Product Description
1896. Jordan was President of Leland Stanford Junior University. From the Prefatory Note: This volume is made up of addresses relating to higher education, delivered at different times before assemblies of teachers and students. Table of Contents: The Value of Higher Education; The Evolution of the College Curriculum; The Nation's Need of Men; The Care and Culture of Men; The Scholar in the Community; The School and the State; The Higher Education of Women; The Training of the Physician; Law Schools and Lawyers; The Practical Education; Science in the High School; Science and the Colleges; The Procession of Life; The Growth of Man; The Social Order; The Saving of Time; The New University; and A Castle in Spain. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

Product Description
1896. Jordan was President of Leland Stanford Junior University. From the Prefatory Note: This volume is made up of addresses relating to higher education, delivered at different times before assemblies of teachers and students. Table of Contents: The Value of Higher Education; The Evolution of the College Curriculum; The Nation's Need of Men; The Care and Culture of Men; The Scholar in the Community; The School and the State; The Higher Education of Women; The Training of the Physician; Law Schools and Lawyers; The Practical Education; Science in the High School; Science and the Colleges; The Procession of Life; The Growth of Man; The Social Order; The Saving of Time; The New University; and A Castle in Spain. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

Product Description
In calling this book Beyond the Culture Tours, the authors bring the reader's attention to a set of issues in the teaching of literature and culture. The Culture Tour is an old concept in the West, dating back to the seventeenth century. The educated young man -- it was an exclusively male project at first -- was expected to round off his education with the Grand Tour. This meant a visit to the major sites on the European continent, particularly Greece and Rome, and occasionally to the Holy Land. The object was to have a first-hand view of these monuments, and looking at them alone brought people the name of being cultured or well-traveled. As the idea spread in the early part of the twentieth century, it allowed for the vicarious tour rather than the actual one. Students were asked to look at collections of art or reproductions of art work, listen to concerts or later recordings, and to read certain classical works drawn from what has come to be known as "the canon." The point of this form of education was that exposure to these works in itself formed a version of the Grand Tour. The basic idea behind the tour approach is that exposure to a culture in books is like travel to an ethnic theme park.

This volume looks beyond the tour approach and reports on the results of a four-year project undertaken by a research team from the National Center for Research in the Learning and Teaching of Literature. Their intent was to study the teaching and impact of multicultural literature. The team examined how students approached texts that either came from their culture or from another, and how teachers perceived the students, the literature, and their role. This volume details various aspects of their findings.
... Read more

Product Description
This unique historical and genealogical resource draws on the extraordinarily intact legislative, judicial, religious, and personal records of members of the first Maryland legislature. The two-volume set contains profiles of nearly fifteen hundred men who served in the state's legislature in the first 150 years after Maryland's founding.The major public and private aspects of each legislator's career are quickly discernible: family background, marriage, children, social status, religious affiliation, occupation, other offices held, and military service. Many entries include a brief summary of a legislator's stance on public and private issues. A final category, wealth at death, inventories the legislator's estate and notes any significant changes in wealth between first election and death. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Accurate projections
Written in 1999, this book has a breezy optimism about the networking power of the Internet, to gather together people of similar political interests. The intervening years have been eventful, and validate a lot of the book's projections.

Smart mobs, to use Howard Rheingold's term, and the increasing visibility of the Internet in this year's US Presidential campaigns suggest that indeed, the Internet is proving a focal point for many activists. ... Read more

Product Description
Classic Dike Biker novel reprinted, part of the OUTLAW CHRONICLES series. ... Read more

Product Description
This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

Product Description
Under pressure of cultural colonization from the West and expanding an imperialist force and cultural colonizer within Asia, Japan occupied a unique space on the international landscape in the years from the beginning of the Meiji Period to the Pacific War. This special issue of positions examines the integral role that visual culture played both in representing and constituting this imperial reality.

The articles, contributed by scholars in the fields of art history, cultural history, and Japanese literature, address the interactions between Japan, the West, and the rest of Asia. Costumes, architecture, tourism propaganda, pottery, and a host of other sources provide the raw materials for Visual Cultures of Japanese Imperialism, and the incisive essays built from these sources will change readers’ understanding of the visual culture(s) of imperialism.

Contributors. Kim Brandt, Leo Ching, Carol Ann Christ, Christine Guth, Jordan Sand, Gennifer Weisenfeld, Cherie Wendelken ... Read more

Product Description
Winter 2002 ... Read more

Product Description
Hatshepsut was a young woman who became the first female pharaoh of Egypt. When her father, Thutmose I, died, Hatshepsut was the only heir. Since she was female, leaders were afraid to make her pharaoh. She finally declared herself the pharaoh in 1501 B.C. and ruled Egypt for about 20 years. ... Read more