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Book cover of Ethnic Dress in the United States

Ethnic Dress in the United States

A Cultural Encyclopedia

by Linda Arthur Bradley, Washington State University, Naomi Braithwaite
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014

The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States. The clothing...
Book cover of Illinois State University
by The Board of Trustees of Illinois State University, April Karlene Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017

Illinois State University was founded in 1857 as Illinois's first public higher education institution. Initially named Illinois State Normal University (ISNU) due to its mission to train teachers, the university gained early national recognition for its work in developing educational philosophies....
Book cover of Golden Days

Golden Days

Reminiscences of Alumnae, Mississippi State College for Women

by Mississippi University for Women Southern Women's Institute
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008

Golden Days includes twenty oral histories of women who graduated from Mississippi State College for Women (now Mississippi University for Women) at least fifty years ago. From Mary Ellen Weathersby Pope's (1926) description of a teaching career beginning just before the 1927 Delta flood to Juanita...
Book cover of Decolonizing the Westernized University

Decolonizing the Westernized University

Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without

by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016

Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without provides a sharper understanding of the crisis and the responses to the westernized university at multiple sites around the world. As an intervention in the philosophy of education discourse,...
Book cover of The Moral University
by Maurice R. Berube, Clair T. Berube, Hampton University; author
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010

The Moral University examines the ways that universities act morally toward students, faculty, their communities and the nation. It considers the effectiveness of moral reasoning courses in the curriculum and the growth of leadership courses. The book deals with the myriad ways in which universities...
Book cover of University of Pennsylvania
by University of Pennsylvania Archives
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004

By the time photography was invented in the 1830s, the University of Pennsylvania, America's first university, was nearly a century old. University of Pennsylvania, a unique photographic collection, focuses on the school's history at its present campus in West Philadelphia beginning shortly after the...
Book cover of Canada and the New International Economy
by Carlton University
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961

The essays presented here arose from a strong feeling that it is very important at the present moment to stimulate thought in Canada on our position in the developing world economy. The authors have been concerned about the inward-looking emphasis in recent Canadian discussions of policy and are asking...
Book cover of Hong Kong's Housing Policy
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This book examines housing policy in Hong Kong using a new and unique interdisciplinary approach combining the philosophical discussion on social justice with policy and housing studies. It considers both Western and Chinese concepts of social justice, and investigates the role of social justice in...
Book cover of University of Chicago Law Review: Volume 81, Number 3 - Summer 2014
by University of Chicago Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014

The third issue of 2014 features articles from recognized legal scholars. Contents include: Articles: * Following Lower-Court Precedent, by Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl * Constitutional Outliers, by Justin Driver * Intellectual Property versus Prizes: Reframing the Debate, by Benjamin N. Roin Review: *...
Book cover of University of Chicago Law Review: Volume 78, Number 4 - Fall 2011
by University of Chicago Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014

This final issue of 2011 (University of Chicago Law Review: Volume 78, Number 4 - Fall 2011) features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal scholars and governmental leaders, including Cass Sunstein (on empirically informed regulation), Jonathan Bressler (on jury nullification...
Book cover of Creativity and Academic Activism
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This work explores in detail how innovative academic activism can transform our everyday workplaces in contexts of considerable adversity. Personal essays by prominent scholars provide critical reflections on their institution-building triumphs and setbacks across a range of cultural institutions....
Book cover of China‘s Macroeconomic Outlook

China‘s Macroeconomic Outlook

Quarterly Forecast and Analysis Report, October 2017

by Xiamen University Center for Macroeconomic Research of
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018

This report is a partial result of the China’s Quarterly Macroeconometric Model (CQMM), a project developed and maintained by the Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR) at Xiamen University. The CMR is one of the Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences sponsored by the Ministry...
Book cover of A Lifetime in Academia
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Rayson Huang began his studies at the University of Hong Kong in 1938. Thirty-four years later, in 1972, he became the University's first Chinese Vice-Chancellor and served in that position until 1986. He sat on the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and on the Drafting Committee that formulated China’s...
Book cover of International Education and the Chinese Learner
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

International Education and the Chinese Learner is one of the first full-length studies in the relatively new field of transnational pedagogy to explore the role of the Chinese learner in international schools and universities across the globe. It describes the unprecedented growth of international...
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