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With this number the Library Review enters on its ninth year, and we send greetings to readers at home and abroad. Though the magazine was started just about the time when the depression struck the world, its success was immediate, and we are glad to say that its circulation has increased steadily every year. This is an eminently satisfactory claim to be able to make considering the times through which we have passed.

This chapter draws on feminist theorizing on rape culture and victim blaming, and proposes a concept, racialized victim blaming, as a useful tool for understanding discourse on state violence.

The concept of racialized victim blaming is applied to historically analyze the genesis of the carceral state, and deconstruct public debates on police shootings and immigration crises.

This chapter argues that racialized victim blaming is used as a discursive tool to legitimize and mystify state violence projects. Officials and the media use racialized logics and narratives to blame the victims of state violence for their own suffering, justifying continued or increased state violence.

The concept of victim blaming is most often associated with violence against women. Here I demonstrate that victim blaming is also a useful tool for understanding state violence, particularly when attention is given to the place of racializing narratives.

BFGoodrich Aerospace Aircraft Sensors Division engineers achieved their best ever level of aerodynamic performance on a temperature sensor with a debris guard by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to optimize the design prior to prototyping. Meeting the conflicting needs of protecting the sensing element from debris and achieving the desired level of sensor accuracy and performance made this a very complex problem. CFD allowed engineers to evaluate the performance of 20 different design alternatives within the six‐month lead time for the project. This made it possible to substantially reduce drag relative to current designs while meeting all accuracy and durability requirements. The traditional build‐and‐test method is so much more costly and time‐consuming than CFD that it would have been impossible to evaluate anywhere near this number of alternatives using this approach.

The paper aims to hghlight the role of foreign‐language skills in business success – both for exporting firms and those defending their place in the domestic market.

The paper presents the results of a survey into the foreign‐language skills of 2,500 UK executives, the views of Jeff Toms, director of marketing and client services, of Farnham Castle international briefing and conference center, and the experiences of a former Staffordshire University lecturer who has set up a company to fill recruitment gaps with foreign students, enabling exporters to interact with overseas customers and prospects in their native tongue.

The paper reveals that 20 percent of UK businesses have lost business opportunities because of their failure to embrace new language skills. Suggests some of the ways in which these deficiencies can be overcome.

The paper advances the view that, in addition to foreign‐language skills, the main characteristics a global manager needs are: flexibility; an understanding of differences; patience; and a sense of humor.

The paper demonstrates that managers who are successful at home are not always the ones who enjoy success abroad.

Looks at the 2000 Employment Research Unit Annual Conference held at the University of Cardiff in Wales on 6/7 September 2000. Spotlights the 76 or so presentations within and shows that these are in many, differing, areas across management research from: retail finance; precarious jobs and decisions; methodological lessons from feminism; call centre experience and disability discrimination. These and all points east and west are covered and laid out in a simple, abstract style, including, where applicable, references, endnotes and bibliography in an easy‐to‐follow manner. Summarizes each paper and also gives conclusions where needed, in a comfortable modern format.

Sets out the US law concerning age discrimination and looks at how recent court cases have ruled out the “ burden of proof” that the employee have to show before winning an age discrimination case. Summarizes the legal protection given by the Age Discrimination Employment Act against discrimination in recruitment, again quoting case law to show how this law is being applied.

The current role of the approved social worker (ASW) will be changed to that of the approved mental health practitioner, who may be a nurse or other mental health professional, if proposed legislation comes into force in England and Wales. This has implications for service users, carers and the mental health workforce. This article draws on literature and a conference discussing this change attended by practitioners and policy‐makers. It considers the complexity of the ASW role and the implications for the AMHP, and sets the related issues in the context of integrated working.