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Books: Text Books: Design
Principles of Anatomy and Physiologyby Gerard J. Tortora and Bryan H. Derrickson Available from Amazon $154.95 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description The eleventh edition of Principles of Anatomy and Physiology marks a new milestone in the publication of the phenomenally successful Principles of Anatomy and Physiology. Bryan Derrickson of Valencia Community College in Orlando, Florida joins Jerry Tortora as a co-author, bringing his background and expertise in physiology in balance with Jerry's focus on anatomy. The authors have maintained in the text the superb balance between structure and function and continue to emphasize the correlations between normal physiology and pathophysiology, normal anatomy and pathology, and homeostasis and homeostatic imbalances. The acclaimed illustration program is now even better thanks to the input of hundreds of professors and students and the re-development of many of the figures depicting the toughest topics for students to grasp. The eleventh edition now fully integrates this exceptional text with a host of innovative electronic media, setting the standard once again for a rewarding and successful classroom experience for both students and instructors. About The Author Gerard J. Tortora is Professor of Biology and former Coordinator at Bergen Community College in Paramus, NJ, where he teaches human anatomy and physiology as well as microbiology. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University and his master's degree in science education from Montclair State College. He is a member of many professional organizations, such as the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS), the American Society of Microbiology (ASM), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), National Education Association (NEA), and the Metropolitan Association of College and University Biologists (MACUB). Above all, Jerry is devoted to his students and their aspirations. In recognition of this commitment, Jerry was the recipient of MACUB's 1992 President's Memorial Award. In 1996, he received a National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) excellence award from the University of Texas and was selected to represent Bergen Community College in a campaign to increase awareness of the contributions of community colleges to higher education. Jerry is also the author of several best-selling science textbooks and laboratory manuals, a calling that often requires an additional 40 hours per week beyond his teaching responsibilities. Bryan Derrickson is Professor of Biology at Valencia Community College in Orlando, Florida, where he teaches human anatomy and physiology as well as general biology and human sexuality. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from Morehouse College and his Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Duke University. Bryan's study at Duke was in the Physiology Division within the Department of Cell Biology, so while his degree is in Cell Biology his training focused on physiology. At Valencia, he frequently serves on faculty hiring committees. He has served as a member of the Faculty Senate, which is the governing body of the college, and as a member of the Faculty Academy Committee (now called the Teaching and Learning Academy), which sets the standards for the acquisition of tenure by faculty members. Nationally, he is a member of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) and the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT). Bryan has always wanted to teach. Inspired by several biology professors while in college, he decided to pursue physiology with an eye to teaching at the college level. He is completely dedicated to the success of his students. He particularly enjoys the challenges of his diverse student population, in terms of their age, ethnicity, and academic ability, and finds being able to reach all of them, despite their differences, a rewarding experience. His students continually recognize Bryan's efforts and care by nominating him for a campus award known as the "Valencia Professor Who Makes Valencia A Better Place To Start." Bryan has received this award three times in the past 5 years.
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Sheetrock and Shellac: A Thinking Person's Guide to the Art and Science of Home Improvementby David Owen List Price: $24.95 Available from Amazon $15.72 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page From Publishers Weekly Owen, a New Yorker staff writer, takes the middle road here, offering neither a brass-tacks guide to renovation nor an acute introspective account of the endless remodeling of his home. Instead, he ping-pongs between describing the incomplete minutiae of many projects in his rambling 200-year-old Connecticut house, walking staccato-step through the building of a cabin some 10 miles away and diving into the history of such things as kitchen surfaces, window glazes and shellac. He presumes readers have followed his various projects as he's written about them over the years. Those who haven't can indeed still follow, though they might feel they are eavesdropping on someone else's conversation. Owen writes that home improvement is "an ongoing relationship between a dwelling and its dwellers, and when it's done right it doesn't end." When he finishes something he sees only what he did wrong, so prefers to "leave a few ends dangling," which provides only limited insight into the nature of human domesticity or creativity. Owen will not connect with the many home renovators who, no matter how pleasurable the process nor satisfying the outcome, want to finish something they started. (June) Copyright © Reed business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist Prolific author and New Yorker staff writer Owen approaches the age-old "how do I do it myself" question uniquely. Instead of step-by-step directions for, say, cutting down a tree or erecting wallboard, he first traces his beginnings as a DIYer--in his case, creating a second bedroom out of a 750-square-foot Manhattan apartment--which leads to his Connecticut home ownership, and the soon-to-be-fulfilled yen to build a ground-up cabin. So, this home-improvement odyssey (or, as one of his friends notes, "If I'd known I could afford to spend this much on a house, I'd have bought a nice one to begin with") tackles each room; the kitchen, for instance, includes detailed word sketches of the preparation process as well as riffs on the more than $15,000 Aga cookers and countertop alternatives. (Formica, by the way, is the most popular material.) Other meanderings are just as riveting: his musings on the beauties of wire screening lead him to the efficacies of "adhesive pest management" from the Tanglefoot Company and, eventually, to borate solutions that wipe out wood-boring beetles naturally. Charming and edifying, regardless of the reader's DIY proficiencies. Barbara Jacobs Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved |
Creating the Perfect Design Brief: How to Manage Design for Strategic Advantageby Peter L. Phillips List Price: $19.95 Available from Amazon $12.97 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description From Laundry List to Strategic business Tool Peter L. Phillips Reveals the Secrets Behind Successful Design Briefs The design brief has finally been de-mystified! Once considered a simple set of directions that was handed down to the designer by a disengaged manager, it has evolved into a multi-lateral, strategic business tool. The creation of these super briefs is the subject of a new book by author Peter L. Phillips entitled "Creating the Perfect Design Brief: How to Manage Design for Strategic Advantage." The first title to analyze the secrets of successful design briefs and their management, this book successfully and comprehensively outlines a document, a process, and a discipline that places strategic thinking and objectivity at the core of a relevant design project or program—using words, concepts, and criteria every business manager will understand and appreciate. Published by Allworth Press with the Design management Institute, Phillips’ book is a critical tool not only for designers and design managers, but for marketing, marketing communications, and engineering managers involved in a design project. Many organizations still view design merely as a decorative service function and overlook its vast potential as a core, strategic business resource. The design brief can help designers and managers change that perception by making each stakeholder part of the creation process. Creating the Perfect Design Brief covers all the essential elements of the brief: assembling the team; developing the design brief; project overview; category Review; target audience Review; company portfolio, business objectives; phases; scope, time line, and budget; and research data. Designers and design managers will learn how to: • Rethink design, and design management as a strategic process |
Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Readingby Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman Available from Amazon $27.00 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description Lively, practical, and irreverent, Subjects Matter points the way to activities and materials that energize content and engage students across all subject areas. About The Author HARVEY DANIELS has been a city and suburban classroom teacher, and now serves as professor of reading, language, secondary education and interdisciplinary studies at National-Louis University in Chicago. In language arts, Smokey is best known for his work on student book clubs, as recounted in literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups, and his new title, Minilessons for literature Circles. Daniels is also co-author of Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading, which shows how students can better understand and remember what they read in science, math, and social studies, as well as English classes. Bringing together recent comprehension research with practical classroom strategies, Subjects Matter shows how schools can grow lifelong readers across the curriculum. Smokey also co-wrote A Community of Writers, which describes a balanced writing program, blending strong teacher-directed lessons with genuinely student STEVEN ZEMELMAN is Director of Professional Development at leadership for Quality Education, a school-reform organization in Chicago, and also directs the Illinois Writing Project. Together, Daniels and Zemelman have written or coauthored five books and videos with Heinemann, including Subjects Matter (2004), Rethinking High School and its companion video (2001), and A Community of Writers (1988). |
Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High Schoolby Rebecca Rupp List Price: $14.00 Available from Amazon $10.78 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Book Description Finally, homeschoolers have a comprehensive guide to designing a homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremost homeschooling experts. , Rebecca Rupp presents a structured plan to ensure that your children will learn what they need to know when they need to know it, from preschool through high school. Based on the traditional pre-K through 12th-grade structure, Home Learning Year by Year features: The integral subjects to be covered within each grade Standards for knowledge that should be acquired by your child at each level Recommended books to use as texts for every subject Guidelines for the importance of each topic: which knowledge is essential and which is best for more expansive study based on your child's personal interests Suggestions for how to sensitively approach less academic subjects, such as sex education and physical fitness From the Inside Flap Finally, homeschoolers have a comprehensive guide to designing a homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremost homeschooling experts. , Rebecca Rupp presents a structured plan to ensure that your children will learn what they need to know when they need to know it, from preschool through high school. Based on the traditional pre-K through 12th-grade structure, Home Learning Year by Year features: The integral subjects to be covered within each grade |
House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Liveby Winifred Gallagher List Price: $24.95 Available from Amazon $15.72 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page From Publishers Weekly Tapping into the American consumer's burgeoning interest in home design, cultural critic Gallagher (Pride of Place) takes on the single-family home in her latest cultural inquiry. Chapters are themed by room, beginning with the entry and living room and moving through to the basement, garage and garden; each ends with anecdotes describing how Gallagher's own family has changed its home with her new-found knowledge. Equal parts architecture, history, sociology and psychology, Gallagher's book easily makes academic discussions relevant to the general reader. The text is liberally peppered with pop culture references, though at times these appear humorously off-mark, as when she cites MTV Cribs (a hip-hop version of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous) as a "popular children's show." Gallagher is not an unbiased observer — she makes a clear argument for her own preference for traditional notions of comfort and craft. Avant-garde architects and designers are often derided for their emphasis on novelty and art over homeyness and practicality. Because of this, Gallagher's text often feels like an etiquette book evoking a romantic nostalgia for propriety. She is at her most engaging when discussing notions of prestige and social hierarchy—issues particularly relevant in an age of proliferating McMansions and Martha Stewart–inspired interest in the hallmarks of good taste. (Feb. 7) Copyright © Reed business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist *Starred Review* Gallagher writes fresh and nuanced interpretations of the subtler aspects of life. In her latest work of creative synthesis and interpretation, she conducts a tour like no other of the American house, excavating its fascinating history and covert psychological influences. Humans are happiest in dwellings that allow us to both nest and perch, Gallagher explains, citing Frank Lloyd Wright. To assess whether a house succeeds in providing these qualities, she performs what she calls house thinking, analyzing the ambience of each room in houses old and new, urban and suburban. To set the gold standard, she describes various architectural marvels, including Edith Wharton's Mount (Gallagher has a particular interest in writer's abodes), whereas on the practical side, she recounts her own home-improvement efforts. As she assesses every aspect of every room, she offers compelling observations regarding women's lives past and present, changing family configurations, our mania for possessions, and the dominating role televisions and computers now play on the domestic scene. As Gallagher casts our houses and private lives in a revealing new light, she reinforces our perception of home as a place that merits our keenest attention. Donna Seaman Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved |
In Defense of Globalizationby Jagdish Bhagwati List Price: $30.00 Available from Amazon $18.90 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page From Publishers Weekly In this elegant book, one of the world's preeminent economists distills his thinking about globalization for the lay reader. Bhagwati, a former adviser to the U.N. on globalization, sets out to show that "this process has a human face, but we need to make that face more agreeable." Armed with a wit uncharacteristic of most writing on economics and drawing on references from history, philosophy and literature as well as some "state of the art econometric analysis," he sets out to prove that the antiglobalization movement has exaggerated claims that globalization has done little good for poor countries. For example, supported by statistics from the Asian Development Bank, he argues, astonishingly, that in china the "aggressively outward economic policies" that characterize globalization reduced poverty from 28% of the population in 1978 to 9% in 1998. Nevertheless, Bhagwati does not advocate total laissez-faire economics and recommends that continued globalization should be "managed," prescribing policies he believes will "reinforce and ensure" its benign effects, such as taxing skilled workers who leave poor countries for jobs abroad, using nongovernmental organizations as corporate watchdogs, slowing financial liberalization and loosening intellectual property safeguards. This book might be seen as a companion piece to 2002's bestselling Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz, Bhagwati's colleague at Columbia University; it should reach as broad an audience, if not broader. Don't be deceived by its relative brevity: this is a substantial study that is as about as enjoyable—and reassuring—a work of economics as may be possible to write in this uncertain age. Copyright © Reed business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. -Daniel W. Drezner, New York Times Book Review "Bhagwati's charming cosmopolitanism will allay fears of critics convinced that economists are incapable of appreciating non-economic values." |
Interaction Designby Jenny Preece, Yvonne Rogers, and Helen Sharp Available from Amazon $69.95 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Product Review "A near definitive guide which covers not only HCI but also the issues which effect and are affected by human computer interaction." (M2 Communications, 7 June 2002) "an excellent foundation for teaching interaction design, and a good text for self-study in the skills involved. I cannot recommend it too highly" (AISB Quarterly, Summer 2002) “…consists of a wide range of issues that go beyond the traditional scope of human-computer interaction…useful to students…research and development people will find stimulating ideas on the potential of the web and of wireless and collaborative technologies…” (Computer Bulletin, September 2002) “…useful and usable by multidisciplinary teams…” (Human / Computer Interaction Bibliography, September 2002) “…the practicing professional will get a lot from this…supported by an innovative web site…” (Atlantic Systems Guild, September 2002) "…a must-read…unique, inspiriring…" (SIGHCI Newsletter)
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