In a well-organized and clear exposition, Edgley successfully tackles the daunting task of putting Chomsky's life work of radical critiques of American democracy and foreign policy in a structured form... Edgley has performed a very needed and important task. For advanced undergraduates, graduates students and faculty.br-ChoicebrOne of few serious academic studies of Chomsky's political writing, this volume addresses many key issues in political theory through an engagement with Chomsky's ideas. Subjects covered include equality and freedom, politics and the media, nationalism and state capitalism. The Social and Political Thought of Noam Chomsky is an essential resource for scholars of social and political thought.

Transnational Environmental Policy analyses a surprising success story in the field of international environmental policy making; the threat to the ozone layer posed by industrial chemicals and how it has been averted. The book also raises the more general question about problem-solving capacities of industrialised countries and the world society as a whole. This case study investigates the regulations, which have been put in place at an international level, and how the process evolved over twenty years in the US, and Germany. At the same time, it highlights problem-solving capacities of industrialised countries: is the international community in a position to tackle global environmental threats? Under which conditions is transnational governance without government possible? Combining insights from political science and sociology, Reiner Grundmann develops a policy network approach which traces environmental advocacy in transnational settings. He analyses key scientific controversies based on insights in the sociology of science; and examines risk sociology, institutional analysis and cultural theory in order to understand the role of discourses, norms and ideas in decisions under uncertainty. Based on expert interviews, archival material, and mass media analysis, this book challenges commonly accepted accounts of the case which so far have been put forward. Finally, Reiner Grundmann suggests some lessons that can be learnt from the ozone layer scenario and applies them to the case of global climate change.

divArgues that since moral panics over popular culture are perennial, this reveals a great deal more about adult anxieties--fear of the future, technological change, and the erosion of moral absolutes--than about the nature of juvenile misbehavior.br/divdivThis book sets out to show that modern-day fears about the supposed moral threat posed to the young by violent movies or interactive computer games have their roots in nineteenth-century anxieties about the ill effects of popular forms of amusement on the children of the lower classes. These concerns stretch in an almost unbroken line through successive moral panics in both Britain and America, as throughout history there have been attempts to shift the blame for social breakdown onto the entertainment forms of the age: penny theatres, penny dreadfuls, dime novels, gangster films, horror comics. All these are discussed, evaluated, and placed in context. A postscript refers to video nasties, violence on television, gangsta rap, and computer games, each in turn playing the role of folk devils which must be causing delinquency. The book argues that since moral panics over popular culture are perennial, this tells us a great deal more about adult anxieties--fear of the future, technological change, and the erosion of moral absolutes--than about the nature of juvenile misbehavior.br/divdivAcknowledgments * Introduction * Penny Theatre Panic: Anxiety over Juvenile Working-Class Leisure * Penny Dreadful Panic: a) Their Readers, Publishing, and Content; b) Their Scapegoating for late-Victorian Juvenile Crime * Gangster Film Panic: Censoring Hollywood in the 1930s * Horror Comic Panic: Campaigning Against Comic Books in the 1940s and 1950s * Mass Media Panic: The 1980s and 1990s * Conclusionsbr/divdivAcknowledgments * Introduction * Penny Theatre Panic: Anxiety over Juvenile Working-Class Leisure * Penny Dreadful Panic: a) Their Readers, Publishing, and Content; b) Their Scapegoati

This book is the first full-length study available in English to trace the extraordinary history of the Italian Northern Leagues during the 1980s and 1990s. At a time when the postwar First Republic entered a crisis amid corruption scandals, the Leagues acted as one of the main protest actors and grew at an unprecedented rate. Drawing on electoral and survey data, existing research, eyewitness accounts of protest events and interviews with activists and leaders, this book provides the definitive account of the movement. Damian Tambini analyses why the movement was so successful in mobilising support, and focuses on its most novel aspect: its use of nationalism. The new regionalist movements in Northern Italy, which were unified into the Northern League in 1990, had a huge influence on Italian politics during the period. This book argues that the League developed a new genre of nationalist protest action, which relied upon spectacular transgressionary tactics. These not only captured the media agenda, but were an effective way of further undermining the legitimacy of the Italian national state. In a period where the nature of the nation has been fundamentally redefined as western Europe integrated, and in which the geopolitical map of central Europe was completely rewritten, the League's secessionist discourse came to dominate Italian politics. Written for scholars interested in nationalism, ethnicity and citizenship; and for specialists in European Studies, Italian and ethnic studies, Nationalism in Italian Politics draws on the best Italian and international research to thoroughly analyse the movement, and update classic studies of nationalism in the age of media spectacle.

The Blackwell Companion to Criminology provides a contemporary and global resource to scholarship in both classical and topical areas of criminology. Authored by an international group of expert criminologists, these original essays focus on major issues in criminology today, commenting upon key debates and theories, outlining the implications of new topics, studies and ideas, and discussing contemporary developments. The essays cover a wide range of topics and themes, including: The social construction of crime The relations between class, gender, race and crime The realities and limits of criminal justice Juvenile delinquency and its treatment The success of punishment and rehabilitation The official statistical patterns of criminalization and their relation to the state and its policies The increased importance of mass media and new information systems in defining, portraying and communicating crime International crimes and their relation with globalization and the global social order The possibility of social control after a century of violence.Written accessibly for the student, and with its international perspective and first-rate scholarship, this is truly the first global handbook of criminology.

pstrongThe Political Economy of Communication/strong provides a thorough coverage of an important area of communication studies: the political economy approach to media. This highly successful text has been thoroughly updated, restructured, and rewritten in this new edition, clearly demonstrating how power operates across all media, from newspapers to Facebook, and how media power intersects with globalization, social class, race, gender and surveillance. /pp/pp /p

From corporate boxes to sprinklers, food outlets to toilets, first aid to media, facility and event managers are accountable for the success of sporting venues and events.brManaging Sport Facilities and Major Events explains how to get the job done. With detailed international case studies in each chapter, the book offers a systematic guide to the management issues and practical problems that sports managers must address to ensure financial, sporting and ethical success.brChapters cover feasibility assessment, market research, event bidding and branding, risk analysis, contract and project management, corporate structure, quality assurance, budgeting, facility management, staffing, occupational health and safety, and contractual considerations-as well as economic, social, community and environmental issues.brWritten by an international team of expert scholars, Managing Sport Facilities and Major Events is an invaluable student text and professional reference.

Cybertherapy, the integration of telehealth technologies with the Internet and shared virtual reality, is used for two reasons: either because there is no alternative, or because it is in some sense better than traditional medicine. Nevertheless, the benefits of cybertherapy, due to the variety of its applications and their uneven development, are not self-evident. However, the emergence of cybertherapy is supporting the cost-effectiveness of certain applications, such as assessment, rehabilitation and therapy in clinical psychology and neuroscience. Its key advantage is the possibility of sharing different media and different health care tools in a simple to use and easily accessible Interface. To date, some cybertherapy applications have improved the quality of health care, and later they will probably lead to substantial cost savings. However, cybertherapy is not simply a technology but a complex technological and relational process.In this sense, clinicians and health care providers that want to successfully exploit cybertherapy need to give significant attention to clinical issues, technology, ergonomics, human factors and organizational changes in the structure of the relevant health service. The goal of this volume is to analyze the processes by which cybertherapy applications will contribute to the delivery of state-of-the-art health services. Particular attention is given to the clinical use of virtual reality technology. More in detail, this volume aims at supporting clinicians and scientists, interested in the cybertherapy innovative approach, providing them clinical protocols for the treatment of eating disorders, social phobias, panic disorders and sexual dysfunctions.

The 1997-98 Asian economic crisis raised serious questions for the remaining authoritarian regimes in Southeast Asia, not least the hitherto outstanding economic success stories of Singapore and Malaysia. Could leaders presiding over economies so heavily dependent on international capital investment ignore the new mantra among multilateral financial organizations about the virtues of 'transparency'? Was it really a universal functional requirement for economic recovery and advancement? Wasn't the free flow of ideas and information an anathema to authoritarian rule?brIn Transparency, Media and Authoritarianism Garry Rodan rejects the notion that the economic crisis was further evidence that ultimately capitalism can only develop within liberal social and political institutions, and that new technology necessarily undermines authoritarian control. Instead, he argues that in Singapore and Malaysia external pressures for transparency reform were, and are, in many respects, being met without serious compromise to authoritarian rule or the sanctioning of media freedom.brThis book analyses the different content, sources and significance of varying pressures for transparency reform, ranging from corporate disclosures to media liberalization. It will be of interest to Asianists who are keen to understand the contemporary political, economic and social effects of the Asian crisis.

This book is concerned with a trait that describes variations in the need for novel and intense stimulation and its expression in risky kinds of behaviour.Sensation seeking is a trait describing the tendency to seek novel, varied, complex, and intense sensations and experiences and the willingness to take risks for the sake of such experience. The first sensation seeking scale (SSS) was developed in the early 1960s and since that time the instrument and the theory of the trait have evolved as a function of continuing research around the world. The author describes the research and theory on sensation seeking with emphasis on new findings since 1979. Researchers have found behavioral expressions of sensation seeking in various kinds of risk-taking behaviors such as driving habits, health, gambling, financial, alcohol and drug use, sexual behavior, and sports. The trait is also involved in vocational preferences and choices, job satisfaction, social, premarital and marital relationships, eating habits and food preferences, media and art preferences, humor, fantasy, creativity and social attitudes. The author here describes its modes of assessment, behavioral expressions, and genetic and psychobiological bases. This book presents the only available study of this fascinating topic and it will be sure to interest researchers and their students active in personality research.It is rare to see strong coverage of a topic that spans measurement, sensation, perception, motivation, cognition, learning, clinical and biological studies....Zuckerman makes a successful case for psychology. This work provides one-stop shopping for researchers and applied psychologists who need to catch up on the progress made since his previous book on sensation seeking....Behavioral Expressions and Biosocial Bases of Sensation Seeking is a highly successful unified psychology of an individual difference variable....I find it hard to imagine a psychologist who would not learn something of real val

Public protest marches and meetings have become a global and transnational phenomenon. Images of Asian Muslims protesting against cartoons published by a Danish newspaper are aired into living rooms in Europe and America. Coordinated mass demonstrations on different continents voice demands to 'Make Poverty History' or to stop the war against Iraq, while the process of economic globalization has created an equally transnational network of critics.brGiven the worldwide adoption of Western-style street processions and meetings with their familiar symbols and rituals, it is easily forgotten that this form of organized public protest only developed in the nineteenth century and was long regarded with intense suspicion. Until well after the Second World War participating in street processions and meetings was viewed by the elites as a challenge to their predominant role, and the protestors were regarded as unrespectable or worse.brThis volume examines the evolution of the protest march and its subsequent adaptation and use by different groups, such as nationalists, the labour movements, suffragettes, Communists, fascists, and peace and civil rights activists in Europe and the United States.brThe case studies focus especially on the use of symbols, rituals, traditions, public spaces and symbolic places, the interaction between the marchers, the state, and the public, the use of the media and the question of violence, as well as the success and legacy of the marches. Three further essays introduce the reader to the most important figures, questions, and the methodology of protest march studies in social psychology, sociology, and geography.br1. Introduction, Matthias Reissbr/brbrI. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Demonstration Marchesbr/brbr2. Becoming the Subjects of History: An Outline of the Psychology of Crowds, Stephen Reicher and Clifford Stottbr/brbr3. The Geographies of Demonstration Marches, David Gilbertbr/brbr4. On the Sociology

After years of invisibility in the media, Indonesia burst into the headlines in 1997 and has remained there since. Devaluation, recession, and the succession from Suharto to Habibie were accompanied by urban unrest and communal strife. A parliamentary election, East Timor's self-determination, and a presidential election unfolded amid more violence. Indonesia's latest leader, Abdurrahman Wahid, must now cope with multiple challenges to national unity, democratization, and economic recovery.PIndonesia's prolonged and multifaceted crisis cannot be understood without the historical, political, economic, social, and cultural perspectives provided by this book.PWhat is Indonesia? How was it created? What are its cultures like? How militant are its Muslims? Is religious tolerance possible? Are its women oppressed? Why did Indonesia's first experiment with democracy fail? What is the legacy of its first president, Sukarno? How did Suharto's authoritarian regime work, and why did it last so long? Did Suharto develop the country or merely claim to have done so? Were the conglomerates engines of growth or corruption? Is it true that Indonesia's entrepreneurs are all ethnically Chinese? What made the currency fail? What brought Suharto down? How free and fair were the national elections in June 1999 and East Timor's plebiscite in August? Will Indonesia disintegrate? Will the transition to democracy succeed?PThese are just some of the questions addressed in this book.

By exploring topics such as the Internet, print press, advertising, satellite television, video, rock music, literature, cinema, gender, religious intellectuals, and secularism, this unique and wide-ranging volume explains Iran as a complex society that has successfully managed to negotiate and embody the tensions of tradition and modernity, democracy and theocracy, isolation and globalization, and other such cultural-political dynamics that escape the explanatory and analytical powers of all-too-familiar binary relations.Featuring contributions from among the best-known and emerging scholars on Iranian media, culture, society, and politics, this volume uncovers how the existing perspectives on post-revolutionary Iranian society have failed to appreciate the complexity, the paradoxes and the contradictions that characterize life in contemporary Iran, resulting in a general failure to explain and to anticipate its contemporary social and political transformations.

DIVThis fascinating examination of visual experience offers an explanation and assessment of the traditional means of analyzing visual culture.br/DIVDIVThis fascinating examination of visual experience offers an explanation and assessment of the traditional means of analyzing visual culture. Most of our experience is visual--we obtain most of our information and knowledge through sight, whether from reading books and newspapers, from watching television, or from quickly glimpsing road signs. Many of our judgments and decisions, as well as our entertainment and recreation, are based on the visual experience. Using a wide range of historical and contemporary examples, this book argues that the groups which artists and designers form, the audiences and markets which they sell to, and the different social classes which are produced and reproduced by art and design are all part of the successful explanation and critical evaluation of visual culture.br/DIVDIVIntroduction * What is Visual Culture? * How May it be Studied? * Producers, Artists and Designers * Consumers: Markets, Publics and Audiences * Media, Access and Ownership * Signs, Codes and Visual Culture * Different Types of Art and Design * Visual Culture and the Social Process * Conclusion * IndexbrIntroduction * What is Visual Culture? * How May it be Studied? * Producers, Artists and Designers * Consumers: Markets, Publics and Audiences * Media, Access and Ownership * Signs, Codes and Visual Culture * Different Types of Art and Design * Visual Culture and the Social Process * Conclusion * Indexbr/DIVDIV...a good, balanced overview to popular culture or visual culture studies....iChoice/ibr/DIVDIVMalcolm Barnard is Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Art and Design at the University of Derby.br/DIVDIVThis fascinating examination of visual experience offers an explanation and assessment of the traditional means of analyzing visual culture. Most of our experience is v

The collapse of Barings’ Bank was a commercial catastrophe that resonated worldwide, showing what kind of secrets can lie behind an apparently successful organization. Following Nick Leeson’s arrest and subsequent conviction for fraud, investment banks anxiously reviewed their risk management controls to make sure that it could never happen again. Helga Drummond’s exploration is conducted against a backdrop of social and psychological theories of decision error that seeks to go beyond media style accusations of greed and incompetence. She challenges the myth that Barings ‘must have known’ that mischief was afoot. The book offers lessons for all organizations as it shows how easily managers can end up living in a world of fantasy believing that everything is under control when the precise opposite may be true. It is not risk and uncertainty that should worry organizations, concludes Drummond, but what they are most sure of. The collapse of Barings Bank had international ramifications, and this scholarly analysis will have an international audience as a result. The book will be of great interest to all those interested in social psychology, the application of psychology in management theory, sociology, and organizational behaviour. It is also suitable as recommended reading for a management or organization behaviour course.

One of the most sensible books I have read about the meanings and demeaning of television ... a clear-headed analysis of the Dynasty phenomenon. Gripsrud's reflections on the static and wistful academic celebrations of American television are sorely needed..br-Todd Gitlin, University of California, BerkeleybrJostein Gripsrud's study of Dynasty provides an original perspecitive on the processes and consequences of one of the main themes of our era -- the internationalization of popular culture..br-Nick Browne, University of California, Los AngelesbrIn this groundbreaking and richly-sourced study, Jostein Gripsrud investigates the life and times of Dynasty, how it was made, how it came to international television screens and how it was received by its audiences. Through his discussion of this ultimate soap, Gripsrud offers a critique of many central positions in media studies, including notions of audience resistance and the sovereign audience and its freedom in meaning-making, arguing against uncritical celebrations of the soap-opera genre in much contemporary media criticism.brFrom the operatic camp of Krystle and Alexis's fights or the Moldavian wedding massacre to its unprecedented gay sub-plot, The Dynasty Years follows every convoluted twist in the soap that achieved international success and heralded a profound transformation of European television. Combining insights from semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminism, and classic and critical social theory, Gripsrud presents a theoretically informed and empirically grounded study challenging many of the current assumptions in the field of media studies.

In vitro fertilization (IVF), gamete intra-fallopian transfer (GIFT), and other technologies of assisted conception have been heralded by the medical community and the media as the answer for infertile couples. This timely collection of articles discusses medical and social options for couples facing infertility; the effectiveness, safety, costs, and benefits of the new reproductive technologies; and some of the legal and ethical issues surrounding the use of these services. Although now in widespread use, the new reproductive technologies have not yet been fully evaluated. No attempts have been made to determine the need for such services, to compare their effectiveness with other therapies to restore fertility, or to assess the risks associated with such treatments. Since there is no agreed-upon standard definition of infertility, over-diagnosis is often spurred by exaggerated claims of success by medical sources and the media. Over-treatment exposes women to unnecessary risks and has a staggering impact on national health budgets. Bringing together key issues in health policy analysis, this volume argues for a public health approach to infertility, maintaining that far too little attention has been given to the important social, ethical, and legal issues involved. These internationally focused essays address critical issues that have arisen from the proliferation of infertility technologies: Should there be any social criteria for IVF recipients? Does society have a responsibility to deal with the long-term consequences of the technology? What is to be done about the diversion of money, resources, and health professionals' talents away from pressing community health needs into ahigh technology benefiting only a few? What are the best ways to handle ethically questionable practices such as inducements to women to donate their eggs to IVF clinics and misrepresentation of success rates?

A Rich And Ecletic overview Of Contemporary Issues. ... Readers will find useful analyses of congregations as providers of social services and nonprofits as providers of welfare to work services among the many topics. This book gives a good sense of the very wide range of issues facing human services organizations and of the scholarship that attempts to understand those issues. The collection is almost as diverse as the nonprofit human services sector it portrays.Improve your organization's performance for the well-being of your clients!brOrganizational and Structural Dilemmas in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations explores the common pitfalls that plague nonprofit human service organizations and cause them to fail in their missions. In this book, leading scholars analyze and evaluate the inherent difficulties that impede effectiveness in these organizations. With this wide-ranging body of knowledge, research findings, and information, you will be able to identify key areas in your organization that may become troublesome at a later date and prevent them from deteriorating.brThis valuable tool also includes advice and suggestions for repairing detrimental situations that have already occurred or are taking place. The book supplies solutions for repairing or preventing any permanent damage to your organization's structure, value, or reputation. Organizational and Structural Dilemmas in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations will help you set successful long-term strategies for your organization, despite changes in laws, programs, and public sentiment.brWith this book, you will learn more about: the changing identity of federated community service organizations the role of congregations as social service providers volunteer and paid staff relations the implications of welfare-to-work programs the cycles of public sentiment as expressed through the media the issue of nonprofit executive misbehavior the preferences of social work graduates for employment in var

span style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arialspan style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial p style=BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%Packed with thought-provoking examples, photos, vignettes, quotes, cases, and stories that spark students' interest and challenge them to reassess existing viewpoints, the strongSixth Edition /strongof strongAn Introduction to Intercultural Communication/strong prepares today's readers to successfully navigate our increasingly global community. Using a historical framework that places current topics in context, author Fred E. Jandt integrates media as a variable in advancing issues and ideas, offers full chapter on women, family, and children and retains his non-biased presentation of all cultures and ethnic groups.br /br /strongNew and Continuing Features: /strongbr //pulliAn environment-focused box in each chapter discusses how the environment relates to the book's intercultural communication topics. /liliFocus on Theory boxes ground the practical material in communication and social theory. /liliCoverage of immigration has been expanded to reflect current developments. /liliDomestic and global examples have been updated throughout. /liliNew and expanded Photo Essays illustrate the main concepts of the text, bringing key points to life for the reader. /li/ulpstrongAlso Available: /strong/pulli style=BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%A NEW companion Web site can be found at www.sagepub.com/jandt6estudy. The password-protected Instructor site features thoughtful test questions, engaging student activities, sample syllabi, and PowerPoint presentations. The free Student site features Web activities and resources, study quizzes, e-Flashcards, and SAGE journal articles. /lili style=BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%An accompanying reader, Intercultural Communication: A Global Reader (SAGE, 2004; ISBN: 0-7619-2899-5), is also available and can be used alone

Reviews the histories and uses of newspapers from a global perspective, finding that newspapers are an integral part of any successful society.The demise of the newspaper has long been predicted. Yet newspapers continue to survive globally despite competition from radio, television, and now the Internet, because they serve core social functions in successful cultures. Initial chapters of this book provide an overview of the development of modern newspapers. Subsequent chapters examine particular societies and geographic regions to see what common traits exist among the uses and forms of newspapers and those artifacts that carry the name newspaper but do not meet the commonly accepted definition. The conclusion suggests that newspapers are of such core value to a successful society that a timely and easily accessible news product will succeed despite, or perhaps because of, changes in reading habits and technology. f]or students unfamiliar with global media, Function is an open gate to the wider world....

By exploring topics such as the Internet, print press, advertising, satellite television, video, rock music, literature, cinema, gender, religious intellectuals, and secularism, this unique and wide-ranging volume explains Iran as a complex society that has successfully managed to negotiate and embody the tensions of tradition and modernity, democracy and theocracy, isolation and globalization, and other such cultural-political dynamics that escape the explanatory and analytical powers of all-too-familiar binary relations.pFeaturing contributions from among the best-known and emerging scholars on Iranian media, culture, society, and politics, this volume uncovers how the existing perspectives on post-revolutionary Iranian society have failed to appreciate the complexity, the paradoxes and the contradictions that characterize life in contemporary Iran, resulting in a general failure to explain and to anticipate its contemporary social and political transformations.

From the reality TV show Superstar to Formula One ace Michael Schumacher, Pop Culture Germany! explores the exciting world of contemporary German popular culture.From the worldwide success of the controversial rock band Rammstein to the meteoric career of international supermodel Claudia Schiffer, Germany has a popular culture that is as exciting as it is diverse. Covering everything from cultural facts and information for travelers to historical and societal material for research purposes, this book provides a fascinating guide to the vibrant popular culture of the world's third largest economy.Like no other volume of its kind, Pop Culture Germany! captures the breadth and vitality of popular culture in modern Germany, exploring both familiar and lesser-known aspects of German art, entertainment, television, music, and film.Written by expert contributors who are rooted in German language and culture, the book focuses on German popular culture since 1945, providing an indispensable guide for anyone planning a trip to Germany for business or pleasure or for those who wish to have a deeper understanding of the German nation. This book offers a concise, in-depth overview of the evolution and impact of German media, arts, lifestyles, and recreation, written with a historical perspective.

The past one hundred years has borne witness to an extraordinary revolution in the constitution and activities of philanthropic foundations. The evolution of the governance of foundations - from founder to family to professionals to institutions - has necessarily altered the role that foundations play within a society. As community foundations, for example, strengthen the essential communal fabric and help all organizations gain a financial foothold, they find themselves at times in conflict with commercial gift funds, whose transactional nature between the donor and the organization stimulates philanthropy in a wholly different fashion. From Grantmaker to Leader: Emerging Strategies for 21st Century Foundations takes stock of this shifting landscape, presenting bold leadership strategies for directing philanthropic organizations into the unchartered waters of the future. Seasoned foundation executives Frank Ellsworth and Joseph Lumarda assemble an all-star roster of insider contributors, dividing their trenchant study into three sections. "From Carnegie to Gates: The Changing Faces and Needs of Philanthropy" examines the history of family and community foundations and how the turmoil of the "New Economy" will affect these organizations in the future. The second section, "The Foundation's New Reach: The Emerging Role of Leader, Communicator, and Facilitator of Change" addresses the critical responsibility of effectively articulating a foundation's message, showing how messages can successfully penetrate the media. Finally, the third section "Building the Foundation Board of the 21st Century: Diversity and Strategic Planning" analyzes all aspects of foundation boards of directors, including their makeup, responsibilities, backgrounds, necessary diversity, and the role of boards in foundation planning. Throughout all three sections, From Grantmaker to Leader tackles all the critical issues facing philanthropic foundations today, such as: Transfer of wealth Legislative concerns IRS audits The role of foundations in public policy issues, such as campaign spending Accountability Planned giving Assessment of the effectiveness of giving Socially responsible investment and social return on investment Even as the very nature of foundations has changed, a fundamental question remains: will philanthropies play a more pervasive role in society's future or will their influence forever remain elitist and selective? Writing directly for trustees, practitioners, foundation CEOs and CFOs, and every philanthropic professional, Ellsworth and Lumarda make the convincing case that foundations matter more than ever, offering proven strategies for philanthropic success. Frank L. Ellswoth is a vice president at Capital Research and Management Company, where he oversees and coordinates programs and services to endowments in Los Angeles. Joseph Lumarda is the Executive Vice President of External Affairs for the California Community Foundation in Los

It has been claimed that - astonishingly - almost 90 percent of success in leadership positions is attributable to Emotional Intelligence (EI). According to the Emotional Intelligence Homepage, EI has been around a lot longer than you may think. The first traces of EI date back to a graduate student paper written in 1985 and further work carried out by two university professors in 1990. Since then Emotional Intelligence has gradually grown in popularity and in 1995 even made the cover of Time Magazine! Today EI has become one of the most hotly debated business buzzwords in America. According to a paper by Cary Cherniss presented on the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations website, an article on the subject published in Harvard Business Review in 1998 attracted a higher percentage of readers than any other article published in the last 40 years.But despite the media exposure and clear signs of popularity, many argue that EI still remains a poorly understood phenomenon in today's workplace. So what exactly is it? The two university professors who coined the term in 1990 describe Emotional Intelligence as: ''A form of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one's thinking and action.'' This is clearly a wide ranging definition with plenty of scope for investigation. And our Briefing aims to do just that!