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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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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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What ever happened to the faculty? drift and decision in higher education / by Burgan, Mary

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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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Backstage practices of transnational law /

Table of Contents: “…Boer and Sofia Stolk -- Hashtags and handshakes in the ICC / Jillian Dobson -- The pace of law (in a transnational time) / Geoff Gordon -- Let us save our good project : looking at an international law gathering to workshop chapters for a volume / John D. Haskell -- "All the world's a stage" : constituting international justice at the ICC's assembly of states / Marieke de Hoon and Kjersti Lohne -- Academic travel and exclusion in the backstage of transnational legal practice / Jessica C. …”
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Wealth and poverty in early church and society /

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Flavius Josephus interpretation and history /

Table of Contents: “…Schwartz -- Josephus the stage manager at the service of Josephus the dramatist : Masada as test case / Yuval Shahar -- Josephus and Justus : The place of Chapter 65 (336-367) in Life, the autobiography of Flavius Josephus / Pnina Stern -- A Jewish Priest in Rome / Michael Tuval -- To be or not to be : an historical interpretation of 2 Kings 17 in Josephus' Antiquities / Jozsef Zsengeller.…”
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Confronting metaphor in use an applied linguistic approach /

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American universities in a global market

Table of Contents: “…/ Haizheng Li -- Indian higher education / Devesh Kapur -- From brain drain to brain competition: changing opportunities and the career patterns of U.S.-trained Korean academics / Sunwoong Kim -- Looking ahead -- What does global expansion of higher education mean for the U.S.? …”
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Redefining first-century Jewish and Christian identities essays in honor of Ed Parish Sanders /

Table of Contents: “…Moody Smith -- Comparing Judaism and Christianity : an academic autobiography / E.P. Sanders -- The problem of self-definition : what self and whose definition? …”
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Anglo-German scholarly networks in the long nineteenth century /

Table of Contents: “…War and peace -- Idealism as transnational war philosophy, 1914-1918 / Peter Hoeres -- Rekindling contact : Anglo-German academic exchange after the First world war / Tara Windsor.…”
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Defining digital humanities : a reader /

Table of Contents: “…Is humanities computing an academic discipline? / Geoffrey Rockwell -- What is humanities computing and what is not? …”
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Vitamin D

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