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It's Not Free Speech. Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom, Hardback - Jennifer Ruth

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Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Jennifer RuthNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 239 x 32Cover type: Ha...

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Ptsd: A Short History, Paperback - Allan V. Horwitz

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Post-traumatic stress disorder--and its predecessor diagnoses, including soldier's heart, railroad spine, and shell shock--was recognized as a psyc...

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From Playgrounds to PlayStation. The Interaction of Technology and Play, Paperback - ***

176,99 RON

Along the way, he shows readers how technology enables the forms, equipment, and devices of play to evolve constantly, both reflecting consumer cho...

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Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge, Paperback - Natalia Cecire

175,99 RON

In this bold new study of twentieth-century American writing and poetics, Natalia Cecire argues that experimental writing should be understood as a...

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Field Guide to Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay, Paperback - Edward O. Murdy

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Reducere. The only comprehensive field guide to the Chesapeake's fishes, this book is an indispensable resource for both anglers and students of the Bay. Viv...

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The Eye Book: A Complete Guide to Eye Disorders and Health, Paperback - Gary H. Cassel

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Reducere. In The Eye Book, specialist Dr. Gary H. Cassel presents readers with trusted, evidence-based information they can rely on to protect vision and lea...

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The Secret Perfume of Birds. Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent, Hardback - Danielle J. Whittaker

172,99 RON

The Secret Perfume of Birds will interest anyone looking to learn more about birds, about how animals and humans use our senses, and about why it c...

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Deep Down Things. The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics, Hardback - Bruce A. Schumm

170,00 RON

Introducing readers to the world of particle physics, Deep Down Things opens new realms within which are many clues to unraveling the mysteries of ...

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Making Sense of Ibs: A Physician Answers Your Questions about Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Paperback - Brian E. Lacy

169,99 RON

IBS, which affects almost one in six Americans, is characterized by abdominal pain, bloating, gas, and diarrhea or constipation. Today more than ev...

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After the Flood. Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe, Paperback - Lydia (Northwestern University) Barnett

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Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Lydia (Northwestern University) BarnettIllustration(s): 11 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of ...

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Science for a Green New Deal. Connecting Climate, Economics, and Social Justice, Hardback - ***

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Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Eric A. (Professor, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science) DavidsonIllustrati...

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Writing History, Writing Trauma, Paperback - Dominick LaCapra

168,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Dominick LaCapraTrauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing Hi...

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Under the Big Tree: Extraordinary Stories from the Movement to End Neglected Tropical Diseases, Hardcover - Ellen Agler

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DescriptionNeglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect over one billion of the world's poorest people. More than 170, 000 people die from NTDs each y...

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Leonardo to the Internet: Technology & Culture from the Renaissance to the Present, Paperback - Thomas J. Misa

168,99 RON

Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological in...

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Back-of-the-Envelope Physics, Paperback - Clifford E. Swartz

168,99 RON

Covering such subjects as astronomy, magnetism, optics, sound, heat, mechanics, waves, and electricity, the book provides a rich source of material...

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Lean Semesters. How Higher Education Reproduces Inequity, Hardback - Sekile M. Nzinga

168,99 RON

Informed by the work of scholars and labor activists who have interrogated the various forms of inequity produced and reproduced by institutions of...

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A Leadership Guide for Women in Higher Education, Paperback - Marjorie Hass

168,99 RON

For years, Marjorie Hass, now the president of Rhodes College, was approached by women in higher education looking for advice and support as they t...

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How to Market a University: Building Value in a Competitive Environment, Paperback - Teresa Flannery

168,99 RON

At a time of declining public support, a shrinking pipeline of traditional college-bound students, and a steady rise in tuition and discount rates,...

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Misunderstanding Health. Making Sense of America's Broken Health Care System, Hardback - Rohit Khanna

168,99 RON

Offering inquisitive readers a warts-and-all view of American health care, Misunderstanding Health is the book that you'll want to read if you know...

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Understanding Academic Freedom, Paperback - Henry Reichman

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Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Henry ReichmanIllustration(s): NoNumber of pages: 248Collection: Higher Ed Leadership Essential...

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Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City, Hardcover - Josephine Ensign

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Home to over 730, 000 people, with close to four million people living in the metropolitan area, Seattle has the third-highest homeless population ...

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Cinematic Illuminations. The Middle Ages on Film, Paperback - Martin B. Shichtman

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Cinematic Illuminations offers medievalists, literary and cultural theorists, and film theorists and buffs a fresh approach to understanding how po...

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Trauma Explorations in Memory, Paperback - Cathy Caruth

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Cathy CaruthBecause traumatic events are unbearable in their horror and intensity, they often exist as memories that are no...

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Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self, Paperback - Dustin Friedman

166,99 RON

DescriptionLate Victorian aesthetes were dedicated to the belief that an artwork's value derived solely from its beauty, rather than any moral or u...

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The Lost Books of Jane Austen, Hardcover - Janine Barchas

166,99 RON

DescriptionIn the nineteenth century, inexpensive editions of Jane Austen's novels targeted to Britain's working classes were sold at railway stati...

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Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts, Paperback - Georg Luck

166,99 RON

Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the "secrets of the universe, " of the ancient Greeks and R...

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The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race, Paperback - Adrienne Brown

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DescriptionWith the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well as horizontally. Ta...

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Latour and the Humanities, Paperback - ***

166,99 RON

Contributors: David J. Alworth, Anders Blok, Claudia Breger, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Yves Citton, Steven Connor, Gerard de Vries, Simon During, Rita Fe...

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The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America, Hardcover - Lawrence T. Brown

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Reducere. The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by Freddie Gray's brutal death in police custody, sh...

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Making of a Tropical Disease. A Short History of Malaria, Paperback - Randall M. Packard

164,99 RON

Authoritative, fascinating, and eye-opening, this short history of malaria concludes with policy recommendations for improving control strategies a...

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The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions Into Treatable Disorders, Paperback - Peter Conrad

164,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Peter ConradOver the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once consi...

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The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, Paperback - Hayden White

164,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Hayden WhiteHayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning--its pro...

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Life and Death in Rikers Island, Paperback - Homer Venters

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DescriptionKalief Browder was 16 when he was arrested in the Bronx for allegedly stealing a backpack. Unable to raise bail and unwilling to plead g...

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Sound Recording. The Life Story of a Technology, Paperback - David L. Morton

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Morton, so have business strategies, patent battles, and a host of other factors.

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Time Travel. A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel, Paperback - Paul J. Nahin

164,99 RON

If you ever wanted to set up the latest and greatest grandfather paradox-or just wanted to know if the time-bending events in the latest pulp you r...

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Technology and the Environment in History, Paperback - Sara B. Pritchard

164,99 RON

Today's scientists, policymakers, and citizens are all confronted by numerous dilemmas at the nexus of technology and the environment. Every day se...

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Delta of Power: The Military-Industrial Complex, Paperback - Alex Roland

164,99 RON

First named by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address, the Military-Industrial Complex, originally an exclusively American phenomen...

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The Amish, Paperback - Donald B. Kraybill

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The Amish have always struggled with the modern world. Known for their simple clothing, plain lifestyle, and horse-and-buggy mode of transportation...

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Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings, Hardcover - Valerie Trouet

164,99 RON

Children around the world know that to tell how old a tree is, you count its rings. Few people, however, know that research into tree rings has als...

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Catch, Release, Paperback - Adrianne Harun

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Reducere. DescriptionIt's all about loss. Don't kid yourself. Even a simple game of catch is hinged on the moment the ball leaves the glove, the moment it re...

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Preparing for a Better End: Expert Lessons on Death and Dying for You and Your Loved Ones, Hardcover - Dan Morhaim

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Reducere. While modern Americans strive to control nearly every aspect of their lives, many of us abandon control of life's final passage. But the realities ...

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America's Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln Assassination, Hardcover - John Rhodehamel

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Reducere. On April 14, 1865, after nearly a year of conspiring, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln as the president watched a production of Our American ...

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Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People. How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease, Paperback - ***

159,99 RON

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Stephen G. (Director, Center of Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Br...

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Science and Technology in World History. An Introduction, Paperback - Harold Dorn

157,00 RON

Facts and figures have been thoroughly updated and the work includes a comprehensive Guide to Resources, incorporating the major published literatu...

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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, Paperback - Carlo Ginzburg

156,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Carlo GinzburgTranslator: Anne C. TedeschiThe Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth...

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Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method, Paperback - Carlo Ginzburg

156,99 RON

More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classi...

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Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, Paperback - Espen J. Aarseth

156,99 RON

DescriptionCan computer games be great literature? Do the rapidly evolving and culturally expanding genres of digital literature mean that the narr...

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Hesiod. Theogony, Works and Days, Shield, Paperback - ***

156,99 RON

Already a classic, Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield is now more valuable than ever for students of Greek mythology and literature.

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The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines, Hardcover - Brian Deer

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Reducere. From San Francisco to Shanghai, from Vancouver to Venice, controversy over vaccines is erupting around the globe. Fear is spreading. Banished disea...

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Intolerant Bodies. A Short History of Autoimmunity, Paperback - Ian R. Mackay

156,99 RON

Connecting laboratory research, clinical medicine, social theory, and lived experience, Intolerant Bodies reveals how doctors and patients have com...

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A Caregiver's Guide to Communication Problems from Brain Injury or Disease, Paperback - ***

155,99 RON

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressIllustration(s): 3 Illustrations, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and whiteNumber of pages: 256Col...

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The Invention of the Modern Dog. Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain, Paperback - ***

155,99 RON

Connecting the emergence and development of certain dog breeds to both scientific understandings of race and blood as well as Britain's posture in ...

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The Environment: A History of the Idea, Hardcover - Paul Warde

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Reducere. DescriptionIs it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our childr...

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My House Is Killing Me!: A Complete Guide to a Healthier Indoor Environment, Paperback - Jeffrey C. May

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Reducere. In this thoroughly revised edition of My House Is Killing Me Jeffrey C. and Connie L. May draw on the dramatic personal stories of their clients to...

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Good Work If You Can Get It: How to Succeed in Academia, Hardcover - Jason Brennan

151,99 RON

Do you want to go to graduate school? Then you're in good company: nearly 80, 000 students will begin pursuing a PhD this year alone. But while alm...

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The Impatient Dr. Lange: One Man's Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic, Paperback - Seema Yasmin

151,99 RON

When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in July 2014, the world wondered if a cure for HIV had fallen from the sky a...

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The Johns Hopkins Guide to Psychological First Aid, Paperback - George S. Everly

151,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: George S. EverlyAuthor: Jeffrey M. LatingPsychological first aid, or PFA, is designed to mitigate the effects of acute stre...

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Keeping Busy. A Handbook of Activities for Persons with Dementia, Paperback - James R. Dowling

151,99 RON

The description of each activity includes step-by-step instructions, as well as tips on how to adapt it for small or large groups, for individuals ...

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Ending Medical Reversal. Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives, Paperback - Adam S. Cifu

151,99 RON

They outline a comprehensive plan to reform medical education, research funding and protocols, and the process for approving new drugs that will en...

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Second Seminole War and the Limits of American Aggression, Paperback - C. S. Monaco

151,99 RON

By examining the Second Seminole War through the lenses of race, Jacksonian democracy, media and public opinion, American expansion, and military s...

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Environment. A History of the Idea, Paperback - Sverker Soerlin

151,99 RON

The untold history of how people came to conceive, to manage, and to dispute environmental crisis, The Environment is essential reading for anyone ...

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Designing the New American University, Paperback - Michael M. Crow

151,99 RON

DescriptionAmerica's research universities consistently dominate global rankings but may be entrenched in a model that no longer accomplishes their...

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Transformation of Governance. Public Administration for the Twenty-First Century, Paperback - Donald F. Kettl

151,99 RON

With a new preface from Michael Nelson, editor of the Interpreting American Politics series, this award-winning book will be sought out by public p...

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The Best War Ever: America and World War II, Paperback - Michael C. C. Adams

151,99 RON

Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, ...

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Homeric Hymns, Paperback - ***

151,99 RON

A perennial classroom favorite, The Homeric Hymns embodies thrilling new visions of antiquity.Illustrations: 1 Maps; 2 Charts

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The Breast Cancer Book: A Trusted Guide for You and Your Loved Ones, Paperback - Kenneth D. Miller

151,99 RON

Being diagnosed with breast cancer can be scary and confusing. There are medical terms to learn, options to consider, and important decisions to ma...

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The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias, Paperback - Nancy L. Mace

151,99 RON

For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work in the field for caregivers of those with dementia. Written by experts with decades of expe...

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Cheating in College. Why Students Do It and What Educators Can Do about It, Paperback - ***

151,99 RON

Based on the authors' multiyear, multisite surveys, Cheating in College quantifies and analyzes student cheating to demonstrate why academic integr...

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Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Opportunities for Colleges and Universities, Paperback - Gina Ann Garcia

151,00 RON

DescriptionHispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)--not-for-profit, degree-granting colleges and universities that enroll at least 25% or more Latinx ...

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The Future of Academic Freedom, Hardcover - Henry Reichman

148,99 RON

DescriptionAcademic freedom--crucial to the health of American higher education--is threatened on many fronts. In The Future of Academic Freedom, a...

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