1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBE600200032601

Autore

Pontieri, Ernesto

Titolo

I "Flagellati" di Nocera Terinese / Ernesto Pontieri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli : La Cultura Calabrese, 1921

Descrizione fisica

11 p. ; 22 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

(ma)

Estr. da: "Rivista Critica di Cultura Calabrese", I(1921)2

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789519003321

Autore

Shulman James Lawrence <1965->

Titolo

The game of life : college sports and educational values : with a new preface by the authors / / James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen ; in collaboration with Lauren A. Meserve and Roger C. Schonfeld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2002, c2001

ISBN

1-283-51922-4

9786613831675

1-4008-4069-4

Edizione

[With a New preface by the authors]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (496 pages)

Collana

The William G. Bowen Series ; ; 62

Altri autori (Persone)

BowenWilliam G

MeserveLauren A

SchonfeldRoger C. <1977->

Disciplina

796.04/3/0973

Soggetti

College sports - United States

Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Princeton University Press e-book."--Cover.

First paperback printing, with new preface, 2002.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-430) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Prelude: Four Snapshots -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Institutionalization and Regulation of College Sports in Historical Perspective -- Chapter 2. The Admissions Game: Recruiting Male Athletes and the Implications of Selection -- Chapter 3. The College Game: Academic Outcomes for Men -- Chapter 4. Men's Lives after College: Advanced Study, Jobs, Earnings -- Chapter 5. The Development of Women's Athletic Programs -- Chapter 6. New Players: The Recruitment and Admission of Women Athletes -- Chapter 7. Women Athletes in College -- Chapter 8. Women's Lives after College: Advanced Study, Family, Jobs, Earnings -- Chapter 9. Leadership -- Chapter 10. Giving Back -- Chapter 11. The Financial Equation: Expenditures and Revenues -- Chapter 12. Key Empirical Findings -- Chapter 13. Taking Stock -- Chapter 14. Thinking Ahead: Impediments to Change and Proposed Directions -- Appendix A: Scorecards -- Appendix B: Supplementary Data -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The President of Williams College faces a firestorm for not allowing the women's lacrosse team to postpone exams to attend the playoffs. The University of Michigan loses $2.8 million on athletics despite averaging 110,000 fans at each home football game. Schools across the country struggle with the tradeoffs involved with recruiting athletes and updating facilities for dozens of varsity sports. Does increasing intensification of college sports support or detract from higher education's core mission? James Shulman and William Bowen introduce facts into a terrain overrun by emotions and enduring myths. Using the same database that informed The Shape of the River, the authors analyze data on 90,000 students who attended thirty selective colleges and universities in the 1950's, 1970's, and 1990's. Drawing also on historical research and new information on giving and spending, the authors demonstrate how athletics influence the class composition and campus ethos of selective schools, as well as the messages that these institutions send to prospective students, their parents, and society at large. Shulman and Bowen show that athletic programs raise even more difficult questions of educational policy for small private colleges and highly selective universities than they do for big-time scholarship-granting schools. They discover that today's athletes, more so than their predecessors, enter college less academically well-prepared and with different goals and values than their classmates--differences that lead to different lives. They reveal that gender equity efforts have wrought large, sometimes unanticipated changes. And they show that the alumni appetite for winning teams is not--as schools often assume--insatiable. If a culprit emerges, it is the unquestioned spread of a changed athletic culture through the emulation of highly publicized teams by low-profile sports, of men's programs by women's, and of athletic powerhouses by small colleges. Shulman and Bowen celebrate the benefits of collegiate sports, while identifying the subtle ways in which athletic intensification can pull even prestigious institutions from their missions. By examining how athletes and other graduates view The Game of Life--and how colleges shape society's view of what its rules should be--Bowen and Shulman go far beyond sports. They tell us about higher education today: the ways in which colleges set policies, reinforce or neglect their core mission, and send signals about what matters.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793857403321

Autore

Powers Devon

Titolo

On trend : the business of forecasting the future / / Devon Powers [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2020

ISBN

0-252-05173-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 pages)

Collana

Illinois scholarship online

Disciplina

658.8342

Soggetti

Consumer behavior - Forecasting

New products

Consumers - Research

Business forecasting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

What is a trend? What role do trends play in consumer culture? How do trends come into being? And how do trends shape the future? This book explores these and other questions through a focus on the business of trend forecasting, an industry that emerged in the 1970s to anticipate, manage, and influence the future of culture. Trend forecasters advise some of the world's most prominent companies on how to innovate, disrupt, strategize, and otherwise manage the future. In addition to the early history of trend forecasting, the book examines how current trend professionals do what they do, taking stock of contemporary practices and exposing their built-in assumptions. In sum, On Trend argues that trends have become an important way to sell cultural change, and as such they deeply shape and profoundly limit our ideas about what the future can be.