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This article covers two main topics. The first part discusses the philosopher Giordano Bruno's perspectives on Native Americans and the secularization of theology. The second part focuses on Anna Becker's book "Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth," which challenges the traditional belief that women were excluded from politics in the Renaissance. Becker argues that the domestic sphere was intertwined with the political sphere during this time. The article provides a critical analysis of Becker's book, examining its strengths and weaknesses. The text also explores the views of Jean Bodin, a Renaissance thinker, on the relationships within the family and the state, emphasizing the need for further research to understand the interaction between these powers. It also emphasizes the importance of considering historical context when studying Bodin's ideas. [Extracted from the article]

Achievement in accounting classes is important. However, research has shown that anxiety is one of the major hindrances to academic performance in accounting classes. An accounting anxiety rating scale (AARS) was administered to 202 students at a branch campus of a large Midwestern university. The accounting courses are required for both the associate and bachelor's degrees in business. This paper evaluates whether the use of bonus points in accounting classes will reduce student anxiety and help motivate performance. The results reveal that there are significant differences between genders, but not by class and degree program on the ability of bonus points to motivate student performance. Bonus points do motivate student performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay investigates censorial responses to Jean Bodin'sMethodus(1566) in Counter-Reformation Italy, using evidence from Italian libraries and archives to shed new light on the process that led to the inclusion of the work in the Roman Expurgatory Index of 1607. By examining the diverse, and sometimes conflicting, opinions that Catholic censors expressed on Bodin's text and the ‘errors’ it contained, the essay shows that even a relatively cohesive ‘reading community’ such as that of Counter-Reformation censors could nurture fundamental disagreement in evaluating the content and dangerousness of a book, as well as in devising appropriate countermeasures. Censors often made sense of the same texts in utterly different ways, based not only on their own intellectual interests and backgrounds, but also on the different interpretive strategies that they adopted. In light of this fact, the article suggests that early modern censorship should be seen less as a purely repressive practice than as a peculiar type of readership, characterised (as are all forms of readership) by instability, controversy and active ‘meaning-making’. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses various papers published in this issue including one by Rocco Di Dio on unpublished working notebook of Marsilio Ficino, one by Andie Silva and Jonathan Olson on the nuance between authors and non-authorial figures, and one by Cordelia Zukerman on the dramatist William Shakespeare.

International educational experiences can provide benefits for faculty members as well as higher education institutions and their students. The opportunity to lecture and conduct research with colleagues at universities in other countries can foster the globalization or internationalization of academic teaching, the advancement of knowledge, and cooperation among institutions. Research has shown that the experience abroad helps educators to gain a more global perspective that will enhance business classes. This article will show that a Fulbright experience abroad helps faculty to lead business students to be more knowledgeable and aware of international issues and global concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this article, I seek to develop a genetic/diachronic approach to the phenomenon of authorial revision, and to the interpretation of texts that exist in multiple versions. In all such cases, the reconstruction of textual meaning cannot be separated from the reconstruction of the process through which the text in its ‘final’ form came into being; furthermore, an understanding of the author's intentions in(re)writing cannot be entirely separated from an understanding of his/her motives for(re)writing. This article is divided into three sections. In the first section, I consider recent trends in editorial and literary theory that aim at characterising texts in terms of processes rather than products, in order to uphold the equal dignity of each version without losing sight of its connectedness to other stages in the history of the text. In the second section, I discuss how Quentin Skinner's views on meaning and context apply to cases of authorial revision, and I suggest that some key aspects of Skinner's contextualism need to be reconsidered. In the concluding section, I focus on a case study in order to demonstrate the operational value of such a genetic and motive-based approach to authorial revision: more particularly, I seek to show how a close examination of Jean Bodin's rewriting practices in the Methodus (1566–1572) and the République (1576) can throw new light on his shift from a concept of limited sovereignty to one of absolute sovereignty. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Because groups or teams are commonly used in the work-place, organizations need employees who can be effective team members. In this article, the author discusses her use of cooperative small groups in an introductory accounting class and provides guidelines for their formation, orientation, and evaluation. Statistical analysis showed that the groups enhanced student achievement in the accounting class. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]