Author: Percy Marks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Which Way Parnassus?
Author: Percy Marks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Making of the Modern University
Author: Julie A. Reuben
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226710203
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Based on extensive research at eight universities - Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Stanford, Michigan, and California at Berkeley - Reuben examines the aims of university reformers in the context of nineteenth-century ideas about truth. She argues that these educators tried to apply new scientific standards to moral education, but that their modernization efforts ultimately failed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226710203
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Based on extensive research at eight universities - Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Stanford, Michigan, and California at Berkeley - Reuben examines the aims of university reformers in the context of nineteenth-century ideas about truth. She argues that these educators tried to apply new scientific standards to moral education, but that their modernization efforts ultimately failed.
Which Way Parnassus?
Author: Percy Marks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Journalism Series
Author: University of Missouri
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Parnassus on Wheels
Author: Christopher Morley
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9359328715
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Christopher Morley's story "Parnassus on Wheels" is a joy. Helen McGill, a middle-aged spinster, has spent her life caring for her brother Andrew and their lucrative traveling bookshop known as "Parnassus." This book is classified as historical fiction, and it is a brilliant collection of ideas compacted into a single draft for readers of all ages to read. With an eye-catching new cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of "Parnassus on Wheels" is both current and legible. She, on the other hand, yearns for adventure and freedom. Helen's life takes an unexpected turn when Roger Mifflin, an interesting and strange story salesman, appears at her door with an offer to buy Parnassus. Fearing that her brother is wasting his life on the road, Helen decides to sell the bookstore and embark on her own creative trip. As she meets new people and navigates the world of bookselling, she rapidly realizes that living on the road can be both exciting and challenging. Helen and Roger form an unusual and touching friendship as they travel together, discovering not only literary delights but additionally the joys of company.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9359328715
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Christopher Morley's story "Parnassus on Wheels" is a joy. Helen McGill, a middle-aged spinster, has spent her life caring for her brother Andrew and their lucrative traveling bookshop known as "Parnassus." This book is classified as historical fiction, and it is a brilliant collection of ideas compacted into a single draft for readers of all ages to read. With an eye-catching new cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of "Parnassus on Wheels" is both current and legible. She, on the other hand, yearns for adventure and freedom. Helen's life takes an unexpected turn when Roger Mifflin, an interesting and strange story salesman, appears at her door with an offer to buy Parnassus. Fearing that her brother is wasting his life on the road, Helen decides to sell the bookstore and embark on her own creative trip. As she meets new people and navigates the world of bookselling, she rapidly realizes that living on the road can be both exciting and challenging. Helen and Roger form an unusual and touching friendship as they travel together, discovering not only literary delights but additionally the joys of company.
The Nation
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Climbing Parnassus
Author: Tracy Lee Simmons
Publisher: ISI Books
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"Tracy Lee Simmons readily concedes that there is little reason to hope for a widespread renascence in the teaching of Greek and Latin to our nation's schoolchildren. But he argues that, whatever its immediate prospects, an education in the classical languages is of inestimable personal and cultural value.".
Publisher: ISI Books
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"Tracy Lee Simmons readily concedes that there is little reason to hope for a widespread renascence in the teaching of Greek and Latin to our nation's schoolchildren. But he argues that, whatever its immediate prospects, an education in the classical languages is of inestimable personal and cultural value.".
Strabo's Geography
Author: Strabo
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691243123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1105
Book Description
A lively new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography—an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE—connecting it with the world of the twenty-first century Strabo’s Geography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world as it appeared to a contemporary observer in the early Roman empire. Information about taming elephants, collecting saffron, producing asphalt, and practicing yoga is found alongside accounts of prostitution, volcanic activity, religious festivals, and obscure eastern dynasties—all set against the shifting backdrop of political power in the first century CE. Traveling around the Mediterranean, Strabo gathered knowledge of places and people, supplementing his firsthand experiences with an immense amount of reading to create a sweeping chronicle that attempts to answer the implicit questions “Who are we?” and “Where do we come from?” Sarah Pothecary’s new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography makes this important work more accessible, relevant, and enjoyable than ever before. Conveying the informal, lively, and almost journalistic style of Strabo’s Greek, this translation connects the ancient and modern worlds by providing modern names and maps for places mentioned in the text, a generous page layout, and marginal notes, allowing readers to appreciate Strabo’s work directly and immediately. The result mimics what Strabo was doing two thousand years ago—relating the rapidly changing present of his original readers to their own ancient past. A remarkably modern translation of a revealing window on the ancient world, this is essential reading for anyone interested in how we look at both antiquity and the world today.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691243123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1105
Book Description
A lively new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography—an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE—connecting it with the world of the twenty-first century Strabo’s Geography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world as it appeared to a contemporary observer in the early Roman empire. Information about taming elephants, collecting saffron, producing asphalt, and practicing yoga is found alongside accounts of prostitution, volcanic activity, religious festivals, and obscure eastern dynasties—all set against the shifting backdrop of political power in the first century CE. Traveling around the Mediterranean, Strabo gathered knowledge of places and people, supplementing his firsthand experiences with an immense amount of reading to create a sweeping chronicle that attempts to answer the implicit questions “Who are we?” and “Where do we come from?” Sarah Pothecary’s new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography makes this important work more accessible, relevant, and enjoyable than ever before. Conveying the informal, lively, and almost journalistic style of Strabo’s Greek, this translation connects the ancient and modern worlds by providing modern names and maps for places mentioned in the text, a generous page layout, and marginal notes, allowing readers to appreciate Strabo’s work directly and immediately. The result mimics what Strabo was doing two thousand years ago—relating the rapidly changing present of his original readers to their own ancient past. A remarkably modern translation of a revealing window on the ancient world, this is essential reading for anyone interested in how we look at both antiquity and the world today.
A Handbook for Travellers in Greece
Author: John Murray (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
School of Nursing
Author: University of California, San Francisco. School of Nursing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nursing
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nursing
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description