The first volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Exchange of Ideas launches a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. In this, the first volume, Adam R. Nelson focuses on the early republic, explaining how knowledge itself became a commodity, as useful ideas became saleable goods and American colleges were d...(展开全部)

德里克·博克 美国当代杰出教育家、法学家和社会学家，美国当代颇具影响力的大学校长之一，西方高等教育史上举足轻重的思想家和实践家。 两度担任哈佛大学校长的人。1971年博克临危受命，担任哈佛大学第25任校长，他采取种种措施帮助教师与学生重塑信心，并引领学校回归正常的教学和科研轨道，直至1991年退休，任期长达20年。2006年，博克再度重返哈佛，于2006—2007年间担任代理校长，接替被迫辞职的校长劳伦斯·萨默斯，也因此成为近50年来任期最长的哈佛校长。 “教育界的诺贝尔奖”格文美尔教育奖获得者。在任期间，博克致力于哈佛大学课程改革，将效果不佳的通识教育转为课程教育，奠定了现代大学的课程标准，在美国乃至全世界产生了巨大影响，被公认为美国教育界最有影响力的人物之一。 世界一流大学争相效仿的“博克教学与学习中心”创始人。博克非常关注本科教学质量，...(展开全部)

Colleges and universities are among the most cherished—and controversial—institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector in American life. Exploring American higher education from its founding in the seventeenth century to ...(展开全部)

Colleges and universities are among the most cherished institutions in American society—and also among the most controversial. Yet affirmative action and skyrocketing tuition are only the most recent dissonant issues to emerge. Recounting the many crises and triumphs in the long history of American higher education, historian John Thelin provides welcome perspective on this inf...(展开全部)

Colleges and universities are among the most cherished institutions in American society—and also among the most controversial. Yet affirmative action and skyrocketing tuition are only the most recent dissonant issues to emerge. Recounting the many crises and triumphs in the long history of American higher education, historian John Thelin provides welcome perspective on this inf...(展开全部)

Colleges and universities are among the most cherished—and controversial—institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector in American life. Exploring American higher education from its founding in the seventeenth century to ...(展开全部)

A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and t...(展开全部)

A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and t...(展开全部)

A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and t...(展开全部)

A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and t...(展开全部)