Book Reviews : Oliver, Paul, Dwellings: The House Across the World. Austin, Texas: The University of Texas Press, 1987. 256 p. 34.95 (cloth), 21.95 (paperback

1988 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-383
Author(s):  
Rik Pinxten
Keyword(s):  
University Of Texas ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Teaching 7000 Students Per Year

1990 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
R. Robert Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Teaching Program ◽  
Undergraduate Program ◽  
Credit Hours ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Faculty ◽  
The University

The undergraduate program at the University of Texas has grown into the largest astronomy teaching program in the world, with some 7000 students per year (almost 20,000 credit hours). The department has 22.5 Ph.D.-level teaching faculty, about 45 graduate students, and about 40 pre-professional undergraduate majors. But most of the enrollment is in courses that satisfy the science requirements of students in liberal arts and non-technical majors. In 1985–86, 96.4 per cent of our undergraduate credit hours taught were in such classes. It is instructive to examine the historical reasons for our growth and its educational consequences, and to draw some conclusions from both for other programs.

scholarly journals Mingan: my village

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandy Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Writing Workshop ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Art Collections ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
North Shore ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
The Village

Mingan:  my village. Illus. Rogé. Trans. Solange Messier.  Markham, ON:  Fifth House Publishers, 2014.  Print.This is one of the most unusual Canadian Indigenous children’s books to have been published recently.  It is an art book composed of fifteen of illustrator Rogé's portraits of Innu children from the village of Mingan (“Ekuantshit” in the Innu-aimun language) on the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  The images are accompanied by fifteen poems written by the children.  Each of the portraits covers an 8.5 X 14’ page and is an almost life-sized likeness painted from a photograph.  The images are mainly sepia tones with some orange, blue and red highlights.  These portraits will allow children elsewhere in the world to see what an Innu child looks like. The poems are the result of a poetry writing workshop led by Laurel Morali and Rita Mestokosho at Mingan.  They are also published in the back of the book in Innu-aimun.  The works are simple, unsophisticated and present a child’s view of the world.  Nature and grandparents figure prominently in the works.   For example:                        In the wind's light, the pain of the heart                        The blue river                        When I listen                        I have a memory of my grandfather                        He tells me he is well                        This comforts me                        I know he protects me                        That he watches me                        I cry when he is not beside me                                                                       Sabrina                       Overall this is a striking work that could fit both in to art collections and children’s libraries as well as those collecting Canadian Indigenous materials. Highly recommended: 4 stars out of 4Reviewer:  Sandy CampbellSandy is a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Alberta, who has written hundreds of book reviews across many disciplines.  Sandy thinks that sharing books with children is one of the greatest gifts anyone can give. 

scholarly journals Northern Dancer: King of the Racetrack by G. Joyce

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandy Campbell
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Thoroughbred Racing

Joyce, Gare.  Northern Dancer: King of the Racetrack.  Markham, ON:  Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2012. Print.It is not often that you find a biography of an animal, but in this case, the animal was a national icon.  According to Gare Joyce, Northern Dancer, the great racehorse “made more money as an accomplished racehorse and sire than any Canadian athlete in history – even more than Wayne Gretzky ”.  The book begins with a genealogical chart that shows that of the 19 horses starting in the 2011 Kentucky Derby, 18 were descended from Northern Dancer.This book chronicles Northern Dancer from his birth through to his wins and standing at stud until his death at age 29.  Through his story, the reader also learns about the world of North American thoroughbred racing.  We meet the great jockeys:  Ron Turcotte, Willie Shoemaker and Bill Hardtack who all rode Northern Dancer to victories. We learn about the development of racehorses and the major races:  The Preakness, The Belmont, The Kentucky Derby and the Queen’s Plate.   Joyce writes informally and conversationally, as though he is telling one long story.  For example, he tells us that Northern Dancer “became unruly around his stall…At least once he ripped the shirt off his trainer.” Later we are told that a trainer inadvertently let Northern Dancer run hard the day before a race and people thought that no thoroughbred could “run the equivalent of two races on two consecutive days.   As it turned out, the only ones hurting after the Florida Derby were those who hadn’t bet on the heavily favoured Northern Dancer.”  The text is accompanied by many photos of Northern Dancer, including archival images of horse and jockey in races, at the wire and in the winners’ circle.           Overall, this is an enjoyable story of a remarkable horse.  Northern Dancer: King of the Racetrack is highly recommended for junior high school libraries and public libraries everywhere.  Highly recommended:  4 stars out of 4Reviewer:  Sandy CampbellSandy is a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Alberta, who has written hundreds of book reviews across many disciplines.  Sandy thinks that sharing books with children is one of the greatest gifts anyone can give. 

Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-197
Keyword(s):  
Free Market ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
State Level ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Inequality Measures ◽  
World Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
American Elections ◽  
The University

Branko Milanovic of World Bank reviews, “Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis” by James K. Galbraith. The EconLit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the relationship between the rise of inequality and the performance of the U.S. stock market and the rise of finance and of free-market policies elsewhere. Discusses the physics and ethics of inequality; the need for new inequality measures; pay inequality and world development; estimating the inequality of household incomes; economic inequality and political regimes; the geography of inequality in America, 1969-2007; state-level income inequality and American elections; inequality and unemployment in Europe—a question of levels; European wages and the flexibility thesis; globalization and inequality in China; finance and power in Argentina and Brazil; inequality in Cuba after the Soviet collapse; and economic inequality and the world crisis. Galbraith is Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the University of Texas, Austin. Index.”

Book Reviews

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 701-703
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Growth Patterns ◽  
Global Inequality ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Economic Association ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Valpy FitzGerald of the University of Oxford reviews “Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy. Volume II. Regions and Regularities,” edited by Kaushik Basu and Joseph E. Stiglitz. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Eight papers and eight responses, based on a roundtable convened by the International Economic Association and the World Bank on 'Shared Prosperity and Growth' and held at Dead Sea, Jordan, in June 2014, examine the state of global inequality and inequality in different regions, and analyzes other kinds of inequality and discrimination.”

French and U. S. Influences upon the Latin American Press

1954 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Danton Jobim
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The World ◽  
American Press ◽  
The University

Danton Jobim is editor-in-chief of Diario Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, and professor of journalistic technique at the University of Brazil. He conducted a seminar on the world press at the University of Texas School of Journalism in February-March, 1953. This essay is transcribed from notes on several of his lectures.

scholarly journals Book Reviews: The Hasinais: Southern Caddoans As Seen by the Earliest Europeans

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
American History ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
East Texas ◽  
The West ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Present Book ◽  
Southwestern History ◽  
The University

The writing and eventual publication of The Hasinais by Herbert Eugene Bolton, the founder of Spanish borderlands studies, has had a long and storied journey that is well-laid out in an introduction by Russell Magnaghi, the editor of the original 1987 hardback and 2002 paperback editions of the book. Bolton became interested in the Hasinai Caddo peoples of East Texas shortly after he arrived at The University of Texas at Austin in 1901, as he became aware “that American history had always involved the Indians and that, as he began to study southwestern history, he also had to study the ethnology of the region." Through various twists and turns, he had the present book-length manuscript virtually completely written and ready for submittal to the Smithsonian Institution in 1907. Unfortunately, the manuscript was then put aside by Bolton as he moved on to other borderlands historical work on the West Coast and California and he never completed it. Parts of it were used by William J. Griffith, one of Bolton’s students, in his 1942 dissertation “The Spanish Occupation of the Hasinai Country, 1690-1737,” and then in a later monograph on the Hasinai, but it was Russell Magnaghi who took up the task of editing the book manuscript in 1971.

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