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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1914Original Publisher: The FoundationSubjects: EducationEducation / GeneralEducation / Aims ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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A unique collection of interviews that explore Vermont's rich multicultural heritage.Text includes interviews with representatives of 22 different cultural groups who call Vermont home, plus a series of introductory essays of multicultural education, overcoming stereotypes, immigration history, and using community resources.Teaching guidelines and activity suggestions provide helpful strategies for engaging students with material and ideas presented in this handbook. ... Read more

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Since 1800, when president Daniel Sanders welcomed the first class into the “temple of knowledge,” the University of Vermont has pursued a progressive mission of enlightening individuals and, through them, society. Balanced against the demands of national development, cultural change, and increased emphasis on academic specialization, UVM has graduated students who are intellectually curious, consider education to be a lifelong process, and seek to translate academic abstractions into the practical needs of society. University of Vermont tells this story of the students, curriculum, and campus through a unique collection of drawings, paintings, and photographs, many of which are published here for the first time. ... Read more

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Exhaustively researched, brilliantly written, DONT MISS THIS!
This well-researcherd and handsomely illustrated volume from promising young writer and historian John D.Thomas, is much more than one has come to expect from the (often staid) "University History" genre.Such books may routinely be dry and formulaic, but not so Mr. Thomas's elegantly penned story of the University on the Hill.UVM's colorful history is brought vividly to life in Thomas's spare, lively and very well crafted prose.

This book may not have the suspense of John Le Carre, the surrealism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the transcendent literary flare of Melville or the staying power of Nathaniel Hawthorne but it is not without poetry or intrigue and (in the mind of this reader anyway), Thomas' richly wrought tome has the ring of a classic to it--truly unusual for the genre.Popular novel it may not be, but for those with a little more depth, intellect and historical curiosity this book is a real page turner, as full of thrilling plot twists as anything Michael Creighton ever turned out! Indeed this elegantly crafted history is the book that belongs on your bedside table this summer, not one those pretentious "best-selling" novels the New York Times Review of Books so breathlessly lard with anemic adjectives like "ethereal," "light-filled,"or "transformative." If there is a story that deserves to be made into a major motion picture, surely it is this quiet, unassuming (but thrilling to the intellectually rigorous) history of the University of Vermont.We are all in debt to this fine historian and writer whose name is sure to become a household word before the ink dries on his masterpiece. ... Read more