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     

Evidence of a Shift in the Social Science Perspective on Energy: A Content Analysis of Geo-Abstracts,Part C: Economic Geography, 1966–1978

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Environmental Education for the 21st Century: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives , edited by Patricia J. Thompson. New York: Peter Lang. 1997. Paperback. 356 pages. $32.95. ISBN 0-8204-3749-2.

Fundamentals of Economics for Environmental Managers , by William F. Barron, Robert D. Perlack, and John J. Boland. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. 1998. Hardcover. 224 pages. $65.00. ISBN 1-56720-159-8.

To Dwell With a Boundless Heart: Essays in Curriculum Theory , Hermeneutics, and the Ecological Imagination, by David W. Jardine. New York: Peter Lang. 1998. Paperback. $24.95. ISBN 0-8204-3941-X.

Managing the Commons , Second Edition, edited by John A. Baden and Douglas S. Noonan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1998. 243 pages. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-253-33361-X. Paperback, $16.95, ISBN 0-253-21153-0.

Pollution Markets in a Green Country Town: Urban Environmental Management in Transition , by Roger K. Raufer. Westport, CT: Praeger. 1998. Hardback. $59.95. ISBN 0-275-96174-5.

A Primer for Environmental Literacy , by Frank B. Golley. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1998. Paperback. 272 pages. $18.00. ISBN 0-300-07049-7.

Ecological Education in Action: On Weaving Education , Culture, and the Environment, edited by Gregory A. Smith and Dilafruz R. Williams. New York: State University of New York Press. 1999. Paperback. 244 pages. $19.95. ISBN 0-7914-3986-0.

The Gods Played Here , by Karen LaMantia-Ashikeh. Union City, CA: Rainbow Enterprises. 1998. 3″ disk, or order online (www.1stbooks.com). $5.95.     

Some Student Comparisons

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The First Feminist Revolution: In Adamless Eden: The Community of Women Faculty at Wellesley By Patricia Ann Palmieri New Haven. Conn.: Yale University Press. 1995. 382 pages. $35. Reviewed by Frieda A. Stahl.

An Essential Guide: Learning Networks A Field Guide to Teaching and Learning OnlineBy Linda Harasim, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lucio Teles, and Murray Turoff Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1995, 329 pages, $35. Reviewed by Roger H. Marty.     

PSYCHOLOGY: ITS PRACTICE AND TEACHING IN A JEWISH COLLEGE

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Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts. Edited by Barry W. Holtz. Summit Books, New York, 1984. pp. 448. $19.95.

The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto 1941-1944. Edited by Lucjan Dobroszycki. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1984. pp. 551. $35.00.

From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine by Joan Peters. Harper &; Row, New York 1984. pp. 601. $24.95.

The World Guide for the Jewish Traveler by Warren Freedman. E. P. Dutton, New York, 1984. pp. 360. $8.95 (paper).

Jews, Turks and Infidels by Morton Borden. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1984. pp. 163. $17.95.

The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939 by Kenneth W. Stein. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1984. pp. 314. $29.00.

The Jewish Family: Authority and Tradition in Modern Perspective by Norman Linzer. Human Sciences Press, New York, 1984. pp. 217. $I6.95 (paper).

Diaspora: Exile and the Jewish Condition Editied by Etan Levin. Jason Aronson, New York, 1983. pp. 337.

The Jerusalem Cathedra, Volume III Edited by Lee I. Levine. Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1984. pp. 361. $25.00.

The Roots of Anti-Semitism by Heiko A. Oberman. Translated by James I. Porter, Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1984. pp. 163.

Jewish Ethics and Halakhah for our Time: Sources and Commentary by Basil F. Herring. Ktav, Yeshiva Univesity Press, New York, 1984. pp. 243. $I5.00 cloth, $9.95 paper.

Jewish Life Under Islam: Jerusalem in the Sixteenth Century by Amnon Cohen. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1984. pp. 267. $30.00.

Israel in the Mind of America by Peter Grose. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984. pp. 361. $17.95.

Hitler, Germans and the “Jewish Question” by Sarah Gordon. Princeton Univerity Press, 1984, pp. 412. $40.00 cloth, $14.50 paper.

A Mediterranean Society, Volume IV: Daily Life by S. D. Goitein. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1984. pp. 492. $38.50.     

New books

The Literacy Test for Immigrants: A Debate. University of Chicago, Chapter of Delta Sigma Rho, Chicago, 1916. Paper, pp. 62, $1.00.

The Brief‐Maker's Notebook. By WARREN CHOATE SHAW. New York: Ginn & Co., 1916. Cloth, $1.00.

The Elements of Public Speaking. BY HARRY GARFIELD HOUGH‐TON. New York: Ginn and Co., 1916. Cloth, $1.50.

Thinking as a Science. By HENRY HAZLITT. New York: E. P. Button & Co., 1916. Cloth, pp. 251. $1.00.

Universities Debaters’ Annual. Edited by EDWARD C. MABIE. White Plains, N. Y. The H. W. Wilson Company, 1916. Cloth, pp. 294. $1.80.

American Merchant Marine. Edited by E. M. PHELPS. White Plains, New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1916. Cloth, pp. xxviii+2180 $1.00.

Debaters’ Manual. Edited by E. M. PHELPS. White Plains, New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1916. Cloth, pp. x+181. $1.00.

Lessons in Public Speaking and Oral Reading for Class and Private Drill. By JOHN R. PELSMA. Austin, Texas, 1916. Published by the author. Cloth, pp. 58. $0.40.

Community Drama and Pageantry. By MARY PORTER BEEGLE and JACK RANDALL CRAWFORD. New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press, 1916. Cloth and boards, pp. 370. $2.50.     

The community junior college and the second reconstruction in higher education

CAUGHT IN THE WEB OF WORDS: JAMES MURRAY AND THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY by K. M. Elisabeth Murray. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. xiii + 386 pp. $15.00.

THE WORLD OF LEARNING 1978–79. 29th Edition. Published by Europa Publications Ltd., 1978. Available in America from Gale Research Company, Detroit, Michigan. 2,038 pages in two volumes. $84.00/set.     

Review: Approaches to educational psychology‐some recent textbooks

Blair, G. M., Jones, R. S., and Simpson, R. H., Educational Psychology (4^th Ed.). New York: Macmillan, 1975. 624 pages. $8.95

Craig, R. C., Mehrens, W. H., and Clarizio, H. F., Contemporary Educational Psychology: Concepts, Issues, Applications. New York: Wiley, 1975. 558 pages. $9.95

Gage, N. L., and Berliner, D. C., Educational Psychology. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1975. 869 pages. $9.95

Lefrancois, G., Psychology for Teaching (2nd Ed.). Belmont, Cal.: Wadsworth, 1975. 372 pages. $7.95

Packard, R. G., Psychology of Learning and Instruction. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill, 1975. 480 pages. $9.95

Smith, M. D., Educational Psychology and its Classroom Applications. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1975. 574 pages. $9.95     

Outside Reviewers for Volume 95 of the Quarterly Journal of Speech

BLINDNESS AND INSIGHT: ESSAYS IN THE RHETORIC OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM. By Paul de Man. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1971, 1983 (2nd rev. ed.); pp. 308. $29.50; paper $12.95.

ALLEGORIES OF READING: FIGURAL LANGUAGE IN ROUSSEAU, NIETZSCHE, RILKE, AND PROUST. By Paul de Man. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979; pp. 305. paper $9.95.

THE RHETORIC OF ROMANTICISM. By Paul de Man. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984; pp. 327. $28.00; paper $14.50.

THE RESISTANCE TO THEORY. By Paul de Man. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986; pp. 137. $25.00; paper $10.95.

THE LESSON OF PAUL DE MAN. Edited by Peter Brooks, Shoshana Felman, and J. Hillis Miller. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985; pp. 333. paper $12.95.     

Teaching Teachers

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Women Against the Odds The Campus Troublemakers: Academic Women In Protest By Athena Theodore Houston: Cap and Gown Press, 1986 xxiv + 293 pages, $23.95 hardbound, $15.95 softbound. Reviewed by Claire Hirshfield

“Artistry of Discussion Leadership” and Other Skills Teaching and the Case Method By C. Roland Christensen, with Abby J. Hansen Boston: Harvard Business School, 1987, 290 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by Richard Leahy

Valuable Background Reading College: The Undergraduate Experience in America By Ernest L. Boyer, president, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching New York: Harper &; Row, 1987, 328 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by Frederick S. Weaver     

Sharing the Excitement of Learning

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Toward a Literate America Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs To Know By E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987, xvii + 251 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Fauneil J. Rinn

Changing the Odds Academic Women, Working towards Equality By Angela Simeone South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin &; Garvey, 1987, 161 pages, $27.95 hardbound, $10.95 softbound. Reviewed by Pheme Perkins

Fruitful Background for Reasonable Discussion Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education By Bruce Kimball New York: Teachers College/Columbia University, 1986, xix + 293 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Geoffrey Comber     

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     

A Design for Teaching a New Land Ethic to Junior High Students

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Water: Sacred and Profaned , Bayland Productions. Palo Alto, CA: Foundation for Global Community. 1998. 27 minutes. Videotape (closed captioned). $20.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling. ISBN 0-9638679-9-7.

Interactive Earth: A Global Learning Tool. WorldLink Media. San Francisco: Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley. 1997. CD-ROM with User's Guide. $89.95.

Vital Signs 1998: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future , edited by Lester R. Brown, Michael Rentier, and Christopher Flavin. New York: Norton. 1998. Paperback. 204 pages. $12.00. ISBN 0-393-31762-5.

The Coming Age of Scarcity: Preventing Mass Death and Genocide in the Twenty-first Century , edited by Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. 1998. Paperback. $34.95. ISBN 0-8516-2744-0.

Exploring Ecology and Its Applications: Readings From American Scientist, edited by Peter Kareiva. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates. 1998. Paperback. $24.95. ISBN 0-87893-414-6.

Refraining Deforestation: Global Analysis and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa , by James Fairhead and Melissa Leach. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. 1998. Paperback. 238 pp. $22.99. ISBN 0-415-18591-2.

Greening the Ivory Tower: Improving the Environmental Track Record of Universities, Colleges, and Other Institutions , by Sarah Hammond Creighton. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1998. Paperback. 337 pp. $25.00. ISBN 0-262-53151-8.     

Resources In Review

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Essential Readings in Environmental Education , edited by Harold R. Hungerford, William J. Bluhm, Trudi L. Volk, and John M. Ramsey. Champaign, IL: Stipes. 1998. Paperback. ISBN 0-87563-756-6.

The Industrial Green Game: Implications for Environmental Design and Management , edited by Deanna Richards. Washington, DC: National Academy of Engineering, National Academy Press. 1997. Hardback. 224 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-309-05294-7.

Stories in the Land: A Place-Based Environmental Education Anthology , with an introductory essay by John Elder. Great Barrington, MA: Orion Society. 1998. Paperback. 127 pp. $8.00. ISBN 0-913098-51-5.

Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization , by Vaclav Smil. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1998. Hardcover. 210 pp. $25.00. ISBN 0-262-19410-4.

Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability: The Case of Mexico City , by Keith Pezzoli. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1998. Hardcover. 464 pages. $40.00. ISBN 0-262-16173-7.

Tunnel Visions: Into the Sea of Uncertainty. Ben Lomond , CA: The Video Project, TUN-546-0. 1998. $99.95 institutions, $69.95 individuals; $5.95 shipping and handling. Available as one video of 57 minutes or two videos of 27 1/2 minutes each.

Biodiversity and Conservation , by Michael J. Jeffries. New York: Routledge. 1997. Paperback. 208 pp. $25.99. ISBN 0-415-14905-3.

The Natural Wealth of Nations: Harnessing the Market for the Environment , by David M. Roodman. New York: W.W. Norton. 1998. Paperback. 304 pp. $13.00. ISBN 0-393-31852-4.

Evaluation: A Systematic Approach , Sixth Edition, by Peter H. Rossi, Howard E. Freeman, and Mark W. Lipsey. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 1999. Hardback. 500 pp. $59.95. ISBN 0-7619-0893-5.     

Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope With Explosive Feelings

Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain Renate Nummela Caine and Geoffrey Caine Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) 1250 N. Pitt St. Alexandria, VA 22314–1403 1991 $15.95 paper

Restructuring Schooling for Individual Differences William M Bechtol and Juanita S. Sorenson Allyn and Bacon 111 10th St. Des Moines, IA 50309 1992 448 pp. $39.95

You Can't Say You Can't Play Vivian Gussin Paley Harvard University Press 79 Garden St. Cambridge, MA 02138 1992 144 pp. $10.00

Challenging the Potential: Programs for Disadvantaged Talented Youth Sherri Oden, Mario Kelley, Zhenkui Ma, David Weikart High/Scope Press 600 N. River St. Ypsilanti, MI 48198–2890 1991 400 pp. $29.00

Creative Thinking Problem‐Solving and the Arts Orientation John F. Wakefield Ablex Publishing Corporation 355 Chestnut St; Norwood, NJ 07648 1992 $22.50     

Reinforcement and the Scholarly Response

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Failure is Impossible Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class and Power By Kathleen Weiler South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin &; Garvey, 1988, 174 pages, $29.95 hardbound, $12.95 softbound Reviewed by Martha Kendall

Just the Right Medicine Exhortations on Liberal Education: A Dean Speaks His Mind By Robert L. Spaeth Collegeville, Minnesota: Office of Academic Affairs, St. John's University, 1988, 110 Pages, $4.95 softbound Reviewed by Pheme Perkins

Are Intellectuals as Irrelevant as They Seem? The Last Intellectuals: American Culture In the Age of Academe By Russell Jacoby New York: Basic Books, 1987, 290 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Joseph A. Amato     

Significant research in the Eastern states

Lindsley, Charles F., Radio and Television Communication, N. Y.: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1952, 492 pp. $5.50.

White, Melvin R., Beginning Television Production, Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Co., 1953, 107 pp. $2.50.

Chinn. Howard, Television Broadcasting, N. Y.: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1953, 700 pp. $10.00

Hahn, Elsie, et. al., Basic Voice Training for Speech, N. Y.: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 253 pp. $4.25.

Raubicheck, Letitia, Your Voice and Speech, N. Y.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1953, 376 pp. $4.05.

Irwin, Ruth S., Speech and Hearing Therapy, N. Y.: Harper and Brothers, 1953, 202 pp. $2.50.

Gruver, Bert, The Stage Manager's Handbook, N. Y.: Harper and Brothers, 1953, 202 pp. $2.50.

Krutch, Joseph Wood, "Modernism”; in Modern Drama, Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1953, 138 pp. $2.75.

Kokeritz, Helge, Shakespeare's Pronunciation, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953, 516 pp. $7.50.

Stevenson, Burton. The Standard Book of Shakespeare Quotations, N. Y.: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1953, 766 pp. $7.50.

Lowrey, Sara and Johnson, Gertrude E., Interpretative Reading, N. Y.: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, Inc., 1953, 595 pp. $3.75.     

Resources In Review

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The RFF Reader in Environmental Science and Resource Management , edited by Wallace E. Oates. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future. 1999. Paperback. $22.95. ISBN 0-915707-96-9.

Science through Multiple Intelligences: Patterns that Inspire Inquiry , by Robert Barkman. Tucson, AZ: Zephyr Press, Inc. 1999. Paperback. 165 pages. $39.00. ISBN 1-56976-096-9.

Earth Report 2000: Revisiting the True State of the Planet , edited by Ronald Bailey. New York: McGraw-Hill. 2000. Paperback. 362 pages. $19.95. ISBN 0-07-134260-5.

Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists (A Conservative Manifesto) , by Peter Huber. New York: Basic Books. 1999. Hardcover. $25.00. ISBN 0-468-03112-9.

Song of the Meadowlark , by James Eggert. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. 1999. Paperback. 145 pages. $12.95. ISBN 1-58008-034-0.

The Greening of Planet Earth: The Effects of Carbon Dioxide on the Biosphere , Greening Earth Society, 4301 Wilson Blvd., Suite 805, Arlington, VA 22203-4193; tel. 703-907-6168; fax 703-907-6161; info@greeningearthsociety.org. 1992. Color. 27 min 50 s. $15.00.

The Greening of Planet Earth Continues: The Promise for the 21st Century & Beyond , Greening Earth Society. 1998. Color. 27 min 30 s. $15.00 (or both for $25.00).

Nature's Nation: An Environmental History of the United States , by John Opie. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company. 1998. Paperback. 515 pages. ISBN 0-15-500219-8.

Visions of Paradise: Glimpses of Our Landscape's Legacy , by John Warfield Simpson. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1999. Clothbound. 387 pages. $35.00. ISBN 0-520-21364-5.

Beyond the Land Ethic: More Essays in Environmental Philosophy , by J. Baird Callicott. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1999. Paperback. 427 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-7914-4084-2.

The Morning After Earth Day , by Mary Graham. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. 1999. Hardcover, 153 pages. ISBN 0-8157-3236-8.

Natural Resource Management and Institutional Change , by Diana Carney and John Farrington. New York: Routledge. 1998. Hardback. 120 pages. $60.00. ISBN 0-415-18604-8.

Green Ink: An Introduction to Environmental Journalism , by Michael Frome. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 1998. Paperback. 204 pages. $19.95. ISBN 0-87480-582-1.     

Random quadralinear forms and schur product on tensors

In this work, we made progress on the problem that lr(○×)lp(○×)lq is a Banach algebra under schur product. Our results extend Tonge's results. We also obtained estimates for the norm of the random quadralinear form A:lMr×lNp×lKq×lHs→ C, defined by: A(ei, ej, ek, es)=aijks, where the (aijks)'s are uniformly bounded, independent, mean zero random variables. We proved that under some conditions lr(○×)lp(○×)lq (○×)ls is not a Banach algebra under schur product.     

Naturalists and the Mass Media: Reaching beyond the Parks

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Earthscope series. Global View Productions, 2901 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite B4, Washington, D.C. 20008; tel. (202) 667–3609. 1991. 13 programs (12 programs are available) × 52 minutes. Individual program, $50.00. Series (12 programs), $495.00. Reviewed by Robert E. Raze, Jr.

The Forest Through the Trees . The Video Project, 5332 College Avenue, Suite 101, Oakland, Calif. 94618; tel. (800) 4PLANET. 1990. 60 minutes. $85.00/$45.00 purchase/rent for institutions. $39.95/$25.00 purchase/rent for individuals. Reviewed by N. J. Smith-Sebasto.