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Books by Derek Bok
  | | Higher Expectations Can Colleges Teach Students What They Need to Know in the 21st Century? by Derek Bok Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2020 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20580-9, ISBN: 0-691-20580-9 "How our colleges and universities can respond to the changing hopes and needs of societyIn recent decades, cognitive psychologists have cast new light on human development and given colleges new possibilities for helping students acquire skills and qualities that will enhance their lives and increase their contributions to society. In this landmark book, Derek Bok explores how colleges can reap the benefits of these discoveries and crea ..." |
 | | Attacking the Elites What Critics Get Wrong--And Right--about America's Leading Universities by Derek Bok 247 Pages, Published 2024 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-27360-1, ISBN: 0-300-27360-6 "Drawing on over fifty years of experience as a student, professor, dean, and president of Harvard University, Derek Bok examines the current disputes involving admissions, diversity, academic freedom and political correctness, curriculum ..." |
 | | Our Underachieving Colleges(1st Edition) A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More (The William G. Bowen Memorial Series in Higher Education) by Derek Curtis Bok Hardcover, 424 Pages, Published 2006 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12596-1, ISBN: 0-691-12596-1 |
 | | Living with Nuclear Weapons(6th Edition) by Albert Carnesale, Paul Doty, Stanley Hoffmann, Samuel P. Huntington, Scott D. Sagan, Derek Bok, Derek Curtis Bok, Soctt D. Sagan, Joseph S. Nye Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1983 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-53665-4, ISBN: 0-674-53665-7 "At the request of the President of Harvard University, six Harvard scholars have joined forces to write a book that lays out the facts about nuclear weapons for all concerned citizens who want to think through the nuclear dilemma for themselves. "Living with Nuclear Weapons" is written by specialists for the general reader. It conveys crucial information clearly, concisely, and without technical jargon."Living with Nuclear Weapons" pres ..." |
 | | The Cost of Talent How Executives And Professionals Are Paid And How It Affects America by Derek Curtis Bok Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2002 by Free Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-3632-4, ISBN: 0-7432-3632-7 "The continuing uproar over top executive pay packages in American companies calls attention to an even larger and more important issue: in general, do we compensate highly educated people in the United States in ways that serve the best interests of the nation? Are some people paid too much and others too little? What effect do differences in earnings have on the career choices of the talented? Do we pay executives and professionals in ..." |
 | | Higher Expectations by Derek Curtis Bok Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2022 by Princeton University Press, New Jersey ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20661-5, ISBN: 0-691-20661-9 "... Rachel Saef, Scott Parrigon, and Sang Eun Woo, “The Need for Cognition: Key Concepts, Assessment, and Role in Educational Outcomes,” in Anastasiya E. Lipnevich, Franzis Preckel, and Richard D. Roberts, eds., Psychosocial Skills and ..." |
 | | Higher Expectations Can Colleges Teach Students What They Need to Know in the 21st Century? by Derek Bok 232 Pages, Published 2020 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21235-7, ISBN: 0-691-21235-X "... “The Need for Cognition: Key Concepts, Assessment, and Role in Educational Outcomes,” in Anastasiya E. Lipnevich, Franzis Preckel, and Richard D. Roberts, eds., Psychosocial Skills and School Systems in the 21st Century (2016), p. 115 ..." |
 | | The William G. Bowen Memorial Series in Higher Education The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges by Derek Bok 240 Pages, Published 2017 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8834-4, ISBN: 1-4008-8834-4 "E.g., Ernest T. Pascarella and Patrick T. Terenzini, note 10, p. 129. Still another longitudinal study reached an almost identical result concerning student improvement in critical thinking. Charles Blaich and Kathleen Wise, From Gathering to Using Assessment Results: Lessons from the Wabash National Study, Occasional Paper No. 8 (2011), p. 9. 18. National Assessment of Adult Literacy, A First Look at the Literacy and America's Adu ..." |
 | | The William G. Bowen Memorial Series in Higher Education Our Underachieving Colleges : A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More by Derek Bok 440 Pages, Published 2009 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3133-3, ISBN: 1-4008-3133-4 "... surely, is the tendency of much vocational education to offer training without intellectual depth.* However 281 *It should be noted that evidence is mixed on whether the vocational emphasis of a college either helps or hinders the development of cognitive ability (including critical thinking skills); Ernest T. Pascarella and Patrick T. Terenzini, How College Affects Students, Vol. 2, pp. 172 –73. worthy their place in the econom ..." |
 | | Living with Nuclear Weapons(1st Edition) by Scott D. Sagan, Paul Doty, Stanley Hoffmann, Huntington Samuel P., Carnesale Albert, Derek Bok, Joseph S. Nye, Harvard Study Group, Bok Derek Curtis, Carnesale Et Al Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 1983 by Bantam Books ISBN-13: 978-0-553-23739-9, ISBN: 0-553-23739-X "THE COSMIC CODE by Heinz R. Pagels CREATIVE VISUALIZATION by Shakti Gawain THE DANCING WU LI MASTERS by Gary Zukav ECOTOPIA by Ernest Callenbach ECOTOPIA EMERGING by Ernest J. Callenbach THE ELECTRONIC ..." |
 | | The Politics of Happiness(Reprint) What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being by Derek Curtis Bok Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2011 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-15256-1, ISBN: 0-691-15256-X "During the past forty years, thousands of studies have been carried out on the subject of happiness. Some have explored the levels of happiness or dissatisfaction associated with typical daily activities, such as working, seeing friends, or doing household chores. Others have tried to determine the extent to which income, family, religion, and other factors are associated with the satisfaction people feel about their lives. The Gallup o ..." |
 | | The William G. Bowen Ser. The Shape of the River : Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions Twentieth Anniversary Edition by Bowen William G., Derek Bok 523 Pages, Published 2019 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18422-7, ISBN: 0-691-18422-4 "The economist Thomas Kane has looked carefully at the practicality of such an approach and concluded: “No race-blind ... Favoring low-income applicants with high scores over high-income applicants with similar scores will make its entering ... Among the applicants to this school, only 10 percent came from families in which neither parent had a BA, and there were more than twice as many whites as ..." |
 | | The William G. Bowen Memorial Series in Higher Education The Shape of the River : Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions by William G. Bowen, Derek Bok 544 Pages, Published 2016 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8279-3, ISBN: 1-4008-8279-6 "Could it reflect some form of demoralization resulting from a realization on the part of minority students that they are less qualified academically than their white classmates? Some experimental evidence does suggest that vulnerability to racial ..." |
 | | The William G. Bowen Memorial Series in Higher Education Higher Education in America by Derek Bok 496 Pages, Published 2015 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6612-0, ISBN: 1-4008-6612-X "John McCardell, former president of Middlebury College, put the argument with unusual candor. “If a handful of slots go to deserving applicants whose families can at least have the potential to improve in dramatic ways the quality of education at Middlebury College, we would not be fair to our successors or predecessors if we were to overlook that reality.”10 From a purely utilitarian standpoint there is something to be said for Mc ..." |
 | | Higher Education in America by Derek Bok 496 Pages, Published 2013 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4830-0, ISBN: 1-4008-4830-X "Sweepingly ambitious in scope, this is a deeply informed and balanced assessment of the many strengths as well as the weaknesses of American higher education today." |
 | | Higher Education in America by Derek Bok Published 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1-299-74791-3, ISBN: 1-299-74791-4 |
 | | The Politics of Happiness What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being by Derek Bok 272 Pages, Published 2010 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3219-4, ISBN: 1-4008-3219-5 "Ruut Veenhoven and Michael Hagerty, “Rising Happiness in Nations 1946– 2004: A Reply to Easterlin,” 79 Social Indicators Research (2006), pp. 421,429. 19. Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch, note 1; Carol Graham, Soumya Chattopadhyay, and Mario Picon, note 1. 20. ... in Michael Eid and Randy J. Larsen (eds.) ..." |
 | | Our Underachieving Colleges A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More by Derek Bok Published 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2698-8, ISBN: 1-4008-2698-5 |
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