This paper is about some misgivings I harbor over some recent linguistics publications on language endangerment, i.e., the process whereby a language loses grounds to another either because it is spoken by fewer and fewer speakers and/or because it is heavily influenced by the competitor, which its speakers seem to command or like better. The targets of my criticisms include Crystal (2000, 2004...

This paper begins as an initial rejoinder to the ideas expressed by Ross (2000) in The Promise and Perils of E-Learning: A critical look at the new technology. In his article, Ross supports the traditional practices of pedagogy at the primary school level—face-to-face pedagogy— and then critiques what he describes as a ‘fetishisation’ of technological pedagogy—a fetishisation seen in the increa...

While the notion of ‘human nature’ has been devaluated from the status of ‘grand theory’ to a marginal anthropological debate, I argue that it deserves to be resurrected in order to comprehend some of the explanatory gaps inherent in other theories. Industrialization signifies a turning point in human history, which in combination with certain ‘universal’ human traits led to recent environmenta...

This commentary provides an overview and selected highlights from the scientific program of the 5th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.

How will globalization affect higher education? Will globalization, the scientific community, and the Internet level the playing field in a new age of knowledge interdependence? Or will globalization produce worldwide inequality and the McDonaldization of the university? Is globalization responsible for all of the contemporary pressures on higher education—from “massification” to the growth of ...

In an era of corporatized health care systems, increasingly overseen by strategic operations specialists and risk managers, nurses are struggling to maintain practice environments within which their nursing intelligence, applied the unique distinctive needs each patient situation, can be enacted. It has been well recognized that significant changes in complex forces shaping throughout second ha...

There are books that one wishes they had read earlier on in life, to help shape and mould career paths perceptions of the world. This important original book is them. It essential reading for anyone working field criminal justice or interested learning more about adverse consequences imprisonment individuals their families – this case women, book's being ‘by, women’ (p.xi). An edited collection...