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The New Flagship University is an expansive vision for leading
national universities and an alternative narrative to global
rankings and World Class Universities. The Flagship model explores
pathways for universities to re-shape their missions and
operational features to expand their relevancy in the societies
that gave them life and purpose.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
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Brief Lives (Paperback)
John Aubrey; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R594
Discovery Miles 5 940
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Brief Lives (1669-1697) is a collection of short biographical
sketches on famous British figures by author, antiquarian, and
archaeologist John Aubrey. The work is significant for its unique
style, a blend of facts-names, dates, family, important works-and
personal anecdotes for which Aubrey combined his skills for
research and conversation to compile. Unpublished during his
lifetime, the text was pieced together from extensive handwritten
manuscripts by numerous editors and scholars, and over the
centuries has become a beloved cultural artifact of early-modern
Britain. A fascinating figure and gifted researcher in his own
right, John Aubrey sought to capture the significance of his era
and the people whose contributions to art, politics, science, and
philosophy were not only changing Britain, but the world, forever.
As a historical record, his Brief Lives provides valuable
information on such figures as poet John Milton, playwright William
Shakespeare, philosopher Thomas Hobbes, and chemist Robert Boyle.
But as a work of art, the text humanizes them, reminding its
readers that these were people whose desires, imperfections, and
day-to-day lives were not unlike our own. We turn to his works to
discover that Sir Walter Raleigh was a "poor" scholar "immerst...in
fabrication of his owne fortunes," or to read that Shakespeare, the
son of a butcher who worked for his father as a youth, was known to
"make a speech" while slaughtering a calf. At times
straightforwardly factual, at others filled with gossip, Brief
Lives is a document of its time that attempts to record a living
history of knowledge and influence. Whether it succeeds is beside
the point-that it speaks to us centuries on is the heart of the
matter, the reason it must be read. A well-known man in his
lifetime, Aubrey moved between cultural and political circles with
ease, compiling the sources that would later become Brief Lives.
Although a tireless writer and scholar, he published little during
his life. His work, including Brief Lives, is thus the product of
centuries of diligent research and editing from numerous scholars
who understood, as the reader of this volume surely will, that
Aubrey's work deserved to reach the public. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of John Aubrey's Brief Lives is a classic of British literature and
biography reimagined for modern readers.
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Brief Lives (Hardcover)
John Aubrey; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R981
Discovery Miles 9 810
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Brief Lives (1669-1697) is a collection of short biographical
sketches on famous British figures by author, antiquarian, and
archaeologist John Aubrey. The work is significant for its unique
style, a blend of facts-names, dates, family, important works-and
personal anecdotes for which Aubrey combined his skills for
research and conversation to compile. Unpublished during his
lifetime, the text was pieced together from extensive handwritten
manuscripts by numerous editors and scholars, and over the
centuries has become a beloved cultural artifact of early-modern
Britain. A fascinating figure and gifted researcher in his own
right, John Aubrey sought to capture the significance of his era
and the people whose contributions to art, politics, science, and
philosophy were not only changing Britain, but the world, forever.
As a historical record, his Brief Lives provides valuable
information on such figures as poet John Milton, playwright William
Shakespeare, philosopher Thomas Hobbes, and chemist Robert Boyle.
But as a work of art, the text humanizes them, reminding its
readers that these were people whose desires, imperfections, and
day-to-day lives were not unlike our own. We turn to his works to
discover that Sir Walter Raleigh was a "poor" scholar "immerst...in
fabrication of his owne fortunes," or to read that Shakespeare, the
son of a butcher who worked for his father as a youth, was known to
"make a speech" while slaughtering a calf. At times
straightforwardly factual, at others filled with gossip, Brief
Lives is a document of its time that attempts to record a living
history of knowledge and influence. Whether it succeeds is beside
the point-that it speaks to us centuries on is the heart of the
matter, the reason it must be read. A well-known man in his
lifetime, Aubrey moved between cultural and political circles with
ease, compiling the sources that would later become Brief Lives.
Although a tireless writer and scholar, he published little during
his life. His work, including Brief Lives, is thus the product of
centuries of diligent research and editing from numerous scholars
who understood, as the reader of this volume surely will, that
Aubrey's work deserved to reach the public. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of John Aubrey's Brief Lives is a classic of British literature and
biography reimagined for modern readers.
This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker
(1770-1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian
Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it
contains the biographical notes on the 'lives of eminent men'
furnished by John Aubrey (1626-97) to Anthony a Wood, who was at
the time compiling his Athenae Oxonienses. Aubrey's subsequently
famous Brief Lives were published for the first time in this 1813
work, and, although described as the fourth appendix to it, in fact
comprise slightly less than half of the second volume and the
entirety of the third. Volume 1 consist of letters between
antiquaries including Kenelm Digby, John Cotton and William
Dugdale, on topics ranging from the Cornish language and the cure
for a bite from a mad dog to the visit of the Princess Anne to
Oxford during the tumult of her father's deposition in 1688.
This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker
(1770-1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian
Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it
contains the biographical notes on the 'lives of eminent men'
furnished by John Aubrey (1626-97) to Anthony a Wood, who was at
the time compiling his Athenae Oxonienses. Aubrey's subsequently
famous Brief Lives were published for the first time in this 1813
work, and, although described as the fourth appendix to it, in fact
comprise slightly less than half of the second volume and the
entirety of the third. Volume 2, Part 1 contains letters to and
from the librarian and antiquary Thomas Hearne, as well as two
accounts of Hearne's travels, on foot to Whaddon Hall in
Buckinghamshire in 1716, and on horseback to Reading and Silchester
in 1714, and the first fifty (organised alphabetically from Aiton
to Fletcher) of Aubrey's 'lives'.
This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker
(1770-1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian
Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it
contains the biographical notes on the 'lives of eminent men'
furnished by John Aubrey (1626-97) to Anthony a Wood, who was at
the time compiling his Athenae Oxonienses. Aubrey's subsequently
famous Brief Lives were published for the first time in this 1813
work, and, although described as the fourth appendix to it, in fact
comprise slightly less than half of the second volume and the
entirety of the third. Volume 2, Part 2 consists of the remainder
of Aubrey's 'lives', organised alphabetically from Foote to Wright,
together with his extended biography of Thomas Hobbes, which the
famous philosopher had asked his friend Aubrey to write, but which
again existed only in manuscript form until it was published in
this compilation.
The social contract of public universities-the progressive idea
that any citizen who meets specified academic conditions can gain
entry to their state university-has profoundly shaped American
society. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of
admission policies and practices at public universities. Using the
University of California, the nation's largest public research
university and among its most selective, as an illuminating case
study, it explores historical and contemporary debates over
affirmative action, gender, class, standardized testing, and the
growing influences of privatization and globalization, and indeed
the very purpose and future of these important public institutions.
The United States has been the world leader in developing mass
higher education, using its pioneering network of public
universities to promote socioeconomic mobility and national
economic competitiveness. But the author warns that access and
graduation rates have stagnated and may even be declining,
particularly among younger students. Other countries, including key
members of the European Union, along with China, India, and other
developing nations, are aggressively reshaping and expanding their
higher education systems. The "American advantage" of a
high-quality and high-access higher education system is waning. The
closing chapters explore why this is the case and the consequences
within an increasingly competitive global economy.
Throughout the twentieth century, public universities were
established across the United States at a dizzying pace,
transforming the scope and purpose of American higher education.
Leading the way was California, with its internationally renowned
network of public colleges and universities. This book is the first
comprehensive history of California's pioneering efforts to create
an expansive and high-quality system of public higher education.
The author traces the social, political, and economic forces that
established and funded an innovative, uniquely tiered, and
geographically dispersed network of public campuses in California.
This influential model for higher education, "The California Idea,"
created an organizational structure that combined the promise of
broad access to public higher education with a desire to develop
institutions of high academic quality. Following the story from
early statehood through to the politics and economic forces that
eventually resulted in the 1960 California Master Plan for Higher
Education, The California Idea and American Higher Education offers
a carefully crafted history of public higher education.
The social contract of public universities-the progressive idea
that any citizen who meets specified academic conditions can gain
entry to their state university-has profoundly shaped American
society. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of
admission policies and practices at public universities. Using the
University of California, the nation's largest public research
university and among its most selective, as an illuminating case
study, it explores historical and contemporary debates over
affirmative action, gender, class, standardized testing, and the
growing influences of privatization and globalization, and indeed
the very purpose and future of these important public institutions.
The United States has been the world leader in developing mass
higher education, using its pioneering network of public
universities to promote socioeconomic mobility and national
economic competitiveness. But the author warns that access and
graduation rates have stagnated and may even be declining,
particularly among younger students. Other countries, including key
members of the European Union, along with China, India, and other
developing nations, are aggressively reshaping and expanding their
higher education systems. The "American advantage" of a
high-quality and high-access higher education system is waning. The
closing chapters explore why this is the case and the consequences
within an increasingly competitive global economy.
The New Flagship University is an expansive vision for leading
national universities and an alternative narrative to global
rankings and World Class Universities. The Flagship model explores
pathways for universities to re-shape their missions and
operational features to expand their relevancy in the societies
that gave them life and purpose.
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