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Book SynopsisAwaken your wanderlust with this soy wax candle, where rich Nag Champa, sandalwood, cedar, and a whisper of cinnamon conjure exotic temples and ancient markets. Complete with a crackling wood wick. 200g/7oz net weight. Burn time: 35+ hours.

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Book SynopsisThe Half Toys animal range mixes a fun 3D jigsaw puzzle toy with educational play. Each animal is built with a magnetic body that can be separated into 2 parts to reveal a skeletal puzzle within, helping children learn the basics of anatomy and natural history through play. All animals come with a fun fact file and its own unique display diorama, so you can build the 3D environment for the half-toy and link them up with other collectible sets in the range. These pocket-sized toys are great gift ideas that offer hours of play or can be enjoyed within a display setting or as a desk toy. Suitable for ages 3+ years.

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Book SynopsisThe Half Toys animal range mixes a fun 3D jigsaw puzzle toy with educational play. Each animal is built with a magnetic body that can be separated into 2 parts to reveal a skeletal puzzle within, helping children learn the basics of anatomy and natural history through play. All animals come with a fun fact file and its own unique display diorama, so you can build the 3D environment for the half-toy and link them up with other collectible sets in the range. These pocket-sized toys are great gift ideas that offer hours of play or can be enjoyed within a display setting or as a desk toy. Suitable for ages 3+ years.

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Book SynopsisDragon Ball Super 12 Vegeta Black Soft Toy.

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Book SynopsisCan you open this Egyptian box? Egypt is renowned for its intriguing hidden rooms and challenging entries. The goal of this puzzle is to find the solution that unlocks the lid from the top and gains access to the hidden chamber.

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Book SynopsisKey Words: Sense, Touch, Awareness. The parietal lobe - one of many parts of your brain - processes sensory input from the world around you. Everything from the taste of a crisp apple to a pointy cactus is handled here. Which senses will you equip to solve this puzzle.

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Book SynopsisKnow someone who wants to channel some inner peace but can't quite seem to reach nirvana? Then gift them the How to Become a Yogi powerpack! The 25+ serenely designed and wisely-written cards have enough practical tips, information, and inspirational quotes to shape the mind and body into the form and poses of a yoga master. Includes a headband to get into the right headspace. Namaste! The ideal gift for every (un)experienced yogi or yogi to be.

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Book Synopsis''Read Between the Lines is so much fun! Emily Kerr writes really likeable and funny characters and I loved every minute with them' ????? NetGalley ReviewerA brand new escapist Oxford-set bookish romance from award-winning author, Emily Kerr!Romance might be closer than she thinksKat Fisher wishes her parents had thought harder before they chose her name. A self-confessed romantic, she dreams of finding a guy who can live up to her book boyfriends.Former police officer Leo Taylor is trying to decide his next step following his departure from the force. His habit of spreading his belongings around the library where she works has been niggling at Kat for days, and his joke about her name is the final straw.Kat and Leo might not seem like the perfect match, but romance might be closer than they think. If only they could read between the linesPraise for Read Between the Lines''All the hearts! Such an enjoyable read and quite funny at times. I loved the chemistry and banter between Kat and Leo and going along on their adventures searching for the scammer. There are plenty of twists to keep you engaged and fabulous supporting characters' ?????''What a wonderful five-star read. This was great, I loved the setting of OxfordI really enjoyed the whole [story]' ?????''I absolutely adored this story! The chemistry between Kat and Leo was perfection. So much cute banter' ?????A fun read with a few bittersweet moments that kept the plot going smoothly' ?????The chemistry between the MCs was perfection. Really cute and funny read' ?????''Leo is a sweet hero who cares too much and there''s satisfying character development for both him and Kat' ?????A charming and witty romcom set in the picturesque city of Oxford, blending humour, heart, and just the right touch of mystery' ????''This was a great read! It had a little mystery, a little humour and a little romance!' ?????''Perfect holiday reading' ????

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Book SynopsisDark and funny' Jackie Kabler, author of The Murder List Deliciously dark and hilariously witty' Sunday Post 'A razor-sharp revenge thriller with bite, brains and a body count' The Observer

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Book Synopsis**Available to pre-order now!** LIVE, LAUGH, LEAVE ME ALONE is a hilarious and relatable exploration of what it really means to 'live your best life', perfect for anyone who has rolled their eyes at a wellness influencer, and then wondered if they should drink that green juice anyway - Lucy is fifty, frazzled and fed up. After spending half her life working, she's tired, and her idea of inner peace involves a sofa, wine and a takeaway. But when her boss announces his retirement, Lucy gears up for a well-earned promotion that is until Tara, her annoyingly perfect colleague, swoops in, dazzling the CEO with her #BossBabe energy and commitment to a wellness bootcamp so hardcore it sounds like a cult. Desperate to compete, Lucy lies about joining the same program even though her body feels more landfill than temple. Now she's trapped in four weeks of ice baths, crystals and green juices not to mention jade eggs in unspeakable places. As the wellness madness escalates and rivalries flare, Lu starts to wonder if she actually might be growing as a person or if that's just the kombucha talking? And why can't she shake the feeling that maybe Tara isn't as perfect as she seems? LIVE, LAUGH, LEAVE ME ALONE is a hilarious and relatable exploration of what it really means to 'live your best life', perfect for fans of Marian Keyes, Alexandra Potter and Fiona Gibson. AUTHORS LOVE HARPER FORD! A gloriously uplifting celebration of middle age. I loved it.' Katie Fforde 'Bloody brilliant! All the Bridget Jones romance drama with added hot flushes and feminine rage!' Helen Fields 'A hilarious take on the pressure cooker of midlifeI loved it!' Fiona Gibson 'A joy of a booklike a hug from a friend!' Kate Galley 'I LOVED IT!' Amanda Prowse 'Very relatable and a reminder of the power we have as women when we come together.' Jo Middleton 'Blisteringly honest and laugh-out-loud funny!' Aliya Ali-Afzal 'An absolute gem!' Rosie Hannigan 'Like having a rant with your best friend.' Helga Jensen 'You'll devour it in one sitting!' Annabel French Hilarious, hopeful and relatable!' Rosie Wilby 'A joy from first page to last!' Catherine Balavage READERS LOVE HARPER FORD! 'Harper Ford is back with her no-nonsense, straight to the point writing, It's another hoot of a book!' ????? Made me laugh more than any book I have ever read!' ????? 'This will be an important book to many, many women!' ????? Absolutely raced through this irreverently funny, clever and thoughtful book. A whip smart novel with a clever heroine!' ????? Better than Sex and the City!' ????? A heartwarming and relatable romance novel that celebrates second chances!' ????? A fabulous, funny five-star read for me!' ????? It felt like I was listening to my best friend.' ????? It's so empowering!' ????? 'Absolutely brilliant, truly capturing the trials and tribulations of the Perimenopause and Menopause.' ????? 'Wonderful characters just ordinary women struggling with everyday problems' ????? 'Brilliant. Heart warming and inspiring, with a sprinkling of wonderful humour too.' ????? 'I wish this book had been about when I was going through this era of my life!' ?????

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Book SynopsisIs it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in any particular way? For Daniel L. Everett, the answer is a resounding no: it isn't in our nature to do any of these things because human nature does not exist at least not as we usually think of it. Flying in the face of major trends in Evolutionary Psychology and related fields, he offers a provocative and compelling argument in this book that the only thing humans are hardwired for is freedom: freedom from evolutionary instinct and freedom to adapt to a variety of environmental and cultural contexts. Everett sketches a blank-slate picture of human cognition that focuses not on what is in the mind but, rather, what the mind is in namely, culture. He draws on years of field research among the Amazonian people of the Piraha in order to carefully scrutinize various theories of cognitive instinct, including Noam Chomsky's foundational concept of universal grammar, F

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Book SynopsisTrade Review2020 Finalist in Criticism * National Book Critics Circle *"Part history, part sociology, with some firecracker economic insights to boot, Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America arrives as a much-needed etymology for everyday goods that we take for granted. . . . Elucidating, witty, and compulsively readable." * Lit Hub *“Woloson’s book is a history of buying ‘crap’–Magic Wand hand mixers, Beanie Babies, knock-off Staffordshire figurines, devices to measure the freshness of eggs (The Eggs Ray), hair in a can, Thighmasters, Baconizers–as well as a dossier of marketing ploys including one of the most fundamental of all: the ‘allure of infinite variety,’ or the art of heterogeny.” * Times Literary Supplement *“Since the consumer revolution of the 1700s, an abundance of cheap goods has enabled us to buy pointless stuff; but all of this crap comes with environmental, economic and spiritual costs, explains the academic Wendy A Woloson in this rich and expansive cultural history. It asks: surrounded by all these ‘what-nots’ and ‘thingums,’ have we ourselves become crappy?” * New Statesman *"Admirably researched, vividly written, handsomely illustrated, and ethically passionate, Woloson’s book is both an absorbing history and entertaining diversion. Almost everyone who reads it will be (or should be) at least slightly ashamed about some of their own purchases, whether or not they accept Marx’s view of consumer society. . . . [A] landmark book." * Milken Institute Review *"Woloson makes some compelling discoveries and connections. . . .It’s not really the products themselves that are at the heart of her book: it’s the schemes and schemers who lighten our wallets which is its true subject. They’ve figured out a million ways to take us and as many to make us feel happy to be taken. We’re covered in it but keep asking for more." * Chicago Reader *"The objects Wendy A. Woloson holds up for inspection in her book on “the history of cheap stuff in America” could be sorted into a number of bins: knickknacks, tchotchkes, keepsakes, souvenirs, cheapjack, premiums, prizes, gimmicks, gadgets and probably a few more. A Venn diagram would show much overlap. But taken in aggregate, the most general category is the one the author, an associate professor of history at Rutgers University, uses as her title: Crap." -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Ed *“Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America describes how we have learned to endure, accommodate and sometimes cherish the shortfall between our desires for slackly manufactured objects and the limited satisfactions they provide.” * UnHerd *“Deeply researched. . . . The book is sympathetic to our impulse toward crap, if not toward crap itself or its production. . . . Crap is insightful in its analyses of the way cheap stuff has worked to appease our aspirations.” * Baffler *"If you thought, you knew in which disguises and shapes crap was sold, often to make very little profit margins, be prepared for some surprises. The many stories, pictures and advertising ideas she reveals about peddlers, sales performances (changing over the decades), cheap chain stores and novelty goods with obviously no purpose are fascinating." * Pop Culture Shelf *"We are a nation of collectors, says Woloson; so she discusses plates, spoons, figurines and Beanies that were made specifically for collect-o-mania. Souvenirs are up for examination, as are other childhood tchotchkes and those too-good-to-be-true things you always just had to order from the backs of comic books. Woloson writes about goofy gag gifts; gender differences in marketing novelty items, such as joy buzzers; and she looks at the influence Chinese factories made on American trinkets. This book is as gleeful as emptying the cereal box in a Saturday morning, and finding the 'free prize' before your siblings do. It’s as special as a drink from the glass that Mom got for you at the gas station. It’s history and nostalgia rolled into one, so read Crap.” * Wyoming News *"Woloson is the kind of history professor who makes a subject come alive. . . . In Crap, Woloson expertly combines her interest in popular Americana with her expertise in American economic history to create an interpretation of consumption in America that is as compulsive and propulsive as our consumption habits themselves." * PopMatters *“We’ve heard all about the magic of the marketplace, the power of capital-backed innovation to improve lives. We hear less about the astounding amount of crap that results—and that we consistently embrace. But Woloson has rightly recognized this as an important subject, and she goes deep into the surprisingly long history of America’s appetite for the cheap, shoddy, dubiously marketed, ephemeral, and sometimes outright useless stuff that’s such a familiar part of everyday life we barely think about it. The book isn’t a jeremiad, or a Marie Kondo–style advice guide, but a thoughtful and surprising examination of the flip side of our seemingly sparkling material culture. Woloson takes crap seriously and shows us why we should, too.” -- Rob Walker, author of The Art of Noticing and Buying In“A fascinating look at the history of cheap commodities in America and the ways they have been marketed, sold, and consumed. Woloson examines gadgets, giveaways-gifts-swag, ready-made cheap collectibles, novelties/jokes, with some terrific mini case-histories of businesses such as Woolworth’s Five and Dime, Hummel figurines, and Beanie Babies. Crap elucidates the central role that cheap goods have played in American consumer culture.” -- Marita Sturken, author of Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero"Excellent, paradigm-shifting. . . supported by exhaustive research and argued with specificity, vigor, brevity, and wit." * The Diagram *"The fascinating history of cheaply-made consumer goods, from 18th-century jewelry to kitchen gadgets to Beanie Babies, and why Americans keep buying all of this 'crap.'" * Current Affairs *"The only observation I can make, and a fairly obvious one at that, is that the Crap Industrial Complex described throughout my book has no shame and no limits. It is also something I have really only come to truly appreciate now, since I no longer have the luxury of the historian’s knowing detachment but am myself at the vortex of the crappy trash gyre. There are always opportunities to sell more crap, even and perhaps especially to the vulnerable, the sick, and the bereaved. This, not the disease, makes me angry on my own behalf and on behalf of the collective of Sick People." * Boston Review *"Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America is both a meticulously researched and surprisingly capacious book." * Winterthur Portfolio *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Our Crap, Our SelvesPART 1 A Nation of Cheap Jacks 1. From the Cheapening Mania to Universal Cheapness 2. Cheap Goods in a Chain Store AgePART 2 Better Living through Gadgetry 3. Perpetual Improvements 4. Gadget ManiaPART 3 Land of the Free 5. Getting Nothing for Something 6. The Price of LoyaltyPART 4 (No) Accounting for Taste 7. The Business of Heritage 8. Connoisseurship for SalePART 5 Value Propositions 9. Collecting Commemoration 10. Manufacturing ScarcityPART 6 But Wait, There’s More 11. Joke’s on You Epilogue: A World Made of Crap Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWhen Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today's students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, the fundamentals remain the same: writers need to have a strong research question, construct an evidence-based argument, cite their sources, and structure their work in a logical way. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertationsalso known as Turabianremains one of the most popular books for writers because of its timeless focus on achieving these goals. This new edition filters decades of expertise into modern standards. While previous editions incorporated digital forms of research and writing, this edition goes even further to build information literacy, recognizing that most students will be doing their work largely or entirely online and on screens. Chapters include updated advice on finding, evaluating, and citing a wide range of digital sources and also recognize the evolving use of software for citation management, graphics, and paper format and submission. The ninth edition is fully aligned with the recently released Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, as well as with the latest edition of The Craft of Research. Teachers and users of the previous editions will recognize the familiar three-part structure. Part 1 covers every step of the research and writing process, including drafting and revising. Part 2 offers a comprehensive guide to Chicago's two methods of source citation: notes-bibliography and author-date. Part 3 gets into matters of editorial style and the correct way to present quotations and visual material. A Manual for Writers also covers an issue familiar to writers of all levels: how to conquer the fear of tackling a major writing project. Through eight decades and millions of copies, A Manual for Writers has helped generations shape their ideas into compelling research papers. This new edition will continue to be the gold standard for college and graduate students in virtually all academic disciplines. Bestselling, trusted, and time-tested advice for writing research papers The best interpretation of Chicago style for higher education students and researchers Definitive, clear, and easy to read, with plenty of examples Shows how to compose a strong research question, construct an evidence-based argument, cite sources, and structure work in a logical way Essential for anyone interested in learning about research Everything any student or teacher needs to know concerning paper writingTrade Review“Without doubt, for anyone interested in learning about research—what it is, where one goes to pursue it, how to do it, what it entails and means, why it is important (now more so than ever before)—A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers is the place to begin. It will likely show people new to the field a way forward and offer experienced researchers the means to test established modes of operation. This book will not fail you, today or tomorrow, at home or in the library. Look for it at a bookstore near you or online.” -- Thomas R. Claire * Publishing Research Quarterly *“Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations continues a tradition of providing one of the best interpretations of The Chicago Manual of Style for higher education students and researchers in this ninth edition. The writing style is clear and easy to read, with examples illustrating proper formatting of items.” -- Cynthia Goode * American Reference Books Annual *"A mainstay in high-school and college libraries." -- Praise for a previous edition * Booklist *“This definitive handbook supplies information on about everything any student or teacher may desire to know concerning paper writing.” -- Praise for a previous edition * Quill and Scroll *“Kate L. Turabian was our trusted guide and mentor, the absolute authority, the one who knew all there was to know about the strange world of proper term papers. . . . To write a term paper without a well-worn copy of Turabian handy was unthinkable. Our writing on term papers might be weak, our research haphazard, our insights sophomoric, but, thanks to Kate L. Turabian, our footnotes could always be absolutely flawless.” -- Praise for a previous edition * Seattle Post-Intelligencer *"Indispensable. . . . Turabian is everything a student researcher might need save a grammar guide and training in specific research methods. . . . When you consider the sheer wealth of material contained or cited in Turabian, its US $18.00 paperback and eBook list price is an absolute steal." -- Steven E. Gump * Journal of Scholarly Publishing *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With an acute ear for the references that give metaphors their edge, as in Eliot's unforgettable image of a squirrel’s heartbeat as a figure for that which we cannot bear to know, Brilmyer brings the soaringly evocative back to earth, giving us a new science of literary analysis." * Critical Inquiry *“Brilmyer’s book shows how the realist imperative to adequately describe the relation between characters and their circumstances unwound Victorian Realism from within, as new scientific theories of matter, force, and cellular life led high Victorian realists— such as George Eliot and Thomas Hardy—and a subsequent generation of New Woman novelists to press the form to its limits and beyond. A major new study of literary character, The Science of Character is important not least for the way it revises the literary history of Victorian Realism and its ends.” * Studies in the Novel *“Brilmyer’s work marks a new epoch in the study of realism. Developing out of deep historical research and an engagement of the thinking of philosophers, theorists, and scholars of character, Brilmyer reverses dominant understandings of the way late nineteenth-century fiction developed to trace the emergence of an impersonal dynamic materialism that from George Eliot forward reimagined the nature of character itself. This is an extraordinarily original and important contribution, both to the history of realism and the novel and to new theorizing about matter.” * George Levine, Rutgers University *“The Science of Character brilliantly and boldly renews discussions of the late Victorian history of the novel. Brilmyer shows us how figures such as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner revised the definition of a realistic character along new, materialist lines. That revision demonstrated literature’s ability to produce insights into the workings of both nature and culture.” * Deidre Shauna Lynch, Harvard University *“Character: a slippery term that can denote either a human-like entity in a literary text or the specific assemblage of traits that makes one person different from others. In this beautifully argued book, S. Pearl Brilmyer refuses to choose between these two possibilities. Instead, she shows how novelists at the end of the nineteenth century enlisted the former in the service of discovering the workings of the latter—how, that is, George Eliot, Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, George Gissing, and Thomas Hardy transformed their aesthetic practice into a science of character. Turning the study of literature and science on its head by demonstrating the degree to which the production of literature was a scientific endeavor for these writers, she also formulates a unified field theory of the late-nineteenth-century novel that recognizes the centrality of women writers and finds in New Woman fiction the key to that novel’s theorization of character and circumstance as inseparable. Bracingly rigorous, intellectually thrilling, exhaustively researched, with far-reaching consequences for our understanding of the novel: The Science of Character is a remarkable achievement.” * Cannon Schmitt, University of Toronto *“The Science of Character is learned and continuously intelligent, a model of philosophically informed criticism. Brilmyer makes a theoretical advance in the conceptualization of character, realism, and the novel itself. This book provides a rigorous proof of concept for feminist New Materialism, and deepens our understanding of several canonical writers. The Science of Character redraws late-century Victorian literary history.” * Andrew Miller, Johns Hopkins University *

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Book SynopsisA revelatory and comprehensive history of the gay Right from incisive political commentator Neil J. Young. ? One of the most maligned, misunderstood, and even mocked constituencies in American politics, gay Republicans regularly face condemnation from both the LGBTQ+ community and their own political party. Yet they've been active and influential for decades. Gay conservatives were instrumental, for example, in ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell and securing the legalization of same-sex marriagebut they also helped lay the groundwork for the rise of Donald Trump. In Coming Out Republican, political historian and commentator Neil J. Young provides the first comprehensive history of the gay Right. From the 1950s up to the present day, Young excavates the multifarious origins, motivations, and evolutions of LGBTQ+ people who found their way to the institutions and networks of modern conservatism. Many on the gay Right have championed conservative valueslike free markets, a strong national

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a cogently original account of skilled practice, its expression in writing, and its significance for the culture of knowledge as the new sciences developed in early modern Europe. With roots in the world-renewed Making and Knowing Project, it offers an important addition to the histories of skilled craft practice, of science and technology, and of the premodern and early modern periods." -- Pamela O. Long, author of Engineering the Eternal City "This is a brilliant, groundbreaking, and timely book. Through a particularly novel and exciting approach, Smith offers the first book-length study on the way early modern practitioners wrote about their skills. It is a must read for the growing community of scholars interested in material culture and in the ways how bodies, minds, things, and materials interact with each other." -- Christine Goettler, author of Last ThingsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Lived Experience and the Written Word Part 1: Vernacular Theorizing in Craft 1. Is Handwork Knowledge? 2. The Metalworker's Philosophy 3. Thinking with Lizards Part 2: Writing Down Experience 4. Artisan Authors 5. Writing Kunst 6. Recipes for Kunst Part 3: Reading and Collecting 7. Who Read and Used Little Books of Art? 8. Kunst as Power: Making and Collecting Part 4: Making and Knowing 9. Reconstructing Practical Knowledge: Hastening to Experience 10. A Vocabulary for Mind-Body Knowing Epilogue: Global Routes of Practical Knowledge Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Providing detailed economic analysis of the effects of sticker price, tuition discounts, merit and need-based financial aid, and institutional competition, Levine contends that the overall impact from these multiple factors is to limit access to higher education for lower-income students. He takes specific aim at the problem of opaque financial aid and how it serves to heighten inequities in higher education. And he offers an excellent discussion of the pros and cons of two major policies for improving access to college—the various versions of 'free college' and a significant increase (read: doubling) of Pell Grants." * Forbes *"A Problem of Fit [examines] the pricing system in American higher education, exploring the market factors that contribute to its problems....Levine [addresses] barriers to higher education beyond those directly related to pricing, such as excessive levels of student loans, the complexity of the college application process, and difficulties in understanding financial aid award letters." * Journal of Economic Literature *"Levine’s text is a quick and engaging read that we highly recommend. In each chapter, he does a fantastic job of identifying what matters for an audience’s understanding of these complex, interrelated issues and communicates them in a way that is approachable and allows readers to connect the pieces of this big puzzle. Levine’s text captures a high level of nuance that escapes most of the public and many policymakers. As such, this should be a required reading for higher education finance courses and new legislator orientations alike." * Teachers College Record *"A Problem of Fit is an interesting book that offers several reasonable policy fixes for the college pricing system. The author makes his case with enough technical data to satisfy any policy wonk and presents cogent analyses accessible to the lay reader." * Monthly Labor Review (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) *"A Problem of Fit is an interesting book that offers several reasonable policy fixes for the college pricing system. The author makes his case with enough technical data to satisfy any policy wonk and presents cogent analyses accessible to the lay reader. I would recommend the book to anyone concerned with college pricing, as well as to people interested in learning more about the higher education market." * Monthly Labor Review *"If you want to understand the nuances of college affordability, pricing, and finance, this book is for you. Levine has taken an issue that impacts the majority of families going through the college search process and deconstructed its complexity. Whether you are a student, policy maker, or higher education practitioner, this is an important read." -- Angel B. Pérez, CEO, National Association for College Admission Counseling"Levine combines accessible economic explanations with cogent policy recommendations to frame the challenges facing students and families navigating the complex world of college financing. His forceful critique focuses on analysis and solutions rather than anger and blame, forwarding ideas about targeted new funding and improved communication with the potential to help students enroll at the institutions that will be the best fit for them." -- Sandy Baum, Center on Education Data and Policy at the Urban InstituteTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1: The Institution of Financial Aid Chapter 2: An Econ 101 View of College Pricing and Financial Aid Chapter 3: The Real Cost of College and Its Worth Chapter 4: Pricing Transparency Chapter 5: Addressing Affordability Chapter 6: Fixing the Pricing System in Higher Education Chapter 7: Other Barriers to College Access Conclusion Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisAn illuminating history of the reform agenda in higher education. For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges anduniversities more efficient and more accountable.Indeed, Ethan Ris argues in Other People's Colleges, the reform impulse is baked into American higher education, the result of generations of elite reformers who have called for sweeping changes in the sector and raised existential questions about its sustainability. When that reform is beneficial, offering major rewards for minor changes, colleges and universities know how to assimilate it. When it is hostile, attacking autonomy or values, they know how to resist it. The result is a sector that has learned to accept top-down reform as part of its existence. In the early twentieth century, the academic engineers, a cadre of elite, external reformers from foundations, businesses, and government, worked to reshape and reorganize the vast base of the higher education pyramid. Their reform efforts were largely directed at the lower tiers of higher education, but those efforts fell short, despite the wealth and power of their backers, leaving a legacy of successful resistance that affects every college and university in the United States. Today, another coalition of business leaders, philanthropists, and politicians is again demanding efficiency, accountability, and utility from American higher education. But, as Ris argues, top-down design is not destiny. Drawing on extensive and original archival research, Other People's Colleges offers an account of higher education that sheds light on today's reform agenda. Trade Review“Other People's Colleges provides critical insights for understanding contemporary calls for reform. The book provides a careful tracing of the lasting impact that came not only from the efforts of these philanthropists and their foundations to create reform, but also the coalitions that emerged to resist them. An important and timely read for those interested in higher education history, philanthropy, governance, and policy.” -- Laura Perna, author of "Taking It to the Streets: The Role of Scholarship in Advocacy and Advocacy in Scholarship"“For too long, historians have tended to treat the massification and differentiation of higher education, as well as the systems and structures that emerged during that period, as products of inevitable forces that reshaped higher education as institutional reformers sought to keep pace with the invisible hand of growth. This book, however, is poised to deepen our understanding of the philanthropists, reformers, and bureaucrats that worked to control and guide these changes by employing the logic of industrial production to universities during this critical time of transformation in higher education.” -- Nathan Sorber, author of "Change and Continuity in American Higher Education: Lessons from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Innovations"“This book makes important and useful contributions to the field. Through its considerations of how academic outsiders worked to structure and restructure higher education, it provides insight into a crucial era that has relatively few book-length works devoted to it. It is well researched, compellingly written, and will have wide appeal to scholars interested in higher education, reform, and philanthropy.” -- Timothy Cain, author of "Establishing Academic Freedom: Politics, Principles, and the Development of Core Values""Remarkably researched and well-written. . . Ris’s book should be required reading for anyone interested in today’s discussions about the past and future of higher education." * Choice *"The achievements of Ethan Ris’s first book, Other People’s Colleges: The Origins of Higher Education Reform, are numerous . . . he not only offers snapshots of interesting moments in higher education that have transcended their time and place, but also presents an original theory of institutional change." * History of Education Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: The Ethos of Reform 1 The Academic Engineers 2 Toward System Part Two: The Program of Reform 3 The Higher Education Pyramid 4 “The Practical Life” 5 Separate and Unequal Part Three: The Decline of Reform 6 The Counter-Reformation 7 Organized Resistance 8 A New Consensus and a New Ethos Conclusion: Four Legacies Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Index

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Book SynopsisScholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the demographic composition of the United States. In A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered, leading scholars of immigration explore how the political and ideological struggles of the age of restriction--from 1924 to 1965--paved the way for the changes to come. The essays examine how geopolitics, civil rights, perceptions of America's role as a humanitarian sanctuary, and economic priorities led government officials to facilitate the entrance of specific immigrant groups, thereby establishing the legal precedents for future policies. Eye-opening articles discuss Japanese war brides and changing views of miscegenation, the recruitment of former Nazi scientists, a temporary workers program with Japanese immigrants, the emotional separation of Mexican immigrant families, Puerto Rican youth's efforts to claim an American identity, and the restaurant raids of conscriptedTrade Review"A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered is a terrific anthology of thirteen essays, excavating the fertile history of immigration between 1924 and 1965." --Journal of American Ethnic History"This book makes a good case for why we must understand the mid-century period as part of a larger history of US immigration. As an overview of some of the best recent work on the period, this compilation stands out." --History"This anthology provides an excellent analysis of immigration policy changes in the 1924-1965 period. . . . These essays are well worth reading and offer a new, more comprehensive look at this period." --Journal of American History"This important collection revises our understanding of a relatively understudied period in the historiography of US immigration and citizenship, the years between the institution of national origins quotas in the 1920s and their abrogation in the 1960s. As such, it deserves wide scholarly attention."--Kunal M. Parker, author of Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America, 1600-2000"Bringing together essays by rising stars and established leaders in US immigration history, this volume opens our understanding of the complexities of the national origins era by highlighting understudied dynamics, advancing new periodizations, and bringing new historical actors to the fore. Taken as a whole, the essays insist on the centrality of racial-nationalist boundary-making—and of struggles to defeat it—within the broader history of the US in the world in the mid-twentieth century."--Paul A. Kramer, author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines

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