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  • The DVD release Amazon.co.uk also includes an interview with Richard Stanley, deleted scenes, making of the film, and a featurette called The Unmaking of Deadwood.

    Filmstalker: Stolen British film released 2009

  • Citizen Wood: Making 'The Bride,' Unmaking 'The Legend.'

    EclipseMagazine 2010

  • Third, Unmaking showed that the triumphs of public higher education rest in large part on its egalitarian imagination, which starts with the belief that intelligence is widely distributed in the population and not concentrated at the top.

    Christopher Newfield: Still Unmaking the Public University Christopher Newfield 2011

  • Second, Unmaking traced the creation of the public university's mass middle class to a popular though largely tacit vision of general human development, one that was later disparaged by culture wars and curtailed by budget cuts.

    Christopher Newfield: Still Unmaking the Public University Christopher Newfield 2011

  • Like my predecessor volume, Ivy and Industry, Unmaking chronicles the university's long-term commitment to creating the cultural knowledge and broad social capabilities required by an innovative and democratic citizenry.

    Christopher Newfield: Still Unmaking the Public University Christopher Newfield 2011

  • A new approach to assessing actual college learning, presented in the book Academically Adrift, confirms Unmaking's argument about the negative impact on learning of, first, dwindling resources in the public colleges and universities with the biggest instructional job to do, and second, of the decline of attention to learning defined as the development of personal intellectual capacities--analysis, problem-solving, independent synthesis, and imagination.

    Christopher Newfield: Still Unmaking the Public University Christopher Newfield 2011

  • A paperback edition of my most recent book, Unmaking the Public University, has just been released by Harvard University Press.

    Christopher Newfield: Still Unmaking the Public University Christopher Newfield 2011

  • A new approach to assessing actual college learning, presented in the book Academically Adrift, confirms Unmaking's argument about the negative impact on learning of, first, dwindling resources in the public colleges and universities with the biggest instructional job to do, and second, of the decline of attention to learning defined as the development of personal intellectual capacities--analysis, problem-solving, independent synthesis, and imagination.

    Christopher Newfield: Still Unmaking the Public University Christopher Newfield 2011

  • The Unmaking of the Palestinian Nation « roger hollander says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Goldberg: The Middle East Is Complicated and It’s All the Arabs’ Fault 2010

  • If we don't accept this fate of permanent and painful decline, what can we learn about reversing it from the story that Unmaking tells?

    Christopher Newfield: Still Unmaking the Public University Christopher Newfield 2011

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