The Passionate Mind of Maxine Greene: 'I am ... not yet'

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Maxine Greene is arguably the most important philosopher of education in the US today, but until now she has not been the subject of sustained scholarly analysis and investigation. This study of Green's contribution is organized from several points of view: studies of her four books; studies of the intellectual and aesthetic influences upon her theory; and her influence on the various specialization within the broad field of education-the teaching of English, arts education, philosophy of education, curriculum studies, religious education, cognitive theory, and theory of teaching.

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Nothing special.......2005-12-21

I'm usually not a big fan of postmodern scholarship, and this book is no exception. It was a decent book for my class, in that it introduced students to the implications of various kinds of bodily deviance (deafness, race, sex, body type, etc.) as well as various (arguably) non-anatomical categories that were reified as anatomical difference (Jewishness, various mental illnesses, etc.). Most of the articles are not all that great, however.

Proctor's essay on the Holocaust is excellent, and is probably the high-point of the book. But you can get that elsewhere. The more postmodern essays are interesting but their conclusions shouldn't be taken very seriously, since they are just asserted; sometimes, their conclusions are directly contradicted by the evidence cited in the text! A lot of this book is ideological rather than investigatory, and when Fausto-Sterling asserts a link between anatomy and capitalism or tells me (despite evidence to the contrary) that specific anatomists did their work to support a global colonialist project, I shook my head in disgust and ripped into the essay the next day in class.

There's better stuff out there.

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Two-Over-One Game Force: An Introduction
Bruno-Hardy
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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ASIN: 0939460017

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Great if one can get it.......2007-01-11

Still want this book, but you can't seem to get it for me.

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Two-Over-One Game Force: An Introduction
Steve Bruno
Manufacturer: Baron Barclay Bridge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0939460408

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The first 2-over-1 book ever written for less experienced players. Your easy-to-understand guide, plus tools and gadgets.

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The Gold Edition has been updated to include CISSP bonus questions never before published and advanced question and answer tutorial.
The CD-ROM contains 660 questions of which 360 have never before been available electronically.
All questions have been designed with Boson, the premier interactive test engine for technical books in the industry.
Authors are experts in the security certification field and have particular expertise in the CISSP Exam.

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Sufficient..........2007-05-17

This sole book was sufficient for me to study and pass the CISSP test. It is easy to read and understand. It should be noted, however, that sample and bonus questions are well below the difficulty level of the real test, and the advanced questions seem to be a lot harder. But overall they do give a pretty decent coverage of all ten CISSP domains.

The CISSP Prep Guide: Gold Edition.......2007-01-10

I first purchased and studied using the excellent book by Shon Harris. It was suggested I also use the 'The CISSP Prep Guide: Gold Edition' to augment my studies. I found this to be excellent advice.

'The CISSP Prep Guide: Gold Edition' explained concepts a little different than Shon's book did. The sample test in the Prep were worded, I feel, closer to the exam. This book covered some concepts in more detail than Ms. Harris. However, I can also say Shon's book covered other concepts in more detail.

I feel both books are necessary to study and pass CISSP.

I passed the exam first try.

Still enough to pass the CISSP.......2006-02-10

I sat for and passed the CISSP test in January 2006. I used the following resources to help in passing the CISSP:

Shon Harris - All-in-One - 3rd Edition - 30%
Official ISC Guide to the CISSP Exam - 15%
Kurtz - CISSP Prep Guide - Gold Edition - 10%
CISSP for Dummies - 5%
Cccure.org - 25%
Other resources - 15%

"The CISSP Prep Guide" by Krutz and Vines was a great tool at helping me pass the CISSP. While the book itself is somewhat dated (and eclipsed by a newer edition), I feel this book still covers over 85% of the topics on the CISSP. I believe of all the books I used to prepare, this book was the best organized. The reading had an easy flow yet was still presented at a decent technical level (not too easy and not too deep).

My weakest CBK is, by far, crypto (even though I've built a 1,000 IPSec tunnels!). This book did the best at making me understand the different components of PKI and the different encryption methods. You may need to supplant the documentation presented for Security Architecture. Overall, I feel the questions were a waste of space (with many errors), and I did not use them to help prepare for the exam.

Overall, if one has a decent comfort level with the 10 domains, this book may be all that is necessary. The book is still relevant and useful.

I give this book 4 pings out of 5:
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Excellent CISSP Book and CDROM - Highly Recommended........2005-11-18

Dear All, I recently completed my CISSP review studies, passed the exam, and completed the CISSP endorsement process. This is a very worth while endeavor and, as someone with many years of Internet security and risk management experience, I highly recommend the CISSP certification process for everyone. Reviewing the 10 common bodies of knowledge (CBK) has value for everyone in the IT business and I am very pleased to have taken the time to review the material and complete the exam. For my self-study review, I purchased four books via Amazon: (1) The CISSP Pre Guide - Gold Edition by Ronald L. Krutz and Russell Dean Vines, (2) All-In-One CISSP Exam Guide, Third Edition by Shon Harris, (3) Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP Exam by Susan Hansche, John Berti and Chris Hare, and (4) CISSP Certified Information Security Professional Training Guide by Roberta Bragg. Each of these texts came with a CDROM for practicing test questions on a Windows PC and covered the 10 CISSP CBKs. I found the first three CISSP books in my list to be helpful. Of those three, the most helpful was The CISSP Prep Guide - Gold Edition by Krutz and Vines. This book is concise, well written, and easy to read. The CDROM is excellent and nearly error free. The text is well thought out and informative. I also recommend Shon Harris' book, with reservation. I found it hard to get to the required CISSP information, at times, due to the attempts at humor in the book. The CDROM of sample test questions were also very good, albeit not as rich in features as the book by Krutz and Vines. The Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP Exam by Susan Hansche, John Berti and Chris Hare was a disappointment. This book read just like a cut-and-paste from the Internet and other documents; and the companion CDROM was full of errors and omissions. After a while I stopped using this text book and focused on the first two. I am sorry to say that CISSP Certified Information Security Professional Training Guide by Roberta Bragg was a complete disappointment from every perspective. The CDROM example tests were riddled with errors and omissions. For those interested in my self-study technique, I took each book and studied one (sometimes two) of each of the CBK chapters each day. Then, I repeated the same process for each of the other books, except for the book by Bragg, which was dropped for reasons mentioned. I took all the sample tests repeatedly, before and after and then again. I must have practiced between 4000-5000 sample questions. It was challenging and enjoyable. In summary, I highly recommend Krutz and Vines and also recommend, with reservation, the book by Shon Harris. No single book can cover the entire CBK of the CISSP. The more you study, the better. Best of luck on your CISSP studies. The CISSP is certainly an experience that will improve your knowledge of the field of IT security and benefit the profession at-large.

Goes into details.......2005-03-19

This is a great book. Unlike many other CISSP books, the book goes into details of each topic. For example, chapter 2 of the books provide great details on the Kerberos Protocol, and describes it better that any other CISSP book. The description was so good that it reminded of university days, when we had to learn various algorithm/protocols inside-out. I would recommend this book to anyone. http://validate.sf.net

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The Cissp Prep Guide: Gold Edition
Ronald L. , Vines, Russell Dean Krutz
Manufacturer: Wiley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KHB0JS

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History is full of myths, legends, fables, folklore, misinformation, and misconceptions. This book presents some of the most popular and most enduring of these myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond.

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I thought it was great me being a military person and all!.......2000-06-09

The book was great and I think that anyone interested in military history should read it. It covers a lot of the great leaders of our country and it shows why we are independent today. We would never be free if it wasn't for the brave men who risked their own lives to lead their men into battle. Our country pays great gratitude to these men and this book shows why each and every one of them deserved the honor they recieved. I salute all the great leaders of this country. And all the veterans who fought there way to victory.

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In this book readers will discover a wide range of men and women who have had dramatic effects upon the history of the world. This book includes various kinds of leaders, including: military (Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan); monarchs (Elizabeth I and Louis XVI); dictators (Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev); religious (Pope John XXIII and Siddhartha Gautama); U.S. Presidents (George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt); and much more! The world leaders are presented chronologically, providing the readers with a valuable perspective of world history. Each one-page biography is clearly written in a manner that makes it fun to read and easy to understand. As with the other titles in Bluewood`s popular 100 Series, 100 World Leaders Who Shaped World History is jam-packed with interesting facts and information. Also included are illustrations and photos, a timeline, locator maps, a trivia quiz, and a complete index.

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Fascinating to read.......2001-12-10

Kathleen Paparchontis' 100 World Leaders Who Shaped World History is an informative collection of 100 one-page biographies of the men and women who stand out as the most powerful and influential leaders in the recorded history of the world from antiquity to the present day. Great statesmen and tyrannical dictators are listed side by side, from Hammurabi and Winston Churchill to Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler himself. Each biographical entry is accompanied by a photograph if possible, or else an artist's image of the historical leader. A final page sports a 16-question trivia quiz with two suggested projects, and an index facilitates quick and easy reference. 100 World Leaders is fascinating to read by itself, as well as a superbly presented survey of the personalities, good, ill, and human, who etched the lessons of history itself into collective human memory.

100 Spiritual Leaders Who Shaped World History

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Especially recommended to students of religion/spirituality

100 Spiritual Leaders Who Shaped World History
Samuel Willard Crompton , and Samuel Crompton
Manufacturer: Bluewood Books
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Each of the 100 men and women profiled in this book have discovered for themselves and inspired others to find ways to reach God and find inner peace. Readers will be fascinated about the many different religions and beliefs from around the world and throughout history.

Chronologically presented, this book begins with Abraham (c. 19th century BC)and ends with Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama (b. 1935). Both men, although centuries apart, discovered a faith that could not be struck down. Abraham, according to the Old Testament, had his faith challenged when God ordered him to kill his son Isaac. Today, the Dalai Lama lives in exile from his Tibetan homeland, pushed out by the Chinese Communists in an attempt to eradicate religion.

As with the other titles in Bluewood`s popular 100 Series, each entry in 100 Spiritual Leaders Who Shaped World History includes an illustration, photograph, or map, accompanied by concise and clearly written text - teeming with facts and nuggets of information. The book also featues a timeline, trivia quiz and a complete index.

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Especially recommended to students of religion/spirituality.......2001-07-04

In 100 Spiritual Leaders Who Shaped History, Samuel Crompton provides an informative biographical survey of one hundred men and women who led extraordinary spiritual lives and significantly contributed to our understanding of religious beliefs. From the Biblical Abraham and the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten, down to Desmond Tutu and Tenzin Gyatso (The Fourteenth Dalai Lama of the present day), these spiritual leaders are presented in chronological order, complete with fascinating personal and historical facts, more than one hundred illustrates, locator maps, a glossary, timeline, and index. From the founder of Hasidism (a mystical strain of Judaism) to the Four Noble Truths of the Buddha, 100 Spiritual Leaders Who Shaped History is a succinct, inspiring, "reader friendly" compendium and especially recommended to students of religion and spirituality.

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This Side of Doctoring: Reflections for Women in Medicine offers up an intimate collection of stories, poems, essays, and quotations that captures the joy and heartbreak of being women and being a physician. Editor Eliza Lo Chin (MD, Harvard Medical School) has gathered more than 100 voices that speak to the trials, rewards, and surprises of practicing medicine. Beginning with the writings of early medical pioneers, the anthology weaves a rich patchwork of experiences.

Raw and honest, This Side of Doctoring acquaints us with worlds we could otherwise only imagine. Throughout these pages youâ€™ll find the expressions of courage, doubt, fatigue, perseverance, frustration, and triumph that make up the lives of women physicians. These are the stories of choosing a life in medicine and the many roadmaps that women follow in living that life.

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Wonderful anthology that tells "our" side of the story.......2002-08-28

Of course, in a book with this many contributors, the writing is a bit uneven. but the overall effect is wonderful. Actually, it is somewhat surprising that there is relatively little non-fiction about men physicians. About women, there is practically nothing. This volume tries to cover everything, from the first "lady" doctors to graduate from medical school to the multiple paths medical study takes now that about 50% of medical school classes are women. The pulls between family and practice are well described. Some women choose not to have children of their own. I was especially struck by the story of an orthopedic surgeon who sacrificed 20 years of her life to be one of the boys and then hit the glass ceiling with a crash. Fortunately, she found a good position at another academic center. How many do not? I loved the editor's poem, which both in form and in words illustrated the family/physician duality. There are too many to cite in a review. I recently talked to my daughter about how much I disliked the use of "female" doctor instead of woman doctor. She said, "Why don't you just call them "doctor?" I'm afraid we're not there yet. Women tend to crowd into psychiatry, pediatrics, and now internal medicine and even ob/gyn. This volume illustrates in many ways what we can hope is to be a total success story.

Excellent 150 year history of women in medicine........2002-03-23

This Side Of Doctoring: Reflections From Women In Medicine showcases a superbly presented and collection of stories, poems, and essays capturing what it means to be a female physician. Ranging from pioneering lady doctors to today's increasing numbers of women medical students, This Side Of Doctoring explores and reveals the struggles and triumphs of women in the past 150 years of western medicine. Included are intimate sketches of the contributors personal lives and experiences that seldom (if ever) appear in traditional, male oriented medical writings and histories. This Side Of Doctoring is strongly recommended for personal, professional, and academic reading lists and reference collections, especially in the areas and disciplines of Medical History and Women's Studies.

A wonderful resource and support for women physicians........2002-02-08

Having recently graduated residency with two young children, I couldn't stop reading this book. I want to plaster these essays on the cover of the Wall Street Journal: this is why medical training has to change! I am buying this book for all of my friends.

Essential resource for all women in medicine.......2002-01-22

This book is not only informative and enlightening but enjoyable and inspiring. There is something in this book for everyone, whether you are a medical student, premed, physician or retired physician. Historians, feminists and the medical community will also find this book invaluable. 'This Side of Doctoring' is like a time-capsule of women in medicine, from the days of pioneer Elizabeth Blackwell to female medical students today (who are also still pioneering change in medicine). Lo Chin has compiled the who, what, why, when and how of women doctors. The stories, essays, and especially poems, capture the spirit of women physicians past and present. With more than 100 women's stories, it accurately portrays the sacrifices and rewards of this challenging career. I especially enjoyed the chapters on mothering, the early pioneers and barriers to women in medicine. Because it is an anthology, you can digest at your own convenience, read one piece or a chapter, good for busy women like me! It is a book to which I will constantly refer.

This book touches deep longing for sisterhood........2002-01-13

As a recent med school graduate, I found this book to be enlightening on many fronts. I have wrestled with similar issues and have had to make my own hard choices about my career and life, while living with the guilt and self-doubt of my decisions. This book touched a nerve with me because it presents the many issues women in the field of medicine have to deal with daily, and for the rest of their lives from the perspective of women who have tread this path and understand the complex conflicts and possibilities of being a woman and being in medicine. I especially enjoyed the section on the early pioneers of woman in medicine, as well as sections written by doctors who faced much harder decisions in their time, and helped make the options available to today's modern med school graduate possible. My favorite part though, is the way the editor culled not just stories and histories from her contributors, but POEMS which evoke the emotional struggle of women in medicine, that many have had to repress and not face in their daily hectic time short juggling routine. I found myself forced to stop running on the treadmill of life and really reflect. Thank you for helping me to really reflect on my own life in medicine and for helping me honor and respect those who have made the joys of medicine and womanhood possible for everyone.

This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine

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This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine
Eliza Lo Chin
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKBMTY

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Morgan Bulkeley first saw the Berkshires on a golden fall day in 1928. A school outing brought him to Bear Mountain, where he ate a sandwich ashis eyes feasted on the natural beauty spread before him. He was fourteen and suddenly found himself in love with a place.

In more than 100 pithy, beautiful, and frequently witty pieces, Bulkeley records the incredibly complex riches of his beloved Berkshire County. Organized into four sections (history, nature, people, and conservation), Berkshire Stories offers a profound portrait of an evolving community and landscape. Reading these stories, we come to understand what it means to truly inhabit a place. We not only get to know its history and people, its ecology, plants, birds, and animals, but also its geological past and its potentially human future.

Anyone who has ever been touched by the rich beauty of the Berkshires—whether for the first time or as a lifelong resident—will love this book.

Berkshire Stories is illustrated throughout with drawings by the well-known artist Morgan Bulkeley, Jr., the author's son.

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You don't have to live in the Berkshires ..........2004-09-09

You don't have to live in western Massachusetts to enjoy this excellent collection by a veteran jounalist (though it will bring smiles of recognition to the natives). Bulkeley's insightful observations evoke a real sense of the area's nature, history, and colorful characters, while at the same time he gives it universal significance. This is compassionate and truly human writing at its best!

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