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  A Perfect Mess - The Unlikely...

  David F. Labaree

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  Read the news about America’s colleges and universities—rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators—and it’s clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree reminds us in this book, it’s always been that way. And that’s exactly why it has become the most successful and sought-after source of learning in the world. Detailing American higher education’s unusual struggle for survival in a free market that never guaranteed its place in society—a fact that seemed to doom it in its early days in the nineteenth century—he tells a lively story of the entrepreneurial spirit that drove American higher education to become the best. 
   
  And the best it is: today America’s universities and colleges produce the most scholarship, earn the most Nobel prizes, hold the largest endowments, and attract the most esteemed students and scholars from around the world. But this was not an inevitability. Weakly funded by the state, American schools in their early years had to rely on student tuition and alumni donations in order to survive. As Labaree shows, by striving as much as possible to meet social needs and fulfill individual ambitions, they developed a broad base of political and financial support that, grounded by large undergraduate programs, allowed for the most cutting-edge research and advanced graduate study ever conducted. As a result, American higher education eventually managed to combine a unique mix of the populist, the practical, and the elite in a single complex system. 
   
  The answers to today’s problems in higher education are not easy, but as this book shows, they shouldn’t be: no single person or institution can determine higher education’s future. It is something that faculty, administrators, and students—adapting to society’s needs—will determine together, just as they have always done.

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  Radiolab: Mixtape - How The...

  Radiolab

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  Before the podcast and the smartphone, there was the cassette tape and the Walkman — two devices that, although not considered much today, were revolutionary. They were recordable, rewritable, spliceable, compact, and mobile. For the first time, they allowed you to move through the world and listen to a voice speaking only to you. These cassette tapes brought us together, pulled us apart, and forever changed how we say those three simple words, ‘I love you.’ In five episodes from around the world, Mixtape explores the impact the cassette had and continues to have today.

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  The Maestro Monologue - Discover...

  Robb White

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  You were born a virtuoso—the Maestro—able to orchestrate your dreams into successful expression.Then, something happened. You heard the word "No," The next thing you knew, an unwanted mental houseguest vied for the first position in your mind, hijacked your potential, and distracted you from living out your destiny and being true to yourself. The most harmful act of self-betrayal is believing this phony pretender is helpful!First you came into the world, then you came to be who you are today. The Maestro Monologue is an excellent guide about self-improvement and positive thinking that teaches you to tap into a captivating inner narrative that strips meaning from the intruder, awakens your hidden natural power, and helps discover your destiny. With your authentic spiritual insight recovered, the magical wisdom of self-reflection reinstates your unlimited resources in healing ways and improves your self-awareness.Manifest your inner visions of victory into external experiences of reality with an original four-part journey that reveals what's real about you. Start discovering and mastering yourself:* The treacherous NOs that leave you feeling helpless and at the mercy of the world.* The Ultimate Understanding that helps you discover hidden features of your personality.* The Maestro Monologue works wonders reinstating your immeasurable capacities.* Three notably resourceful states that orchestrate your life into a beautiful symphony.* The NO-Gauges that alert your mind to false self-beliefs of inadequacy.Discover the mystery of unveiling those miss-understandings that give life to the intruder and increase self-confidence. With this practical self-help and personal development guide and awakening exercises, you'll experience a transformation of self-consciousness and uncover the valuable truth about your unstoppable success. Never again will you doubt your capacity to achieve great heights and reach your goals and full potential.

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  Eyeless in Gaza - Bringing...

  Albert A. Anderson

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  In this podcast episode, Albert A. Anderson grapples with the moral complexities of the Israel-Hamas conflict, asking fundamental questions about the justification for deadly force and the role of social justice.  
  Delving into philosophical analyses, the episode challenges conventional notions of justice, examining historical perspectives from Leviticus to Plato and drawing parallels to modern-day conflicts. Anderson advocates for nonviolent approaches, urging a new paradigm to address the challenges in the region, ultimately emphasizing the importance of dialogue in fostering understanding amid the complexities of the ongoing crisis. 
  Bringing Philosophy to Life  
  In this series, philosopher and author, Albert A. Anderson, explores the modern world through ancient philosophers such as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. He provides insightful analyses on the practical applications of philosophy in our daily lives, and brings a fresh perspective on how these concepts can create a better understanding of the world around us. In this podcast, you will be presented with philosophical ideas in a way that is accessible and easy to understand, making it an engaging listen for both old and new philosophy enthusiasts. 
  Albert A. Anderson, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Babson College in Massachusetts, where he held an endowed chair as Murata Professor of Ethics from 1995 to 2003. He has also held tenured faculty appointments in philosophy at Clark University and Albion College and full-time positions at Bates College and Rhode Island School of Design. He was a founding member of the International Society for Universal Dialogue serving as its president from 1996-2001. He is president of Agora Publications, Inc., which specializes in translating, adapting, and performing classical philosophical texts.

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  Gupta Empire The: The History...

  Charles River Editors

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  The rise and fall of great empires have shaped the course of human history, but few left so enduring an imprint upon the Indian subcontinent as the Gupta Empire. Countless studies have examined its rulers, famous battles, and its remarkable scientific and cultural achievements, and when viewed as a whole, the history of the Gupta Empire from its obscure beginnings to its remarkable expansion and eventual decline reveals a civilization that achieved an extraordinary degree of political, cultural, and intellectual development. 
  	Between the 4th and 6th centuries A.D., the dynasty grew from little more than a regional power nestled in the fertile Gangetic plain into one of the largest empires the wider Indian subcontinent had ever seen. Under prominent rulers like Chandragupta I, Samudragupta, Chandragupta II, Kumaragupta I, and Skandagupta, the Guptas expanded their authority across much of northern India and established a political order that brought a long period of stability after generations of fragmentation. In conjunction with that, their court emerged as a center of intellectual life where literature, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, religion, and architecture thrived, and their culture would influence India and much of Asia for centuries to come. Scholars such as Aryabhata revolutionized astronomy and introduced mathematical concepts that were built upon by subsequent scholars in other parts of Asia and eventually Europe. Sanskrit flourished under poets and dramatists like Kalidasa, whose works remain among the greatest achievements of classical Indian literature. Advances in metallurgy produced remarkable monuments such as the famous Iron Pillar of Delhi, and architects and artists created temples and sculptures whose elegant proportions and incredible detail have endured for centuries. Religion also experienced a major transformation of its own under the Guptas, yet they were also tolerant of religious diversity. 

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  Dacian Wars The: The History and...

  Charles River Editors

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  Despite all the accomplishments and widespread victories and conquests throughout the long history of Republican and Imperial Rome, general perception still deems the Romans to have failed in one crucial conquest: the subjugation of Germany. Indeed, historians have singled out this one failure as central to the ultimate downfall of the entire empire, as the constant wars against the Germanic tribes, and the need to defend the frontier on the Rhine at great expense against those tribes, helped bring the empire to its knees.  
  	Friction between Rome and the German tribes can be traced back as far as 113 B.C., and the next 500 years brought full-scale campaigns by the Romans against the various individual tribes, resulting in numerous battles and constant uprisings wherever any part of the land east of the Rhine was occupied for any length of time. The impact of this constant warfare on both sides cannot be underestimated, and all the while, the fighting and other interactions had massive cultural and political influences going in both directions.  
  	If there was an exception to the general pattern of Rome’s conflicts in Germania, it came at the start of the 2nd century A.D. via Trajan’s success in the Dacian Wars. To the generations of Romans who lived after his reign, Trajan came to embody the ideal emperor, ruling as an energetic soldier, an effective administrator, a generous patron of Rome, and the leader who expanded the empire to its greatest territorial extent. His reputation was so powerful that later emperors were often measured against the standard he had come to represent. His reign was marked by enormous military expenditure, long and brutal wars, ambitious expansion, and, perhaps, more than anything else, the destruction of the Dacian kingdom situated north of the Danube. The ensuing wars the Romans fought against the Dacians were among the most consequential conflicts fought during the height of the Roman Empire.

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