York College Books

Adams worked as an insider at the highest levels of academic administration for much longer than anyone should ever have to. This book clearly takes up much of the hatred of the culture wars. You can see this topic played out in The Education of Max Bickford, or in novels like Straight Man, but the topic is so much more painfully dissected in this novel, as the people involved in the internecine war are much more human than they are ideological machines, and it's the humanity that suffers in the present conversation between traditional academic scholars and cultural studies mavens.

It's hard to put your finger on why this book is great. I've always been interested in anarchist communes of the Pacific Northwest. There's research and a resurrection of one of these. Another strong interest is how sexual harassment is being used as a weapon to gain academic power by a very small minority, and how this weapon is destroying any sense of collegiality in humanities departments. what Adams reaches for is the humanity behind people in those humanities departments. It is this that nobody really dares to show, but which is nevertheless always there.

This novel won't be for everyone. Anyone, however, who has suffered through the culture wars while attending graduate school in English at the University of Washington, however, will find this book right on the money. I'm not sure if other graduate programs are as terribly afflicted as that one, but that school was a disaster in which all sense of conversation had broken down, and only single-issue name-calling, and lies, and the bearing of false witness remained, except for a few small circles when they were in very protected environments.

This novel astutely and rather wisely recounts that one battleground in the cultural wars. I feel almost grateful to have gone through that war just in order to have this book's psychogeography down pat. Novels like this take something horrible and make it comprehensible, and manage to create a sense of community out of the incommunicable.

I'm grateful. I suspect that those who aren't very in on the lingo and debates of the last few years in literary studies will have a tough go with this one and be unable to quite get their bearings. For me, I couldn't put it down. It was a powerful and tremendous book that moved me as deeply as literature ever has, and is likely to remain one of my favorite books. there were some characters I couldn't get a feel for, and some of the plot concerning the fin de siecle anarchists seemed slow, as I couldn't wait to get back to the sexual harassment case in present time, but finally the author managed to pull it all together into a very impressive ending. This book is a song of experience: a lifetime spent in academia distilled, and one feels the author's simultaneous gratitude, amusement, and sorrow all mixed together and in no particular order.

This book is an excellent guide to understanding many of the issues and challenges confronting those who work with students from underserved backgrounds. Although there's a great deal of statistical data, it's easy to skip it unless you're a data geek (not me) and get right to the clear and humane conclusions stemming from what appears to be excellent research. Well written and focused, the various writers have been well paired so the book appears to be one whole rather than many essays. In particular I appreciated the attention to "cultural capital" in the book and ways to evaluate programs geared to the underserved. This is a useful and I think essential guide for those working with student and counselor populations outside the highly privileged. I underlined a great deal and plan to use it as a handbook in the future.

Tanaka offers a new vision and challenge for U.S. higher education using three research studies conducted over an 8 year period. His analysis and findings encourage us to more closely examine the power relations that inform historic and contemporary context and issues affecting race relations on our campuses. The studies and accompanying stories can deepen our understanding of the complexity of race work. Tanaka feels that five core componets are necessary to forge ahead. These five components include: (1) small group storytelling about past and place, (2) examining how power operates, (3) envisioning or dreaming about a new social arrangement, (4) actual model building in anticipation of wider changes in society, and (5) greater personal connection to place, memory, and ritual.

There is no magic bullet or "how to" prescription, but he adds to the research and theory in a unique, visionary and surprisingly hopeful manner. A must read for researchers, administrators, policymakers, and students interested in creating respectul and inclusive campuses.

This book is excellent in helping any high school student rewiew for the NYS Bio regents exam. The explainations are consice and clear and to covers all topic areas that are on the test. I highly reccomend it as a study guide/test prep.

I thought I was going to fail the Sequential Math III Regents terribly in March. I found this book, read it thoroughly, and got passed the regents knowing things I never thought I'd be able to learn in the short time I had. This book gives you a cut and dry explanation of every major topic covered in the course, with great example problems. If you have trouble with your teacher, the subject, or math in general, this book is a life-saver!

From 1912 and All American Lewis Castle to Carmelo this book gives the reader a great review of basketball as played by the Syracuse Orange. The inclusion of the National Championship team and the Coach behind the rise of Syracuse basketball (Jim Boeheim) brings an appropriate conclusion to the the review of the legends.
Whether you are a Syracuse fan or a fan of college basketball, this book is a must for your library and reading pleasure.

I can't tell you how inspired I was to read this brilliant piece of scholarly discourse. I was on the edge of my seat throughout this masterful cliffhanger of a thesis. I have been profoundly affected by the insightful findings of this research and forever indebted to this dedicated and selfless researcher!

Let me disclose and say that the author was an important mentor of mine during undergrad. I think some of my friends may have even been interviewed for the book. Still, I would say this is an important contribution to ethnic studies and education even if I never met her. Dr. Renn interviews students from rural, private, public, community, and Ivy colleges. They include men and women who have Black, white, Latino, and Asian ancestries. She asks them how course work, student groups, family life, and study abroad affect their identities as multiracial persons. One of the failings of Rachel Moran's "Interracial Intimacies" was that it basically ignored couples including two different types of people of color, focusing only on white-color pairings. Dr. Renn includes interviewees from two or more groups of color. Thankfully, she never assumes that all multiracial students have some European ancestry.

I want to give a warning without opening a wound. Some people say that education undergrad and graduate degrees are easier to obtain than other degrees. Some readers feel that work in education is sometimes not that rigorous. Whelp, put that concern aside for Dr. Renn! This was hardcore academia! You are not going to just give this book to any mixed-race teen heading off to college and expect them to understand it. Dr. Renn is incredibly well-versed in high-level matters involving race and education. Many potential readers may be scared off by the rigorousness of the first chapters. Still, like many academic books, the body chapters are more user-friendly and lay readers may want to begin there or just read those.

Dr. Renn thinks exhaustively about this student group. It made me have to think about myself and my relations to the target population. I am a monoracial person and I must admit that the chapter in which multiracial students identify as monoracial was the most comforting to me. Although I understand that race is not biologically based, I do think of it as a salient, sociological category, even in the "post, post, post" 21st-Century. Therefore, it was very difficult for me to embrace the "extraracial" chapter in which multiracial students opine, "Well, I belong to two groups, so that means race doesn't exist at all." I suspect that many monoracial readers are going to find themselves supportive of some chapters and resistant to others.

Again, in this "post-identity" period, folk may not like that I have thought about the author's identity. But here it goes: most authors on multiracial people are either multiracial themselves or in interracial marriages. Oftentimes, these books include photos of the author to show examples of what mixed-race people can "look like." Dr. Renn is entirely white, as far as I know. She has bright red hair and looks more like Julianne Moore or Conan O'Brien than Mariah Carey or Keanu Reeves. Eve Sedgwick and Brian Gilley are straights who have written on gays. Susan Faludi and Natalie Moore are women who have written about men. William Loren Katz wrote about Black Indians, though he is not one himself. Sometimes, readers and critics take books more seriously if the author does not belong to the target group. Sometimes, when a person from the majority writes about people in the minority it gives that academic inquiry respectability. While many readers may not wonder about the author's identity, I did ask myself as I read this, "I wonder if her status as a non-multiracial person helps to bring attention and popularity to books on multiraciality?"

One of the most impressive and colorful tree books I have ever seen for New York and Northeast trees.

This book is a dream!! I bought the middle school guide too. God bless this woman. My daughter attends Nest+M, and she are going to Stuyvesant.