Best of
Grad-School

1976

Telling Writing


Ken Macrorie - 1976
    . . but a matter of setting up a climate friendly to learning and then challenging learners to connect their experience and ideas with those of the accepted authorities or producers. Students can't become truly educated unless they grow out of and beyond themselves . . . Telling Writing gives them an indispensable base, a knowledge of themselves on which to grow.Macrorie's approach works because it helps students break away from the deadly academic prose fostered by so many writing courses and enables them to write about and from their own experiences.

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller


Carlo Ginzburg - 1976
    Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records of Domenico Scandella, a miller also known as Menocchio, to show how one person responded to the confusing political and religious conditions of his time.For a common miller, Menocchio was surprisingly literate. In his trial testimony he made references to more than a dozen books, including the Bible, Boccaccio's Decameron, Mandeville's Travels, and a "mysterious" book that may have been the Koran. And what he read he recast in terms familiar to him, as in his own version of the creation: "All was chaos, that is earth, air, water, and fire were mixed together; and of that bulk a mass formed—just as cheese is made out of milk—and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels."

Even the Rat Was White: A Historical View of Psychology (Allyn & Bacon Classics Edition)


Robert V. Guthrie - 1976
    Histories and other background materials are presented in detail concerning early African-American psychologists and their scientific contributions, as well as their problems, views, and concerns of the field of social psychology. Archival documents that are not often found in mainstream resources are uncovered through the use of journals and magazines, such as the Journal of Black Psychology, the Journal of Negro Education, and Crisis.

Chambers Murray Latin-English Dictionary


William Smith - 1976
    First published in 1933, the Chambers Murray Latin-English Dictionary is the standard reference text for all advanced students of Latin.

The Brooklyn Novels: Summer in Williamsburg, Homage to Blenholt, Low Company


Daniel Fuchs - 1976
     Fuchs wrote, "I devoted myself simply to the tenement: the life in the hallways, the commotion at the dumbwaiters, the assortment of characters in the building, their strivings and preoccupations, their troubles." These novels are as alive today as the day they were first printed, as exuberant. There are few novelists in America today who possess Fuchs's talent, his energy, his sense of life.

Women Artists, 1550-1950


Ann Sutherland Harris - 1976
    European and American artists active from 1550 to 1950.

Parties and Party Systems: Volume 1: A Framework for Analysis


Giovanni Sartori - 1976
    He also offers an extensive review of the concept and rationale of the political party, and develops a sharp critique of various spatial models of party competition. This is political science at its best -- combining the intelligent use of theory with sophisticated analytic arguments, and grounding all of this on a substantial cross-national empirical base. Parties and Party Systems is one of the classics of postwar political science, and is now established as the foremost work in its field. This edition includes a new preface by the author, and a new introduction by Peter Mair.

Dorothy Heathcote: Drama as a Learning Medium


Betty Jane Wagner - 1976
    Heathcote's work has been profoundly influential in that world. Until the publication in 1976 of Dorothy Heathcote: Drama as a Learning Medium, however, Heathcote's techniquesthe pedagogy of dramalacked full explanation. Wagner's book gives us just that: a close-up detailing of this gifted, dynamic teacher in a variety of classroom settings, along with analyses of Heathcote's remarkable improvisations with young people. Indeed, much of Betty Jane Wagner's book can fairly be described as drama within a drama. It's an engrossing work, for we listen and watch as Heathcote elicits drama of their own making from students across grade levels and disciplines. Wagner's goal is to share with teachers how they, using Heathcote's methods, can generate significant learning experiences.

Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps


Michi Weglyn - 1976
    This work tells the story of administrative callousness and bungling, of damage to the human soul, confusion, and terror.