Because of the contemporary drive to link the corporate and educational worlds, Alison Kirk compares and contrasts the business and academic ways of thinking. Often irreverent and humorous, and always brief, she discusses commonplace words and concepts as they are used in both business and education, presenting a side-by-side exploration of the two major American institutions as reflections of our common and often contradictory cultural values.
Using humor as a tool, Kirk makes readers think about the relationship between education and businessor learning and "real life." She combines...
Because of the contemporary drive to link the corporate and educational worlds, Alison Kirk compares and contrasts the business and academic ways o...
True to Herself: One Vermont Writer's Lifetime of Making Good Things from Bad is a rich and varied collection of essays and memoirs that convey the funny, sad, and whimsical experiences of a woman writer making her home in Vermont. The main character and true protagonist of the book is Anne Kirby's eccentric little house in Cornwell, Vermont. The parts called "Mulling It Over in Vermont" are collections of Anne's newspaper columns that most clearly reflect her life in the little house at the end of a dirt road, where she's connected to the outside world by delivery and repair men, a mailbox,...
True to Herself: One Vermont Writer's Lifetime of Making Good Things from Bad is a rich and varied collection of essays and memoirs that convey the fu...
