college teachers

Abe Ravelstein, a brilliant professor who has lived far beyond his means, becomes a millionaire after he acts upon the suggestion of his close friend Chick that he write a book of his convictions about the ideas that sustain, or kill, humankind; but the two men face tragedy after they return home from a celebratory trip to Paris.

Coleman Silk, a distinguished professor at a small New England college where he has managed over the course of fifty years to make a lot of enemies, experiences a sort of personal liberation when he is forced from his job on false claims of racism -- a charge made all the more ironic due to a secret Silk has been keeping nearly his entire life.

Offers advice to college students on how to find the best teachers at their schools, discussing what questions to ask, how to evaluate professors, syllabuses, and grading policies, and how to build a good working and learning relationship with a professor.

The Gladney's family life is disrupted and threatened when an industrial accident sends a lethal cloud over their community. Jack Gladney struggles with the ensuing complications which include murder.

Presents arguments for what the authors believe is wrong with the modern higher education system, which schools are doing better than other schools, and what can be done to fix the schools.

Chronicles the life of physics professor John Vincent Atanasoff, who, in the late 1930s, devised a method of using the binary number system and electrical switches to create the world's first computing device, and describes how his ideas were stolen and used by the people commonly credited with creating the computer.

Presents the award-winning play in which a young professor and his odd wife are drawn into a night of malicious mind games when they innocently drop by the home of George, a disillusioned academic, and his wife, Martha.

Mathieu, a philosophy professor is obsessed with the idea of freedom which becomes more intense as he feels his world close in due to his mistress's pregnancy and the nearing of war.