. yalnız birbirleri ile ilişkili soyut anlatımlar gibi görürler. Bu bir yanılgıdır.Ûnlü iktisatçı Keynes'in isabetle soyledigi gibi; fikirler, dogru da olsa, yanlış da olsa, genel olarak zannedildiginden daha kuvvetlidir. Hatta gerçekte, dünya da...

For most of history, being female defined the limits of a woman's achievements. But now, women are successful careerists equal to men. In Norway, women legally must constitute a third of all boards; in America, women have gone from 3% of practising lawyers in 1970 to 40% today, and over half of all law students.These changes are revolutionary - but not universal: the 'sisterhood' of working women is deeply divided. Making enormous strides in the workplace are young, educated, full-...

In Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform, Rotberg brings together examples of current education reforms in sixteen countries, written by "insiders". This book goes beyond myths and stereotypes and describes the difficult trade-offs countries make as they attempt to implement reforms in the context of societal and global change. In some countries, reforms are a response to major political or economic shifts; in others, they are motivated by large upsurges in imm...

Modern societies demand high levels of literacy. The written word is pervasive; individuals with poor literacy skills are deeply disadvantaged; and governments are increasingly pre-occupied with the contribution that skills can make to economic growth. As a result, the basic skills of adult workers are of concern as never before, a focus for workplace and education policy and practice.While Improving Literacy at Work builds on detailed research from the UK, the issue is a ...

This reader shows the rich history and wide contemporary application of symbolic interaction theory.

A thrilling work of popular history that gives a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo conflicts and brings the bloody period to life In the eleventh century, the rulers of the lands surrounding the North Sea are all hungry for power. To get power they need soldiers, to get soldiers they need silver, and to get silver there is no better way than war and plunder. This vicious cycle draws all the lands of the north into a brutal struggle for supremacy and survival that will shatter kingdoms an...

From parks and libraries to pubs and schools, social infrastructures are the everyday places that bring people together, support community life, and foster connection. As interest in the concept grows, this timely and accessible edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of social infrastructure—its origins, development, and practical impact.Packed with innovative case studies from the UK, Europe, Australia, and the US, it highlights how these shared spaces can shape urban l...

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An up-to-date reference book on phylogenetic methods and applications for evolutionary biologistsThe increasingly widespread availability of genomic data is transforming how biologists estimate evolutionary relationships among organisms and broadening the range of questions that researchers can test in a phylogenetic framework. Species Tree Inference brings together many of today’s leading scholars in the field to provide an incisive guide to the latest pr...