Kay Cunningham's List: Collection Development

Archaelogy, medieval, art books--many remaindered.

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"When Alex the African gray parrot died in 2007, the world mourned...."

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Annual collection of the 20 best contemporary short stories

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The 2000 list. Includes 1997, 1998, 1999 lists as well.

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GOAL "to enhance the public's awareness of exceptional books written by fellow Americans"

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"Honoring excellence in journalisn and the arts since 1917"

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'"Lost in the Meritocracy” is too slickly rendered to be surprising. But its college stories are deft and often great fun. That artfulness is impressive, given that Mr. Kirn’s idea of art as a third grader was “any useless, random object created in order to break up the school day and then toted home to show off to one’s parents, after which it was misplaced or thrown away.” '

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"As more professors use clickers, experts are considering how these devices can be more (or less) effective. Derek Bruff, assistant director of Vanderbilt University's Center for Teaching, has written a book that reviews the uses of clickers and offers ad

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"Marc Bousquet's How the University Works should be required reading for anyone with an interest in the future of higher education, including administrators, faculty members, graduate students, and — even more significantly — undergraduates and their pare

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"All of this ought to be a problem for Dutton’s book, but I rather think it isn’t. Although he endorses the popular form of evolutionary psychology in principle, his practice is more nuanced. His discussion of the arts and of our responses to them is unif

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Stanley Fish's blog on the usefulness of the humanities and the new book by Anthony Kronman, “Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life”

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Stanley Fish's blog reflecting on the usefulness of higher education and reviewing the new book, “The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities,” by Frank Donoghue

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The New York Times best-of list for 2008

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'...as Jane Mayer, a staff writer for The New Yorker, makes clear in “The Dark Side,” a powerful, brilliantly researched and deeply unsettling book, what almost immediately came to be called the “war on terror” led quickly and inexorably to some of the mo

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"Shakespeare’s work, in her opinion, is so constantly mutable that it always exists in the present, whatever that present might be. The ways in which Shakespeare is interpreted in different eras say as much about those time periods as they do about the wr

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Review of Malcolm Gladwell's (author of Tipping Point and Blink) newest, Outliers

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Book reviews

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