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Campus Life

Campus Life

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Watching today’s students “holding themselves in because they had to get A’s not only on tests but on deans’ reports and recommendations,” Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, author of the highly praised Alma Mater, began to ask, “What ...
Attitudes Toward Sex in Antebellum America: A Brief History ...

Attitudes Toward Sex in Antebellum America: A Brief History ...

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

With this colorful collection of documents, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz overturns the monolithic picture of Victorian sexual repression to reveal four contending views at play during the antebellum period: earthy American folk wisdom, the anti ...
A Taste for Provence

A Taste for Provence

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

In A Taste for Provence, historian Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz digs into this question and spins a wonderfully appealing tale of how Provence became Provence.
Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of "The ...

Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of "The ...

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

In Wild Unrest, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz offers a vivid portrait of Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the 1880s, drawing new connections between the author's life and work and illuminating the predicament of women then and now.
Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges ...

Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges ...

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Horowitz shows how the physical plan of each college contained and implicit message about the way society perceived women, the limits placed on their aspirations, and the expectations about their relationship to one another.
Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression ...

Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression ...

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Horowitz shows us a many-voiced America in which an earthy acceptance of desire and sexual expression collided with the prohibitions broadcast from the pulpit and the printed page by evangelical Christian elements.
Rewriting Sex: Sexual Knowledge in Antebellum America: A ...

Rewriting Sex: Sexual Knowledge in Antebellum America: A ...

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

In her introduction, Professor Horowitz takes American sexual history beyond the boundaries of the twentieth century and elucidates the complex issues surrounding nineteenth-century debates and dialogue.
The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas

The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

This book captures the life and personality of this influential woman, and details her accomplishments as an educator and feminist and her relationships with women, her racism, and her anti-Semitism.
The Purposeful Graduate: Why Colleges Must Talk to Students ...

The Purposeful Graduate: Why Colleges Must Talk to Students ...

Tim Clydesdale

Other helpful typologies have been provided by Mary Grigsby (College Life, 92) and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present (New York: Knopf, 1987). 4.
Summary of the Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz: ...

Summary of the Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz: ...

Ant Hive Media

This is a Summary of Ben Horowitz's The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs ...
Music talks: conversations with musicians

Music talks: conversations with musicians

Helen Epstein

Gathers interviews with Horowitz, James Galway, Yo-Yo Ma, and Leonard Bernstein, and discusses a top violin teacher, a piano competition, and the role of the conductor
Windmueller Family Chronicle: Second Edition

Windmueller Family Chronicle: Second Edition

Inge Windmueller Horowitz

Second Edition Inge Windmueller Horowitz, Rita Janet Horowitz, Ida Stein Windmueller. b. February 17, 1923 in Amsterdam, Holland. ... TONIE FREDERIKA KAUFMANN 123‐623-5 lb. December 8, 1895 in Amsterdam, Holland. Married on ...
Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion

Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion

David Horowitz

A former liberal himself, Horowitz recounts his own brushes with radicalism and offers unparalleled insight into the disjointed ideology of liberal elites.
Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

Barbara Natterson Horowitz

But this book examines much more than just health. Horowitz’s research into animal behaviour also sheds light on a range of other human-centric issues, from politics to justice, business to barter.
Take No Prisoners: A Winning Strategy for Conservatives

Take No Prisoners: A Winning Strategy for Conservatives

David Horowitz

In his new book Take No Prisoners, Horowitz sounds a clarion call for conservatives to use liberals’ playbook against them.
Hating Whitey: And Other Progressive Causes

Hating Whitey: And Other Progressive Causes

David Horowitz

David Horowitz, whose ad campaign against reparations has provoked censorious rage on campuses across the country, delivers a powerful blow to contemporary race thinking. -- Why do some civil rights leaders condone murder?
Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges from ...

Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges from ...

Daniel Horowitz

In STOLEN SOVEREIGNTY Horowitz reveals just how disenfranchised voters have become.
The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected ...

The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected ...

David Horowitz

David Horowitz spent the first part of his life in the world of the Communist-progressive left, a politics he inherited from his mother and father, and later in the New Left as one of its founders.
Dierenbrein & mensenlijf

Dierenbrein & mensenlijf

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz. 10. Inhoudsopgave. Opmerking van de auteurs 1 Mensen en andere dieren Nieuwe vergezichten in de geneeskunde 2 Schijnbewegingen Waarom we flauwvallen 3 Jaguars, gorgosaurussen en Engelse ...
Trauma Controversy, The: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary ...

Trauma Controversy, The: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary ...

Preview

The chapters in this first section, by Gregg Horowitz, Sara Beardsworth, and Kristen Brown Golden, evince the necessity and fecundity of pluridiscipli- narity. By asking what sort of loss can be identified in the analysis of trauma, Gregg Horowitz ...
Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The ...

Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The ...

Daniel Horowitz

Horowitz offers a reading of The Feminine Mystique and argues that the roots of Friedan's feminism run deeper than she has led us to believe.
Akron Aviation:

Akron Aviation:

James I. Pryor II

Helen Ball was a stunt pilot from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This autographed photograph was given to Helen Waterhouse. It reads: “To Helen, With Kind Thoughts of Issoudun, Helen Ball.” Note the flight clothes. Aviators, in particular women ...
On the Cusp: The Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on ...

On the Cusp: The Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on ...

Daniel Horowitz

How did the 1950s become "The Sixties"? This is the question at the heart of Daniel Horowitz's On the Cusp.
The Pickle Index: A Novel

The Pickle Index: A Novel

Eli Horowitz

Punctuated with evocative woodcuts by Ian Huebert, Eli Horowitz's The Pickle Index is a fast-moving fable, full of deadpan humor and absurd twists—and an innovative, exhilarating storytelling experience.
Reforming Our Universities: The Campaign For An Academic ...

Reforming Our Universities: The Campaign For An Academic ...

David Horowitz

In his new book,Reforming Our Universities, Horowitz will describe his decades-long campaign against intellectual bigotry, grade discrimination, and the denial of basic rights to any and all whose opinions diverge from the extreme liberal ...
A Course in Happiness: Mastering the 3 Levels of ...

A Course in Happiness: Mastering the 3 Levels of ...

Mardi Horowitz M.D.

Mastering the 3 Levels of Self-Understanding That Lead to True and Lasting Conte ntment Mardi Horowitz M.D. ... Although her marriage was stable and satisfying and she had a two-year-old daughter she adored, Fredericka felt unhappy, ...
Summary of Indoctrination U.: The Left's War Against ...

Summary of Indoctrination U.: The Left's War Against ...

Capitol Reader

About the Author David Horowitz is a New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award nominee. In the 1960s, he was an organizer of the New Left Movement. Currently, he is president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and  ...
Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left

David Horowitz

The bestselling Unholy Alliance-now in paperback! Former Leftist radical David Horowitz blows the lid off the dangerous liaison between U.S. liberals and Islamic radicals.
Radical Pedagogy: Identity, Generativity, and Social ...

Radical Pedagogy: Identity, Generativity, and Social ...

M. Bracher

Horowitz, Mardi J., Constance Milbrath, and Charles H. Stinson. “Signs of Defensive Control Locate Conflicted Topics in Discourse.” Archives of General Psychiatry 52 (December 1995): 1040–1047. Horowitz, Mardi J., Constance Milbrath, ...

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