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The Civic Potential of Video Games by Kahne, Joseph, Kahne, Joseph, Evans, Chris, Middaugh, Ellen

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On the fringes of history a memoir / by Curtin, Philip D.

Table of Contents: “…Growing up in central West Virginia -- George School, Swarthmore, and the war years -- After the war and graduate school at Harvard -- Transitions -- First years at Wisconsin -- Comparative tropical history and African studies -- Academic politics in the late 1960s -- To Johns Hopkins.…”
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Anti-Americanisms in world politics

Table of Contents: “…Kennedy -- Anti-Americanism in Europe during the Cold War / Pierangelo Isernia -- Disaggregating anti-Americanism : an analysis of individual attitudes toward the United States / Giacomo Chiozza -- The distinctiveness of French anti-Americanism / Sophie Meunier -- Chinese attitudes toward the United States and Americans / Alastair Iain Johnston and Daniela Stockmann -- Anti-Americanisms in the Arab world / Marc Lynch -- Anti-Americanism as schemas and diacritics in France and Indonesia / John R. Bowen -- Legacies of anti-Americanism : a sociological perspective / Doug McAdam -- The political consequences of anti-Americanism / Robert O. …”
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How to present at meetings

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The educational legacy of Woodrow Wilson from college to nation /

Table of Contents: “…Bruce Leslie -- Conservative among progressives : Woodrow Wilson in the golden age of American women's higher education / Victoria Bissell Brown -- Politics and Wilson's academic career / John Milton Cooper Jr -- The unappreciated legacy : Wilson, Princeton, and the ideal of the American state / Mark R. …”
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Exploring argumentative contexts

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Advice in discourse

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Sociology of higher education contributions and their contexts /

Table of Contents: “…Fann -- The study of college impact / Sylvia Hurtado -- The study of the academic profession / Gary Rhoades -- The study of colleges and universities as organizations / Marvin Peterson -- Emerging lines of inquiry -- Higher education as an institution / John W. …”
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The Kirwan Years / by Perry, Chris

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Turnaround leading stressed colleges and universities to excellence /

Table of Contents: “…Weary -- Preserving and extending the academic mission of vulnerable institutions : best practices for chief academic officers / Patricia Cormier -- The challenge for student affairs in stressed institutions / Lori Reesor, Steven LaNasa, and Patricia Long -- Effective financial leadership of stressed colleges and universities / Michael Townsley -- Fund-raising through fragility : some suggestions for development officers / W. …”
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The reputation society how online opinions are reshaping the offline world /

Table of Contents: “…Trust, reputation systems, and the immune system of democracy / Craig Newmark -- Building the reputation society / Hassan Masum, Mark Tovey, & Yi-Cheng Zhang -- Designing reputation systems for the social web / Chrysanthos Dellarocas -- Web reputation systems and the real world / Randy Farmer -- An inquiry into effective reputation and rating systems / John Henry Clippinger -- The biology of reputation / John Whitfield -- Regulating reputation / Eric Goldman -- Less regulation, more reputation / Lior Strahilevitz -- The role of reputation systems in managing online communities / Cliff Lampe -- Attention philanthropy : giving reputation a boost / Alex Steffen -- Making use of reputation systems in philanthropy / Marc Maxson & Mari Kuraishi -- The measurement and mismeasurement of science / Michael Nielsen -- Usage-based reputation metrics in science / Victor Henning, Jason Hoyt, and Jan Reichelt -- Open access and academic reputation / John Willinsky -- Reputation-based governance and making states "legible" to their citizens / Lucio Picci -- Trust it forward : tyranny of the majority or echo chambers? …”
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The humanities and the dynamics of inclusion since World War II

Table of Contents: “…the failure of general education in the American university / John Guillory -- Demography and curriculum : the humanities in American higher education from the 1950s through the 1980s / Roger L. …”
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Voodoo queen the spirited lives of Marie Laveau / by Ward, Martha

Table of Contents: “…Ann Street -- Freedom la mode, la Marie -- Life in the cities of the dead -- At the altar of love and luck -- Madame Laveau's prayers, poisons, and political pull -- How John, the Devil, and Mam'zelle Marie hoodooed the media -- A tale of two sisters -- The last queen of the voodoos returns from the dead -- Postscript : events in the lives of the Marie Laveaus -- At the end : recognition and respect.…”
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Papa, PhD essays on fatherhood by men in the academy /

Table of Contents: “…Aaron Simmons -- Sheathing the sword / Gregory Orfalea -- Weighed but found wanting: ten years of being measured and divided / Robert Mayer -- Vespers, matins, and lauds: the life of a liberal arts college professor / Ralph James Savarese -- How white was my prairie / Mark Montgomery -- Meniscus / Robert Gray -- Once was lost / John Bryant -- Shared attention: hearing Cameron's voice / Mark Osteen -- Accidental academic, deliberate dad / Kevin G. …”
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What ever happened to the faculty? drift and decision in higher education / by Burgan, Mary

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Computers, phones, and the Internet domesticating information technology /

Table of Contents: “…Gonzalez -- Children's privacy online : experimenting with boundaries within and beyond the family / Sonia Livingstone -- Children's home internet use : antecedents and psychological, social, and academic consequences / Linda A. Jackson ... [et al.] -- Social and civic participation in a community network / John M. …”
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The black-white test score gap

Table of Contents: “…Ferguson -- The burden of "acting white" : do black adolescents disparage academic achievement? / Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig -- Stereotype threat and the test performance of academically successful African Americans / Claude M. …”
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Compelling confessions the politics of personal disclosure /

Table of Contents: “…Baird -- Escaping the panopticon: vision and visibility in the memoirs of Elizabeth Wurtzel / Kathy Farqueharson -- Confessional poetry and national identity: John Berryman's Self as nation / Glenn Freeman -- Oprah on the couch: Franzen, Foucault, and the book club confessions / Adrian Jones -- Understanding the false-confession phenomenon / G. …”
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International Librarianship : Developing Professional, Intercultural, and Educational Leadership /

Table of Contents: “…Academic exchanges -- The Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration-Library Science Program : case study in global librarianship in Ethiopia / Sandra Kendall -- Connecting with the university of Hong Kong for program and professional development / Lesley S.J. …”
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Scrapbooks, snapshots and memorabilia hidden archives of performance /

Table of Contents: “…/ Glen Mcillivray -- Tales still to be told: indigenous Australian theatre practice and the archive / Maryrose Casey -- The "not-yet archive" of sidetrack performance group / Tom Burvill and Mark Seton -- (Re)constructing the archive: a regional perspective on performance histories / Gillian Arrighi and David Watt -- More is less: public profile and academic representation in contemporary British theatre / John Bennett -- Accidents of survival: finding a place in the V&A's theatre and performance archives / Catherine Haill -- Feeling for dancing hidden in the archives of the dead / Amanda Card -- Performance, documentation and the archive within the institution / Matthew Reason, Jules Dorey Richmond, Victoria Gray, Nathan Walker -- Still not seen: photography and the archive under the bed / Glen McGillivray -- Buried treasure: the lidded box and its function / Kim Durban -- Performance as palimpsest: leaving a trace memory in site-specific performance / Lisa Warrington -- Recording forbidden careers: nineteenth-century amateur theatricals / Eileen Curley.…”
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