This volume discusses why faculty and administrators of academe should care about implementing family-friendly policies and practices, as well as how they can advocate for policy changes.In section one, the book’s focus is on empirical studies that demonstrate the need for innovative programs and policies for faculty at colleges and universities. These pieces explore issues such as the value of work/life programs for employee retention, the need for a variety of family support poli...

This book tackles the challenges that women face in the workplace generally and in the public sector particularly. While Women and Public Service spends time identifying and describing the problems that women faced in the past, it pays special attention to identifying possible remedies to these problems, and also surveys progress made in recent decades. The authors present the challenge of accommodating women in public sector organisations as both a fairness issue and also a human...

This illustrated collection features eight classic mysteries from The Adventures of Frank and Joe Hardy, the legendary teen sleuths created by Franklin W. Dixon—a pseudonym for various authors, including the talented Canadian writer Leslie McFarlane, who penned many of the earliest and most beloved titles. Frank and Joe Hardy, sons of famous detective Fenton Hardy, are resourceful and daring young investigators who find themselves in the midst of thrilling adventures. From stolen treasures...

Owen Barfield is known primarily for his many publications on the evolution of consciousness and the essential reframing of cultural history that results from this theory. At the center of his philosophy is a deep analysis of mythology and poetics that draws from Coleridge, Steiner, and others to reveal the noetic role of the poetic principle and its salient shifts that map the evolution of conscious experience. A member of the Oxford Inklings group, Barfield’s first published book, The Si...