Comparing universities vs. liberal arts colleges

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  • Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges

    • ASIN: 0143122304
    • ISBN: 0143122304
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    The groundbreaking guide to the 40 best colleges you've never heard of—colleges that will change your lifeChoosing the right college has never been more important—or more difficult. For the latest edition of this classic college guide, Hilary Masell Oswald conducted her own tours of top schools and in-depth interviews, building on Loren Pope's ... [Read More]

  • The Best Kind of College: An Insiders' Guide to America's Small Liberal Arts Colleges

    • ASIN: 1438457723
    • ISBN: 1438457723
    • Manufacturer: SUNY Press

    Small college professors from across the United States explain why liberal arts institutions remain the gold standard for higher education.The fevered controversy over America’s educational future isn’t simply academic; those who have proposed sweeping reforms include government officials, politicians, foundation officers, think-tank researcher... [Read More]

  • Basic Economics

    • ASIN: 0465060730
    • ISBN: 9780465060733
    • Brand: Basic Books
    • Manufacturer: Basic Books

    The bestselling citizen's guide to economicsBasic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Bestselling economist Thomas Sowell explains the general principles underlying different economic systems: capitalist, socialist, feudal, and so on... [Read More]

  • Signs and Symbols: An Illustrated Guide to Their Origins and Meanings

    • UPC: 690472033936
    • ASIN: 0756633931
    • ISBN: 0756633931
    • Brand: Dorling Kindersley, Inc.
    • Manufacturer: DK

    Discover the fascinating origins and meanings of over 2,000 signs and symbols from mythology and religion to astrology and ancient tribes in this comprehensive guide.For centuries, symbols have been imperative throughout the world, signifying ideas, relationships, and objects across different cultures. Find out why a flag at half mast is a symbol o... [Read More]

  • Ulysses (The Gabler Edition)

    • ASIN: 0394743121
    • ISBN: 0394743121
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom

    • ASIN: B00B77UDWU
    • Manufacturer: Amazon Publishing

    In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, Ilgunas undertook a three-year transcontinental jou... [Read More]

  • Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It

    • ASIN: 081572912X
    • ISBN: 081572912X
    • Brand: Brookings Institution Press
    • Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press

    America is becoming a class-based society.It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent—especially the top 0.01 percent—and how the ultra-rich are concentrating income and prosperity while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the most important, consequential, and widening gap in American society is bet... [Read More]

  • Born to Be Wild: Why Teens Take Risks, and How We Can Help Keep Them Safe

    • ASIN: 0143129791
    • ISBN: 0143129791
    • Brand: TarcherPerigee
    • Manufacturer: TarcherPerigee

    A groundbreaking, research-based guide that sheds new light on why young people make dangerous choices--and offers solutions that workTexting while driving. Binge-drinking. Unprotected sex. There are plenty of reasons for parents to worry about getting a late-night call about their teen. But most of the advice parents and educators hear about teens... [Read More]

  • Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History

    • ASIN: 0385529961
    • ISBN: 0385529961
    • Brand: Taibbi, Matt
    • Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

    A brilliantly illuminating and darkly comic tale of the ongoing financial and political crisis in America. The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The grifter class—made up of the largest players in the financial industry and the politicians who do their bidding—has been growing in power, and the crisis was only o... [Read More]

  • Distinctively American: The Residential Liberal Arts Colleges

    • ASIN: 0765807211
    • ISBN: 0765807211
    • Brand: Brand: Transaction Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers

    There is much change underway in American higher education. New technologies are challenging the teaching practices of yesterday, distance learning is lauded, and private firms offer to certify the educational credentials that businesses and others will deem satisfactory. In this new environment, America's liberal arts colleges propound a quite dif... [Read More]

  • A Reference Grammar of Modern Hebrew (Reference Grammars)

    • ASIN: 0521527333
    • ISBN: 9780521527330
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    This organized, accessible guide to all aspects of contemporary Hebrew grammar presents the basic structures of the language. It uses a minimum of specialized linguistic terminology to analyze grammatical categories, phrases, expressions, and the construction of clauses and sentences. Verb and noun tables are provided as well as a comprehensive ind... [Read More]

  • Scales on War: The Future of America's Military at Risk

    • ASIN: B01KINPLFC
    • Manufacturer: Naval Institute Press

    Scales on War is a collection of ideas, concepts and observations about contemporary war taken from over 30 years of research, writing and personal experience by retired Major General Bob Scales. The book melds Scales’ unique style of writing that includes contemporary military history, current events and his philosophy of ground warfare to creat... [Read More]

  • How Will I Know You?: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01DSTTSIY
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

    SOMETIMES THE SMALLEST MISTAKES ARE THE DEADLIEST.A People Magazine "Book of the Week.""Jessica Treadway draws her characters into an impossible knot and then expertly teases apart...kept me up half the night." - Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of CommonwealthFans of Reconstructing Amelia will love this pulse-pounding novel of myste... [Read More]

  • Merriam-Webster's Everyday Language Reference Set

    • ASIN: 0877798753
    • ISBN: 0877798753
    • Brand: Merriam-Webster
    • Manufacturer: Merriam-Webster Mass Market

    An attractive, affordable reference set. Includes The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, and Merriam-Webster's New Vocabulary Builder. The perfect tool for students who need authoritative resources at their fingertips.

  • On Turpentine Lane

    • ASIN: B01912OYK4
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    “Light and tight, On Turpentine Lane is constructed with an almost scary mastery.”—New York Times Book Review “A diverting delight.”—People   “[Lipman] has a way of crafting books so utterly charming that you want to set up residence inside them…On Turpentine Lane quickly becomes a friend.”—Seattle Times   At thirty-two, Fait... [Read More]

  • Colleges of Distinction 2018

    • ASIN: B076RP9VQ3

    Discover the School That's Right For YouIn Colleges of Distinction 2018, you'll find a college and university reference guidebook like no other. Not only are there full-page profiles for over 300 schools, but you'll also learn what qualifies a school as a College of Distinction, what questions students and parents should ask on a campus tour, and h... [Read More]

  • Mistakes I Made at Work: 25 Influential Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting It Wrong

    • ASIN: B00FX7LUUO
    • Manufacturer: Plume

    High-achieving women share their worst mistakes at work--and how learning from them paved the way to success. Named by Fast Company as a "Top 10 Book You Need to Read This Year."In Mistakes I Made at Work, a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Business Book for Spring 2014, Jessica Bacal interviews twenty-five successful women about their t... [Read More]

  • The Developing Genome: An Introduction to Behavioral Epigenetics

    • UPC: 884582940011
    • ASIN: 0199922349
    • ISBN: 0199922349
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Why do we grow up to look, act, and feel as we do? Through most of the twentieth century, scientists and laypeople answered this question by referring to two factors alone: our experiences and our genes. But recent discoveries about how genes work have revealed a new way to understand the developmental origins of our characteristics. These discover... [Read More]

  • The Feminist Classroom: Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Privilege

    • ASIN: 0742509974
    • ISBN: 0742509974
    • Brand: Brand: Rowman n Littlefield Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

    The issues explored in The Feminist Classroom are as timely and controversial today as they were when the book first appeared six years ago. This expanded edition offers new material that rereads and updates previous chapters, including a major new chapter on the role of race. The authors offer specific new classroom examples of how assumptions of ... [Read More]

  • Freshmints: Briggeman College: Year One

    • ASIN: 1732337500
    • ISBN: 1732337500
    • Manufacturer: Vista Pastori Press

    Small-town girl, Libby Ross, is underprepared for the challenges of college life and nearly dies during orientation. She is saved many times by her more worldly and confident roommate, Rebecca. Together they navigate the new world of fraternities, performances, class schedules, and boys.Their friendship is tested when Rebecca begins acting strangel... [Read More]

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