Colleges and Universities Books

It is important to be a critical thinker. There is no reason to accept any truth without first verifying it for yourself. If you are scared to question your beliefs - do you really believe them at all? I enjoyed this book quite a bit. It is one to read and re-read!

Kate Ellis has given us a memoir that takes on race, class, gender, neocolonialism...The book moves effortlessly between the personal and psychological on the one hand, the political and historical on the other. Ellis's open, critical, and self-critical view invites us to join her as she explores the issues of her life--her struggle to create a female self in a world that represses women, her efforts to build a cross-cultural marriage in a world that polices the borders. I loved the portraits of the different worlds she's inhabited--the bohemian dance world of 1960s New York; Columbia University during the 1968 student uprising; the aristocratic Canadian home she grew up in; the Nigerian world of artists and tourists that she visits first as a traveler, then as a wife. Ellis' memoir often reads as effortlessly as fiction--but it is always grounded in a relentless honesty about the difficulties as well as the thrills of crossing borders.

In this quick read, Applebee suggests that when considering curriculum, educators think about the role of conversation. Without a need for real, deep, meaningful conversation around unanswered intriguing questions, curriculum is dead. All too frequently curriculum rests in a set of standards, benchmarks and already answered questions which are asked to the learner. If the questions already have answers why ask them? This book asks the fundamental question, how do we design learning contexts in which learners are invited into the conversations that are taking place between experts in any field of study. When we invite students to wrestle with these questions we are including them in authentic learning experiences because they, like the experts must engage in the struggle to find a solution to an unanswered question. What could be more inspirational?

This book is well-written and an interesting mix of first-hand experience and clinical research. The voices of the two authors complement eachother nicely. I am a fan of Berman and I think his choice to co-author with Hatch Wallace was wise. Highly recommeded for cutters or those interested in cutting from a psychological or educational perspective.

This novel is yet another classic by Schlesinger. I enjoyed it emmensly for a variety of reasons. First, Schlesinger makes his novel appeling to both the avid history fan, student of history, and teacher of history, thus allowing everyone to understand his work. Furthermore, Schlesinger explains his work in using his every present political shrewdness aswell as dry wit. This is a refreshing change from the dry unending style of many historians. The major points explained in this work are the cycling of American politics and its effects on the past, present, and future. This gives it an even more universal quality which even students of politics can appreciate.

General biography of a little known football coach that became the cornerstone for The University Of Alabama's legacy of great head coaches and very select membership in college football's elite over the past 100 years.

It is the story of Xen Scott but is more important as a history of early college football; especially in the South where so little was documented. The author goes into great detail about the life of both Scott and the teams he coached; especially the Crimson Tide. For an Alabama fan, it gives great insight into the early years and why years of greatness were derrived from Scott's teams in the late teens and early 20's.

Over the years, there have been many books written about Alabama football and particularly Bear Bryant. However and for the most part, very little has been written about Bama's great football history prior to the early Bryant years. Anyone interested in knowing more about this earlier era, should greatly enjoy this author's work.

William M. Moore, Jr.

Unlike a lot of this sort of book this one does appear to have been written by the author. While I have nothing against ghostwriting I am not fond of it. Danny gives an interesting outlook on his time with the University of Florida's football team.

All of B. J. Hoff's Daybreak mysteries are great reading. Dark River Legacy is no exception. Once again, Daniel and Jennifer are thrown in a situation of intrigue and suspense when they visit their friend Mitch in Kentucky. Mitch's friends include a mysterious elderly lady who appears in town with no past and a beautiful writer who Mitch knew in his childhood. All of these characters entwined with an evil killer and a threatening flood make for a great read! Seeing the power of the Lord bring everyone through in the end was a great climax to the book. If you like mysteries and other Christian mystery writers like Terri Blackstock or Jane Peart, you will enjoy this book and all of her mysteries in this series.

A showcase compendium of recipes from the islands of Hawaii, "A Dash Of Aloha: Healthy Hawai'i Cuisine And Lifestyle" is a collaborative project of the University of Hawai'i's Kapi'olani Community College and based on the DASH (Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension) program. Beautifully illustrated with full-color photography, "A Dash Of Aloha" has a spiral binding enabling it to be laid open on a kitchen counter, and features healthy eating tips from the American Heart Association, food nutrition and seasonality charts, as well as exercise and lifestyle advice. The seventy 'kitchen cook' recipes are 'kitchen cook friendly' as they are delicious and nutritious. Ranging from Ginger-Bran Cake; Spanish Rice with Napa Cabbage Rolls; and Loco Moco Fried Rice; to Tofu Burgers with Mango Chutney; Curried Sweet Potato Chowder; and Forbidden Black Rice Salad, every recipe comprising this outstanding collection comes with serving size information, a brief commentary and a Nutrition Facts chart about the dish. Especially recommended for personal and community ethnic cookbook collections, "A Dash Of Aloha" is particularly appropriate as a culinary reference for anyone having to deal with weight loss, cardiopulmonary, or general health and fitness improvement issues.

This book chronicles the events leading up to and the deaf president now revolution at Gallaudet University. As the world's only university for deaf and hard-of-hearing studentsm Gallaudet had revolutionary potential from inception.

When Dr. Jerry C. Lee announced that he was leaving the university, many students and faculty felt that this would be their year. Because the Gallaudet administration had consisted mainly of hearing people, these dissenters felt that they were being condescended to.

Not only was the sole hearing candidate Elizabeth Zinser picked, but critical snafus undercut her very brief administration. Then-board chair Jane Spilman allegedly said that 'deaf people are not able to function in a hearing world' ironically reinforcing the protestor cause. Zinser's academic training in rehabilitative sciences hinted at the 'medical model' of disability which many of the students found outmoded and problematic.

The students recieved national media attention, alumni (including the use of the alumni house as an organizing space) and Congressional support. He had initially given his own support to Zinser in an attempt to forge campus unity, but the other presidential candidate, I. King Jordan (then Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences) withdrew his support. Zinser subsequently announced her resignation. Jordan became Gallaudet's first deaf president.

The DPN is an inspiring saga for anybody (particularly college students attempting to create their own campus chage). The actions of Gallaudet students later inspired me to challenge patronizing assumptions being made about my own community.