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A Tenured Professor
John Kenneth Galbraith Manufacturer: Mariner Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0618154558 |
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John Kenneth Galbraith's third novel, A Tenured Professor, is at once an intriguing tale of morality and a comic delight. Montgomery Martin, a Harvard economics professor, creates a stock forecasting model, which makes it possible for him to uncover society's hidden agendas. Seeking proof that human folly has no limit when motivated by greed, Martin initiates mass hysteria that causes investors to assume that up is the only direction. Hailed as "Galbraith's wisest and wittiest" novel (New York Times), A Tenured Professor is an impudently satirical tale.Customer Reviews:
CLASSIC BOOK.......2007-03-26
Among my most favorites!.......2006-04-24
A Satire of Academia, Politics or Economics?.......2002-05-25
Galbraith himself, aside from being a Professor Emeritus of economics at Harvard, has a great deal of familiarity with the country's political landscape, having been, among other things, a former US Ambassador to India. His familiarity with Washington politics in both parties comes through with striking clarity. At times he need only to refer to a Senator or Congressman obliquely for me to know exactly who he speaks of. Economically, as well, the book sparkles with a cynicism and perpetual questioning of whether or not economic interests control political ones. Even his academic knowledge is impressive - it's obviously that he is both very fond and somewhat sardonic of Harvard at the same time - but it is not so much a book about academics as it is about the direction of our country.
If it struggles anywhere, this book struggles with it's own style. Galbraith is obviously highly intelligent and an accomplished economist. He is not, however, first a novelist. This becomes apparent when he has to push the plot along from time to time in with forced dialogue or grope for it within his satirical meanderings. However, he has enough experience with the novel as a form that it never grinds to a halt.
In spite of it's form - or maybe because of it, this book does have an important comment to make about the interplay between politics and economics in the United States today. He does so so effectively, in fact, that you worry where satire leaves off and cynical reality begins. I found myself reading this book hoping for the former and worrying over the latter. I would recommend anyone with an interest in modern history or the process of government-running to read this and judge for themselves.
High-Caliber Intellectual Fiction.........you be the judge!.......1999-06-16
Hilarious Story Contains Human as well as Economic Insights.......1998-06-29
A Tenured Professor is a great read for those of us who find the financial markets fascinating.
The plot weaves events and interactions of a professor who discovers a formula for predicting and profiting from others' irrational investment behavior. Using a host of funny and realistic characters, Galbraith shows how economic insight can cause some humorous personal problems.
And the insight for us trader wannabe's? Can't tell -- it would spoil the story!
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Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers: Writing Instruction in the Managed University
Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0809325446 |
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My Iowa Journey: The Life Story of the University of Iowa's First Tenured African American Professor
Phillip C. Hubbard , and Philip G. Hubbard Manufacturer: University Of Iowa Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0877456720 |
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Philip Hubbard's life story begins in 1921 in Macon, a county seat in the Bible Belt of north central Missouri, whose history as a former slave state permeated the culture of his childhood. When he was four his mother moved her family 140 miles north to Des Moines in search of the greater educational opportunities that Iowa offered African American students. In this recounting of the effects of that journey on the rest of his life, Phil Hubbard merges his private and public life and career into an affectionate, powerful, and important story.Hubbard graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in electrical engineering in 1946; by 1954 he had received his Ph.D. in hydraulics. The College of Engineering extended a warm welcome, but nonacademic matters were totally different: Hubbard was ineligible for the housing and other amenities offered to white students. Intelligent, patient, keenly aware of discrimination yet willing to work from within the university system, he advanced from student to teacher to administrator, retiring in 1991 after decades of leadership in the classroom and the conference room.
Hubbard's major accomplishments included policies that focused on human rights; these policies transformed the makeup of the students, faculty, and staff by seeking to eliminate discrimination based on race, religion, or other nonacademic factors and by substituting affirmative action for the traditional old-boy methods of selecting faculty and administrators. At the same time that he was advancing the cause of human rights and cultural diversity in education, his family as growing and thriving, and his descriptions of home life reveal one source of his strength and inspiration.
The decades that Hubbard covers were vital in the evolution of the nation and its educational institutions. His dedication to the agenda of public higher education has always been matched by his sensitivity to the negative effects of discrimination and his gentle perseverance toward his goals of inclusion, acceptance, and fairness. His vivid personal and institutional story will prove valuable to this critical juncture in America's racial history.
My Iowa Journey is part of the Singular Lives: The Iowa Series in North American Autobiography series edited by Albert E. Stone.
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A Tenured Professor
John Kenneth Galbraith Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OPKKTC |
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Federal judge upholds firing of tenured ethics professor dismissed after conviction on embezzlement charge.(around the nation): An article from: Community College Week
Ian Freedman , and Eric Freedman Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000S7XZEI Release Date: 2007-06-19 |
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This digital document is an article from Community College Week, published by Thomson Gale on June 4, 2007. The length of the article is 722 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Tenured adolescents. (Notes & Comments: December 2002).(recent exchange between United States Air Force Academy cadet and Peter N. Kirstein, tenured professor ... in Chicago): An article from: New Criterion
Manufacturer: Foundation for Cultural Review ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FWBLI Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1491 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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To give and to receive: recently tenured professors' experiences of service in major research universities.: An article from: Journal of Higher Education
Anna Neumann , and Aimee LaPointe Terosky Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RH013M Release Date: 2007-05-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Higher Education, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 12665 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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A Tenured Professor
John Kenneth GALBRAITH Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000UZVKR2 |
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Year's Best Fantasy 4
David Hartwell , and Kathryn Cramer Manufacturer: Eos ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060521821 Release Date: 2004-06-29 |
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There is magic in our worldThe fertile imagination can cultivate wondrous things, aided by ancient myths and memory, enduring childhood dreams and desires, and the power of cultural archetypes. Once again, award-winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer reap a magnificent crop of superior fantasy short fiction -- the finest to blossom over the past twelve months. A cornucopia of remarkable tales from some of the field#146;s most acclaimed artists -- Neil Gaiman, Octavia Butler, Tanith Lee, and Michael Swanwick, to name but a few -- as well as stunning new works from emerging young talents, Year's Best Fantasy 4 is a collection as magical as its illustrious predecessors, a feast for every true connoisseur of fantastic literature.
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The fertile imagination can cultivate wondrous things, aided by ancient myths and memory, enduring childhood dreams and desires, and the power of cultural archetypes. Once again, award-winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer reap a magnificent crop of superior fantasy short fiction -- the finest to blossom over the past twelve months. A cornucopia of remarkable tales from some of the field's most acclaimed artists -- Neil Gaiman, Octavia Butler, Tanith Lee, and Michael Swanwick, to name but a few -- as well as stunning new works from emerging young talents, Year's Best Fantasy 4 is a collection as magical as its illustrious predecessors, a feast for every true connoisseur of fantastic literature.
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A few good stories.......2005-08-04
Some good stories, though not as good as last year's.......2004-07-19
Now, all kidding aside (I love Baker, but I'm definitely exaggerating above), the stories in Year's Best Fantasy 4 did not grip me like they have in past years. In fact, going back and writing out the story titles and authors for the list below, I'm having trouble remembering what a few of them are about. Some are charming in their own way, but didn't excite me. Others left me with disturbing images (and not the pleasurably disturbing ones that good horror novels leave). "Catskin," by Kelly Link, is about a witch's son and the cat that has become the dead witch's revenge. The cat creates a cat suit for the boy out of the skin of all the other dead cats that the witch had taken care of, and they go out to avenge the witch, dealing with the other witch who poisoned her. Not my cup of tea. Even the mostly reliable Michael Swanwick's story isn't up to his usual standard, though it is mildly entertaining. "King Dragon" is about a world of elves and dragons, but this world is brutally technological. The dragons are intelligent, but they are also mechanical constructs. In an attack on a village, one of the dragons crash-lands, demands that the village cater to him in order to eventually fix him, and takes a boy to be his eyes, ears, and feet. The boy becomes very powerful in the village, a resistance group forms and the boy has to eventually decide whether he likes the power he has (despite the horror of his master) or if he is loyal to his village. It's an interesting story, but I found I didn't really like the atmosphere that much.
So what's good about Year's Best Fantasy 4? There are three really good ones. "Basement Magic," by Ellen Klages, is about a young girl with a horrible stepmother, and a maid who knows just a little bit of that voodoo that you do so well. She quickly befriends the girl and, after seeing how the stepmother treats the girl, decides to help protect the girl with a couple of spells. The girl takes things just a little too far, however. This tale was very sweet, but not too sweet. The characters are interesting and I just loved the friendship that grew between these two people. The ending is actually quite surprising, and sad in a way. I loved it.
Another good one is "Dragon's Gate," by Pat Murphy. In this one, a girl tells a story of the ice women in a bar near the glacier. They are upset and her mother goes into a coma-like state. The girl must travel up the mountain pass and get some blood from the dragon there, the dragon that has killed every expedition that has gone after it. Upon getting there, the girl finds things a lot different then she expected. The story has a nice twist to it, with the dragon being a credible character in its own right. The little bit of history of the area is interesting, also tying directly into the outcome of the story, which is nice too. Excellent stuff.
Finally (both in this review and the book itself), there is "Almost Home," by Terry Bisson. This story is a voyage of discovery and the beginning of a new life. Troy and Bug are two boys who enjoy fishing in "Scum Lake," a big pond that's out by the old horse track. Troy discovers that various aspects of the track (the announcers' booth and other bits) are beginning to form what looks like an aeroplane (you know, one of those older types). When it finally forms, they are able to take Troy's deformed cousin for a ride. They discover, past the seemingly endless desert, a community that is almost, but not quite, exactly like theirs. The story only contains these three characters, and Bisson captures the wonder and the fear of kids going on an exploration of the unknown vividly. It's kind of sad, but contains an uplifting ending. It's also quite imaginative, with this plane being powered by electrolytes from soda pop. This was an excellent ending for the book.
Very few of the stories in Year's Best Fantasy 4 left me cold. There's "Catskin" as mentioned above, but also Neil Gaiman's story ("Closing Time") also did. Perhaps this is because I'm getting tired of the motif of people within the story telling a weird story themselves. It's starting to get a bit old, and since the story that was being told didn't inspire me, it just sort of fell flat. Others were ok, but nothing special. Surprisingly, Tanith Lee's story ("Moonblind") was one that I actually enjoyed, which just may indicate that my feelings about a Year's Best Fantasy book may be inversely proportional to how much I like Lee's story. The past two books have contained Lee stories that I didn't like, and I liked those volumes a lot better than this one.
Still, my disappointment with this year's edition does not mean it's not worth picking up. It's still a great collection, just not as good as past years'. If you're a short fantasy fan (as in a fan of short fantasy, not meaning a height-challenged fan), I would definitely recommend that you pick this book up. Just make sure you pick up the first three as well. There's some good stuff there.
David Roy
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The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year: Fantasy 1988 (Landmark Series/4 Audio Cassettes)
Orson Scott Card Manufacturer: Dercum Audio ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: 155656127X |
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Orson Scott Card, the winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for fiction, and Martin H. Greenberg, editor/author of over 100 different short story and novella anthologies, have teamed together to produce the Dercum Value Collections. Each volume in the series contains four ninety-minute cassettes, with six hours of some of the best stories in the genre, for under $20! These collections are not available in book form anywhere: they were selected and recorded especially for Dercum Audio. The first of three fantasy value collections, this volume includes seven critically acclaimed authors and their stories read in their entirety. It includes such classics as Perpetuity Blues by Neal Barrett, Jr. and Maxie Silas by Augustine Funnell.
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The Best Thing
Jennifer Anna Manufacturer: Blue Works ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 188638326X |
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Natalie and Sonja Bloom live with their mom in an everyday working class neighborhood. On the first day of spring, all Natalie wants to do is look for ladybugs. This doesn't make her little sister very happy. But with help from a magical key to Ladybug Land, the two sisters discover the best thing in the world -- each other. Each copy comes with a ladybug pouch and magical key for young readers to create and a certificate autographed by the author.
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Year's Best Fantasy 4
David; Cramer, Kathryn Hartwell Manufacturer: Eos ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OELQF0 |
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The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 1. 2. 3 and 4 (sold as Set only)
Lin (ed) Carter Manufacturer: DAW ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000WXGIF6 |
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THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY STORIES 4.
Manufacturer: P/B ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000HJ0H1G |
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The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 4
Manufacturer: Daw ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000GRLYZC |
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the years best fantasy stories # 4 (lin carter presents)
carter Manufacturer: daw books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000MAI622 |
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The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 4
Lin (Editor) Carter Manufacturer: NY DAW Books 1978. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000H3MIDC |
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Uranometria Two Thousand: The Southern Hemisphere to Plus 6 Degrees
Tirion , Rappaport , Loui , Rappaport , and Lovi Manufacturer: Willmann-Bell ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0943396158 |
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Stay away from the 1987-88 Edition.......2006-08-28
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Great Grilled Cheese: 50 Innovative Recipes for Stove Top, Grill, and Sandwich Maker
Laura Werlin Manufacturer: Stewart, Tabori and Chang ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1584793384 |
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Brie and apricot jam on a baguette; spinach and goat cheese on a croissant; blue cheese and fresh figs on crusty Italian bread: this is not your mother's grilled cheese sandwich. In Great Grilled Cheese, cheese expert and award-winning cookbook author Laura Werlin presents 50 scrumptious grilled cheese and panini recipes that range from the traditional to the contemporary. In addition to the more inventive combinations, including grilled cheese for dessert, there's always room at the table for the classics: grilled American on white, or apple, ham, and cheddar on sourdough.Customer Reviews:
Outstanding recipes!.......2006-12-14
A cheese addict's bible.......2006-06-24
Yum!.......2005-12-11
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