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Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education
Charles J Sykes · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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The cost of a college degree has increased by 1,125% since 1978 - four times the rate of inflation. Total student debt is $1.3 trillion. Many private universities charge tuitions ranging from $60-70,000 per year. Nearly 2/3 of all college students must borrow to study, and the average... |
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The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
Adam Piore · Ecco
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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For millennia, humans have tried - and often failed - to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier is the human body: the greatest engineers of our generation have turned their sights inward, and their work is beginning to revolutionize... |
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Reading and Writing for Urban Survival
Jawanza Kunjufu · African Amer Images
Pages: 128
Format: Print book
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Illiteracy is the precursor to retention, special education, dropping out and incarceration. Young people need to know how to read and they need books that speak to their culture and circumstances. This book helps them overcome poverty, gangs, drugs, homelessness and other social ills. |
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Protecting the Planet: Environmental Champions from Conservation to Climate Change
Budd Titlow · Prometheus Books
Pages: 587
Format: Hardcover
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Climate change is often associated with predictions of dire calamities. But in the past, heroic individuals have stepped forward to meet even the most ominous ecological challenges. This book tells an inspirational story--a story both of pioneering environmentalists who raised our collective... |
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The end of sex and the future of human reproduction
Henry T Greely · Harvard University Press
Pages: 381
Format: Print book
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Within twenty, maybe forty, years most people in developed countries will stop having sex for the purpose of reproduction. Instead, prospective parents will be told as much as they wish to know about the genetic makeup of dozens of embryos, and they will pick one or two for implantation,... |
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Craft Beer for the Homebrewer: Recipes from America's Top Brewmasters
Michael Agnew · Motorbooks Intl
Pages: 159
Format: Hardcover
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As the craft beer craze continues to sweep the nation, more and more people are deciding to try their hand at creating their own perfect brew. In Craft Beer for the Homebrewer, beer writer and certified cicerone (think sommelier for beer) Michael Agnew merges the passions of consumption... |
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Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
Elizabeth A. Armstrong · Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Two young women, dormitory mates, embark on their education at a big state university. Five years later, one is earning a good salary at a prestigious accounting firm. With no loans to repay, she lives in a fashionable apartment with her fiancé. The other woman, saddled with burdensome... |
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Brick: A World History
James W P Campbell · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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"A brilliant collaboration . . . The hundreds of color photographs are stunning in their clarity and composition. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal This totally original architecture book -- named 2004 Choice Outstanding Academic Title -- follows the story of brick from... |
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The Cannabis Revolution
Dsc Stephen Holt MD · iUniverse
Pages: 620
Format: Paperback
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There is growing public support for the use of cannabis for medical and recreational purposes, but what does science say about the matter? What we know is that cannabis contains more than four hundred potentially bioactive components, and while we're unraveling its secrets, the potential... |
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Women and Leadership
Deborah L. Rhode · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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For most of recorded history, men have held nearly all of the most powerful leadership positions. Today, although women occupy an increasing percentage of leadership positions, in America they hold less than a fifth of positions in both the public and private sectors. The United States... |
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