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Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education by David J. Staley 9781421427416
RRP: $64.05$56.39Imagining the universities of the future.How can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation today-MOOCs especially-focus on transactions, on questions of delivery. In Alternative Universities, David J... -
The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books by John Carey
RRP: $27.28$17.98'Among the wealthy elders, my views gave some offence. Two or three people walked out of my lecture in Hamburg. At a dinner in Oldenburg I was seated next to a senior academic who berated me for my leftist leanings - not what he expected of an Oxford... -
Cardinal's College: Christ Church, Chapter and Verse by Judith Curthoys
RRP: $84.00$62.37Christ Church, founded by Cardinal Wolsey in 1525, and arguably the grandest college in the University of Oxford, has been the subject of only one previous history. Now Judith Curthoys, the college archivist, presents a new and fascinating account of... -
The Poetry and Drama of Jackie Kay: (Scotnotes Study Guides) by Lorna Smith
RRP: $14.60$11.40Jackie Kay served as Scotland's Makar from 2016 to 2021 and is one of Scotland's foremost writers. Much of her work explores her own life and heritage, her upbringing and the cultural forces which shaped her. Many of her poems illuminate the stuff of... -
The Aims of Higher Education: Problems of Morality and Justice by Harry Brighouse
RRP: $50.40$48.36In this book, philosopher Harry Brighouse and Spencer Foundation president Michael McPherson bring together leading philosophers to think about some of the most fundamental questions that higher education faces. Looking beyond the din of arguments over... -
University and Chronic Illness: A Survival Guide by Pippa Stacey
$32.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916225121Author Pippa StaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Daisa & CoPublisher Daisa & Co -
GRE Prep 2024 For Dummies with Online Practice by Ron Woldoff 9781394183371
$49.29Believe it-you're headed to grad school GRE Prep 2024 For Dummies prepares you with the tools and test-taking strategies you need to score your highest on the Graduate Record Examination and begin your post-college journey. You'll find everything you... -
Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals: Strategies for getting published by Pat Thomson
RRP: $75.58$66.55It's not easy getting published, but everyone has to do it. Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals presents an insider's perspective on the secret business of academic publishing, making explicit many of the dilemmas and struggles faced by all writers, but... -
Defending Assessment Security in a Digital World: Preventing E-Cheating and Supporting Academic Integrity in Higher Education by Phillip Dawson
RRP: $75.58$66.55Defending Assessment Security in a Digital World explores the phenomenon of e-cheating and identifies ways to bolster assessment to ensure that it is secured against threats posed by technology.Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the book develops the... -
Rethinking Widening Participation in Higher Education: The Role of Social Networks by Alison Fuller 9780415575645
RRP: $90.28$78.94Extending the chance for people from diverse backgrounds to participate in Higher Education (HE) is a priority in the UK and many countries internationally. Previous work on widening participation in HE however has focussed on why people choose to go to... -
Designing an Innovative Pedagogy for Sustainable Development in Higher Education by Vasiliki Brinia
RRP: $96.58$84.27Designing an Innovative Pedagogy for Sustainable Development in Higher EducationThis book develops a "green pedagogy" and an innovation mindset in higher education by using approaches based on innovative design thinking, arts-based practices, digital... -
The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux by Cathy N. Davidson
RRP: $52.50$34.40Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925, when the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors in an attempt to prepare young people for a world transformed by the telegraph and the... -
The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences by Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
RRP: $63.00$47.92Since 1986, the British government, faced with dwindling budgets and growing calls for public accountability, has sought to assess the value of scholarly work in the nation's universities. Administrators have periodically evaluated the research of most... -
Creative Universities: Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures by Anke Schwittay
RRP: $41.98$33.10How can higher education contribute to tackling today's complex challenges? In this wide-ranging book, Anke Schwittay argues that, in order to inspire and equip students to generate better responses to global challenges, we need a pedagogy that... -
Global Health Watch 5: An Alternative World Health Report by People's Health Movement
RRP: $50.38$44.81For over a decade, Global Health Watch has been the definitive source for alternative analysis on health. This new edition addresses the key challenges facing governments and health practitioners today, within the context of rapid shifts in global... -
Entanglement in the World's Becoming and the Doing of New Materialist Inquiry by Bronwyn Davies
RRP: $83.98$73.63Honourable Mention, ICQI 2022 Outstanding Qualitative Book AwardEntanglement in the World's Becoming and the Doing of New Materialist Inquiry explores new materialist concepts and the ways in which they provoke an opening up of thought about being human,... -
Connections Are Everything: A College Student's Guide to Relationship-Rich Education by Peter Felten 9781421443126
RRP: $34.65$30.62A practical guide to building the connections students need to thrive in and after college from the authors of the best-selling Relationship-Rich Education.Decades of research demonstrate how important the relationships with peers and professors are for... -
"So What are You Going to Do With That?": Finding Careers Outside Academia by Susan Basalla
RRP: $33.60$28.52Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of PhDs and MAs every year. Yet more than half of all college courses are taught by adjunct faculty, which means that the chances of an academic landing a tenure-track job seem only to shrink as student loan... -
The Mentee's Guide: Making Mentoring Work for You by Lois J. Zachary 9780470343586
RRP: $48.30$47.12PRAISE FOR THE MENTEE'S GUIDE "The Mentee's Guide inspires and guides the potential mentee, provides new insights for the adventure in learning that lies ahead, and underscores my personal belief and experience that mentoring is circular. The mentor... -
The Personal Tutor's Handbook by Lindsey Neville
$59.16The Personal Tutor's Handbook aims to support academic staff in their role as personal tutors. It offers an insight into staff and student experiences of a university personal tutor system through the use of case studies and considers the impact on both... -
The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom by Stephen D. Brookfield 9781118450291
RRP: $50.40$44.10Energize your classrooms with these key techniques for college teaching Students say the best teachers get them excited about learning, stretch their thinking, and keep them actively involved in class. But with increasingly diverse classrooms and... -
Writing Philosophical Autoethnography by Alec Grant 9781032229126
RRP: $79.78$70.10Writing Philosophical Autoethnography is the result of Alec Grant's vision of bringing the disciplines of philosophy and autoethnography together. This is the first volume of narrative autoethnographic work in which invited contributing authors were... -
The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't by William J. Baumol
RRP: $46.20$44.56Why are the costs of health care and higher education rising so dramatically? How can we keep them affordable for lower- and middle-income American families? The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm... -
Dyslexia: Surviving and Succeeding at College by Sylvia Moody
RRP: $58.78$50.99Dyslexia: Surviving and Succeeding at College is a practical and easy-to-read guide for dyslexic and dyspraxic students. Clearly and simply written, in a dyslexia-friendly format, it addresses not just study skills, but also more general aspects of... -
Bullying Among University Students: Cross-national perspectives by Helen Cowie
RRP: $111.28$96.66Bullying Amongst University Students is a pioneering collection of knowledge and evidence exploring the under-researched phenomenon of bullying in universities. Abusive behaviour amongst young people is a serious and pervasive problem that is exacerbated... -
Academia Obscura: The Hidden Silly Side of Higher Education by Glen Wright
RRP: $16.78$11.38Academia Obscura is an irreverent glimpse inside the ivory tower, exposing the eccentric and slightly unhinged world of university life. Take a trip through the spectrum of academic oddities and unearth the Easter eggs buried in peer reviewed papers, the... -
Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education by Thomas J. Tobin
RRP: $56.60$45.80Advocates for the rights of people with disabilities have worked hard to make universal design in the built environment "just part of what we do." We no longer see curb cuts, for instance, as accommodations for people with disabilities, but perceive... -
The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith by Gilbert Rist 9781786997562
RRP: $48.28$45.11In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history. He traces it from its origins in the Western view of history, through the early stages of the world system,... -
The Fifth Wave: The Evolution of American Higher Education by Michael M. Crow
RRP: $64.05$57.23Out of the crises of American higher education emerges a new class of large-scale public universities designed to accelerate social change through broad access to world-class knowledge production and cutting-edge technological innovation.America's... -
The Lecturer’s Survival Guide: An Introduction to Successful Teaching in Higher Education by Ann Marie Mealey 9780367767587
RRP: $52.48$45.80Serving as a comprehensive introduction to those new to teaching in higher education, this essential guide discusses pedagogical approaches that are current in higher education and the wider responsibilities of teaching within higher education. This book... -
Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus by Jennifer S. Hirsch 9781324001706
RRP: $46.18$39.80The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. Research has shown that by the time they graduate, as many as one in three women and almost one in six men will have been sexually assaulted. But why is sexual... -
How to Manage Behaviour in Further Education by Dave Vizard 9781446202838
RRP: $79.78$65.48'Dave Vizard presents a wealth of sound techniques to promote positive behaviour as well as how to respond to learners who are both troubled and troublesome in a college setting...a must for those who daily face challenging behaviours as well as those... -
Completing College: Rethinking Institutional Action by Vincent Tinto
RRP: $69.30$58.70Even as the number of students attending college has more than doubled in the past forty years, it is still the case that nearly half of all college students in the United States will not complete their degree within six years. It is clear that much... -
Supporting Children with Down's Syndrome by Hull City Council
RRP: $52.48$45.80This practical resource contains a wealth of valuable advice and tried-and-tested strategies for supporting children and young people with Down's Syndrome. Fully updated with the 2014 SEND Code of Practice, this text describes the different types of... -
Work From Home, Teach English Online: The complete guide by Edwin Buller 9781078258401
RRP: $18.80$16.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781078258401Author James HallidayFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth by Ben Shapiro
RRP: $27.28$19.09Brainwashed is the explosive expose of the leftist agenda at work in today's colleges, revealed by firebrand Ben Shapiro-syndicated columnist, podcaster, radio show host, and one of today's most exciting conservative voices-who's been on the front lines... -
Designing Research for Publication by Anne Sigismund Huff 9781412940153
RRP: $159.60$140.20It is easy to be paralyzed by the possibilities and responsibilities of academic work or distracted into one fascinating alley after another without cumulative insight. Even when well underway too many scholars sink into necessary details and do not... -
Graduate Careers in Context: Research, Policy and Practice by Ciaran Burke 9780367488888
RRP: $83.98$73.63In a world where there are increasing concerns about graduate underemployment and likely career trajectories, it is not surprising that there is a significant body of literature examining graduate careers in post-industrial societies. However, it has... -
Supporting Adult Learners through Games and Interactive Teaching: A Practical Guide by Chandni Hirani
RRP: $52.48$45.80Games-based teaching offers an engaging way for students and adult learners to interact with concepts and build their problem-solving and communication skills. This exciting book will help educators integrate games into their classes and shows how this... -
Advancing Student Engagement in Higher Education: Reflection, Critique and Challenge by Tom Lowe 9781032222509
RRP: $62.98$55.94Providing a selection of critical pieces on the key challenges and debates in student engagement in higher education, this edited collection of sector-leading, scholarly-informed critical reflections is designed to consider and build upon what can be...