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  • The Student

    A Short History

    by Michael S. Roth ...
    From the president of Wesleyan University, an illuminating history of the student, spanning from antiquity to ZoomIn this sweeping book, Michael S. Roth narrates a vivid and dynamic history of students, exploring some of the principal models for learning that have developed in very different contexts, from the sixth century BCE to the present.Beginning with the followers of Confucius, Socrates, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    The Entrepreneur Equation

    Evaluating the Realities, Risks, and Rewards of Having Your Own Business

    by Carol Roth ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 38 min

    There's never been a better time to start a business—or so the conventional wisdom would have you believe. But with up to 90 percent of businesses failing within the first five years, it's time to take off the rose-colored glasses and think twice before you invest your precious time, money, and energy.The Entrepreneur Equation helps you do the math before you start down the entrepreneurial path so ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Emperor's Tomb

    by Joseph Roth ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    An intensely beautiful book about one of history’s bleakest periodsThe Emperor’s Tomb – the last novel Joseph Roth wrote – is a haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and a magically evocative paean to the passing of time and the loss of hope. The Emperor’s Tomb runs from 1913 to 1938, from the eve of one world war to the eve of the next, from disaster to disaster. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Beyond the University

    Why Liberal Education Matters

    by Michael S. Roth ...
    Contentious debates over the benefits—or drawbacks—of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism—often calling for more vocational instruction. Thomas Jefferson, by contrast, believed that nurturing a student’s capacity for lifelong learning was useful for science and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Community-Engaged Scholarship

    Reflections from Netter Center Alumni

    Edited by Rita Axelroth Hodges, Michael Zuckerman ...
    A collection of stories by Penn alumni whose lives were transformed by engaging with the West Philadelphia communityFor over thirty years, the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships has served as the University of Pennsylvania’s primary vehicle for advancing civic and community engagement at Penn. The Netter Center develops and helps implement democratic, mutually ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Community-Engaged Scholarship

    Reflections from Netter Center Alumni

    Edited by Rita Axelroth Hodges, Michael Zuckerman ...
    A collection of stories by Penn alumni whose lives were transformed by engaging with the West Philadelphia communityFor over thirty years, the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships has served as the University of Pennsylvania’s primary vehicle for advancing civic and community engagement at Penn. The Netter Center develops and helps implement democratic, mutually ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • On Tyranny

    Including the Strauss-Kojève Correspondence

    by Leo Strauss ...
    An analysis of the classic Greek dialogue about absolute rule and the impassioned commentary it inspired between two philosophers.On Tyranny is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ethical Algorithm

    The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design

    by Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth ...
    Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. Algorithms have made our lives more efficient, more entertaining, and, sometimes, better informed. At the same time, complex algorithms are increasingly violating the basic rights of individual citizens. Allegedly anonymized datasets routinely leak our most sensitive personal ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Huainanzi

    Edited by John Major, Sarah Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer, Harold Roth ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Compiled by scholars at the court of Liu An, king of Huainan, in the second century B.C.E, The Huainanzi is a tightly organized, sophisticated articulation of Western Han philosophy and statecraft. Outlining "all that a modern monarch needs to know," the text emphasizes rigorous self-cultivation and mental discipline, brilliantly synthesizing for readers past and present the full spectrum of early ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Tale of the 1002nd Night

    A Novel

    by Joseph Roth ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Vienna of the late nineteenth century, with its contrasting images of pomp and profound melancholy, provides the backdrop for Joseph Roth's final novel, which he completed in exile, a few years before his tragic death in 1939. The Tale of the 1002nd Night is a brilliant, allegorical tale of seduction and personal and societal ruin, set amidst exquisite, wistful descriptions of a waning ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Student, The

    by Michael S. Roth ...
    Narrated by Eric Meyers ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 4 min

    From the president of Wesleyan University, an illuminating history of the student, spanning from antiquity to ZoomIn this sweeping book, Michael S. Roth narrates a vivid and dynamic history of students, exploring some of the principal models for learning that have developed in very different contexts, from the sixth century BCE to the present.Beginning with the followers of Confucius, Socrates, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memory, Trauma, and History

    Essays on Living with the Past

    by Michael S. Roth ...
    In these essays, Michael S. Roth uses psychoanalysis to build a richer understanding of history, and then takes a more expansive conception of history to decode the cultural construction of memory. He first examines the development in nineteenth-century France of medical criteria for diagnosing memory disorders, which signal fundamental changes in the understanding of present and past. He next ... Read more

    $30.99 USD