Student Diversity at the Big Three: Changes at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton since the 1920s
Strengthening affirmative action programs and fighting discrimination present challenges to America’s best private and public universities. US college enrollments swelled from 2.6 million students in 1955 to 17.5 million by 2005.
Before a separate Department of Medical Humanities was formed, the editors of this volume were faculty members of the Department of Pediatrics at our medical school. Colleagues daily spoke of the moral and social problems of children's health care. Our offices were near the examining rooms where children had their bone-marrow procedures done. Since this is a painful test, we often heard them cry. The hospital floor where the sickest children stayed was also nearby.
A complete bicycle maintenance guide, this book has been updated to cover the changes in frame design and materials since the previous edition. Lesser changes like the “Aheadset” and “Hiddenset” headsets and front-loading stems are also covered. In addition, there is more about Shimano and Campagnolo combines gear and brake levers for sports bikes. Full of practical information and handy tips covering almost every bike built since 1970, the book gives any rider the confidence and knowledge required to tackle regular maintenance, repairs and major overhauls.
A magisterial history inspired by Winston Churchill's famous opus, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 is an engrossing account of the twentieth century, with a unique perspective on our turbulent times. In 1900, where Churchill ended the fourth volume of his History of the English-Speaking Peoples , the United States had not yet emerged onto the world scene as a great power. Yet the coming century was to belong to the English-speaking peoples, who successively and successfully fought the Kaiser's Germany, Axis aggression and Soviet Communism, and who are now struggling against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism.
Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits
Within the pages of this transformational book, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer reveals how to change the self-defeating thinking patterns that have prevented you from living at the highest levels of success, happiness, and health. Even though you may know what to think, actually changing those thinking habits that have been with you since childhood might be somewhat challenging.
