In approximately 200 articles ranging from one paragraph to several pages and covering everything from John Adams to the Whiskey Rebellion, Grizzard (political science, Middle Tennessee State Univ.) gives us anyone, anyplace, or anything at all relevant to George Washington. Each of the alphabetically arranged entries includes the topic or name, the date, the significance to Washington, cross references to related entries in the book, and a short bibliography; sometimes, extensive background information is given that thoroughly explains the topic's place in Washington's life.
A Man's Guide to Pregnancy is a fun look at pregnancy from the man's point of view.
It makes an especially good gift book for the expecting father as it is full of humorous helpful hints to guide a man through this sometimes confusing, always hectic time.
Frequently, catch phrases are not, in the grammarians’ sense, phrases at all, but sentences. Catch phrases, like the closely linked proverbial sayings, are self-contained, as, obviously, clichés are too. Catch phrases are usually more pointed and ‘human’ than clichés, although the former sometimes arise from, and often they generate, the latter.
This course, divided into 5 units is an excellent tool for a conversation based Business course. It helps students at pre-intermediate level to find confidence in speaking freely in business situations. Each unit can be used independently, or the course can be used as a whole.
One shortfall of the course is that if you are teaching a class with a mixture of students, some who have already started working, and some who have not yet entered the job market, it is sometimes difficult to follow the tasks set. A little imagination is required on the part of the teacher!
I recommend this book to teachers hoping to energize their literature
or writing classes by positioning all students as creative, ambitious
researchers capable of critiquing or even transforming worlds outside
the classroom. When I discovered it two months ago, it struck me as
just the resource I needed for revitalizing my college survey of
multicultural literature for freshman and sophomores, a course
which sometimes engaged and sometimes bored students. I have since
redesigned materials for the course, using Beach and Myers' idea that
to fully understand literature-or our own lives-we must think of individual people (whether characters in a story, authors of those stories, or
ourselves and others in the real world) as part of larger systems or
"social worlds," acting to protect and continue those systems or to
challenge and change them. The book clearly delineates the components
of social worlds and is full of sample activities and assignments; with
these, I have revised my own discussion questions,presentation assignments and writing prompts. I have also shown Chapter 8, "School and Sports Worlds," to several high school teachers who now plan to assign the ethnographic inquiry projects outlined there rather than assigning traditional research papers. This is a practical, accessible, entirely useable book.
