Wow, I love it. This book is straight to the point. Check out the table of contents: Choosing/Changing a major or program, Financial aid/money management, Registering for classes, Dorm life, Textbooks: buying & selling, ID cards, The classroom experience, Study skills, note taking,and test taking, Library services, Computers, The internet and email, Campus/Student organizations, Having a car on campus and car safety, Parents, families, and friends, Physical health, Stress management and mental health, Time management, Internships, Job interviewing, and Returning to college. Wow, this book cuts right to the point. I have purchased other college books, and let me tell you I don't have time to read a 20 page chapter ( I have 60 pages in my biology book to read). You can easily flip to the chapter that you need in no time at all. You can also read the book in less than an hour. This book contains over 300 bullet points of information.This book is more than a coffee-table book. It is really AWESOME!

I thought College 101 was wonderfully straightforward and right to the point. The authors did a fine job of cutting through the red tape and confusion associated with the going to college, and formatted a book that is clever, witty and easy to read. I plan to give this book as a graduation present to all of the high school seniors that I know.

Inspiring! Sensational! An informative adventure that will direct you on the path to a successful college experience."

It is easy to misunderstand such a subtle philosopher as Kierkegaard. From his cryptic style and pseudonymns creeps a message heavily veiled, and best understood by a select view. Both "existentialism" and "irrational" become easily misused buzz words far too often applied to Kierkegaard. This book argues that such has been the case with Alasdair MacIntyre in his book AFTER VIRTUE. Fortunately, those who seem most on the mark in their interpretations of Kierkegaard have been gathered here in this collection of essays defending Kierkegaard against MacIntyre's claims that Kierkegaard is an irrational fedeist. KIERKEGAARD AFTER MACINTYRE is a brilliant and responsible exposition of the depths and intricacies of "the father of existentialism" by, whom I believe to be, the most "well-versed" Kierkegaardian scholars. Most helpful in this book was the light it shed on the influence both Kant and Artistotle had on Kierkegaard's conception of the self and decision-making, and the importance of understanding what are Kierekgaard's thoughts through all the pseudonymity...especially when it comes to his writings on the Judge and the Aesthete in Either/Or.

The book is highly enjoyable with concise essays that make their points while citing the various passages of Kierkegaard. One can easily check their refences if one is skeptical of the context. And what I enjoyed most was the fairness of the book. MacIntyre himself ends the collection of essays, and has the last words in response to the book's claims that he has radically misunderstood Kierkegaard. A good read and a definite must for anyone who wants to stay on top of the issues at hand in Kierkegaardian scholarship.

This book provides introductions to a wide variety of topics in Australian history. It has been edited by three of the most eminent Australian academic historians and many of the entries have been written by experts in their respective fields. The entries themselves deal with events, people, noted historians and current issues in Australian historiography.

JOHN HENRY DAYS gives us John Henry, the icon, the mascot, the hero, the folktale, all wrapped up in this novel that bounces between Talcott, West Virginia for the U.S. Postal service release of the John Henry stamp and a number of times and place that show John Henry's importance in the fabric of America's history. Our protagonist in Talcott is J, a writer working on a non-stop jag of event after event, getting work from the omniscient List and living on free food and lodging, collecting receipts and rarely contemplating an empty existence. J's progression from this rather shallow being to a man who at least begins to question life's meaning is the main focus of the story. Too bad, it doesn't work. By the time J becomes interesting you just don't care enough about him. Whitehead creates such an emotional distance between the character and the reader that you really want to get back to the other stories contained within this novel.
The other stories are trips through America's past and John Henry's place in it, a bittersweet look at a young girl discovering the joy of discovering "The Ballad of John Henry" and how that doesn't fit in with view her mother has of a future member of the Sepia Ladies club of Harlem, a blues singer in Chicago cutting record sides and John Henry being his ticket to a few extra dollars, the destruction of Paul Robeson for not being what the American establishment wanted him to be; these are the stories that make this book worth reading. Best of all are Whitehead's takes on John Henry himself, the folktale comes to life as real human being.
Whitehead writes wonderful sentences. They are crafted beautifully and each seems to be placed with as much care as any master craftsman creating a work of art. The problem is that he spends too much time working with a creation that doesn't seem to warrant his attention. Read it for the beauty of its construction and the trips into the past, but the central plot left me cold.

They say laughter can extend your lifetime, if so, I'm going to live a long, long time as I laughed aloud over and over again when reading this book. Colson Whitehead has the sharpest sense of humour, and a knack for making perfect, sharp observations about people - their physial tics, their dress, their pretensions, their fears, their ambitions, their uncertainties. The journalists, Tiny and One Eye, were excrutiatingly funny, I reread some of the scenes in which they appeared, just to be sure I didn't miss a single barb. Whitehead knows how to convey something else rather piercingly too - loneliness. Pamela Street, a woman trying to decide what to do with the strange inheritance her father burdened her with (John Henry memorabilia, gathered obssessively, touchingly), reminded me of Lila Mae, the strong minded but deeply solitary woman in Whitehead's first book (called The Intuitionist, another stunning novel). And these are just a few of the secondary characters, I haven't even begun to describe the main guys, J. Sutter and the mythical (?) John Henry. And I'm not going to, this is a book that you just have to read for yourself, enjoy for yourself. And if you're anything like me, laugh while you're doing it.

Having read and loved Whitehead's first novel, I was waiting for his follow up with high hopes. All my expectations were met and surpassed by this extraordinary novel. John Henry Days is wideranging in its themes, characters, styles, you name it, clever as hell and ALWAYS funny. The journalist J., and the steel driving John Henry, couldn't be more different, yet Whitehead connects them in unexpected, thoughtful and often moving ways. I was mesmerised by this book, and there were some sections that, in the beauty and precision of their observation, could be read aloud as poetry. Now I can't wait to read his next book.