World History Association Book Prize
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Tagged Asia, Europe, History Department, world history
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Transforming teaching
Lynch School of Education Thomas More Brennan Professor Andy Hargreaves and his co-author Michael Fullan have been selected as education authors of the month by Routledge Press, the British publisher of their new book, Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School. Published in the U.S. by Columbia University’s Teachers College Press, Professional Capital lays out a new agenda to transform the future of teaching and public education. The book combats old arguments and stereotypes about teachers and the teaching profession, instead offering ideas-driven, evidence-based strategies for classroom teachers, administrators, schools and districts, and state and federal leaders. In praising the book, British author Sir Ken Robinson, said, “Hargreaves and Fullan set out exactly and undeniably why the only way to move forward is to honor and improve the profession of teaching. This book should revolutionize how policymakers and practitioners alike think and act in education.”
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Inaugural Chautauqua Prize winner
College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program faculty member Andrew Krivak’s novel The Sojourn, already a 2011 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction, has been named the inaugural winner of the Chautauqua Prize, a new national literary prize that celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and honors the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts. The Sojourn, tells the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd’s life in rural Austria-Hungary. When World War I comes, Jozef joins his cousin and brother-in-arms as a sharpshooter on the southern front, where he must survive a perilous trek across the frozen Italian Alps and capture by a victorious enemy. Inspired by the author’s own family history, this novel is a poignant tale of survival and of fathers and sons, addressing the great immigration to America and the desire to live the American dream amidst the unfolding tragedy in Europe.
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Tagged A&S Honors Program, Europe, family saga, World War I
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Scholzman’s book honored
Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics, co-written by Moakley Professor of Political Science Kay L. Schlozman, has been named winner of the 2012 American Association for Public Opinion Research Book Award, which recognizes influential books that have stimulated thinking about the substance and study of public opinion. The award will be presented at the association’s annual conference next month in Orlando. Congratulations, Kay!
Defending Jacob
Defending Jacob, a legal thriller by author and Boston College Law alumnus William Landay, has been burning up the best sellers lists. The story is about an assistant district attorney whose life is shaken when his 14-year-old son is accused of murder. A Washington Post reviewer writes, “it’s an exceptionally serious, suspenseful, engrossing story that deserves and should achieve a large audience.” In the latest news, Defending Jacob has been optioned by Warners Bros. for a feature film. New York Times review.
Literary Boston in 1860
Brenda Wineapple, the author of White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, will discuss On the Brink of War – Literary Boston in 1860 on Apr. 11 at 7 p.m. in Devlin 101. White Heat was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, a winner of the Washington Arts Club National Award for arts writing, and a New York Times “Notable Book.” Wineapple is also the author of Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner; Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein; and Hawthorne: A Life, which received the Ambassador Award of the English-speaking Union for the Best Biography of 2003 and the Julia Ward Howe Prize from the Boston Book Club. This event is presented by the Lowell Humanities Series in conjunction with the Forgotten Chapters project.
A book review by Kearney
Author and Boston College Seeling Professor of Philosophy Richard Kearney has published a review in the Irish Times of Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt. He writes: “It is a book of conversations. Conducted during the final months of [Judt’s] life with a brilliant young historian, Timothy Snyder (author of the acclaimed Bloodlands), Judt’s valedictory verdicts on the last century are apt and arresting. The dialogue format makes for a compelling read, and the sense that time is running out brings sharp focus to what is being said. No time for beating around bushes or hedging bets. This is history straight up.”
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Too big to fail
Award-winning business journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, author of the bestseller Too Big to Fail: How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System — and Themselves, will give an address at 4 p.m. on Apr. 3 in Robsham Theater. Sorkin is a New York Times’ columnist and co-anchor of CNC’s “Squawk Box.” He is the founder and editor of DealBook, an online daily financial report and is a frequent media commentator. Sponsored by: Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics.
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