Academic Question
INTRODUCED BY KATE SAUNDERS 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy' JILLY COOPER 'Beneath the gentle surfaces of her novels is a slow-building comedy, salt wit in a saline drip' NEW YO...
Academic Misfits: Questioned Belongings in Higher Education
Academic Misfits: Questioned Belongings in Higher Education presents powerful narratives, exploring the experiences of academics who want their voices to be heard. It highlights aspects of the academic world that need to be and should be changed t...
Compleat Academic
This new and expanded volume of The Compleat Academic is filled with practical and valuable advice to help new academics set the best course for a lasting and vibrant career. A new career in academia can be a challenge. While academia's formal rul...
Enemies of Promise
Why should books drive the academic hierarchy? This controversial question posed by Lindsay Waters ignited fierce debate in the academy and its presses, as he warned that the "publish or perish" dictum was breaking down the acade...
The Essential Hyland
Writing in the academy has assumed huge importance in recent years as countless students and academics around the world must now gain fluency in the conventions of academic writing in English to understand their disciplines, to establish their car...
Black faculty, E-bok
In this book, we celebrate the contributions of Black scholars and educatorsto the academic world, highlighting their achievements and excellence invarious fields. Throughout history, Black academics have faced significantchallenges and obstacles in pursuing their academic careers. Despite this, theyhave persevered and overcome these challenges, significantly contributing totheir fields and paving the way for future generations.Black scholars and educators have brought diverse perspectives andexperiences to academia through their research, teaching, and communityengagement. They have challenged conventional wisdom, brought freshideas, and broadened the scope of academic discourse. They have enrichedthe academic world with their innovative research, ideas, and thought-provoking insights.We highlight the diversity and richness of Black faculty members’contributions to Finnish academia, featuring the achievements of scholarsfrom various disciplines. From ground-breaking research to influentialteaching, from activism to community service, the contributions of Blackfaculty members have been vital to shaping the intellectual landscape andpromoting social justice in Finnish academia.
Feminists and Queer Theorists Debate the Future of Critical Management Studies
'What is CMS for and what might its future be- both inside the domain of academia and outside it? It's a question that has beguiled and frustrated academics within and outside its community. At the hear of CMS is an enduring skepticism concerning ...
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Originally published in 1958, The Question is the book that opened the torture debate in France during Algeria's war of independence and was the first book since the eighteenth century to be banned by the French government for political reasons. A...
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In the last years of the nineteenth century the Morlands' fortunes are changing for the better, as Henrietta and Jerome find a true home at Morland Place, and Teddy ploughs his profits into restoring it to its former glory. But the reverses and cr...
Question
Ask yourself the right questions-and find the answers to your happiness The Question brings together the best of what is thought and known from the world of self-help. The author shows readers what can build a path toward greater well-being and be...
Academics Writing
Academics Writing recounts how academic writing is changing in the contemporary university, transforming what it means to be an academic and how, as a society, we produce academic knowledge. Writing practices are changing as the academic professio...
Philosophical Approach to Perceptions of Academic Writing Practices in Higher Education
This book takes a philosophical approach to the question 'what is academic writing?' and specifically explores the question of how academic writing and writing development can be better understood and developed by lecturers in higher education. It...
Life's Question: Life's Question
Life's Question: Life's Question [Vinyl LP]
No Question: No Question
No Question: No Question [Vinyl 7"]
Life's Question: Life's Question
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Coming of Age in Academe
First Published in 2000. At what price entry? Philosopher of education Jane Roland Martin contends that feminist scholars have traded in their idealism for a place in the academy. In Coming of Age in Academe, she looks at the ways that academic fe...
Academic Language! Academic Literacy!
This practical guide provides 36 hands-on strategies to help teachers give students the necessary skills to decipher academic language in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
An Academic Life
Assists in the process of orienting new academics to the nature of academic life, particularly greater accountability in all aspects of academic life, growth in the number of academic staff, and increasing demands and expectations from the growing...
Building Communities in Academia
This book contains an Open Access chapter. Communities exist everywhere in academia. They are important not only for facilitating academic socialisation and generating intellectual capital, but also for fostering academic wellbeing. But how do com...
Sacredness of Questioning Everything
Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned? The freedom to question is an indispensable and sacred practice that is absolutely vital to the health of our communities.According to author David Dark, when religion won't tolerate questions, objections, ...
Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity
Academic freedom is increasingly being threatened by a stifling culture of conformity in higher education that is restricting individual academics, the freedom of academic thought and the progress of knowledge - the very foundations upon which aca...
Grounded Vision
Places contemporary agrarian thinking into a conciliatory and productive dialogue with academic criticism. It argues that the lack of participation in academic discussions means a loss to both agrarians and academics, since agrarian thought can en...
Changing European Academics
European academics have been at the centre of ongoing higher education reforms, as changes in university governance and funding have led to changes in academic work and life. Discussing the academic profession, and most importantly, its increasing...
Vital Question
Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the sam...
Burning Question
'MASTERFULLY PLOTTED' WOMAN'S OWNWhen an arson attack strikes in south London, leaving three people dead, it quickly becomes clear that the youngest victim, Danielle Low, was the intended target.With no clear motive, and the killer at large, DCI B...
Man Question
Turning on its head that familiar "woman question," this innovative work poses masculinity as a problem that requires explanation. Ferguson rebukes the sense of coherence contained in patriarchal theory in the name of a voice that both c...
Caste Question
This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama Rao's account challenges standard thinking on caste as either a vestige of pre...
Rapture Question
Now completely revised and enlarged, using quotations from the New International Version -- John F. Walvoord's classic work on the Rapture! The Rapture Question examines the four views of the church's role in the tribulation: Partial Rapturism, Pr...
MARRIAGE QUESTION
Named one of the ten Best Reviewed Nonfiction Books of 2023 by Literary Hub A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage. In her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot--an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, George Lewes--writer, philosopher, and married father of three. After 'eloping' to Berlin in 1854, they lived together for twenty-four years: Eliot asked people to call her 'Mrs Lewes' and dedicated each novel to her 'Husband.' Though they could not legally marry, she felt herself initiated into the 'great experience' of marriage--'this double life, which helps me to feel and think with double strength.' The relationship scandalized her contemporaries yet she grew immeasurably within it. Living at once inside and outside marriage, Eliot could experience this form of life--so
Man Question
Among the many important tools feminist legal theorists have given scholars is that of anti-essentialism: all women are not created equal, and privilege varies greatly by circumstances,particularly that of race and class. Yet at the same time, fem...
Beautiful Question
A Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organizing principle for the entire universe In this scientific tour de force, world-class physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the univers...
Question Everything
When The Stone Reader (ISBN 978 1 63149 071 2)-a landmark collection of 133 essays from The New York Times' award-winning philosophy series-first published, the world urgently needed insight and wisdom, and for many, the book served as a bulwark o...
Unanswered Question
"A summation of his beliefs about music as he looked into the final quarter of the 20th century?Bernstein's talks still seem surprisingly fresh. But words were nearly as much Bernstein's métier as music." -New York Times The varied forms...
Art Question
If an artist sends a live peacock to an exhibition, is it art? 'What is art?' is a question many of us want answered but are too afraid to ask. It is the very question that Nigel Warburton demystifies in this brilliant and accessible little book. ...
Altruism Question
Are our efforts to help others ever driven solely by altruistic motivation, or is our ultimate goal always some form of self- benefit (egoistic motivation)? This volume reports the development of an empirically-testable theory of altruistic motiva...
Postcolonial Question
Brings together renowed and emerging critical voices to respond to the questions raised by the concept of the 'post-colonial'. The contributors explore the diverse cultures which are shaping our global future.
