Discussion‐Based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning: Theory,Practice and Assessment – Tisha Bender

Books reviewed: Discussion‐Based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning: Theory, Practice and Assessment. By Tisha Bender. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing, 2003. xviii + 206 pages. ISBN 1‐57922‐065‐7. $24.95 (paperback).     

Recent books

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Niedenthal, P.M., & Kitayama, S. (Eds.). (1994). The heart's eye: Emotional influences in perception and attention. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. ISBN 0–12–410560–2. 289pp. $55.00

MacKinnon, N.J. (1994). Symbolic interactionism as affect control. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0–7914–2042–6 (pbk). 245pp. $19.95.

Cuthbertson-Johnson, B., Franks, D.D., & Doman, M. (Eds.) (1994). The sociology of emotions: An annotated bibliography. New York Garland Publishing. ISBN 0–8240–2321–8. 222pp. $37.00

Flanagan, O., & Rorty, A.O. (Eds.) (1990). Identity_; character and morality: Essays in moral psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 0–262–56074–7 (pbk). 487pp. $18.50.

Mackie, D.M., 8 Hamilton D.L. (Eds.) (1993). Affect, cognition, and stereotyping: interactive processes in group perception. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. ISBN 0–12–46441–0–4. 389pp. $59.95

Dobson, K.S., & Kendall, P.C. (Eds.) (1993). Psychopethology and cognition. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. ISBN 0–12–404175–2. 492pp. $49.95.

Graham, G., & Stephens, G.L. (Eds.) (1994). Philosophical psychopathology. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. ISBN 0–262–07159–2. 332pp. $34.95.     

A review of professor mommy: finding work–family balance in academia

Rachel Connelly & Kristin Ghodsee. (2011). Professor Mommy: Finding Work–Family Balance in Academia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. 232 pages, $25.95 List. ISBN: 978‐1442208582.     

Book Reviews

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Psychological Management of Schizophrenia Max Birchwood and Nicholas Tarrier (Eds.) New York: Wiley, 1994, 165 sidor, $15.95 ISBN 0-471-95056-4 Reviewed by Lars-Gunnar Lundh.

Schizophrenia. Exploring the spectrum of psychosis R. J. Ancill, S. Holliday, & J. Higenbottam (Eds.) New York: Wiley, 1994, 376 sidor, $60.00 ISBN 0-471-95255-9 Reviewed by Lars-Gunnar Lundh.     

Reviews of Texts for Classroom Use

Books reviewed: Dianne Oliver, Book and Resource Review Editor
University of Evansville Daoism: A Short Introduction. By James Miller. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2003. xviii + 174 pages. ISBN 1‐85168‐315‐1. $17.95.
Reviewed by John M. Thompson
Christopher Newport University The Protestant Reformation: Beliefs and Practices. By Madeleine Gray. Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press, 2003. 262 pages. ISBN: 1‐903900‐11‐5. $22.50.
Reviewed by Jason E. Vickers
Hood Theological Seminary True Religion. By Graham Ward. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. 168 pages. ISBN 0‐63122174‐3. $20.95.
Reviewed by Debra Mubashshir Majeed
Beloit College Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion, and Culture. Edited by Jolyon Mitchell and Sophia Marriage. London and New York: T & T Clark, 2003. xv + 407 pages. ISBN 0‐567‐08867‐7. Cloth $115.00. ISBN 0‐567‐08807‐3. Paper $34.95.
Reviewed by Richard S. Ascough
Queen's Theological College     

a review of career flow: a hope‐centered approach to career development

Spencer G. Niles, Norman E. Amundson, and Roberta A. Neault. (2011). Career Flow: A Hope‐Centered Approach to Career Development. Boston, MA: Prentice Hall. 264 pages, $32.00 List, ISBN 978–0132241908.     

Recent books

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Guidano, V. F. (1987). Complexity of the self: A developmental approach to psychopathology and therapy. New York: Guilford Press. ISBN 0–89862–012–0, 248 pp, £19.95/$35.95

Hamilton, V., Bower, G. H., & Frijda, N. H. (Eds) (1988). Cognitive perspectives on emotion and motivation. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 90–247–3694–3, 453 pp, £64.00/$114.00

Scherer, K. R. (Ed.) (1988). Facets of emotion: Recent research. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. ISBN 0–8058–0141–3, 267 pp, £27.50/ $46.95; pbk, ISBN 0–8058–0142–1, £17.00/$29.50

Ciompi, L. (1988). The psyche and schizophrenia: A bond between affect and logic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0–674–71990–5, 327 pp, £27.95

Horowitz, M. J. (Ed.) (1988). Psychodynamics and cognition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0–226–35368–0, 389 pp, £21.95

Hannover, B. (1988). Evaluation of performance: A judgmental approach. New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0–387–96768–0, 164 pp.

Alloy, L. B. (1988). Cognitive processes in depression. New York, Guilford Press. ISBN 0–89862–706–0, 388 pp, $52.00/£30.50

Barlow, D. H. (1988). Anxiety and its disorders: The nature and treatment of anxiety and panic. New York, Guilford Press. ISBN 0–89862–720–6, 698 pp, $51.50/£38     

Reviews

Books reviewed Learner‐Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice. By Maryellen Weimer. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass Publishers, 2002. xxv + 258 pages. ISBN 0‐7879‐5646‐5. $33.00 Millennials Go to College: Strategies for a New Generation on Campus. By Neil Howe and William Strauss. The American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) and LifeCourse Associates, 2003. iii + 156 pages. ISBN 1‐57858‐033‐1. $49.00. The Importance of Physical Space in Creating Supportive Learning Environments. Edited by Nancy Van Note Chism and Deborah J. Bickford. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, no. 92. San Francisco: Jossey Bass Publishers, 2002. 97 pages + index. ISBN 0‐7879‐6344‐5. $27.00 Religions Today: An Introduction. By Mary Pat Fisher. London: Routledge, 2002. 319 pages. ISBN 0‐415‐26282‐2. Seeking Passage: Post‐Structuralism, Pedagogy, Ethics. By Rebecca A. Martusewicz. New York, N.Y.: Teachers College Press, 2001. vxi + 143 pages. ISBN 0‐8077‐4024‐1.     

Democratic presumptions

At the Leading Edge: New Visions of Science, Spirituality, and Society. Michael Toms, 4936 State Route 414, Burdett, New York: Larson Publications, 1991. Softcover, 386 pp. U.S. $14.95.

A Dream Deferred: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal, Philip Slater, Beacon, Boston, $19.95, 1991, ISBN 0–8070–4304–4

The American Replacement of Nature, William Irwin Thompson, Doubleday, New York, $20, 1991, ISBN 0,385–42025–0

Reimagination of the World, A Critique of the New Age, Science, and Popular Culture, David Spangler and William Irwin Thompson, Bear and Company, Santa Fe, New Mexico, $12.95, 1991, ISBN 0–939680–92–0

The New Evolutionary Paradigm, Ervin Laszlo, (Ed.), Gordon &; Breach, New York, $60 (libraries) $36 (individuals), 1991, ISBN 2–88124–375–4

The Evolutionary Approach for Social Scientists, Ignazio Masulli, Gordon &; Breach, New York, $50 (libraries) $30 (individuals), 1991, ISBN 2–88124–376–2

The Fifth Discipline. The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, Peter M. Senge, Doubleday, New York, $19.95, 1990, ISBN 0–385–26094–6

Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation: Speciation and Innovation, Lynn Margulis and Rene Fester (Eds.), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, $37.50, 454, Includes Index

One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment, Cheryl Simon Silver (with Ruth S. Defries for the National Academy of Sciences), National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., $14.95, 196, Includes Index

Toward a Transpersonal Ecology: Developing New Foundations for Environmentalism, Warwick Fox, Shambhala, Boston, MA, $16.95, 380, Includes Index

Gaia, A Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology, William Irwin Thompson (Ed.), The Lindisfarne Press, Great Barrington, MA, $10.95, 216

Gaia 2: Emergence, The New Science of Becoming, William Erwin Thompson, The Lindisfarne Press, Hudson, NY, $14.95, 272

A Replicative Perspective On Evolutionary Dynamics: The Organizing Process of the US Economy Elaborated Through Biological Metaphor, Mika Pantzar, Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki, Finland, 274

Societal Systems: Planning, Policy and Complexity &; A Science of Generic Design: Managing Complexity through Systems Design, Vol I and II, John N. Warfield, Intersystems Publications, Salinas, CA, 1989 and 1990     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Educating Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility. By Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich, Elizabeth Beaumont, and Jason Stephens. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey‐Bass Publishers, 2003. xx + 332 pages. ISBN 0‐7879‐6515‐4. $30.00
Reviewed by Victor J. Klimoski
School of Theology, Saint John's University Engaging Large Classes: Strategies and Techniques for College Faculty. Edited by Christine A. Stanley and M. Erin Porter. Bolton, Mass.: Anker Publishing Company, Inc., 2002. xxiv + 353 pages. ISBN 1‐882982‐51‐7. $39.95.
Reviewed by Robert M. Royalty, Jr.
Wabash College Christianity in the Academy: Teaching at the Intersection of Faith and Learning. By Harry Lee Poe. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2004. 208 pages. ISBN 0‐8010‐2723‐3. $19.99.
Reviewed by Roger P. Ebertz
University of Dubuque The Student Assessment Handbook: New Directions in Traditional and Online Assessment. By Chris Morgan, Lee Dunn, Meg O’Reilly, and Sharon Parry. New York, N.Y.: RoutledgeFalmer, 2004. xiv + 305 pages. ISBN 0‐415‐33530‐2. $49.95.
Reviewed by Johannes Strobel
University of Missouri‐Columbia Faith and the Life of the Intellect. Edited by Curtis L. Hancock and Brenden Sweetman. Washington, D.C. Catholic University of America Press, 2003. xxii + 269 pages. ISBN 0‐8132‐1311‐8. $29.95.
Reviewed by John J. Carey
Agnes Scott College Learning and Teaching Where Worldviews Meet. Edited by Rosamund Sutherland, Guy Claxton, and Andrew Pollard. Stoke on Trent, UK and Sterling, Va.: Trentham Books Limited, 2003. vii + 285 pages. ISBN 1‐85856‐248‐1. $29.95.
Reviewed by S. Brian Stratton
Alma College Team‐Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups. Edited by Larry K. Michaelsen, Arletta Bauman Knight, and L. Dee Fink. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002. xi + 288 pages. ISBN 0‐89789‐863‐X. Paper $24.95.
Reviewed by Steven C. Ibbotson
Prairie Bible College     

Briefly noted

Michael McLure. The Paretian School and Italian Fiscal Sociology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 363 pp. $95 (cloth). ISBN 1‐4039‐9953‐8 Conrad Swartz and Edward Shorter. Psychotic Depression. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 327 pp. $85 (cloth). ISBN: 978‐0‐521‐87822‐7 Mark Patton. Science, Politics and Business in the Work of Sir John Lubbock. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007. 270 pp. $99 (cloth). ISBN: 978‐0‐7546‐5321‐9 Erik Banks. Ernst Mach's World Elements. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. 289 pp. $119 (cloth). ISBN 1‐4020‐1662‐X Philip Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch, and Evan Thompson (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 981 pp. $70 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐521‐67412‐6     

Briefly noted

Robert Carneiro. Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003. 322 pp. $37 (paper). ISBN 0‐8133‐3766‐6. Maria Pierrakos. Transcribing Lacan's Seminars: Memoirs of a Disgruntled Keybasher Turned Psychoanalyst. London: Free Association Books, 2006. 66 pp. $32.95 (cloth). ISBN 1‐8534‐39630. Cesare Lombroso. Criminal Man (translated and with a new introduction). Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 448 pp. $23.95 (paper). ISBN 0‐8223‐3723‐1. Charles Lemert. Durkheim's Ghosts: Cultural Logics and Social Things. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 294 pp. $29.99 (paper). ISBN 0‐521‐60363‐3. Herve Le Guyader. Geoffroy Saint‐Hilaire: A Visionary Naturalist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 288 pp. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 0‐226‐47091‐1. Greta Jones and Robert Peel (Eds.). Herbert Spencer: The Intellectual Legacy. London: Galton Institute, 2004. 154 pp. £5 (paper). ISBN 09504066‐8‐6.     

Briefly noted

David Brendel. Healing Psychiatry: Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 208 pp. $26 (cloth) ISBN 0‐262‐02594‐9. David Livingstone and Charles Withers. Geography and Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 440 pp. $45 (cloth) ISBN: 0‐226‐48733‐4. Sanford Schram and Brian Caterino. Making Political Science Matter. New York: New York University Press, 2006. 304 pp. $24 (paper) ISBN: 0‐8147‐4033‐2. Dieter Borchmeyer. Drama and the World of Richard Wagner. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. 391 pp. (cloth) ISBN 0‐691‐11497‐8. Arnold Goldberg. Moral Stealth: How “Correct Behavior” Insinuates Itself Into Psychotherapeutic Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 144 pp. $32 (cloth) ISBN 0‐226‐30120‐4.     

Introduction

Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body, by Riane Eisler. Harper San Francisco, 495 pages. $15.00, 1996 paperback edition, ISBN 0–06–250283–2; $25.00, 1995 cloth edition, ISBN 0–06–250293‐x.     

Building Faculty Learning Communities – Edited by Milton D. Cox and Laurie Richlin

Books reviewed: Building Faculty Learning Communities. Edited by Milton D. Cox and Laurie Richlin. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 97. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass Publishers, 2004. v + 163 pages. ISBN 0‐7879‐7568‐0. $27.00.     

Recent books

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Wyer, R.S., Jr., & Srull, T.K. (Eds.) (1993). Perspectives on anger and emotion: Advances in social cognition (Vol. VI). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. ISBN 0–8058–1326–8 (hbk), 0–8058–1327–6 (pbk), 206 pp. £29.95 (hbk), £13.50 (pbk)

Mathes, E.W. (1993). Jealousy: The psychological data. New York: University Press of America. ISBN 0–8191–8521–3, 204 pp. £32.50

Solomon, R.C. (1994). Above love: Reinventing romance for our times. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0–8226–3027–3, 352 pp. £14.95.     

Teaching Islam – Edited by Brannon M. Wheeler

Books reviewed: Teaching Islam. Edited by Brannon M. Wheeler. American Academy of Religion Teaching Religious Studies Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. ix + 226 pages. ISBN 0‐19‐515225‐5. $24.95.