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A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Their Families
As a medical oncologist, Dr. Robert Buckman has been taking care of people with cancer for more than twenty years. For most of those years, he says, he has spent much of his time talking with patients and their familiesdescribing what is known about cancer (and what isn't), explaining why specialists have recommended one type of treatment ......
Throughout the world, the incidence of malignant melanoma is increasing at an alarming rate. This dramatic rise is largely due to more frequent and prolonged exposure to intense sun, the result of major changes in clothing styles, recreation, and lifestyle (including widespread access to midwinter resort vacations). Significantly, recent ......
American public higher education appears to be in a state of crisis. Declining funding for public colleges and universities has led to declining faculty salaries relative to those of private institutions and to increasing tuition, threatening access and compromising quality. Ronald G. Ehrenberg and a team of experts examine the current state of ......
A guided journey through the inner workings of Earth, the cloaked mysteries of other planets in our solar system, and beyond. Extreme heat. Extreme cold. Extreme pressure. Toxic gases. Scorching magma flows, and ice volcanoes. Interior tides. Asteroids filled with gold. In What's Hidden Inside Planets? planetary scientist Dr. Sabine Stanley ......
Halting Higher Education's Decline in the Court of Public Opinion
An unflinching, no-holds-barred exploration of what citizens really think about their public universities, What's Public about Public Higher Ed? places special emphasis on the events of 2020-including the COVID-19 pandemic and the worst racial unrest seen in half a century-as major inflection points for understanding the implications of the ......
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 ......
