BOOK REVIEWS

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BEATING THE COLLEGE BLUES, SECOND EDITION. Paul A. Grayson and Philip W. Meilman. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1999, 234 pages. Reviewed by Jeffrey S. Kaye.

CHEMICALS FOR THE MIND:PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS. Ernest Keen. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000, 142 pages. Reviewed by Gerald Amada.

RECLAIMING OUR CHILDREN: A HEALING PLAN FOR A NATION IN CRISIS. Peter R. Breggin. New York: HarperCollins, 2000, 340 pages. Reviewed by Leighton C. Whitaker.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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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.     

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.     

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.     

ARTICLES PUBLISHED: 1986-1996

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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.     

Recorded Student Interviews in Improving Instruction

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A Valuable Resource: Key Resources on Teaching, Learning, Curriculum, and Faculty Development By Robert J. Menges and B. Claude Mathis San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988, 406 pages, index, $35. Reviewed by Ohmer Milton

Accomplished Advocates for Change: Women in Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove By Nadya Aisenberg and Mona Harrington Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1988, xii + 207 pages. Reviewed by Amy A. Kass

The Power of Scientific Thought: The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution By Margaret C. Jacob Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988, xii + 274 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Robert L. Spaeth     

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     

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.     

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.     

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     

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.     

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     

Great Teaching and the Fullness of Life

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Issues in Academic Freedom George S. Worgul, Jr., editor Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1992, 184 pages, $32.50 Reviewed by Robert L. Spaeth

A Different Sort of Time: The Life of Jerrold R. Zacharias, Scientist, Engineer, Educator By Jack S. Goldstein Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1992, 310 pages, $35.00 Reviewed by Frieda A. Stahl     

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     

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.     

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.     

Improving My Instruction

The Uncertain Profession: Harvard and the Search for Educational Authority Arthur G. Powell Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980, 341 pages, index, $18.50. Reviewed by Michael P. Zuckert

On College Teaching: A Guide to Contemporary Practices By Ohmer Milton and Associates San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1978, 404 pages, $14.95. Reviewed by Richard Leahy     

King PARS,Academic Nebuchadnezzer

The Modern American College: Responding to the New Realities of Diverse Students and a Changing Society By Arthur W. Chickering and Associates San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, xvii + 783 pages, $27.95 Reviewed by James L. Bess

Teaching Values in College Richard L. Morrill San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1980, 169 pages, index, $13.95 Reviewed by Frederick Stirton Weaver     

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     

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