Posts Tagged ‘Road’

Gender Equity or Bust!: On the Road to Campus Leadership with Women in Higher Education

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Gender battles still rage on most college and university campuses today. For eight years, Women in Higher Education has reported women’s strategic advances in the academy. Its goal is to enlighten, encourage, empower, an… More >>

Gender Equity or Bust!: On the Road to Campus Leadership with Women in Higher Education

The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

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Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished scientists of our time, presents the only comprehensive and comprehensible account of the physics of the universe. From the very first attempts by the Greeks to grapple with th… More >>

The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

Mosby’s Tour Guide to Nursing School: A Student’s Road Survival Kit

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Encouraging, user-friendly, and altogether unique, Mosby’s Tour Guide to Nursing School encourages you to not only survive nursing school, but excel in whichever program you select. Throughout the book, Dr. Chenevert com… More >>

Mosby’s Tour Guide to Nursing School: A Student’s Road Survival Kit

We Make The Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

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This dialogue between two of the most prominent thinkers on social change in the twentieth century was certainly a meeting of giants. Throughout their highly personal conversations recorded here, Horton and Freire discuss the nature of social change and empowerment and their individual literacy campaigns. The ideas of these men developed through two very different channels: Horton’s, from the Highlander Center, a small, independent residential education center situated outside the formal schooling system and the state; Freire’s, from within university and state-sponsored programs. Myles Horton, who died in January 1990, was a major figure in the civil rights movement and founder of the Highlander Folk School, later the highlander Research and Education Center. Paulo Freire, author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, established the Popular Culture Movement in Recife, Brazil’s poorest region, and later was named head of the New National Literacy Campaign until… More >>

We Make The Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud

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In a time of dazzling scientific progress, how can we separate genuine breakthroughs from the noisy gaggle of false claims? From Deepak Chopra’s “quantum alternative to growing old” to unwarranted hype surrounding the International Space Station, Robert Park leads us down the back alleys of fringe science, through the gleaming corridors of Washington power and even into our evolutionary past to search out the origins of voodoo science. Along the way, he offers simple and engaging science lessons, proving that you don’t have to be a scientist to spot the fraudulent science that swirls around us.
While remaining highly humorous, this hard-hitting account also tallies the cost: the billions spent on worthless therapies, the tax dollars squandered on government projects that are doomed to fail, the investors bilked by schemes that violate the most fundamental laws of nature. But the greatest cost is human: fear of imaginary dangers, reliance on magica… More >>

Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud

Cave Temples of Mogao: Art and History on the Silk Road

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The Mogao grottoes in China, situated near the oasis town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world’s most significant sites of Buddhist art. In some five hundred caves carved into rock cliffs at the edge of the Gobi desert are preserved one thousand years of exquisite murals and sculpture. Mogao, founded by Buddhist monks as an isolated monastery in the late fourth century, evolved into an artistic and spiritual mecca whose renown extended from the Chinese capital to the far western kingdoms of the Silk Road. Among its treasures are miles of stunning paintings, more than two thousand statues, magnificent works on silk and paper, and thousands of ancient manuscripts, such as sutras, poems, and prayer sheets, which in 1900 were found sealed in one of the caves and then dispersed throughout the world. Illustrated in color throughout, Cave Temples of Mogao combines lavish photographs of the caves and their art with the f… More >>

Cave Temples of Mogao: Art and History on the Silk Road

The Silk Road: Art and History

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Celebrating the cultural heritage of the countries along the Silk Route, this text explores the ancient trade route between Europe and the Far East, more specifically between Rome and the old Chinese capital of Xian. It examines the beautiful works of art discovered in each country, and sets them in their historical and geographical context. The author provides a comprehensive history of the Silk Road, drawing freely on anecdotes and literary and historical sources he examines the lives of the merchants and other travellers who used this route. Vignettes and poems from the heydey of the great trading route punctuate a lively and colourful text, which also features Antonia Tozer’s evocative photographs…. More >>

The Silk Road: Art and History