Comparing universities vs. liberal arts colleges

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  • Molecular Biology

    • ASIN: 0073525324
    • ISBN: 0073525324
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

    A Doody's Core Title for 2015.Molecular Biology, 5/e by Robert Weaver, is designed for an introductory course in molecular biology. Molecular Biology 5/e focuses on the fundamental concepts of molecular biology emphasizing experimentation. In particular author, Rob Weaver, focuses on the study of genes and their activities at the molecular level. T... [Read More]

  • You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education

    • ASIN: 031654888X
    • ISBN: 031654888X
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

    In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable choice for finding a successful post-grad career. Our de... [Read More]

  • Liberal Arts Colleges: Thriving, Surviving, or Endangered?

    • ASIN: 0815710615
    • ISBN: 0815710615
    • Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press

    Private liberal arts colleges provide high-quality undergraduate education, but their survival is in doubt. Some see the liberal arts as increasingly irrelevant in a world marked by growing demand for technical training. Others wonder how private colleges, many with few students and high tuitions, can compete successfully against heavily subsidized... [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]

  • Will Teach For Food: Academic Labor in Crisis (Studies in Classical Philology)

    • ASIN: 0816630348
    • ISBN: 0816630348
    • Manufacturer: Univ Of Minnesota Press

    Academic labor has never been more vulnerable to exploitation, or more galvanized into action. Threats to tenure, job shortages for new Ph.D.s, and an increasing reliance on poorly paid graduate students and adjunct faculty for teaching are the harsh reality on campuses across the nation. Will Teach for Food provides a clarion call to academic work... [Read More]

  • Is College Worth It?: A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education

    • ASIN: 1595552790
    • ISBN: 1595552790
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

    For many students, a bachelor's degree is considered the golden ticket to a more financially and intellectually fulfilling life. But the disturbing reality is that debt, unemployment, and politically charged pseudo learning are more likely outcomes for many college students today than full-time employment and time-honored knowledge.This raises the ... [Read More]

  • What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education

    • ASIN: 0393330702
    • ISBN: 0393330702
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    "A sensitive, sensible, and compelling account of American education at its best."―Philadelphia Inquirer Described as one of the "101 Most Dangerous Academics in America" by right-wing critic David Horowitz, Michael Bérubé has become a leading liberal voice in the ongoing culture wars. This "smooth and swift read" (New Criterion) offers a defin... [Read More]

  • Foundations of College Chemistry, Binder Ready Version

    • ASIN: 1119083907
    • ISBN: 1119083907
    • Manufacturer: Wiley

    This text is an unbound, three hole punched version.Used by over 750,000 students, Foundations of College Chemistry, Binder Ready Version, 15th Edition is praised for its accuracy, clear no-nonsense approach, and direct writing style. Foundations’ direct and straightforward explanations focus on problem solving making it the most dependable text ... [Read More]

  • The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great

    • ASIN: 0062857908
    • ISBN: 0062857908
    • Manufacturer: Broadside Books

    Now a #1 New York Times Bestseller.Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away?In 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California–Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required to protect his speech. What was so frightening... [Read More]

  • The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric

    • ASIN: 0967967503
    • ISBN: 0967967503
    • Brand: Paul Dry Books
    • Manufacturer: Paul Dry Books

    Who sets language policy today? Who made whom the grammar doctor? Lacking the equivalent of l'Académie française, we English speakers must find our own way looking for guidance or vindication in source after source. McGuffey's Readers introduced nineteenth-century students to "correct" English. Strunk and White's Elements of Style and William Saf... [Read More]

  • A Student's Guide to the Liberal Arts

    • ASIN: 1886761280
    • ISBN: 1886761280
    • Brand: Brand: Fordham University Press
    • Manufacturer: Rockhurst University Press

    Written by seasoned faculty from several arts colleges and universities around the country, A Student’s Guide to the Liberal Arts is an accessible and straightforward introduction to the humanities for students coming into contact with college level study for the first time. The book is especially designed for freshman seminar programs at any lib... [Read More]

  • If Being a Physics Teacher Was Easy They'd Call It Liberal Arts: Blank Journal Lined 6x9 Notebook Paper For Diary Entries Or School Notes

    • ASIN: 1092750673
    • ISBN: 1092750673
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    This 6x9 college ruled lined paper notebook is great for taking notes at school or at home making journal entries. Track your progress with you career with this handy notebook!

  • Black Rednecks and White Liberals

    • ASIN: 1594031436
    • ISBN: 1594031436
    • Brand: Brand: Encounter Books
    • Manufacturer: Encounter Books

    This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also such h... [Read More]

  • If Being a Physicist Was Easy They'd Call It Liberal Arts: Blank Journal Lined 6x9 Notebook Paper For Diary Entries Or School Notes

    • ASIN: 1092736077
    • ISBN: 1092736077
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    This 6x9 college ruled lined paper notebook is great for taking notes at school or at home making journal entries. Track your progress with you career with this handy notebook!

  • Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals

    • UPC: 783324849394
    • ASIN: 0679721134
    • ISBN: 0679721134
    • Brand: Saul Alinsky
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, t... [Read More]

  • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

    • ASIN: 0451493249
    • ISBN: 9780451493248
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

    The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today’s news.Former New York Times columnist... [Read More]

  • Taking Teaching Seriously: How Liberal Arts Colleges Prepare Teachers to Meet Today's Educational Challenges in Schools

    • ASIN: 1594513635
    • ISBN: 1594513635
    • Brand: Brand: Paradigm Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

    "This highly readable book contains important lessons for us all." -Katherine Schultz, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania Taking Teaching Seriously expands and enriches discussions about teacher preparation in the United States. Its authors describe the unique contexts for teacher preparation offered by liberal arts institutio... [Read More]

  • The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978--1979 (Lectures at the College de France)

    • UPC: 884189634702
    • ASIN: 0312203411
    • ISBN: 0312203411
    • Brand: Picador USA
    • Manufacturer: Picador

    Picador is proud to publish the sixth volume in Foucault's prestigious, groundbreaking series of lectures at the Collège de France from 1970 to 1984 The Birth of Biopolitics continues to pursue the themes of Foucault's lectures from Security, Territory, Population. Having shown how eighteenth-century political economy marks the birth of a new gov... [Read More]

  • The Community College and the Good Society: How the Liberal Arts were Undermined and What we can do to Bring them Back

    • ASIN: 1412813433
    • ISBN: 1412813433
    • Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers

    The community college is the largest single sector of the U.S. higher education network. As of 2005, 40 percent of newly enrolled undergraduate students attended community colleges. The American two-year school is a vast, rapidly changing, and under-studied institution. The aim of The Community College and the Good Society is tocritically analyze t... [Read More]

  • An Inside View of Student Life at a Liberal Arts College

    • ASIN: 0773496343
    • ISBN: 0773496343
    • Brand: Brand: Edwin Mellen Pr
    • Manufacturer: Edwin Mellen Pr

    Book by Durst, Maribeth, Schaeffer, E. Marilyn

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