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Writing and Developing Your College Textbook
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This is a revised and expanded edition of a popular professional guide for academic authors and editors on textbook writing and higher education publishing. The new edition contains two new chapters on recent industry developments in the Information Age and the uses of learning objectives in textbook package development. New topics include pricing solutions, market segmentation in scholarly publishing, academic self-publishing, digitization, open access, wiki-textbooks, and author-editor/ author-publisher relations. The second edition features many new examples, practical tools, and links to resources for academic authors.

College For Sale
$53.98
This book documents the changes in higher education in the United States. Using the theoretical notion of 'commodification' (nearly everything can be bought and sold), it explores the impact of the economy and market forces on faculty, students, the administration and the state of knowledge itself in higher education. Faculty, particularly part-time and temporary members, are pressured to become laborers in the factors of knowledge, as education is rationalized into a service-based industry for the benefit of specific markets. University administrators have mushroomed, becoming autonomous corporate cultures disconnected from the goals of teaching and learning, and students have become consumers of education products. This book offers a critique of these trends in higher education and assessed their impact on western culture.