Is everything in a university for sale if the price is right? In this book, one of America's leading educators cautions that the answer is all too often "yes." Taking the first comprehensive look at the growing commercialization of our academic institutions, Derek Bok probes the efforts on campus to profit financially not only from athletics but increasingly, from education and research as well. He shows how such ventures are undermining core academic values and what universities can do to limit the damage. Commercialization has many causes, but it could never have grown to its present state had it not been for the recent, rapid growth of money-making opportunities in a more technologically complex, knowledge-based economy. A brave new world has now emerged in which university presidents, enterprising professors, and even administrative staff can all find seductive opportunities to turn specialized knowledge into profit. Bok argues that universities, faced with these temptations, are jeopardizing their fundamental mission in their eagerness to make money by agreeing to more and more compromises with basic academic values. He discusses the dangers posed by increased secrecy in corporate-funded research, for-profit Internet companies funded by venture capitalists, industry-subsidized educational programs for physicians, conflicts of interest in research on human subjects, and other questionable activities. While entrepreneurial universities may occasionally succeed in the short term, reasons Bok, only those institutions that vigorously uphold academic values, even at the cost of a few lucrative ventures, will win public trust and retain the respect of faculty and students. Candid, evenhanded, and eminently readable, Universities in the Marketplace will be widely debated by all those concerned with the future of higher education in America and beyond.

De ervaringen van een joodse vrouw (1645-1724) in Duitsland, die na de dood van haar man met succes zijn handel voortzet en voor haar kinderen schrijft over alles wat haar omringt.

Kritische culinaire columns, eerder verschenen in o.a. De Volkskrant.

In this "deeply revealing guide to modern Turkish culture and politics"(The New York Times Book Review), Hugh and Nicole Pope provide a glimpse into a culture that has long been misunderstood. Turkey Unveiled is the only book in many years to attempt to fill a gap in perception with regard to this extremely complex country, and this paperback edition includes an epilogue that brings the book totally up to date, with coverage of the most recent developments in Turkey.Throughout the last generation Turkey has opened up to the outside world, increasingly revealing a pluralistic and dynamic society. The authors, who speak fluent Turkish and have reported from Turkey for over a decade, provide a rich mosaic of contemporary Turkey and its formative past. The strengths and weaknesses of the Ottoman Empire, the Armenian tragedy, the ongoing Kurdish struggle, and the controversial legacy of the brilliant but autocratic founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, are all here. They also provide portraits of new leaders who have broken taboos and ushered in new freedoms at a time when other forces attempt to pull Turkey back into the MiddLe Eastern vortex. Hugh and Nicole Pope, combining analysis with understanding, make recent developments in Turkey intelligible for both the general reader and the millions of visitors welcomed by a burgeoning tourist industry.

Interviews met ruim twintig Nederlandse leidinggevenden op het hoogste niveau uit het bedrijfsleven, de media, politiek, sport, zorg en nongouvernementele organisaties.

Hét antwoord op 'Dit kan niet waar zijn'. 0Persoonlijke drama's, knallende strijd, withete frustratie, ongekende euforie en gedrevenheid. Vanuit een anti-kraakkantoorpand in Amsterdam Sloterdijk wil een stel jonge honden de wereld veranderen. Hun doel: oprichting van de eerste onafhankelijke bank in decennia. Lukt het ze om met passie en nieuwe technologie een heel ander soort bank te beginnen? Eentje zonder risico's, die zijn geld louter verdient met steengoede diensten? Zou dat kunnen in Nederland, vóórdat de grote jongens in Amerika hen voor zijn? Elke dag weer is een achtbaanrit met onzekere uitkomst. "Met z'n allen wisten we op elk moment van de dag en nacht één ding zeker: hier gebeurt het. Het lukt of het lukt niet, maar het gebeurt hier wél!"