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  • Higher Ed, Inc.

    The Rise of the For-Profit University

    Winner of the 2002 Alice L. Beeman Research Award for Outstanding Writing about Communications from the Council for Advancement and Support of EducationAmong higher education institutions in the United States, for-profit colleges and universities have steadily captured a larger share of the student market. A recent trend at for-profit institutions is the coupling of job training with accredited ... Leer más

    $396 MXN

  • Higher Education and the New Society

    de George Keller ...
    While he celebrated higher education as the engine of progress in every aspect of American life, George Keller also challenged academia’s sacred cows and entrenched practices with provocative ideas designed to induce “creative discomfort.” Completed shortly before his death in 2007, Higher Education and the New Society caps the career of one of higher education’s exceptional minds.Refining and ... Leer más

    $496 MXN

  • Transforming a College

    The Story of a Little-Known College's Strategic Climb to National Distinction

    de George Keller ...
    George Keller’s case study of Elon University’s transformation from a struggling college with a limited endowment into a top regional university is now available in paperback.Ten years after the publication of Transforming a College, Elon University continues to thrive as a school that reinvented itself and its community around the idea of inspiring and guiding students. George Keller’s now ... Leer más

    $439 MXN

  • Audiolibro

    In the Court of the Dragon

    Narrado por George Keller ...

    Completo

    23 minutos

    In the middle of a church service, a man is struck by a sense of dread. As impassioned organ music fills the building, the man senses that the source of his anxiety is coming from a hostile organist. What is the root of the musician’s animosity? Is it real, or is the narrator just imagining it? This quick, suspenseful story from The King in Yellow gives readers a taste of Chambers’ mastery of the ... Leer más

    $104 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    Imperialism

    Narrado por George Keller ...

    Completo

    1 horas 19 minutos

    With this 1990 speech, American politician William Jennings Bryan presents a compelling argument against imperialism. He outlines how maintaining military force over other nations goes against core American values. The speech highlights specific issues that were current at the time, particularly US relations with Cuba and the Philippines. Though the speech is over 100 years old, its core points ... Leer más

    $121 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    Jabberwocky

    de Lewis Carroll ...
    Narrado por George Keller ...

    Completo

    2 minutos

    “Jabberwocky” is one of the most well-known nonsense poems in the English language. Though full of playful made-up words like “brillig,” “mimsy,” and frumious,” the poem still tells a story. A young warrior faces up against the fearsome Jabberwock, armed with a “vorpal blade,” and comes out triumphant: “O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” This poem first appeared in the middle of Through the Looking ... Leer más

    $40 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    Poem Criticizing the Avignon Papacy

    Narrado por George Keller ...

    Completo

    3 minutos

    The period known as the Avignon Papacy began in 1309, when Pope Clement V relocated the seat of papal power to Avignon, France. The French monarchy slowly gained control over the papacy during this time, and as they did, corruption and greed grew in the church. The troubadour and priest Raimon de Cornet staunchly opposed the Avignon Papacy for these reasons. He summarized his grievances in this ... Leer más

    $69 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    Benito Cereno

    Narrado por George Keller ...

    Completo

    3 hora 31 minutos

    When an American sea captain sees a Spanish slave ship in distress, he reaches out with an offer to help. Once on board, however, the odd behavior of the captain, crew, and slaves leave him with an uneasy feeling that something is not as it seems. Melville based the plot of this novella on real events that occurred off the coast of Chile in 1799. Though it is not Melville’s best-known work, it is ... Leer más

    $207 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    Constitution and the Union, The

    Narrado por George Keller ...

    Completo

    2 hora 4 minutos

    With this famous speech, Daniel Webster joined the nineteenth-century debate over slavery in the US. While personally opposed to the practice, Webster argued that allowing the South to continue using slave labor was essential to maintaining unity of the states. This middle-ground opinion won him support of some Southerner moderates but also lost him the respect of some Northerners. Though it ... Leer más

    $104 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    95 Theses

    Narrado por George Keller ...

    Completo

    22 minutos

    Martin Luther’s 95 Theses started the schism in the Catholic church that led to the Reformation. He penned this text out of frustration with the church’s sale of indulgences, which were documents granting forgiveness for sins on behalf of the purchaser or the individual of their choosing. Luther argued that forgiveness cannot be purchased with money; it can only be granted through true repentance. ... Leer más

    $86 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex

    de Owen Chase ...
    Narrado por George Keller ...

    Completo

    2 hora 34 minutos

    On November 20, 1820, a sperm whale struck and sunk the whaling ship Essex, stranding the 21 crew members who escaped on three whale-boats in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 2000 miles from land. Up against rough storms, vicious sharks, and desperation leading to cannibalism, only eight men survived. One was First Mate Owen Chase, who published this account of the disaster. His story served as ... Leer más

    $225 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    World League for Peace, A

    Narrado por George Keller ...

    Completo

    20 minutos

    President Woodrow Wilson delivered this address on January 22, 1917, a few months before he asked Congress to vote to enter World War I. This speech reveals that he planned for the US to participate in the peace-making agreements long before he planned to take part in the fighting itself. The peace strategy he lays forth in this address mirrors the sentiments of his “14 points” message, delivered ... Leer más

    $86 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus