Joseph O Shea: 2 books
Gap Year
How Delaying College Changes People in Ways the World Needs
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
With some of the most prestigious universities in America urging students to defer admissions so they can experience the world, the idea of the gap year has taken hold in America. Since its development in Britain nearly fifty years ago, taking time off between secondary school and college has allowed...
Reading Texts, Reading Lives
Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Our culture attempts to separate competing ideological factions by denying relationships between multiple perspectives and influences outside of one’s own narrow interpretive community. The distinguished essayists in this volume find Daniel R. Schwarz’s pluralistic, self-questioning approach to...