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Autore |
Keyser Samuel Jay <1935-> |
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Titolo |
Mens et mania : the MIT nobody knows / / Samuel Jay Keyser ; foreword by Lawrence S. Bacow |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-29485-0 |
1-283-25882-X |
9786613258823 |
0-262-30006-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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College department heads - Massachusetts - Cambridge |
Linguistics - Study and teaching (Higher) - Massachusetts - Cambridge |
College administrators - Massachusetts - Cambridge |
Cambridge (Mass.) Intellectual life |
Cambridge (Mass.) Biography |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Mens -- The wrecking ball -- The steps of Widener -- The making of a department head -- The life of a department head -- pt. 2. et mania -- To be or not to be a university -- Housemaster -- Pornography and free speech -- Hacking -- Role compliance -- "Don't tell me what to do" -- Apartheid -- The aftermath -- After the aftermath -- What's going on here? -- Recommendation -- Hello, I must be going -- They R us -- A good university is a bad business -- Chù„shingura and catastrophes. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A memoir of MIT life, from being Noam Chomsky's boss to negotiating with student protesters. |
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