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Education

Allies and Rivals German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University

Levine Emily J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226341811, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

During the nineteenth century, nearly ten thousand Americans traveled to Germany to study in universities renowned for their research and teaching. By the mid-twentieth century, American institutions led the world. How did America become the center o...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Well Worth Saving American Universities' Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe

Leff Laurel

ISBN: HB: 9780300243871, Yale University Press, January 2020
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

The United States' role in saving Europe's intellectual elite from the Nazis is often told as a tale of triumph, which in many ways it was. America welcomed Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse, Rudolf Carnap and Richar...

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Education

Perfect Mess The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education

Labaree David F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226637006, ISBN: HB: 9780226250441, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 table

Read the news about America's colleges and universities – rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators – and it's clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labare...

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Education

MOOCs and Their Afterlives Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education

Losh Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226469454, ISBN: HB: 9780226469317, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 6 line drawings, 3 tables

A trio of headlines in the "Chronicle of Higher Education" seem to say it all: in 2013, "A Bold Move Toward MOOCs Sends Shock Waves"; in 2014, "Doubts About MOOCs Continue to Rise", and in 2015, "The MOOC Hype Fades". At the beginning of the 2010s, M...

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Education

Growing Each Other Up When Our Children Become Our Teachers

Lawrence-Lightfoot Sara

ISBN: HB: 9780226188409, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From growing their children, parents grow themselves, learning the lessons their children teach".Growing up", then, is as much a developmental process of parenthood as it is of childhood. While countless books have been written about the challenges o...

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Education

Teaching Evolution in a Creation Nation

Laats Adam, Siegel Harvey

ISBN: PB: 9780226331300, ISBN: HB: 9780226331270, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity's origins. For more than a century we have argued about evolutionary theory and creationism (and its successor theory, intelligent design), yet we seem...

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Education

Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship

Link Albert N., Siegel Donald S., Wright Mike

ISBN: HB: 9780226178349, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings, 13 tables

As state support and federal research funding dwindle, universities are increasingly viewing their intellectual property portfolios as lucrative sources of potential revenue. Nearly all research universities now have a technology transfer office to m...

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Being a Language Teacher

Lopez-Burton Norma

ISBN: PB: 9780300186895, Yale University Press, April 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"Being a Language Teacher" provides an innovative, personal approach to second language teaching. Through illustrative personal anecdotes, this text guides new and aspiring language teachers through key pedagogical strategies while encouraging produc...

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Education

Talent Wants to Be Free Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding

Lobel Orly

ISBN: HB: 9780300166279, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

This timely book challenges conventional business wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation and creativity. Orly Lobel, an internationally acclaimed expert in the law and economics of human capital, warns that a set of counterproductive mentaliti...

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Education

Public School Advantage Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

Lubienski Christopher A., Theule Lubienski Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780226088914, ISBN: HB: 9780226088884, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 28 tables

Nearly the whole of America's partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vo...

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