Just as colleges and universities give attention to helping first year students transition INTO the college experience, many schools are realizing the need to give more purposeful attention to helping students transition OUT of college and into the rest of their lives.

This book gives insight into students' cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal development and how where students ARE in their development is not always congruent to what employers and graduate schools EXPECT students to be... and how we can help students build those bridges!

Topics included in this book can be helpful whether you are evaluating an existing Senior Year Experience program or seeking to design one. Information in various chapters can be used specifically for student affairs professionals in:

CAREER SERVICES Ch. 5: "Are College Seniors Prepared to Work?"

STUDENT ACTIVITIES/LEADERSHIP Ch. 8: "Leadership Education in the Senior Experience"

SERVICE LEARNING/RESIDENCE LIFE "Ch. 9: "Developing 'Civic Virtue' Among College Students"

ALUMNI DEVELOPMENT Ch. 14: Preparing Seniors for Roles as Active Alumni"

ACADEMIC ADVISING Ch. 11: "Creating Pathways to Graduate School"

and all faculty and student affairs educators who work with MULTI-ETHNIC STUDENTS Ch. 13: "College-to-career Transition Programs for Multiethnic Students"

The book includes a helpful list of references and a sample syllabus of a senior capstone class developed and used by the authors.

For student affairs professionals who are seeking to bridge the gap between curricular and co-curricular education on campus, this is a comprehensive, easily readable resource that makes reference to a number of colleges and universities that have successfully implemented Senior Year programs. I have searched the websites of those schools for additional ideas and information.

Disclaimer: I was a student of Dr. Van Ness and assisted with some minor research for the early chapters in the book.

The text deals with measurement error, ie, situations where there may be error in the measurement of the independent variable as well as the dependent. Focus is given to problem-solving and illustration of key points rather than the most rigorous mathematical proofs. One must be strongly conversant with at least undergraduate mathematical statistics to grasp most of the text.

However, it's an intriguing field with a number of real-world applications that become apparent in the text.

I utilized Van Maanen's short, but essential text on writing ethnography throughout my dissertation ethnography research (now a book: Native Americans in the Carolina Borderlands: A Critical Ethnography, Carolinas Press, 2000). Unlike most "how to" texts on Ethnography, Tales of the Field focuses on writing as methodology. Van Maanen's writing is clear and concise. The reader is given several writing styles in ethnography, with ample examples from the author's, and other's, ethnographic writings. A great little book for fieldworkers, novice and veteran, as well as undergraduate and graduate students in research methods courses.

Every year, Pope John Paul II selects a preacher for a course of Spiritual Exercises for himself and the Vatican's Roman Curia. For the Jubilee 2000, he chose Vietnamese Archbishop Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan.

I originally read Archbishop Thuan's exercises by way of Zenit - the News of Rome. As compelling as those accounts were, the book is even better. Archbishop Van Thuan's experiences, as a prisoner in Communist prisons for 13 years, and his insight on faith are true food for a hungry soul.

Testimony of Hope is the complete text of those Exercises. Archbishop Van Thuan's description of isolation and abandonment, and his secret for finding hope in despair makes for moving and uplifting reading.

I guarantee that readers will be moved by the 22 meditations. Archbishop Van Thuan offers light amidst the darkness. The book is a quick, easy, and inspirational read.

This Was John Calvin, by Thea B. Van Helsema

At the beginning of a Bible-school class last fall on the history and shaping of Western thought, Russ Pulliam, asked each of the students who they thought of as one whom God had used in shaping the modern world as we know it today. I knew that we might be asked to do a little research and writing on the name we chose, so I chose carefully.

Since studying Reformation Church history, I have developed a growing appreciation and interest in the life and ministry of John Calvin. I have heard the name mentioned many times but confess that I knew little of the events of his life and of his significant contribution to understanding the whole of what the Bible teaches. I have heard of only a few names mentioned with such admiration and sometimes animosity as this Genevan pastor. Before I passed judgment on the man or his teachings, I resolved to learn what I could on my own and was surprised that I could find only a couple of biographies claiming to present factual information on the events of his life.

The first biography I read was written by Theodore Beza, Calvin's successor as Pastor of the Church of Geneva at St. Pierre's Cathedral. Written back in the 1500's, one can imagine the added difficulty in understanding what Beza related to his generation about Calvin. The strength of the book comes in the fact that the author, Beza, wrote from his own personal knowledge of Calvin from the time Beza was a twelve-year-old boy neighbor until the day Calvin died. No other biography on Calvin that I know of can make that claim.

But, reading This Was John Calvin, I found it much easier to get to know the man and the times in which he lived. The author has provided an excellent volume that condenses the life of Calvin and relates the principal events of the Reformation of the Church in one easily read volume. Much research has been put into this little book. The quotations from Calvin's letters have been carefully and appropriately quoted. This gives the reader a close enough view of Calvin's thoughts and responses so as to conclude that he was both a man with the same frailties as any other man, but also a choice servant of the Lord, "a vessel unto honor, meet for the Master's use." (II Timothy 2:21)

The book contains the story of a man arrested by God to be used not only in the reforming of an entire city during a time of intense persecution where 50,000 of his French countrymen were burned alive for their faith, but also in the summarizing and systematizing of that reformed faith for which his countrymen gave their lives to the benefit of generations to come. Some have said Calvin's magnum opus, Institutes of the Christian Religion, is the best statement of reformed faith ever written. Having read of the turmoil and trials during which this book was written, I have an even greater appreciation for the book I am to study in an upcoming theology class. Written and revised, added to again and again and revised, Calvin worked on this volume for a period of over 25 years, in sometimes unsettled state, suffering from poor health, voluntary poverty, the death of his son weeks after his birth, the death of his daughter when delivered prematurely, the death of his wife, the exposure of adultery in his wife's daughter, of his brother's wife, being rejected from his pulpit and the city of Geneva only to be begged later to return; these are but a few of the great trials through which God seasoned Calvin's studies of the Word of God with supernatural blessing and his articulation of them for all generations with the same seasoned grace.

To the life that has been torn and turned upside-down by the providence of God, friend, you will find much consolation and comfort reading about this man who handled the providences of God with many tears, yet with an unwavering faith in the Master of those providences. Calvin could have well said with the Psalmist, "All this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten you." (Psalm 44:17) The trials through which Calvin was brought only bore the peaceable fruit of righteousness and an example that goes on to this very day encouraging the hearts of the faithful to endure hardness as good soldiers and to uphold the truth of Scripture to the end no matter what the cost.

In his own words Calvin speaks of how he viewed his life when faced with the decision to return to the pulpit in Geneva from which he was forced to leave only three years before. This statement could summarize his whole life, a living sacrifice upon the altar of service to God. "When I consider that I am not in my own power, I offer my heart a slain victim for a sacrifice to the Lord . . . I yield my soul chained and bound unto obedience to God."

Before you make up your mind for yourself what exactly to think of this man, read for yourself, and my promise to you is that you will not be disappointed, provided you are truly among the faithful.

this book deals with the major theory, prcatice and application
of semantic web, as well as the ontology, if u want not to be
obsolete ,please read this book

Hitherto, the language of the Methodist revival has received only moderate, and mainly descriptive, attention. Van Noppen's study moves beyond description to approach the phenomenon from a «critical» angle, thus allowing the reader to assess the indictments which have branded Methodist discourse as manipulative.
Critics have stereotyped Methodism as an oppressive, reactionary discourse forced upon illiterate audiences by insidious rhetorical devices. The guiding hypothesis which underlies such analyses seems to be that the success of Methodism, if any, was not a natural and voluntary response to a religious appeal, but the effect of a deliberate, manipulative process which cynically sought to trick people into a belief system which conditioned their world-view and behaviour patterns, allegedly on behalf of industrial interests which required an obedient and submissive work force.
The investigation of the workings of Methodist discourse in its many textualised and non-textualised aspects allows one to understand the widespread popular impact of the movement in both linguistic and extralinguistic terms. The discourse analysis which constitutes the bulk of this study shows that Methodism in its early Wesleyan stage was remarkably efficient in providing a multi-modal discourse which managed to reach the working classes and to answer their needs and aspirations. The widespread popular response to the message in certain areas may be explained in terms of natural audience motivation, and there is little if any ground, notwithstanding Wesley's particular use of language and his explicitly conservative attitude, to hypothesize a deliberate manipulative socio-political intent on the part of the Wesleyans.
Van Noppen's critical analysis shows that Wesley's discourse did, however, contain the seeds of a work ethic which lay the message open to misunderstanding and misuse in post-Wesleyan Methodism. Under the influence of increasing embourgeoisement and denominational self-interest, some branches of later Methodism progressively abandoned the Wesleyan perspective, and may be suspected of sustaining capitalist interests in some parts of their discourse; but the Methodist revival as a whole cannot be indicted with intentional manipulation of the working masses.

William H Rau (1855-1920), one of Philadelphia's preeminent photographers, was commissioned by the PRR in 1890 to photograph hundreds of scenes along its lines in order to promote travel by the general public. This book contains 87 of his 463 original images, which are owned by American Premerier Underwriters, Inc., sucessor firm to the Penn Central and PRR railroads, and on deposit with The Library Company of Philadelphia.
John R. Stilgoe, Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at Harvard expresses in one of the book's three essays, "These photographs glisten with an energy born of opening, not the opening of pioneers opening the forest nor the opening of the first half-century of railroad technology, but the opening of wholly constructed, wholly controlled, scheduled and maintained, wholly artifical space."
Rau was a world class photographer and this is a fine selection of his PRR work. Therefore, it would be difficult to rate this book as anything other than first class.
These are excerpts from my complete review of this book, which will appear in a future edition of "The Keystone," the official quarterly publication of the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society (PRRT&HS).

Alan B. Buchan
Member, Board of Directors - PRRT&HS

Do miracles still happen today? Van Diest, a book publisher for over 25 yers, shares amazing accounts that defy explanation and encourages readers to decide for themselves. His compelling collection includes stories by respected people like Billy Graham, James Dobson, Corrie ten Boom, and Mother Teresa. Van Diest organizes miracles by seven subjects: destiny, provision, angels, everyday life, prayer, healing, and changed lives, with a brief introduction to each section. The two greatest miracles are saved for last--pointing readers to the God of miracles.

The criteria for selecting stories for this book were: high credibility of source, no "natural" explanation, uniqueness and variety in supernatural intervention. These short, interesting accounts go beyond entertainment and intrigue to strengthen the reader's faith.

I have not had an opportunity to review the eight edition of Neil D. Van Sickle's "Modern Airmanship," but I can state unequivocally it is a first class publication. I was privileged to have contributed to several chapters of a previous edition and, thereby, know the accuracy and quality that goes into this book.

Myron W. Collier