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  • Innovations in Higher Education

    Igniting the Spark for Success

    by Linda L. Baer, David Bonsall, Jeff Bonsall, Patricia A. Breen, Michael Bunch, Michael R. Chipps, Rosanna Stoll Diaz, Scott Epstein, Barbara A. Farley, Eugene Finnegan, Marilyn Hansmann, Rachel Harris, Darren Henderson, Adam Honea, John Holzhüter, Dionne Jones-Malone, Joseph Kovach, Henry J. Lindborg, Daniel Lowry, James H. McCormick, Christine Miller, Cinch L. Munson, Michael J. Offerman, William Pepicello, Nancy S. Perryman, Jeff Rabey, Lee Rasch, Jeffrey Seybert, David Sill, Patricia A. Stockert, Barbara Taylor, Linda M. Thor, Russell J. Watson, Dave Weber, Betsy O. Barefoot, John N. Gardner ...
    Series series The ACE Series on Higher Education
    Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad of success stories are being forged among educational institutions, supporting industries, and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

    Stories

    by Denis Johnson ...
    Narrated by Nick Offerman, Michael Shannon, Dermot Mulroney, Will Patton ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 17 min

    Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis JohnsonThe Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Jesus' Son

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    by Denis Johnson ...
    Narrated by Will Patton ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Picador Modern Classics

    Unabridged

    2 hours 43 min

    American master Denis Johnson's nationally bestselling collection of blistering and indelible tales about America's outcasts and wanderers.Denis Johnson's now classic story collection Jesus' Son chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that encompasses every extreme of American culture. These are stories of transcendence and spiraling grief, of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Oblivion

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    by David Foster Wallace ...
    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 16 min

    In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown (The Soul ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Blue Angel

    A Novel

    by Francine Prose ...
    Narrated by Zach Villa ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 47 min

    **The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose—now the major motion picture Submission“Screamingly funny … Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials.” —USA Today**It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Vanishing Girls

    by Lauren Oliver ...
    New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver delivers a raw and heart-pounding story, perfect for fans of E. Lockhart's We Were Liars or Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects.Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred and the two sisters totally estranged.When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programs

    A Guide for Practitioners

    by Gerald M. Greenfield, Jennifer R. Keup, John N. Gardner ...
    Developing and Sustaining Successful First -Year ProgramsFirst-year programs and interventions have become critical launching pads for student success and retention in higher education. However, these programs often flounder not because of what they are trying to do, but because of the ways in which they are implemented.Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programs offers faculty, ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • How to be a "HIP" College Campus

    Maximizing Learning in Undergraduate Education

    by Satu Rogers, Jeffery W. Galle ...
    Through the voices of dozens of seasoned college faculty and junior and senior students, this book shares insights and practical examples on how a college campus can be “HIP”—utilizing high-impact educational practices widely and effectively. The book’s strength is numerous hands-on examples about HIPs’ implementation in and out of the classroom.HIPs have been proven to improve student learning, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Sustainability in Higher Education

    Edited by J. Paulo Davim ...
    Support in higher education is an emerging area of great interest to professors, researchers and students in academic institutions. Sustainability in Higher Education provides discussions on the exchange of information between different aspects of sustainability in higher education. This book includes chapter contributions from authors who have provided case studies on various areas of education ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Wellness Issues for Higher Education

    A Guide for Student Affairs and Higher Education Professionals

    Edited by David S. Anderson ...
    Wellness Issues for Higher Education is an essential resource that addresses a range of student wellness issues confronting professionals in college and university settings. Organized around five dimensions of Wellness—Emotional, Social, Intellectual, Physical, and Spiritual—this book comprehensively covers key topics that contribute to students’ success in college. Each topical chapter includes ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Leading the Modern University

    York University’s Presidents on Continuity and Change, 1974-2014

    Edited by Lorna R. Marsden ...
    Founded in 1959, York University is now the second largest university in Ontario and third largest university in Canada. However, starting in 1970s the success of the university was far from guaranteed.Leading the Modern University documents the challenges and solutions that five successive university presidents (H. Ian Macdonald, Harry Arthurs, Susan Mann, Lorna Marsden, and Mamdouh Shoukri) ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Organization of Higher Education

    Managing Colleges for a New Era

    Edited by Michael N. Bastedo ...
    Colleges and universities are best understood as networks of departments working together to fulfill a mission of education, innovation, and community partnership. To better understand how these large and complex institutions function, scholars can apply organizational and strategic planning concepts made familiar by business management. This book follows that model and explores the new and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD