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Show Professor Meyer Publishes Document Book by Karen Niedermeyer until October. The books new five chapters took a while to complete said Meyer. It is incredibly complex to figure out what is going on in an historical era and then look for representative documents that are somewhat accessible. Sometimes he had to look at documents that were over 300 pages long and cut them down to seven or eight pages just to get to the heart of it, Meyer said. He likes to use documents that make students stretch but never the less they can read and get something out of, he said. The basic thrust of the book is thematic, each chapter has a specific theme that is dealt with," Meyer said. Meyer developed these themes by keeping an eye on the impact that these themes had on contemporary society, he said. The first chapter ofthe book is entitled Myth and Reality in the Ancient Near East. He thinks this chapter is important in regards to the development ofhumanism among the Greeks and the discovery of the human mind. This is still very much a part of our lives, he said. The last chapter deals with the 20th century and addresses a number of important issues. The theme of this chapter is essentially how to live ones life in the 20th century, Meyer said. The last reading of the book is Mother Theresas Nobel Peace lecture, that deals with problems like abortion, and really humanitys humanity to itself, he said. Forum staff writer And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other, naturally we want to do something, Mother Theresa, The Nobel Lecture. This is just one excerpt from a historical document in Associate Professor of History Marc Anthony Meyers new book, A w fy' K, s j of Western This textbook, a collection of Documentary Civilization. N History historical documents, was published by the University Press of America in October. The book was an outgrowth of my Western Civilization teaching here at In the Westminster, Meyer said. book of the section acknowledgements Meyer wrote, I extend my appreciation to my students at Westminster College, whose comments on earlier editions of this text, proved invaluable and who constantly reinforce my belief that people are actually very interested in history and that they truly love to discover things for themselves in the written record of the past. The earlier editions Meyer referred to include the first edition of the book used in his classes during the fall of 1986. The first bookcontainedsix chapters andcovered the near east to the Rennaisance. He later made adjustments to his book by , 1 r- Wj f y . V - 'Wifr Dr. Mark A. Meyer, associate professor and head of the Westminster history department has recently completed a ten chapter documentary textbook. eliminating the last three chapters and adding two new ones. The new edition was a documentaiy history of western civilization up to 1500 and contained five chapters. Meyer thought that there might be a market outside of his own classes for the text book. In the fall of 1988 he contacted Do Businesses Prefer University Press of America, they accepted his offer and decided to publish the book. Meyer sent the book to the publishers in the five chapter format he used for his classes. He also said he sent a prospect of five new chapters that covered western civilization from 1500 to the present. He completed the final five chapters in January and sent his final manuscript to the publisher in January 1988. Because the book was completed later than anticipated it was not published over-populatio- n, Graduate Degrees? 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Both James Seidelman, Westminsters Despain sai d that i n real labor market MBA director, and Wayne Hansen, Brigham it is more often up to the individual than up to their education if they find work. I know of director Young Universitys managing placement and employment, said they have many people with masters degrees who are noticed that not all fields have been affected. not working, she said, adding that often a Weve experienced a flood of MBAs. This person who has invested so much of their time and money into securing a means more competition in the job market, most He said that said Seidelman. postgraduate degree feels they have already businesses are happy to accept people with' paid their dues, but unfortunately bachelors degrees for entry level positions. employers do not view it the same way. 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