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The corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock. In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter this erosion of humanistic education. Focusing on the individual faculty member and his or her own professional practice, Berg and Seeber present both an analysis of the culture of speed in the academy and ways of alleviating stress while improving teaching, research, and collegiality.

The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media. We live in an information age, but it is...

The pub is an English institution. But its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In this unique book, Philip Howell takes the public house as an object, or rather as a series of objects: he takes the pub apart and examines its constituent elements, from pub signs to the bar staff to the calling of "time." But Pub also explores the hidden features of the pub, such as corporate control, cultural acceptance and exclusion, and the role of the pub in communities.

The hero of Charlotte Brontë's first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both teacher and pupil in Reuter's school.

When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym moves in across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge and an opportunity. Pushing 40, out of shape, and disenchanted with his job as an adjunct English professor, part of him yearns to cross the street and join up. The other part is terrified.

To write, to think, to imagine, to agitate, and to love without regard for gender is what might be called a nonbinary way of life. In this genre-defying work of autotheory, Marquis Bey proposes a radical refusal: to relinquish gender as a framework we carry – for ourselves and for others – and to embrace modes of being that exist outside of its grasp. What if we no longer let gender be a way of organizing ourselves?

Dealing with the various issues of the black community, particularly focusing on black relationships, black economics and black freedom.

Although we don't have all the answers, we hope we can encourage and excite you. We're here sharing our lives to inspire you to make the most of the second half of your life. Join us each week, my friends, where you're sure to get a smile -- from lessons learned to mishaps, the adventures go on for miles...here on The Professor and Heather Anne.

Examine crimes from throughout history with Professor Gavin Lee, who has a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice and has thrilled students for years with his entertaining yet research-based classes. Get an expert's perspective!

Ruminations. Politics. International Relations. Culture. Food. Education. Trying to make sense of a nonsensical world.

There's little truly "progressive" about Progressivism. True progress happens when humans are free, yet the Progressive agenda substantially diminishes freedom while promising the unachievable. Excuse Me, Professor provides a handy reference for anyone actively engaged in advancing liberty, with essential essays debunking more than 50 Progressive clichés.

Novo podcast original UOL Prime reconstrói, em quatro episódios, o caso do ex-professor Carlos Veiga Filho, que deu aulas em um colégio de elite em São Paulo e é acusado de abusar de seus alunos. Protagonista de um dos maiores escândalos sexuais recentes do país, Carlos Veiga foi condenado a 40 anos de prisão em fevereiro deste ano. A série é apresentada pelas jornalistas Cris Fibe, colunista do UOL e autora do livro "João de Deus: o abuso da fé", Paula Sacchetta, documentarista, diretora e roteirista, e Camila Brandalise, do núcleo de reportagens especiais do UOL, especializada ...

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In the 1960s, Don Elkins was a respected physics professor and commercial airline pilot living in Louisville, Kentucky. But behind closed doors, he was leading secretive groups who believed they were in contact with the occupants of UFOS. Decades before the term “non-human intelligence” made headlines, Elkins was recording hours of sessions with a human “instrument”—conversations he believed were real, urgent, and meant for humanity.In 1984, after years of increasingly strange behavior and growing isolation, Elkins died by suicide following a six-hour standoff with police and ...

The Professor and the Princess flip stereotypes, disrupt social norms and inspire provocative discussion one Earnest Heartfelt and Authentic conversation at a time.#TheProfessorAndThePrincess #FlippingStereotypes #EarnestHeartfeltAuthenticOpening/Closing Music Credit: New Adventure/Artist: Matrika

Trabalho com a educação pública de qualidade. Acredito no meu país...

Curiosidades sobre a história do Brasil e do mundo. Uma pitada de sociologia e filosofia

Few writers are more often read, and better loved, than Charles Dickens and Samuel Langhorne Clemens - Mark Twain. Many of the characters populating their novels have become household words, cultural landmarks in their own right - Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist. It is as if we have known them life-long. In this course we take a look at the lives and works of both authors.

The Doctor of Stream-a-nomics and The Twitch Tribal Chief come together to discuss the hot topics of the day. Video Games, Science, Philosophy, Movies and more. There is no topic off-limits. Join us for a no holds barred conversation each and every week.