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  • Manifesto of a Tenured Radical

    by Cary Nelson ...
    In an age when innovative scholarly work is at an all-time high, the academy itself is being rocked by structural change. Funding is plummeting. Tenure increasingly seems a prospect for only the elite few. Ph.D.'s are going begging for even adjunct work. Into this tumult steps Cary Nelson, with a no- holds-barred account of recent developments in higher education.Eloquent and witty, Manifesto of a ... Read more

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  • Israel Denial

    Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, & The Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State

    by Cary Nelson ...
    A work of "rigorous intellectual inquiry" critiquing the BDS movement in academia ( Jewish Journal).Israel Denial is the first book to offer detailed analyses of the work faculty members have published—individually and collectively—in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement; it contrasts their claims with options for promoting peace.The faculty discussed here have devoted ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolutionary Memory

    Recovering the Poetry of the American Left

    by Cary Nelson ...
    Revolutionary Memory is the most important book yet to be published about the vital tradition of leftwing American Poetry. As Cary Nelson shows, it is not only our image of the past but also our sense of the present and future that changes when we recover these revolutionary memories. Making a forceful case for political poetry as poetry, Nelson brings to bear his extraordinary knowledge of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Mindless

    What Happened to Universities?: Jewish Quarterly 259

    by Cary Nelson ...
    Series Book 259 - The Jewish Quarterly
    Extremism, antisemitism and intolerance are thriving on campus. How did this happen?After October 7, the university – an institution dedicated to the search for truth, knowledge and freedom – became overrun by a toxic and dangerous fervour. Civil discourse was abandoned, as campuses became the epicentre of hate speech, bigotry, conspiracy theories, denialism and antisemitism. Yet, as Cary Nelson ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Dreams Deferred

    A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict & the Movement to Boycott Israel

    by Cary Nelson ...
    Dreams Deferred arrives as debates about the future of the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict intensify under the extraordinary pressure of a region in chaos. The book empowers readers to be informed participants in conversations and debates about developments that increasingly touch all of our lives. Its sixty concise but detailed essays give facts and arguments to assist all who ... Read more

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  • Not in Kansas Anymore

    Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities

    For years, anti-Zionist activists have accused Israel of undermining academic freedom and campus free speech in both Gaza and the West Bank. Not in Kansas Anymore demonstrates conclusively that the major threats to academic freedom come from Palestinians themselves, including from both the Palestinian Authority and from paramilitary and terrorist groups, Hamas most prominent among them. This is ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No University Is an Island

    Saving Academic Freedom

    by Cary Nelson ...
    The modern university is sustained by academic freedom; it guarantees higher education’s independence, its quality, and its success in educating students. The need to uphold those values would seem obvious. Yet the university is presently under siege from all corners; workers are being exploited with paltry salaries for full-time work, politics and profit rather than intellectual freedom govern ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Hate Speech and Academic Freedom

    The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles

    by Cary Nelson ...
    Series series Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies
    Completed shortly before Hamas carried out its barbaric October massacre, Hate Speech and Academic Freedom takes up issues that have consequently gained new urgency in the academy worldwide. It is the first book to ask what impact antisemitism has had on the fundamental principles the academy relies on for its identity—academic freedom, free speech rights, standards for hiring or firing faculty ... Read more

    $40.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No University Is an Island

    Saving Academic Freedom

    by Cary Nelson ...
    Series series Cultural Front
    The modern university is sustained by academic freedom; it guarantees higher education’s independence, its quality, and its success in educating students. The need to uphold those values would seem obvious. Yet the university is presently under siege from all corners; workers are being exploited with paltry salaries for full-time work, politics and profit rather than intellectual freedom govern ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Academic Keywords

    A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education

    Know what academic freedom is? Or what it's come to mean? What's affirmative about affirmative action these days? Think you're up on the problem of sexual harassment on campus? Or know how much the university depends on part-time faculty?Academic Keywords is a witty, informed, and sometimes merciless assessment of today's campus, an increasingly corporatized institution that may have bitten off ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Office Hours

    Activism and Change in the Academy

    In a series of stinging analyses, this book examines the current sorry state of higher education. The second half of the volume offers "alternative futures" for the academy, visions that involve academic organizations, public outreach through the internet, faculty unionization, and campus organizing. Office Hours is a roll-up-your-sleeves look at the avoidable disaster facing the modern university ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Peace and Faith

    Christian Churches and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    Edited by Cary Nelson, Michael C. Gizzi ...
    PEACE AND FAITH: Christian Churches and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, composed of new essays, is the first collection to bring together writers from different faith communities to discuss the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement’s impact on one of the more fractious topics addressed by Christian denominations: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In so doing, it builds on interfaith ... Read more

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