Colleges and Universities Books

This book is a balanced, scientifically supported account of a very real problem of sexual harassment on college campuses. It has set the national standard for policies based on its accuracy and fairness. It has helped my campus understand how a professor who seemed to have a second wife could actually be abusing dozens of students and demanding sex from them. This is one instance where knowledge is power and wisdom.

This book is very well written with real life situations. It can assist students, universities and hopefully educators that abuse the ivory power.

It enlightened me to understand that what happened to me was not my fault because when someone masterfully manipulates individuals with the abuse of power at the mercy of vulnerable people and the organization they work for it is not nice. The world does have evil people in it, but it is not the act that is sinful. It is the lie and not owning up to the behaviors verbal and nonverbal that are the true unjustice to themselves as human beings.

Overall, the book is excellent as well as other books on similar topics. I hope that future editions will be published to assist in the awareness to the fact that this does exist in Higher Education.

Students today at LSU call the Pete Maravich Assembly Center the P-MAC. I can't stand to hear that. If they read this book, they might give the building the devotion it deserves. "Shooting the Pistol" is a clever name and the cover of this book and its design are also clever. I was expecting only pictures, but was amazed at the amount of copy that went along with the games corresponding to the photos. Pete is shown in all kinds of situations and the descriptions are amazing. This will make a great Father's Day gift.

This is an excellent recounting of Pete Maravich's playing days at LSU from the perspective of a court side photographer/journalist. Well written with wonderful pictures. A must have for basketball and sports history fans!

I Love this book!
As a high school counselor, I recommended this to many of my seniors. Their parents where very thankful. It is a thorough treatment of the college admissions process. My favorite part is in the financial aid section, where they discuss good award letters, vs poor award letters.
Each chapter ends with a to do list, as well as many online resources. The workbook style gives students a much needed organizational piece to keep track of everything in one location.

One of the most complete books on the subject I've found yet. Very complete and detailed information, especially on financial aid, written with common sense and information I could understand and use. By following the financial aid information, we ended up with an excellent financial aid package.

Vernon R. Alden, a multifacited person and scholar, left an enduduring legacy at Ohio University. As president he aspired to build a university of national prominence, and he pursued those aspirations with a passion. He helped to forge the institution that many of us know today - a beautiful cosmopolitan campus born out of his international influence, his sense of style, and his ability to get things done. You will enjoy reading Vern Alden's thoughts and recollections. Prepare to do so with a smile, appreciating his enormous accomplishment and penatrating personality.

Vernon R. Alden, a multifacited person and scholar, left an enduduring legacy at Ohio University. As president he aspired to build a university of national prominence, and he pursued those aspirations with a passion. He helped to forge the institution that many of us know today - a beautiful cosmopolitan campus born out of his international influence, his sense of style, and his ability to get things done. You will enjoy reading Vern Alden's thoughts and recollections. Prepare to do so with a smile, appreciating his enormous accomplishment and penatrating personality.

Reading Robert Birnbaum's Speaking of Higher Education: The Academic's Book of Quotations, reminded me of my visit to the writers' museum in Dublin. Passing each object in the exhibit case such as a typewriter or journal activated an audio clip with the voice of the writer giving a reading from a work or poem. What Birnbaum does in this compilation is invoke the voices of university fathers and presidents, statesmen, professors and authors on the higher learning. How fortunate for us that Birnbaum has done all the reading and provided the Cliff notes from legendary giants such as Woodrow Wilson and Robert Maynard Hutchins along with authors Oscar Wilde, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington and suffragist Susan B. Anthony to contemporary luminaries Clark Kerr and P. F. Kluge and Derek Bok. For the first pass, it is a read cover to cover-I found it impossible to put down. This is a treasure trove of wisdom from some of the most eloquent voices in the English language-some you will ponder thoughtfully, others will make you laugh out loud. Birnbaum has written extensively on higher education and has grouped the quotations thoughtfully and expertly into Four Sections: Higher Education and Society related to purpose and social issues. Section Two on Academic Affairs including policy, learning, research, scholarship and teaching. Section Three consists of Institutions and Processes-the campus, institutions, governance and administration and management. The final section covers the educational roles of the faculty, the students, and the President. The book can be read again following the author index as well as the subject index. For example, in the entries on "corporalization," the words of the sociologist Thorstein Veblen spoken in 1918 reverberate today. Almost a century ago he cautioned about erosion of the ends for which the university is maintained through imposing "standards and tests, in the place of personal conference, guidance and association between teachers and students." Or imagine finding in one collection some of the pith of the likes of Friederich W. Nietzscke, William James, Anton Chekhov, T. S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats and Alfred North Whitehead. To me, it is only fitting to end with a quotation from Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, "The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries and which does not exist at any specific location." Robert Birnbaum's Speaking of Higher Education provides the road signs.

I have been very lucky to get this book right from the author. I have been an ardent reader of Dr. Birnbaum's books. But this one turned out to be somnething that every person, - more or less related to higher education and its fields, must have longed and waited. You may find all the quotations from the beginning of the US Higher Education history to the present date. You will find here the quotes from the distinguished presidents of the most prominent universities and their views, perceptions and thoughts. The book is fabulously organized and covers all the fields of the higher education. It is a must-have-book for everyone - even for the present, incumbent presidents and deans and for those who think they may find themselves in that position, or someone who is interested in the system of the field. One will be amused by some humorous quotes and you will stay up till late night before you decide it is time to close the book. You will come to the last page and then go back to the front page and start anew. I really enjoyed reading this book. It is rather a compendium, encyclopaedia and great reference that has been missing from our shelves. Thanks to the author for his efforts.

This is a great book about a great coach. Recommend!

Spike Dykes is a West Texas legend. While attending Texas Tech from 1988-1990, one of life's simpler pleasures was watching Spike coach his group of less than famous football fanatics. The book presents few surprises but does offer telling insights into coaching strategy and human relations. West Texas is a very unique place and Spike had to use every ounce of guile, energy, wit, and wisdom, in dealing with the principles. I'm not speaking of the team, but the fans. Any coach who can survive 13 years as a head coach in football crazy West Texas ("Friday Night Lights" takes place only 90 miles south of there in Midland, TX), deserves praise immeasurable and this book is his monument.

The book itself is amazing. It shows the true power of physics. It is a must for the true physicist to have in his book collection. And you can't beat the price!

I had physics in my first year of engineering studies and this was the recommended textbook. Even then, the explanations and examples in the book were often more illustrative and simple than our professor's version, and up to now I have always taken this book with me just in case a physical problem rears its nasty head somewhere. The examples, exercises and annexes replete with data help with comprehension and serve as a reference aid; the quotes introducing each chapter are priceless. All in all a very useful book for students.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book by Dr.Marilyn J. Ross. She explained the reasons why African-American males tend to have a better chance at success in historically black colleges, and personally I believe that they do. They have a better chance of receiving academic help, encouragement, and assistance. Not only that there are more opportunities for learned networking through fraternal organizations, church organizations, and special interest groups.

I can honestly state that some of my strongest relationships and bonds where created while attending a historically black college. There I learned how to work hard, and become more aware as to what matters most . . . A sound faith, strong ties with my family, intense study, and community endeavors that support cultural awareness as a whole.

I read this book by Dr. Ross and she has explained why and how some African-American males succeed at historically black colleges. Dr. Ross researched the area of family and the importance of having a strong family base along with religon were highly significant to the findings of her study of why black males succeeded. Also Dr. Ross was able to perform a qualitative and quantitive analysis study to measure the results of her research to support her theory. I found this particular research interesting, because also these black males that were selected for the study were also mentored by a faculty member, administrative or staff member of the university. I would recommend this particular research to anyone who is looking to send their son or daughter to a historically black college or university. So often we debate in the African-American community should we or shouldn't we send our children to HBCUs or non-HBCUs and this particular book will be able good tool to help us make a researched base descision.

I am interested in performing the research that Dr. Ross has currently performed and hopefully one day I will get that opportunity.

Using this book for a Critical Theories class - great reading. Very clear and thought provoking. Complicated at times, but definitely a must have for English Majors!

Surrealist Women is a delightful read. I felt like I was on an adventure at a scrumptious banquet inside an amusement fun park where adults were not allowed. The book is chock filled with the most unlikely, amazing, thought provoking exoticisms. Incredible, really. It's a book I'll pick up often just to rediscover a surprise. To catch a poem in a new way. Or to remember a technique. A couple of surrealist techniques that I've tried, and a few that I've invented, have delivered such astounding results that I continue to work with them regularly.

The new dimensions that surrealism brings to the plastic arts it also brings to the literary arts, to the written word. The poetry of the surrealists is collages created from words, works of poetry art. Poetry takes on a new depth, breaking free from constraints of structure, it also breaks into new presentations of language formation, presenting Zen like non-logical word images that touch the soul with deep meaning, "perfume similar to the sound of a violin dipped in holy oil." Created from the depth of the subconscious (or is it superconscious?) mind, this is poetry that transcends gravity, time and space limitations, giving us prophetic poetry. Poetry revealing not only what will be, but what was, is and could have been.

It's hard to have favorites in this compilation, and I know that the ones that stand out for me today could change tomorrow. I found Nancy Cunard's essays on racism remarkable, especially considering the time (the 1930's) and the person (a white woman from a privileged background). Suzanne Césaire's work on Breton as poet is itself a marvel and her following piece on the collective mistake of the Martiniquan deserves special mention. Ithell Colquhoun in The Mantic Stain, Surrealism and Automatism describes for us these techniques: decalomania, fumage, parsemage and écrémage. Annie Le Brun reminds us that "in matters of revolt, we need no ancestors". Le Brun also is more interested in Oscar Wilde "than any bourgeoisie woman who agreed to marry and have children, and then, one fine day, suddenly feels that her oh so hypothetical creativity is being frustrated." Jayne Cortez has a wonderful hip-hop sounding piece "Make Ifa Make Ifa make Ifa Ifa Ifa, in eye popping punta of my heat sucking sap". Haifa Zangana smashes the work ethic in Can We Disturb These Living Coffins? Eva Švankmajerová's artwork is thrilling. I would have preferred seeing her Over All on the book's cover, but such an act would take a brave publisher indeed. Penelope Rosemont explores the life-affirming erotic, generous moral of the tale of The Golden Goose, showing how it's really a surrealist morality tale. Rosemont also explores "the very chanceology of chance" in Revolution By Chance. I noted hundreds of other examples, but instead of going on and on here, I'll just at this point highly recommend the book.

Exploring the Marvelous is not something we're taught to do. These are the things that church, state and the typical family unit tries to rid within us. Some were incarcerated inside mental jails for exploring the domain of the Marvelous. The over-rationalized beings in our society hate and fear the Marvelous and its practitioners because, not belonging to the rational realm, the Marvelous can't be explained. Or conquered. Surrealism calls for play and for uniting with the Marvelous -not to negate the rational but to make us whole by expanding our awareness. Surrealism also calls for a rejection of social norms, normalcy, conformism and anything that means dormancy. (Lock such dangerous criminals up!) It seeks to help you find your way to be a playful member of society and to "find your own voice". It demands absolute freedom for all. But why do oppressors oppress? Seemingly for this purpose alone, to have instead of to be (gathering commodities as opposed to living life). By moving more into having instead of into being, oppressors lose contact with the Marvelous.

Surrealism makes a point of keeping its door wide open to everyone, but with a special welcome mat to the outsider. It's open not only to men and to women alike, but to children and those outsiders that society labels uneducated, mentally retarded, insane. Surrealism is a celebration of all that is true of the feminine side of humanity, independent of one's gender: surrender, abandon, night, dreams, imagination, poetry, acceptance of and appreciation for the unfathomable abysses of mystery.

If modern industrialized civilization could pass laws against the night, it would. Through groan-ups, work, schooling and church, it settles instead to crush the things of the night as best it can: imagination, poetry and dreams. What civilization considers the darkest corners, it seeks to abolish through vice laws and moral lecturing: prostitution and other forms of uninhibited sex, disreputable behavior, gambling, drinking, drugs. Control the dark corners of humankind, the next best thing to abolishing night itself. Like stranger danger, civilization teaches us to fear the night. It doesn't want us to revel in what the abyss of night can bring us - the Marvelous. Surrealism says that we have too much of reason and rationality and too little of imagination and non-rationality. I'm in agreement. The night dreams deliver more daylight than simple day itself. A good dose of reason (theory and polemics) coupled with a co-equally good dose of imagination (poetry and art) is the surrealist revolution. Surrealist Women is a grand accomplishment in this - giving us a healthy dose of both. Each featured author contributes to this revolution, and leaves a strong foundation of surrealist legacy for future generations to build upon.

What a relief that a book for first year law students (and others studying law as a component of their degrees) finally address ALL of the issues that we face. This book is fantastic. Great style, easy to read, totally authoritative. No first-year (and beyond) should be without it. It's perfectly laid out so that you can go to any part of it at any time for information and comments on a particular issue, rather than having to read the whole thing from the beginning.

The title says it all! The book is set out in a comprehensive and orderly manner and addresses all the 'where'; 'how'; 'when'; and 'why' in an endeavour to make the journey of achieving a law degree an enjoyable and certainly, a less stressful one.
This is an excellant reference book for law students, in particular first year law students.