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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. …


Identifications And Interpellations In The Visual Field: Lacan's Theories Of The Gaze And Cisneros's Fiction, Jean Wyatt Nov 1998

Identifications And Interpellations In The Visual Field: Lacan's Theories Of The Gaze And Cisneros's Fiction, Jean Wyatt

Jean Wyatt

No abstract provided.


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 …


'A Hot Thing': Working On Toni Morrison's Beloved, Dave Iasevoli Sep 1998

'A Hot Thing': Working On Toni Morrison's Beloved, Dave Iasevoli

David Iasevoli

No abstract provided.


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

No abstract provided.


Critical Reception Of The Short Fiction By Joyce Carol Oates And Gabriele Wohmann, Sigrid Mayer, Martha Hanscom Dec 1997

Critical Reception Of The Short Fiction By Joyce Carol Oates And Gabriele Wohmann, Sigrid Mayer, Martha Hanscom

Martha J. Hanscom

No abstract provided.


The Green Tuxedo, Janet Holmes Dec 1997

The Green Tuxedo, Janet Holmes

Janet A. Holmes

No abstract provided.


Gothic Body, Steven Bruhm Dec 1997

Gothic Body, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Railroad Voices: Narratives By Linda Niemann, Photographs By Lina Bertucci, Linda Niemann, Lina Bertucci Dec 1997

Railroad Voices: Narratives By Linda Niemann, Photographs By Lina Bertucci, Linda Niemann, Lina Bertucci

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.


Tofu, Green Tea, And Alzheimer’S Disease: Critical Thinking As Quantitative Literacy In First-Year Composition For Information And Mathematical Science Students, Russell Poole, Jenny Lawn Dec 1997

Tofu, Green Tea, And Alzheimer’S Disease: Critical Thinking As Quantitative Literacy In First-Year Composition For Information And Mathematical Science Students, Russell Poole, Jenny Lawn

Russell Poole

No abstract provided.


Masochism: Disciplines Of Desire; Politics Of Power; Aesthetics Of Cruelty, Ruth Walker, Natalya Lusty Dec 1997

Masochism: Disciplines Of Desire; Politics Of Power; Aesthetics Of Cruelty, Ruth Walker, Natalya Lusty

Ruth Walker

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

No abstract provided.


Old English Wisdom Poetry, Russell Poole Dec 1997

Old English Wisdom Poetry, Russell Poole

Russell Poole

No abstract provided.


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. …


Write Around The Corner Café., Margaret Strain Dec 1997

Write Around The Corner Café., Margaret Strain

Margaret M. Strain

Research support ($3,000). Awarded by the University of Dayton Assistant Provost for Academic Technology and the Humanities Chair, 1998. Developed an electronic journal for student writing.


Reasons For Rhyme, Alliteration, And Wordplay: A Psycholinguistic Look At Poetic Composition And Reception, Russell Poole Dec 1997

Reasons For Rhyme, Alliteration, And Wordplay: A Psycholinguistic Look At Poetic Composition And Reception, Russell Poole

Russell Poole

No abstract provided.


The School Of Beauty And Charm, Melanie Sumner Dec 1997

The School Of Beauty And Charm, Melanie Sumner

Melanie Sumner

Abstract forthcoming


Up In Smoke, Melanie Sumner Dec 1997

Up In Smoke, Melanie Sumner

Melanie Sumner

Abstract forthcoming


Reforming Byron’S Narcissism, Steven Bruhm Dec 1997

Reforming Byron’S Narcissism, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


“‘Loue My Lewd Pilot’: The Ars Amatoria In The Faerie Queene.”, M. L. Stapleton Dec 1997

“‘Loue My Lewd Pilot’: The Ars Amatoria In The Faerie Queene.”, M. L. Stapleton

M. L. Stapleton

No abstract provided.


"Nación Y Masculinidad En La Narrativa Decimonónica: El Caso De Sab Y Aves Sin Nido", Cesar Valverde Dec 1997

"Nación Y Masculinidad En La Narrativa Decimonónica: El Caso De Sab Y Aves Sin Nido", Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Desconstrucción Histórica Y Posmodernismo En LAs Ruinas Circulares, Cesar Valverde Dec 1997

Desconstrucción Histórica Y Posmodernismo En LAs Ruinas Circulares, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


The Home Dance: Hugh Nibley Among The Hopi, Boyd J. Petersen Dec 1997

The Home Dance: Hugh Nibley Among The Hopi, Boyd J. Petersen

Boyd J Petersen

No abstract provided.


Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde Dec 1997

Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


"Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado", Cesar Valverde Dec 1997

"Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado", Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde Dec 1997

Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.