Violating the Singular Cardinals Hypothesis Without Large Cardinals

We extend a transitive model V of ZFC + GCH cardinal preservingly to a model N of ZF + "GCH holds below Alef_omega" + "there is a surjection from the power set of Alef_omega onto lambda" where lambda is an arbitrarily high fixed cardinal in V.Comment: 18 pages, to appear in Israel Journal of Mathematic

Careers education in a comprehensive school: a longitudinal study of pupils' response to an East Midlands school's programme 1977–1979

The project took the form of a survey conducted in Littleover School, Derby by means of a series of questionnaires answered by a whole year group in Years 4 and and nine months after leaving school. It examines the value of the School's Careers Education Programme in helping pupils to make considered choices with regard to courses, careers decisions and Further and Higher Education, by asking pupils about their job ideas and knowledge, sources of information, reasons for subject choices, ambitions, expectations for the future, expected examination results, first experiences of work and opinions regarding the School's careers guidance provision. The results are examined in the light of the developmental theories of careers choice, being the theories upon which Careers Education Programmes are based, and sociological findings concerning the overriding influences of social class and outside-school environment. It was possible to trace the progression/stability of their career ideas and, by comparing a school-banding analysis with a socioeconomic analysis on the basis of four housing zones, to draw some conclusions regarding the School's influence compared with socio-economic factors. A comparison of girls' and boys 'attitudes, aspirations and jobs/further training was also made on the same basis, incorporating information regarding those pupils who entered the 6th Form. Additionally, relationships between school attitudes and performance, types of jobs and attitudes to work were also explored, in order to identify ways in which the facilities could be improved and used more effectively. The final part deals with the changes that have occurred in the labour market since the years of the survey and the response to those changes to be found in the Careers Education curriculum of the School

Global Political Leadership

Global Political Leadership explores contemporary shifts in leadership, and the related leadership crisis, in the global world. Globalization is now perceived as a threatening and hostile force, with many of its advocates and political supporters turning away from it, but its processes cannot be reversed. New powers emerge, old ones re-emerge, and uncertainty about the future global order is increasing. This book tells the inside stories of global power games and asks important questions about the leadership crisis in the western world. The author provides an interpretative framework for contemporary shifts within the western political sphere based on the concept of global leadership. This framework presents the nature of the transformation caused by global processes, as part of which force and coercion have ceased to be the main modus operandi of the international realm. The issue of global political leadership has often been neglected in international relations literature, while being widely exploited by managerial and organizational studies. However, all social organizations have ‘gone global’ within the last several decades; they are more interconnected and more dependent on global processes, so the question of effective leadership strategies matching these new realities is highly necessary, even – or especially – at a time when globalization is no longer seen as a leading political programme. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of global affairs, politics and international relations, leadership and development, and diplomatic studies

Global Political Leadership

Global Political Leadership explores contemporary shifts in leadership, and the related leadership crisis, in the global world. Globalization is now perceived as a threatening and hostile force, with many of its advocates and political supporters turning away from it, but its processes cannot be reversed. New powers emerge, old ones re-emerge, and uncertainty about the future global order is increasing. This book tells the inside stories of global power games and asks important questions about the leadership crisis in the western world. The author provides an interpretative framework for contemporary shifts within the western political sphere based on the concept of global leadership. This framework presents the nature of the transformation caused by global processes, as part of which force and coercion have ceased to be the main modus operandi of the international realm. The issue of global political leadership has often been neglected in international relations literature, while being widely exploited by managerial and organizational studies. However, all social organizations have ‘gone global’ within the last several decades; they are more interconnected and more dependent on global processes, so the question of effective leadership strategies matching these new realities is highly necessary, even – or especially – at a time when globalization is no longer seen as a leading political programme. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of global affairs, politics and international relations, leadership and development, and diplomatic studies

The Varieties of Contemplative Experiences and Practices

While the diverse contemplative techniques are employed across a plethora of traditions around the world, contemplative research over the years has not reflected this variety. Despite growing interest in research on meditation, studies in contemplative science have largely focused on a narrow selection of practices (e.g., mindfulness, compassion, etc.) and traditions (i.e. Buddhism, Transcendental Meditation etc.). By choosing this topic, we hope to broaden the scope of contemplative science