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  • The Breakdown of Higher Education

    How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done

    by John M. Ellis ...
    A series of near-riots on campuses aimed at silencing guest speakers has exposed the fact that our universities are no longer devoted to the free exchange of ideas in pursuit of truth. But this hostility to free speech is only a symptom of a deeper problem, writes John Ellis.Having watched the deterioration of academia up close for the past fifty years, Ellis locates the core of the problem in a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Perfect Score Project

    One Mother's Journey to Uncover the Secrets of the SAT

    by Debbie Stier ...
    The Perfect Score Project is an indispensable guide to acing the SAT – as well as the affecting story of a single mom’s quest to light a fire under her teenage son.It all began as an attempt by Debbie Stier to help her high-school age son, Ethan, who would shortly be studying for the SAT. Aware that Ethan was a typical teenager (i.e., completely uninterested in any test) and that a mind-boggling ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Picture a Professor

    Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning

    Edited by Jessamyn Neuhaus ...
    Series series Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
    “Does a service to all who would prefer a different path, offering realistic strategies to engage students in undermining scholarly stereotypes.”—SciencePicture a Professor is a collection of evidence-based insights and intersectional teaching strategies crafted by and for college instructors. It aims to inspire transformative student learning while challenging stereotypes about what a professor ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Paying for the Party

    In an era of skyrocketing tuition and concern over whether college is “worth it,” Paying for the Party is an indispensable contribution to the dialogue assessing the state of American higher education. A powerful exposé of unmet obligations and misplaced priorities, it explains in detail why so many leave college with so little to show for it. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Sport and the Neoliberal University

    Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy

    Series series The American Campus
    College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.The contributors to Sport and the Neoliberal University examine how intercollegiate athletics ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Getting In: How to stand out from the crowd and ACE your residency interview

    The 2015 NRMP data shows that while the USMLE Step 1 is the single most important factor in granting an applicant an interview, interpersonal communication skills matter the most when choosing who to rank and ultimately hire.Why spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars preparing for the USMLE exams, only to “wing” the interview?In Getting In, Dr. Myers Hurt outlines the necessary steps to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Profession

    The Next Future of Theological Education

    Series series Theological Education between the Times (TEBT)
    What should theological education become?Theological education has long been successful in the United States because of its ability to engage with contemporary cultural realities. Likewise, despite the existential threats facing it today, theological education can continue to thrive if it is once again reinvented to fit with the needs of current times.Daniel Aleshire, the longtime executive ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • A PhD Is Not Enough!

    A Guide to Survival in Science

    Everything you ever need to know about making it as a scientist.Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find.In A Ph.D. Is Not Enough!, physicist Peter J. Feibelman lays out a rational path to a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Alternative Models of Sports Development in America

    Solutions to a Crisis in Education and Public Health

    Series series Ohio University Sport Management Series
    In the United States, the entanglement of sports and education has persisted for over a century. Multimillion-dollar high school football stadiums, college coaches whose salaries are many times those of their institutions’ presidents, psychological and educational tolls on student-athletes, and high-profile academic scandals are just symptoms of a system that has come under increasing fire. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Ludic Pedagogy

    A Seriously Fun Way to Teach and Learn

    Ludic Pedagogy: A Seriously Fun Way to Teach and Learn outlines why and how having fun and positive experiences in college and university classes (and not just at social events or parties) leads to increased student success in face-to-face, hybrid, hyflex, or online environments. It provides readers with the Ludic Pedagogy model, together with how instructors can employ the elements of the model – ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Beyond Education

    Radical Studying for Another World

    by Eli Meyerhoff ...
    A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-makingHigher education is at an impasse. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo show that racism and sexism remain pervasive on campus, while student and faculty movements fight to reverse increased tuition, student debt, corporatization, and adjunctification. Commentators ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Diversity Delusion

    How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture

    By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learningAmerica is in crisis, from the university to the workplace. Toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in our larger culture. Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton? ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • American Higher Education in Crisis?

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    American higher education is at a crossroads. Technological innovations and disruptive market forces are buffeting colleges and universities at the very time their financial structure grows increasingly fragile. Disinvestment by states has driven up tuition prices at public colleges, and student debt has reached a startling record-high of one trillion dollars. Cost-minded students and their ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Diversity Bargain

    And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities

    We’ve heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education, about how universities should intervene—if at all—to ensure a diverse but deserving student population. But what about those for whom these issues matter the most? In this book, Natasha K. Warikoo deeply explores how students themselves think about merit and race at a uniquely pivotal moment: after they ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Skim, Dive, Surface

    Teaching Digital Reading

    by Jenae Cohn ...
    Series series Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
    Students are reading on screens more than ever—how can we teach them to be better digital readers?Smartphones, laptops, tablets: college students are reading on-screen all the time, and digital devices shape students’ understanding of and experiences with reading. In higher education, however, teachers rarely consider how digital reading experiences may have an impact on learning abilities, unless ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Teaching and Learning in Medical and Surgical Education

    Lessons Learned for the 21st Century

    The idea for this book was originally conceived by Terrill Mast in conversations with Roland Folse. Dr. Mast was dedicated to the belief that all medical teachers should be generalists with skills and knowledge in all aspects of the field. Before his untimely death, he recruited most of the prestigious contributors to this important new book.This comprehensive volume features a review of the major ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Filosofía de la educación

    Cuestiones de hoy y de siempre

    Series Book 4 - Obras básicas
    Esta obra se enmarca en el ámbito de la Filosofía de la Educación y es de suma utilidad tanto para los universitarios que cursan estudios relacionados con la educación, como para los profesionales en ejercicio, pues los temas que se abordan son de permanente actualidad. En este libro se analiza el fenómeno educativo y se estudian las características de la perspectiva filosófica y de la Filosofía ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • David y Goliat

    La epopeya de la educación universitaria de las ciencias de la salud en el siglo XXI. Cuarenta años de éxitos y aprendizajes en la formación de profesionales

    En la actualidad, los contextos de salud parecen volverse en contra de la historia médica. Día a día se incrementa el número de escuelas de medicina sin que exista un control de calidad para darles cabida en una realidad mexicana de servicios de salud con uno de sus peores desempeños, de acuerdo con las estadísticas nacionales e internacionales.La Universidad Anáhuac tiene un lema claro: vencer al ... Read more

    Free

  • Research Project Management: 25 Free Tools

    Evaluation Works’ Research Guides, #1

    by Ruth Belling ...
    Series Book 1 - Evaluation Works’ Research Guides
    Do you need to manage a research project?This guide lists 25 online tools and resources, available at zero cost, to help researchers, evaluators, doctoral students and supervisors, research managers and administrators, with a range of activities and skills involved in managing research successfully.Includes tools and resources for:Project planningGoal-settingTime managementDocument sharing and ... Read more

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  • The Professor Is In

    The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job

    by Karen Kelsky ...
    The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal jobEach year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction

    Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers

    FEATURING ESSAYS FROM: Barrie Jean Borich • Jenny Boully • Norma Elia Cantú • Rigoberto González • Philip Graham • Carol Guess • Jeff Gundy • Robin Hemley • Barbara Hurd • Judith Kitchen •Eric LeMay • Dinah Lenney • Bret Lott • Patrick Madden• Lee Martin • Maggie McKnight • Brenda Miller •Kyle Minor • Aimee Nezhukumatathil • Anne Panning • Lia Purpura • Peggy Shumaker • Sue William Silverman • ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Excellent Sheep

    The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

    A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation’s top schools should be—but aren’t—providing: “The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those ‘sheep’), pushy parents, and admissions mayhem” (People).As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest minds, were adrift ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Closing of the American Mind

    by Allan Bloom ...
    The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition.In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Undocumented

    A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League

    An undocumented immigrant’s journey from a New York City homeless shelter to the top of his Princeton classDan-el Padilla Peralta has lived the American dream. As a boy, he came here legally with his family. Together they left Santo Domingo behind, but life in New York City was harder than they imagined. Their visas lapsed, and Dan-el’s father returned home. But Dan-el’s courageous mother was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD