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      The New College Classroom

      Cathy N. Davidson, Christina Katopodis

      College still looks like it did a century ago, with instructors delivering lectures to silent rows of students. Yet research shows unambiguously that active learning is more effective and inclusive…

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      Reading in America: Literature and Social History

      A rich resource for readers interested in the study of American culture.–‘South Atlantic Review. 'The essays are noteworthy in their own right, and the collection overall is unified and coherent…'Reading…

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      The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux

      Cathy N. Davidson

      A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past–and shows how we can revolutionize it to prepare students for our age of constant change

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      Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21s t Century

      Cathy N. Davidson

      When Davidson and Duke University gave free iPods to the freshman class in 2003, critics said they were wasting their money. Yet when students in practically every discipline invented academic…

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      The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux

      Cathy N. Davidson

      One of the most thoughtful voices from within academia (Washington Post) argues the American university is stuck in the past-and shows how we can revolutionize it

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      36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan

      Cathy N. Davidson

      By turns candid, witty, and poignant, 36 Views of Mount Fuji is an American professor’s much-praised memoir about her experiences of Japan and the Japanese.

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      Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill

      Focusing on intersecting issues of nation, race, and gender, this volume inaugurates new models for American literary and cultural history. Subjects and Citizens reveals the many ways in which a…

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      No More Separate Spheres!: A Next Wave American Studies Reader

      Challenges the limitations of thinking about nineteenth-century American culture within the narrow rubric of male public and female private spheres. This title examines the ways that the separate spheres binary…

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      Charlotte Temple

      Susanna Rowson

      Like “The Coquette’ this novel was immensely popular in its day and was in fact the most popular novel in America until "Uncle Tom’s Cabin’.

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      The New College Classroom

      Cathy N. Davidson,Christina Katopodis

      College still looks like it did a century ago, with instructors delivering lectures to silent rows of students. Yet research shows unambiguously that active learning is more effective and inclusive…

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      Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill

      Focusing on intersecting issues of nation, race, and gender, this volume inaugurates new models for American literary and cultural history. Subjects and Citizens reveals the many ways in which a…

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      No More Separate Spheres!: A Next Wave American Studies Reader

      Challenges the limitations of thinking about nineteenth-century American culture within the narrow rubric of male public and female private spheres. This title examines the ways that the separate spheres binary…

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      Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America

      Cathy N. Davidson (Professor of English, Professor of English, Duke University)

      Combining rigorous historicism with new critical theory, and using a feminist perspective, Davidson questions the ideology implicit in any definition of a univocal American literary tradition and goes far beyond…

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      The Coquette

      Hannah W. Foster

      The “sentimental novel’, in the tradition established by Samuel Richardson, was very popular in post-revolutionary America. This novel and "Charlotte Temple’ were two of the most successful examples.

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      The Oxford Book of Women’s Writing in the United States

      The Oxford Book of Women’s Writing in the United States presents short stories, poems, essays, plays, speeches, performance pieces, erotica, diaries, correspondence, and even a few recipes from nearly one…

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      American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings

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      Encourages fresh thinking about the perceptions, assumptions and customs of Sioux and white cultures. This book also raises questions about assimilation, identity and race relations that remain compelling.

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      Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America

      Cathy N. Davidson (Professor of English, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, Professor of English, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University)

      Revolution and the Word remains the classic study of the co-emergence of the U.S. nation and the new literary genre of the novel. This expanded edition reframes this foundational study…

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      The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce

      Ambrose Bierce

      He will remain one of our greatest wits, one of our most uncompromising satirists, the perfecter of two or three new genres. -Clifton Fadiman

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      The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

      Cathy N. Davidson,David Theo Goldberg

      Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg focus on the potential for shared and interactive learning made possible by the Internet.

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      The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

      Cathy N. Davidson,David Theo Goldberg

      How traditional learning institutions can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collaborative as the best social networking sites.

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      Female Quixotism: Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon

      Tabitha Gilman Tenney

      The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each reprinted in its entirety, each introduced by Cathy N. Davidson, who places the…

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