Not a reading, but a watching. Lately netflix has been allowing the documentary "Declining by Degrees" to be watched online but I think the freebee ends on May 1. Regardless, I recommend everyone watch it. It shows the problems we all encounter in trying to hold standards high in higher education.
Bill Scott >>> Jim Matiya <[email protected]> 04/28/10 8:15 PM >>> I just finished Dave Myers' A Quiet World. Next I am reading Deborah Wearing's Forever Today. It has a 2008 copyright, and, I am a little slow. It's her story of being married to Clive Wearing who had damage to his hippocampus, resulting in his inability to form new memories... jim Jim Matiya Florida Gulf Coast University [email protected] Contributor, for Karen Huffman's Psychology in Action, Video Guest Lecturettes John Wiley and Sons. Using David Myers' texts for AP Psychology? Go to http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/cppsych/ High School Psychology and Advanced Psychology Graphic Organizers, Pacing Guides, and Daily Lesson Plans archived at www.Teaching-Point.net > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:04:55 -0700 > Subject: [tips] Summer reading > > So all of these book discusions have me thinking that it's time to start > making up my summer reading list. I always find it bewildering because I can > only budget so much time and so much money towards summer reading and so I > try to pick carefully and then I usually wonder if I picked right. It is > almost as traumatic for me every summer, as buying a new car is every 10-15 > years. I get my list from tipsters and others and try to read all the reviews > I can find so I allocate my precious resources of time and money to the > "best" books, and never quite know if I did it right. > > Sigh. > > So, with that said, what has anyone read recently that they would highly > recommend and that they enjoyed? > The Myth of Sanity > The Trauma Myth > > Ok, what else? > > I am looking for both junk food for my mind as well as nutritious stuff. > > Last summer I read Derek Bok's Our UnderAchieving Colleges and think it was > the best of all books I read last summer. I'm planning to reread the > Bransford et al book on How People Learn. Over the year I plowed my way > through the entire series of Constable Evans books by Rhys Bowen. I actually > contacted the author to see when the next book might come out in the series > but she emailed back that her publisher has put the series on hold because it > might be picked up for TV in Britain. Sigh. > > Annette > > > > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. > Professor, Psychological Sciences > University of San Diego > 5998 Alcala Park > San Diego, CA 92110 > [email protected] > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13283.28aec02f231f4c4baa9a4a58ae139710&n=T&l=tips&o=2294 > or send a blank email to > leave-2294-13283.28aec02f231f4c4baa9a4a58ae139...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13058.902daf6855267276c83a639cbb25165c&n=T&l=tips&o=2298 or send a blank email to leave-2298-13058.902daf6855267276c83a639cbb251...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2299 or send a blank email to leave-2299-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
