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How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse. Among the book's most surprising and groundbreaking insights is the tenacity and adaptability of meritocratic ideology across all three sub-discourses, despite its fundamental incompatibility with the American educational system.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- America. --- American Studies. --- Campus Novels. --- Capital. --- Class. --- Cultural Studies. --- Cultural Theory. --- Curtis Sittenfeld. --- Discourse Analysis. --- Distinction. --- Education. --- Elite Education. --- Ivy League. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Meritocracy. --- Neoliberalism. --- Princeton. --- Social Stratification; Distinction; Meritocracy; Campus Novels; Capital; Princeton; Elite Education; Class; Discourse Analysis; Neoliberalism; Ivy League; Curtis Sittenfeld; Literature; Education; America; American Studies; Cultural Studies; Cultural Theory; Literary Studies
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From 1966 to 1970, historian Martin Duberman transformed his undergraduate Princeton seminar on American radicalism. This book looks closely at the seminar, drawing on interviews with former students and colleagues, conversations with Duberman, and abundant archival material in the Princeton archives and the Duberman Papers. The array of evidence makes the book a primer on how historians gather and interpret evidence while at the same time shining light on the tumultuous late 1960s in American higher education. This book will become a tool for teaching, inspiring educators to rethink the ways in which history education is taught and teaching students how to reason historically through sources.
History --- Seminars --- Education --- Education, Higher. --- Teaching. --- United States--History. --- Historiography. --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- History. --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Didactics --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- School teaching --- Schoolteaching --- Instructional systems --- Pedagogical content knowledge --- Training --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Teaching --- College teaching --- Education, Higher --- Forums (Discussion and debate) --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Criticism --- Historiography --- Seminars. --- Ensenyament de la història --- Educació superior --- Seminaris --- Princeton University. --- Seminaris (Grups de treball) --- Universitats --- Seminaris teològics --- Educació universitària --- Ensenyament superior --- Ensenyament universitari --- Estudis superiors --- Estudis universitaris --- Etapes educatives --- Abandó dels estudis (Educació superior) --- Competències transversals --- Educació clàssica --- Educació superior transfronterera --- Ensenyament de la biblioteconomia --- Estudis de postgrau --- Extensió universitària --- Lectura (Educació superior) --- Orientació en l'educació superior --- Primer cicle d'ensenyament universitari --- Tercer cicle d'ensenyament universitari --- Campus virtuals --- Escrits acadèmics --- Pràcticums --- Ensenyament de les ciències socials --- Dai-hoc Princeton --- P'u-lin-ssu-tun ta hsüeh --- Universität Princeton
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"A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society. In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health-and in ways that matter for educational and economic success in our current society. In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces readers to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different. Weaving together personal stories with scientific evidence, Harden shows why our refusal to recognize the power of DNA perpetuates the myth of meritocracy, and argues that we must acknowledge the role of genetic luck if we are ever to create a fair society.Reclaiming genetic science from the legacy of eugenics, this groundbreaking book offers a bold new vision of society where everyone thrives, regardless of how one fares in the genetic lottery"--
Genetics --- Social aspects. --- Academic achievement. --- Adolescence. --- Alcoholism. --- Allele. --- Americans. --- Association for Psychological Science. --- Autism. --- Behavior. --- Behavioural genetics. --- Bioethics. --- Biology. --- Causal inference. --- Chromosome. --- Cookbook. --- Deaf culture. --- Developmental psychology. --- Economic inequality. --- Education. --- Educational attainment. --- Educational inequality. --- Effect size. --- Environmental factor. --- Equal opportunity. --- Equality of outcome. --- Estimation. --- Eugenics. --- Experiment. --- Explanation. --- Eye color. --- Genetic association. --- Genetic diversity. --- Geneticist. --- Genetics. --- Genome-wide association study. --- Genomics. --- Genotype. --- Grandparent. --- Hearing loss. --- Heredity. --- Heritability. --- Human behavior. --- Ideology. --- Income. --- Inference. --- Inferiority complex. --- Ingredient. --- Institution. --- Insurance. --- Intellectual disability. --- Level of analysis. --- Make A Difference. --- Measurement. --- Mental disorder. --- Meritocracy. --- Meta-analysis. --- Moral responsibility. --- My Child. --- Nature versus nurture. --- Obesity. --- On Intelligence. --- Oppression. --- Pessimism. --- Phenotype. --- Philosopher. --- Polygenic score. --- Prediction. --- Princeton University Press. --- Probability. --- Protein. --- Psychologist. --- Psychology. --- Race (human categorization). --- Racism. --- Result. --- Richard Lewontin. --- Russell Sage Foundation. --- Schizophrenia. --- Scientist. --- Sexism. --- Sibling. --- Social class. --- Social inequality. --- Social science. --- Social status. --- Socioeconomic status. --- Sociology. --- Sperm. --- Standardized test. --- Statistic. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Symptom. --- Technology. --- The Bell Curve. --- The Philosopher. --- Theodosius Dobzhansky. --- Twin study. --- Twin. --- Underclass. --- Wealth.
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Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyAre doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when so many of our political leaders don't? Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength—and the greatest reason we can trust it. Tracing the history and philosophy of science from the late nineteenth century to today, this timely and provocative book features a new preface by Oreskes and critical responses by climate experts Ottmar Edenhofer and Martin Kowarsch, political scientist Jon Krosnick, philosopher of science Marc Lange, and science historian Susan Lindee, as well as a foreword by political theorist Stephen Macedo.
Science --- SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Adverse effect. --- Adviser. --- American Association for the Advancement of Science. --- Americans. --- Amgen. --- Authoritarianism. --- Biologist. --- Biomedicine. --- Blind experiment. --- Bruno Latour. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Climate change. --- Climatology. --- Continental drift. --- Covid-19. --- Criticism. --- Decision-making. --- Dental floss. --- Distrust. --- Empirical evidence. --- Empiricism. --- Environmental impact assessment. --- Environmentalist. --- Epistemology. --- Eugenics. --- Experiment. --- Explanation. --- Fallacy. --- Funding of science. --- Funding. --- Geneticist. --- Global warming. --- Governance. --- Graduate school. --- Greenhouse gas. --- Helen Longino. --- History and philosophy of science. --- Ideology. --- Institution. --- Karl Popper. --- Lecture. --- Logical positivism. --- Ludwik Fleck. --- Merchants of Doubt. --- Methodology. --- Misuse of statistics. --- Morality. --- Naomi Oreskes. --- National Science Foundation. --- Ottmar Edenhofer. --- Paradigm shift. --- Pascal's Wager. --- Peer review. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of science. --- Physician. --- Physicist. --- Political psychology. --- Political science. --- Politics. --- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. --- Princeton University. --- Psychology. --- Public health. --- Public policy. --- Publication. --- Rationality. --- Reason. --- Replication crisis. --- Reproducibility. --- Result. --- Sandra Harding. --- Science studies. --- Science, technology and society. --- Science. --- Scientific community. --- Scientific consensus. --- Scientific evidence. --- Scientific method. --- Scientific opinion on climate change. --- Scientific progress. --- Scientific revolution. --- Scientific theory. --- Scientist. --- Skepticism. --- Social science. --- Sociology. --- Statistical significance. --- Suggestion. --- Sunburn. --- Sunscreen. --- Symptom. --- Tax. --- Technology. --- Theory. --- Thomas Kuhn. --- Thought. --- Vaccination. --- Vetting.
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A mathematical journey through the most fascinating problems of extremes and how to solve them. What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? How can lost hikers find their way out of a forest? Why does light move through glass in the least amount of time possible? When Least Is Best combines the mathematical history of extrema with contemporary examples to answer these intriguing questions and more. Paul Nahin shows how life often works at the extremes--with values becoming as small (or as large) as possible--and he considers how mathematicians over the centuries, including Descartes, Fermat, and Kepler, have grappled with these problems of minima and maxima. Throughout, Nahin examines entertaining conundrums, such as how to build the shortest bridge possible between two towns, how to vary speed during a race, and how to make the perfect basketball shot. Moving from medieval writings and modern calculus to the field of optimization, the engaging and witty explorations of When Least Is Best will delight math enthusiasts everywhere.
Mathematics --- Maxima and minima. --- MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy. --- History. --- Minima --- Math --- Science --- AP Calculus. --- Addition. --- Almost surely. --- American Mathematical Monthly. --- Arc (geometry). --- Calculation. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Cartesian coordinate system. --- Catenary. --- Central angle. --- Chain rule. --- Change of variables. --- Circumference. --- Clockwise. --- Convex function. --- Coordinate system. --- Curve. --- Cycloid. --- Cylinder (geometry). --- Derivative. --- Diameter. --- Differential calculus. --- Differential equation. --- Dimension. --- Dynamic programming. --- Elementary function. --- Equation. --- Equilateral triangle. --- Euler–Lagrange equation. --- Fermat's principle. --- Fluxion. --- Geometry. --- Honeycomb conjecture. --- Hyperbolic function. --- Hypotenuse. --- Illustration. --- Inequality of arithmetic and geometric means. --- Instant. --- Integer. --- Isoperimetric problem. --- Iteration. --- Jensen's inequality. --- Johann Bernoulli. --- Kinetic energy. --- Length. --- Line (geometry). --- Line segment. --- Linear programming. --- Logarithm. --- Mathematical maturity. --- Mathematical problem. --- Mathematician. --- Mathematics. --- Newton's method. --- Notation. --- Parabola. --- Parametric equation. --- Partial derivative. --- Perimeter. --- Philosopher. --- Physicist. --- Pierre de Fermat. --- Polygon. --- Polynomial. --- Potential energy. --- Princeton University Press. --- Projectile. --- Pumping station. --- Pythagorean theorem. --- Quadratic equation. --- Quadratic formula. --- Quantity. --- Ray (optics). --- Real number. --- Rectangle. --- Refraction. --- Refractive index. --- Regiomontanus. --- Requirement. --- Result. --- Right angle. --- Right triangle. --- Science. --- Scientific notation. --- Second derivative. --- Semicircle. --- Sign (mathematics). --- Simple algebra. --- Simplex algorithm. --- Snell's law. --- Special case. --- Square root. --- Summation. --- Surface area. --- Tangent. --- Trigonometric functions. --- Variable (mathematics). --- Vertex angle. --- Writing.
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A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism-smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration-promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer reveals how cities encompass myriad forms of local and indigenous intelligences and knowledge institutions, arguing that these resources are a vital supplement and corrective to increasingly prevalent algorithmic models.Shannon Mattern begins by examining the ethical and ontological implications of urban technologies and computational models, discussing how they shape and in many cases profoundly limit our engagement with cities. She looks at the methods and underlying assumptions of data-driven urbanism, and demonstrates how the "city-as-computer" metaphor, which undergirds much of today's urban policy and design, reduces place-based knowledge to information processing. Mattern then imagines how we might sustain institutions and infrastructures that constitute more diverse, open, inclusive urban forms. She shows how the public library functions as a steward of urban intelligence, and describes the scales of upkeep needed to sustain a city's many moving parts, from spinning hard drives to bridge repairs.Incorporating insights from urban studies, data science, and media and information studies, A City Is Not a Computer offers a visionary new approach to urban planning and design.
Architecture. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Urban renewal. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Smart cities. --- City planning. --- Model cities --- Renewal, Urban --- Urban redevelopment --- Urban renewal projects --- City planning --- Land use, Urban --- Urban policy --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban renewal --- Government policy --- Management --- Architecture, Primitive --- Accessibility. --- Advertising. --- American Forests. --- Archivist. --- Bloomberg Terminal. --- CARTO. --- Career. --- Civic engagement. --- Climate change. --- Collaboration. --- Colonialism. --- CompStat. --- Computation. --- Computer scientist. --- Consideration. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Control engineering. --- Control room. --- Copyright. --- Critical practice. --- Cultural heritage. --- Data set. --- Database. --- Decision tree. --- Decision-making. --- Design tool. --- Designer. --- Digital humanities. --- Ecosystem. --- Emerging technologies. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Environmental justice. --- Epistemology. --- Eric Klinenberg. --- Funding. --- Generative Design. --- Geographer. --- Governance. --- Hardware store. --- Household. --- Ideology. --- Illustration. --- Information literacy. --- Information management. --- Information science. --- Infrastructure. --- Institution. --- Knowledge economy. --- Laundry. --- Librarian. --- Librarians. --- Library. --- Literature. --- Machine learning. --- Measurement. --- Mierle Laderman Ukeles. --- Movement for Black Lives. --- Obsolescence. --- Operating system. --- Operationalization. --- Oslo School of Architecture and Design. --- Park. --- Pedagogy. --- Philosopher. --- Police. --- Politics. --- Pollution. --- Princeton University Press. --- Processing (programming language). --- Public Knowledge. --- Public infrastructure. --- Public library. --- Publishing. --- Push-button. --- Racism. --- Real estate development. --- Reproductive labor. --- Restorative justice. --- Scaffolding. --- Sidewalk Labs. --- Smart city. --- Smartphone. --- Supply chain. --- Tax. --- Technology. --- Telecommunication. --- The Various. --- Tree planting. --- Twitter. --- Unemployment. --- University of California, Berkeley. --- University of Toronto. --- University of Washington. --- Urban ecology. --- Urban history. --- Urban planning. --- Urbanism. --- Washington University in St. Louis. --- Wi-Fi. --- Year.
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From the bestselling author of What the Best College Teachers Do, the story of a new breed of amazingly innovative courses that inspire students and improve learningDecades of research have produced profound insights into how student learning and motivation can be unleashed—and it’s not through technology or even the best of lectures. In Super Courses, education expert and bestselling author Ken Bain tells the fascinating story of enterprising college, graduate school, and high school teachers who are using evidence-based approaches to spark deeper levels of learning, critical thinking, and creativity—whether teaching online, in class, or in the field.Visiting schools across the United States as well as in China and Singapore, Bain, working with his longtime collaborator, Marsha Marshall Bain, uncovers super courses throughout the humanities and sciences. At the University of Virginia, undergrads contemplate the big questions that drove Tolstoy—by working with juveniles at a maximum-security correctional facility. Harvard physics students learn about the universe not through lectures but from their peers in a class where even reading is a social event. And students at a Dallas high school use dance to develop growth mindsets—and many of them go on to top colleges, including Juilliard. Bain defines these as super courses because they all use powerful researched-based elements to build a “natural critical learning environment” that fosters intrinsic motivation, self-directed learning, and self-reflective reasoning. Complete with sample syllabi, the book shows teachers how they can build their own super courses.The story of a hugely important breakthrough in education, Super Courses reveals how these classes can help students reach their full potential, equip them to lead happy and productive lives, and meet the world’s complex challenges.
Curriculum change. --- Education, Higher --- College teaching. --- University teaching --- Teaching --- Curriculum reform --- Instructional change --- Reform, Curriculum --- Curriculum planning --- Education --- Curricula. --- Curricula --- E-books --- Curriculum change --- College teaching --- Learning, Psychology of. --- Academic achievement. --- Academic term. --- Active learning. --- Adaptive expertise. --- Albert Bandura. --- Annotation. --- Aptitude. --- Capstone course. --- Career. --- Carol Dweck. --- Classroom. --- Copyright. --- Critical thinking. --- Curriculum. --- David Hestenes. --- Deep learning. --- Education. --- Educational aims and objectives. --- Ellen Langer. --- Engineering. --- Eric Mazur. --- Expert. --- Facilitation. --- Facilitator. --- Feeling. --- Final examination. --- Force Concept Inventory. --- Georgia Institute of Technology. --- Grading (education). --- Graduate school. --- Harvard University. --- Higher education. --- Historical thinking. --- Homelessness. --- Homework. --- How People Learn. --- Ingenuity. --- Institution. --- Intelligence. --- John Dewey. --- Learning environment. --- Learning. --- Lecture. --- Lecturer. --- Lifelong learning. --- Literature. --- Locus of control. --- Mathematician. --- Mechanical engineering. --- Medical school. --- Motivation. --- Of Education. --- Pedagogy. --- Peer instruction. --- Personal development. --- Philosopher. --- Physician. --- Poverty. --- Prejudice. --- Princeton University Press. --- Private school. --- Problem set. --- Problem solving. --- Profession. --- Professor. --- Project. --- Psychologist. --- Psychology. --- Questionnaire. --- Quiz. --- Requirement. --- Role-playing. --- Russian literature. --- Scholarship. --- Science education. --- Scientist. --- Secondary school. --- Self-efficacy. --- Seminar. --- Smartphone. --- Social science. --- Spring break. --- Stereotype threat. --- Student engagement. --- Student. --- Sugata Mitra. --- Syllabus. --- TRIZ. --- Teacher. --- Teaching method. --- Technology. --- Test (assessment). --- Textbook. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Traditional education. --- Uncertainty. --- Undergraduate education. --- Vocabulary. --- Writing.
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From one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the land we share divides us—and how it could unite usToday, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself. But these problems can be solved if we draw on elements of our tradition that move us toward a new commonwealth—a community founded on the well-being of all people and the natural world. In this brief, powerful, timely, and hopeful book, Jedediah Purdy explores how we might begin to heal our fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other.
Political science. --- Accounting. --- Activism. --- American exceptionalism. --- Americans. --- Ammon Bundy. --- Barbarian. --- Bernie Sanders. --- By-product. --- Capitalism. --- Civil disobedience. --- Clean Water Act. --- Climate change. --- Coal mining. --- Coal. --- Colonization. --- Denialism. --- Die-in. --- Disaster. --- Disenchantment. --- Disgust. --- Dissident. --- Drinking water. --- Duke University. --- Ecological crisis. --- Employment. --- Energy development. --- Engineering. --- Environmental Defense Fund. --- Environmental issue. --- Environmental justice. --- Environmental law. --- Environmental movement. --- Environmental politics. --- Environmental stewardship. --- Environmentalism. --- Environmentalist. --- Exhaustion. --- Exit poll. --- Exoskeleton. --- Faculty of Law. --- Fuel. --- Future generation. --- Gilded Age. --- Global catastrophic risk. --- Green New Deal. --- Harvard University. --- Henry David Thoreau. --- Household. --- Human power. --- Indigenous peoples. --- Infrastructure. --- Institution. --- Interdependence. --- Labour movement. --- Lecture. --- Legislation. --- Legislator. --- Martin Luther King, Jr. --- Meriwether Lewis. --- Military occupation. --- Mining. --- Moral Mondays. --- Narrative. --- Natural disaster. --- Our Choice. --- Overburden. --- Pasture. --- Pauli Murray. --- Politics. --- Pollutant. --- Pollution. --- Princeton University Press. --- Priscilla Wald. --- Proclamation. --- Racism. --- Romanticism. --- Ruler. --- Sanctuary movement. --- Sasson. --- Slavery. --- Soil. --- Sorkin. --- Sovereignty. --- Statute. --- Surface runoff. --- Symptom. --- Ta-Nehisi Coates. --- Tax. --- Tehila. --- Theory of value (economics). --- Thomas Hobbes. --- University of Cambridge. --- Utopia. --- Value of life. --- Vulnerability. --- Wage. --- War on coal. --- Wealth. --- White supremacy. --- World government.
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A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales-most appearing here in English for the first timeThe Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales presents twenty magical stories published between 1875 and 1914, following Italy's political unification. In those decades of political and social change, folklorists collected fairy tales from many regions of the country while influential writers invented original narratives in standard Italian, drawing on traditional tales in local dialects, and translated others from France. This collection features a range of these entertaining jewels from such authors as Carlo Collodi, most celebrated for the novel Pinocchio, and Domenico Comparetti, regarded as the Italian Grimm, to Grazia Deledda, the only Italian woman to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. With one exception, all of these tales are appearing in English for the first time.The stories in this volume are linked by themes of metamorphosis: a man turns into a lion, a dove, and an ant; a handsome youth emerges from a pig's body; and three lovely women rise out of the rinds of pomegranates. There are also more introspective transformations: a self-absorbed princess learns about manners, a melancholy prince finds joy again, and a complacent young woman discovers gratitude. Cristina Mazzoni provides a comprehensive introduction that situates the tales in their cultural and historical context. The collection also includes period illustrations and biographical notes about the authors.Filled with adventures, supernatural and fantastic events, and brave and flawed protagonists, The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales will delight, surprise, and astonish.
Shapeshifting. --- Fairy tales --- Folk literature, Italian --- Almandine. --- Baking. --- Battlement. --- Blond. --- Casentino. --- Cenere. --- Charles Perrault. --- City Of. --- Cloister. --- Corriere dei Piccoli. --- Corset. --- Cover Her Face. --- Cowardice. --- Cruelty. --- Cupboard. --- Cushion. --- Deerskin (novel). --- Dowry. --- Drought. --- Edition (book). --- Fairy tale. --- Farmhouse. --- Feuilleton. --- Fireplace. --- Forehead. --- Gabriele D'Annunzio. --- Generosity. --- Genre. --- Giambattista Basile. --- Grandmother's Tale. --- Grazia Deledda. --- Grazing. --- Guido Gozzano. --- Hazelnut. --- Hilt. --- Humidity. --- Humiliation. --- Il Piacere. --- In This World. --- Intellectual property. --- Italian Folktales. --- Italian unification. --- Italians. --- Italo Calvino. --- Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. --- Laughter. --- Laurence Sterne. --- Lewis Seifert. --- Literature. --- Little Red Riding Hood. --- Long hair. --- Luigi Capuana. --- Marble. --- Meal. --- Misfortune (folk tale). --- Mother's ring. --- My Child. --- Narrative. --- Nickname. --- Nobility. --- North wind. --- Novel. --- Novella. --- Old Book (ghost). --- Oral tradition. --- Oven. --- Pageboy. --- Pasture. --- Pen name. --- Pin. --- Poetry. --- Pomegranate. --- Potion. --- Princeton University Press. --- Principessa. --- Proverb. --- Publication. --- Publishing. --- Retinue. --- Sadness. --- Seriousness. --- Sewing. --- Short story. --- Skirt. --- Spitting. --- Stepmother. --- Suspension of disbelief. --- Tablecloth. --- The Kingdom of the Fairies. --- The She-bear. --- The Three Fairies. --- Thicket. --- To This Day. --- To the Wedding. --- Tray. --- Valet. --- Vinegar. --- William Shakespeare. --- Wind rose. --- Writer.
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From the acclaimed author of Unfinished Business, a story of crisis and change that can help us find renewed honesty and purpose in our personal and political livesAmerica and much of the world are deeply divided over identity, equality, and history. Renewal is Anne-Marie Slaughter's candid and deeply personal account of how her own odyssey opened the door to an important new understanding of how we as individuals, organizations, and nations can move backward and forward at the same time, facing the past and embracing a new future.Weaving together personal stories and reflections with insights from the latest research in the social sciences, Slaughter recounts a difficult time of self‐examination and growth in the wake of a crisis that changed the way she lives, leads, and learns. She connects her experience to our national crisis of identity and values as the country looks into a four-hundred-year-old mirror and tries to confront and accept its full reflection. The promise of the Declaration of Independence has been hollow for so many for so long. That reckoning is the necessary first step toward renewal. The lessons here are not just for America. Slaughter shows how renewal is possible for any individual or institution that is willing to see themselves with new eyes and embrace radical honesty, risk, resilience, interdependence, grace, and vision.Part personal journey, part manifesto, Renewal offers hope tempered by honesty and is essential reading for citizens, leaders, and change makers of tomorrow.
Social values --- Change (Psychology) --- Social change --- Accountability. --- Activism. --- Adviser. --- African Americans. --- American System (economic plan). --- American frontier. --- Americans. --- Awareness. --- Barack Obama. --- Black feminism. --- Capitalism. --- Career. --- Caregiver. --- Child care. --- Climate change. --- Collective leadership. --- Community health. --- Competition. --- Cost–benefit analysis. --- Criticism. --- Desalination. --- Designer. --- Determination. --- Drought. --- E pluribus unum. --- Economy. --- Egotism. --- Employment. --- Entrepreneurship. --- European Americans. --- Exclusion. --- Feminism (international relations). --- Feminism. --- Foreign policy. --- Funding. --- Gender role. --- Good and evil. --- Harriet Tubman. --- Herbert Hoover. --- Hillary Clinton. --- Howard Zinn. --- Identity politics. --- Individualism. --- Infrastructure. --- Institution. --- Institutional racism. --- Interdependence. --- Intersectionality. --- Investor. --- Jane Addams. --- Kiese Laymon. --- Legislation. --- Legislature. --- Let America be America Again. --- Manifesto. --- Martin Luther King, Jr. --- Memoir. --- Nanny state. --- Narrative. --- New America (organization). --- Novelist. --- Obstacle. --- Oppression. --- Patriotism. --- Political science. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Princeton University Press. --- Profession. --- Protest. --- Racism. --- Risk. --- Rugged individualism. --- Salary. --- Sally Hemings. --- School district. --- Self-Reliance. --- Self-love. --- Seminary. --- Sensibility. --- Sibling. --- Silicon Valley. --- Slavery. --- Startup company. --- Suffering. --- Technology. --- The Other Hand. --- The Significance of the Frontier in American History. --- Transcendentalism. --- Un-American. --- United States Department of State. --- United States. --- Venture capital. --- Vulnerability. --- Wealth. --- White Americans. --- White people. --- White supremacy. --- Workforce. --- Writing.
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