Author: D. W. Livingstone
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Keywords: gaps, exploring, jobs, education
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1442600500
ISBN-13: 9781442600508

What are the correlations between the education employees bring to their jobs, the education required to do those jobs, and the skills employees acquire while working on the job? Written as a sequel to the critically acclaimed The Education-Jobs Gap, Livingstone and contributors explore these questions by building on earlier research and presenting new labour force surveys and case studies of different economic classes and specific occupational groups. The survey evidence finds an increasingly overqualified non-managerial labour force (especially service sector and industrial workers, recent i

Author: Margaret Miner
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: wagner, baudelaire, gaps, resonant
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1995-07-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0820317098
ISBN-13: 9780820317090

Resonant Gaps examines the ways in which Charles Baudelaire exploited certain powers of figurative language while writing on music, particularly that of Richard Wagner. Unlike many recent music/literature studies, Margaret Miner focuses less on the possible convergences of text and music than on their productive distances and divergences.At the heart of this study is Baudelaire’s 1861 essay Richard Wagner et Tannhauser à Paris, which is included in this volume in the French text of the 1861 Dentu edition. Called a "long-meditated work of circumstance" by its author, Richard Wagner is th

Author: Doug Newsom
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: communication, global, gaps, bridging
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2006-11-06
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 1405144122
ISBN-13: 9781405144124

This major textbook for a growing area of study provides the reader with the framework necessary for understanding the implications of communication in the global media marketplace. Using practical examples, Newsom offers students and media professionals an indispensable guide to mastering the art of international and intercultural communication. Key features include:Addresses an important subject that few other books do: how to communicate in the global media marketplace at both the interpersonal and public levelExplores mass modes of communication including advertising, public relations, the

Author: Michael D. Maltz
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Keywords: data, crime, police, gaps, bridging
Published: 1999-02
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0788187961
ISBN-13: 9780788187964

Author: Alfred Publishing Staff
Publisher: NGW PUBLICATIONS
Keywords: book, amp, guitarist, serious, skillsfilling, gaps, jazz
Number of Pages: 44
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1929395116
ISBN-13: 9781929395118

In this book, Jody Fisher, author of the best-selling Complete Jazz Guitar Method, helps guitarists with their most common problems. Jazz Skills clarifies everything from understanding altered chords to spelling out changes in solos and developing a better technique. A great supplement for any serious guitarist’s studies, this easy-to-use book will fill the gaps for even the most experienced player.

Author: James Ziliak
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Keywords: trends, microeconomics, foundations, gaps, poverty, rates, understanding
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2006-06-16
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1933019271
ISBN-13: 9781933019277

Authors:Paul Attewell, Katherine S. Newman,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: world, inequality, educational, gaps, growing
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2010-11-05
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0199732183
ISBN-13: 9780199732180

The last half century has seen a dramatic expansion in access to primary, secondary, and higher education in many nations around the world. Educational expansion is desirable for a country’s economy, beneficial for educated individuals themselves, and is also a strategy for greater social harmony. But has greater access to education reduced or exacerbated social inequality? Who are the winners and the losers in the scramble for educational advantage?In Growing Gaps, Paul Attewell and Katherine S. Newman bring together an impressive group of scholars to closely examine the relationship be