Higher education, tertiary education

Stand and Prosper is the first authoritative history in decades of black colleges and universities in America.

Peter F.

In Reclaiming the Game, William Bowen and Sarah Levin disentangle the admissions and academic experiences of recruited athletes, walk-on athletes, and other students.

The President of Williams College faces a firestorm for not allowing the women's lacrosse team to postpone exams to attend the playoffs.

This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward.

An insider's account of higher education from a legendary university leaderLessons Learned gives unprecedented access to the university president's office, providing a unique set of reflections on the challenges involved in leading both research universities and liberal arts colleges.

Whether dealing with contracts, tort actions, or government regulations, lawyers are more likely to be successful if they are conversant in economics.

Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education.

What is the role of the arts in American culture?

A Place on the Team is the inside story of how Title IX revolutionized American sports.

Die Geschichte der Pornographie reicht weit in die Vergangenheit zurück und spiegelt dabei die kulturellen, sozialen und technologischen Entwicklungen der Gesellschaft wider.

Universities were once largely insular institutions whose purview extended no further than the campus gates.

In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today.

In One Hundred Semesters, William Chace mixes incisive analysis with memoir to create an illuminating picture of the evolution of American higher education over the past half century.

If your workplace feels like a battle zone and colleagues sometimes act like adversaries, you ore not alone.

In a world spiralling into a state of technological excess, Michael Dertouzos shows us how to make technologyin all its infinite varietieswork for, rather than against, us in our everday business lives.

Tribal Leadership gives amazingly insightful perspective on how people interact and succeed.

The Professors' Guide to Getting Good Grades in College is the first book to reveal the insider secrets about how professors really grade.

In this Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller Michigan Business School guru and worldwide consultant Noel Tichy brings his special brand of organisational transformation to a practical level that guarantees a leader at every level of an organisation.

Integritymore than simple honesty, it's the key to success.

It is the richest, most influential, most powerful university in the world, but at the beginning of 2001, Harvard was in crisis.

Going Wireless delivers the unexpected by showing how wireless is transforming every type of enterprise from micro-businesses to multi-national conglomerates.

A former Ivy League admissions officer, Joie Jager-Hyman follows five bright and eager high schoolersstudents from diverse ethnic, social, and financial backgroundsas they each put their best foot forward on the road they hope will lead them to the hallowed halls of Harvard University.

More than ten years after his first bestselling book The EMyth changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of small business owners Michael Gerbertrepreneur author and speaker extraordinaireres the next salvo in his highly successful EMyth Revolution.

Applying the methods and ideas espoused in his popular book Choice Theory, world-renowned psychiatrist and relationship expert Dr.

In The Leadership Engine Noel Tichy showed how great companies strive to create leaders at all levels of the organization and how those leaders actively develop future generations of leaders.

In a world torn apart by religious extremism on the one side and a strident secularism on the other, no question is more urgent than how we live with our deepest differencesespecially our religious and ideological differences.

In today's high-pressure workplace, motivating all employees to consistently contribute their best can mean the difference between success and failure.

There are only twenty-four hours in a day, but you can make them count.

Filling your ranks with exceptional employees has never been more importantor more challenging.

In today's hypercompetitive business climate, managers who help employees achieve their individual potential stand to getand stayahead.

Every office has someone who's no fun to be around.

Successful management relies on identifying and promoting high-performing employeesand targeting underperformers for serious improvement.

Aiming high is essential to success.

In this age of digital communication, getting the right message across clearly is crucial to success.

It is the year 2017 and gender equality and women thriving in work place without fear of sexual harassment or discrimination is the #1 unsolved social issue of our time.

It is the year 2017 and gender equality and women thriving in work place without fear of sexual harassment or discrimination is the #1 unsolved social issue of our time.

A book about teams to help teams become more positive, united and connected.

More than 200,000 soldA book about teams to help teams become more positive, united and connected.

* Topics sorted by categories* 145 Solved Issue and Argument topics with strategies to be used as benchmark* Expert Strategies and simplified methods to produce focused responses* Online access to printable Answer sheets GRE Analytical Writing Supreme: Solutions to Real Essay Topics is composed of three books that have already benefited thousands of GRE test takers worldwide.

Prepare students with complete coverage of the revised Cambridge IGCSETM Physics syllabus (0625/0972) for examination from 2023.

Prepare students with complete coverage of the revised Cambridge IGCSETM Biology syllabus (0610/0970) for examination from 2023.

A New Statesman 'most anticipated title of the year'Compelling.

Full teacher support to accompany the Cambridge IGCSE(TM) ICT Student's Book Third Edition for the IGCSE ICT syllabus (0417/0983) for examination from 2023 - the Teacher's Guide content is matched lesson-by-lesson to the Student's Book.

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearAn inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China's political systemOn January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong Universitythe first foreign dean of a political science faculty in mainland China's history.

There are many standards, methods and perhaps most confusing, but most importantly of all acronyms in use in the field of quality management, and especially so in the field of technology-based products.

A complete, unfiltered university handbook, written by an actual student.

Beth Morrey's brand new, joyful and uplifting novel, LUCKY DAY, is available to pre-order nowFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Saving MissyA mother.

A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature-and what can be done to fight itPolarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point.

A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyondBy the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through trillions of interconnections to form a compact and breathtakingly efficient supercomputer.