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Spin Selling
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Spin Selling

By Neil Rackham ,

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Disorientation
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Disorientation

By Elaine Hsieh Chou ,

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The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
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The Exceptions

By Kate Zernike ,

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Radicalizing the Ebony Tower: Black Colleges and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi
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Radicalizing the Ebony Tower

By Joy Ann Williamson-Lott ,

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At the Intersection: Understanding and Supporting First-Generation Students
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At the Intersection

By Robert Longwell-Grice (editor) , Hope Longwell-Grice (editor) ,

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Navigating the Transition from High School to College for Students with Disabilities
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Navigating the Transition from High School to College for Students with Disabilities

By Meg Grigal (editor) , Joseph Madaus (editor) , Lyman Dukes III (editor) , Debra Hart (editor)

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The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done
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The Breakdown of Higher Education

By John M. Ellis ,

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Writing Tools
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Writing Tools

By Roy Peter Clark ,

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Beyond Retention: Cultivating Spaces of Equity, Justice, and Fairness for Women of Color in U.S. Higher Education
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Beyond Retention

By Brenda L. H. Marina (editor) , Sabrina N. Ross (editor) ,

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Cracking the Wall 20 Years Later: Women in Higher Education Leadership
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Cracking the Wall 20 Years Later

By Patricia Turner Mitchell (editor) ,

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For the Love of My Mother
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For the Love of My Mother

By J.P. Rodgers ,

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The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
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The Undercommons

By Stefano Harney , Fred Moten ,

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Triumph of Emptiness: Consumption, Higher Education, and Work Organization
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Triumph of Emptiness

By Mats Alvesson ,

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Leadership Reckoning: Can Higher Education Develop the Leaders We Need?
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Leadership Reckoning

By Thomas Kolditz , Libby Gill , Ryan P. Brown

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Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth Century Beginnings to the 1930s
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Alma Mater

By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz ,

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Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era
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Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era

By Lynn D. Gordon ,

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Daring to Educate: The Legacy of the Early Spelman College Presidents
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Daring to Educate

By Yolanda L. Watson , Sheila T. Gregory ,

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College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration
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College in Prison

By Daniel Karpowitz ,

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Higher Education Accessibility Behind and Beyond Prison Walls
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Higher Education Accessibility Behind and Beyond Prison Walls

By Dani V. McMay (editor) , Rebekah D. Kimble (editor) ,

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Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age
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Permanent Crisis

By Paul Reitter , Chad Wellmon ,

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Thomas Jefferson's Education
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Thomas Jefferson's Education

By Alan Taylor ,

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The Rise of Women and Wealth: Our Fight for Freedom, Equality, and Control of Our Financial Future
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The Rise of Women and Wealth

By Cindy Couyoumjian , R.F. Georgy ,

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What’s Happened To The University? A Sociological Exploration of Its Infantilisation
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What’s Happened To The University? A Sociological Exploration of Its Infantilisation

By Frank Furedi ,

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The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry, and Accomplishment
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The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs

By Richard A. Detweiler ,

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Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us
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Poison Ivy

By Evan Mandery ,

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Bound By a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870-1920
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Bound By a Mighty Vow

By Diana B. Turk ,

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Skim, Dive, Surface: Teaching Digital Reading
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Skim, Dive, Surface

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The Adjunct Professor's Complete Guide to Teaching College: How to Be an Effective and Successful Instructor
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The Adjunct Professor's Complete Guide to Teaching College

By Anthony Fredericks ,

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The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future
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The Great Upheaval

By Arthur Levine , Scott J. Van Pelt ,

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Degrees of Equality: Abolitionist Colleges and the Politics of Race
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Degrees of Equality

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We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States
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We Are Not Dreamers

By Leisy J. Abrego (editor) , Genevieve Negron-Gonzales (editor) ,

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What the Best College Students Do
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What the Best College Students Do

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Presidential Leadership: Making a Difference
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Presidential Leadership

By James L. Fisher , James V. Koch ,

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Successful Fund Raising for Higher Education: The Advancement of Learning
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Successful Fund Raising for Higher Education

By Frank H.T. Rhodes (editor) ,

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Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century
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Contending with Modernity

By Philip Gleason ,

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The Future of Catholic Higher Education
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The Future of Catholic Higher Education

By James L. Heft ,

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Catholic Higher Education: A Culture in Crisis
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Catholic Higher Education

By Melanie M. Morey , John J. Piderit ,

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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower

By Davarian L. Baldwin ,

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The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a University
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The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind

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American Christmas
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American Christmas

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The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
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The Chosen

By Jerome Karabel ,

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Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning
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Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning

By Rosalba Icaza (editor) , Sara de Jong (editor) , Olivia U. Rutazibwa (editor)

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