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This book is a balanced, scientifically supported account of a very real problem of sexual harassment on college campuses. It has set the national standard for policies based on its accuracy and fairness. It has helped my campus understand how a professor who seemed to have a second wife could actually be abusing dozens of students and demanding sex from them. This is one instance where knowledge is power and wisdom.

This book is very well written with real life situations. It can assist students, universities and hopefully educators that abuse the ivory power.

It enlightened me to understand that what happened to me was not my fault because when someone masterfully manipulates individuals with the abuse of power at the mercy of vulnerable people and the organization they work for it is not nice. The world does have evil people in it, but it is not the act that is sinful. It is the lie and not owning up to the behaviors verbal and nonverbal that are the true unjustice to themselves as human beings.

Overall, the book is excellent as well as other books on similar topics. I hope that future editions will be published to assist in the awareness to the fact that this does exist in Higher Education.

I expected to be enlightened about the travails of women in academic life (and about the "kindness of strangers" in the mentoring system. But I didn't expect to be emotionally moved by the stories and the valiant spirit of the women behind them! This book offers a completely humanistic prescription to many of the ills which have, since time immemorial, infected higher education. I plan to buy a copy and give it to my department chairperson (if he reads it, he may at least learn how far short of the mark he and his colleagues are and what he might do to improve the situation at our school). Kudos to the writers of this book and to those who allowed their stories to be told.

Presented with passionate conviction and eloquent wisdom, these life-stories show that the Groves of Academe need not be the heartless and treacherous mind-fields that they often have been. There is another way, a better way. Spore et al. offer an alternative, person-centered vision that challenges us to understand that professionalism need not exclude compassion, that the quest for scholastic excellence does not preclude the need for enabling (and yes, ennobling) nurturing. Whether you are male or female, already involved in higher education or planning to be, this book is essential reading.

I just finished this memoire in two days - it depicts the entire life of a lady who lived for 92 years. When her brother started school, Helen wanted to go too, but she was too young. However,as with everything else in her life, she persisted. She kept going to school until the teacher finally gave in and let her stay. And she always sat "up front". The story goes on with her experiences as a night-schooled and self-educated teacher to professor of speach at acclaimed NY colleges and her rise to president of the Jewish Womens League, her personal experiences in the loss of two husbands and marriage to the third, with whom she learned to cruise the world. The book is masterfully told by Myrna Katz Frommer, who also teaches the uninformed gentile about many of the traditions of the Jewish faith. Any book I read in two days deserves 5 stars!!

Before I read this book, I was already interested in the cultural milieu in which it is (mostly) set --- the club scene in 90s New York --- but you don't have to particularly care about this epoch to get hooked by the novel, as I did. Ferrell is a true wordsmith, and the novel is worth reading just for the quality of her prose. This is perhaps most conspicuous in her ability to grant even the most minor characters a rich presence, with just a few light strokes of her poetic brush. Matt's double life as club promoter and college student puts him in touch with a LOT of people, and this gives Ferrell the opportunity to stitch together an enormous weave of New York souls as a backdrop to the mounting drama. Whether it's a fiendish, over-the-hill club promoter or a pathetic, process-obsessed NYU counselor, every character springs to life with a precision that testifies to the author's sensitivity for human particularity--even an anonymous line of waiting club-goers quickly flashes forth its proprietary verve.


Of course it's the more central characters surrounding Matt who give this book its compelling psychic life. All are worth getting to know, but the standouts for me were Vic, Matt's volcanic, delusional, diabolical guru of a boss, and Liza, a Jezebel figure who has to be one of the hottest female characters ever cast in literary fiction. (I'm serious.) Then there is Hans, a German sociologist lurking in the footnotes for reasons unknown until much later in the book. He took a bit of getting used to, but once his story began to unfold, I looked forward to his intrusions. They have a peculiar style of their own, torn between Hans' "professional" interest in Matt's story and his overwhelming drive to evaluate his own disasters. Although he is a comic figure, he nonetheless has a mature, nuanced love story to report that helps broaden the emotional range of the novel beyond freshman year. As for Matt himself, here is a character one gets to know extremely well. Ferrell spends a good deal of time in his head, where Matt schemes, soliloquizes, berates himself, and generally chums around, in a sort of erudite slang bred from a youth of bookish isolation. His voice dominates the book, and it is a funny, incisive, and loving one, but also insecure, malleable, and troublingly vindictive. Ferrell occasionally spends a bit too much time spelling out his thoughts, rather than letting his actions or conversations reveal them. But Matt's personality withstands sustained attention, and I finished the book feeling that I had truly gotten to know someone, and thankful for it.

a feast for the lover of chinese art. The Scheinman collection was put together via the refined eye of a man passionate for not only the quality of the art itself, but the ins and outs of the business of collecting. A remarkable book with superb photography.

I was delighted with the information in this book,I just recently moved into a mansion,There is history concerning where i live in the book,the book is very educational...I loved every page!!!!

The book is in great shape and I received it in less than two days! Thank you for your prompt attention to my order!

This novel is yet another classic by Schlesinger. I enjoyed it emmensly for a variety of reasons. First, Schlesinger makes his novel appeling to both the avid history fan, student of history, and teacher of history, thus allowing everyone to understand his work. Furthermore, Schlesinger explains his work in using his every present political shrewdness aswell as dry wit. This is a refreshing change from the dry unending style of many historians. The major points explained in this work are the cycling of American politics and its effects on the past, present, and future. This gives it an even more universal quality which even students of politics can appreciate.

Ms.Farrelly has done it again. Not only a clever mystery, but I finally understand what derivatives are. Wonderful local color and memorable characters plus a good plot. Who could ask for anything more?

General Eisenhower's five year tour of duty as president of Columbia is told with great gusto and just the right amount of detail by historian Travis Jacobs. It's jammed with stories that make it fun to read from beginning to end. Plus you really get a sense of history about this nationally renown university. It starts with Murray Butler's 44 year reign--old, blind, and deaf--and the desparate search for a new dynamic replacement.

Was Ike anti-intellectual and anti-academic? Here you see both sides: He refused to honor John Dewey at a 1949 banquet; He was found sitting at his clean desk one day reading a Western novel; yet he spoke eloquently before a history class about the military books that influenced his decisions in Europe during WW2; he made surprise appearances in classes, including an economics course, although he was clearly more fond of Baker Field and the football games.

Critics said he vacationed too much, played too much golf and bridge with his buddies, made too many off-campus appearances, and was seldom available to Columbia professors and administrators. But some of that was due to his staff handlers, who shielded him from his Columbia colleagues. Jacobs tells a delightful story of how history professor Robert Livingston Schuyler got around his handlers and met up with the General on his way home for lunch (pp. 125-26).

After reading Jacobs' biography, I'm amazed how much Eisenhower accomplished, given his constant interruptions--trips to Washington, NATO leader, and running for President in 1952. Yet he gave a lot of good publicity to Columbia, which was hurting financially after the war, and got involved in many university projects (although he hated fundraising).

Jacobs is even handed in reporting on Ike's supporters and detractors. His conclusion is that Ike was ultimately good for Columbia, and Columbia good for Ike even into his presidency; a surprise ending. My only complaint is that you learn very little about his wife Mamie in the book. She's around, but you never know what she's thinking. Otherwise, a mighty enjoyable reading of a little-remembered part of Eisenhower's career.