College and University Books

The book was brand new as published, the price was OK and delivery was on time.

Reviewed by Lori Plach for Reader Views (7/07)

Are you a National Football League fan? If you are, chances are your favorite team has at least one member who has graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. The mascot for the University of Alabama is known as the Crimson Tide. The university's football team has a tradition of greatness. The Crimson Tide boasts twelve national championships; three times they have won in back-to-back years.

"The Crimson Tide Madness" is a tribute to the many legends who have once worn the red and white. It is separated into key sections which focus on traditions, legends, coaches, quarterbacks and the great rivalries. This book is packed with quotes from former players, coaches, both NFL and Crimson Tide, and famous NFL players who are Alabama alumni. There are stories which will enlighten football fans of all ages. "The Crimson Tide Madness" is part of a series, "Golden Ages of College Sports."

College football is very much a part of Saturdays in the fall, both in person and by television coverage. After reading this awesome tribute to the Crimson Tide, "Crimson Tide Madness," you will soon be sporting red and white, cheering for the 'Bama team each time they take the field for a Southeastern Conference game or one of the many bowls that they have been invited to play in.

Go Crimson Tide!

Dr. DeCoo's book is a fascinating expose of plagiarism at all levels of academia. I am grateful that I did not read it before embarking on a three year journey to rectify the copyright infringement of my dissertation by a Dutch team (not once, but in six separate publications). Dr. DeCoo's descriptions of the perils of whistle blowing are painfully accurate.

As as an on-line college instructor, each semester I encounter plagiarism, and despite my university's "honor code," first offensives for even extensive plagiarism are handled lightly. Crisis on Campus is a must read for all teachers and administrators of higher education. At the very least, it will prompt a review of institutional policies for detecting, handling, and detering plagiarism.

To Dr. DeCoo, Merci beaucoup.

Critical Review of Selected Literature on College Student Unrest in the United States, by. Dr. Louis A. Foleno is an Excellent book. Dr. Foleno gives you an insight into the students unrest that occured during the late 1960's early 70's. The book discusses different issues and views about the students unrest. It is a very interesting book. Dr. Louis A. Foleno is my Professor in the University I attend, I have taken his classes and have used his book many times for reference in Political Science and Sociology. He is a wonderful Author, Professor and Person, I would recommend this book to anyone. If you are interested in any of the Social Sciences this book is for you.

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.