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In our current age of reform, there are countless ideas about how to ""fix"" higher education. But before we can reconceptualize the college experience, we need to remember why we have these institutions in the first place'and what we want from them.
In What's the Point of College?, historian Johann N. Neem offers a new way ......
In What's Wrong with Postmodernism Norris critiques the ""postmodern-pragmatist malaise"" of Baudrillard, Fish, Rorty, and Lyotard. In contrast he finds a continuing critical impulsean ""enlightened or emancipatory interest""in thinkers like Derrida, de Man, Bhaskar, and Habermas. Offering a provocative reassessment of Derrida's ......
Enlightenment, Revival, and the Power of the Printed Word
In the 1740s, two quite different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thought -- the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. This book takes an encounter between the paragons of each movement -- the printer and entrepreneur Benjamin Franklin and the British-born revivalist George Whitefield -- as an opportunity to explore the ......
Enlightenment, Revival, and the Power of the Printed Word
In the 1740s, two quite different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thought -- the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. This book takes an encounter between the paragons of each movement -- the printer and entrepreneur Benjamin Franklin and the British-born revivalist George Whitefield -- as an opportunity to explore the ......
Winner of the Outstanding Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta, this work explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of ''invented traditions.'' In the case of France, scholars sharply disagree, not only over the nature of French national identity but also over the extent to which diverse and sometimes ......
Winner of the Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta and the Outstanding Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta, this work explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of ''invented traditions.'' In the case of France, scholars sharply disagree, not only over the nature of French national identity but also ......
Written for leaders in both small colleges and larger universities who may find themselves in similar situations, as well as for scholars of higher education who are interested in strategic planning, When Colleges Close is the sobering yet hopeful story of a venerable regional institution that turned its long-term enrollment challenges into a ......
Steve McQueen had cancer and was keeping it secret. Then the media found out, and soon all of America knew. McQueen's high profile changed forever the way the public perceived a dreaded disease. In When Illness Goes Public, Barron H Lerner describes the evolution of celebrities' illnesses from private matters to stories of great public interest. ......
Pluralist Politics and Institutional Reform in Los Angeles
When Schools Work will inform the efforts of educators, activists, policy makers, and anyone else working to reshape public schools and achieve equitable results for all children.
