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Seeing the World

How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era

By: Mitchell Stevens,Cynthia Miller-Idriss,Seteney Shami

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Seeing the World

How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era

By: Mitchell Stevens,Cynthia Miller-Idriss,Seteney Shami

An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmopolitan U.S. research universities have long endeavored to be cosmopolitan places, yet the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology have remained stubbornly parochial. Despite decades of government and philanthropic investment in international scholarship, the most prestigious academic departments still favor research and expertise on the United States. Why? Seeing the World answers this question by examining university research centers that focus on the Middle East and related regional area studies. Drawing on candid interviews with scores of top scholars and university leaders to understand how international inquiry is perceived and valued inside the academy, Seeing the World explains how intense competition for tenure-line appointments encourages faculty to pursue “American” projects that are most likely to garner professional advancement. At the same time, constrained by tight budgets at home, university leaders eagerly court patrons and clients worldwide but have a hard time getting departmental faculty to join the program. Together these dynamics shape how scholarship about the rest of the world evolves. At once a work-and-occupations study of scholarly disciplines, an essay on the formal organization of knowledge, and an inquiry into the fate of area studies, Seeing the World is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of knowledge in a global era.

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Princeton University Press

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0691202931

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9780691202938

Creating a Class

College Admissions and the Education of Elites

By: Mitchell L. Stevens

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Creating a Class

College Admissions and the Education of Elites

By: Mitchell L. Stevens

In real life, Mitchell Stevens is a professor in bustling New York. But for a year and a half, he worked in the admissions office of a bucolic New England college that is known for its high academic standards, beautiful campus, and social conscience. Ambitious high schoolers and savvy guidance counselors know that admission here is highly competitive. But creating classes, Stevens finds, is a lot more complicated than most people imagine. Admissions officers love students but they work for the good of the school. They must bring each class in "on budget," burnish the statistics so crucial to institutional prestige, and take care of their colleagues in the athletic department and the development office. Stevens shows that the job cannot be done without "systematic preferencing," and racial affirmative action is the least of it. Kids have an edge if their parents can pay full tuition, if they attend high schools with exotic zip codes, if they are athletes--especially football players--and even if they are popular. With novelistic flair, sensitivity to history, and a keen eye for telling detail, Stevens explains how elite colleges and universities have assumed their central role in the production of the nation's most privileged classes. Creating a Class makes clear that, for better or worse, these schools now define the standards of youthful accomplishment in American culture more generally.

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328

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Harvard University Press

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0674267583

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9780674267589

Vascular Access for Hemodialysis-V

By: Mitchell L. Henry

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Vascular Access for Hemodialysis-V

By: Mitchell L. Henry

This volume documents the formal presentations and discussions which took place at the Fifth Symposium on Dialysis Access held in Tucson, Arizona in 1996. The 34 contributions cover such topics as the use of Doppler ultrasonography in management of hemodialysis; arteriovenous graft salvage in hemodialysis patients; the nephrologist and vascular access; and a comparative study of temporary hemodialysis catheters. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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0944496504

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9780944496503

Kingdom of Children

Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement

By: Mitchell Stevens

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Kingdom of Children

Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement

By: Mitchell Stevens

More than one million American children are schooled by their parents. As their ranks grow, home schoolers are making headlines by winning national spelling bees and excelling at elite universities. The few studies conducted suggest that homeschooled children are academically successful and remarkably well socialized. Yet we still know little about this alternative to one of society's most fundamental institutions. Beyond a vague notion of children reading around the kitchen table, we don't know what home schooling looks like from the inside. Sociologist Mitchell Stevens goes behind the scenes of the homeschool movement and into the homes and meetings of home schoolers. What he finds are two very different kinds of home education--one rooted in the liberal alternative school movement of the 1960s and 1970s and one stemming from the Christian day school movement of the same era. Stevens explains how this dual history shapes the meaning and practice of home schooling today. In the process, he introduces us to an unlikely mix of parents (including fundamentalist Protestants, pagans, naturalists, and educational radicals) and notes the core values on which they agree: the sanctity of childhood and the primacy of family in the face of a highly competitive, bureaucratized society. Kingdom of Children aptly places home schoolers within longer traditions of American social activism. It reveals that home schooling is not a random collection of individuals but an elaborate social movement with its own celebrities, networks, and characteristic lifeways. Stevens shows how home schoolers have built their philosophical and religious convictions into the practical structure of the cause, and documents the political consequences of their success at doing so. Ultimately, the history of home schooling serves as a parable about the organizational strategies of the progressive left and the religious right since the 1960s.Kingdom of Children shows what happens when progressive ideals meet conventional politics, demonstrates the extraordinary political capacity of conservative Protestantism, and explains the subtle ways in which cultural sensibility shapes social movement outcomes more generally.

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Princeton University Press

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140082480X

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Pocket Companion to Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease E-Book

By: Richard N Mitchell,Vinay Kumar,Abul K. Abbas,Jon C. Aster

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Pocket Companion to Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease E-Book

By: Richard N Mitchell,Vinay Kumar,Abul K. Abbas,Jon C. Aster

Offering rapid, portable access to key concepts and principles of pathology from Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 10th Edition, this up-to-date Pocket Companion makes it easy to locate essential information on the go. The condensed, at-a-glance format, organized to parallel the parent text, is ideal for quick review—anytime, anywhere. - Features cutting-edge information on important topics such as novel therapies for hepatitis C, personalized medicine, the role of microbiome and metabolome in non-communicable disease, and much more. - Includes new gross and microscopic figures for clarity of morphology and new artwork depicting the latest advances in molecular pathogenesis of cancers. - Reflects updated page references and content changes found in to Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 10th Edition. - Contains all the key data and principles needed for the USMLE Step 1, in-course exams, and rotations.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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032382563X

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9780323825634

Kingdom of Children

Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement

By: Mitchell Stevens

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Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement

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