Author: Gonda
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004645675
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Prajāpati's Rise to Higher Rank
Author: Gonda
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004645675
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004645675
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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A Collection of Letters addressed by Prelates and Individuals of High Rank in Scotland and by two Bishops of Sodor and Man to Sancroft Archbishop of Canterbury in the reigns of Kings Charles II. and James VII. Edited from originals in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. With explanatory and biographical notices by W. N. Clarke
Author: William Nelson CLARKE
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
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March's Thesaurus Dictionary
Author: Francis Andrew March
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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Wealth and Worth
Author: William Uhler Hensel
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Breaking Ranks
Author: Colin Diver
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421443066
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Some colleges will do anything to improve their national ranking. That can be bad for their students—and for higher education. Since U.S. News & World Report first published a college ranking in 1983, the rankings industry has become a self-appointed judge, declaring winners and losers among America's colleges and universities. In this revealing account, Colin Diver shows how popular rankings have induced college applicants to focus solely on pedigree and prestige, while tempting educators to sacrifice academic integrity for short-term competitive advantage. By forcing colleges into standardized "best-college" hierarchies, he argues, rankings have threatened the institutional diversity, intellectual rigor, and social mobility that is the genius of American higher education. As a former university administrator who refused to play the game, Diver leads his readers on an engaging journey through the mysteries of college rankings, admissions, financial aid, spending policies, and academic practices. He explains how most dominant college rankings perpetuate views of higher education as a purely consumer good susceptible to unidimensional measures of brand value and prestige. Many rankings, he asserts, also undermine the moral authority of higher education by encouraging various forms of distorted behavior, misrepresentation, and outright cheating by ranked institutions. The recent Varsity Blues admissions scandal, for example, happened in part because affluent parents wanted to get their children into elite schools by any means necessary. Explaining what is most useful and important in evaluating colleges, Diver offers both college applicants and educators a guide to pursuing their highest academic goals, freed from the siren song of the "best-college" illusion. Ultimately, he reveals how to break ranks with a rankings industry that misleads its consumers, undermines academic values, and perpetuates social inequality.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421443066
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Some colleges will do anything to improve their national ranking. That can be bad for their students—and for higher education. Since U.S. News & World Report first published a college ranking in 1983, the rankings industry has become a self-appointed judge, declaring winners and losers among America's colleges and universities. In this revealing account, Colin Diver shows how popular rankings have induced college applicants to focus solely on pedigree and prestige, while tempting educators to sacrifice academic integrity for short-term competitive advantage. By forcing colleges into standardized "best-college" hierarchies, he argues, rankings have threatened the institutional diversity, intellectual rigor, and social mobility that is the genius of American higher education. As a former university administrator who refused to play the game, Diver leads his readers on an engaging journey through the mysteries of college rankings, admissions, financial aid, spending policies, and academic practices. He explains how most dominant college rankings perpetuate views of higher education as a purely consumer good susceptible to unidimensional measures of brand value and prestige. Many rankings, he asserts, also undermine the moral authority of higher education by encouraging various forms of distorted behavior, misrepresentation, and outright cheating by ranked institutions. The recent Varsity Blues admissions scandal, for example, happened in part because affluent parents wanted to get their children into elite schools by any means necessary. Explaining what is most useful and important in evaluating colleges, Diver offers both college applicants and educators a guide to pursuing their highest academic goals, freed from the siren song of the "best-college" illusion. Ultimately, he reveals how to break ranks with a rankings industry that misleads its consumers, undermines academic values, and perpetuates social inequality.
Worth Doing
Author: Steven G. Smith
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791461051
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A comprehensive look at how we rely on ideals of worthy action in the pursuit of moral happiness.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791461051
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A comprehensive look at how we rely on ideals of worthy action in the pursuit of moral happiness.
The Sonnets
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521678374
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In his own time, Shakespeare was best known to the reading public as a poet, and even today copies of his Sonnets regularly outsell everything else he wrote. For this new edition, Stephen Orgel offers a warmly personal and original introduction to Shakespeare's best-loved and most widely read poems. Careful readings emphasize their sexual and temperamental ambiguity, their textual history and the special perils an editor faces when modernizing the original quarto's spelling, punctuation, and even layout. The edition retains the text of the Sonnets prepared by Gwynne Evans, together with his detailed notes on each, and a line-by-line commentary. Throughout, the 'voices' of the sonnets appear in all their intricacy and dramatic power.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521678374
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In his own time, Shakespeare was best known to the reading public as a poet, and even today copies of his Sonnets regularly outsell everything else he wrote. For this new edition, Stephen Orgel offers a warmly personal and original introduction to Shakespeare's best-loved and most widely read poems. Careful readings emphasize their sexual and temperamental ambiguity, their textual history and the special perils an editor faces when modernizing the original quarto's spelling, punctuation, and even layout. The edition retains the text of the Sonnets prepared by Gwynne Evans, together with his detailed notes on each, and a line-by-line commentary. Throughout, the 'voices' of the sonnets appear in all their intricacy and dramatic power.
The Peach-tree Borer
Author: Clifford Leslie McArthur
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Varieties of Cotton 1918
Author: W. E. Ayres
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Japanese Girls and Women
Author: Alice Mabel Bacon
Publisher:
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Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Publisher:
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Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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