Mentoring programs that work

Amazing Benefits, Unique Risks A stellar mentor can change the trajectory of a career. And an enduring mentoring program can become an organization’s most powerful talent development tool. But fixing a “broken” mentoring program or developing a new program from scratch requires a unique process, ...

Mentoring within and beyond academia

Centred on five mentoring conversations around SDG-related topics such as quality education, gender equality, climate action and sustainable cities and communities, Mentoring Within and Beyond Academia showcases the link between professional academic development and its impact beyond campus walls.

Mentors

A surprising and revealing memoir populated with art historians, art influencers, and the former lover and lifelong friend of Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood.

Mentorship-driven talent management

Evidence suggests that research on mentorship has been dominated by the West, and little is known about the cultural variations of the mentoring phenomenon. This book aims to provide a deeper understanding of the contextual interpretation of mentoring by focusing on the Asian experience in countr...

Menus for movieland

At the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer “menus” by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their daily lives. Among those menus in the mid-1910s were several that mediated the interests of movie manufacturers, distributors, exh...

Mephisto's waltz

Pitol gained legendary status first as a short story writer, this, his first collection in English, showcases his greatest stories.

Mephistos and other poems

Eco-poetic innovations and ecstatic meditations from a founding member of the Beat Generation, Michael McClure.

Mercenaries, pirates, and sovereigns

The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.

Merchants and rulers in gujarat

Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat: The Response to the Portuguese in the Sixteenth Century offers a compelling reevaluation of the Portuguese influence in early modern South Asia, specifically in Gujarat. Challenging the notion that the Portuguese were a mere prelude to the larger colonial enterpri...

Merchants of despair

There was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting for—indeed, worth liberating. But now we are beset on all sides by propaganda promoting a radically different viewpoint. According to this idea, human beings are a cancer upon the Earth, ...

Merchants of knowledge

Between 1450 and 1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean. As Renaissance Europe depended on knowledge from the Ottoman Empire, and the courts of Mehmed the Conqueror and Bayezid II greatly benefitted from knowledge coming out of Europe, merch...

Merchants of the right

An eye-opening portrait of the gun sellers who navigated the social turmoil leading up to the January 6 Capitol attackGun sellers sell more than just guns. They also sell politics. Merchants of the Right sheds light on the unparalleled surge in gun purchasing during one of the most dire moments i...

Merchants of virtue

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social SciencesMerchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant...

Mercier and camier

Mercier and Camier, Beckett’s first postwar novel and his first in French, has been described as a forerunner of his most famous work, Waiting for Godot. Like the play, Mercier and Camier revolves around two wandering vagabonds. Their journey is described as relatively easy going, with no frontie...

Mercury

Ariana Reines returns with more of her elegant, blisteringly direct attention to culture, lovers, and the deep image.

Mercury in the environment

Mercury pollution and contamination are widespread, well documented, and continue to pose a public health concern in both developed and developing countries. In response to a growing need for understanding the cycling of this ubiquitous pollutant, the science of mercury has grown rapidly to inclu...

Mercy

A new collection by the National Book Award winner and one of America's most beloved poets.

Mercy

Róisín Kelly’s Mercy is an attempt to reconcile her Irish Catholic background with her pagan heritage, transcending the limits of a world in which everything is connected. Both intimate and political, this powerful debut collection combines a passionate exploration of self with an awestruck confr...

Mergers and acquisitions, entrepreneurship and innovation

This volume of Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy is devoted to research aimed at understanding success and failure factors of mergers and acquisitions in entrepreneurial firms. Contributions are multidisciplinary & cross-cultural, and tackle key issues from a v...

Merging fires

The past two decades have witnessed the emerging role of grassroots social movements and community-based peacebuilding as key sites of transformative political and cultural engagement. Merging Fires offers case studies of grassroots alliance building between non-Indigenous activists and three Ind...

Merit, meaning, and human bondage

Perhaps everything we think, feel, and do is determined, and humans--like stones or clouds--are slaves to the laws of nature. Would that be a terrible state? Philosophers who take the incompatibilist position think so, arguing that a deterministic world would be one without moral responsibility a...

Meritocracy and economic inequality

Most Americans strongly favor equality of opportunity if not outcome, but many are weary of poverty's seeming immunity to public policy. This helps to explain the recent attention paid to cultural and genetic explanations of persistent poverty, including claims that economic inequality is a funct...

Meritocratic beliefs and the persistence of educational inequality

An examination of meritocracy in education how such beliefs are shaped by experiences and what consequences they have for the reproduction of educational inequality.

Merleau-ponty's poetic of the world

Merleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics focus on visual art. This book corrects that balance by turning to Merleau-Ponty's extensive engagement with literature.

Merlin and the grail

Merovingian mortuary archaeology and the making of the early middle ages

Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authorita...

Mesozoic birds

Our knowledge of the origin and early evolution of birds has exploded in the past ten to fifteen years. In the 1990s alone, scientists became aware of approximately three times more species of early birds than were previously known, marking the first 85 million years of avian development as a per...

Messages from george simmel

Simmel's influence on Sociology has been immense. This volume aims to re-examine that legacy and draw lessons for today's scholars.

Messages from tahrir

One of the many striking things about Egypt’s 25 January Revolution as manifested in Cairo’s Tahrir Square was the imagination and creativity of the posters, placards, and signs that the protesters wore, waved, or hung from buildings, fences, and lampposts day by day throughout the demonstrations...

Messiahs and machiavellians

An innovative exploration of “modern evil” in works of early- and late-modern theatre, focusing on ethics, religion, and aesthetics that speak to our present condition.

Messianism and sociopolitical revolution in medieval islam

This study of messianism and revolution examines an extremely rich though unexplored historical record on the rise of Islam and its sociopolitical revolutions from Muhammad’s constitutive revolution in Arabia to the Abbasid revolution in the East and the Fatimid and Almohad revolutions in North A...

Messianism in medieval jewish thought

How did medieval Jewish scholars, from Saadia Gaon to Yitzhak Abravanel, imagine a world that has experienced salvation? What is the nature of reality in the days of the Messiah? This work explores reactions to the seductive promises of apocalyptic teachings, tracing their fluctuations between in...

Messy eating

Literature on the ethics and politics of food and that on human–animal relationships have infrequently converged. Representing an initial step toward bridging this divide, Messy Eating features interviews with thirteen prominent and emerging scholars about the connections between their academic w...

Messy europe

Interdisciplinary Different disciplines actually integrated nicely Grounded in fieldwork in specific countries Focus on local- and state- and pan-state levels Offers critical look at “crisis” talk Links together crisis that are often treated separate  Offers unique un...

Meta-religion

Whereas many textbooks treat the subject of world religions in an apolitical way, as if each religion were a path for individuals seeking wisdom and not a discourse intimately connected with the exercise of power, James W. Laine treats religion and politics as halves of the same whole, tracing th...

Metacommunity ecology

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions, selection, and stochasticity—with larger-scale issues such as dispersal and habitat heterogeneity. Until now, the field has fo...

Metal music and the re-imagining of masculinity, place, race and nation

Metal is a form of popular music. Popular music is a form of leisure. In the modern age, popular music has become part of popular culture, a heavily contested collection of practices and industries that construct place, belonging and power.

Metamorphoses

One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Spring 2023Metamorphoses springs from Ovid’s epic poem to explore the slipperiness of identity, its propensity for change and transience. In poems that shift registers from travelogue to elegy, from nature documentary to a simple record...

Metamorphoses reimagined

Metamorphoses Reimagined offers a twenty-first-century retelling of Ovid’s masterpiece that decenters the human.

Metamorphosis

"These stories are grounded in soul, a deep communion with the belief that we can—and must—rebuild our relationship with the planet.”—Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange ParadiseOtherworldly but remarkably familiar, ancestral but firmly rooted in alternate futures, these twelve innovative stori...

Metaphor

Metaphor: A Psychoanalytic View offers a profound exploration of the interplay between language, psychology, and artistic expression, using metaphor as a central lens. Rooted in psychoanalytic theory, the book delves into the psychological underpinnings of metaphoric communication, emphasizing it...

Metaphors of spain

Brings together leading historians to examine Spanish nationalism through its diverse and complementary cultural artefacts. Addresses “formal” representations such as the flag to music, bullfighting, and other more diffuse examples. Describes a nationalism that is constantly evolving...

Metaphysical perspectives

Rescher outlines and addresses the main areas of metaphysical concern, giving an integrated overview of key philosophical problems.

Metaphysics

This volume makes available in English for the first time Adorno's lectures on metaphysics. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysics but also to Adorno's own intellectual standpoint, as developed in his major work Negative Dialectics. Metaphysics for Adorno is defined by a centra...

Metaphysics of the profane

Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Together they produced a dynamic body of ideas that has had a lasting impact on the study of religion, philosophy, and literary criticism.Drawing from Benjamin's and Scholem's...

Metaprogramming elixir