Schools - Levels - Higher
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Won’t Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System
$18.99 Add to cartThe “heartfelt” (Shelf Awareness) story of how Georgia State University tore up the rulebook for educating lower-income students
Published to wide acclaim, Won’t Lose This Dream is the “illuminating”
- Author: Gumbel, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1620979152
- Language: English
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Attacking the Elites: What Critics Get Wrong–And Right–About America’s Leading Universities
$28.00 Read moreA former Harvard president reflects on how elite universities are responding to critiques from the left and the right, and how they can do better
“People have lost faith, trust and confidence [in high- Author: Bok, Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 0300273606
- Language: English
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Cornell: A History, 1940-2015
$54.95 Add to cartIn their history of Cornell since 1940, Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick examine the institution in the context of the emergence of the modern research university. The book examines Cornell duri
- Author: Altschuler, Glenn C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 080144425X
- Language: English
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Nightwork, Updated Edition: A History of Hacks and Pranks at Mit
$29.95 Add to cartA lively introduction to MIT hacks, from the police car on the Great Dome to the abduction of the Caltech cannon.
An MIT “hack” is an ingenious, benign, and anonymous prank or practical joke, often req
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Peterson, Institute Historian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0262515849
- Language: English
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College Rules!: How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College
$15.99 Read moreThis updated classic gives students the tools they need to successfully transition from high school to college, avoid rookie mistakes, and set themselves up for academic success from day one.
College- Author: Nist-Olejnik, Sherrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1607748525
- Language: English
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Valedictorians at the Gate: Standing Out, Getting In, and Staying Sane While Applying to College
$18.99 Add to cartNamed one of Grown & Flown’s “Best Book on College Admissions and Paying for College”
“The most honest, most helpful book I’ve ever read on applying to college” (New York Times bestselling author Adam- Author: Sabky, Becky Munsterer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 125061905X
- Language: English
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What Universities Owe Democracy
$29.95 Read moreUniversities have historically been integral to democracy. What can they do to reclaim this critical role?
Universities play an indispensable role within modern democracies. But this role is often over
- Author: Daniels, Ronald J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1421442698
- Language: English
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Game Plan: Practical Wisdom for the College Experience
$15.99 Add to cartCollege is a time of discovery. Are you ready for what lies ahead?
How will your faith fare when you enter the new wide world of college – leaving behind the safety of home, community, and church? Dr- Author: Gibson, Nic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1612611117
- Language: English
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Walking Tcu: A Historic Perspective
$39.95 Add to cartFounded in 1873, Texas Christian University is located on 272 acres about three miles from downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Walking TCU: A Historic Perspective, Second Edition describes the buildings on th… [more below]
- Author: Swaim, Joan Hewatt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0875658350
- Language: English
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Harvard: A Living Portrait
$39.95 Read moreThis unique and inclusive survey shows the many aspects of Harvard University, in all seasons, with the College, the residential houses, the professional schools, and many athletic fields. Inside view
- Series: Back Bay Press
- Author: Dunwell, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0964301512
- Language: English
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Mr. Jefferson’s Telescope: A History of the University of Virginia in One Hundred Objects
$36.95 Add to cartThomas Jefferson considered the University of Virginia to be among his finest achievements–a living monument to his artistic and intellectual ambitions. Now, on the occasion of the University’s bicen
- Author: Wolfe, Brendan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0813940109
- Language: English
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100 Years, 100 Voices
$34.95 Add to cartWith the signing of Senate Bill No. 103 in 1923, an institution of higher learning was created in Lubbock, Texas. Its name would be Texas Technological College. Its aspirations–as one of its ambitiou… [more below]
- Author: Texas Tech University
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1682831558
- Language: English
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Images and Stories of Tcu’s First 100 Years, 1873-1973
$49.95 Add to cartDid you know there was a plane crash on the TCU campus? Or that TCU once had an airport? Were you aware that TCU began integrating during World War II? Discover these and other interesting tidbits in … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Gene Allen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0875658407
- Language: English
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Penn Center: A History Preserved
$26.95 Add to cartThe Gullah people of St. Helena Island still relate that their people wanted to “catch the learning” after northern abolitionists founded Penn School in 1862, less than six months after the Union army
- Author: Burton, Orville Vernon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0820351415
- Language: English
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Free Speech on Campus
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the University of California, Berkeley, to Middlebury College, institutions of higher learning increasingly find themselves on the front lines of cultural and political battles over free speech.
- Author: Ben-Porath, Sigal R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0812250079
- Language: English
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Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education
$25.43 Add to cartSince Tenured Radicals first appeared in 1990, it has achieved a stature as the leading critique of the ways in which the humanities are not taught and studied in American universities. Trenchant and … [more below]
- Author: Kimball, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 18 2008
- ISBN10: 1566637961
- Language: English
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The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
$18.00 Read moreAn NPR Favorite Book of the Year
“Breaks new ground on social and educational questions of great import.”
—Washington Post “An essential work, humane and candid, that challenges and expands our unders- Author: Jack, Anthony Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0674248244
- Language: English
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The Secret Syllabus: A Guide to the Unwritten Rules of College Success
$19.95 Add to cartThe unwritten rules of success that every student must follow to thrive in college
The Secret Syllabus equips students with the tools they need to succeed, revealing the unwritten rules and cultural n- Series: Skills for Scholars
- Author: Phelan, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0691224420
- Language: English
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The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
$22.95 Read moreWhy we need to stop wasting public funds on education
Despite being immensely popular–and immensely lucrative–education is grossly overrated. Now with a new afterword by Bryan Caplan, this explosive- Author: Caplan, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0691196451
- Language: English
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What Color Is Your Parachute? for College: Pave Your Path from Major to Meaningful Work
$16.99 Add to cartAn indispensable guide for college students, adapted from the world’s most popular and bestselling career book, What Color Is Your Parachute?
What Color Is Your Parachute? for College is the only guid- Author: Brooks, Katharine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1984857568
- Language: English
