499 results for 'derek stuart'

Why efforts to improve American higher educational attainment haven't worked, and where to go from hereDuring the first decade of this century, many commentators predicted that American higher...

Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education...

How our colleges and universities can respond to the changing hopes and needs of societyIn recent decades, cognitive psychologists have cast new light on human development and given colleges new...

A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy—with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorship Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural...

A former Harvard president reflects on how elite universities are responding to critiques from the left and the right, and how they can do better "People have lost faith, trust and confidence [in...

New insights into what makes people happy and how policymakers can foster greater satisfaction for allDuring the past forty years, thousands of studies have been carried out on the subject of...

How Africa's most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patriotic Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the...

In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar...

Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education...

Finalist, 2023 George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management Entrepreneurs are among the primary shapers of our culture, yet their role in driving progress and influencing society has often been...

In The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare gave the landlocked country of Bohemia a coastline―a famous and, to Czechs, typical example of foreigners' ignorance of the Czech homeland. Although the lands that...

A former Harvard president reflects on how elite universities are responding to critiques from the left and the right, and how they can do better "People have lost faith, trust and confidence [in...

Unraveling the hidden influence of the paranormal on science, literature, and belief Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and telekinesis: these attributes of the paranormal mind are widely...

"Maya history was seemingly lost forever when the first Europeans encountered the great ruins of ancient cities in what is today Mexico and Central America. Today, with the recent decipherment of...

The enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them,...

Anyone can start a business. But only leaders can succeed. Most entrepreneurs know the long odds: only a fraction of them will lead their enterprises through the rocky stages of growth to launch...

The story of modernity told through a cultural history of twentieth-century PragueSetting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light,"...

CBC BOOKS' "CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2024"Imagining a vast blue expanse of what a poem might beThe Sky Is a Sky in the Sky is a laboratory of poetic approaches and experiments...

"Stuart Hall famously argued that "race is the modality through which class is lived." This collection demonstrates the remarkable range in which a committed thinker constantly sharpened his...

The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird who stayed a few days in his family's garden.