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A Mansion's Memories
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 24.95An engaging history of The University of Alabama President’s Mansion As part of The University of Alabama’s 175th anniversary celebration (2006), the new edition of A Mansion’s Memories includes details of the tenures of the four presidents who have served since the Mathews term. Profusely illustrated with 69 black-and-white... more...
Saving Alma Mater
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 18.00America’s public universities educate 80% of our nation’s college students. But in the wake of rising demands on state treasuries, changing demographics, growing income inequality, and legislative indifference, many of these institutions have fallen into decline. Tuition costs have skyrocketed, class sizes have gone up, the number of... more...
Fordham
Fordham University Press 2008; US$ 18.99Fordham University is the quintessential American-Catholic institution?and one now looked upon as among the best Catholic universities in the country. Its story is also the story of New York, especially the Bronx, andFordham?s commitment to the city during its rise, fall, and rebirth. It?s a story of Jesuits, soldiers, alumni who fought in World Wars,... more...
University Builder
LSU Press 2003; US$ 35.00Rice University, one of America's preeminent institutions of higher education, grew out of the vision, direction, and leadership of one man: Edgar Odell Lovett (1871?1957). University Builder is the fascinating story of this extraordinary educator and the unique school he created. Widely acknowledged, almost from its founding in 1912, as one of... more...
A New Season
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 70.00This book demonstrates how colleges might retain threatened varsity programs and expand sports opportunities for women students if they replaced the current commercial model with one that emphasizes student participation. This would benefit the college students who play varsity sports, instead of benefiting the coaches, athletic directors, or over-generous... more...
Dysphagie: Diagnostik und Therapie: Ein Wegweiser für kompetentes Handeln (Praxiswissen Logopädie) (German Edition)
Springer 2010; US$ 39.99Bei der Behandlung von Schluckstörungen sind viele Logopäden unsicher, denn eine falsche therapeutische Vorgehensweise kann für Patienten schwerwiegende Folgen haben. Das Buch hilft Therapeuten, Unsicherheiten abzubauen, indem es die für die jeweilige Störung geeignete Behandlungsmethode leicht nachvollziehbar macht. Prägnante Handlungsanweisungen... more...
Privilege
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 18.95As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain of America's wealthiest sons. But times have changed. Today, a new elite of boys and girls is being molded at St. Paul's, one that reflects the hope of openness but also the persistence of inequality. In Privilege... more...
Lincoln Memorial University and the Shaping of Appalachia
University of Tennessee Press 2011; US$ 45.00Located near Cumberland Gap in the rugged hills of East Tennessee, Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) was founded in 1897 to help disadvantaged Appalachian youth and reward the descendents of Union loyalists in the region. Its founder was former Union General Oliver Otis Howard, a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, who made it his mission to... more...
True North
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95True North is the inspirational Canadian Chapter of Jill Ker Conway's life story, which began with her much love, bestselling memoir, The Road from Coorain. Beginning with her departure from Australia, Jill Ker Conway tells of her romance with Harvard House Master John Conway, of coming to grips with his manic-depressive disorder, and of their... more...
Hip Hop Genius
R&L Education 2011; US$ 13.99In Hip Hop Genius, Sam Seidel introduces an iteration of hip-hop education that goes far beyond the usual approach of studying rap music as classroom content and looks instead at deeply honoring the knowledge of urban students. more...









