One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness
Researchers have found that the accelerated pace of modern office life is taking its toll on productivity, employee engagement, creativity and well-being. Faced with a relentless flood of information and distractions, our brains try to process everything at once increasing our stress, decreasing our effectiveness and negatively impacting our performance. Ironically, we have become too overworked, unfocused, and …
A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Sexual Puns and Their Significance
This dictionary examines previously unnoted puns on the erotic attitudes and practices of the heterosexual and homosexual, the sexual deviant, and the impotent. It includes scatological puns in their usually bawdy contexts and ethnic puns, as sexually snide then as now. It stresses the need to read and hear Shakespeare word by word, giving full weight to each …
Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada
Disability Incarcerated offers an outstanding collection of interdisciplinary scholarship examining the incarceration and segregation of people with disabilities the United States and …
The Fifth Column in World War II: Suspected Subversives in the Pacific War and Australia
Any Australian who lived through World War II would remember the frightening posters warning that ‘Enemy Agents are Listening’ and ‘Loose Lips Sink Ships.’ The Fifth Column was the name given to the Axis agents believed to be lurking in Allied countries. Their mission was to carry out acts of sabotage, cause fear and confusion and spread rumours …
Women of The Street: Why Female Money Managers Generate Higher Returns (and How You Can Too)
Why would an investor care whether a money manager wears Louboutins or loafers? Because money–how to keep it and how to make more of it–is on everyone’s mind. And research shows it pays to invest with or like a woman. Study after study shows that women invest differently than men. From less overconfidence, overtrading, and testosterone to a greater …