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Book Innocent in the Ivory Tower

Download or read book Innocent in the Ivory Tower written by Lucy Ellis (Romance fiction writer) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Innocent in the Ivory Tower

Download or read book Innocent in the Ivory Tower written by Lucy Ellis and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanny Maisy Edmonds is furious when a stranger tries to take her orphaned little charge—stealing a shockingly explicit kiss from her in the process! Can infamous tycoon Alexei Ranaevsky really be the child's godfather? Installed in Alexei's remote Italian villa, Maisy is intent on protecting little Kostya—and doing nothing else…. Alexei's childhood-turned-nightmare means he allows himself no emotional attachments. But Maisy's beguiling sweetness has the uncompromising Russian determined to seduce her down from her inexperienced pedestal….

Book Innocent in the Ivory Tower

Download or read book Innocent in the Ivory Tower written by Lucy Ellis and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nanny Maisy Edmonds is furious when a stranger tries to take her orphaned little charge-- stealing a shockingly explicit kiss from her into the bargain! Can infamous tycoon Alexei Ranaevsky really be the child's godfather? Installed in Alexei's remote Italian villa, Maisy is intent on protecting little Kostya-- and nothing else ... Alexei's childhood-turned-nightmare means he allows himself no emotional attachments. But Maisy's beguiling sweetness has the uncompromising Russian determined to seduce her down from her inexperienced pedestal."--P. [4] of cover.

Book INNOCENT IN THE IVORY TOWER Vol 2

Download or read book INNOCENT IN THE IVORY TOWER Vol 2 written by Lucy Ellis and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sudden death of Maisy’s best friend and her husband left their son, Kostya, all alone. Promising herself that she will take care of him, Maisy is surprised by a Russian intruder named Alexei. He is in fact the guardian of Kostya. Suspicious of this handsome and arrogant man, Maisy goes to his mansion in Naples as a nanny. Even after several fights, their natural attraction eventually leads them to share the same bed. But when the compensation Maisy receives is far more than she expected as a nanny, she has to ask herself what Alexei is paying her for. Is she just a mistress to him?

Book In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

Download or read book In the Basement of the Ivory Tower written by Professor X and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A caustic expose of the deeply state of our colleges-America's most expensive Ponzi scheme. What drives a former English major with a creative writing degree, several unpublished novels, three kids, and a straining marriage to take a job as a night teacher at a second-rate college? An unaffordable mortgage. As his house starts falling apart in every imaginable way, Professor X grabs first one, then two jobs teaching English 101 and 102-composition and literature-at a small private college and a local community college. He finds himself on the front lines of America's academic crisis. It's quite an education. This is the story of what he learns about his struggling pupils, about the college system-a business more bent on its own financial targets than the wellbeing of its students-about the classics he rediscovers, and about himself. Funny, wry, self-deprecating, and a provocative indictment of our failing schools, In the Basement of the Ivory Tower is both a brilliant academic satire and a poignant account of one teacher's seismic frustration-and unlikely salvation-as his real estate woes catapult him into a subprime crisis of an altogether more human nature.

Book Unsafe in the Ivory Tower

Download or read book Unsafe in the Ivory Tower written by Bonnie S. Fisher and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented look at college women's risks of and experiences with sexual victimization Unsafe in the Ivory Tower examines the nature and dimensions of a salient social problem—the sexual victimization of female college students today, and how women respond when they are, in fact, sexually victimized. The authors discuss the research that scholars have conducted to illuminate the origins and extent of this controversial issue as well as what can be done to prevent it. Students and other interested readers learn about the nature of victimization while simultaneously gaining an understanding of the ways in which criminologists, victimologists, and social scientists conduct research that informs theory and policy debates. Key Features Provides detailed information about sexual victimization on college campuses today Introduces broad lessons about the interactions of ideology, science and methodology, and public policy Integrates current data, research, and theory, based on the authors' national studies of more than 8,000 randomly selected female college students Intended Audience This supplemental text is ideal for courses such as Sex Crimes, Violence and Abuse, Victimology, Gender and Crime, Sociology of Violence, Sociology of Women, and the Sociology of Sex and Gender in departments of criminology, criminal justice, sociology, and women's studies. It is also useful for those involved in studying or creating public policy related to this issue and for those interested in sexual victimization on campuses generally.

Book Whiteness in the Ivory Tower

Download or read book Whiteness in the Ivory Tower written by Nolan L. Cabrera and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book centers the harm that Whiteness causes to communities of Color broadly in order to transform higher education practices, policies, and research"--

Book The Ivory Tower and the Sword

Download or read book The Ivory Tower and the Sword written by Santiago Pinon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can one be interested in social justice without participating in public protests? Must one go to jail for one's convictions in order to have integrity and legitimacy? Have academics succumbed to the negative connotations of the ivory tower by remaining in their cubicles, unaware of the social ills that threaten the very core of society? Or, is it possible for individuals who sit comfortably at their desks to have legitimate input into the evils that surround the cities in which we live? These are some of the questions that prompted The Ivory Tower and the Sword. By turning our attention to Francisco Vitoria, Santiago Pinon offers insight into a thought-provoking individual who was deeply concerned with the social injustices that his countrymen were committing. Living in the sixteenth century, Vitoria knew of the torturous practices that his fellow Spaniards had been conducting against the native peoples of the New World. Using the influence of his position as an academic theologian, Vitoria challenged these practices and held the Spanish emperor accountable for failing to intervene on behalf of the native peoples. From Vitoria we learn how to confront social ills from the ivory tower.

Book Cracks in the Ivory Tower

Download or read book Cracks in the Ivory Tower written by Jason Brennan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideally, universities are centers of learning, in which great researchers dispassionately search for truth, no matter how unpopular those truths must be. The marketplace of ideas assures that truth wins out against bias and prejudice. Yet, many people worry that there's rot in the heart of thehigher education business.In Cracks in the Ivory Tower, libertarian scholars Jason Brennan and Philip Magness reveal the problems are even worse than anyone suspects. Marshalling an array of data, they systematically show how contemporary American universities fall short of these ideals and how bad incentives make faculty,administrators, and students act unethically. While universities may at times excel at identifying and calling out injustice outside their gates, Brennan and Magness contend that individuals are primarily guided by self-interest at every level. They find that the problems are deep and pervasive:most academic marketing and advertising is semi-fraudulent; colleges and individual departments regularly make promises they do not and cannot keep; and most students cheat a little, while many cheat a lot. Trenchant and wide-ranging, they elucidate the many ways in which faculty and students alikehave every incentive to make teaching and learning secondary.In this revealing expose, Brennan and Magness bring to light many of the ethical problems universities, faculties, and students currently face. In turn, they reshape our understanding of how such high-powered institutions run their business.

Book The Ivory Tower and the Marble Citadel

Download or read book The Ivory Tower and the Marble Citadel written by Thomas A Metzger and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ivory Tower and the Marble Citadel opens up a new way of pursuing the critical development of political philosophy in today's intercultural intellectual arena. Metzger holds that political philosophies are linguistically unavoidable efforts to infer the principles of morally legitimate government from a maximally enlightened conceptualization of the universal human condition. Because these efforts depend on a vocabulary embodying culturally inherited premises, textual analysis uncovering these premises and debate about how they should be revised are crucial for the improvement of political philosophy.

Book Communism and the Remorse of an Innocent Victimizer

Download or read book Communism and the Remorse of an Innocent Victimizer written by Zlatko Anguelov and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In moving but understated prose, he describes his own coming to terms with the harm done by compliance and his gradual shift into a more politically active stance."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Conviction of the Innocent

Download or read book The Conviction of the Innocent written by Chester Porter Qc and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attorney Porter has clocked countless courtroom triumphs during his career. Passionate about notable cases of wrongful conviction, he is a senior member of the National Institute of Forensic Science.

Book The Conviction of the Innocent  EasyRead Large Bold Edition

Download or read book The Conviction of the Innocent EasyRead Large Bold Edition written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  You Shall Not Kill  Or  You Shall Not Murder

Download or read book You Shall Not Kill Or You Shall Not Murder written by Wilma A. Bailey and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In regard to the Ten Commandments, focuses on the change in the wording of the translations of Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17, from 'kill' to 'murder'"--Provided by publisher.

Book Faith  Force and Fiction in Medieval Baptismal Debates

Download or read book Faith Force and Fiction in Medieval Baptismal Debates written by Marcia L. Colish and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide and interdisciplinary range of sources that goes well beyond the writings of theologians and canonists to include liturgical texts and practices, the rulings of popes and church councils, saints' lives, chronicles, imaginative literature, and poetry, Faith, Fiction and Force in Medieval Baptismal Debates illuminates the emergence and fortunes of these three controversies and the historical contexts that situate their development. Each debate has its own story line, its own turning points, and its own seminal figures whose positions informed its course. The thinkers involved in each case were, and regarded one another as being, members of the orthodox western Christian communion. Thus, another finding of this book is that Christian orthodoxy in the Middle Ages was able to encompass and accept disagreements both wide and deep on a sacrament seen as fundamental to Christian identity, faith and practice.

Book No Ivory Tower

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ellen Schrecker
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book No Ivory Tower written by Ellen Schrecker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of McCarthyism's traumatic impact on government employees and Hollywood screenwriters during the 1950s is all too familiar, but what happened on college and university campuses during this period is barely known. No Ivory Tower recounts the previously untold story of how the anti-Communist furor affected the nation's college teachers, administrators, trustees, and students. As Ellen Schrecker shows, the hundreds of professors who were called before HUAC and otehr committees confronted the same dilemma most other witnesses had faced. They had to decide whether to cooperate with the committees and "name names" or to refuse such cooperation and risk losing their jobs. Drawing on heretofore untouched archives and dozens of eprsonal interviews, Schrecker re-creates the climate of fear that pervaded American campuses and made the nation's educational leaders worry about Communist subversion as well as about the damage that unfriendly witnesses might do to the reputations of their institutions. Noting that faculty members who failed to cooperate with congressional committees were usually fired even if they had tenure, Schrecker shows that these firings took place everywhere--at Ivy League universities, large state schools and small private colleges. The presence of an unofficial but effective blacklist, she reveals, meant that most of these unfrocked professors were unable to find regular college teaching jobs in the U.S. until the 1960s, after the McCarthyist furor had begun to subside. No Ivory Tower offers new perspectives on McCarthyism as a political movement and helps to explain how that movement, which many people even then saw as a betrayal of this nation's most cherished ideals, gained so much power.

Book Voices in Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hugh MacLennan
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2011-04-01
  • ISBN : 0773586466
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book Voices in Time written by Hugh MacLennan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s the Bureaucracy eliminated all knowledge of the past in the wake of a nuclear holocaust. In 2030 André Gervais discovers two metal boxes containing manuscripts, diaries, and other personal papers that have somehow survived and asks an old man, John Wellfleet, to use these documents to discover the past. In doing so, Wellfleet learns the truth about two relatives: his older cousin Timothy Wellfleet, a Montreal TV journalist at the time of the 1970 War Measures Act, and his stepfather, Conrad Dehmel, a German scholar struggling to keep his Jewish fiancée and himself safe from Hitler's Gestapo. Hugh MacLennan skillfully juxtaposes the insanity of life in Nazi Germany, the political climate of Montreal in the 1960s, and the perspective of an old man looking back on the conditions that led to world destruction as the background to an unforgettable love story.