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It Works For Me, Online!: Shared Tips For Online And Web-Enhanced Teaching, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, Douglas Robertson

Hal Blythe

It Works For Me, Online is designed primarily to aid instructors in two major types of classes: fully online and web-enhanced/hybrid courses. Those who teach fully online classes will find tips on such things as tricks you can use with synchronous chats, how to use blogging in your classroom to replace traditional chat-rooms (talk about your superannuation), and even ways of adapting Blackboard to meet administrative needs. Those who prefer web enhancements to the traditional classroom will find advice to navigate between the virtual and real world. And, truthfully, we are hopeful that even dyed-in-the-wool, card-carrying Luddites will skim through …

Total Team Teaching — Sharing Teaching Duties Equally, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

In his excellent book on team teaching (Interdisciplinary Courses and Team Teaching), James Davis posits two extremes on the continuum of team teaching. One pole consists of “courses planned by a group of faculty and then carried out in serial segments by the individual members of the group” (p. 7). At the opposite pole are “courses planned and delivered by a group … . They take primary responsibility for individual class sessions, but sometimes [italics ours] two or more faculty are involved in planning and delivering the instruction of a particular class.” (p. 7) The two of us take the …

A Place Of Mercy: Finding God On The Street, Thomas O'Brien

Thomas W O'Brien

A Place of Mercy: Finding God on the Street What is it? • A series of roughly chronological snapshots reflecting theologically on experiences at the House of Mercy in Rochester, NY. The House of Mercy itself is an outreach to the homeless and poor in a medium-sized, rust-belt city. They engage in food distribution, emergency housing, advocacy and assistance with welfare, utility companies, landlords, chemical dependency, medical problems, veteran benefits etc. It was founded by Sr. Grace Miller who spontaneously began handing out surplus food to people out of the back of her car in 1985. She eventually received funding …

Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2003), Fred Drogula

Fred K. Drogula

Review Of Therapeutic Action An Earnest Plea For Irony By Jonathan Lear, Matthew Pianalto

Matthew Pianalto

Jonathan Lear begins Therapeutic Action with a question: "How might a conversation fundamentally change the structure of the human psyche?" That is, how could an exchange of words between analyst and analysand effect a cure to neurosis? To answer such questions would be to uncover the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. While arguing that a deeper understanding of irony and its possibilities is central to the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis, Lear's book is much more than its "earnest plea for irony." It is an invitation to psychoanalysts (and all those involved in psychological counseling) to return to this fundamental question of …

How Óláfr Haraldsson Became St Olaf Of Norway, And The Power Of A Poet’S Advocacy, Russell Poole

Russell Poole

No abstract provided.

Jacques Derrida And Alain Badiou: Is There A Relation Between Politics And Time?, Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

This paper argues that though Derrida is correct to bring to the fore the undecidability that is contained in his political notion of the democracy to come, his account does not extend the aporia of undecidable politics far enough. Derrida himself makes evident this gap. Though politics may be structured with undecidability, there are times when direct, decisive and definitive political interventions are required. In his campaign against capital punishment, the blitzing campaigns in Bosnia and Iraq, and in his call for les villes-refuges, Derrida makes decisive appeals which somehow seem to contradict the undecidability he sees as arch-structuring. Alain …

Heads Or Tails: Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.

Respect: Or, How Respect For Persons Became Respect For Autonomy, M. Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

This article provides an intellectual archeology of how the term “respect” has functioned in the field of bioethics. I argue that over time the function of the term has shifted, with a significant turning point occurring in 1979. Prior to 1979, the term “respect” connoted primarily the notion of “respect for persons” which functioned as an umbrella which conferred protection to autonomous persons and those with compromised autonomy. But in 1979, with the First Edition of Principles of Biomedical Ethics by Beauchamp and Childress, and the report of the Ethical Advisory Board (EAB) of the (then) Department of Health, Education, …

The Scottish Reformation, Michael Graham

Michael F. Graham

A Companion to Tudor Britain provides an authoritative overview of historical debates about this period, focusing on the whole British Isles. --An authoritative overview of scholarly debates about Tudor Britain --Focuses on the whole British Isles, exploring what was common and what was distinct to its four constituent elements --Emphasises big cultural, social, intellectual, religious and economic themes --Describes differing political and personal experiences of the time --Discusses unusual subjects, such as the sense of the past amongst British constituent identities, the relationship of cultural forms to social and political issues, and the role of scientific inquiry --Bibliographies point readers …

Waiver Of Consent For Emergency Research, Andrew Mcrae, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.

Clare Haru Crowston. Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses Of Old Regime France, 1675-1791, Servanne Woodward

Servanne Woodward

No abstract provided.

Introduction: Los Angeles Studies And The Future Of Urban Cultures, Raul Villa, George J. Sanchez

Raul Villa

This special issue of American Quarterly focuses on Los Angeles as an emblematic site through which the scholarship of American studies can be examined. As a city shaped by eighteenth-century European colonization, nineteenth-century U.S. territorial expansion, and twentieth-century migration, Los Angeles has come to embody both the hopes and fears of Americans looking to the future. It is a city in which the local is deployed in complex practices of identity and community formation within the broader networks of globalization that continue to define and redefine what constitutes America. The articles in this volume address the complexities of the city's …

Resistance To Structural Adjustment Policies, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

Reviews In Brief / The Wasp Eater, Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff

Review Of Creating The American Mind: Intellect And Politics In The Colonial Colleges, David Robson

David W. Robson

No abstract provided.

Reviews In Brief / Strange But True, Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff

Review Of Autopsy Of A Suicidal Mind By Edwin S. Shneidman, Matthew Pianalto

Matthew Pianalto

In any other discipline, a gathering of minds with only half the intellectual prowess and experience of the consultants brought together in Edwin Shneidman's Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind would give reason for a celebration. The very nature of suicidology must make even such a momentous reunion as occurs in this book a somber event. In Autopsy, Shneidman rejoins forces with seven suicide specialists, longtime colleague Norman L. Farberow, with whom Shneidman founded the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center (the first center of its kind), and Robert E. Litman, chief psychiatrist at the LASPC, Avery Weisman, John T. Maltsberger, David …

Why Don't I Know About These Women?' Classical Theory And The Inclusion Of Women, Jan Thomas

Jan Thomas

No abstract provided.

"Terrorist Enemies And Just War Theory", William Cavanaugh

William T. Cavanaugh

No abstract provided.

The Incarnation, Michel Henry, And The Possibility Of An Husserlian-Inspired Transcendental Life, Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

No abstract provided.

Forging The New Desi Music: Transnational Identity And Musical Syncretism At A South Asian-American Festival, Kevin Miller

Kevin C. Miller

For three days in late April of 2002, Hollywood, California, was home to Artwallah, a multimedia arts festival of the South Asian Diaspora. "Artwallah" essentially means "one who does art," and over 65 artists and performers of South Asian heritage contributed their individual talents and distinctive voices to a collective expression that included dance, film, visual arts, theater, literature, stand-up comedy, and music. In addition to creating a temporary physical space conducive to the sharing of art and experience between participants and the audience, the festival also provided an ideological space that encouraged an inherently "hybrid" style of artistic expression. …

Die Letzten Tage Der Menschheit: Vorbilder Zu Abu Ghraib, Leo A. Lensing

Leo A Lensing

No abstract provided.

Review Of Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, And Democracy, Harry Van Der Linden

Harry van der Linden

When Are Research Risks Reasonable In Relation To Anticipated Benefits?, Charles Weijer, Paul Miller

Charles Weijer

The question "When are research risks reasonable in relation to anticipated benefits?" is at the heart of disputes in the ethics of clinical research. Institutional review boards are often criticized for inconsistent decision-making, a problem that is compounded by a number of contemporary controversies, including the ethics of research involving placebo controls, developing countries, incapable adults and emergency rooms. If this pressing ethical question is to be addressed in a principled way, then a systematic approach to the ethics of risk in research is required. Component analysis provides such a systematic approach.

Boomer In A Boom Town, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Presents an article about a woman working as a brakesman/switchman on the Southern Pacific Railroad in Houston, Texas. Events that led her to Houston; Her function as railroad woman; Challenges faced by workers on the railroad.

The Quest For Legitimacy: Comment On Cox Macpherson's 'To Strengthen Consensus, Consult The Stakeholders', Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.

Reviews In Brief / World Famous Love Acts, Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff

Reviews In Brief / Do The Blind Dream?, Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff

To Hell And Back In 'The Devil's Highway': An Exploration Of The Physical And Political Barriers Between Mexico And The Us, Tom Montgomery-Fate

Tom Montgomery Fate

No abstract provided.