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RIGHTS HELDAll rights in all languages except Italian AUTHOR Victor E. Ferrall TITLE Liberal Arts at the Brink CATEGORY education academic trade NUMBER OF PAGES 238 23 tables PUBLICATION MONTH March AUTHOR BIO Victon Ferrall was born in Urbana, Illinois in 1936. Educated at Oberlin College and Yale University he is the retired President of Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin. He the editor and author of numerous books, most recently Writing Wood published by Beloit College Press in 2007. BOOK DESCRIPTION Presents the case for liberal arts colleges in America, cautioning that all but the wealthiest will either cease to exist or be forced to become something all together different. This in depth examination of the performance of liberal arts colleges over the past two decades finds that the future is bleak for liberal arts colleges and liberal arts education in general. An analysis of 225 liberal arts colleges shows that, between 1986-1987 and 2007-2008, the number of them graduating 90 percent or more liberal arts majors dropped from118 to 56, and the number graduating 30 percent or more vocational majors increased from 29 to 118. After 2008, the numbers have shifted even more. The demand for liberal arts education, never great, is declining steadily and the demand for directly career-related, vocational education is growing rapidly. Ferrall finds no evidence that this trend will not continue to accelerate and predicts that, as demand for liberal arts education continues to slip away, an increasing number of liberal arts colleges will be forced to close their doors or sell out to for-profit, online, vocational institutions that covet the colleges’ legitimizing accreditation and federal financing. A handful of prestigious, wealthy colleges will survive as credential creators for graduate and profession schools and corporate employement. What is needed to reverse this trend, says Ferrall, is a long-term campaign to educate Americans about the value of liberal arts college education. He does not, however, see an entity in existence or on the horizon capable of leading liberal arts colleges in meeting this challenge. Liberal arts colleges represent a tiny proportion of the higher education market in America - no more than 1-2 percent of total higher education enrollees. Perhaps more than any other group of higher education institutions, however, they enrich the lives of their students and produce a stunningly disproportionately large percentage of America’s leaders in virtually every field of endeavor. Ferrall believes it would be a tragedy for such a valuable societal asset to be lost and offers this book as a wake up call to those who share his view. RIGHTS HELDAUTHOR Elizabeth Price Foley TITLE The Law of Life and Death CATEGORY law academic trade NUMBER OF PAGES 290 PUBLICATION MONTH April AUTHOR BIO Elizabth Foley was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1965. Educated at Emory University, the University of Tennessee and Harvard Law School, she is now Professor of Law at the Florida International University College of Law. She is the author of two books, most recently Libery for All published by Yale University Press in 2006. BOOK DESCRIPTION Looks at the many, and surprisingly ambiguous, legal definitions of what counts as human life and death in American society. What is it that defines one’s status among the living? Is life biological - something akin to “I am breathing”? Is it spiritual, as in “I have a soul that animates my body”? Or perhaps the definition of life should be more intellectual, such as “I think, therefore I am”? If asked, most people would probably define life by these physical, spiritual, or intellectual references. Moreover, most people would assume that, whatever definition of life one employed, death would be its antithesis. But the seemingly incontrovertible notion of life and death as antonyms presents as array of potential pitfalls and ambiguities. This book examines the law of life and death, offering a broad view of the law’s ambiguities and inconsistencies and the profound implications that flow therefrom. RIGHTS HELDAll rights in all languages AUTHOR Anton Ford, editor Jennifer Hornsby, editor Frederick Stoutland, editor TITLE Essays on Anscombe’s Intention CATEGORY philosophy monograph NUMBER OF PAGES 320 PUBLICATION MONTH June AUTHOR BIO Anton Ford is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago Jennifer Hornsby is Professor Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London Frederick Stoutland is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at St. Olaf College and Permanent Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Uppsala University BOOK DESCRIPTION Over the last two decades, philosophers have come to see G. E. M. Anscombe in her true stature as the one the most important philosophers of action since Aristotle. In this volume, 12 leading philosophers from around the world provide an illuminating account of the main concerns and contributing claims of Anscombe’s most powerful philosophical achievement, her slim volume published in 1957, that develops a profound, original and remarkably comprehensive account of intentional action and the concepts that circle around it. Introduction: Anscombe’s Intention in Context Summary of Anscombe’s Intention Frederick Stoutland 1. Anscombe on Expression of Intention: An Exegesis Richard Moran and Martin J. Stone 2. Action and Generality Anton Ford 3. Actions in Their Circumstances Jennifer Hornsby 4. Anscombe on Bodily Self-knowledge John McDowell 5. The Knowledge That a Man Has of His Intentional Actions Adrian Haddock 6. Knowledge of Intention Kieran Setiya 7. Anscombe’s Intention and Practical Knowledge Michael Thompson 8. Two Forms of Practical Knowledge and Their Unity Sebastian Rödl 9. Backward-looking Rationality and the Unity of Practical Reason Anselm Müller 10. An Anscombian Approach to Collective Action Ben Laurence Directory: sites -> default -> files -> katalogi files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. DuPont Company, cr&D/ccas experimental Station Wilmington, de 19880 files -> Personal Information Name: Maha Al-Ammari Nationality: Saudi Relationship Status katalogi -> 2013 rights list non-fiction adshade, Marina dollars and sex: An Economist Puts a Price on Sex and Love katalogi -> Blake friedmann literary, tv and Film Agency katalogi -> Foreign rights guide katalogi -> Rights guide atlantic books corvus katalogi -> Harpercollinspublishers foreign rights guide william Morrow HarperBusiness Avon Avon Impulse Download 252.6 Kb. Share with your friends:
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