Author: Peter Ginna File Type: pdf Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly understand the range of roles they inhabit while shepherding a project from concept to publication. In What Editors Do, Peter Ginna gathers essays from twenty-seven leading figures in book publishing about their work. Representing both large houses and small, and encompassing trade, textbook, academic, and childrens publishing, the contributors make the case for why editing remains a vital function to writersand readerseverywhere. Ironically for an industry built on words, there has been a scarcity of written guidance on how to actually approach the work of editing. This book will serve as a compendium of professional advice and will be a resource both for those entering the profession (or already in it) and for those outside publishing who seek an understanding of it. It sheds light on how editors acquire books, what constitutes a strong author-editor relationship, and the editors vital role at each stage of the publishing processa role that extends far beyond marking up the authors text. This collection treats editing as both art and craft, and also as a career. It explores how editors balance passion against the economic realities of publishing. What Editors Do shows why, in the face of a rapidly changing publishing landscape, editors are more important than ever. **

Author: Ted Dace File Type: epub An unforgettable trip from the foundations of physical and biological existence to the psycho-social maladies currently undermining human prospects, Escape from Quantopia exposes the twin failings of science and capitalism, the double helix of the modern world. Prefigured by the deranged imperative to subsume nature and consciousness to deterministic equations, imperial America is killing the earth in the quest to dominate it. Why do elites pursue policies ultimately harmful even to themselves? How did warfare, whether military or economic, take on a life of its own beyond the reach of reason and compassion? Making the case for insanity at the group level, the author finds the basis of collective memory and mind in the pioneering work of CS Peirce, Henri Bergson, David Bohm, Rupert Sheldrake and Lee Smolin. Whether arising from primordial chemical soup or the unexamined recesses of the human mind, living systems tend to self-perpetuate. In light of the organic underpinnings of...

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Author: Barbara J. Bank File Type: pdf In this two volume set, educators explore the intersection of gender and education. Their entries deal with educational theories, research, curricula, practices, personnel, and policies, but also with variations in the gendering of education across historical and cultural contexts. The various contributors discuss gender as a social construction. The latest research on boys and masculinities, as well as girls and feminism, is included.The entries in this work cover the breadth of topics related to gender and education. They provide reference information on the history and condition of gender and education from elementary to high school. Entries cover such topics as alternative schools, historically black colleges and universities in the United States, military colleges and academies, private and public single-sex and co-educational schools, literacy, mathematics achievement, womens centers, teacher interactions with girls and boys, affirmative action in U.S. higher education, sororities and fraternities, educator sexual misconduct, expectations of teachers for boys and girls, heterosexism and homophobia, bullying, harassment, and violence among students, salaries of male and female educators, school choice and gender equity, disabled students and gender equity, Title IX and school sports, black feminism, womanism, and queer theory.From BooklistIn prior decades, this work might have focused on women, but todays scholars and researchers look atthe issues that surround males and females relative to educational experiences. Thevolumes are divided into10 parts, each consisting of an introduction and3 to 23 chapters. Essays range from four to eight pages and generally cover the history and main issues of the designated topic. Ashort list of references and further readings conclude each chapter. Chapters vary in the degree to which seminal research is mentioned and research directions are posed. A paragraph about each of the 70-plus contributors concludes each volume. Part1 introduces a dozen gendered theories of education, among them queer theory and social constructivism.Part 2looks at research.Several useful educational data sets are listed, with strategies on their use. Part3 covers various schooling experiences, from homeschooling to military colleges. Single- and coed institutions are explored from several perspectives. Part4 deals with gender issues found in official curriculum.Intelligence tests,college retention, and other measures of achievement are discussed in part 5.Part6 explores such extracurricular topics as fraternities and cheerleading. Gender issues in the hidden curriculum (that is, the rules,regulations, and routines typical in schools and classrooms) are the subject ofpart 7. Peer groups are considered in part 8. Part 9 focuses on gendered teaching and administration, although it should be noted that support personnel other than counselors (e.g., librarians, reading specialists, technology specialists) are not mentioned.The last part covers several educational policies that touch on gender, among themTitle IV,student rights, and faculty evaluation both student and adult genderedissues are described. A name indexand adequate subject index close the volumes. This encyclopedia is best described as an anthology of relevant essays. In some chapters, the major research and issues are clearly laid out, but in most cases, the approach is broad stroke, providing historical context and typical practices. Nevertheless, this set, which is also available as an e-book,is a useful addition to the field. --Lesley Farmer ReviewBank presents a thorough and up-to-date look at issues of gender in education, from elementary through high school, to which multiple experts have contributed. Primarily focused on U.S. educational systems, this thematically organized work starts with a general overview of gendered theories of education and moves through research, contexts and constructs, and an examination of policies.[T]his is recommended for academic libraries serving womens studies programs or graduate programs in education.ullulLibrary JournalApproximately 100 essays commissioned for this reference are presented in thematic sections, each introduced with an overview essay. No single definition of gender was imposed the contributors various interpretations of the term reflect the state of current research and show some areas where further study with gender as a focus might be useful. Indexing is thorough, by name and subject.ullulSciTech BooknewsIn prior decades, this work might have focused on women, but todays scholars and researchers look at the issues that surround males and females relative to educational experiences.[A] useful addition to the field.ullulBooklistThe editor is careful to explain in the preface that no single definition of gender was provided for the works contributors. As a result, entries discuss the intersection of gender and education from multiple perspectives, including those of feminist, queer, multicultural, poststructural, and male theorists. The encyclopedia is divided into ten thematic sections that address how notions of gender have affected theories of education, issues in educational research, institutional contexts, the official and unofficial curriculum, measurements of achievement, teaching and administration, and educational policies. Each section begins with an overview that contextualizes the entries that follow historically and thematically. Each entry ends with a short bibliography that enables readers to explore further the topics the contributors address. One notable entry discusses useful sources of international and US data on gender and education.Recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates.ullulChoice