New Directions in Special Education: Eliminating Ableism in Policy and Practice. (2005). Book by Thomas Hehir. Harvard Education Press, 2005, ISBN-13 ...

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BkRev#. Where there’s a Will…Motivation and Volition in College Teaching and Learning. (2017). Michael Theall, John M. Keller (eds.) San ...

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BkRev #1809. Ever the Leader: Selected Writings by William G. Bowen. (2017). Bowen, William G. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 360 pages. Price...

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#1813. New Directions for Student Services: Bridging Research and Practice to Support Asian American Students (Winter 2017). Dina C. Maramba & Cor...

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BkRev# 1811. Improving Teaching, Learning, Equity, and Success in Gateway Courses. (2017). Andrew Koch (Ed). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. 109 pp. $...

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Book Review by Holly A. Moore College of Community and Public Service Undergraduate Advising Center Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids,...

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BkRev#1808: Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education. (2015). Ken Robinson. New York: Viking Penguin. $ 27.95. ...

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Dancing in the Rain: Leading with Compassion, Vitality, and Mindfulness in Education. (2016). Book by Jerome T. Murphy. Review by Susan Taffe Reed. Ca...

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Best Practices In Engaging Online Learners Through Active And Experiential Learning Strategies (2017). Stephanie Smith Budhai & Ke’Anna Brow...

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Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8:  A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism. (2017). Naoki Higashida. Translated by KA Yoshida and David Mi...

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BkRev #1787. Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League. (2015). Dan-el Padilla Peralta. Penguin Press, 3...

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#1806 New Directions for Higher Teaching and Learning: Big Picture Pedagogy: Finding Interdisciplinary Solutions to Common Learning Problems, Gurung, ...

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#1804 The College Guide for Parents, Shields, Charles J., ISBN: 0-87447-316-0   Reviewer: Dr. Margaret Mbindyo De...

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#1728. The Art of Explanation: Making Your Ideas, Products and Services Easier to Understand. (2013). Lefever, Lee. Hoboken: Wiley & Sons Inc. 226...

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BkRev #1785. Brain on Fire. (2012). Susannah Cahalan. New York: Simon & Shuster Paperbacks, 266 pp. $16.00 (Paperback). ISBN #978-1-4516-2138-9. h...

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BkRev #1782: The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School. (2016). Ed Boland. New York City: Grand Central Publ...

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BkRev #1781. Choosing Civility: The Twenty Five Rules of Considerate Conduct. (2002). P.M. Forni. New York City. St. Martin’s Griffin. ISBN: 978...

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#1777 New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Hybrid Teaching and Learning, Linder, Kathryn E, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-1193-7643-9. &nbs...

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BkRev #1789. Choosing a Career in International Development. (2013). Donovan Russell. College Station, TX: Virturalbookworm.com Publishing Inc., 231 p...

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#1807 New Directions for Student Services: Using Data-Informed Decision Making to Improve Student Affairs Practice, Goodman, Kathleen M., Cole, Darnel...

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BkRev  #1784 The A Game: Nine Steps to Better Grades.(2011). Sufka, Kenneth J. Taylor, MS: Nautilus Publishing Company. ISBN: 978-1-936946-02-0, ...

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BkRev #1790. Humanity, Diversity, and the Liberal Arts:  The Foundation of a College Education. 2010. Cuseo, Joseph B., & Thompson, Aaron. Du...

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BkRev # 1647. Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self. (2014). Alex Tizon. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 247 pp. Price $27.00. ISBN: 978-0...

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#1800. Med School Uncensored: The Insider’s Guide to Surviving Admissions, Exams, Residency, and Sleepless Nights in the Call Room. (2017). Rich...

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Reviewed by: Melissa Sweda Mike Ilitch School of Business Wayne State University melissasweda@wayne.edu In Toward a Scholarship of Practic...

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Book Rev #1771. Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges. (2015). Amy Cuddy. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 344 pp. P...

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BkRev #1803. Disability in Higher Education: A Social Justice Approach. (2017). Nancy J. Evans, Ellen M. Broido, Kirsten R. Brown, & Autumn K. Wil...

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BKRev # 1805. New Directions in Higher Education: Learning Analytics in Higher Education. Zilvanskis, John & Borden, Victor. San Francisco: Jossey...

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#1801 New Directions for Higher Education: How Ideal Worker Norms Shape Work-Life for Different Constituent Groups in Higher Education, Wolf-Wend...

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#1802 Art Therapy with Students At Risk: Fostering Resilience and Growth Through Self-Expression (2017). Stella A. Stephany. Springfield, Illinois: Ch...

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BkRev # 1791. Daring the Doctorate. (2012). Ada Demb. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 167 pp., ISBN 978-1-61-48-694. Janis Albright ...

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Book Review #1775 New Directions for Higher Education: Intellectual Property, Faculty Rights, and the Public Good. Book by: Samantha Berstein-Si...

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BkRev #1753. The Next Next Level: A Story of Rap, Friendship, and Almost Giving Up. (2015). Neyfakh, Leon. Brooklyn: Melville House Publishing, 170 pp...

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Book Review #1776. New Directions for Higher Education: Enacting Intersectionality in Student Affairs. (2017). Wijeyesinghe, Charmaine L. San Fra...

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#1797. New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Using the Decoding the Disciplines Framework for Learning Across the Disciplines. (2017). Janice Mill...

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Best Practices In Engaging Online Learners Through Active And Experiential Learning Strategies, Review by Rusty Dolleman, University of Southern ...

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Landin, J. M. (2016) Dr. Landin’s 89 essential tips for new college students (2nd ed.). Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platf...

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BkRev#1737. You Will Not Have My Hate. (2016). Antoine Leiris. New York: Penguin Press. $23.00. ISBN: 978-0-735-22211-3.   Wendy Anderson ...

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#1794 Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps: Crafting a Winning Personal Statement 3rd Edition (2017) Gelb, Alan. New York: Ten Speed Pr...

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BkRev #1767. The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically. (2015). Peter Singer. New Haven: Yale Universi...

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Bk Rev# 1749. The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today. (2015). Bryan Doerries. New York: Vintage Books. 284 pp. ...

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BkRev 1750. Exit West: A Novel. (2017). Mohsin Hamid. New York: Riverhead Books, 240 pp. $26.00. ISBN: 978-0735212176.   Nicole Raymond ...

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BkRev # 1769. Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts. (2015). Carol Tavris and Elliot Aro...

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#1786 The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students Through Digital Learning. (2016). James Paul Gee. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 240 pp. $17.00 ...

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#1771. To Be A Machine, Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death. (2016). Mark O’Connel...

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Advancing social justice: Tools, pedagogies, and strategies to transform your campus. (2013). Tracy Davis and Laura M. Harrison. San Francisco: Jossey...

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#1742 Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and Vision for Change, Lewis, John, ISBN: 978-1-4013-2411-7, $24.00 Eella Kemper Office of Student Succes...

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Reinventing Higher Education: The Promise of Innovation. (2012) Ben Wildavsky, Andrew P. Kelly, & Kevin Carey (Eds.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educa...

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BkRev #1772 The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism. (2016) Arun Sundararajan. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Pre...

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Melissa Gonzales University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Hillbilly Elegy A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Hillbilly Elegy is the journey o...

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Bk Review #1752 The image: A guide to pseudo-events in America. (2012). Boorstin, D. J. Vintage. pp. 261 $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-74180-0  ...

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#1793 Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box, The Arbinger Institute, ISBN: 978-157675-977-6, $16.95  Janessa Boley, Chemical a...

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Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and Vision for Change, Review by Eella Yokum Kemper, Indiana University - Kokomo Advancing Social Justice: Tools, P...

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BkRv #1765, The Freshman Survival Guide: Soulful Advice for Studying, Socializing, and Everything In Between, Bradbury-Haehl, Nora & McGarvey, Bil...

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BkRev #1754. Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of the American Family. (2015). Amy Ellis Nutt. New York City: Random House, 296 pp. Price $22.00. IS...

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#1758. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. (2015). Ronson, Jon, New York: Penguin Random House, 318 pp. $21.00. ISBN: 978-1-59463-401-7 Jarrod En...

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Book Review of The Heart of Coaching by Thomas G. Crane Timney Petersen, Florida International University  “We’re all in this t...

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BkRev 1792. The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on our Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health. (2010). Annie Leonard. New York, NY: Fre...

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BkRev #1759. I Don’t Belong to You: Quiet the Noise and Find Your Voice. (2017). Keke Palmer. New York, NY: North Star Way. 320 pp. $24.99 IS...

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#1755. Mudbound. (2008). Hillary Jordan. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 324pp. $14.95 ISBN: 9-781565-126770 Mary Zinser Assistant ...

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BKRev #1727. The Association of Small Bombs. (2016). Karan Mahajan. New York: Penguin Books, 276 pp. Price $16.00.  ISBN 9780143109273, http://ww...

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#1745 Beauty Sick, How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women, 2017 Renee Engeln, Ph.D., Harper’s Collins Publishers, N...

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BKRev1761. Nujeen. (2016). Nujeen Mustafa with Christina Lamb. New York: Harper Wave, 289 pp. Price $26.99. ISBN 978-0-06-256773-4. Review by Amand...

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Choose Your Own Adulthood: A Small Book about the Small Choices that Make the Biggest Difference Book By: Hal Runkel Review By: Dan Geddes Un...

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Vance, J.D. (2016). Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. New York, NY: HarperCollins. 272 pp. $20.99 (hardcover). ISBN: 978006...

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Book Review #1771 My Underground American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive (2016). By Julissa Arc...

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BkRv #1780, Dean’s  List: 10 Strategies for College Success, Bader, John, ISBN: 978-1-4214-2237-4, 2017 Anita Carter University Advis...

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Vance, J.D. (2016). Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. New York, NY: HarperCollins. 272 pp. $20.99 (hardcover). ISBN: 978006...

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1758. The Laws of Simplicity.  (2006). John Maeda. MIT Press. 117 pp., $23.95, (Hardback), ISBN 978-0-262-13472-9. Laura R. Pittman Assista...

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#1799. New Directions for Student Services: College Student Mental Health. (2017) Levine, Heidi & Stock, Susan R. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 110 ...

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BkRev #1758. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, Boyle, Gregory, ISBN: 978-1-4391-5315-4, $16.00, Simon and Schuster. Book by:...

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BkRev #1741. Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Collaborative Structures. Jeffery L. Bernstein and Brooke A. Flinders (Eds). $29.00. 978-1-1193-2...

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BkRev # 1768. Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. (2011). Rachel Simmons, Mariner, 432 pp., $14.95, (Paperback), ISBN #978-0-547-...

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Book Review, The Naked Roommate by Harlan Cohen Book Review by Lael Adediji, Ed.D. The Naked Roommate:  And 107 Other Issues You Might Run ...

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BkRev #1757. The Distance Between Us: A Memoir, Grande, Reyna. ISBN 978-1-4516-6178-1, $16.00. Simon and Schuster. Book by: Reyna Grande Review ...

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BkRev #1738. Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. (2015). Sherry Turkle. New York: Penguin Books, 436 pp. $17.00. ISBN: 978-0-...

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#1766. The Serengeti Rules, The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why it Matters. (2016). Sean B. Carroll. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, ...

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Review by: Ashley Wegener University of Nebraska - Lincoln, College of Business Administration awegener2@unl.edu According to a 2013 report b...

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Review by: Lexi Schaar University of Idaho College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences aschaar@uidaho.edu The Red Bandana is a story about ...

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Review by: Danielle Mitchell-Damron Emory University danielle.mitchell@nyu.edu Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid tells the story of a y...

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Review by: Lauren Humphrey Online Student Advising and Support University of Bridgeport LHumphrey@bridgeport.edu In the nonfiction novel, ...

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Review by: Kate Bernas Wayne State University ab9599@wayne.edu The academic advisor with an appreciation for literature, an interest in Ameri...

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Review by: Regan Baker Missouri State University baker57@live.missouri.state.edu If asked, most staff and faculty at institutions of higher e...

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Review by: Kristin Lang University of Iowa Kristin-Lang@uiowa.edu Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir, Boy Erased, centers on his experiences ...

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Review by: Amanda Golden University of Texas at Austin Amanda.Golden@austin.utexas.edu Many colleges and universities have implemented common...

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