In this book and its essential companion, The Instructor's Manual, McKinney, Beck, and Heyl have provided an amazing resource for instructors who use an active learning perspective (versus the old, "sage on the stage" one-way talk method). The student handbook presents instructions and worksheets (when needed) for 50 exercises in 10 topic areas and 2 more general classroom process areas: theory & methods, culture, socialization and interaction, groups and social influence, stratification, organizations and bureaucracy, race & gender & sexual orientation, deviance & crime, collective behavior, social institutions, multi-topic assignments, and course structure & process.

Each set of short instructions follows the same format: rationale, instructions on actually doing the exercise, and how it will be graded. Some exercises require worksheets, which are included. The exercises were contributed by faculty who actually developed and tested them, and so most of the bugs have already been worked out. Instructors who use these exercises can modify them to suit their own classes, but they are so well-designed that I suspect most will just use them "as is."

The accompanying instructor's manual is an absolute necessity. The table of contents gives a short description of each exercise, as well as a chart indicating whether the exercise is for individuals or groups, and how much time is needed for the exercise. Each contributor has provided several pages of background for each exercise, following the same format: history and context, purpose, instructions for facilitating the exercise, other suggestions, and hints about time use.

An entire introductory sociology course could be designed around this book, or entire sections of it could be used for specific courses, e.g. on stratification or social movements. With this book and some rich supplementary readings, your students would probably not need a textbook.

The authors have provided a wonderful resource for those of us teaching from an active-learning perspective. I highly recommend the book AND the instructor's manual.

every part of this book is written clearly and i think it is a good assistant for us in designning a high level sanitray landfill engineering.

"There were three bollocks in a cell in Lebanon. An Englishman, an Irishman, and an American. Why they were in that cell was anybody's guess, and why they were in Lebanon was their own guess." (p. 17)

This is how one of the characters describes their own situation. It sounds like the beginning of a joke and indeed, humour-light hearted as well as black-gets its fair share in McGuinness play. But it never truly manages to conceal the desperateness of their situation.

Having been kidnapped for political reasons unknown to them, by people who are only referred to as 'Arabs' or 'the Enemy', the three hostages have to cope with the daily challenge of fear and monotony. While their captor's strength 'depends on silence' as one of the characters observes, their own depends on communication. There are savage fights between the three as well as gentle understanding, uproarious laughter and deep grief. The play takes the audience on a rollercoaster journey through the horrors of captivity, the balm of memory and the unbreakable strength of friendships forged in dire circumstance.

The play is inspired by the true story of Brian Keenan from Northern Ireland, who was kidnapped in 1986 shortly after taking up his position as a lecturer of English at the American University in Beirut. He was released in 1990 after talks between the Irish and the Iranian government. Most of the four years and five months in Lebanese captivity he spent together with John McCarthy, a British journalist. McCarthy had in fact come to Beirut to make a documentary about the hostage situation and was kidnapped shortly after Brian Keenan. The two men became close friends. When Brian Keenan was released he said that to leave behind his co-hostage was 'like losing an arm'. John McCarthy was not released until August 1991 after more than five years in captivity.

Peter Frank's previously out-of-print annotated bibliography on Something Else Press and Dick Higgins's achievements as a publisher is back in print. The book is a treasure, long sought by scholars and librarians.

Something Else Press was among the first publishers of an entirely new genre. These were intermedia artworks designed for publication. They helped to launch the medium now widely known as "artist books." From 1963 to 1974, Dick Higgins and associates presented over sixty publications. These included major works by Fluxus artists Emmett Williams, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Robert Filliou, George Brecht, Geoff Hendricks, Jackson Mac Low and Bengt af Klintberg. Along with these, the press published projects by such twentieth-century legends as John Cage, Marshall McLuhan, Merce Cunningham, Claes Oldenburg, Hans Richter, Dieter Roth, and Allan Kaprow.

In a decade of inspired publishing, Something Else Press broke artistic ground in a series of anthologies on concrete poetry, music‚ conceptual architecture, and more. Higgins launched a major revival in the work of Gertrude Stein by publishing many long unavailable works. The crown jewel of this series was the first complete edition of Making of Americans. If this were not enough, Higgins laid the foundation of a new perspective on the arts through ideas and issues first introduced through the Something Else Newsletter.

This illustrated critical history gives all the facts in chronological order with Peter Frank's interesting, articulate notes. It provides an overview of the press operation with concise, informative descriptions of each publication. Each note includes complete information on format, edition size, co-editions, cancellations, and ephemera. The book is richly illustrated with photographs of each book jacket or cover, and many interior pages.

McPherson & Company originally published this book in 1983. It has been out of print for a number of years. Last year, publisher Bruce McPherson discovered and rebound blocks of the original edition whose covers had been slightly spoiled. He was able to arrange for a superb rebinding that will be of particular interest to scholars and academic libraries.

This novel should be entitled Murder,Inc Jr.,for that is what it is.And-it is just as gripping as the senior account of the murders for hire which sold 30 million copies,I have been told,and is still in print.As a resident of Brooklyn in the Forties,this novel revivifies the rivetting trial and conviction of assassins for profit;and,the political fallout to congressional levels.Although we are reading a novel,nonetheless it captures the documentary glare and raw notoriety in fictional guise as it closely shadows the actual events. What is amazing in the novel is the sheer virtuosity of the structure of the trail,the exquisiate turns about points of law,the psychological depths,and the superb quality of dialogues of give and take in the drama of the trial.Characterizations are memorable beginning with Matthew,Father Campion, down the lowly tenants and bums of a Brownsville tenement.From the adroit opening scene to the last surprises at the ending,I became an instant fan of thei novelist upm to the final dismissal of a double frame up of father and son.ely absorbing as Father Campion invokes legal and extralegal powers as defense attorney ro save Matthew's life.The plotting is mastererly. Page Sidney Lumet as director of the novel as film!.

A wonderful chapter book for young readers. My eight year old loved learning about Song Lee and the problems that she faces at school. Makayla is looking forward to receiving her next Song Lee book! A wonderful book about how our actions effect other's.

In yet another book about the loveable character, Song Lee, Suzy Kline creates an enjoyable story. Any child will laugh while reading this hilarious book!

I started reading Suzy Kline books when I was very young and loved her characters so much that I still read her books to this day. This book specifically focused on one of her lesser known, but more interesting, characters, Song Lee. It's a very interesting book and any child will love it!

This book was really good! The back says: "Forbidden Love in a Hate-Torn Land For many years the Moabites and the Isrealites have been bitter enemies. When Ruth, a beautiful Moabite maiden fell in love with a gentle metalworker form Bethlehem, she defied a mighty pagan dynasty to become his wife. By marrying the hated foriegner, Ruth became and outcast in her own country-but she gained an enduring love for her husband`s people and their faith...

For those who wish to explore the wonderful prose, thoughts and observations offered by this pioneering outdoorsman, I will highly recommend this book. Bringing together essay samples from a number of his books, the reader will enjoy the insights Olson offers as he journeys through America's wilderness. He provides a writing style that is comfortable to read and his words will transport you from your chair into the canoe with him as he paddles/camps his way through places many of us can only hope to go. It takes a chapter or two to recognize that Olson doesn't write with one chapter flowing into the next, but rather each chapter is a story in itself. And, with that understood, sit back, read and enjoy the trip(s)!