Third Edition arms job seekers with an arsenal of highly effective professional cover letter models that, with minor modification, can be rapidly deployed as needed. You'll find a full chapter, complete with numerous models, dedicated to each of five different types of cover letters: employer broadcast letters, search firm broadcast letters, advertising response letters, networking cover letters, and resume letters.
Last Words: Variations on a Theme in Cultural History by Karl S. Guthke Review
Whether Goethe actually cried "More light!"
on his deathbed, or whether Conrad Hilton checked out of this world
after uttering "Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub,"
last words, regardless of authenticity, have long captured the
imagination of Western society. In this playfully serious investigation
based on factual accounts, anecdotes, literary works, and films, Karl
Guthke explores the cultural importance of those words spoken at the
border between this world and the next. The exit lines of both famous
and ordinary people embody for us a sense of drama and truthfulness and
reveal much about our thoughts on living and dying. Why this interest
in last words? Presenting statements from such figures as Socrates,
Nathan Hale, Marie Antoinette, and Oscar Wilde ("I am dying as I have
lived, beyond my means"), Guthke examines our fascination in terms of
our need for closure, our desire for immortality, and our attraction to
the mystique of death scenes. The author considers both authentic and
invented final statements as he looks at the formation of symbols and
legends and their function in our culture. Last words, handed down from
generation to generation like cultural heirlooms, have a good chance of
surviving in our collective memory. They are shown to epitomize a life,
convey a sense of irony, or play to an audience, as in the case of the
assassinated Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, who is said to have
died imploring journalists: "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I
said something." (press.princeton.edu).
In this book, some of the world's leading scholars come together to describe their thinking and research on the topic of the psychology of leadership. The editors' goal was not to focus the chapters on a single approach to the study and conceptualization of leadership but rather to display the diversity of issues that surround the topic.
Leadership scholars have identified a host of approaches to the study of leadership. What are the personal characteristics of leaders? What is the nature of the relation between leaders and followers? Why do we perceive some people to be better leaders than others? What are the circumstances that evoke leadership qualities in people? Can leadership be taught? And so on.
The contributions to this book examine these important questions and fall into three categories: conceptions of leadership, factors that influence the effectiveness of leadership, and the consequences and effects of leadership on the leader. We hope that this book is equally useful to those who are or would be leaders and to those who study the topic.
This volume brings together for the first time a detailed examination of the state of phonological theory in this decade. In a series of essays on topics as varied as underspecification theory, prosodic morphology, and syllable structure, 38 leading phonologists offer a critical survey of the guiding ideas that lie behind this active area of linguistic research. In all cases, the contributions have been written by leading researchers, and in many cases, the chapters of this Handbook are the first published expositions of new perspectives which have already begun to shape the climate of research in the field.
Default Creativity: Theories & Themes: Research, Development, Practice
An integrative introduction to the theories and themes in research on creativity, this book is both a reference work and text for courses in this burgeoning area of research. The book begins with a discussion of the theories of creativity (Person, Product, Process, Place), the general question of whether creativity is influenced by nature or nurture, what research has indicated of the personality and style of creative individuals from a personality analysis standpoint, how social context affects creativity, and then coverage of issues like gender differences, whether creativity can be enhanced, if creativity is related to poor mental or physical health, etc.
