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Foreign Exchange (Or the Stories You Wouldn't Tell a Stranger)

Deliss Clementine, Mutumba Yvette

ISBN: PB: 9783037346686, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2014
320 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 87 colour plates, 78 halftones

Founded in 1904, Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum houses a remarkable collection of ethnographic artifacts from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, with the aims of advancing public education and fostering innovative anthropological research acro...

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Education

History of Gallaudet University 150 Years of a Deaf American Institution

Armstrong David F.

ISBN: HB: 9781563685958, Gallaudet University Press, June 2014
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 25 illus., 225 photos

On April 8, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln and the United States Congress put into effect legislation authorizing the granting of collegiate degrees by the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind. At this moment,...

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Education

Winds of Freedom Addressing Challenges to the University

Casper Gerhard

ISBN: HB: 9780300196917, Yale University Press, April 2014
248 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

As president of Stanford University, Gerhard Casper established a reputation as a tireless, forward-thinking advocate for higher education. His speeches, renowned for their intelligence, humanity, wit and courage, confront head-on the most pressing c...

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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

American School Reform What Works, What Fails, and Why

McDonald Joseph P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226124728, ISBN: HB: 9780226124698, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings

Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation's largest cities, "American School Reform" offers one of the clearest assessments of school reform as it has played out in our recent history. Joseph P. McDonald and his colleagues evaluat...

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Education

Class Warfare Class, Race, and College Admissions in Top-Tier Secondary Schools

Weis Lois, Cipollone Kristin, Jenkins Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226134925, ISBN: HB: 9780226134895, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 tables

Stories abound about the lengths to which middle- and upper-middle-class parents will go to ensure a spot for their child at a prestigious university. From the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests all the way back to early-learning...

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Education

Graduate Advisor Handbook A Student-Centered Approach

Shore Bruce M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226011646, ISBN: HB: 9780226011509, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
160 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In the sink-or-swim world of academia, a great graduate advisor can be a lifesaver. But with university budgets shrinking and free time evaporating, advisors often need a mentor themselves to learn how to best support their advisees. Bruce M. Shore,...

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Education

General

When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education

Posey-Maddox Linn

ISBN: PB: 9780226120218, ISBN: HB: 9780226120188, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to – and often end up becoming active in – urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn P...

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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

Psychology

Boys and Girls Superheroes in the Doll Corner

Gussin Paley Vivian

ISBN: PB: 9780226130101, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
144 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With the publication of "Boys and Girls" in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play – and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of...

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