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Distinguished by their sharp insights, eloquence, even humor, the writings of Martin Trow on the development of higher education have helped define the field. Collected here are his most influential essays, tracing the arc and evolution of his prolific scholarly career over more than four decades.Trow is well known for his pioneering work on the ......
Distinguished by their sharp insights, eloquence, even humor, the writings of Martin Trow on the development of higher education have helped define the field. Collected here are his most influential essays, tracing the arc and evolution of his prolific scholarly career over more than four decades.Trow is well known for his pioneering work on the ......
In the autumn of 2002 in southern China, a previously unknown virus jumped the species barrier from animal to man and sparked the first global epidemic of the new century. The disease sped along the air routes of a globalized world, spreading within months to thirty-one countries on every continent.
Why do voters so often exhibit patterns of policy preference vastly different from what analysts and strategists predict? And why do these same voters consistently cast ballots that ensure the continuation of ''divided government?''In The Two Majorities Byron Shafer and William Claggett offer groundbreaking political analysis that resolves many of ......
Dual-Career-Couple Hiring Practices in Higher Education
Approximately eight of every ten academics have spouses or partners who are working professionals, and almost half of these partners are academics as well. In fact, dual-career academic couples are so prevalent that ''the two-body problem'' has become a common way of referring to the situation. Increasingly intense competition to hire the best ......
This study examines in detail the origins of ultraroyal hostility to the social and political changes rendered by the French Revolution. France has produced a variety of theories of decline, corresponding to the nation's changing political fortunes in Europe and the world. The Revolution represented another, at least temporary, victory of the ......
With characteristic flair, Kenner explores the ways Joyce teaches us to read his novel as Joyce taught himself to write it: moving from the simple to the complex, from the familiar to the strange and new, from the norms of the nineteenth-century novel to the open forms of modernism.
Wyatt Prunty's poems have been described as 'quiet, reflective, and of unexpected depth' (Howard Nemerov), 'both artful and truthful' (Donald Justice), 'a triumph of controlled and understated but powerful emotion' (Anthony Hecht), and 'illuminated by a language both skewed and precise' (Walker Percy). As a poet, Prunty -- who is also the founder ......
Visions for the Education of African American Children (POD)
In her highly acclaimed work Black Children, Janice Hale argued that the difficulties many African American children have in school result from differences in learning style that are deeply rooted in African American culture. Now, in Unbank the Fire, Hale asks a new question: What sorts of extraordinary measures are needed to overcome these ......
