Current conversations on the state of academia contain a broad sense of crisis over changes in the body of university knowledge--the decline of literature, the unbridling of ethnic studies, the growth of various applied programs, and so on. Much of the concern revolves around a perceived deterioration of the academic core in which, the thinking goes, the university's teaching and research priorities are increasingly compromised by external financial and political interests. With data on faculty and course composition over the twentieth century for a global sample of universities, this book...

Current conversations on the state of academia contain a broad sense of crisis over changes in the body of university knowledge--the decline of literature, the unbridling of ethnic studies, the growth of various applied programs, and so on. Much of the concern revolves around a perceived deterioration of the academic core in which, the thinking goes, the university's teaching and research priorities are increasingly compromised by external financial and political interests. With data on faculty and course composition over the twentieth century for a global sample of universities, this book...

Culled from thousands of satirical, pointed, sometimes absurd blog posts, Sexts from the Sea collects over 100 of the funniest pieces ever published on The Tangential - a pop culture and creative writing blog that just celebrated its fifth anniversary. With posts like "What Your Bra Type Says About Your Boobs' Personality," "Charles Dickens's Top Ten Asshole Moves," "Excerpts from Batman's Failed Poetry Blog," "What Popular Fast Food Chains Would Be Like in Bed," and of course the erotic titular collection, Sexts from the Sea is an amusingly skewed survey of contemporary culture - high, low,...