This Book Is Not Required: An Emotional Survival Manual for Students
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (861 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0761985727 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This revised edition of a modern classic remains faithful to the vision of the late Inge Bell - to encourage students to educate themselves by calling their attention to the personal, social, intellectual, and spiritual demands and opportunities presented by college and university life - the total university experience. The revision has been undertaken by a team of college students under the direction of Bernard McGrane. This participatory venture transmits to the reader the same sense of participation and excitement.
Klein 2004-08-10) . Bell and McGrane have created a lively, insightful, and tangible source that the student can utilize in the classroom and in life. They want to read the book because it speaks to them and provides me a classroom full of hungry, alert minds." (Melanie C. "This book SHOULD be required
from New York University and taught at Vermont College, Colby College, Cuesta Community College, UCLA, Pitzer College, and the University of California, Irvine before accepting his current position at Chapman University. He is the author of Beyond Anthropology, Society and the Other, and The Un-TV and the 10 MPH CarExperiments in Personal Freedom and Everyday Life. She helped organize the Berkeley/Oakland chapter of
Get an earlier, cheaper, and better edition if you can Twenty years ago, I read an earlier, and much lessexpensive, edition of this book. Shortly thereafter,the book and I parted company. Too bad. I have not seenthe book since. What brings me to this webpage and whatconstitutes this review is what I remember: "When youstart to think of your life in terms of a career, worryand anxiety will be your constant partners"(paraphrasing from memory). So true. Nonetheless,college remains a happy memory for me, whatever thegrades I earned back then were. The secret, I think, ishaving the right perspective. Inge Bell might be ableto help. At least, she's worth a try.Another reviewer faults. A life-changing book. A Customer My best friend and I discovered the first edition of this book in a used bookstore while we were in college. We talked about and quoted its advice for the rest of our time in school, and even now that we've graduated, the book still comes up in our conversations from time to time. Bell's chapter on love is worth the price of the book in itself; it distills academic critiques of Western notions of romantic love into clear-headed advice for young people learning to deal with sex and relationships. But that's only a small part of a book about what it really means to learn and think for yourself, what it means to be a good teac. If Only I had Heard of This Book 4 Years Ago Shannon Richardson This was an excellent book! I am nearing the end of my undergraduate degree now and plan to pursue a Master's degree. This book helped me to put my life and my goals into perspective. For the greater part of my life, I have become obsessed with grades and the pusuit of things to add to my resume that will ensure myself of getting into a good grad school and being awarded with a good career upon graduation. I disagree with readers who criticize Bell for being one-sided in her anti-institionalism (some say socialist) arguements. Common sense tells most students that grades are important because the reality is that our educati