Reimagining higher education around the world: lessons from the creation of eight new colleges and universities in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North America Higher education is perpetually in crisis, buffeted by increasing costs and a perceived lack of return on investment, campus culture that is criticized for stifling debate on controversial topics, and a growing sense that the liberal arts are outmoded and irrelevant. Some observers even put higher education on the brink of death. The New Global Universities offers a counterargument, telling the story of educational leaders who have chosen not to give up on higher education but to reimagine it. The book chronicles the development and launch of eight innovative colleges and universities in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North America, describing the combination of intellectual courage, entrepreneurial audacity, and adaptive leadership needed to invent educational institutions today. The authors, both academic leaders who have been invol
《吾国与吾民》My?Country?and?My?People又名《中国人》，是林语堂在西方文坛的成名作与代表作。该用坦率幽默的笔调、睿智通达的语言娓娓道出了中国人的道德、精神状态与向往，以及中国的社会、文艺与生活情趣。? ????该书将中国人的性格、心灵、理想、生活、政治、社会、艺术剖析得非常美妙，并与西方人的性格，理想、生活等做了相应的广泛深入的比较，在海内外引起轰动，美国许多知名人士推崇备至。被译成多种文字，在世界各国广泛流传。
The unparalleled career of the Little Tramp Charles Chaplin’s Little Tramp is the supreme icon of motion pictures—still recognized and loved throughout the world, more than 90 years since he first burst on the screen. The shabby little figure—with derby hat, too-tight jacket, oversized boots and pants, dandified bow tie, and swagger cane—seemed to symbolize the hopes and fears, defeats and optimism of all humanity. Chaplin’s own biography was a rags-to-riches story that saw the product of a destitute childhood in Victorian London become one of Hollywood’s first millionaires and the owner of his own studio before he was 30. His supreme gift was to transform his experience and knowledge of the human lot into comedy, for which his invention and skill have never been surpassed.
It is evident that urban education has become the central focus of educators at the present time. In the U.S., for example, almost one third of all school age children attend schools in large urban school districts. It is in these urban schools where the diversity of cultures and languages is highest and where student learning is most problematic. What has emerged from recent work to improve urban schools is the insight that there is no one-size-fits-all panacea. Rather, we have discovered that the local context shapes, in critically important ways, what will be effective at the school level. The universality of the problematics with urban education, together with the importance of understanding the local, or situated, context of improvement interventions, brings into sharp focus the importance and timeliness of an undertaking like the International Handbook of Urban Education. An important focus of the International Handbook of Urban Education will be the interrogation of both the social and poli
With the current push toward educational reform, there is great potential for innovation and change, particularly in large-scale testing. One area where change is possible is in cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA). Researchers in educational measurement and cognitive psychology are finally in a position to design tests targeted specifically to providing valuable information about students' cognitive strengths and weaknesses. This book organizes into one volume what is known about CDA in education, including its conceptual and philosophical basis, methods, and applications. The complete list of topics includes educational demand, philosophical rationale, construct validity, cognitive methods, test construction, statistical models, and unresolved issues (e.g., how to best translate diagnostic information into teaching practices). The book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date examination of CDA in education.
Touted as a "handbook on the most subtle and effective form of power" and "an indispensable primer on how to take what you want from whomever you want," this book is more than a little creepy. Following on the heels of his 48 Laws of Power, this book continues Greene's gross exploration of social power, this time in the realm of sexual politics. In Part 1, Greene, again paired with "packager" Joost Elffers (Play with Your Food), offers a straight-faced de*ion of the nine types of seductive character, from the "Ideal Lover" to the "Rake." Elffers's contribution comes in the form of numerous quotes by famous contemporary and historical figures tucked into the side margins. Part 2 examines the process of seduction, subdivided into four phases, with chapter headings such as "Master the Art of Insinuation" and "Isolate the Victim." This book will have real appeal for power mongers, gold diggers, and heartless manipulators everywhere. Books such as Beverley East's Finding Mr. Write (LJ 5/1/00) and Jama Clark's What
Societies function on the basis of rules. These rules, ratherlike the rules of the road, coordinate the activities ofindividuals who have a variety of goals and purposes. Whether therules work well or ill, and how they can be made to work better, isa matter of major concern. Appropriately interpreted, the workingof social rules is also the central subject matter of modernpolitical economy. This book is about rules - what they are, howthey work, and how they can be properly analysed. The authors'objective is to understand the workings of alternative politicalinstitutions so that choices among such institutions (rules) can bemore fully informed. Thus, broadly defined, the methodology ofconstitutional political economy is the subject matter of TheReason of Rules. The authors have examined how rules for politicalorder work, how such rules might be chosen, and how normativecriteria for such choices might be established.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Audrey Style comes a charming guide to Audrey Hepburn inspired living for the modern woman Audrey Hepburn epitomized grace and style, not only in her appearance but in her very essence. Whether in fashion, relationships, her work on the screen, or for UNICEF and her home life, there is no one more worthy of imitation. How did she do it? What Would Audrey Do? is the answer: a complete Audrey primer, with rich anecdotes and insight from the people who knew her best, and Audrey-inspired lessons in loveliness, including: · Dating advice from the woman who enjoyed romances with John F. Kennedy, William Holden, and Albert Finney · What made her an icon, and how to apply her style choices to twenty-first-century clothes, makeup, and accessories · Raising children, trying to raise husbands, and making home life balanced in every way · How to travel, what to pack, and maintaining your cool on the road · Using renown (lon
Do you expect to find articles about mathematics in your dailynewspaper? If you are a reader of The Guardian you do, or at leastyou did during the second half of the 1980s. This volume collectsmany of the columns Keith Devlin wrote for The Guardian. Read themand assign them to your students to read. This is a book fordelving in, and is accessible to anyone with an interest in thingsmathematical. Devlin takes mathematical discoveries and explainsthem to the interested lay reader. The topics range from computerdiscoveries dealing with large prime numbers to much deeperresults, such as Fermat's Last Theorem. You will find articles onthe traveling salesman problem, on cryptology, and on proceduresfor working out claims for traveling expenses. Although theindividual pieces are short and easily read, many containreferences to mathematical articles and can form the basis forstudent research papers.
The Cambridge Companion to Socrates is a collection of essaysproviding a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greekphilosopher. Because Socrates himself wrote nothing, our evidencecomes from the writings of his friends (above all Plato), hisenemies, and later writers. Socrates is thus a literary figure aswell as a historical person. Both aspects of Socrates' legacy arecovered in this volume. Socrates' character is full of paradox, andso are his philosophical views. These paradoxes have led to deepdifferences in scholars' interpretations of Socrates and histhought. Mirroring this wide range of thought about Socrates, thisvolume's contributors are unusually diverse in their background andperspective. The essays in this volume were authored by classicalphilologists, philosophers and historians from Germany, FrancophoneCanada, Britain and the United States, and they represent a rangeof interpretive and philosophical traditions.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy takes itsreaders into one of the most exciting periods in the history ofphilosophy. It spans a millennium of thought extending fromAugustine to Thomas Aquinas and beyond. It includes not only thethinkers of the Latin West but also the profound contributions ofIslamic and Jewish thinkers such as Avicenna and Maimonides.Leading specialists examine what it was like to do philosophy inthe cultures and institutions of the Middle Ages and engage all theareas in which medieval philosophy flourished, including languageand logic, the study of God and being, natural philosophy, humannature, morality, and politics. The discussion is supplemented withchronological charts, biographies of the major thinkers, and aguide to the transmission and translation of medieval texts. Thevolume will be invaluable for all who are interested in thephilosophical thought of this period.
A timely and profound anthology from the national bestselling author of Black, White and Jewish. Representing a stunning range of essayists and novelists, both men and women, this groundbreaking anthology boldly confronts the complications, possibilities, uncertainties, and joys of being a man in the 21st century.
Richard Wagner is remembered as one of the most influentialfigures in music and theatre, but his place in history has beenmarked by a considerable amount of controversy. His attitudestowards the Jews and the appropriation of his operas by the Nazis,for example, have helped to construct a historical persona thatsits uncomfortably with modern sensibilities. Yet Wagner'sabsolutely central position in the operatic canon continues. Thisvolume serves as a timely reminder of his ongoing musical,cultural, and political impact. Contributions by specialists fromsuch varied fields as musical history, German literature andcultural studies, opera production, and political science considera range of topics, from trends and problems in the history of stageproduction to the representations of gender and sexuality. With theinclusion of invaluable and reliably up-to-date biographical data,this collection will be of great interest to scholars, students,and enthusiasts.
Maitena, the beloved chronicler of her generation's angst and obsessions, made her English language debut with Volumes 1 and 2 of her wise and razor-sharp comic strip, Women on the Edge.
A flexible, ready-to-use activities program to help specialstudents in grades 6-12 The updated new edition of this valuable resource offers anexciting collection of 200 ready-to-use worksheets to helpadolescents build the social skills they need to interacteffectively with others and learn how to apply these skills tovarious real-life settings, situations, and problems. The bookprovides 20 complete teaching units focusing on 20 basic socialskills, such as being a good listener, "reading" other people, andusing common sense.
Ireland has rarely been out of the news during the past thirtyyears. Whether as a war-zone in which Catholic nationalists andProtestant Unionists struggled for supremacy, a case study inconflict resolution or an economy that for a time promised to makethe Irish among the wealthiest people on the planet, the twoIrelands have truly captured the world's imagination. Yetsingle-volume histories of Ireland are rare. Here, Thomas Bartlett,one of the country's leading historians, sets out a fascinating newhistory that ranges from prehistory to the present. Integratingpolitics, society and culture, he offers an authoritativehistorical road map that shows exactly how – and why – Ireland,north and south, arrived at where it is today. This is anindispensable guide to both the legacies of the past for Ireland'spresent and to the problems confronting north and south in thecontemporary world.
If there is a movement or school that epitomizes analyticphilosophy in the middle of the twentieth century, it is logicalempiricism. Logical empiricists created a scientifically andtechnically informed philosophy of science, establishedmathematical logic as a topic in and tool for philosophy, andinitiated the project of formal semantics. Accounts of analyticphilosophy written in the middle of the twentieth century gavelogical empiricism a central place in the project. The second waveof interpretative accounts was constructed to show how philosophyshould progress, or had progressed, beyond logical empiricism. Theessays survey the formative stages of logical empiricism in centralEurope and its acculturation in North America, discussing its maintopics, and achievements and failures, in different areas ofphilosophy of science, and assessing its influence on philosophy,past, present, and future.
This book introduces the Age of Justinian, the last Romancentury and the first flowering of Byzantine culture. Dominated bythe policies and personality of emperor Justinian I (527–565), thisperiod of grand achievements and far-reaching failures witnessedthe transformation of the Mediterranean world. In this volume,twenty specialists explore the most important aspects of the ageincluding the mechanics and theory of empire, warfare, urbanism,and economy. It also discusses the impact of the great plague, thecodification of Roman law, and the many religious upheavals takingplace at the time. Consideration is given to imperial relationswith the papacy, northern barbarians, the Persians, and othereastern peoples, shedding new light on a dramatic and highlysignificant historical period.
In 1959 C. P. Snow delivered his now-famous Rede Lecture, "TheTwo Cultures," a reflection on the academy based on the premisethat intellectual life was divided into two cultures: the arts andhumanities on one side and science on the other. Since then, athird culture, generally termed "social science" and comprised offields such as sociology, political science, economics, psychology,and anthropology, has emerged. Jerome Kagan"s book describes theassumptions, vocabulary, and contributions of each of thesecultures and argues that the meanings of many of the concepts usedby each culture are unique to it and do not apply to the othersbecause the source of evidence for the term is special. The textsummarizes the contributions of the social sciences and humanitiesto our understanding of human nature and questions the popularbelief that biological processes are the main determinant ofvariation in human behavior.
Alfred Tarski, one of the greatest logicians of all time, iswidely thought of as 'the man who defined truth'. His work on theconcepts of truth and logical consequence are cornerstones ofmodern logic, influencing developments in mathematics, philosophy,linguistics, and computer science. Tarski was a charismatic teacherand zealous promoter of his view of logic as the foundation of allrational thought, a bon vivant and a womanizer, who played the'great man' to the hilt. Born in Warsaw in 1901 to Jewish parents,he changed his name and converted to Catholicism but was never ableto obtain a professorship in his home country. A fortuitous trip tothe United States at the outbreak of World War II saved his lifeand turned his career around, even while it separated him from hisfamily for years. By the war's end he was established as aprofessor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.There Tarski built an empire in logic and methodology thatattracted students and distinguished researchers from all over
The Arctic islands are characterised by beautiful mountainsand glaciers, in which the wildlife lives in delicate balance withits environment. It is a region with a long history of explorationand exploitation by humans, now experiencing rapid environmentalchange. All of these themes are explored in Islands of the Arctic,richly illustrated with superb photographs from the Canadian ArcticArchipelago, Greenland, Svalbard and the Russian Arctic. It beginswith the various processes shaping the landscape: glaciers, riversand coastal processes, the role of ice in the oceans and theweather and climate. The flora and fauna are described, and thehuman impact on this fragile region; from the sustainable approachof the Inuit, to the devastating damage inflicted by hunters and inthe cause of military security. Finally, the future prospects ofthe region are considered. This book will be enjoyed by anyone withan interest in remote landscapes.
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic examines allaspects of Roman history and civilization from 509–49 BC. The keydevelopment of the republican period was Rome's rise from a smallcity to a wealthy metropolis and international capital of anextensive Mediterranean empire. These centuries produced theclassic republican political system and the growth of a worldempire. They also witnessed the disintegration of this system underthe pressure of internal dissension and boundless ambition of itsleading politicians. In this Companion volume, distinguishedEuropean and American scholars present a variety of livelyapproaches to understanding the political, military, and socialaspects of Roman history, as well as its literary and visualculture. Designed to be accessible to the general reader and tostudents, The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic will invitefurther exploration to a vital, formative period of Roman historyand its later influence.
