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Why Leaders Fail: Criteria for Evaluating Prospective Organizational Leaders that Likely Will Not Show Up in an Ad, Job Description, Resume, Cover Letter, or Interview Protocol

The following insights are derived from Motivating Self and Others by Martin Ford and Peyton Smith. Leadership search and selection processes typically focus on positive experiences and accomplishments...

Martin E. Ford, Peyton R. Smith | 6 Dec 2021

Cambridge handbook of Forensic Psychology

May 4th, 1987 marked the beginning of a string of violent sexual attacks on women across Southern Ontario. During this time at least eighteen women across the districts of Scarborough, Peel, and St. Catharine’s...

Miranda A. H. Horvath, Jennifer M. Brown | 3 Dec 2021

Making the Uncanny Beautiful

Section V of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, titled “A City Visible but Unseen,” is not about an imaginary city but a migrant ghetto wilfully disavowed. The unseen citizenry are undocumented migrants...

Ankhi Mukherjee | 2 Dec 2021

“Buried in the Red Dirt”: Thinking about Palestinian Death and Reproduction

As I was conceptualizing a project on death in early 2016, a friend and colleague I was visiting in Jerusalem mentioned a sloppy online essay that had drawn the ire of Palestinian feminists. The piece...

Frances S. Hasso | 1 Dec 2021

Lost Species Day, 30 November 2021

Now we remember millions of species that died from centuries of war with nature. But we can learn from this, and build peace with nature instead. We've done this many times before, and to do so again we must remember and restore the old ways of harmony and sufficiency.

Julian Caldecott | 30 Nov 2021

A History of Polish Theatre

A History of Polish Theatre offers a new and original look at the complex pasts of Polish theatre. The editors wished to move away from strictly devised forms of periodization, and instead build historical...

Bryce Lease, Michal Kobialka, Katarzyna Fazan | 25 Nov 2021

Surviving Climate Chaos: Strengthening systems against chaos

Surviving Climate Chaos is being published into a new world of lethal fires, floods and record-breaking temperatures, while the IPCC warns us that we are in the last decade before Arctic, oceanic and...

Julian Caldecott | 25 Nov 2021

Perennial Challenges and New Opportunities for the International Criminal Court

On November 10, 2021, Judge Piotr Hofmánski, the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) gave the ICC’s annual address to the United Nations General Assembly. In his speech to the General...

Courtney Hillebrecht | 24 Nov 2021

The Most Diverse of All Diversities

Diversity is on everybody’s lips these days, along with equity and inclusion. These are indeed praiseworthy efforts to start righting the wrongs of the past. May they flourish! Diversity itself is diverse...

Danko Šipka | 24 Nov 2021

The New Climate Activism: What role for health NGOs?

Climate change touches many aspects of our lives. For those on the margins of society, the impacts of climate change are particularly acute. Women, the poor, and racialized communities suffer disproportionately...

Jen Allan | 22 Nov 2021

Languages: Connecting Lake Chad with the Middle East

The Lake Chad region in Central Africa is home to a plethora of languages of different genetic affiliations, among them the about 200 so-called Chadic languages, named after the Lake. The best known of...

16 Nov 2021

Negative advertising: a secret weapon?

Much of the advertising we see and hear attempts to portray a product or brand in a positive light. Figurative devices such as metaphor and metonymy are often used in advertising to portray a product...

15 Nov 2021