Bøger af Michael Murphy

Must Reading for Employers Covered by The Family and Medical Leave Act. The FMLA is one of the most complex and confusing employment laws in the United States. After a "Dozen Years of Confusion" the average employer is still not certain about the law, what to do, what's required. what's not. This book provides necessary information for all employers to assist them as they work their way through the "maze" of the FMLA. If you are not certain, if you are unsure, if you are confused about what to do regarding the FMLA this is the book for you. The FMLA: A Dozen Years of Confusion: The Employer's Guide to Compliance presents and explains complex FMLA issues in a manner that is easy to understand. The "Ultimate" FMLA Quiz, is a fun, but thorough method for learning more about this complex law. This book is "the reference guide" for employers and belongs in the HR office of every FMLA covered employer in America.

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Activities for Teaching Gender and Sexuality in the University Classroom is the first interdisciplinary collection of activities devoted entirely to teaching about gender and sexuality. It offers both new and seasoned instructors a range of exciting exercises that can be immediately adapted for their own classes, at various levels, and across a range of disciplines. Activities are self-contained, classroom-tested, and edited for ease of use and potential to remain current. Each activity is thoroughly described with a comprehensive rationale that allows even those unfamiliar with the material/concepts to quickly understand and access the material, learning objectives, required time and materials, directions for facilitation, debriefing questions, cautionary advice, and other applications. For the readerΓÇÖs benefit, each activity is briefly summarized in the table of contents and organized according to themes common to most social science classrooms: Work, Media, Sexuality, Body, etc. Many activities also include handouts that can be photocopied and used immediately in the classroom. Activities for Teaching Gender and Sexuality in the University Classroom will be the standard desk-reference on this topic for years to come, and will be indispensable to those who regularly teach on these topics.

Providing an introduction to multiculturalism, this book explores essential questions and assesses multiculturalism from the standpoint of political philosophy and political theory.

Offers a comparative reading of the Proust in the context of American art, literature, and culture. This volume examines Proust's American influences - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allen Poe, and James McNeill Whistler. It also investigates influence of the American neurologist George Beard.

In the oral and written histories of every culture, there are countless records of men and women who have displayed extraordinary physical, mental, and spiritual capacities. In modern times, those records have been supplemented by scientific studies of exceptional functioning. Are the limits of human growth fixed? Are extraordinary abilities latent within everyone? Is there evidence that humanity has unrealized capacities for self-transcendence? Are there specific practices through which ordinary people can develop these abilities?Michael Murphy has studied these questions for over thirty years. In The Future of the Body, he presents evidence for metanormal perception, cognition, movement, vitality, and spiritual development from more than 3,000 sources. Surveying ancient and modern records in medical science, sports, anthropology, the arts, psychical research, comparative religious studies, and dozens of other disciplines, Murphy has created an encyclopedia of exceptional functioning of body, mind, and spirit. He paints a broad and convincing picture of the possibilities of further evolutionary development of human attributes.By studying metanormal abilities under a wide range of conditions, Murphy suggests that we can identify those activities that typically evoke these capacities and assemble them into a coherent program of transformative practice.A few of Murphy''s central observations and proposal include:The observation that cultural conditioning powerfully shapes (or extinguishes) metanormal capacities.The proposition that we cannot comprehend our potentials for extraordinary life without an empirical approach that involves many fields of inquiry and different kinds of knowing.The notion that a widespread realization of extraordinary capacities would constitute an evolutionary transcendence analogous to the rise of humankind from its primal ancestry.The proposal that all or most instances of significant human development are produced by a limited number of identifiable activities such as disciplined self-observation, visualization of desired capacities, and caring for others.The idea that a balanced development of our various capacities is possible through integrated practices.In The Future Of The Body, Murphy states that such practices can carry forward Earth''s evolutionary adventure and lead humanity to the next step in its development.