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Records of President Derek Bok: Speeches
More editionsContains mainly medals and mementoes presented to Bok as President of Harvard; photographs; material relating to Bok's trip to East Asia in 1977; and a small amount of correspondence.
North Korea and the World: Human Rights, Arms Control, and ...
Walter C. Clemens Jr.5. a. henry Savage-landor, Corea, or Cho-Sen: The Land of the Morning Calm ( New York: Macmillan, 1895). 6. Quoted in Yur-Bok lee, “a Korean View.” 7. Quoted in Yur-Bok lee, “Korean-american diplomatic relations, 1882–1905,” in Yur-Bok ...
Energy: A Beginner's Guide
Vaclav SmilIn this engaging book, prolific author and academic Vaclav Smil provides an introduction to the far-reaching term and gives the reader a greater understanding of energy's place in both past and present society.
Why America Is Not a New Rome
Vaclav SmilIn Why America Is Not a New Rome, Vaclav Smil looks at these comparisons in detail, going deeper than the facile analogy-making of talk shows and glossy magazine articles.
Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much ...
Derek BokDrawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education.
The Business of Higher Education [3 volumes]
PreviewNow it is hard to think of better company than Derek Bok and a superb California Chardonnay, but Jobin Stone was becoming more fretful by the minute. As the clock in Jobin's office struck 11:30, he grabbed Derek Bok by the arm. In a frightful ...
Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much ...
Derek Bok"Derek Bok's Our Underachieving Colleges is readable, balanced, often wry, and wise. This book should be required reading for every curriculum committee and academic dean.
Gone Girl:
Gillian Flynn# Nominerad till: Women_s Prize for Fiction. # Årets bästa bok av Amazon och Barnes & Noble. # Årets mest recenserade bok på Good Reads, över 50.000 recensioner! # Översatt till 30 språk. »En superbt välskriven thriller.« JAN ...
Records of President Derek Bok: Resolutions on Inauguration
Harvard University. President's OfficeConsists of resolutions congratulating D.C. Bok on the occasion of his inauguration as 25th President of Harvard. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (apparently from the Senate of the Comm. of Mass.).
History of Asian Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots: ...
Jonathan H. X. LeeElizabeth, NJ: Hollym International Corp., 2004. Lee, Yur-Bok. “Korean-American Diplomatic Relations, 1882–1905.” In One Hundred Years of Korean-American Relations, 1882–1982, edited by Yur-Bok Lee and Wayne Patterson.
Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of ...
Derek BokIs everything in a university for sale if the price is right? In this book, one of America's leading educators cautions that the answer is all too often "yes.
Witch Hammer
Václav KaplickýThe very next day, the constables arrested the papermaker's widow, Mistress Weillemann; and Dorothea Hutter, the wife of the former judge who had disappeared to an unknown place; and Christiane Reinhold. Then it was the turn of the ...
Kdo s koho
Václav KaplickýHistorický román z doby vlády Jagellovců - krále Vladislava a jeho syna Ludvíka - se odvíjí v jižních Čechách, místě neustálých bojů mezi měšťany a rytíři.
Savage Coast
Muriel Rukeyser“Monika Zgustova's concerns areclosetomy own:the fate of the individualin the hands of totalitarianism. She is an outstanding writer, whose fiction invokes thepolitics and cultureof people throughout history.” —Vaclav Havel “Three centuries, ...
Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century
Vaclav SmilThis book addresses the question of how we can best feed the ten billion or so people who will likely inhabit the Earth by the middle of the twenty-first century.
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