An essential resource for museum professionals, teachers, and students, the award-winning "Teaching in the Art Museum" (Getty Publications, 2011) set a new standard in the field of gallery education. This follow-up book blends theory and practice to...

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...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Prague has been a center of university education for centuries, and in this book, Josef Petran and Lydia Petranova guide us through the history and architecture of Prague's diverse univers...

How do the benefits of higher education compare with its costs, and how does this comparison vary across individuals and institutions? These questions are fundamental to quantifying the productivity of the education sector. The studies in "Productivi...

For the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white. At the same time, more than half of US school children now qualify for federally subsidized meals, a mark...

This limited edition three-volume slipcased set celebrates the bicentennial of the University of Cincinnati. The set consists of hardback editions of "In Service to the City: A History of the University of Cincinnati", by urban historian David Stradl...

n this bracing book, Michael S. Roth stakes out a pragmatist path through the thicket of issues facing colleges today to carry out the mission of higher education. With great empathy, candor, subtlety, and insight, Roth offers a sane approach to the...

For years now, academics worldwide have been pushing for more interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. Yet for all that, the very concept of transdisciplinarity has proved remarkably tough to define, let alone to enact. This book brings together...

Medical professionals are often viewed as a special breed of stoic figures whose tough grace allows them to stay strong as they confront human frailty and tragedy on a daily basis. "Human" is a new anthology that aims to dispel this unhelpful line of...

This collection contributes to an emerging body of research in sign language interpreter education, a field in which research on teaching practices has been rare. "The Next Generation of Research in Interpreter Education" investigates learning experi...