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This book contains the texts of a number of presentations from the 1999 NATCON conferences. These papers are: (1) "A Book of Surprises: Games, Stories, and Magic for Career Practitioners" (E. Sylvester); (2) "Academic and Career Choices for Lesbian and Gay Young Adults" (M. Schneider and J. McCurdy-Myers); (3)"Adolescent Values Development: Radiohead Meets Gerard Artaud" (W. G. Darou and Y. Roy); (4) "A Synergistic Model of Organizational Career Development" (K. Bernes and K. Magnusson); (5) "Building Potential: Solutions to Chaos" (B. Freeman); (6) "Career Development and Multiple Intelligences" (C. Morris); (7) "Career Development for Young Adults in Rural Areas" (B. Shepard and A. Marshall); (8) "Career Development in Today's Organizations" (K. Copithorne); (9) "Career Paths and Organizational Development: Expanding Alliances" (K. Bernes and K. Magnusson); (10) "Career Practitioners and the Net: Counselling, Consulting, or Consternation" (K. Kerford); (11) "Career Self-Management in the New World of Work" (D. I. Riddle); (12) "Career Work, Secondary Education, and School Models" (A. Oomen); (13) "Carriere et Personnalite: Deux Concepts Li-s?" (M. Gingras and L. East); (14) "Cross-cultural Transitions and Career Development: Thrills, Spills, and Skills!" (N. Arthur); (15) "Etude Comparative des Conflits Travail-famille entre Conjoints" (L. Lachance and B. Tetreau); (16) "Fostering a Profession: Canadian Standards and Guidelines for Career Development" (B. Hiebert, B. MacCallum, N. Galarneau, L. Bezanson, M. Cawley, S. Crozier, C. DeSchiffart, G. Johnston, V. Mason, J. Stewart, and V. Ward); (17) Happiness and Work (Selection)" (M. Kingwell); (18) "Humour: The Missing Link in the Chain of Command" (L. LeBrun); (19) "Le Prix D'entree dans le Monde Intellectuel (M. Maranda, C. Leclerc, L. Bedard, M. Lapie, and H. Hamel); (20) "Pathways to Personal Power" (L. LeBrun); (21) "Positions Socioprofessionnelles des Jeunes Adultes" (B. Bourassa and G. Fournier); (22) "The Career Self-Concept: From Theory to Practice" (A. J. O'Shea); (23) "The Importance of Body Language in Your Life" (C. McCarty); (24) "The Role of Hope in Career Counselling" (A. Stechynsky); and (25) "Transition to a Career in the Arts: Lessons for Everyone" (A. Lodzinski). (MKA)

In section I, papers presented at the Hawaii Association of Language Teachers (HALT) in 1993 are presented. Section II includes a number of projects received from a call for papers simultaneous to the call for the HALT papers. Section 1 contains: "This is Like a Foreign Language to Me: Keynote Address" (Bill VanPatten); "From Discussion Questions to Task-Based Activities" (James F. Lee); "Learner-Relevant Literature: Developing Reading and Writing Strategies in the Intermediate Language Classroom" (Kathryn A. Hoffmann); "Reducing Foreign Language Anxiety in the Learner-Centered Classroom" (Heiko Heinz Schlesiger); "A Novel Approach to Novels" (Dorothy Buchanan); and "Problems of the Bilingual Dictionary: THe Case of French and English" (Kathryn Klingebiel). Section 2 includes:"Use of 'DONT' in French" (Marie Jose Fassiotto) in French; "The Use of the Newspaper in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Student-Centered Project" (Edda D. Hodnett with Paul Chandler); "Student Controlled Learning Environments with Hypercard (TM) and Interactive Multimedia" (Carol Beresiwsky); "From Theory to the Classroom: The Learner-Centered Approach and the Spanish for Business Class" (Rafael Gomez and Frauke Lowensen); and "Japanese Unit: Telephone Activities" (Kyoko Hijirida and Carrie N. Sato). Many papers contains references.) (NAV)

These papers, a portion of which are written in French, address a number of issues in education and development. The topics covered include pedagogical suggestions, self-direction in professional development, values assessment, building career transitions, career services, communicating in tomorrow's workplace, community-based training, personal accountability, effective strategies for training and retraining, leadership in career development, lifelong learning, men and work, the needs of minority and majority adolescents, relationships between personal characteristics and sexual harassment behaviors in male university professors, storytelling in career counseling, and socio-political ideology and career counseling. Most of the articles contain a short bibliography. (RJM)

Papers published in NATCON 1998 are: (1) "A Roadmap for Career Management" (D. I. Riddle); (2) "A Sharing of Our Successes" (H. van Bommel); (3) "Assessing Clients with Learning Disabilities in Career Counselling" (J. B. Stewart); (4) "Career and Personal Planning: Diploma Program and Resources" (A. Marshall); (5) "Career Counseling in a Wired World" (G. Weber, K. Kerford)' (6) "Cognitive Structures in the Assessment Phase of Counselling" (G. Harris); (7) "Connecting Prior Learning Assessment to Career Development" (G. S. Peruniak, D. Welch); (8) "Difficultes et besoins des jeunes en matiere d'integration au marche du travail" (J.-G. Ouellette, D. Lord); (9) "Disability in the Workplace: Effective and Cost-Effective Accommodation Planning" (A. Cantor); (10) "Initatives nouvelles de formation en developpement et en counseling de carriere" (J.-G. Ouellette, D. LeBreton Forbes); (11) "Intergenerational Conflict in Career and Life Planning" (N. Arthur); (12) "Job Search Strategies for the Difficult to Place" (F. Cheek); (13) "L'employabilite en formation professionnelle au Quebec: doit-on s'en preoccuper?" (M. Tardif); (14) "Les nouvelles technologies--L'Internet, ca va?" (W.-G. Darou, M.-H. Duchaine); (15) "Les transitions professionnelles dans un contexte de precarite: recherches et solutions" (G. Fournier, C. Delmotte); (16) "L'integration au marche du travail: l'aventure des diplomes" (G. Fournier, L. Croteau); (17) "Metacognition and Vocational Counseling" (B. A. Symes); (18) "Mind at Work: Improving Workplace Satisfaction and Enjoyment" (T. Warney); (19)"Plafonnement de carriere: le cas des cadres de l'entreprise privee" (L. Lemire, C.-H. Amherdt); (20) "The Role of Diagnostic Assessment in Career Exploration" (M. Jean); (21) "Training Career Development Facilitators in Ethical Decision-Making" (V. G. Ward); (22) "Un guide au service du partenariat" (M. Gingras, D. Marceau, G. Weeks); (23) "Update on National Career Development Guidelines and Standards" (B. Hiebert, B. MacCallum, F. Ball, L. Bezanson, M. Cahill, E. Collins, M. Courchene, E. Desjardins, G. Donald, N. Galarneau, C. Tumber, V. Ward); (24) "Vie professionnelle et developpement de carriere au feminin" (A. Spain, L. Bedard, L. Paiement). (EMK)

This volume contains speeches and papers given at the International Conference on Academic Freedom and University Autonomy held in Sinaia, Romania, May 5-7, 1992. Section 1 contains introductory addresses by Federico Mayor, Maitland Stobart, Hinrich Seidel,and Walter Kamba. Section 2 contains 18 papers that address connotations and challenges of academic freedom and university autonomy. Among topics discussed in this context are human rights and academic freedom, the development of international standards concerning the status of higher education teaching personnel, continuing education, leadership, the advancement of knowledge, accountability in multi-university national systems, tensions between public universities and state governments, and academic freedom in the United States. Section 3 contains nine case studies involving the following nations: Hungary, Poland, Russia, Turkey, the United States, Spain, Serbia, and Macedonia. This section also includes three papers on market mechanisms in higher education in the nations of Norway, Poland, and the United States. Also in Section 3 are four papers on the social responsibilities of higher education. Section 4 contains the conference's closing address by Marco Antonio R. Dias. (Some papers contain references.) (JB)

Papers submitted to NATCON 1997 are: (1) "Athabasca University Certificate in Career Development: Innovative Collaboration" (J. Baty, B. Hiebert, G. Peruniak, D. Welch); (2) "A Multigenerational Approach to Career Counseling" (C. McCarty); (3) "Becoming Self-Directed: The Importance of Values Assessment" (C. E. Mossop); (4) "Building New Employment Relations" (K. Calvert, M. Jensen); (5) "Career-Counselling University Students with Learning Disabilities" (B. A. Symes); (6) "Career Planning with Adult Daughters of Alcoholics" (A. B. Nyiri); (7) "Conquering Interview Anxiety" (F. Cheek); (8) "Creativity as a Core Competency" (S. Murphy, T. Murphy); (9) "Ethics and Issues in Career Counselling" (J. B. Stewart); (10) "Helping People Who Hate Their Jobs" (G. Dutch); (11)"Informed-Choice Counselling: The Key to Success in Training" (L. Willis, J. Baty, J. Bain, L Harris); (12) "Kegan's Constructive Developmental Framework for Adult Careers Transition" (A. Marshall); (13) "Laid Off--Then What? Effective Strategies for Career Renewal" (R. Neault); (14) "The Workability Handbook" (D. Redekopp, C. Crickmore); (15) "Le mentorat de personnes retraitees pour l'exploration professionnelle au secondaire" (P. Dupont, M. Blain); (16) "Les pratiques d'employabilite: entre le prescrit et le reel" (C. Leclerc, B. Bourassa, M.-F. Maranda, Y. Comeau); (17) "Les Technologies de l'information dans le contexte du counselling d'emploi" (M. Turcotte); (18) "Lifelong Learning and Career Development: The Need for a Learner-Centered Approach" (M. Ogisu-Kamiya); (19)"L'implication des partenaires dans le retour en formation des adultes" (M. Tardif, G. Debeurme, F. Serre); (21) "Management and Organizational Trends: Friend or Foe?" (J. Asgar, D. Wigley); (20) "Men and Work" (H. Deutschendorf); (22) "Motivation et orientation: un but significatif" (M. Gingras, D. Chagnon); (23) "New Measures of Social Economic Value: Community-Based Training Report" (B. J. Richmond); (24) "Outreaching with the Employment Solution" (P. L. Giacomoni); (25) "Plan Your Work; Work Your Plan: A Practice Career-Management Strategy" (M. C. Thompson); (26) "Syndrome d'epuisement chez les chomeurs de longue duree et chez les autres" (G. Evequoz); (27) "LearnScape: Comprehensive Professional Development Software" (D. Redekopp, D. Mackenzie, D. Welch, B. Hiebert); (28) "Values Alignment: A Hands-On Session for Counsellors" (C. E. Mossop); (29) "Vers le developpement d'un modele de la reussite lors d'affectations a l'etranger" (E. Desjardins); (30) "Vers un modele explicatif des conflits travail-famille" (L. Lachance, B. Tetreau). (EMK)

The journal of linguistics of the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland) contains information on the programs and faculty and articles in French (F) and English (E). They include: "From Behavioral Psychology to Sociolinguistics: Ten Years of Linguistics Applied to Language Teaching at Neuchatel" (F); "Intonation and Syntax: Neurolinguistic Contribution to the Study of the Role of Intonation Factors in Establishment of Syntactico-Semantic Relations of Phrase Constituents" (F); "Dialect and School in the European Countries" (E); "Experimental Psycholinguistics: A Science at the Crossroads of Several Disciplines" (F); "Teaching By Pictures or Through Pictures?" (F); "The Hidden Side of French" (F); "Phenomena of Regression in Linguistic Competence in Second Language Learning in a School Situation" (F); "What Is Logic Today?" (F); "Assimilation of Consonants in Spoken French" (F); "Good Usage is My Usage: Linguistic Norms and Procedures for Correction of Themes" (F); "Interaction Management and Discourse Complication: Narrative Sequences in Non-Native Language Conversation" (F); "Contrastive Analysis: History and Current Situation" (F); "Study of Interrogative Forms in French in 3-Year-Olds" (F); "Toward a Rhetoric of Implicit Content: The Example of Jokes" (F); "The Structure of the Minimal Utterance as Condition of Access to Interpretive Strategies" (F); and "Language Evaluation: Representative and Communicative Dimensions" (F). (MSE)

This collection of working papers in linguistics includes four works. "Autour de la racine indo-europeenne 'pet-' ('voler') (pour servir a l'histoire des faits latins)" ("Concerning the Indo-European Root 'Pet-' ('To Fly') (To Serve as an Example of Latin Facts)" by Claude Sandoz looks at the Latin manifestations of the root and illustrates the value of historico-comparative analysis. In "Analyse hierarchique et fonctionnelle du discours: co-enonciation et mouvement discursif" ("Hierarchic and Functional Discourse Analysis: Co-Enunciation and Discourse Movement"), Therese Beguin-Jeanneret applies discourse analysis in a new way, a conversation between two children and an adult. "Quelques remarques sur l'excommunication dans les interactions verbales en face a face" ("Some Remarks on Excommunication in Verbal Face-to-Face Interactions") by Serge Rubi examines conversational processes used to break off one topic of discussion for various reasons. In "Enseigner le francais L2 a des debutants avec une methode 'communicative'" ("Teaching French as a Second Language to Beginning Adults with the 'Communicative' Method"), Francoise Redard reflects on her own experiences teaching French to this population, focusing on whether having the objective of immediate communication is appropriate in all cases. (MSE)

The article presents a subjective perspective on the industrial history of the coastal region of the Manche in France. The author discusses the Mediterranean model and the British industrial revolution model. Topics include commercial exchanges and cotton trade at the port in Rouen, France, textile, paper, and leather industries in Brittany, France, and the gap between small and medium-size companies.

A preface to "Cogitationes De Scientia Humana," part III of the book "The Works of Francis Bacon," collected and edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath is presented.