1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461469503321

Autore

Badgett Nan

Titolo

The accidental indexer / / Nan Badgett ; foreword by Margie Towery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Medford, New Jersey : , : Information Today, Inc., , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-57387-705-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Accidental Library

Disciplina

025.3

Soggetti

Indexing - Vocational guidance - United States

Abstracting and indexing services industry - United States

Indexers - United States

Indexing

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Website; Introduction; Chapter 1: Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?; What Is an Indexer-Or an Index,  For That Matter?; What an Indexer Does; Authors as Indexers; Can't a Computer Do That?; If Computers Don't Index, Do You Still Use Index Cards?; A Brief History of Indexes and Their Creators; Endnotes; Chapter 2: Accidents Waiting to Happen; Paths to the Profession: Accidental  or Deliberate; Education and Professional Backgrounds; Freelancers, Employees, and Company Owners ; Endnotes; Chapter 3: The Many Faces of Indexing

Not an Open and Shut CasePrint Books; Periodicals; Databases; Ebooks and Electronic Documents; Websites; Function and Format; Endnotes; Additional Resources; Chapter 4: So You Want To  Be an Indexer; Common Characteristics: Facts and Fiction; Suitability Quiz for Aspiring Indexers; A Lonely and Anonymous Profession; Deadlines and Other Stressors; Do You Still Want to Be an Indexer?; Endnotes; Chapter 5: Excellence Is No Accident; Training Options; Learning Through Experience; Professional Development; Guidelines for Excellence; Paying It Forward; Endnotes; Additional Resources



Chapter 6: Tools of the TradeTraining and Development; Business Entity; Insurance and Taxes; Office Space; Furnishings and Ergonomics; Beauty in the Eyes of the Beholder; Professional Image; Hardware and Software Requirements; An Indexer's Reference Shelf; Online Resources ; Endnotes; Chapter 7: Marketing and Client Relations; All In a Day's Work; Targeting Your Market and Finding Clients; Making a Plan; Marketing in an Online World; Client Relationships; Unhappy Clients; Terms of Negotiation; Style Adherence and Client Education; Contracts and Letters of Intent; Endnotes

Additional ResourcesChapter 8: Balancing Act; What! No Janitor?; Balancing Work and Personal Life; Results of Chronic Stress; Stress Management for Bodies and Brains; Don't Toss Your Small Change; Endnotes; Additional Resources; Chapter 9: Thinking Outside Of the Book; Entrepreneurial Indexing; Creative Collaboration; Subcontracting Without Borders; Incarcerated Indexers; Creative Communication; Opportunities Beyond the Book; Endnotes; Chapter 10: Moving Forward; Guidance from Your Inner Indexer; The Fear That Binds Us; Preliminary Plans and Goals; A Written Plan; Asking for Help; Endnotes

Appendix AAppendix B; Appendix C; About The Author; Index

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910958660403321

Titolo

The pious sex : essays on women and religion in the history of political thought / / edited by Andrea Radasanu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2010

ISBN

979-82-16-27422-3

9786613911612

1-283-59916-3

0-7391-3106-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RadasanuAndrea <1973->

Disciplina

200.82

Soggetti

Piety - Sex differences - History

Religion and politics - History

Women and religion - History

Women - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction: The Pious Sex?; 2: The Piety of Esther; 3: Three Tragic Versions of Female (1m)piety: Clytemnestra, Jocasta, and Antigone; 4: Women, War, and Piety in Plato's Laws; 5: Educating the Perfect Wife: Piety and Rational Control in the Oeconomicus; 6: Love and Piety in Machiavelli's Mandragola; 7: ""Nay, then 'Tis past Jesting"": Piety and Female Friendship in Catharine Trotter's Love at a Loss; 8: Women, Christianity, and the Modem in Montesquieu's Considerations on the Romans

9: Rousseau's Domestication of Amour-Propre10: Jane Austen's Education of Women: A Study of Mansfield Park; 11: Flaubert: Eros and Politics After Rousseau; 12: Nietzsche in Eden Lise van Boxel; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of original essays examines the relationship between women and religion in the history of political thought broadly conceived. This theme is a remarkably revealing lens through which to view the Western philosophical and poetical traditions that have culminated in secular and egalitarian modern society. The essays also give highly analytical accounts of the manifold and intricate relationships between religion, family and public life in the history of political thought, and the various ways in which these relationships have manifested themselves in pagan, Jewish, Christian and