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  • The New College Classroom

    by Cathy N. Davidson, Christina Katopodis ...
    Frederic W. Ness Book Award, American Association of Colleges and UniversitiesA Forbes Best Higher Education Book“A practical guide to more effective and engaged college teaching.”—Forbes“Everyone who teaches (or hopes to teach) college will find this book a provocative and stimulating source of ideas about how to make our classrooms more equitable, participatory and interactive.”—Steven Mintz, ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The New Education

    How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux

    by Cathy N. Davidson ...
    “One of the most thoughtful voices from within academia” (Washington Post) argues the American university is stuck in the past—and shows how we can revolutionize itWe’re living in a period of great upheaval—yet there hasn't been a corresponding change in our system of higher education. In The New Education, Cathy N. Davidson argues we need a new theory and practice of learning that emphasizes ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Now You See It

    How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21st Century

    by Cathy N. Davidson ...
    A digital innovator shows how we can thrive in the new technological age.When Cathy Davidson and Duke University gave free iPods to the freshman class in 2003, critics said they were wasting their money. Yet when students in practically every discipline invented academic uses for their music players, suddenly the idea could be seen in a new light-as an innovative way to turn learning on its head ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • 36 Views of Mount Fuji

    On Finding Myself in Japan

    by Cathy N. Davidson ...
    In 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women’s university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning of a deep and abiding fascination. In this extraordinary book, Davidson depicts a series of intimate moments and small epiphanies that together make up a panoramic view of Japan. With wit, candor, and a lover’s keen eye, she tells captivating stories ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Faculties

    A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times

    by Cathy N. Davidson, Jody Greene ...
    Faculties is a call to action, a sourcebook, and a how-to guide for academic colleagues who want to contribute to the administrative and educational decisions being made about the future of our institutions. There is no going back to the version of US higher education that existed a couple of decades or even a couple of years ago. Cathy N. Davidson and Jody Greene encourage faculty and allies to ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Revolution and the Word

    The Rise of the Novel in America

    by Cathy N. Davidson ...
    Revolution and the Word is the classic study of the co-emergence of the U.S. nation and the new literary genre of the novel. The book remains the foundational study of reading, writing, and publishing in the new republic and provides a unique glimpse of the culture of early America. By looking at everything from publishers' account books to marginalia scrawled in eighteenth-century books to the ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings

    by Zitkala-Sa, Cathy N. Davidson, Ada Norris ...
    A thought-provoking collection of searing prose from a Dakota Sioux woman that covers race, identity, assimilation, and perceptions of Native American cultureZitkala-Sa (also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) wrestled with the conflicting influences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation, she was educated at boarding schools that enforced ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The New Education

    How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux

    by Cathy N. Davidson ...
    Narrated by Carolyn Cook ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past -- and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant changeOur current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925. It was in those decades that the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, all in an attempt to prepare young people for a world ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Now You See It

    How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn

    by Cathy N. Davidson ...
    Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 53 min

    When Cathy Davidson and Duke University gave free iPods to every member of the incoming freshman class in 2003, they didn’t expect the uproar that followed. Critics called it a waste: what educational value could a music player have for college kids? Yet by the end of the year, Duke students had found academic uses for the new devices in virtually every discipline. The iPod experiment proved to be ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD

  • The Coquette

    by Hannah W. Foster ...
    Series series Early American Women Writers
    The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. Written as a series of letters--between the heroine and her friends and lovers--it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly suits her. Eliza Wharton (as Whitman is called in the novel) wavers between Major Sanford, a charming but ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Coquette

    by Hannah W. Foster ...
    Series series Early American Women Writers
    The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. Written as a series of letters--between the heroine and her friends and lovers--it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly suits her. Eliza Wharton (as Whitman is called in the novel) wavers between Major Sanford, a charming but ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Subjects and Citizens

    Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill

    by Annette Kolodny, Stephanie Athey ...
    Focusing on intersecting issues of nation, race, and gender, this volume inaugurates new models for American literary and cultural history. Subjects and Citizens reveals the many ways in which a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writing contends with the most crucial social, political, and literary issues of our past and present.Defining the landscape of the New American literary history, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD