College and University Books

"Men To Remember" is a partial history of Saint Louis University told through the lives of 47 of its Jesuit teachers during its first 150 years of Jesuit Administration. On its pages we learn much about the University as well as get a glimpse of the breadth of accomplishment of the Jesuits.

Fr. Faherty starts this book with a brief history of the university, after which he goes lays out the one to two page biographies in alphabetical order. At the start, I thought that this may be of little interest because I attended during the tail end of the covered era and, therefore, expected to have known few of the featured teachers. I was pleasantly surprised. I did read about a couple whom I had known and enjoyed being reminded of sayings that I had heard often and finding out things about them that I had not known. I also read about others whom I had known by reputation. This book did expand my understanding of the wide range of interests of our Jesuit teachers. I had read that Jesuits had been accomplished in many fields, but this book packs samples into an easy read. As a student, I had heard that Fr. Davis had started the Business School and the legends of Fr. Brown as a labor mediator, but here I read their stories. In these pages we read of historians and philosophers, economists and theologians, a seismologist, a photographer and an astronomer as well as a challenger to racial segregation and a strict religious conservative. Among these and others are holy men with their own fair share of quirks.

The Jesuits find God in all things and use all things to lead to God. In this book we are given just a few examples of how they go about this. I enjoyed this book both because of what it tells us about the Jesuits and about Saint Louis University. If either of these topics interests you, try it, you'll like it!

Although the latest edition is 1994, this remains an important book for new professors. It is the most comprehensive text for junior professors that I have seen. As a clinical psychologist and tenure coach, I recommend this resource to all the professors and postdocs with whom I work. The authors' extensive experience and thorough review of the literature makes for a treasure chest of useful information. They cover everything from the politics of your institution and department, to teaching, research and publishing, to creating your dossier for the tenure decision. They give practical, helpful advice -- the kind of advice that as the tenure decision approaches you will be thankful you had.

Michael N Bastedo has written the defining treatise on this tragically underdiscussed topic in higher education. Anybody who considers him- or herself an expert in the field of higher education policy isn't truly one unless s/he can quote this book with ease. Engaging, thoughtful, challenging, and most of all, readable...all of these things are true of this masterpiece. No higher education library is complete without Dr. Bastedo's work.

I picked up a few of these books while I was looking for schools. They're really a good read.

A college review that is unbiased and tells it the way it is. The author is a Miami alumnus and is very proud of her alma mater although she does recognize the stereotype associated with Miami. The author accounts life at Miami quite accurately for the typical Miami student and is able to explain the lexicon that Miami students. Miami University is in Oxford, Ohio and the author does a great job with this book.

This book is great for fans of Saved by the Bell. It brings back an old character and solves an unresolved relationship concerning this character. This book really shows the meaning of Christmas; about giving and not getting; and about the people you love. One part in particular wit Zack and Kelly towards the end brought tears to my eyes. It's another great book that continues the story the tv show left behind. Beth Cruise has done it again!

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?"

I have used this book as a second reference in my chemistry courses and it is much much clearer than texts like for example Chemical principles, by Atkins and Jones. This book will not provide much graphics, but the images that it does provide are of great insight into the concepts treated. For easier understanding of fundamental chemical concepts this the most valid resource available. Nice pictures in other books cannot replace the clarity and the insight this book provides. Also the philosophy of scientific discovery is understood throughout every topic. A great book indeed!

This is an excellent book that provides an illuminating history into the origins of dance in education, specifically in American Universities during the early 20th century. Special attention is paid to the influence of Margaret H'Doubler (1889-1982) who in addition to being a dance education pioneer, was a trained biologist who introduced her dance students to anatomical observation using a model skeleton prior to commencing their dance studies.

This is just one of many examples of the historical detail found throughout the text, which beyond being a scholarly work, offers many insightful views of the convergence of dance history, feminism, and the role of women in higher education.

I recommend this book to those interested in a superbly researched history of a dance education as well as those intrigued by the vision and struggles of pioneering women in American education such as H'Doubler.

Ably translated by Thomas J. Butler and Saba Risaluddin, A Muslim Woman In Tito's Yugoslavia by Munevera Hadzisehovic is the gripping and true story of a woman who observed first hand the horrific Serbian injustice toward Muslims; the callousness of the Communist Party toward a hard-working citizenry, as well as the detrimental and destabilizing effects of an intolerant state government. A gripping, dark, and forcefully honest presentation of social ills from a personal point of view, A Muslim Woman In Tito's Yugoslavia is recommended for inclusion in Islamic Studies, International Studies, and 20th Century European History reference library collections.