The John Crerar Library

The John Crerar Library
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Total Pages : 20
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015033942049
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Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The John Crerar Library by : Clement Walker Andrews

En Guerre

En Guerre
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 094305642X
ISBN-13 : 9780943056425
Rating : 4/5 (2X Downloads)

Synopsis En Guerre by : Neil Harris

Explores World War I through French graphics from books, magazines, and prints of the period, presenting a wide range of perspectives.

The Naval History of the Civil War

The Naval History of the Civil War
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Total Pages : 868
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ISBN-10 : YALE:39002007768774
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Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Naval History of the Civil War by : David Dixon Porter

Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German Speaking Academic Culture

Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German Speaking Academic Culture
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9783642224645
ISBN-13 : 3642224644
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German Speaking Academic Culture by : Birgit Bergmann

A companion publication to the international exhibition "Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture", the catalogue explores the working lives and activities of Jewish mathematicians in German-speaking countries during the period between the legal and political emancipation of the Jews in the 19th century and their persecution in Nazi Germany. It highlights the important role Jewish mathematicians played in all areas of mathematical culture during the Wilhelmine Empire and the Weimar Republic, and recalls their emigration, flight or death after 1933.

An Academic Life

An Academic Life
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9780691179186
ISBN-13 : 0691179182
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis An Academic Life by : Hanna Holborn Gray

A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American university Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father was a professor at Yale University. She has studied and taught at some of the world's most prestigious universities. She was the first woman to serve as provost of Yale. In 1978, she became the first woman president of a major research university when she was appointed to lead the University of Chicago, a position she held for fifteen years. In 1991, Gray was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in recognition of her extraordinary contributions to education. An Academic Life is a candid self-portrait by one of academia's most respected trailblazers. Gray describes what it was like to grow up as a child of refugee parents, and reflects on the changing status of women in the academic world. She discusses the migration of intellectuals from Nazi-held Europe and the transformative role these exiles played in American higher education—and how the émigré experience in America transformed their own lives and work. She sheds light on the character of university communities, how they are structured and administered, and the balance they seek between tradition and innovation, teaching and research, and undergraduate and professional learning. An Academic Life speaks to the fundamental issues of purpose, academic freedom, and governance that arise time and again in higher education, and that pose sharp challenges to the independence and scholarly integrity of each new generation.

Library as Place

Library as Place
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Publisher : Council on Library & Information Resources
Total Pages : 96
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105063719574
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Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Library as Place by : Geoffrey T. Freeman

What is the role of a library when users can obtain information from any location? And what does this role change mean for the creation and design of library space? Six authors an architect, four librarians, and a professor of art history and classics explore these questions this report. The authors challenge the reader to think about new potential for the place we call the library and underscore the growing importance of the library as a place for teaching, learning, and research in the digital age.

Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science

Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science
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Publisher : Trotman Education
Total Pages : 152
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ISBN-10 : 1906041148
ISBN-13 : 9781906041144
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science by : Careers Research and Advisory Centre (Cambridge, England)

Popular among university applicants and their advisers alike, these guides presents a wide range of information on a specific degree discipline, laid out in tabular format enabling at-a-glance course comparison.

A Naturalist's Pilgrimage

A Naturalist's Pilgrimage
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Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : CHI:086756087
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Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis A Naturalist's Pilgrimage by : Richard Kearton

Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary

Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0943056403
ISBN-13 : 9780943056401
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary by : Robert Bird

Two of the most striking manifestations of Soviet image culture were the children's book and the poster. This text plots the development of this new image culture alongside the formation of new social and cultural identities.