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Permanent Crisis The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age
ISBN: HB: 9780226738062, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem to be in a perpetual state of crisis, at the mercy of modernizing and technological forces that are driving universities towards academic pursu...
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£28,00
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Perspectives on Teaching Language and Content
ISBN: PB: 9780300223293, Yale University Press, August 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 9 black&white illus.
A contemporary guide to foreign language education, this book presents the latest developments and issues in the field of applied linguistics. It leads instructors to make vital connections between theory and practice and to develop innovative lesson...
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£45,00
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Prague University Town
ISBN: PB: 9788024640532, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
216 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 141 colour plates, 1 halftone,
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...
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Productivity in Higher Education
ISBN: HB: 9780226574585, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 96 line drawings, 72 tables
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...
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£98,00
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Perfect Mess The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education
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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£14,00
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Patriotic Education in a Global Age
ISBN: PB: 9780226552392, ISBN: HB: 9780226552255, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Should schools attempt to cultivate patriotism? If so, why? And what conception of patriotism should drive those efforts? Is patriotism essential to preserving national unity, sustaining vigorous commitment to just institutions, or motivating nationa...
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£56,50
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Paying the Price College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
ISBN: PB: 9780226527147, ISBN: HB: 9780226404349, University of Chicago Press, July 2017
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 21 tables
If you are a young person, and you work hard enough, you can get a college degree and set yourself on the path to a good life, right? Not necessarily, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, and with "Paying the Price", she shows in damning detail exactly why. Quite...
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Perspectives from the Disciplines Stanford Online High School
ISBN: PB: 9781575867403, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this companion volume to "Bricks and Mortar", Jeffrey Scarborough and Raymond Ravaglia present a series of essays written by senior instructors and division heads at the Stanford Online High School (SOHS). Written from the perspective of the onlin...
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£22,50
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Purposeful Graduate Why Colleges Must Talk to Students about Vocation
ISBN: PB: 9780226418889, ISBN: HB: 9780226236346, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 6 tables
We all know that higher education has changed dramatically over the past two decades. Historically a time of exploration and self-discovery, the college years have been narrowed toward an increasingly singular goal – career training – and college stu...
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£13,50
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£22,00
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Parenting to a Degree How Family Matters for College Women's Success
ISBN: HB: 9780226183367, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 10 tables
Helicopter parents – the kind that continue to hover even in college – are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults who boomerang back home. But do involved parents really dama...
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