The US higher education system is on the verge of a revolution, so some observers claim. Archibald and Feldman, leading analysts, provide an incisive overview of the challenges facing and possibilities for America's universities and colleges in their training future generations. And they demonstrate that our higher education system is resilient and adaptable enough to weather the internal, external, and technological threats without changing campuses beyond recognition. The Road Ahead ...

Much of what is written about colleges and universities ties rapidly rising tuition to dysfunctional behavior in the academy. Common targets of dysfunction include prestige games among universities, gold plated amenities, and bloated administration. This book offers a different view. To explain rising college cost, the authors place the higher education industry firmly within the larger economic history of the United States. The trajectory of college cost is similar to cost behavior in man...

Much of what is written about colleges and universities ties rapidly rising tuition to dysfunctional behavior in the academy. Common targets of dysfunction include prestige games among universities, gold plated amenities, and bloated administration. This book offers a different view. To explain rising college cost, the authors place the higher education industry firmly within the larger economic history of the United States. The trajectory of college cost is similar to cost behavior in man...

The effort to establish economic, political, arid monetary integration in Europe is one of the great dramas of our time, and the implications of its success or failure are enormous for the rest of the world. In this volume distinguished economists and political scientists address the wide-ranging set of issues confronting the nations of Europe and explore the implications of the European experience for regional integration elsewhere. The distinguished contributors of this volume address an...

Einfache Meditation für den modernen Menschen – perfekt für EinsteigerInzwischen ist es wissenschaftlich erwiesen, dass Meditation Ruhe und Gelassenheit herbeiführt, eine Stärkung des Immunsystems bewirkt und eine höhere Lebensqualität schenkt. Warum meditieren dann so wenige Menschen? Die häufigste Begründung lautet: keine Zeit. Doch drei Minuten pro Tag hat jeder, und die hier vorgestellten Meditationstechniken sind so einfach und wirkungsvoll, dass Meditation niemanden mehr schre...

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a devoted following among users in a variety of upper-level and even introductory courses.

Girls are vanishing. Bodies are surfacing. And all roads lead back to Mama…A killer is on the loose. The city’s on edge.And the only man who can stop it all is barely holding himself together.In Mama’s Boy, secrets don’t stay buried—they come back swinging.Junior is murdering prostitutes and Mama is making him do it.Private Investigator Sam ...

Morton Feldman is widely regarded as one of America's greatest composers. His music is famously idiosyncratic, but, in many cases, the way he presented it is also unusual because, in the 1950s and 1960s, he often composed in non-standard musical notations, including a groundbreaking variety on graph paper that facilitated deliberately imprecise specifications of pitch and, at times, other musical parameters. Feldman used this notation, intermittently, over seventeen years, producing numero...

This book examines how constitutions, and the UK's in particular, emerge from disagreement and power tussles.Tensions arise over both distribution and use of powers. A constitution seeks a degree of stability, but also adjusts dynamically to social, economic, military and political events and changing expectations of the state and what makes it legitimate. To show how these processes work, the book illustrates how different kinds of power are alloc...

This dark mystery thriller features a stunning twist that turns the tables on the story's white supremacy angle.Ray Drucker is shot in the face while sitting in his car in a drugstore parking lot, and his wife has hired Dora to find his killer. Dora quickly learns that his murder is connected to another, five years earlier. As the bodies pile up, Dora and Missy find that the killings are connected to a dark and violent web of white supremacists.The victims ...

Girls are vanishing. Bodies are surfacing. And all roads lead back to Mama…A killer is on the loose. The city’s on edge.And the only man who can stop it all is barely holding himself together.In Mama’s Boy, secrets don’t stay buried—they come back swinging.Junior is murdering prostitutes and Mama is making him do it.Private Investigator Sam Sharpe is hired to find one of the missing girls, another of whom works for local crime boss, Judah Hammer. The st...