American reference books annual 2008 ed.; v.39.
9781591586913 American reference books annual 2008 ed.; v.39. Ed. by Shannon Graff Hysell. Libraries Unlimited 2008 697 pages $135.00 Hardcover Z1035 The 2008 edition of this venerable reference includes authoritative reviews...

Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy.
Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy. By MARJORIE PERLOFF. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2004. xxxv+307 pp. 29.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8173-5128-0. Differentials brings together some dozen or so of Marjorie Perloff's recent addresses, lectures, or articles. The essays here reproduced (sometimes in modified form) all date from the...

Looter of the Dreamings: Xavier Herbert and the taking of Kaijek's Newsong Story.
Apart from the classics, corroboree crowds liked nothing better than a good skit in song on the ways of the white man. (Xavier Herbert, 1963:235-6) Newsong verses are enjoyed ... because of their rhythmic vitality and because of their longer duration (generally one minute or...

Deceiving the participant: are we creating the reputational spillover effect?
Deception has been a useful tool in the study of human behavior, and for that reason has been employed frequently in psychological research. However, a number of authors have suggested that the long term use of deception in psychological research might be creating a negative attitude toward the discipline...

Academic achievement and quality of overseas study among Taiwanese students in the United States.
Using a multidimensional model and a longitudinal design, the study examined academic performance and quality of overseas study in a group of 155 Taiwanese graduate students at approximately one year after arriving in the United States. The international students' academic performance was significantly predicted by better English writing skills...

MPhil, PhD degree holders out of NET for lecturer's job.
NEW DELHI: Accepting the recommendations of the BL Mungekar Committee, the University Grants Commission on Tuesday exempted candidates having PhD and MPhil degrees from appearing for the mandatory National Eligibility Test (NET) for the post of lecturer. However, candidates having an MPhil who wish to teach postgraduate...

Defining subject boundaries in interdisciplinary bibliographic work.
Bertrum H. MacDonald is the Director of the School of Library and Information Studies, Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University. David Kaunelis was the Researcher for the Information Diffusion in Scientific Research in Canada project and is now Acting Library Director at Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Vermont. An earlier version...

Classifying professional preparation programs.
Introduction As early as the eighteenth century, faculty members in colleges and universities began to gather into specialized discipline groups. Observing how these groups have evolved, curriculum theorists have noted that the nature and structure of knowledge in traditional domains, such as mathematics or history, give each discipline a...

Kansas schools challenge Darwinism: the history and future of the creationism-evolution controversy in American public education.
I. INTRODUCTION The recent decision of the Kansas State Board of Education to de-emphasize the teaching of evolution in the Kansas public schools has recharged the ongoing debate across America about the relative merits of evolution and creationism as curricular subjects in the nation's public schools. Evolution...

Masculinity Goes to School.
Masculinity Goes to School Rob Gilbert and Pam Gilbert Studies in Education Series, editors: Bob Lingard and Fazil Rizvi Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1998, 293 pp., $29.95 Boys and their schooling performances are currently fodder for editors and journalists wanting to feed particular societal concerns....