College Students' Reasons for Concealing Suicidal Ideation

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THE MENTAL HEALTH DESK REFERENCE, by Elizabeth Welfel and R. Elliot Ingersoll. New York: John Wiley &; Sons, Inc., 2001, 529 pages. Reviewed by Deborah M. Megivern.

MENTAL HEALTH AND STUDENT CONDUCT ISSUES ON THE COLLEGE CAMPUS: A READING, by Gerald Amada. Asheville, NC: College Administration Publications, Inc., 2001, 230 pages. Reviewed by John L. DiMino.     

BOOK REVIEWS

ABSTRACT

CHEATING OUR KIDS: HOW POLITICS AND GREED RUIN EDUCATION. Joe Williams. Palgrave Macmillan, 272 pages, 2005, $24.95, Hardcover. Reviewed by JC Bowman.

THE TEACHERS UNIONS: HOW THE NEA AND AFT SABOTAGE REFORM AND HOLD STUDENTS, PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND TAXPAYERS HOSTAGE TO BUREAUCRACY. Myron Lieberman. Free Press, 320 pages, 1997, $25.00, Hardcover. Reviewed by JC Bowman.

CRASH COURSE: IMAGINING A BETTER FUTURE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION. Chris Whittle. Riverhead Books, 269 pages, 2005, $24.95, Hardcover. Reviewed by JC Bowman.     

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     

ARTICLES PUBLISHED: 1986-1996

ABSTRACT

A PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACH TO EDUCATION. Alex Co-ren. London: Sheldon Press, 1997, 176 pages. Reviewed by Jane C. Widseth.

THE HEART OF BEING HELPFUL: EMPATHY AND THE CREATION OF A HEALING PRESENCE. Peter R. Breggin. New York: Springer Publishing Company, Jnc, 1997, 186 pages. Reviewed by Gerald Amada.     

The Great Teacher is a Creative Individual

Paradoxes of Education in a Republic By Eva Brann The University of Chicago Press, 1979,172 pages, $12.95. Reviewed by Perry C. Mason.

Group Memory: A Guide to College and Student Survival in the 1980s By Alston Chase Boston: Little, Brown, xviii + 330 pages, $12.95 Reviewed by Robert L. Spaeth.

Paradigms Lost: Reflections on Literacy and Its Decline By John Simon New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1980, 222 pages, index, $12.95. Reviewed by Carol A. Martin.     

A liberal arts science course for the 1970's

SOCIAL SCIENCE, EDUCATIONAL POLICY, SEARCH FOR STANDARDS: INDETERMINACY IN EDUCATION edited by John E. McDermott. Berkeley, CA: McCutchan Publishing Corporation, 1976. XV + 336 pp. $12.50.

LIBRARIES FOR TEACHING: LIBRARIES FOR RESEARCH edited by Richard D. Johnson. Chicago: American Library Association, 1977. xvi + 259 pp. $12.50.

SCHOOLING IN CAPITALIST AMERICA by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. New York: Basic Books, 1976. 340 pages.

THE NEGLECTED MAJORITY: FACILITIES FOR COMMUTING STUDENTS and HOUSING FOR NEW TYPES OF STUDENTS. New York: Educational Facilities Laboratories, 1977.     

New Directions in Foreign Language Teaching

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Exiles from Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation in America By Mark R. Schwehn New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 143 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by Amy A. Kass.     

The Lecture

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Inspiration from an “Oasis of Possibility” Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America's Underprepared By Mike Rose New York: The Free Press, 1989, xiv + 242 pages, notes, bibliography, $22.95 Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Spaeth

Invitation to Eavesdrop Voices In American Education By Bernard Murchland Ann Arbor, Michigan: Prakken Publications, 1990, 219 pages, $15.00 Reviewed by Martha Kendall     

The Problem of the Inarticulate

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A Few Good Apples An Apple for My Teacher: Twelve Authors Tell About Teachers Who Made the Difference Edited by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987, xiv + 186 pages, $10.95 Reviewed by Roy Starling

Abrasive but Hopeful: The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students By Allan Bloom New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987, 392 pages, $18.95 Reviewed by Robert L. Spaeth     

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     

The Telephone Foliow-Up

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THE MYSTIFIED FORTUNE-TELLER AND OTHER TALES FROM PSYCHOTHERAPY. Gerald Amada. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1998, 153 pages. Reviewed by Jane C. Widseth.

THE MORAL INTELLIGENCE OF CHILDREN. Robert Coles. London, England: Bloomsbury, 1997, 199 pages. Reviewed by Leighton C. Whitaker.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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ARGUMENT FOR ACTION: ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT. John Lawrence. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 1999, 328 pp., $78.95. Reviewed by Frederic G. Reamer.

HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES: AN ORIENTATION TO FIELD-WORK. Lupe Alle-Corliss and Randy Alle-Corliss. Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1998, 271 pp., $37.95. Reviewed by Rebecca L. Sperling.

THE SOCIAL WORKOUT BOOK: STRENGTH BUILDING EXERCISES FOR THE PRE-PROFESSIONAL. Alice Lieberman. Pine Forge Press/Sage Publications, 1998, 191 pp., $37.95. Reviewed by Rebecca L. Sperling.     

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     

Successful Teaching on Television

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Momentous Discoveries/Overdue Recognition Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries By Sharon Bertsch McGrayne New York: Birch Lane Press. 1993, 419 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Frieda A. Stahl.     

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     

Senior Orientation

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Community of Learning: The American College and the Liberal Arts Tradition By Francis Oakley New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, 230 pages, $24. Reviewed by John C. Chalberg.     

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.     

The Triple-Wide Medicine Cabinet

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GENERATION RX: HOW PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE ALTERING AMERICAN LIVES, MINDS, AND BODIES, by Greg Critser. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005, 259 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Gertrude C. Carter     

Annual Index

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An Important Voice in the Conversation Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, 199 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Karen B. Mann