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Shelf Edwin L. Herr, distinguished professor of education. An Introduction to Career Counseling: Bridging Person and Work, published by Nakanishiya Publishing Co. The book, co-authored
with Meiko Watanabe-Muraoka,
professor and head of the Institute of Psychology, Tsukuba University,
Tokyo addresses the current economic problems in Japan -- rising unemployment,
the changing system of lifelong employment and proposed foundations for
the introduction of professional career counseling into schools, universities,
and work places. The book examines historical and theoretical backgrounds
of career counseling, roles of career counselors, systematic programs
of career counseling, emerging tasks for the career counselor Colleen E. Kelley, assistant professor of speech communication at Penn State Erie. Women Who Speak for Peace, published by Rowman and Littlefield. The book documents the public discourse of 10 women who are peace activists. Kelley co-edited the book with Anna L. Eblen, professor and chair of the Department of Communication at Western Washington University. Kelley also authored the book chapter, "A National Mother 'Scolds' for Peace," an examination of the rhetorical power of Liberian activist Ruth Perry. Another chapter by faculty members Cathy Sargent Mester and Miriam McMullen-Pastrick, both lecturers in speech communication, examines the words of Mary Lou Kownacki, the Benedictine nun who established the first PAX Center in Erie in 1970. A chapter by Rod Troester, associate professor of speech communication, examines the life and work of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese woman who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1993. |