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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

Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)

Wineburg Sam

ISBN: PB: 9780226357218, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Let's start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become cliches: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but...

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Education

Write Your Way In Crafting an Unforgettable College Admissions Essay

Toor Rachel

ISBN: PB: 9780226383897, ISBN: HB: 9780226383750, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
164 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Writing, for most of us, is bound up with anxiety. It's even worse when it feels like your whole future – or at least where you'll spend the next four years in college – is on the line. It's easy to understand why so many high school seniors put off...

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Education

What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez? The American Revolution in Education

Galt Harpham Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226480817, ISBN: HB: 9780226480787, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Geoffrey Galt Harpham's book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to...

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Education

What Every Science Student Should Know

Bauer Justin L., Jung Kim Yoo, Zureick Andrew H., Lee Daniel K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226198880, ISBN: HB: 9780226198743, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
256 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 4 halftones, 6 tables

"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students... We must understand and circumvent this dangerous discouragement. No one can predict where the future...

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Education

What Is Education?

Jackson Philip W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226381343, ISBN: HB: 9780226389387, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
136 pp., 20.5x14 cm

One day in 1938, John Dewey addressed a room of professional educators and urged them to take up the task of "finding out just what education is". Reading this lecture in the late 1940s, Philip W. Jackson took Dewey's charge to heart and spent the ne...

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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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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

Worth of the University

Levin Richard C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197259, Yale University Press, July 2013
296 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 colour illus.

Published on the occasion of Richard C. Levin's retirement as president of Yale University, this captivating collection of speeches and essays from the past decade reflects both his varied intellectual passions and his deep commitment to university l...

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Education

Wannabe U Inside the Corporate University

Tuchman Gaye

ISBN: PB: 9780226815305, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
272 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Based on years of observation at a large state university, "Wannabe U" tracks the dispiriting consequences of trading in traditional educational values for loyalty to the market. Aping their boardroom idols, the new corporate administrators at such u...

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