Book Tower - Learning
Author | : Fiona Powers |
Publisher | : Book Tower |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 2018-12-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781784681807 |
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Author | : Fiona Powers |
Publisher | : Book Tower |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 2018-12-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781784681807 |
Author | : Fiona POWERS |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-12-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781784681791 |
Author | : Nykko |
Publisher | : Graphic Universe& 8482 |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2013-08-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1467715174 |
To stay alive and return home, Rebecca and her friends must strike the Master of Shadows at the source of his powers, a crumbling castle fiercely guarded by the Shadow Spies.
Author | : Jason Brennan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0190846283 |
Ideally, universities are centers of learning, in which great researchers dispassionately search for truth, no matter how unpopular those truths must be. The marketplace of ideas assures that truth wins out against bias and prejudice. Yet, many people worry that there's rot in the heart of thehigher education business.In Cracks in the Ivory Tower, libertarian scholars Jason Brennan and Philip Magness reveal the problems are even worse than anyone suspects. Marshalling an array of data, they systematically show how contemporary American universities fall short of these ideals and how bad incentives make faculty,administrators, and students act unethically. While universities may at times excel at identifying and calling out injustice outside their gates, Brennan and Magness contend that individuals are primarily guided by self-interest at every level. They find that the problems are deep and pervasive:most academic marketing and advertising is semi-fraudulent; colleges and individual departments regularly make promises they do not and cannot keep; and most students cheat a little, while many cheat a lot. Trenchant and wide-ranging, they elucidate the many ways in which faculty and students alikehave every incentive to make teaching and learning secondary.In this revealing expose, Brennan and Magness bring to light many of the ethical problems universities, faculties, and students currently face. In turn, they reshape our understanding of how such high-powered institutions run their business.
Author | : Page Publications |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-10-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781951086695 |
Author | : Davarian L Baldwin |
Publisher | : Bold Type Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1568588917 |
Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power—and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.
Author | : Jim O'Connor |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2016-05-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0451532775 |
Discover the true story of the Twin Towers—how they came to be the tallest buildings in the world and why they were destroyed. When the Twin Towers were built in 1973, they were billed as an architectural wonder. At 1,368 feet, they clocked in as the tallest buildings in the world and changed the New York City skyline dramatically. Offices and corporations moved into the towers—also known as the World Trade Center—and the buildings were seen as the economic hub of the world. But on September 11, 2001, a terrorist attack toppled the towers and changed our nation forever. Discover the whole story of the Twin Towers—from their ambitious construction to their tragic end.
Author | : Gill Kernick |
Publisher | : Do Sustainability |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2021-05-27 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1913019306 |
The Grenfell Tower tragedy was the worst residential fire in London since World War II. It killed seventy-two people in the richest borough of one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Like other catastrophic events before it and since, it has the power to bring about lasting change. But will it? The historical evidence is weighed against ‘lessons being learned’ in a meaningful or enduring way. In an attempt to understand why, despite enormous efforts, we persistently fail to learn from catastrophic events, this book uses the details of the Grenfell fire as a case study to consider why we don’t learn and what it would take to enable real systemic change. The book explores the myths, the key challenges and the conditions that inhibit learning, and it identifies opportunities to positively disrupt the status quo. It offers an accessible model for systemic change, not as a definitive solution but rather as a framework to evoke reflection, enquiry and proper debate. Catastrophe and Systemic Change is a must-read book for a wide range of readers including those interested in change management, leadership, policy-making, law, housing, construction and public safety.
Author | : Gretchen Day Willard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781949522761 |
Author | : Richard Paul Evans |
Publisher | : Aladdin |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781481431118 |
A young man wishes to be great. He believes he will achieve his goal only when everyone in the village looks up to him. So he constructs a wooden tower that reaches to the clouds, but soon he becomes lonely. One day a passing bird tells the young man of an old woman who is greater than he. So he descends from his tower and discovers the poor woman feeding a flock of birds. She shares the wisdom that "to be great is not to be higher than another, but to lift another higher." Only when he meets a lonely child who proudly holds himself apart does the young man finally see the truth of her words. With his feet at last on the ground, the young man commits an act of great generosity, achieving his wish in a way he never expected. Award-winning writer Richard Paul Evans creates a beautiful, simply told tale of humility with the same wisdom and masterful storytelling he has brought to his best-selling children's books, including The Christmas Candle, The Dance, and The Spyglass. Jonathan Linton's richly textured paintings bring to life a story to be embraced by readers young and old.