Skip to main content

Handlekurv

Du får VIP-behandlingen!

Titlene er ikke tilgjengelige for kjøp
Se gjennom handlekurven din. Du kan fjerne titlene som ikke er tilgjengelige nå eller vi fjerner dem automatisk ved kassen.
titlertittel
titlertittel

Anbefalt for deg

Loading...


Engineering Studies e-Bøker Serie

Viser 112 av 12 resultater resultater
Skip side bar filters
  • Girls Coming to Tech!

    A History of American Engineering Education for Women

    av Amy Sue Bix ...
    Serie serien Engineering Studies
    How women coped with both formal barriers and informal opposition to their entry into the traditionally masculine field of engineering in American higher education.Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory. For decades, women who studied or worked in engineering were popularly perceived as oddities, outcasts, unfeminine (or inappropriately feminine in a ... Les mer

    354,29 kr

Folk som leste denne likte også

  • Work Won't Love You Back

    How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

    av Sarah Jaffe ...
    **An examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.“An indispensable guide to the broader dynamics of work in the contemporary moment.” —Nation**You’re told that if you “do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.”In Work Won’t Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a ... Les mer

    123,47 kr

  • In Search of Sisterhood

    Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement

    In Search of Sisterhood is the definitive history of the largest Black women's organization in the United States, and is filled with compelling, fascinating anecdotes told by the Delta Sigma Theta members themselves, illustrated with rare early photographs of the Delta women.This book contains the story of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (DST), and details the increasing involvement of Black women in ... Les mer

    108,28 kr

  • The Secret History of Home Economics

    How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

    **"Deeply researched and crisply written." —Margaret Talbot,?The New YorkerThe surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics.**The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded ... Les mer

    147,09 kr

  • Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be

    An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

    av Frank Bruni ...
    Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years.Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all ... Les mer

    100,31 kr

  • The Price of Admission (Updated Edition)

    How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

    av Daniel Golden ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A fire-breathing, righteous attack on the culture of superprivilege.”—Michael Wolff, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Fire and Fury, in the New York Times Book ReviewNOW WITH NEW REPORTING ON OPERATION VARSITY BLUESIn this explosive and prescient book, based on three years of investigative reporting, Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Golden shatters the myth of an Ameri ... Les mer

    127,64 kr

  • Why Boys Fail

    Saving Our Sons from an Educational System That's Leaving Them Behind

    This book takes a hard look at how this ominous reality came to be, how it has worsened in recent years, and why attempts to resolve it often devolve into finger-pointing and polarizing politics.The signs and statistics are undeniable: boys are falling behind in school. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the biggest culprits are not video games, pop culture, or female-dominated schools biased toward ... Les mer

    92,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • An Inconvenient Minority

    The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence

    av Kenny Xu ...
    "A strident critique of critical race theory" that examines how policies of diversity and inclusion have ill-served Asian Americans ( Kirkus Reviews).From a journalist on the frontlines of the Students for Fair Admission (SFFA) v. Harvard case comes a probing examination of affirmative action, the false narrative of American meritocracy, and the attack on Asian American excellence with its far ... Les mer

    101,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Women and Philanthropy

    Boldly Shaping a Better World

    Women & PhilanthropyWomen's philanthropy has led the way in virtually reinventing the world of fundraising and ways of giving. When women make a gift, are in a leadership position, or volunteer their time to a nonprofit or charitable organization, they tend to base their efforts on solid principles such as compassion, values, vision, and responsibility.Women are increasingly engaged in giving ... Les mer

    433,09 kr

  • Rescuing Prometheus

    Four Monumental Projects that Changed Our World

    "A rare insight into industrial planning on a huge scale...Excellent." --The EconomistRescuing Prometheus is an eye-opening and marvelously informative look at some of the technological projects that helped shape the modern world. Thomas P. Hughes focuses on four postwar projects whose vastness and complexity inspired new technology, new organizations, and new management styles. The first use of ... Les mer

    58,82 kr

  • Blackballed

    The Black + White Politics of Race on America's Campuses

    av Lawrence Ross ...
    "College" is a word that means many things to many people: a space for knowledge, a place to gain lifelong friends, and an opportunity to transcend one's socioeconomic station. Today, though, this word also recalls a slew of headlines that have revealed a dark and persistent world of racial politics on campus. Does this association disturb our idealized visions of what happens behind the ivied ... Les mer

    89,00 kr