College and University Books

I'm a senior who has been to tons of colleges searching for the "right" one. However when you go to visit you often don't get the full story. What are the people like? How are the professors? What's the food really like? So on and so on however College Prowler gives an accurate description of the school with all of it's dirty little secrets! It's very simple to read and it's an excellent source of reliable information for the school of your choice. The College Prowler dishes about everything in the school that's going to be important to know when you go there. I chose Elon and that's where I'm planning to go all because of the College Prowler!

What a super book! My mom got me this book the other day, and I read through it in one sitting. I have learned what Emory University is really like through the quotes, remarks and editorials written by students who actually go to Emory.

Religion is a touchy subject - one wrong word can imply a deep, personal insult to someone one merely intended to have an intellectual discussion with. "Encountering Faith in the Classroom: Turning Difficult Discussions into Constructive Engagement" is a deftly written look at how to handle discussions in a classroom - a setting unlikely to have students who are all of one faith. Focusing on changing religion from a controversial matter to an enlightening one for all involved, "Encountering Faith in the Classroom: Turning Difficult Discussions into Constructive Engagement" is a seminal pick for any educator who deals with religion on a common basis, and for community library education collections.

This is the greatest collection of Duke basketball facts and lore of all time. An unbeatable resource -- a must have for Duke fans.

Book came in timely matter and was in great shape. Thank you

I am busy so I will not fill you full of a bunch of reasons this book is so great because it was a bit thick to read start to finish. However, I found it nicely referenced and cross referenced on an assortment of topics current in the area of educational sociology. I was able to easily access what I needed and found it helpful for finishing up my undergraduate thesis work. I think if I pursue graduate level work on this topic that I will find many of the findings in this book quite helpful. The book was well cited and written in a natural and easy prose to read.I reccommend this book over the other thirty I read this semester.

Though I have not read this book, I would imagine it to be interesting and of high quality. The author is currently a dean at the school that I attend, and is a fantastic rolemodel for any current or aspiring dean, or any other member of a college's administration.

I've read many articles and study guides and I must say that I was thorougly impressed with this guide because it covers a range of topics. It covers such topics as time management, confidence and getting over anxiety as well as improving learning techniques, reading, research, writing and studying for exams. The approach to learning is both technical and creative but the book is very interactive for its readers, all of which I like very much.

I think that this interaction is very important with the reader because you're learning (yet again) another learning system. But what I found was that it was easier to learn and use than say, What Smart Students Know, yet another wonderful study guide.

It is written in a British style, so it spells organize like "organise" and so on. But that aside, it's a wonderful guide and I found it to be very informative and helpful. I highly recommend it.

Peter French casts a critical eye on big time collegiate sports and their effects on higher education. His work is similar to that of Murray Sperber ("Beer and Circus" and "College Sports, Inc."). French focuses on three commonly held beliefs about college sports that he finds to be largely mythical: that college athletes are true amateurs, that college sports inherently provides character education to its participants, and that college sports provides funding to the university in general. He also examines the issue of gender equity and finds that even several decades after Title Nine, all is not well in that regard either. His final chapter describes what he considers to be the reality of big time college sports, that they are primarily an entertainment and not an educational endeavor.

This book, along with those by Sperber and others, raise important questions about the nature of intercollegiate athletics in the United States.

--Vince Prygoski, author of "Worst to First, or, a 'Shock'ing tale of Women's Basketball in Motown"

A really, really good book for all students preparing themselves for the SAT test. Lot of resource, 641 pages... I bought the book and am using it! Pierre Winter - Brazil!