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Climbing the Ivory Tower

Author : Kathy English
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462006337
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Climbing the Ivory Tower written by Kathy English and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about two women in their early fifties who decide to return to graduate school to work toward a Ph.D. in musicology. They don't know one another, they don't have any idea how taxing it will be, and they have been out of touch with recent scholarship. One of the women has five children and the other has two, but all are frisky and imaginative kids who keep up their antics to their mothers' despair. Their tales of adjustment to academic life, their interaction with the professors and classmates, and their attempt to survive confrontations with their children are sometimes hilarious and sometimes tragic, to say nothing of the medical obstacle that bars their path.

Scaling the Ivory Tower

Author : Mary Beth Averill
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781794609303
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Scaling the Ivory Tower written by Mary Beth Averill and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We wrote this book because so many academics find it daunting to navigate the search for an academic position. The workbook is designed with 58 worksheets and checklists dealing with everything from the imposter syndrome to crafting a cover letter that tells your unique story. Checklists are available for items to consider when crafting cover letters, interviews (whether on the telephone, by video or in person), and negotiating an offer. It was created to help newly minted academics, as well as those who may want to move laterally, to handle the pragmatic aspects of the job search. The information and necessary skills for this process are generally not taught in graduate school.The book is organized in seven essential sections: Part 1 introduces the academic job search cycle and outlines the various categories for hires. Part 2 helps you stay on top of your academic job search, from where to look to publishing plans.Part 3 give you various ways to organize and track your job search applications. Part 4 outlines the ten important pieces of your academic job search portfolio, and offers examples or templates for those elements. Part 5 presents the ins and outs of your academic job search interview, including handling conference, video and on site visits. Part 6 looks at additional considerations including some statistics on the academic job market and alternatives to the professoriate. Part 7 concludes by recapping some of the most important items to consider as you go through a month by month academic job search process.This book was developed by two coaches who have a combined work experience of over 40 years with academic clients who are unfamiliar with the nuts and bolts of seeking an academic position. The workbook offers real life up-to-date examples of the job search process from the applicant's point of view and is designed to reduce anxiety through concrete exercises and demystify the academic job search process.

Cracks in the Ivory Tower

Author : Jason Brennan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190846283
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Cracks in the Ivory Tower written by Jason Brennan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Why We Climb

Author : Chris Noble
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149301854X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Why We Climb written by Chris Noble and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why We Climb is a celebration, in word and image, of those aspects of the climbing life that are most universal, meaningful, and long lasting— the strong connection to partners and nature; the physical and mental mastery required (and how to achieve it); the rewards of exploring oneself and the world through climbing. Through interviews with some of North America’s most notable climbers the book undertakes a quest to find the soul of climbing— asking what compels men and women to dedicate their lives to the challenges and deprivations of living in a vertical world? What are the sacrifices and what are the rewards? And most importantly, can the lessons learned on cliff faces, frozen waterfalls, and alpine peaks— lessons of respect, discipline, commitment, humility and simplicity—be brought home and used to benefit society as a whole?

Rock Climbing Joshua Tree West

Author : Randy Vogel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493083120
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Rock Climbing Joshua Tree West written by Randy Vogel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joshua Tree National Park is the most popular rock climbing area in the world--and for good reason. When other climbing locales are buried in snow, Josh is basking in Southern California sunshine. Thousands of sport and traditional routes on park's distinctive domes offer climbers of all abilities endless variety, from classic, well-protected cracks to delicate friction faces and edgy vertical testpieces. Excellent bouldering abounds, and superb camping in the beautiful, high-desert environment encourages extended stays. Simply put, no climber's career is complete without at least one trip to Joshua Tree, and many people find themselves returning year after year. Rock Climbing Joshua Tree West is the first of two volumes that together replace Rock Climbing Joshua Tree, published in 1992 and 1986. Covering climbs in the western half of the park, completely revised and with thoroughly updated route information, and extensively illustrated, it's the climber's comprehensive and indispensable guide to the area.

Taliaferro

Author : Dawn K. Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780253219312
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Taliaferro written by Dawn K. Knight and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 2003 I became the first African American head coach of the Indianapolis Colts-fifty years after George had become the Colt's first African American quarterback. Every African American in the NFL today owes a debt of gratitude to George, and I am thrilled that his story is now finally being told." Book jacket.

The Ivory Tower and the Marble Citadel

Author : Thomas A Metzger
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 : 9629964880
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Ivory Tower and the Marble Citadel written by Thomas A Metzger and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ivory Tower and the Marble Citadel opens up a new way of pursuing the critical development of political philosophy in today's intercultural intellectual arena. Metzger holds that political philosophies are linguistically unavoidable efforts to infer the principles of morally legitimate government from a maximally enlightened conceptualization of the universal human condition. Because these efforts depend on a vocabulary embodying culturally inherited premises, textual analysis uncovering these premises and debate about how they should be revised are crucial for the improvement of political philosophy.

Climbing The Bookshelves

Author : Shirley Williams
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 0748116125
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Climbing The Bookshelves written by Shirley Williams and published by Virago. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'That politics was the most exciting of all the exciting things in the world I never doubted' Shirley Williams was born to politics. As well as being influenced by her mother, Vera Brittan, her father George Catlin, a leading political scientist, encouraged his daughter to have high ambitions for herself - including daring to climb the bookshelves in his library. Elected as MP for Hitchin in 1964, she was a member of the Wilson and Callaghan governments and was also the Secretary of State for Education. As one of the 'Gang of Four' Shirley Williams famously broke away from the Labour Party to found the SDP in 1981 and later supported its merger with the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats. This is her story. Praise for Climbing the Bookshelves 'Very few politicians are loved, but Shirley Williams was one' Independent 'She speaks human, which is a surprisingly rare political talent' Guardian 'Decent, sensible, honest and endearing, this book is Shirley Williams to a T' The Times

The Image of Women in Contemporary Soviet Fiction

Author : trans
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349203718
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book The Image of Women in Contemporary Soviet Fiction written by trans and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-11-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this collection portray Soviet women of different ages and educational backgrounds at home and at work, in cities and villages. Their themes reflect the social changes in Soviet life in the past 20 years, and are aimed to stimulate inquiry into social and feminist issues.

Man in the Ivory Tower

Author : Stanley Brice Frost
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773562699
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Man in the Ivory Tower written by Stanley Brice Frost and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the course of a serendipitous career -- from a working-class home in London, England, where he was born shortly after the turn of the century, to his death there in 1973 -- the James story sheds light on student and professional life at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1920s, on economic and political changes in the US during the turbulent thirties, and on the development of the US banking industry in one of its most critical periods. James was invited to McGill to direct the School of Commerce but was almost immediately appointed Principal. He guided the university through the constricting years of war and, as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Reconstruction, made a major contribution to the ground-plan of Canada's national welfare system. During the post-war years he inspired McGill's response to the knowledge explosion of the forties and fifties and to the huge growth in demand for higher education. He also masterminded the successful endeavour of the National Conference to secure federal funding for all Canadian universities. A great traveller, James played a major role in the Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth, as well as in the International Association of Universities, of which he was elected President in 1960. As James' literary executor, Stanley Frost had privileged access to his private papers and has made full use of the opportunity to reveal the complexity of James' personality: his brilliance of mind, high ideals, and acute self-knowledge, as well as his deep-rooted sense of insecurity and his strange inhibitions in personal relationships. The privileged person in the Ivory Tower emerges in these pages as a very human one.

Rock Climbing Colorado

Author : Stewart M. Green
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762763442
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Rock Climbing Colorado written by Stewart M. Green and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the only guide available that covers all the major climbing areas in the state with routes ranging from 5.0 to 5.14.

Rock Climbing Joshua Tree

Author : Randy Vogel
Publisher : Falcon Guides
ISBN 13 : 9780934641302
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Rock Climbing Joshua Tree written by Randy Vogel and published by Falcon Guides. This book was released on 1992 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of sport and traditional routes on the myriad golden domes offer climbers of all abilities endless variety

Literature and Transformation

Author : Thor Magnus Tangerås
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785272950
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Transformation written by Thor Magnus Tangerås and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a method called intimate reading to investigate how ordinary readers are deeply moved by what they read, and the transformative impact such experiences have on their sense of self. The book presents unique narratives of such experiences and suggests a theory of transformative affective patterns that may form the basis of an affective literary theory.

Wise Latinas

Author : Jennifer De Leon
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803245939
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Wise Latinas written by Jennifer De Leon and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wise Latinas" is a collection of personal essays addressing the varied landscape of the Latina experience in higher education. -- back cover.

Climbing

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Climbing written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Airman's Guide

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Airman's Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hangdog Days

Author : Jeff Smoot
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1680512331
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Hangdog Days written by Jeff Smoot and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fast-paced history-cum-memoir about rock climbing in the wild-and-wooly ’80s Highlights ground-breaking achievements from the era Hangdog Days vividly chronicles the era when rock climbing exploded in popularity, attracting a new generation of talented climbers eager to reach new heights via harder routes and faster ascents. This contentious, often entertaining period gave rise to sport climbing, climbing gyms, and competitive climbing--indelibly transforming the sport. Jeff Smoot was one of those brash young climbers, and here he traces the development of traditional climbing “rules,” enforced first through peer pressure, then later through intimidation and sabotage. In the late ’70s, several climbers began introducing new tactics including “hangdogging,” hanging on gear to practice moves, that the old guard considered cheating. As more climbers broke ranks with traditional style, the new gymnastic approach pushed the limits of climbing from 5.12 to 5.13. When French climber Jean-Baptiste Tribout ascended To Bolt or Not to Be, 5.14a, at Smith Rock in 1986, he cracked a barrier many people had considered impenetrable. In his lively, fast-paced history enriched with insightful firsthand experience, Smoot focuses on the climbing achievements of three of the era’s superstars: John Bachar, Todd Skinner, and Alan Watts, while not neglecting the likes of Ray Jardine, Lynn Hill, Mark Hudon, Tony Yaniro, and Peter Croft. He deftly brings to life the characters and events of this raucous, revolutionary time in rock climbing, exploring, as he says, “what happened and why it mattered, not only to me but to the people involved and those who have followed.”