At a meeting of financial directors/planners at Manchester Business School, concern was expressed at the way education and training (ET in particular, whether E&T was being regarded as a consumptive good to be met from profits and hence being cut in stringent times, or ...

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<jats:p>In this article, Samuel C. Florman, the chairman of Kreisler Borg Florman General Construction Co. recalls how a sequence of events in 1963 led his young construction firm to $2 million in billings at the World’s Fair. During the summer of 1962, Norman Winston w...

Comentario sobre la importancia de repensar la biografía de personajes históricos en el marco de una historia más apegada a lo vivido y menos politizada en el marco del patriotismo.

Montaigne’s biography offered by Arlette Jouanna is an investigation supported by very precise historical facts and well-documented. The author reports on her reading of the Essais without a theoretical framework, sensitive to a man’s “accomplishment” and to Montaigne’s...

LOS COMIENZOS Hasta donde hemos podidoaveriguar, la primera ronda campesina en la sierra de Piura fue organizada en el año 1980 por un puñado de ganaderos acomodados en Hualcuy, caserío de los alrededores de la ciudad de Ayabaca. Uno de ellos, posiblemente enterado por ...

This essay focuses on Malay Sketches, a collection of flash fiction written by Alfian Sa'at, the only Malay writer in Singapore who has produced a substantial body of work in English. Alfian represents the specific dynamics of Malay identity and inter-race relations in ...

The state of Kansas has turned its child-welfare services over to private nonprofits with one mandate: Don't let kids languish in foster care. More than 500,000 children will pass through America's foster-care system this year, double the number from a little over a dec...

This article is a brief preliminary report on the Dhiban Excavation and Development Project's research on the Middle Islamic settlement. The article describes architecture, artifacts, coins, and the results of radiocarbon testing of organic remains to determine the site...

I am getting better at following the rules as I grow older, although I still bristle at many of them. I was a typical rebellious teenager; no one understood me, David Bowie was my idol, and, one day, my generation was going to change the world. Now I really want people ...