College Bound

College BoundArgues that first and second generation Jewish American writers had an ambivalent relationship with educational success. Jewish American immigrants and their children have been stereotyped as exceptional educational achievers, with attendance at prestigious universities leading directly to professional success. In College Bound, Dan Shiffman uses literary accounts to show that American Jews' relationship with education was in fact far more complex.

Valeria is determined to solve the mystery of her husband’s previous marriage and presumed guilt

After rigorous translating and decoding

How has demography shaped the Arab Spring

and economic points of view

the playwright Tawfik al-Hakim

they also behold the body in its meditative

When Maggie is sold away following a dispute with the master and his wife

Naïve and curious

highlighting how latest developments in solar technology have created opportunities to address energy–irrigation (groundwater) nexus challenges

this volume offers ways to navigate the issues in terms of pedagogy

and class distinctions

discusses recent insights into the functioning of the plant microbiome and beneficial plant-microbe networks