New Books in Higher Education
Episodes
An Interview with Paul LeBlanc: President, Southern New Hampshire University
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Paul LeBlanc arrived at Southern New Hampshire University in 2003 it had just attained university-status and begun a few online degrees to supp...
Ben Williams on Contemplative Education
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible to integrate scholarly study with contemplative practice? What are the benefits and potential pitfalls of doing so? Join us as we speak...
An interview with Thomas O'Reilly: President of Pine Manor College
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas O’Reilly tells the inspiring story of Pine Manor College, which serves more students of color (90%) and first-generation college students (8...
William G. Tierney, "Get Real: 49 Challenges Confronting Higher Education" (SUNY, 2020)
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of William Tierney, University Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the Uni...
Sarah Drummond: Founding Dean Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Drummond provides a master class for any higher education leader contemplating a strategic alliance or merger with another institution. She desc...
Katina L. Rogers, "Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and Beyond the Classroom" (Duke UP, 2020)
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and Beyond the Classroom (Duke University Press, 2020), Katina L. Rogers tackles three major issu...
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, "Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In an age characterized by rampant anti-intellectualism, Kathleen Fitzpatrick in her 'Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University' ...
An Interview with Gayle Riggs
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a companion to the interview with David Galas on the founding of the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, the newest of t...
David Galas: Founding Chief Academic Officer and Chancellor of the Keck Graduate Institute
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Galas describes his unusual journey from Air Force brat to theoretical physicist to Systems Biologist in charge of the Human Genome Project for...
Amaka Okechukwu, "To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions" (Columbia UP, 2019)
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014 and 2015, students at dozens of colleges and universities held protests demanding increased representation of Black and Latino students and ca...
Pandemic Perspectives from The Chronicle of Higher Education
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to br...
Jamila Lyiscott, "Black Appetite. White Food. Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom" (Routledge, 2019)
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One year to the day after George Flloyd’s murder, Dr. Jamila Lyiscott discusses her book on racial justice in education: Black Appetite. White Fo...
Michael Crow: President, Arizona State University
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Crow describes his 19-year tenure leading ASU’s transformation from a regional, “party school” to what has been recognized as the U.S.’...
Lesley Lavery, "A Collective Pursuit: Teachers' Unions and Education Reform" (Temple UP, 2020)
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A Collective Pursuit: Teachers' Unions and Education Reform (Temple UP, 2020) focuses on the idea that individuals, in this case, teachers, are multi...
Martin Paul Eve et al. "Reading Peer Review: PLOS One and Institutional Change in Academia" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Martin Paul Eve (Birkbeck, University of London), Cameron Neylon (Curtin University), Daniel Paul O'Donnell (University of...
Shai Reshef: Founding President, University of the People
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shai Reshef shares the remarkable story of the creation of the University of the People, which has grown from an initial small class of students in 2...
Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray, "Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access" (MIT Press, 2020)
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray, editors of Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Glob...
Michelle Miller-Adams, "The Path to Free College: In Pursuit of Access, Equity, and Prosperity" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In The Path to Free College: In Pursuit of Access, Equity, and Prosperity (Harvard Education Press, 2021), Michelle Miller-Adams argues that tuition...
Cary Nelson, "Not in Kansas Anymore: Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities" (AEN, 2021)
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Allying with a Hamas cell (on a Palestinian university campus) is not the same as joining the College Republicans at the University of Kansas...in ...
Nathan D. Grawe, "The Agile College: How Institutions Successfully Navigate Demographic Changes" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In his highly influential book, Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education, Carleton College Professor of Economics, Nathan Grawe, alerted col...
Mary Marcy: President of Dominican University
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Marcy discusses her influential new book, The Small College Imperative: Models for Sustainable Futures (Stylus, 2020) which lays out five diff...
Jared Cohon and Mark Kamlet: Former President and Former Provost of Carnegie Mellon University
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This features our first tag team on the podcast, with an engaging discussion with Jared “Jerry” Cohon, who served as President of CMU from 1997-20...
Jeff Docking, President of Adrian College: On Saving Liberal Arts Colleges
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
President Jeff Docking shares insights from his book, Crisis in Higher Education: A Plan to Save Liberal Arts Colleges in America (Michigan State ...
Esther Barazzone (2): President Emerita of Chatham University
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Esther Barazzone describes the latter part of the transformation she led at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA. In a whirlwind of activity in 2007-...
Esther Barazzone (1): President Emerita of Chatham University
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Esther Barazzone took over Chatham College in 1992, it was in danger of closing – selling off property each year surrounding its beautiful in...
Richard K. Miller (3): Founding President of Olin College of Engineering
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the concluding episode, Richard K. Miller, Olin College of Engineering President Emeritus, discusses how Olin has shared the key learnings from th...
Richard K. Miller (2): Founding President of Olin College of Engineering
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of the interview with Rick Miller, the founding President of Olin College of Engineering, he describes the key elements of the Olin model...
Richard K. Miller (1): Founding President of Olin College of Engineering
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first of three episodes featuring Richard K. Miller, the Founding President of Olin College of Engineering, in Needham, MA. Olin was cre...
John Sexton (4): President Emeritus of New York University
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We conclude the discussion with NYU President Emeritus John Sexton by discussing key points from his book, “Standing for Reason: Universities in a...
John Sexton (3): President Emeritus of New York University
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
NYU President Emeritus John Sexton provides a detailed history of the evolution of NYU into the world’s first, global network university. This beg...
John Sexton (2): President Emeritus of New York University
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We continue the discussion with NYU President Emeritus John Sexton who shares how it took an intervention from his close friends to get him to give ...
John Sexton (1): President Emeritus of New York University
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
New York University (NYU) President Emeritus and consummate story-teller John Sexton describes how his childhood experiences as a young entrepreneur...
Free College is Bad Public Policy
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the major debates surrounding higher education is whether to make college – whether 2- or 4-year public colleges and universities – free fo...
An Introduction to "The Future of Higher Education" Podcast
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. David Finegold, the President of Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA and international expert on education and training systems and how they rel...
Matt Brim, "Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University" (Duke UP, 2020)
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Duke UP, 2020), Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite e...
Jelani Favors, "Shelter in A Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism" (U of North Carolina Press, 2020)
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shelter in A Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) by Dr. Je...
The Role of Community Colleges in Higher Education: A Discussion with Penny Wills
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to b...
Jonathan Zimmerman, "The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Zimmerman’s The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020) is the first full-length history of coll...
College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom: A Conversation with Eddie R. Cole
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Some of America's most pressing civil rights issues--desegregation, equal educational and employment opportunities, housing discrimination, and free s...
J. Kim and E. Maloney, "Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education and The Low-Density University" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Despite stereotypes of colleges and universities still stuck in the age of the blackboard and sage-on-stage lectures, a quiet revolution has been taki...
Christopher Newfield, "The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), Christopher Newfield diagnose...
LaDale Winling, "Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century" (U Penn Press, 2018)
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Universities have become state-like entities, possessing their own hospitals, police forces, and real estate companies. To become such behemoths, high...
Y. F. Niemann and G. Gutiérrez y Muhs, "Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia" (Utah State UP, 2019)
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The courageous and inspiring personal narratives and empirical studies in Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Acad...
Jeffery R. Young, "Beyond the MOOC Hype: A Guide to Higher Education’s High-Tech Disruption" (CHE, 2013)
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Remember when Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were going to shake higher education to its foundations by giving courses from the world’s most pr...
Michael B. Horn, "Choosing College: How to Make Better Learning Decisions Throughout Your Life" (Jossey-Bass, 2019)
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What if everything we tell each other – and ourselves – about why we choose college isn’t true? Is higher education an ideal, a personal goal, ...
A. P. Carnevale, "The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America" (The New Press, 2020)
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Colleges fiercely defend America’s higher education system, arguing that it rewards bright kids who have worked hard. But it doesn’t actually work...
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. B...
Pawan Dhingra, "Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough" (NYU Press, 2020)
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pawan Dhingra's new book Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough (NYU Press, 2020) is an up-close evaluation ...
Kate Lockwood Harris, "Beyond the Rapist: Title IX and Sexual Violence on US Campuses" (Oxford UP, 2019)
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at ...
Daniel T. Kirsch, "Sold My Soul for a Student Loan" (ABC-CLIO, 2019)
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With free college in the national conversation, there’s been no better time for Daniel T. Kirsch’s new book Sold My Soul for a Student Loan: Highe...
Dave Dillon, "Blueprint for Success in College and Career" (Rebus Community Press, 2018)
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric at SUNY Geneseo--interviews Dave Dillon of Grossmont College-...
Controversial Ideas and “No Platforming” with Jeff McMahan
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff McMahan is White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. His research focuses broadly on moral and political philosophy, ...
Michael C. Desch, "Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security" (Princeton UP, 2019)
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Many have read and debated “How Political Science became Irrelevant” in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The author of that piece is Michael C. ...
Bryan Caplan, “The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money” (Princeton UP, 2018)
20 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Pretty much everyone knows that the American healthcare system is, well, very inefficient. We don’t, so critics say, get as much healthcare bang for...
Stefan M. Bradley, “Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League” (NYU Press, 2018)
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The eight elite institutions that comprise the Ivy League, sometimes known as the Ancient Eight—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dar...
Matthew T. Hora, “Beyond the Skills Gap: Preparing College Students for Life and Work” (Harvard Education Press, 2016)
17 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How can educators ensure that young people who attain a postsecondary credential are adequately prepared for the future? Matthew T. Hora and his co-au...
Warren Treadgold, “The University We Need: Reforming American Higher Education” (Encounter Books, 2018)
06 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Though many Americans, Republicans especially, regard universities as heavily disposed to the political left, few people understand how much this matt...
Jessica Calarco, “Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School” (Oxford UP, 2018)
24 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In what ways do middle class students obtain advantages in schools? In her new book, Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantage...
Jonathan S. Coley, “Gay on God’s Campus: Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities” (UNC Press, 2018)
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How do students become LGBT activists at Christian Universities and Colleges? And what is the impact on the school but also on the activists themselve...
Deondra Rose, “Citizens by Degree: Higher Education Policy and the Changing Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship” (Oxford UP, 2018)
26 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Deondra Rose has written Citizens by Degree: Higher Education Policy and the Changing Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship (Oxford University Press...
Andrea L. Turpin, “A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917” (Cornell UP, 2017)
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea L. Turpin is an Associate Professor of History at Baylor University. Her book, A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion and the Changing Purposes o...
Lee Trepanier, ed. “Why the Humanities Matter Today: In Defense of Liberal Education” (Lexington Books, 2017)
26 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lee Trepanier, Professor of Political Science at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan, edited this important analysis of why the humanities mat...
Randy Stoecker, “Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement” (Temple UP, 2016)
03 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s common for colleges in the U.S. to have service learning programs of one kind or another. These are sometimes criticized as being liberal or ev...
Tressie McMillan Cottom, “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy” (The New Press, 2017)
27 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How might we account for the rapid rise of for-profit educational institutions over the past few decades, who are the students who attend them, how ca...
Ellen Hazelkorn, “The Civic University: The Policy and Leadership Challenges” (Edward Elgar, 2016)
15 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ellen Hazelkorn, Policy Advisor to the Higher Education Authority (HEA), and Director, Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU), Dublin Institute...
Nancy Weiss Malkiel, ‘Keep the Damned Women Out’: The Struggle for Coeducation” (Princeton UP, 2016)
13 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Within the context of the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s, elite institutions of higher education began to feel pressure to open their doors to...
Rebecca S. Natow, “Higher Education Rulemaking: The Politics of Creating Regulatory Policy” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
04 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca S. Natow, Senior Research Associate with the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, joins New Books Netwo...
Paul Benneworth et al., “The Impact and Future of Arts and Humanities Research” (Palgrave, 2016)
13 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future for Arts and Humanities in Europe? The podcast discusses these questions with Paul Benneworth, one of the authors, along with Magnu...
Daniel Rechtschaffen, “The Way of Mindful Education: Cultivating Well-Being in Teachers and Students” (W.W. Norton, 2014)
07 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Time and resources are scarce for many teachers. Often times, these same teachers are under immense pressure to produce higher test scores and severel...
Les Back, “Academic Diary: Or Why Higher Education Still Matters” (Goldsmiths Press, 2016)
23 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Why does higher education still matter? In Academic Diary: Or Why Higher Education Still Matters, Les Back, a professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths’ ...
Rajika Bhandari and Mirka Martel, “Social Justice and Sustainable Change: The Impacts of Higher Education” (IIE, 2016)
19 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Rajika Bhandari, Deputy Vice President, Research and Evaluation Institute of International Education (IIE), and Mirka Martel, Assistant Director of Re...
Ryan Craig, "College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education" (Palgrave McMillan, 2015)
21 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
AirBnB has dramatically altered the landscape for the hotel, tourism, and real estate sectors. Uber and Lyft have done the same to transportation. But...
Ellen Hazelkorn, “Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education: The Battle for World-Class Excellence” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
18 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Ellen Hazelkorn, Policy Advisor to the Higher Education Authority (Ireland) and Director of the Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU), Dublin ...
William Elliott III and Melinda Lewis, “Real College Debt Crisis” (Praeger, 2015)
20 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. William Elliott III, associate professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas, and Melinda Lewis, associate professor of pr...
Chuing Prudence Chou, “The SSCI Syndrome in Higher Education” (Sense Publishing, 2013)
02 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Universities across the world have become more attuned to a global competition in higher education. International rankings and world class status are ...
Rajika Bhandari and Alessia Lefebure, “Asia: The Next Higher Education Superpower?” (2015)
05 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The development of higher education in Asia has been as dramatic as the region’s rapid economic rise. The landscape of this diverse and ever-changin...
Kevin Dougherty and Rebecca Natow, “The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
25 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Funding for higher education in the U.S. is an increasingly divisive issue. Some states have turned to policies that tie institutional performance to ...
Robin Shields, “Globalization and International Education” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013)
09 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Studying the forces behind and the implications for education’s ascension as a predominant global phenomenon is becoming a more important, yet convo...
Mark Carnes, “Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College” (Harvard UP, 2014)
24 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
“All classes are sorta boring” (p. 19). This statement is one that college students might believe, along with many of their professors, but not Dr...
Michael S. Roth, “Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters” (Yale University Press, 2014)
07 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
With a new focus on vocational and work ready education, the notion of a liberal education is becoming less valued in American society. Though, there ...
Thomas A. Bryer, “Higher Education Beyond Job Creation: Universities, Citizenship, and Community” (Lexington Books 2014)
17 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas A. Bryer joins the podcast to discuss his book Higher Education Beyond Job Creation: Universities, Citizenship, and Community (Lexington Books ...
Suzanne Mettler, “Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream” (Basic Books, 2014)
09 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
From 1945 to the mid-1970s, the rate at which Americans went to and graduate from college rose steadily. Then, however, the rate of college going and ...
Amy Stambach, “Confucius and Crisis in American Universities” (Routledge, 2014)
06 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Amy Stambach is the author of Confucius and Crisis in American Universities: Culture, Capital, and Diplomacy in U.S. Public Higher Education (Rout...
Robert A. Rhoads, et al., “China’s Rising Research Universities: A New Era of Global Ambition” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)
31 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Robert A. Rhoads, Xiaoyang Wang, Xiaoguang Shi, Yongcai Chang are the authors of China’s Rising Research Universities: A New Era of Global Ambition ...
Kevin J. Dougherty and Vikash Reddy, “Performance Funding for Higher Education” (Jossey-Bass, 2013)
24 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Dougherty and Vikash Reddy are the authors of Performance Funding for Higher Education: What Are the Mechanisms What Are the Impacts (Jossey-Ba...
Neil Gross, “Why are Professors Liberal and Why do Conservatives Care?” (Harvard UP, 2013)
08 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Most people think that professors are more liberal, and some much more liberal, than ordinary folk. As Neil Gross shows in his eye-opening Why are Pro...
Christian J. Churchill and Gerald E. Levy, “The Enigmatic Academy Class, Bureaucracy, and Religion in American Education” (Temple UP, 2011)
28 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
According to the Marriam-Webster dictionary, an “enigma” can be defined as “something hard to understand or explain.” What is it that is so en...
Brian Ingrassia, “The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education’s Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football” (University Press of Kansas, 2012)
06 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
During this week of the 4th of July, it’s appropriate to mark America’s national holiday with a podcast about that most American of sports: colleg...
Mikaila Lemonik Arthur, “Student Activism and Curricular Change in Higher Education” (Ashgate, 2011)
09 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Colleges and universities have a reputation for being radical places where tenured radicals teach radical ideas. Don’t believe it. Consider this: th...