My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture by Susan D. Blum
“Classroom Cheats Turn to Computers.” “Student Essays on Internet Offer Challenge to Teachers.” “Faking the Grade.” Headlines such as these have been blaring the alarming news of an epidemic of plagiarism and cheating in American colleges: more than 75 percent of students admit to having [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Books Of The Week’
September 29, 2009
Books of the Week – 9/28/2009
August 24, 2009
Books of the Week – 8/24/09
A people’s history of sports in the United States : 250 years of politics, protest, people, and play
From thenewpress.com–
In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog “The Edge of Sports” is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting [...]
April 8, 2009
Books of the Week – 4/6/09
“The Yankee Years” by Joe Torre and Tom VerducciAmazon.com Product Description:
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Twelve straight playoff appearances. Six American League pennants. Four World Series titles. This is the definitive story of a dynasty: the Yankee years
When Joe Torre took over as manager of the New York Yankees in 1996, the most storied franchise in sports [...]
March 9, 2009
Books of the Week – 3/9/09
“Teenage: the prehistory of youth culture 1875-1945″ by Jon Savage
Reviews: “The definitive history of youth in revolt, from the gaslight age to the dawn of rock.”
-David Fricke, Rolling Stone
“Compulsive reading . . . Teenage is a rich, rewarding book that makes an important contribution to cultural history.” -Camille Paglia, The New York Times Book [...]
February 17, 2009
Books of the Week – 2/16/09
“Boxing: a cultural history” by Kasia Boddy
“Boddy intelligently takes up-via art, literature, film, and the media-the many issues that have historically veined the sport: ”nationality, class, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, and different versions of masculinity,” plus dialectics like ”brawn versus brains, boastfulness versus modesty, youth versus experience.” Her reach is considerable, but so is [...]
