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Allies and Rivals German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University
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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£28,00
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Activity-Based Teaching in the Art Museum Movement, Embodiment, Emotion
ISBN: PB: 9781606066171, Getty Publications, January 2020
184 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, illus.
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...
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£25,00
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Adjunct Underclass How America's Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission
ISBN: HB: 9780226496665, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 23 tables
Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car... to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly...
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£18,00
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American Academic Cultures A History of Higher Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226505268, ISBN: HB: 9780226505121, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables
At a time when American higher education seems ever more to be reflecting on its purpose and potential, we are more inclined than ever to look to its history for context and inspiration. But that history only helps, Paul H. Mattingly argues, if it's...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Agile Faculty Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching
ISBN: PB: 9780226463155, ISBN: HB: 9780226463018, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 13 line drawings, 21 tables
Digital tools have long been a transformative part of academia, enhancing the classroom and changing the way we teach. Yet there is a way that academia may be able to benefit more from the digital revolution: by adopting the project management techni...
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£17,00
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£49,00
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Ambitious Elementary School Its Conception, Design, and Implications for Educational Equality
ISBN: PB: 9780226456652, ISBN: HB: 9780226456515, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 13 tables
The challenge of overcoming educational inequality in the United States can sometimes appear overwhelming, and great controversy exists as to whether or not elementary schools are up to the task, whether they can ameliorate existing social inequaliti...
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£19,00
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£56,50
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Aims of Higher Education Problems of Morality and Justice
ISBN: PB: 9780226259482, ISBN: HB: 9780226259345, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings
In this book, philosopher Harry Brighouse and Spencer Foundation president Michael McPherson bring together leading philosophers to think about some of the most fundamental questions that higher education faces. Looking beyond the din of arguments ov...
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£20,50
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£67,00
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Aspiring Adults Adrift Tentative Transitions of College Graduates
ISBN: PB: 9780226197289, ISBN: HB: 9780226191157, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 19 line drawings, 18 tables
Few books have ever made their presence felt on college campuses – and newspaper opinion pages – as quickly and thoroughly as Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's 2011 landmark study of undergraduates' learning, socialization, and study habits, Academical...
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£13,50
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£44,00
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American School Reform What Works, What Fails, and Why
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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£24,00
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£61,00
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American Studies in Dialogue Radical Reconstructions between Curriculum and Cultural Critique
ISBN: PB: 9783593393179, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
300 pp., 21.3x14 cm
American studies has changed drastically over the past few decades, as a new wave of scholars – armed with groundbreaking ideas and more extensive methods of research – flocked to the relatively young field. This focus on scholarship, though necessar...
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£40,00
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