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Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty by James M. Lang 9780674724631
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £21.75Nearly three-quarters of college students cheat during their undergraduate careers, a startling number attributed variously to the laziness of today's students, their lack of a moral compass, or the... -
Teaching the Literature Survey Course: New Strategies for College Faculty by James M. Lang
Booksplease Price: £81.03Teaching the Literature Survey Course makes the case for maintaining--even while re-imagining and re-inventing--the place of the survey as a transformative experience for literature students. Through... -
Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year by James M. Lang 9780801881022
Booksplease Price: £49.32In this fast-paced and lively account, Jim Lang asks-and mostly answers-the questions that confront every new faculty member as well as those who dream of becoming new faculty members: Will my... -
Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year by James M. Lang 9780801881039
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.71In this fast-paced and lively account, Jim Lang asks-and mostly answers-the questions that confront every new faculty member as well as those who dream of becoming new faculty members: Will my... -
Teaching the Literature Survey Course: New Strategies for College Faculty by James M. Lang 9781946684097
Booksplease Price: £23.65eaching the Literature Survey Course makes the case for maintaining-even while re-imagining and re-inventing-the place of the survey as a transformative experience for literature students. Through... -
On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching by James M. Lang
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £17.90You go into teaching with high hopes: to inspire students, to motivate them to learn, to help them love your subject. Then you find yourself facing a crowd of expectant faces on the first day of the... -
Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It by James M. Lang
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60A decade ago, James Lang banned cell phones in his classroom. Frustrated by how easily they could sidetrack his students, Lang sought out a distraction-free environment, hoping it would help his... -
Write Like You Teach: Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Bigger Audience James M. Lang 9780226823256
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.55This engaging guide offers practical advice to teachers on how to utilize their existing classroom skills to become more effective public writers. After years spent cultivating their expertise and... -
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James Lang
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.59A freshly updated edition featuring research-based teaching techniques that faculty in any discipline can easily implement Research into how we learn can help facilitate better student learning-if... -
How to Get Tenure: Strategies for Successfully Navigating the Process by Michael S. Harris
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.95Helping assistant professors and pre-tenure faculty balance competing obligations in teaching, research, and service, this comprehensive book explores the challenging path toward tenure. Drawing from... -
PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy by Jeffrey Williams
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy addresses the very issue of political correctness and the current skirmishes in the culture wars. It includes statements from many of our leading... -
Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College by Mark C. Carnes
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.33A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearIn Minds on Fire, Mark C. Carnes shows how role-immersion games channel students' competitive (and sometimes mischievous) impulses into transformative... -
Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes Flower Darby (Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ) 9781119619093
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £17.95Find out how to apply learning science in online classes The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique... -
The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching Isis Artze-Vega (Valencia College) 9780393893717
Booksplease Price: £22.59Written by renowned teaching and learning experts, this guide offers concrete steps to help any instructor striving to ensure that all students-and, in particular, historically underserved... -
Interpretation and Overinterpretation by Umberto Eco 9780521425544
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.53Umberto Eco, international bestselling novelist and leading literary theorist, here brings together these two roles in a provocative discussion of the vexed question of literary interpretation. The... -
Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility by Jennifer Morton
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08The ethical and emotional tolls paid by disadvantaged college students seeking upward mobility and what educators can do to help these students flourishUpward mobility through the path of higher... -
Developing High-Impact Course Design Institutes: A Model for Change Jordan D. Troisi 9781032581682
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Drawing on the authors' extensive experience and robust survey data, this critical resource unpacks the inner workings of one of the most powerful mechanisms for improving teaching and learning in... -
Practice for Life: Making Decisions in College by Lee Cuba
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.14From the day they arrive on campus, college students spend four years-or sometimes more-making decisions that shape every aspect of their academic and social lives. Whether choosing a major or a... -
What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain 9780674013254
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £24.49What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide... -
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown 9780674729018
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £22.24To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use... -
Creating Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies to Strengthen Students' Self-Awareness and Learning Skills Linda B. Nilson 9781579228675
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Most of our students neither know how learning works nor what they have to do to ensure it, to the detriment both of their studies and their development as lifelong learners.The point of departure... -
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.57An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and... -
Hitting Pause: 65 Lecture Breaks to Refresh and Reinforce Learning Gail Taylor Rice 9781620366530
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.04Pauses constitute a simple technique for enlivening and enhancing the effectiveness of lectures, or indeed of any form of instruction, whether a presentation or in an experiential setting. This book... -
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz 9780691229195
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.04An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and...