Archive for the ‘ Books ’ Category

Frugal Gift Giving For Any Time Of Year

College students have the advantage: You’ve been starving for lots and lots of semesters and know how to work the gently-used and regifted items into glorious gifts, all wrapped up in shiny paper (or the Sunday comics, to be more realistic)[ READ MORE ]

Equality In the Public School System (Or the Lack Thereof)

Two great reads from the Oxford University Press (if you’re an education nerd like me): Five Miles Away, A World Apart[link and italics] by James E. Ryan, and In Brown’s Wake[link, italics] by Martha Minow. [ READ MORE ]

Intense and Intents and Intensive Purposes (Re-Post)

Author’s Note: I’ve re-posted this article for your reading pleasure as I am on vacation. Kids who grow up with no television in their homes either (a) make friends quick with a kid whose family worships the ‘mote, or (b) they read a lot. My utter lack of pop culture references from the mid-seventies through [ READ MORE ]

14 Ways To Save Green While Increasing Greenness

Arjun Muralidharan, aka the Productive Student, has a list of 14 ways college students can strive for greenness on Earth. You’ll want to do them all to slow the destruction of the planet, but you’ll actually do them to save yourself some coinage[ READ MORE ]

Problem Solving 101

Being ill-equipped for the solving of the problems turns out to be somewhat of an issue in the real world[ READ MORE ]

Life After Grad School: Getting From A to B

Graduate school, should it have escaped everyone’s notice, prepares no one for reality. One learns insanely vast oceans of information, but this just means that the M-Something or the PhD in question just knows a lot of stuff[ READ MORE ]

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

It’s shocking. I’m overwhelmed with dumbfounded bafflement. How can this be? They went and published an anthology of science writing, and all but three of the authors are of the male persuasion. Is that even possible? Hold on! I’m thinking. I think yes, there’s a staggeringly high chance that this could have occurred. There’s many [ READ MORE ]

Flat World Knowledge Teams Up With Bookshare

Flat World Knowledge was doing good things in the textbook world back in September of 2008, and now they’re teaming up with Bookshare to provide alternative textbook options to students requiring non-traditional textbook modalities. [ READ MORE ]

Intense and Intents and Intensive Purposes

Until I was in college and saw this phrase written on the board as a common mistake college sophomores made when writing papers for the professor, I had always thought “For all intents and purposes” was “For all intensive purposes.” [ READ MORE ]

“Ask Your Teachers for a Rebate”

Ian Ayres is a gentleman and a scholar (and a lawyer and an economist). He’s a professor at Yale, and since 2005 has been handing out cash to his students whenever he assigns one of his own books as a required text. That way, he hopes, people will understand that he wants to use his [ READ MORE ]