Download or read book Murders in the Ivory Tower written by Kamakshi P. Murti and published by Vanguard Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two crime-fighting South-Asian cousins, Leela and Meena Rao are back on the scene of multiple killings in this compelling murder mystery by Kamakshi Murti, author of Murders Most Matronly. The cousins' ambition is to emulate Christie's Jane Marple - in this latest story, they become embroiled in a series of gruesome homicides. After a bloody discovery at the prestigious Anderson College of star quarterback Sean O'Flaherty, staff and students are drawn into the lives of drug-consumed, Ivy League collegians. When a second body is found, that of a popular Zimbabwean TA in the African Studies department, the cousins must establish how and why these two students have become inextricably linked. As more killings come to light, they seem to point towards radicalism, but are they as straightforward as they seem or is someone trying to distract from the real motive? Faced with a surfeit of suspects, will Leela and Meena be able to obtain justice for the heinous crimes and reveal the truth?
Download or read book Murders in the Ivory Tower written by Kamakshi P. Murti and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is academia's ivory tower immune to murder and mayhem? Leela and Meena, my feisty 76-year-old South-Asian women take up their favorite hobby once again: sleuthing when a popular athlete and an exchange student from Zimbabwe are murdered on the campus of a prestigious liberal arts college. Leela and Meena get a letter from Madhu, the daughter of a close friend and an Assistant Professor at the college, to assist in the investigation. Persons of interest range from the baseball coach to a corrupt dean and a homophobic professor. But why would the killer bludgeon one of the victims to death, then decapitate him? And what does the inscription in Arabic carved into the chest of one of the victims signify?
Download or read book Shooting in the Ivory Tower written by Joseph Katz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower written by John J. Sloan III and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cursory reading of the history of US colleges and universities reveals that campus crime has been part of collegiate life since the Colonial Era, yet it was not until the late 1980s that it suddenly became an issue on the public stage. Drawing from numerous mass media and scholarly sources and using a theoretical framework grounded in social constructionism, this text chronicles how four groups of activists - college student advocates, feminists, victims and their families, and public health experts - used a variety of tactics and strategies to convince the public that campus crime posed a new danger to the safety and security of college students and the ivory tower itself, while simultaneously convincing policymakers to take action against the problem. Readers from a range of disciplinary interests will find the book both compelling and valuable to understanding campus crime as a newly constructed social reality.
Download or read book Death in an Ivory Tower written by Maria Hudgins and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A coveted invitation to a highbrow conference at Oxford is way up there on medieval history professor Dotsy Lamb's bucket list. With scholars from three continents and an honest-to-goodness ghost floating by during the welcoming dinner, the Lingering Effects of the King Arthur Tales on Life in Elizabethan England promises a lively symposium. Until one of the scheduled speakers is found dead. Glastonbury contrarian Bram Fitzwaring planned to produce a set of ancient bones to prove to the snooty, dlsbelieving history buffs that the owner of the legendary sword of Excalibur was no myth. But it isn't King Arthur's life that has Dotsy ferreting out clues--it's Fitzwaring's demise from a suspicious case of low blood sugar. Then someone close to her is shot, outraging Dotsy...while somewhere in the hushed, hallowed halls of Oxford, a killer patiently waits to turn her into the next antiquity."--Page [4] of cover.
Download or read book Grave Circle written by David Derbin Nolta and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Vanderlyn, infamously adulterous wife of an archaeology professor, is found buried beneath the cellar floorboards of her Clare College home. The murder compels Professors Antigone and Hiawatha Musing to investigate, using their complementary gifts for reason and intuition in this sumptuously atmospheric mystery. Grave Circle seduces readers with alluring settings, poignantly human characters, and a stunning resolution.
Download or read book Deadly Ivory Tower written by Monique M. Ferraro and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly minted, Professor Mimi Irons stumbles upon a body posed in a crime scene she set up as an exam for her criminal investigations class. She quickly becomes entangled in the investigation of a series of murders and a scandal that threatens to close the university and destroy reputations. The murdered president of the university was sleeping with a professor, a sex club is frequented by surprising guests and a university administrator whoas dating a stripper is found in a compromising position. Mimi struggles to stay a step ahead of a stalker and to keep her head while falling in love with a handsome detective.
Download or read book Tenure to Die for written by Ronald Perkins and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Emeritus Alex Chandler returns to his alma mater to attend his alumni reunion and discovers a university vastly different from the one he had known: graduate students burdened with heavy student- loan debt facing a lack of teaching opportunities, tenure-track positions being replaced by part-time and adjunct positions, "road scholars" forced to hold several low-paying teaching jobs in their struggle to make ends meet, online courses eliminating teaching positions, and an aging faculty reluctant or refusing to retire. Alex discovers that older tenured faculty have died under suspicious circumstances. Are these deaths accidental? If not, who is responsible, what could their motives be, and why are only certain faculty being targeted? Alex's search for the truth places himself and others in danger. There are many twists and turns before the truth finally comes out but not before there are dire consequences for Alex and his compatriots.
Download or read book Escape from the Ivory Tower written by Nancy Baron and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most scientists and researchers aren’t prepared to talk to the press or to policymakers—or to deal with backlash. Many researchers have the horror stories to prove it. What’s clear, according to Nancy Baron, is that scientists, journalists and public policymakers come from different cultures. They follow different sets of rules, pursue different goals, and speak their own language. To effectively reach journalists and public officials, scientists need to learn new skills and rules of engagement. No matter what your specialty, the keys to success are clear thinking, knowing what you want to say, understanding your audience, and using everyday language to get your main points across. In this practical and entertaining guide to communicating science, Baron explains how to engage your audience and explain why a particular finding matters. She explores how to ace your interview, promote a paper, enter the political fray, and use new media to connect with your audience. The book includes advice from journalists, decision makers, new media experts, bloggers and some of the thousands of scientists who have participated in her communication workshops. Many of the researchers she has worked with have gone on to become well-known spokespeople for science-related issues. Baron and her protégées describe the risks and rewards of “speaking up,” how to deal with criticism, and the link between communications and leadership. The final chapter, ‘Leading the Way’ offers guidance to scientists who want to become agents of change and make your science matter. Whether you are an absolute beginner or a seasoned veteran looking to hone your skills, Escape From the Ivory Tower can help make your science understood, appreciated and perhaps acted upon.
Download or read book Killing Them by Degrees written by Keith Pepperell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a small Mid-Western University this is a chilling tale of murder, intrigue, and all manner of skullduggery. Amateur sleuths Algernon 'Pinkie' Chalmonderley-Featherstonhaugh, Lady Estima Davenport, and Muriel Dinwiddy unmask the villain as well as drink an awful lot of gin and consume some delightfully moist Victoria Sponge Cakes and little cucumber sandwiches with the crusts neatly trimmed.
Download or read book Blood Ivy The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard written by Paul Collins and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Well-researched and beautifully written.…Collins knows how to build suspense.” —San Francisco Chronicle On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city’s richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston’s West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor, and leads put the elusive Dr. Parkman at sea or hiding in Manhattan. But one Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless benefactor had never left the Medical School building alive. His shocking discoveries in a chemistry professor’s laboratory engulfed America in one of its most infamous trials: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. John White Webster. A baffling case of red herrings, grave robbery, and dismemberment, it became a landmark case in the use of medical forensics and the meaning of reasonable doubt. Paul Collins brings nineteenth-century Boston back to life in vivid detail, weaving together newspaper accounts, letters, journals, court transcripts, and memoirs from this groundbreaking case. Rich in characters and evocative in atmosphere, Blood & Ivy explores the fatal entanglement of new science and old money in one of America’s greatest murder mysteries.
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.
Download or read book A Blood Stained Ivory Tower written by Richard Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Evers, a young college professor, reluctantly becomes involved in a desperate search for a vicious serial killer who murders college women for sexual gratification. During his investigation, he comes to the disturbing realization that he and his wife may be in danger, and that the killer may be a member of the faculty. As an insider who is well known on campus, Tom uncovers information that is not available to the police. This eventually enables him to identify the murderer. Blood Stained Ivory will have a special appeal for those who appreciate the unusual and the unexpected. The setting adds an extra dimension. The portrayal of the university in remarkably realistic detail and the strong characterization provide a view of the ivory tower from a unique perspective. The plot explores several important social issues, and the good natured banter which appears in the dialogue introduces some comic relief into an otherwise grim tale.
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower written by Davarian L Baldwin and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power—and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.
Download or read book Ivory Tower Cop written by George Kirkham and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fast-paced psychiatric thriller is based on police efforts to capture a brutal serial rapist who held a city's professional women in the grip of fear for months, and on the senior author's improbable metamorphosis from a Berkeley-educated university professor to a cop. "An intriguing story of academic turned police officer, Ivory Tower Cop is a worthwhile read." -- Paul T. Vogel, The Midwest Book Review The Teacher's Manual is available electronically on a CD or via email. Please contact Beth Hall at [email protected] to request a copy.
Download or read book The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter written by Lana A. Whited and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paper, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter is the first book-length analysis of J. K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. A significant portion of the book explores the Harry Potter series' literary ancestors, including magic and fantasy works by Ursula K. LeGuin, Monica Furlong, Jill Murphy, and others, as well as previous works about the British boarding school experience. Other chapters explore the moral and ethical dimensions of Harry's world, including objections to the series raised within some religious circles. In her new epilogue, Lana A. Whited brings this volume up to date by covering Rowling's latest book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Download or read book Building the Ivory Tower written by LaDale C. Winling and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building the Ivory Tower examines the role of American universities as urban developers and their changing effects on cities in the twentieth century. LaDale C. Winling explores philanthropy, real estate investments, architectural landscapes, and urban politics to reckon with the tensions of university growth in our cities.
