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New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB

New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB

Author: Tennant S. McWilliams
ISBN: 9780817315467
Format: Hardback
$105.47

From its early days as a struggling offshoot of the capstone campus in Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama's (UAB)...  Read More >>

World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America

World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities...

Author: Philip G. Altbach (Monan Professor of Higher Education, Boston College) ,  Jorge Balán
ISBN: 9780801886621
Format: Paperback
$102.00

They address the special challenges of establishing and maintaining these institutions; the role of information...  Read More >>

Knowledge, Higher Education, and the New Managerialism: The Changing Management of UK Universities

Knowledge, Higher Education, and the New Managerialism:...

Author: Rosemary Deem (Professor of Education and Director of Research, Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, University of Bristol) ,  Sam Hillyard (Senior Lecturer in Research Methods, School of Education, University of Durham)
ISBN: 9780199265909
Format: Hardback
$251.00

Major changes have taken place in the organization and management of professional academic work within British universities...  Read More >>

World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America

World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities...

Author: Philip G. Altbach (Monan Professor of Higher Education, Boston College) ,  Jorge Balán
ISBN: 9780801886614
Format: Hardback
$200.00

They address the special challenges of establishing and maintaining these institutions; the role of information...  Read More >>

Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future?

Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have...

Author: Harry Lewis
ISBN: 9781586485016
Format: Paperback
$31.99

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Sir William C. Macdonald: A Biography

Sir William C. Macdonald: A Biography

Author: William Fong ,  William Fong
ISBN: 9780773533042
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Sir William Macdonald is the father of the Canadian tobacco industry and one of the country's foremost educational...  Read More >>

The Virgin University Survival Guide

The Virgin University Survival Guide

Author: Karla Fitzhugh
ISBN: 9780753512487
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Full of advice and information that will see students through the whole of their uni life. This book includes getting...  Read More >>

Gopher Gold: Legendary Figures, Brilliant Blunders, and Amazing Feats at the University of Minnesota

Gopher Gold: Legendary Figures, Brilliant Blunders,...

Author: Tim Brady
ISBN: 9780873516013
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Each year, more than ten thousand of the Midwest's brightest take to the stage in cap and gown, armed with the knowledge,...  Read More >>

Universities and Strategic Knowledge Creation: Specialization and Performance in Europe

Universities and Strategic Knowledge Creation: Specialization...

Author: Andrea Bonaccorsi ,  Cinzia Daraio
ISBN: 9781847201102
Format: Hardback
$395.25

Although the role of universities in the knowledge society is increasingly significant, there remains a severe lack...  Read More >>

Teaching Pluralism in Economics

Teaching Pluralism in Economics

Author: John Groenewegen
ISBN: 9781845423056
Format: Hardback
$266.00

This volume is concerned with the different schools within the discipline of economics (theoretical pluralism) and...  Read More >>

Developing the Wise Doctor: A resource for trainers and trainees in MMC

Developing the Wise Doctor: A resource for trainers...

Author: Della Fish ,  Linda de Cossart (Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust, UK)
ISBN: 9781853156182
Format: Paperback
$182.16

This book offers a fresh and original approach to professional education and will be of enormous benefit for teaching...  Read More >>

International Perspectives on Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: Improving Knowledge and Practice

International Perspectives on Teaching Excellence in...

Author: Alan Skelton (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9780415403627
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Teaching Excellence in Higher Education provides a guide for all those supporting, promoting and trying to achieve...  Read More >>

Next 10 Actual Official Lsat Preptests

Next 10 Actual Official Lsat Preptests

Author: Lsat Series
ISBN: 9780979305054
Format: Paperback
$37.93

For pure practice at an unbelievable price, you can't beat the 10 Actual series. Each book includes: 10 previously...  Read More >>

Higher Education and the American Dream: Success and its Discontents

Higher Education and the American Dream: Success and...

Author: Marvin Lazerson (Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9789639776791
Format: Hardback
$105.60

The book delivers a penetrating, nuanced account of American universities in the twenty-first century. Tackles topics...  Read More >>

A Portrait of the University of Manchester

A Portrait of the University of Manchester

Author: Brian Pullan
ISBN: 9781903942499
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Edited by a leading authority on the subject, this illustrated volume offers a fascinating panorama of university...  Read More >>

Confessions of a Spoilsport: My Life and Hard Times Fighting Sports Corruption at an Old Eastern University

Confessions of a Spoilsport: My Life and Hard Times...

Author: William C. Dowling (Rutgers)
ISBN: 9780271032931
Format: Hardback
$58.99

Tells the story of an English professor who, having seen the University of New Mexico sink academically in the period...  Read More >>

The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabama

The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the...

Author: E.Culpepper Clark ,  Dan T. Carter
ISBN: 9780817354336
Format: Paperback
$68.64

Divided into two parts, this title presents a story that covers the period 1943-57, which centers on the admission...  Read More >>

The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabama

The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the...

Author: E.Culpepper Clark ,  Dan T. Carter
ISBN: 9780817315702
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Divided into two parts, this title presents a story that covers the period 1943-57, which centers on the admission...  Read More >>

The Economic Analysis of Universities: Strategic Groups and Positioning

The Economic Analysis of Universities: Strategic Groups...

Author: Susanne Warning
ISBN: 9781845428334
Format: Hardback
$247.00

Although the analysis is based on data for German publicly funded universities, however, the author’s conclusions...  Read More >>

Economics, Competition and Academia: An Intellectual History of Sophism versus Virtue

Economics, Competition and Academia: An Intellectual...

Author: Donald R. Stabile
ISBN: 9781847202369
Format: Hardback
$241.35

Donald Stabile places current concerns over the commercialization of academia in a historical context by describing...  Read More >>

A History of The Eclectic Society of Phi Nu Theta, 1837–1970

A History of The Eclectic Society of Phi Nu Theta, 1837–1970...

Author: William B.B. Moody
ISBN: 9780819568403
Format: Paperback
$79.20

The history of a unique New England fraternity  Read More >>

Managing God's Higher Learning: U.S.-China Cultural Encounter and Canton Christian College (Lingnan University), 1888-1952

Managing God's Higher Learning: U.S.-China Cultural...

Author: Dong Wang
ISBN: 9780739119358
Format: Hardback
$153.95

Argues that as the first co-educational institution of higher learning in China, Lingnan University found ways to...  Read More >>

The American Research University from World War II to World Wide Web: Governments, the Private Sector, and the Emerging Meta-University

The American Research University from World War II to...

Author: Charles M. Vest
ISBN: 9780520252530
Format: Hardback
$140.95

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Managing God's Higher Learning: U.S.-China Cultural Encounter and Canton Christian College (Lingnan University), 1888-1952

Managing God's Higher Learning: U.S.-China Cultural...

Author: Dong Wang
ISBN: 9780739119365
Format: Paperback
$64.95

Argues that as the first co-educational institution of higher learning in China, Lingnan University found ways to...  Read More >>

Destination Dissertation: A Traveler's Guide to a Done Dissertation

Destination Dissertation: A Traveler's Guide to a Done...

Author: Sonja K. Foss ,  William Waters
ISBN: 9780742554399
Format: Hardback
$219.12

Dissertations aren't walls to scale or battles to fight; they are destinations along the path to a professional...  Read More >>

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