by
Young, Michael
Format:
eBook
Electronic Format:
HTML, ADOBE EPUB, KINDLE
Vendor
Libby
Status anxiety
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
ix, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Edition
First edition
Production / Publication Information
New York : Pantheon Books, c2004.
Call Number
305 DEB
Publication Date
2004
Language
English
ISBN
9780375420832
The end of college :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
277 pages ; 27 cm
Production / Publication Information
New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) ; 2015.
Summary
In The End of College, Kevin Carey, an education researcher and writer, draws on years of in-depth reporting and cutting-edge research to paint a vivid and surprising portrait of the future of education. Carey explains how two trends-the skyrocketing cost of college and the revolution in information technology-are converging in ways that will radically alter the college experience, upend the traditional meritocracy, and emancipate hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Call Number
371.358 CAR
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
ISBN
9781594632051
5.
Benefit
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
315 pages ; 21 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2022.
Summary
"Laura, a brilliant student and promising scholar, escapes from her small town, working class background to join the ranks of the academic elite on a Weatherfield scholarship to Oxford University. She enthusiastically throws herself into her schoolwork, yet she is never able to escape a feeling of unease and dislocation among the anointed "best and brightest" of her generation. Years later, back in the U.S. with a Ph.D. in Henry James studies, she loses her job as an adjunct professor and reconnects with the Weatherfield Foundation. Commissioned to write a history for their gala reunion, she becomes obsessed by the Gilded Age origins of the Weatherfield fortune, rooted in the exploitation and misery of sugar production. As she is lured back into abandoned friendships within the glimmering group, she discovers hidden aspects of herself and others that point the way to a terrifying freedom. BENEFIT is a gripping coming-of-age story that offers a withering critique of American meritocracy"--
Call Number
F PHILLIPS
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
ISBN
9781942658993
by
Kahlenberg, Richard D
Format:
eAudiobook
Electronic Format:
LIBBY AUDIOBOOK, MP3
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Libby
Sky's end
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
403 pages ; 21 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
Atlanta, Georgia : Peachtree Teen, [2024]
Summary
"Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle's clutches, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve Trades"--
Call Number
YA F GREGSON (SF)
Publication Date
2024
Language
English
ISBN
9781682635766
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