In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities 9781568588919, 9781568588926

Farewell the Ivory Tower: Universities in Transition 9780773592575

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Shadow of the Tower

Richmond Palace, March 1603. Queen Elizabeth lies dying, surrounded by her Privy Council led by Robert Cecil. Even on he

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Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century 0812249682, 9780812249682

Today, universities serve as the economic engines and cultural centers of many U.S. cities, but how did this come to be?

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Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century 9780812294545

Building the Ivory Tower examines the role of American universities as urban developers and their changing effects on ci

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How to Do Relevant Research: From the Ivory Tower to the Real World 1788119398, 9781788119399

Amidst rapid and fundamental shifts in the economic, geo-political, technological, and societal landscape, this cutting-

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Unsafe in the Ivory Tower: The Sexual Victimization of College Women 9781412954778, 1412954770

This text presents two interrelated perspectives of sexual victimization on college campuses. First, it discusses the na

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When Ivory Towers Were Black: A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities 9780823276141

Tells the story of how a cohort of ethnic minority students earned degrees from Columbia University’s School of Architec

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Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education 9780226720562

Exposes the intimate relationship between big finance and higher education inequality in America. Elite colleges have lo

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Babel and the Ivory Tower: The Scholar in the Age of Science 9781442671133

This is a fascinating and illuminating discussion of liberal and contemplative scholarship and adds significantly to the

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When Ivory Towers Were Black: A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities [Illustrated] 9780823276127

When Ivory Towers Were Black lies at the potent intersection of race, urban development, and higher education. It tells

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