By Joshua Kim. A very funny book about pro football, money, brain damage, and us. More...
2 novembre 2018
2 novembre 2018
Adding 'The World in a Grain' to Our Microhistory Bookshelf
By Joshua Kim. The history and future of sand. More...
2 novembre 2018
Why Social Infrastructure Matters
By Barbara Fister. There are two things I love about Eric Klinenberg’s Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life. First, he makes a great case for things that matter to me – public investment in basic infrastructure that encourages us to live together in healthy ways. More...
2 novembre 2018
Grad Student Reads: The Professor Is In
Preparing for the job market with the help of Karen Kelsky's book, The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. into a Job. More...
2 novembre 2018
The Case Against 'The Case Against Education'
By Joshua Kim. Why this excellent book gets higher education completely wrong. More...
2 novembre 2018
A Friendly Critique of 'Palaces for the People’
By Joshua Kim. What happens when three IHE bloggers recommend the same book. More...
2 novembre 2018
Please Take the 'Prius or Pickup?’ Quiz
By Joshua Kim. A book that made me wonder if IHE is a good place to have conversations across worldviews, and which also made me more worried about November 2020. More...
2 novembre 2018
Waiting for 'The Fourth Age' to Arrive
By Joshua Kim. How we think about genocidal AI and job-stealing robots. More...
1 novembre 2018
Closing the Gap Between University Presses and Libraries
By Lindsay McKenzie. Two leading university presses are changing the way they sell their digital collections to libraries -- cutting out the middlemen. Will others follow suit. More...
1 novembre 2018
A Faculty Plea: Put Books Back in the Bookstore
By Lindsay McKenzie. Unhappy with a new online-only book ordering system, professors at Middlebury College are calling for books to be put back on the shelves of their college bookstore. More...
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