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It Works For Me: Shared Tips For Teaching, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Nov 2011

It Works For Me: Shared Tips For Teaching, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

Why bother to read yet another book about teaching? What can you possibly gain that will prepare you to meet those daily moments of truth? Perhaps this book's title suggests the answer. It Works for Me: Shared Tips for Teaching is not a treatise on pedagogical theory, nor is it designed to dictate a set of rules for success in the classroom. Its purpose is not to provide you with a complete program for better teaching. It Works for Me is simply a collection of practical tips drawn from the real-life experiences of some outstanding college teachers across the disciplines. …


Gender And Modernity In Transnational Perspective: Hugo Münsterberg And The American Woman, Rena Sanderson Sep 1998

Gender And Modernity In Transnational Perspective: Hugo Münsterberg And The American Woman, Rena Sanderson

Irene (Rena) M. Sanderson

In one of the first and best-known collections of cultural criticism in America, Civilization in the United States (1922), Harold Stearns begins his chapter on “The Intellectual Life” with this widely quoted passage:

When Professor Einstein roused the ire of the women's clubs by stating that “women dominate the entire life of America,” and that “there are cities with a million population, but cities suffering from terrible poverty – the poverty of intellectual things,” he was but repeating a criticism of our life now old enough to be almost a cliché. Hardly any intelligent foreigner has failed to observe …


Observing The Observers (Book Reviews), Linda Niemann Apr 1998

Observing The Observers (Book Reviews), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Reviews the books, "The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart," by Ruth Behar (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996), "Hungry Lighting: Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela," by Pei-Lin Yu (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1997) and "Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Memory," by Stefania Pandolfo (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).


I Want To Be You: Envy, The Lacanian Double, And Feminist Community In Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride, Jean Wyatt Dec 1997

I Want To Be You: Envy, The Lacanian Double, And Feminist Community In Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride, Jean Wyatt

Jean Wyatt

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The Green Tuxedo, Janet Holmes Dec 1997

The Green Tuxedo, Janet Holmes

Janet A. Holmes

No abstract provided.


Managing The Public: Strategic Publication In Franklin And Whitman, Michael Drexler Dec 1997

Managing The Public: Strategic Publication In Franklin And Whitman, Michael Drexler

Michael J Drexler

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It Works For Me: Shared Tips For Teaching, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Dec 1997

It Works For Me: Shared Tips For Teaching, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

Why bother to read yet another book about teaching? What can you possibly gain that will prepare you to meet those daily moments of truth? Perhaps this book's title suggests the answer. It Works for Me: Shared Tips for Teaching is not a treatise on pedagogical theory, nor is it designed to dictate a set of rules for success in the classroom. Its purpose is not to provide you with a complete program for better teaching. It Works for Me is simply a collection of practical tips drawn from the real-life experiences of some outstanding college teachers across the disciplines. …