Author : Edward Custard
Publisher : Princeton Review
Page : 1262 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 1996-07-30
Category : College choice
ISBN : 9780679771210
Lists more than 1,600 colleges and universities and provides information about admissions and academic programs.
Author : David Denby
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1439127158
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* “A lively adventure of the mind...The tone of the prose...is one of unqualified enthusiasm: energy, vigor, intellectual curiosity, and what might be called an ecstasy of imaginative journalism.” —The New York Times Book Review At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces -- the "great books" -- that are now at the heart of the culture wars. In Great Books, he leads us on a glorious tour, a rediscovery and celebration of such authors as Homer and Boccaccio, Locke and Nietzsche. Conrad and Woolf. The resulting personal odyssey is an engaging blend of self-discovery, cultural commentary, reporting, criticism, and autobiography -- an inspiration for anyone in love with the written word.
Author : Edward B. Fiske
Publisher : Crown Business
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 1996-08-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780812927573
Rather than relying solely on schools' promotional materials or lists of unrevealing statistics, The Fiske Guide provides readers with essays that give a vivid, nuanced, and informed sense of life at more than 300 American colleges and universities. The "Best Buys" feature rates schools which best combine academics and value.
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Page : 35 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN :
Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0295805218
From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
Author : Lisa Birnbach
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Patricia M. McDonough
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791434789
Examines the everyday experiences of high school seniors as they choose their colleges and demonstrates that college choice is a more complex social and organizational reality than has been previously understood.
Author : Charles Harrington Elster
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780618423156
The definitive pronouncement on more than 1,500 of our most commonly mispronounced words. From the language maven Charles Harrington Elster comes an authoritative and unapologetically opinionated look at American speech. As Elster points out, there is no sewer in connoisseur, no dip in diphthong, and no pronoun in pronunciation. The culmination of twenty years of observation and study, The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations is more than just a pronunciation guide. Elster discusses past and present usage, alternatives, analogies, and tendencies and offers plenty of advice, none of it objective. Whether you are adamant or ambivalent about the spoken word, Elster arms you with the information you need to decide what is acceptable for you. The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations has now been expanded and revised and features nearly 200 new words, including: al-Qaeda bruschetta commensurate coup de grace curriculum vita exacerbate gigabyte hara-kiri machismo Muslim Niger Pinochet Pulitzer sorbet tinnitus w (as in www-dot) and many, many more. Charles Harrington Elster is the pronunciation editor of Black's Law Dictionary and the author of various books about language, including Verbal Advantage, There's a Word for It, and What in the Word? He has been a guest columnist on language for the Boston Globe and the New York Times Magazine and a commentator on NPR and hundreds of radio shows around the country.
Author : Daniel F. Chambliss
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674727037
A Chronicle of Higher Education “Top 10 Books on Teaching” Selection Winner of the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize Constrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve the quality of education? And can students get more out of college without paying higher tuition? Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs conclude that the limited resources of colleges and students need not diminish the undergraduate experience. How College Works reveals the surprisingly decisive role that personal relationships play in determining a student's collegiate success, and puts forward a set of small, inexpensive interventions that yield substantial improvements in educational outcomes. “The book shares the narrative of the student experience, what happens to students as they move through their educations, all the way from arrival to graduation. This is an important distinction. [Chambliss and Takacs] do not try to measure what students have learned, but what it is like to live through college, and what those experiences mean both during the time at school, as well as going forward.” —John Warner, Inside Higher Ed
Author : Janice A. Radway
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807863971
Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading. Janice Radway traces the history of the famous mail-order book club from its controversial founding in 1926 through its evolution into an enterprise uniquely successful in blending commerce and culture. Framing her historical narrative with writing of a more personal sort, Radway reflects on the contemporary role of the Book-of-the-Month Club in American cultural history and in her own life. Her detailed account of the standards and practices employed by the club's in-house editors is also an absorbing story of her interactions with those editors. Examining her experiences as a fourteen-year-old reader of the club's selections and, later, as a professor of literature, she offers a series of rigorously analytical yet deeply personal readings of such beloved novels as Marjorie Morningstar and To Kill a Mockingbird. Rich and rewarding, this book will captivate and delight anyone who is interested in the history of books and in the personal and transformative experience of reading.
