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City On A Hill

Author : James Traub

Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company

Page : 392 pages

File Size : 41,92 MB

Release : 1994-10-20

Category : Education

ISBN :

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Traub relates the daily struggles of men and women trying to gain an education against the odds at the City College of New York, telling the story of the college's difficult present against the backdrop of its 150-year history. Students battle the cultural and economic forces that perpetuate inner-city poverty while the college that produced eight Nobel Laureates now tries to prepare survivors of the public school system for college-level work. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR



Digital Humanities Pedagogy

Author : Brett D. Hirsch

Publisher : Open Book Publishers

Page : 450 pages

File Size : 29,80 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Education

ISBN : 1909254258

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"The essays in this collection offer a timely intervention in digital humanities scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of humanities disciplines across the world. The first section offers views on the practical realities of teaching digital humanities at undergraduate and graduate levels, presenting case studies and snapshots of the authors' experiences alongside models for future courses and reflections on pedagogical successes and failures. The next section proposes strategies for teaching foundational digital humanities methods across a variety of scholarly disciplines, and the book concludes with wider debates about the place of digital humanities in the academy, from the field's cultural assumptions and social obligations to its political visions." (4e de couverture).



The Racial Contract

Author : Charles W. Mills

Publisher : Cornell University Press

Page : 214 pages

File Size : 42,13 MB

Release : 2022-04-15

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1501764306

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The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites," full persons and sub-persons, how it influences white moral theory and moral psychology; and how this system is imposed on non-whites through ideological conditioning and violence. The Racial Contract argues that the society we live in is a continuing white supremacist state. As this 25th anniversary edition—featuring a foreword by Tommy Shelbie and a new preface by the author—makes clear, the still-urgent The Racial Contract continues to inspire, provoke, and influence thinking about the intersection of the racist underpinnings of political philosophy.



Resisting Dictatorship

Author : Vincent Boudreau

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 32,70 MB

Release : 2009-04-30

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9780521109611

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Vince Boudreau compares strategies of repression and protest in post-war Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines because these alternative strategies shaped the social bases and opposition cultures available to dissidents and, in turn, influenced their effectiveness. He includes first-hand research as well as the the social movements' literature to consider the interactions between the regimes in the wake of repression, and the subsequent emergence of democracy. Boudreau offers a genuinely comparative study of dictatorship and resistance in South East Asia.



Colleges That Change Lives

Author : Loren Pope

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 404 pages

File Size : 35,79 MB

Release : 2006-07-25

Category : Study Aids

ISBN : 1101221348

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Prospective college students and their parents have been relying on Loren Pope's expertise since 1995, when he published the first edition of this indispensable guide. This new edition profiles 41 colleges—all of which outdo the Ivies and research universities in producing performers, not only among A students but also among those who get Bs and Cs. Contents include: Evaluations of each school's program and "personality" Candid assessments by students, professors, and deans Information on the progress of graduates This new edition not only revisits schools listed in previous volumes to give readers a comprehensive assessment, it also addresses such issues as homeschooling, learning disabilities, and single-sex education.



The City College of New York

Author : Sydney C. Van Nort

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 130 pages

File Size : 29,80 MB

Release : 2007

Category : History

ISBN : 9780738549309

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The City College of New York, founded in 1847 as the Free Academy, began as an educational and political experiment. The campus provided the setting for dynamic interaction between generations of students, immigrant and native alike, with the local and global community. Many of those educated by the "poor man's Harvard" distinguished themselves in various fields, including the former U.S. secretary of state Colin Powell, former U.S. Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter, writers Walter Mosley and Paddy Chayefsky, actors Samuel "Zero" Mostel and Richard Schiff, the scientist Jonas Salk, along with two Rhodes Scholars and nine Nobel laureates. These alumni and numerous others during the college's history made their contributions to the macrocosm utilizing the skills honed within the microcosm of the school's campus. Through images from the college's archives, The City College of New York illustrates the fascinating history of the first entirely publicly supported institution of higher education in the United States.







Queer Love in Color

Author : Jamal Jordan

Publisher : Ten Speed Press

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 16,42 MB

Release : 2021-05-04

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1984857649

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A photographic celebration of the love and relationships of queer people of color by a former New York Times multimedia journalist “Thank you, Jamal Jordan, for showing the world what true love looks like.”—Billy Porter Queer Love in Color features photographs and stories of couples and families across the United States and around the world. This singular, moving collection offers an intimate look at what it means to live at the intersections of queer and POC identities today, and honors an inclusive vision of love, affection, and family across the spectrum of gender, race, and age.



Colleges That Pay You Back, 2018 Edition

Author : Princeton Review (COR)

Publisher : Princeton Review

Page : 482 pages

File Size : 23,79 MB

Release : 2018

Category : Education

ISBN : 1524757837

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Profiles two hundred schools on their financial value, including academics, cost of attendance, financial aid, post-grad salary figures, and job satisfaction ratings from alumni.