From what I could find (please contact me if you have an event you would like me to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of June 29, 2009 through July 5, 2009 are:Monday June 29-Moe Bowstern Reading (In Other Words Books, @6:30pm): Moe Bowstern challenges any and all to stump her at her own benefit for Xtra Tuf zine. “I can turn any topic into a fishing story.” claims this nautical tale teller and 20-year veteran of the Alaska commercial fishing industry. Bowstern

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iapps.uitm.edu.my/epengambilanstaf – UiTM Job Vacancy Universiti Teknologi Mara If  you’re looking forward to work in one of Malaysia’s leading university, try apply here: http://iapps.uitm.edu.my/epengambilanstaf What are the jobs offered? Refer to  http://iapps.uitm.edu.my/loginPengambilanStaf/misc/IklanPentFeb09.pdf It includes medical officer, registrar, dentist, pharmacist, dietician, engineer, designer and many more. Quoted from Wikipedia: Universiti Teknologi

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All those Philosophy and Humanities professors need jobs, you know: and where else could they find work? Seriously: Wash the ideological doo-doo off, and both Philosophy and the Humanities serve the useful function of teaching how to think, and why it’s worthwhile. In the colleges I went to, logic was taught by someone in the Philosophy department

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Norski on ‘Do philosophy and the humanities serve any practical purposes?’

The smartest people I know have degrees which would appear useless to those who do not understand that critical thinking makes the world go round and the humanities provides a great base on so many levels for that. I know many with philosophy degrees who do other things, but it is their ability to think and reason as well as converse and adapt which has given them those opportunities. The time is long past where a degree in any given discipline is going to be your soul reference for employment, it is the knowledge you have acquired, your ability to think and to adapt that will allow you to do whatever it is you end up doing

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cooper on ‘Do philosophy and the humanities serve any practical purposes?’

It is totally worth it. The mental capacity and advantage you gain from philosophy outweighs much of any other material value you could gain from any material construct.

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morgantj on Do philosophy and the humanities serve any practical purposes?

well i do personally believe that philosophy is quite useful (more so than French lit perhaps), but the problem is really society’s reaction to it.

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