Reviews

The Development of Scientific Thinking Skills. Deanna Kuhn, Eric Amsel, and Michael O'Loughlin, Academic Press, 1988. 249 pp.

Understanding the Representational Mind, Josef Perner, MIT Press, 1991. 348 pp.

Literacy as Involvement: The Acts of Writers and Readers, and Texts. Deborah Brandt. Carbondaie: Southern Illinois, 1990. 159 pp.

Dialogue, Dialectic, and Conversation: A Social Perspective on the Function of Writing. Gregory Clark. Carbondale: Southern Illinois, 1990. 93 pp.

Hypermedia and Literary Studies. Ed. Paul Delany and George P. Landow. Cambridge: MIT P, 1991. 352 pp.

Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Jay David Bolter. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991. 258 pp. Also from Erlbaum, Writing Space: A Hypertext for Macintosh.

Writing and Speaking in Business. Gretchen N. Vik, Clyde W. Wilkinson, and Dorothy C. Wilkinson. 10th ed. Homewood: Irwin, 1990. 636 pp.

Communication for Management and Business. Norman B. Sigband and Arthur H. Bell. 5th ed. Glenview: Scott, 1989. 783 pp.

Business Communication Today. Courtland L. Bovee and John V. Thill. 2nd ed. New York: Random, 1989. 680 pp.

Guidelines for Preparing Proposals: A Manual on How to Organize Winning Proposals. Roy Meador. Chelsea: Lewis, 1985. 116 pp.     

Reviews

Writing in the Academic Disciplines, 1870–1990: A Curricular History. David R. Russell. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois UP, 1991. 383 pp.

The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary. Ed. Richard Bullock and John Trimbur. Gen. Ed. Charles Schuster. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 1991. 311 pp.

Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured. Susan Jarratt. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991. 154 pp.

Gender in the Classroom: Power and Pedagogy. Ed. Susan L. Gabriel and Isaiah Smithson. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1990. 196 pp.

Technology Transfer: A Communication Perspective. Ed. Frederick Williams and David V. Gibson. New York: Sage, 1990. 302 pp.

Writing Strategies: Reaching Diverse Audiences. Laurel Richardson. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1990. 65 pp.

Computers and Writing. Ed. Deborah H. Holdstein and Cynthia L. Selfe. New York: MLA, 1990. 150 pp.

Perspectives on Software Documentation: Inquiries and Innovation. Ed. Thomas T. Barker. Amityville: Baywood, 1991. 279 pp.

Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Jay David Bolter. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991. 258 pp.

Design of Business Communications: The Process and the Product. Elizabeth Tebeaux. New York: Macmillan, 1990. 516 pp.     

“Design” in the theatre

THE DEATH OF LITERATURE. By Alvin Kernan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990; pp. ix + 230. $22.50.

ECOLOGICAL COMMUNICATION. By Liklas Luhmann. Translated by John Bednarz, Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989, pp. xviii + 187. $34.95.

DEMOCRATIC ELOQUENCE: THE FIGHT OVER POPULAR SPEECH IN NINETEENTH‐CENTURY AMERICA. By Kenneth Cmiel. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990; 351 pp. $24.95.

IN PRAISE OF AENEAS: VIRGIL AND EPIDEICTIC RHETORIC IN THE EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE. By Craig Kallendorf. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1989; pp. x + 228. $30.00.

DIALOGUE AND DECONSTRUCTION: THE GADAMER‐DERR1DA ENCOUNTER. Edited by Diane P. Michelfelder and Richard E. Palmer. Albany: SUNY Press, 1989; pp. 352. $17.95.

THE OTHER MARTIN BUBER: REFLECTIONS OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES. Edited by Haim Gordon. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1988; pp. xiii + 180 $18.95.

LANGUAGE AND SPECIES. By Derek Bickerton. Chicago. The University of Chicago Press, 1990; pp. x +297. $24.95.

CONTROL THROUGH COMMUNICATION: THE RISE OF SYSTEM IN AMERICAN MANAGEMENT. By JoAnne Yates. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989; pp. xx. + 339. $29.50.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: APOSTLE OF MILITANT NONVIOLENCE, by James A. Colaiaco. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988; pp. vii + 238. $29.95.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER, THEOLOGIAN, ORATOR, Vols. I—III. Edited by David J. Garrow. Brooklyn, New York: Carlson Publishing, Inc., 1989; pp. xi + 1017. $225.00.

PLAYING THE GAME: THE PRESIDENTIAL RHETORIC OF RONALD REAGAN. By Mary E. Stuckey. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990; pp. xiv + 127. $37.95.

THE PRESIDENTS PARTNER: THE FIRST LADY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By Myra G. Gutin. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989; pp. x + 195. $39.95.

THE RHETORIC OF SCIENCE. By Alan G. Gross. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990; pp. viii + 248. $29.95

MODERN RHETORICAL CRITICISM. By Roderick P. Hart. Glenview, 111.: Scott, Foresman/Little Brown Higher Education, 1990; pp. 542. paper $18.00.     

Book Reviews

Education's Lasting Influence on Values: By Herbert H. Hyman and Charles R. Wright: University of Chicago Press, 1979, 161 pages, index, $12.50. Reviewed by William B. Allen.

Attitudes, Language, and Change: By Anne Gere and Eugene Smith: National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, Illinois, 1979, $4.75, 108 pages, paperback. Reviewed by Gary M. Godfrey.

Instructional Techniques in Higher Education: By Robert B. Kozma, Lawrence W. Belle, George W. Williams: Educational Technical Publications, Inc. 1978, $15.95. Reviewed by Sharon L. Smith.

The Writing on the Wall: Inside Higher Education in America: By Gail Thain Parker: Simon and Schuster, 1979, $9.95, 208 pp. Reviewed by James Murphy.

American Academics: Then and Now: By Logan Wilson: Oxford University Press, 1979. Reviewed by David W. Felder.     

Aims of speech training in the junior college

RHETORICAND PHILOSOPHY. Edited by Richard A. Cherwitz. Foreword by Henry W. Johnston, Jr. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1990; pp. xix + 314; $36.00.

POLITICS AND CULTURE: WORKING HYPOTHESES FOR A POST‐REVOLUTIONARY SOCIETY. By Michael Ryan. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989; pp. 250. $28.95.

THE ORIGINS OF RHETORIC IN CLASSICAL GREECE. By Thomas Cole. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991; pp. x + 192. $29.95.

THE VOX DEI: COMMUNICATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES. By Sophia Menache. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990; pp. 353. $39.95.

THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF JOHN WITHERSPOON. Edited by Thomas Miller. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990; pp. viii + 318. $29.95.

HENRY WARD BEECHER: PERIPATETIC PREACHER. By Haiford R. Ryan, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1990; pp. x + 179. $39.95

GUERRILLA PRINCE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF FIDEL CASTRO. By Georgie Anne Geyer. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1991. pp. ix‐445. $22.95.

RHETORICAL STUDIES OF NATIONAL POLITICAL DEBATES. Edited by Robert V. Friedenberg. Series Foreword by Robert E. Dentón, Jr. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990; pp. xiii + 223. $42.95.

ARGUMENTATION THEORY AND THE RHETORIC OF ASSENT. Edited by David Cratis Williams and Michael David Hazen. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990; pp. v + 230. $32.95.

CULTURAL LEGACIES OF VIETNAM: USES OF THE PAST IN THE PRESENT. Edited by Richard Morris and Peter Ehrenhaus. Norwood: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1990; pp. ix + 238. $42.50; paper $24.95.

POPULAR TRIALS: RHETORIC, MASS MEDIA, AND THE LAW. Edited by Robert Hariman. Tuscalloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press, 1990; pp. vii + 268. $32.95.

AMERICAN EVANGELICALS AND THE MASS MEDIA. Edited by Quentin J. Schultze. Grand Rapids: Academie/Zondervan, 1990; pp. 382, $15.95.

TELEVISION STUDIES: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS. Edited by Gary Burns and Robert J. Thompson. New York: Praeger, 1989; pp. 260. $39.95.

MAKING MEANING: INFERENCE AND RHETORIC IN THE INTERPRETATION OF CINEMA. By David Bordwell. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989; pp. xvi + 334. $32.50; paper $14.95.

BASS &; STOGDILL'S HANDBOOK OF LEADERSHIP: THEORY, RESEARCH &; MANAGERIAL APPLICATIONS. By Bernard M. Bass. 3rd ed. New York. Free Press, 1990; pp. xviii + 1182. $75.00.

DISCORDANT HARMONIES: A NEW ECOLOGY FOR THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY, by Daniel B. Botkin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990; pp. xii + 241. $19.95.

CONVERSATIONAL COMPETENCE AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT. By Ioanna Dimitracopoulou. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990; xi + 167. $44.50.

TALKING POWER: THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE IN OUR LIVES. By Robin Tolmach Lakoff. New York: Basic Books, 1990; pp. xii + 324. $22.95.

RHETORIC AND CIVILITY: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, NARCISSISM, AND THE GOOD AUDIENCE. By Harold Barrett. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. pp. xi + 202. $39.50; Paper $12.95.

RHETORIC IN AN ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIETY: MANAGING MULTIPLE IDENTITIES. By George Cheney. Foreword by Carroll C. Arnold. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991; pp. xi +202. $29.95.     

Speech: The wedemeyer award, 1989

Beyond the Text: Contemporary Writing on Distance Education. Edited by Terry Evans and Bruce King (Geelong, Victoria, Australia: Deakin University Press, 1991, 264 pp., $25.50 Australian Dollars).     

Speaking personally—with Janet K. Poley

Online Education: Perspectives on a New Environment. Edited by Linda Harasim (New York: Praeger, 1990, 279 pp., $41.95)

Expanding Access to Knowledge: Continuing Higher Education ‐ NVCEA 1915–1990. Edited by R.W. Rohfeld (Washington, D.C.: National University Continuing Education Association, 1987, 265 pp., hard cover, $29.95; paper, $16.95)     

An Analysis of Strategies for Teaching Environmental Concepts and Values Clarification in Kindergarten

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Earthwatching III: An Environmental Reader with Teacher's Guide, edited by Anne Hallowell, Tom Sinclair, Richard Hoops, and Stephen Wittman. University of Wisconsin, Madison: Institute for Environmental Studies and Sea Grant Institute, 1990. 160 pages. Paperback, $3.50 ($3.00 for ten or more). Reviewed by David C. Engleson.

The Global Ecology Handbook: What You Can Do about the Environmental Crisis, edited by Walter H. Corson, Boston: Beacon Press, 1990. 414 pages. Paperback, $16.95. Reviewed by David C. Engleson

Ecophilosophy: A Field Guide to the Literature, Donald Edward Davis. San Pedro, California: R &; E Miles, 1989. 137 pages. Paperback, $8.95. Reviewed by Deborah A. Simmons.

The Human Impact on The Natural Environment (third edition), Andrew Goudie. Basil Blackwell, Ltd., 1990. 388 pages. Paperback, $17.50. Reviewed by Margaret Millett Zemach.

Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our Way Out, Lester W. Milbrath. State University of New York Press, 1989. 403 pages. Paperback, $18.95. Reviewed by Margaret Millett Zemach.     

Book reviews

Post‐Secondary Distance Education in Canada: Policies, Practices, and Priorities. Edited by Robert Sweet. (Edmonton, Alberta: Athabasca University and the Canadian Society for Studies in Education, 1989, 272 pp., $15.95 Canadian.)

The Computer Revolution in Education: New Technologies for Distance Teaching. Edited by Ann Jones, Eileen Scanlon and Tim O'Shea. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. 282 pp. $37.50)     

World War II — Survey of Recent Literature

We Make the Road by Walking by Myles Horton and Paolo Freire. Edited by Brenda Bell, John Gaventa, and John Peters. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990, 248 pp., hardcover. (ISBN 0-8722-771-3)

The Color of Strangers, The Color of Friends: The Play of Ethnicity in School and Community by Alan Peshkin. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991, 304 pp., softcover. (ISBN 0-226-66201-2)

In the Mind's Eye by Thomas G. West, Buffalo. New York: Prometheus Books, 1991, 359 pp., hardcover. (ISBN 0-87975-646-2)     

New Horizons for Environmental Education

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Ecology and Our Endangered Life-Support Systems, Eugene P. Odum. Sunderland, Massachusetts: Sinauer Associates, Inc., 1989. 283 pages. Paperback, $15.95. Reviewed by Frank Knight.

Nontoxic, Natural, &; Earthwise, Debra Lynn Dadd. Los Angeles, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc. 1990. 360 pages. Paperback, $12.95. Reviewed by Diane Wiessinger.

Dreamers and Defenders: American Conservationists, Douglas H. Strong. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. 295 pages. Paperback, $9.95. Reviewed by John F. Disinger.

Seabrook Station: Citizen Politics and Nuclear Power, Henry F. Bedford. University of Massachusetts Press, 1990. 224 pages. Hardback, $22.95. Reviewed by Margaret Millett Zemach.     

Leaders: Latent danger for democracy even in education

The Art of Technical Writing: A Manual for Scientists, Engineers, and Students. Eugene Ehrlich and Daniel Murphy. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, Apollo Edition, 1969. 182 pp. $1.95 paper.

A Primer on Food, Agriculture, and Public Policy. Earl O. Heady. New York: Random House, Inc., 1967. 169 pp. $4.95.

Professional Education for Ministry. Edward E. Thornton. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1970. 301 pp. $7.50.

Psychology and the Superior Athlete, Bryant J. Cratty and Miroslav Vanek. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970. 212 pp. $6.95 cloth.

The Slow Learner, edited by Joseph S. Roucek. New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1969. vi &; 373 pp. $10.00.

Storytelling and Creative Drama. Dewey W. Chambers. Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown, Publishers 1970. 92 pp.

Turmoil and Transition: Higher Education and Student Politics in India. Philip G. Altbach, editor. New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1968. 277 pp. $7.50 cloth.     

The educational researches of the Manchester statistical society, 1830–1840

Case Studies in Curriculum Administration History. Edited by Henning Haft and Stefan Hopmann. Pp. ix, 206. Index. Basingstoke: The Falmer Press, 1990. £10.95. ISBN 1–85000–858–2.

Education, Work and Pay in East Africa. By Arthur Hazlewood with Jane Armitage, Albert Berry, John Knight and Richard Sabot. Pp. xxxiv, 337. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. £37.50. ISBN 0–19–828685–6.

Constructing the Subject: Historical origins of psychological research. By Kurt Danziger. Pp. ix, 254. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0–521–36358–6. £25 h/b.

Education, Training and Employment, Volume 1: Educated Labour ‐ The Changing Basis of Industrial Demand, Volume 2: The Educational Response. Edited by Geoff Esland. Vol. 1 pp. xviii + 329, Index. ISBN 0–201–54424–5; Vol. 2 pp. xx + 373, Index. ISBN 0–201–54430‐X. Wokinghanv. Addison‐Wesley in association with The Open University, 1991. £12.95 each.

The Philosophy of Mathematics Education. By Paul Ernest. Pp. xiv, 329. Index. Basingstoke: The Falmer Press, 1991. £30 cloth; £13.95 paper. ISBN 1–85000–666–0 (cloth); 1–85000–667–9 (paperback). Studies in Mathematics Education.

Ethnic Differences. By J. Perlman. Pp. 321. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. £12.95. ISBN 0–521–38975–5.

Education and the Global Concern. By Torsten Husén. Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 162. ISBN 0–08–040489–8.

Technical Education and the State Since 1850. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Edited by Penny Summerfield and Eric J. Evans. Pp. 223. Manchester University Press, 1990. £29.95. ISBN 0–7190–2967–8.

The High Status Track. Edited by Paul William Kingston and Lionel S. Lewis. Pp. xxxiv, 254, Index. New York: State University of New York Press, 1990. $54 cloth/ $17.95 paper. ISBN 0–7914–0010–7.

Emily Davies and the Liberation of Women 1830–1921. By Daphne Bennett. London: André Deutsch, 1990. Pp. 251. £15.95 ISBN 0–233–981194–1.

A Higher Education: The CNAA and British Higher Education 1964–1989. By Harold Silver. Pp. 294. London: Falmer Press, 1990. ISBN 1–85000–701–2 £12.95 p/b.

The Social Psychology of the Primary School. Edited by Colin Rogers and Peter Kutnick. Pp. 259. London: Routledge, 1990. ISBN 0–415–02400–5, hardback £35.

Classroom Ethnography. By Martyn Hammersley. Pp. xi, 164, Index. Buckingham: Open University Press and Toronto: OISE Press, 1990. £9.99 ISBN 0–7744–0354–3. In the series Modem Educational Thought.

Access and Alternative Futures for Higher Education. Edited by Gareth Parry and Clive Wake. Pp. xv, 228. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1990. ISBN 0–340–51919–3. £12.95 p/b.

Education and the Good Life. By John White. London: Kogan Page, 1990. Pp. 188. ISBN 0–7494–0096‐X. £22.50 hardback.

Girls in their Prime: Scottish Education Revisited. Edited by Fiona M. S. Paterson and Judith Fewell. Pp. 168. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1990. £8.50. ISBN 0–7073–0578–0.     

Students' Views of Teaching

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Much To Do About Writing: Teaching and Assessing Writing By Edward M. White San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1985, 304 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by David Taylor

A Poignant, Colorful Portrait: Refugee Scholars in America: Their Impact and Their Experiences By Lewis A. Coser New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984, xviii + 351 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by R. W. Franklin     

The Teaching Principal is a Supervising Principal

Educational Wastelands (second edition) by Arthur Bestor. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1985, 292 pp.

In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America by Barbara Miller Solomon. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1985, 298 pp. hardcover

Curriculum and Aims by Decker F. Walker and Jonas F. Soltis. New York: Teachers College Press, 1986, 716 pp., softcover.

The Duke Longitudinal Studies of Normal Aging 1955-1980 by Ewald W. Busse and George L Maddox. New York: Springer Publishing Co., 1985, 168 pp.,     

Qualifications of the high school play producer

LINCOLN, DOUGLAS, AND SLAVERY: IN THE CRUCIBLE OF PUBLIC DEBATE. By David Zarefsky. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990; pp. xiv + 309. $34.95.

DEEDS DONE IN WORDS: PRESIDENTIAL RHETORIC AND THE GENRES OF GOVERNANCE. By Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990; pp. ix + 275. $27.50.

ANNA HOWARD SHAW: SUFFRAGE ORATOR AND SOCIAL REFORMER. By Wil A. Linkugel and Martha Solomon. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991; pp. xv + 238. $45.00.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE RHETORIC OF MILITANT DECENCY. By Robert V. Friedenberg. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990; pp. xviii + 209. $42.95.

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN: ORATOR OF SMALL‐TOWN AMERICA. By Donald K. Springen. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991; pp. x + 194. $42.95.

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL: A LIFE. By Frank Smith. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1990; pp. 417. $29.95.

ENACTING POLITICAL CULTURE: RHETORICAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF LIBERTY WEEKEND 1986. David E. Procter. New York: Praeger, 1990; pp. 144. $37.50.

THE RHETORIC OFTERRORISM AND COUNTERTERRORISM. By Richard W. Leeman. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991; pp. xii + 217. $42.95.

COLD WAR RHETORIC: STRATEGY, METAPHOR, AND IDEOLOGY. By Martin J. Medhurst, Robert L. Ivie, Philip Wander, and Robert L. Scott. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990; pp. xv + 224. $39.95.

RHETORICAL DIMENSIONS OF POPULAR CULTURE. By Barry Brummett. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1991; pp. xxiv + 248. $29.95.

TELEVISION AND WOMEN'S CULTURE: THE POLITICS OF THE POPULAR. Edited by Mary Ellen Brown. London: Sage, 1990; pp. 244. $45.00; paper $18.95.

COMMUNICATION AND THE CULTURE OF TECHNOLOGY. Edited by Martin J. Medhurst, Alberto Gonzalez, and Tarla Rai Peterson. Pullman, Washington: Washington State University Press, 1990; pp. xvi + 285. $30.00 paper, $45.00 cloth.

DEMOCRACY IN AN AGE OF CORPORATE COLONIZATION: DEVELOPMENTS IN COMMUNICATION AND THE POLITICS OF EVERYDAY LIFE. By Stanley A. Deetz. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1992; pp. xi + 399. $54.50; paper $17.95.

MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND COMMUNICATIVE ACTION. By Jürgen Habermas. Translated by Christian Lenhardt and Shierry Weber Nicholsen. Introduction by Thomas McCarthy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1990; xiii + 211. $19.95.

PREFACES TO THE DIAPHORA: RHETORICS, ALLEGORY, AND THE INTERPRETATION OF POSTMODERNITY. By Peter Carravetta. W. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1991; pp. xx + 345. $29.50.

CONVERSATIONS ON COMMUNICATION ETHICS. Edited by Karen Joy Greenberg. Foreword by J. Vernon Jensen. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1991; pp. xii + 188. $32.50.     

Aims in Communication Courses

Ethics Teaching in Higher Education Edited by Daniel Callahan and Sissela Bok New York: Plenum Press, 1980, 315 pages, index, $19.50. Reviewed by Linda M. Hansen

The Assessment of College Performance: A Handbook of Techniques and Measures for Institutional Self-Evaluation By Richard I. Miller San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1979, 374 pages, $15.95. Reviewed by Burton L. Grover

Showdown Semester: Advice from a Writing Professor By Martin Russ New York: Crown Publishers, 1980, 214 pp., $9.95. Reviewed by Marco A. Portales     

Web 2.0-Based E-Learning: Applying Social Informatics for Tertiary Teaching Mark J. W. Lee and Catherine McLoughlin,Eds.

Research in distance education 1. Edited by Terry Evans (Deakin University, Australia, 1990, 271 pp., $25.00).     

Opportunity in Alaska by George Sundborg. The Macmillan Company. 287 pp. $2.50

I Ought to but… A Philosophical Approach to the Problem of Weakness of Will in Education by Roger Straughan. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1982. 235 pp. $23.00.

The Problem of Values in Educational Thought by Philip L. Smith. Ames, la.: Iowa State University Press, 1982. 92 pp. $4.50.

Holistic Education: Teaching of Science in the Affective Domain by Isadore L. Sonnier. New York: Philosophical Library, 1982. 126 pp. $13.95.

Shaping Legislative Decisions: Educational Policy and the Social Sciences by Douglas E. Mitchell. Lexington, Ma.: Lexington Books, Inc., 1981.201 pp. $22.95.

“I Respectfully Disagree with the Judge's Order”: The Boston School Desegregation Controversy by J. Michael Ross and William M. Berg. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, Inc., 1981. 745 pp.     

Freshman Disorientation

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A Provocative Collection The War against the Intellect: Episodes In the Decline of Discourse By Peter Shaw Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989, 181 pages, $22.50 hardcover, $10.95 paperback. Reviewed by Robert L. Spaeth

Giving Freshmen What They Deserve The Freshman Year Experience M. Lee Upcraft, John N. Gardner and Associates San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1989, 443 pages, $32.95 Reviewed by Roy Starling