This book focuses on the history and prospects of the strategic alliances between African nations and America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).Drawing on extensive archival and original research, this book fills critical gaps and provides a compelling, data-driven case for further collaborations. HBCUs have played a vital role in American history, nurturing change-makers from the US Civil Rights Era and the African Independence Movements, but today funding con...

What if guilt could be transferred—without permission, without memory, without a trace?Bearer of Guilt is an intense psychological exploration of identity, memory, and emotional inheritance. Maela lives an ordinary life—until an envelope appears. Unopened, unread, and yet it begins to alter her from within. Encounters with a strange woman named Sira bring back fragments of a past that might not even be hers. As reality begins to blur, Maela must confront the question: What...

Jerald Eugene Noran could never understand why it took two different consonants to make the same sound in his first and second names. Or why his middle name didn't start with the letter U. Or why piano chords are written vertically and piano keyboards are oriented horizontally (but that's another story). This abecedarium is the result of decades of writing couplets, tercets, quatrains and sestains on tiny scraps of paper, regarding the inconsistencies of spelling and pronunciation in the E...

This book argues that cybersecurity’s informational ontology offers empirical challenges, and introduces a new interdisciplinary theoretical and conceptual framework of ‘entropic security’.Cyber-attacks have been growing exponentially in number and sophistication; ranging from those conducted by non-state actors to state-backed cyber-attacks. Accordingly, cybersecurity now constitutes an integral part of public, private, and academic discourses on contemporary (in)security. Yet, be...

In this heartwarming children's book, meet Ethan and his best friend, Scrap, a one-of-a-kind robot.Together, they embark on an unforgettable journey filled with adventure, self-discovery, and unlikely friendship.As they navigate through the challenges of the future world, Ethan and Scrap prove that true friendship knows no boundaries.With its relatable characters, imaginative storytelling, and captivating illustrations, "My Best Friend is a Robot" is a...

Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the Faculty examines the fallout of rampant administrative blight that now plagues the nation's univer...

Poems from my emotions. Emotions which includes disappointments, happiness, achievements, motivation and life. Poems which relate to everyone. Poems which will bring you up when you are down. Poems which will make you not give up when you hit the rock bottom. They are for me, for you and for everyone. They talk about future, present and past. They talk about what could have been and what could be. They talk about the things which you should not ever forget. There are twenty five poems all ...

Universities have historically been integral to democracy. What can they do to reclaim this critical role?Universities play an indispensable role within modern democracies. But this role is often overlooked or too narrowly conceived, even by universities themselves. In What Universities Owe Democracy, Ronald J. Daniels, the president of Johns Hopkins University, argues that—at a moment when liberal democracy is endangered and more countries are heading tow...

Philanthropy is everywhere. In 2013, in the United States alone, some $330 billion was recorded in giving, from large donations by the wealthy all the way down to informal giving circles. We tend to think of philanthropy as unequivocally good, but as the contributors to this book show, philanthropy is also an exercise of power. And like all forms of power, especially in a democratic society, it deserves scrutiny. Yet it rarely has been given serious attention. This book fills that gap, bri...

Argues that racial inequality reproduces itself automatically over time because early unfair advantage for whites has paved the way for continuing advantageThis book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progress?Legal scholar Daria Roithmayr provocatively argues that racial i...

An updated edition of the classic text on public administration presents practical steps for managing government effectively in an age of hyperpartisanship.Co-winner of the Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public AdministrationThe traditional theory of public administration is based on entrenched notions of hierarchy and authority. However, as the structure of public work has grown less hierarchical, managers have adopted a wide variet...

本作品通過主人公麥芒的人生經歷，證實了一條真理，人生的快樂是在坎坷的路上，過去的是雲煙，留下的是財富。雖說人生有多少不如意，使人傷感，但都是對人生的一種修煉。它反映了一定歷史階段的生產方式，對人們思想方式的制約和影響。命運給每個人的安排是同等的，總會有一些緣、一些結，但它把時間贈給人們增添閱歷的同時，也把無情的滄桑和醒悟相贈。如何選擇經營，則在於人們後天修煉的心性，無人可以替代。世上沒有什麼事物是永恆不變的，無論是進入圍城，還是走出圍城，只有掙脫傳統舊觀念的枷鎖，放下無謂的負擔，才能一路瀟灑前行。