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A Dictionary of Human Resource Management (3 ed.)
...soft skills are competencies that employees possess associated with activities such as customer handling, communication, problem-solving, and teamworking. According to various surveys, these soft skills are considered by employers to be of very high importance and (in the UK) sadly lacking amongst new recruits. The definition of soft skills sometimes includes loyalty, enthusiasm, punctuality, and a strong work ethic, although critics argue that these are not really skills but rather qualities or attributes that someone has and may (or may not) choose to...
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Prints Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...a softness of effect, mitigating the hard linearity of traditional engraving. This was achieved by the use of tools which made fine dots on the surface, or by chemical means to create a delicate granular surface. Mezzotint, a technique invented in the seventeenth century which involves scraping white highlights from a previously roughened copper plate, already provided a reasonable imitation of the tones and handling of oil paint on canvas. From the mid-eighteenth century onwards mezzotinters achieved a high standing in the profession, based on their skill but...
Human History as Divine Revelation: A Dialogue Reference library
Mazrui Ali A.
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...The Jews have left us far behind in science, technology, organization, economic skill and power. Their religion is much older than ours, but they have not resisted creative change in spite of centuries of discrimination—or perhaps because of it. Muslims are being victimized militarily in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Kashmir, Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, and potentially in Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, etc. Our slowness in learning and our resistance to reform have made us soft targets and vulnerable to the might of others. Is there a way out of this...
On the Future of Women and Politics in the Arab World Reference library
Heba Raouf Ezzat
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...when faced with the pressing question “Why are women not active politically?” usually provides a variety of answers including lack of political skills, cultural factors that tend to emphasize the traditional role of women as wives and mothers, poverty and/or lack of democracy. Based on these simplistic answers, national and global strategies are formulated to empower women and upgrade their political skills through a series of training programs, to create funds for supporting their campaigns, or to raise awareness about their role in the voting process....
Language Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...name does not tell us who had a practical proficiency in writing. Moreover, the writing skills of the tradesman might stop well short, for instance, of the expressive usage of the gentleman. Nor does the evidence take account of the potential gap between reading and writing, skills that were not always taught together, especially not to girls, who might only encounter writing as an optional extra [ see *female education ]. Only in the nineteenth century, when the two skills were more often taught together, does the gap between male and female statistics close....
Othello Reference library
Michael Dobson, Will Sharpe, Anthony Davies, and Will Sharpe
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...James a gifted scholarship athlete and the only black student in a privileged South Carolina private school, needed for his abilities in much the same way as Othello is needed by the state for his. Some critics saw a heavy-handed parallelism at work, and an exploitative grasp at soft-core pornography in the sex scene between Phifer and Julia Stiles’ Desi, in crucial contradiction of the play’s ambiguity on this matter. But their relationship is tender and plausibly drawn, and its descent into violence powerfully affecting. The 23-year-old Peggy Ashcroft as...
11 The Technologies of Print Reference library
James Mosley
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...most often to leave a visible mark. As Shakespeare writes in the Prologue to Henry V : ‘Think when we talk of horses, that you see them / Printing their proud hoofs i’ th’ receiving earth.’ Indeed, the principle of using an engraved stone to make repeated characters in a soft material, such as clay, is displayed in many surviving early artefacts, from official Mesopotamian seals (3 rd millennium bc ) to Roman bricks and tiles stamped before they were fired with their makers’ names. 2 Origins In the Middle Ages, western books and documents were...
Sensibility Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...into character, bestowed on them by Providence, like the sensibility and tender organs of some timid animals, as a kind of natural guard to warn off the approach of danger. Women's minds were to be strengthened, however, albeit for defensive purpose, to prevent their ‘natural softness’ from degenerating into ‘imbecility of understanding’. More said that women ran the risk of that imbecility because of their ‘indulgence’ and ‘the general habits of fashionable life’. Here was some common ground with Wollstonecraft. More could not entirely avoid the...
40 The History of the Book in China Reference library
J. S. Edgren
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...Dunhuang Project was established in 1994 at the *British Library , where most of the Stein documents are now housed. In ancient times, textual seals and pictorial seals, cut in relief or *intaglio , were used for identification and authentication. Seals were impressed in soft clay, which was allowed to harden and display its text while sealing a document. Malleable clay was suited to the uneven surface of books made of bamboo and wooden slats. The use of silk as a writing material made it possible to apply *ink to the surface of the seal and stamp it...
1 Corinthians Reference library
John Barclay and John Barclay
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...) seems to anticipate themes which surface in later chapters (e.g. spiritual gifts in 1:7 and chs. 12–14 ), and the theme of unity ( 1:10 ) pervades the whole letter (see Mitchell 1992 ). Inconsistencies have been found within later chapters, for instance between an apparently softer stance on sacrificial food in 8:1–13 and 10:22–11:1 , and a harder line in 10:1–22 . Complex theories have been propounded of two, four, or more original letters which have been stitched together into our 1 Corinthians (see details in ABD i. 1142–3). Such hypotheses are...
48 The History of the Book in America Reference library
Scott E. Casper and Joan Shelley Rubin
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...*Brentano’s . Independent bookstores such as the *Hampshire Book Shop and Sunwise Turn, whose proprietors offered advice about good reading, particularly flourished near university campuses. At the same time, even before the paperback revolution of the postwar years, the sale of soft-cover books and *remainders at drugstores and newsstands became common practice. Within the hardcover trade, however, the *book club provided a new method of distribution perfectly attuned to the period’s cultural preoccupations. Organizations such as the *Book-of-the-Month...
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John S. Blunt
Assessment for Learning
