Perspective Books

Clovis Revisited brilliantly addresses a major concern for modern archeology-- the interpretation of old museum collections in light of new archeological evidence. Archeology is by its very nature an adventuresome out-of-doors endeavor that is seen as a somewhat rugged "back to nature" kind of science. Behind this thin veil, however, is the true nature of archeological discovery-- the lab work. Unfortunately, many of the world's greatest archeological discoveries were made fifty to one hundred years ago, before the advent of modern archeological lab methods. The Blackwater Draw site in New Mexico, the type site of the Clovis culture, is one such site. That problem, however, was solved by Drs. Boldurian and Cotter in Clovis Revisited. This text provides a reanalysis of all the materials collected from the Blackwater Draw in the 1930s and 40s and systematically describes all the Clovis type specimens. This book is a must have for anybody, professional or otherwise, who is interested in the Clovis culture and the first discovery of the Americas.

The editors have brought together leaders in the field to produce the first book on cluttering for nearly 20 years. The book concentrates on clinical issues and as such it will be of immediate interest to all clinicians, students, and teachers in speech and language pathology. Cluttering is a seriously neglected area and the editors have gone a long way towards redressing this situation.
--- from book's back cover

I've been looking for this book for the last three years, and finally found a copy in a library of one of the local universities.

This is a great book--well worth the search for it, since it is out of print, and extremely difficult to find.

As far as I know, only two books have been dedicated to the subject of cluttering, the 1964 book by Deso Weiss, and this book. This book is actually a compilation of various authors on cluttering, and is edited by Dr. St. Louis and Dr. Myers. They are also the main contributors, but it has a chapter by Dr. Daly, one by Alf Preus, and an excellent introduction by Charles Van Riper.

Pages 11-14 are actually readable in the "Look Inside This Book" section of this amazon page.

I liked this book because it gave at least four different views on cluttering. I think that it is a great follow up to Weiss's book on cluttering, and I hope that another book is written soon on this subject.

I'm a clutterer, and this helped me a lot to understand cluttering. It also spurred a lot of new thoughts about things I can do about cluttering.

I think that all Speech Language professionals should read this book. Like the title says, it's a "Clinical Perspective, so it's written to clinicians, and like I mentioned above, it is well worth searching for.

From the social cognitive view, peer learning has great potential benefit in learning. Yet, the process of goup work during the peer learning leaves big room to study and find out more. This book helps me to see and understand how group process works or not works. Many chapters talk not only about theories, but also about evidences from experiments with explicit examples. Also, this book is about learning not about teaching. Although they deals with the role of teachers or other factors to help peer learning at last four chapter, they basically explained about how learners learn better or sometimes worse, in what situation. Especially if you are interested in discourse in peer learning such as, "How groups interact with other", "What do they talk and how does it affect to others", I would like to recommend this book to you.

Nicholas Rescher has a history of writing great books outlaying and defending the methodology of pragmatism. This book, one in a long series of books for him, explores the pragmatic method and how it might be used to "bust through" some of the problems the field of epistemology regularly faces.

Rescher's first concern is to take on the skepticism about knowledge that seems to have come in vogue a time ago. The problem, it seems, is that the realization that certainty is unnatainable has caused many to become skeptics (*If we can't have certain knowledge, we can't know anything at all.*). Rescher suggests (and argues convincingly for) the view that while certainty is a chimera, there is no reason we cannot rely on scientific knowlege the same way we always have (even if it IS conjectural). Why? Because the methods of science have been qite shown to work IN PRACTICE. Yes, history might show some of its products wrong, but for practical purposes, the benefits of a method that gets along quite well in practice outweighs the risk of sometimes getting it wrong. Pragmatically, then, we use science because it is THE BEST WE HAVE.

In a similar way, Rescher writes chapters refuting skepticism, showing that the use of both categories and systemitization has less to do with reflecting the *one true reality that is* and more to do with pragmatic considerations like elegance of theory and communication efficacy, and on how the seeming circularity of reason's usage being only justifiable by reason itself, isn't much of a problem to the pragmatist.

The only downside to this book is that, as happens with Rescher - a guy who's written over 90 books - some of these chapters borrow strongly from his other books. The chapter on the circularity of reason's justification, for instance, is very familiar from his book on "Objectivity." Also, the chapter on epistemic justification on reason and the scientific process was strongly borrowing from the book "Methodological Pragmatism." I didn't subtract a star, though, because for those who've not read much Rescher before, it won't be that big a deal and it subtracts nothing from the books power.

An excellent introduction text for the CIE A - level History course. It provides a good over all account for most topic areas of the syllabus.

Composed by a college professor with over twenty years of experience, "College Teaching: Developing Perspective Through Dialogue" is a deftly written guide set out to help college professors be more effective educators in life and in the classrooms. Exploring nine areas in the subject of teaching such as Gaining insight on self, first classes, methods and techniques, Evaluation, and others. A personal and conversational tone is used, and the some subject matter may be found as controversial to some, "College Teaching: Developing Perspective Through Dialogue" is highly recommended for community library education collections, and for any college professor looking to improve their craft.

I applaud Hurtado for discussing feminism among women of Color-- she capitalizes the C -- without resorting to simplisticgeneralizations about ethnicity and economic class.

In one of the book's strongest contributions to the ongoing conversation on race and feminism, Hurtado acknowledges the major factor separating white feminists from feminists of Color: their different relationships to white men. Hurtado concludes that white women's position (living in the same homes as white men) avails them to an "economic cushion," a term coined by Phyllis Marynick Palmer. Without trivializing the oppression of White women, Hurtado shows how White patriarchy subjects them through seduction (to propogate the race) while oppressing women of Color through rejection.

She makes another noteworthy contribution by considering Chicanas' decisions not to leave their sexist communities, explaining how women are subordinated within their own cultural groups through sexuality. She also advocates a means for theorizing about oppression and liberation that considers the privilege of the theorist, a feminist epistemology that would not separate the scholar from her/his findings but instead would require a "disrobing of self" not found in masculinist paradigms (p. 128).

Hurtado's suggests that, rather than exchange Eurocentric domination for Afrocentric domination, we consider the role of privilege as we create a "reflexive theory of subordination" that seeks "types of leadership models that lead to strategic action to accomplish particular goals" (p. 159). The key term here is reflexive. Hurtado wants each of us to consider our own biases, the baggage we each bring into our discussions of ineaquality. She acknowledges that some feminists have tried this approach, but adds that we need to encourage more of them to do so. Hurtado contends that we cannot question white power solidarity thoroughly until white people become racial whistle-blowers, fully exposing their privilege.

The Color of Privilege is a rare find: an insightful, well-written scholarly text that will interest both the activist and the academician.

This is the best set of information on coma that I have found.

Elizabeth Actemeier's study of the Christain Marriage is Scriptually sound and practical for any couple seeking guidance in their relationship. From analyzing traditional roles to the sexual relationship, Actemeier is concerned to maintain Christian integrity in Christian unions. Actemeier describes marriage as an instutuition ordained by God for humans beings, his image bearers, to flourish and imitate the love God has and continues to show to his church and the world. The book holds marriage as a wonderful life and is concerned for the loss of love, respect, kindness and equality in marriages.