Best Liberal Arts Colleges - April 2024

The Hidden Ivies, 3rd Edition: 63 of America's Top Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities (Greene's Guides)

Completely revised and updated with a dozen new colleges and universities, the essential guide students need to help them choose and gain admission to the outstanding schools that fit them best.Based on Howard and Matthew Greene’s years of counseling experience and research, The Hidden Ivies is an invaluable, in-depth look inside sixty-three renowned academic institutions. These private colleges and universities offer students a broad liberal arts education that will help them build a strong foundation for the rest of their lives. The Greenes help families understand what makes an Ivy League... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062420909
• ASIN: 0062420909
• ISBN: 0062420909
• Brand: Collins Reference
• Manufacturer: Collins Reference

Fiske Guide to Colleges 2020

"The best college guide you can buy."―USA TodayEvery college and university has a story, and no one tells those stories like former New York Times education editor Edward B. Fiske. That's why, for more than 35 years, the Fiske Guide to Colleges has been the leading guide to 320+ four-year schools, including quotes from real students and information you won't find on college websites. Fully updated and expanded every year, Fiske is the most authoritative source of information for college-bound students and their parents. Helpful, honest, and straightforward, the Fiske Guide to Colleges delive... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1492664944
• UPC: 760789271250
• ASIN: 1492664944
• ISBN: 1492664944
• Manufacturer: Sourcebooks

The Hidden Ivies, 2nd Edition: 50 Top Colleges_from Amherst to Williams _That Rival the Ivy League (Greene's Guides)

Based on Howard and Matthew Greenes' years of counseling experience, as well as exclusive surveys and interviews with students, college presidents, deans of faculty, and other administrators, The Hidden Ivies presents an inside perspective of these 50 renowned academic institutions. In this fully revised and updated edition, premier educational consultants Howard and Matthew Greene go school-by-school to show you: Why these are unique institutions of exceptional merit What criteria to use in evaluating different programs The admissions requirements for each selective school Student perspect... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0061726729
• ASIN: 0061726729
• ISBN: 0061726729
• Manufacturer: Collins Reference

Thank You for Arguing, Third Edition: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

A master class in the art of persuasion, as taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill, newly revised and updated. The time-tested secrets taught in this book include Cicero's three-step strategy for moving an audience to action, and Honest Abe's Shameless Trick for lowering an audience's expectations. And it's also replete with contemporary techniques such as politicians' use of code language to appeal to specfic groups and an eye-opening assortment of persuasive tricks, including the Eddie Haskell Ploy, the Belushi Paradigm, Stalin's Timing Secret, and the Yoda Techn... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0804189935
• ASIN: 0804189935
• ISBN: 0804189935
• Brand: THREE RIVERS
• Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

The Best Kind of College: An Insiders' Guide to America's Small Liberal Arts Colleges

Small college professors from across the United States explain why liberal arts institutions remain the gold standard for higher education.The fevered controversy over America’s educational future isn’t simply academic; those who have proposed sweeping reforms include government officials, politicians, foundation officers, think-tank researchers, journalists, media pundits, and university administrators. Drowned out in that noisy debate are the voices of those who actually teach the liberal arts exclusively to undergraduates in our nation’s small liberal arts colleges, or SLACs. The Best... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1438457723
• ASIN: 1438457723
• ISBN: 1438457723
• Manufacturer: SUNY Press

Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges

The groundbreaking guide to the 40 best colleges you've never heard of—colleges that will change your lifeChoosing the right college has never been more important—or more difficult. For the latest edition of this classic college guide, Hilary Masell Oswald conducted her own tours of top schools and in-depth interviews, building on Loren Pope's original to create a totally updated, more expansive work. Organized by geographic region, every profile includes a wealth of vital information, including admissions standards, distinguishing facts about the curriculum, extracurricular activities, an... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143122304
• ASIN: 0143122304
• ISBN: 0143122304
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education

In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable choice for finding a successful post-grad career. Our destinies have been reduced to a caricature: learn to write computer code or end up behind a counter, pouring coffee. Quietly, though, a different path to success has been taking shape. In YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, George Anders explains the remarkable powe... [Read More]

• ASIN: 031654888X
• ASIN: 031654888X
• ISBN: 031654888X
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals

First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679721134
• UPC: 783324849394
• ASIN: 0679721134
• ISBN: 0679721134
• Brand: Saul Alinsky
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2)

An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program—The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasin... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0226320553
• UPC: 352709841324
• ASIN: 0226320553
• ISBN: 0226320553
• Brand: University Of Chicago Press
• Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony

A groundbreaking work in New Testament studies expanded and updated Winner of the 2007 Christianity Today Book Award in Biblical Studies, this momentous volume argues that the four Gospels are closely based on the eyewitness testimony of those who personally knew Jesus. Noted New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption that the Jesus accounts circulated as "anonymous community traditions," asserting instead that they were transmitted in the names of the original eyewitnesses. In this expanded second edition Bauckham is adding a new preface, three substantial n... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0802874312
• ASIN: 0802874312
• ISBN: 0802874312
• Manufacturer: Eerdmans

Basic Economics

The bestselling citizen's guide to economicsBasic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Bestselling economist Thomas Sowell explains the general principles underlying different economic systems: capitalist, socialist, feudal, and so on. In readable language, he shows how to critique economic policies in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the goals they proclaim. With clear explanations of the entire field, from rent control and the rise and fall of businesses to the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0465060730
• ASIN: 0465060730
• ISBN: 9780465060733
• Brand: Basic Books
• Manufacturer: Basic Books

Greenes' Guides to Educational Planning: The Hidden Ivies: Thirty Colleges of Excellence

Completely revised and updated with a dozen new colleges and universities, the essential guide students need to help them choose and gain admission to the outstanding schools that fit them best.Based on Howard and Matthew Greene’s years of counseling experience and research, The Hidden Ivies is an invaluable, in-depth look inside sixty-three renowned academic institutions. These private colleges and universities offer students a broad liberal arts education that will help them build a strong foundation for the rest of their lives. The Greenes help families understand what makes an Ivy League... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0060953624
• ASIN: 0060953624
• ISBN: 0060953624
• Manufacturer: Collins Reference

Nicomachean Ethics

In "The Nicomachean Ethics" Aristotle sets out to discover the good life for man: the life of happiness or "eudaimonia"

• ASIN: 0023895306
• ASIN: 0023895306
• ISBN: 0023895306
• Brand: Martin Ostwald
• Manufacturer: Pearson

The Best 384 Colleges, 2019 Edition: In-Depth Profiles & Ranking Lists to Help Find the Right College For You (College Admissions Guides)

*****As seen on the TODAY SHOW!*****NO ONE KNOWS COLLEGES LIKE THE PRINCETON REVIEW! The Princeton Review's college rankings started in 1992 with surveys from 30,000 students. Over 25 years and more than a million student surveys later, we stand by our claim that there is no single “best” college, only the best college for you … and that this is the book that will help you find it!What Makes THE BEST 384 COLLEGES the Most Popular College Guide?STRAIGHT FROM STUDENTS TO YOU· 384 in-depth school profiles based on candid feedback from 138,000 students, covering academics, administr... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524758191
• ASIN: 1524758191
• ISBN: 1524758191
• Manufacturer: Princeton Review

Creative Colleges: Finding the Best Programs for Aspiring Actors, Artists, Designers, Dancers, Musicians, Writers, and More

You're 100% unique. Your college should be too!Finding the creative college that best suits you doesn't have to be hard. Creative Colleges is a terrific starting point in your search, plus it'll be your trusted handbook as you work your way toward admission to just the right academic home for you. This comprehensive guide for creative students features the best arts colleges and programs in the country, alongside tips and advice from students who've "been there, done that." You'll read expert advice on how to find the school that will best fit you as an individual, develop your talents, and he... [Read More]

• ASIN: 149264711X
• UPC: 760789263330
• ASIN: 149264711X
• ISBN: 149264711X
• Brand: SOURCEBKS
• Manufacturer: Sourcebooks

When Are We Ever Going to Use This Stuff? : College Mathematics for the Liberal Arts Major

When Are We Ever Going to Use This Stuff? College Mathematics for the Liberal Arts Major is a college level mathematics textbook designed with liberal arts majors in mind. Standard mathematics texts typically mimic the

• UPC: 226374687

The Best Kind of College : An Insiders' Guide to America's Small Liberal Arts Colleges

9781438457727

• UPC: 53596936

Liberal Arts Colleges in the United States : New York

Liberal Arts Colleges in the United States: New

• UPC: 315070749

Is College Worth It? : A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education

Should people keep sending their kids to college? Bennett and Wilezol assess the problems of American higher education at various levels, from runaway costs to inferior academics to poor graduation rates to political indoctrination, and

• UPC: 22148535

Crisis in Higher Education : A Plan to Save Small Liberal Arts Colleges in America

Crisis in Higher Education was written to facilitate replication and generalization of Adrian College’s tremendous enrollment growth and retention success since 2005. This book directly addresses the economic competitiveness of small four-year institutions of higher

• UPC: 42590565
• Rating: 4.0

Liberal Arts Education and Colleges in East Asia - eBook

This book discusses liberal arts education and liberal arts colleges in the context of East Asia, specifically focusing on Japan, China and S. Korea where it has become an emerging issue in higher education in

• UPC: 946072614

Teacher Education, Diversity, and Community Engagement in Liberal Arts Colleges - eBook

Teacher Education, Diversity, and Community Engagement in Liberal Arts Colleges examines the promise of and issues related to preparing teachers for cultural diversity through community engagement in the liberal arts colleges. This book emphasizes the

• UPC: 550341818

The Hidden Ivies, 3rd Edition : 63 of America's Top Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities

Earlier ed.: The hidden ivies: fifty top colleges from Amherst to Williams that rival the Ivy League,

• UPC: 50092844

The Liberal Arts College Adapting to Change - eBook

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa

• UPC: 496781012

Writing Program Administration at Small Liberal Arts Colleges

Writing Program Administration at Small Liberal Arts

• UPC: 21305469

Best Kind of College : An Insiders' Guide to America's Small Liberal Arts...

• UPC: 193353814649
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 21 USD