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THIS is a charming little book. Brightly written, poignant with enthusiasm, and full of excellent teaching, it is sure to fulfil its purpose : to stimulate the amateur, and encourage the art student novitiate to serious study, hard, and, perhaps sometimes, dry work. Reading it reminded me pleasantly of my youth, when all the problems with which it deals were so new to one, when the veil was …
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- 219976505
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- cdl; americana
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- SRLF:LAGE-1981371
Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century
How xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public. This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or "Xerox machine," became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper jams, mangled pages, and even fires made early versions…
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- 9780262334334
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 201 pages)
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Technology and the Dream: Reflections on the Black Experience at MIT, 1941–…
Originally published: 2001.Includes index.Transcripts of more than seventy-five oral history interviews in which the interviewees assess their MIT experience and reflect on the role of blacks at MIT and beyond. This book grew out of the Blacks at MIT History Project, whose mission is to document the black presence at MIT. The main body of the text consists of transcripts of more than seventy-fi…
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- 1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
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- 9780262286305
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- 1 online resource (1054 pages) :illustrations
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The real world of college :what higher education is and what it can be
"The authors present the results of a large-scale study of American colleges, and offer recommendations for rethinking and restructuring the delivery of liberal arts education"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262368536
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- 1 online resource.
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Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pa…
How universities in the US and South Korea compete for global student markets—and how university financials shape students' lives. The popular image of the international student in the American imagination is one of affluence, access, and privilege, but is that image accurate? In this provocative book, higher education scholar Stephanie Kim challenges this view, arguing that universities -…
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- 9780262373371
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The war on learning : gaining ground in the digital university
Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and plagiarism-detection software. In the seats are the students, armed with smartphones, laptops, tablets, music players, and social networking. Although these two forces seem poised to do battle with each other, they are really both taking part in a war…
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- 9780262323253
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- 1 online resource (xi, 302 pages) :illustrations
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The Walls Have the Floor: Mural Journal, May '68
The graffiti of the French student and worker uprising of May 1968, capturing participatory politics in action."Fifty years ago, in 1968, barricades were erected in the streets of Paris for the first time since the Paris Commune of nearly one hundred years before. The events of May 1968 began with student protests against the Vietnam War and American imperialism but quickly expanded to rebellio…
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- 9780262346795
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 202 pages) :illustration
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Of one blood :or, the hidden self
"Reuel, an African American man passing as white so that he can attend Harvard Medical School, is drawn into a fantastical adventure when he revives a woman's life through mesmerism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262371131
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- 1 online resource.
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Constructing student mobility :how universities recruit students and shape pa…
"The book examines how the higher education sectors in California and South Korea have created new admissions pathways for South Korean students, reframing student mobility as not solely an individual pursuit but one shaped by institutional opportunities"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373371
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- 1 online resource
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The mobility of students and the highly skilled :implications for education f…
Analyses of the interrelated mobility of students and the highly skilled that consider its implications for fiscal policy, higher education financing, and economic development.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262326018
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- 1 online resource (vi, 346 pages) :illustrations.
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