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UCLA Ed & IS Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present, Johanna Drucker

Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present

Johanna Drucker
UCLA Ed & ISUCLA Ed & IS

Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present An excerpt from the book and Q&A with the author by Johanna Drucker https://t.co/uoRqQYCOTn https://t.co/x1G7tn1mrc

Hardcover, 2022

$40.00Member price:$38.00 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: When the Light Goes on: The Life-Changing Wonder of Learning in an Age of Metrics, Screens, and Diminished Human Connection, Mike Rose

When the Light Goes on: The Life-Changing Wonder of Learning in an Age of Metrics, Screens, and Diminished Human Connection

Mike Rose
UCLA Ed & ISUCLA Ed & IS

It may have been the last book Mike Rose wrote, but his light lives on - a wonderful event last night at @UCLA celebrating the publication of "When the Light Goes On." https://t.co/feZ5VFAU0Z

Hardcover, 2023

$27.95Member price:$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Black, Dean Smith

Black

Dean Smith
UCLA Ed & ISUCLA Ed & IS

Now: a panel moderated by Amanda Finzi-Smith, Interim Director, Black Bruin Resource Center with Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, Associate Dean of EDI Natacha Cesar-Davis, Assistant Dean of Black Life Tyrone Howard, Pritzker Family Endowed Chair Danny Solórzano, Director, CCRS https://t.co/pJWwcqkCG4

Paperback, 2018

$15.27Member price:$7.64 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Walls Around Opportunity: The Failure of Colorblind Policy for Higher Education, Gary Orfield

The Walls Around Opportunity: The Failure of Colorblind Policy for Higher Education

Gary Orfield
UCLA Ed & ISUCLA Ed & IS

The Walls Around Opportunity: The Failure of Colorblind Policy for Higher Education | An excerpt from the book and Q&A with author Professor Gary Orfield about his perspective on social and economic barriers to higher education. via The Latest: https://t.co/1QbiPekwpO https://t.co/dsP84Dp1bE

Paperback, 2024

$24.95Member price:$22.45 + Free shipping10% off