Better Presentations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks, by Jonathan Schwabish (Columbia University Press; 177 pages; $75 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Offers advice on how to best visualize content, unify elements, and focus the attention of an audience.
The Branding of the American Mind: How Universities Capture, Manage, and Monetize Intellectual Property and Why it Matters, by Jacob H. Rooksby (Johns Hopkins University Press; 370 pages; $29.95). Develops an approach to balance institutional interests with the public good.
Breakthrough Strategies: Classroom-Based Practices to Support New Majority College Students, by Kathleen A. Ross (Harvard Education Press; $64 hardcover, $32 paperback). Offers advice on teaching low-income, immigrant, and first-generation students; draws on a project at Heritage University and Yakima Valley Community College, in Washington State.
The Diversity Bargain and Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities, by Natasha K. Warikoo (University of Chicago Press; 293 pages; $26). Draws on interviews with white and nonwhite undergraduates at Brown and Harvard Universities and the University of Oxford in a study of student attitudes toward merit, race, and inequality.
The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them, by Christopher Newfield (Johns Hopkins University Press; 430 pages; $32.95). Traces the cumulative effects of privatizing over 30 years.
Hope, Heart, and the Humanities: How a Free College Course Is Changing Lives, edited by Jean Cheney, L. Jackson Newell, and others (University of Utah Press; 160 pages; $21.95). Discusses adults in Salt Lake City who have taken the Venture Course in the Humanities, a free interdisciplinary course patterned on the Clemente Course.
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice Across Disciplines, edited by Scott Frickel, Mathieu Albert, and Barbara Prainsack (Rutgers University Press; 249 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Evaluates efforts to promote interdisciplinary research in North American and British institutions, focusing on anthropology, history, political science, sociology, and science studies.
“Keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation, by Nancy Weiss Malkiel (Princeton University Press; 672 pages; $35). Traces the move toward coeducation at elite U.S. and British institutions, with a focus on Yale, Princeton, Harvard, and Dartmouth, and men’s colleges at Oxford and Cambridge; argues that they acted more out of self-interest to maintain the best pool of applicants than from a moral imperative.
