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Engineering Studies eBook Series

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  • Girls Coming to Tech!

    A History of American Engineering Education for Women

    by Amy Sue Bix ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    R764,39

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  • Why Boys Fail

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

    by Richard Whitmire ...
    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 ... Read more

    R256,32 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Inconvenient Minority

    The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence

    by 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 ... Read more

    R286,22 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rescuing Prometheus

    Four Monumental Projects that Changed Our World

    by Thomas P. Hughes ...
    "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 ... Read more

    R109,70

  • Blackballed

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    R258,39

  • Women Count

    A Guide to Changing the World

    by Susan Bulkeley Butler, Bob Keefe ...
    Throughout history, women have struggled to change the workplace, change government, change society. So what’s next? It’s time for women to change the world! Whether on the job, in politics, or in their community, there has never been a better time for women to make a difference in the world, contends author, mentor, and corporate pioneer Susan Bulkeley Butler in Women Count: A Guide to Changing ... Read more

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  • Miseducation

    How Climate Change Is Taught in America

    by Katie Worth ...
    Why are so many American children learning so much misinformation about climate change?Investigative reporter Katie Worth reviewed scores of textbooks, built a 50-state database, and traveled to a dozen communities to talk to children and teachers about what is being taught, and found a red-blue divide in climate education. More than one-third of young adults believe that climate change is not man ... Read more

    R198,71

  • Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College

    by Edward Fiske, Bruce Hammond ...
    GET ACCEPTED TO THE COLLEGE THAT'S RIGHT FOR YOUEveryone has their own idea of the perfect college, and the best place for you to spend your college years may not be the most academically prestigious or have the best sports teams. Going well beyond just college rankings, the Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College is the help you need to get started that's been trusted by hundreds of ... Read more

    R259,77

  • Women Scientists in America

    Forging a New World since 1972

    by Margaret W. Rossiter ...
    This survey of female scientists in recent American history "offers compelling data alongside the multiple stories of individual women" ( Science).The third volume of Margaret W. Rossiter's landmark survey of the history of American women scientists focuses on their pioneering efforts and contributions from 1972 to the present. Central to this story are the struggles and successes of women ... Read more

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  • Race and the University

    A Memoir

    by George Henderson ...
    In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite his mentor's warning to avoid the "redneck school in a backward state." Henderson became the university's third African American professor, a hire that seemed to suggest the dissolving of racial divides. However, when real estate agents in the university ... Read more

    R305,89

  • America by Design

    Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism

    by David F. Noble ...
    Hailed a “significant contribution” by The New York Times, David Noble’s book America by Design describes the factors that have shaped the history of scientific technology in the United States. Since the beginning, technology and industry have been undeniably intertwined, and Noble demonstrates how corporate capitalism has not only become the driving force behind the development of technology in ... Read more

    R267,94

  • After the Education Wars

    How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform

    by Andrea Gabor ...
    **“The education wars have been demoralizing for teachers. . . . After the Education Wars helps us to see a better way forward.”—Cathy N. Davidson, The New York Times Book Review“After the Education Wars is an important book that points the way to genuine reform.”—Diane Ravitch, author of Reign of Error and The Death and Life of the Great American School SystemA bestselling business journalist ... Read more

    R428,02 or Free with Kobo Plus