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Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice: 4th Edition / Charles E. Bressler
12 July 2008 – 6:46 pm
If you’ve been reading this blog of reviews for a while, you’ll have realized that I am hardly an academic reviewer. I do not have any kind of formal training in reviewing or criticism, nor any in writing for that matter. I read a lot. I’ve taken the standard literature and creative writing classes that are required in a U.S. education, but nothing more. Now, I’m a bit of a snob. I do believe I got more out of these classes than many others. (…)
A Short Guide to Writing about History / Richard Marius
26 June 2007 – 1:07 am
I confess that I didn’t read this because I wanted to write about history. I haven’t taken a history class since the 1980s, so a guide to writing history term papers is something I very much do not need. I’ve a few books that I acquired after others’ decisions to divest themselves of their collections. I’ll often take the collection lock, stock and barrel. Which is where I got this one. It’s sat on my shelf unread for half a decade. (…)
Principles of Macroeconomics: Third Edition / N. Gregory Mankiw
14 September 2006 – 11:18 am
Last year I took a microeconomics class and signed up for a macroeconomics class. After purchasing the textbook, Seattle Central cancelled the class. Still, I needed to learn more about macroeconomics as what I know is kind of random and lacks building blocks that would help that knowledge make more sense. So I started reading through the text and occasionally working the problems.
I liked this textbook much more than I did my microeconomics textbook. (…)
Microeconomics: The Economic Way of Thinking / Paul Heyne
15 October 2005 – 4:50 pm
I suppose I should put in something about my economics text, seeing as how I did read the whole thing for my class. Paul Heyne lectured at the University of Washington until his death in 2000. I’ve read that he was an excellent teacher, but at least this edition of his book is crap at least for learning well. Heyne presents concepts in a breezy, loosely structured manner. (…)
The Economics of Public Issues / Roger Leroy Miller, Daniel K. Benjamin, Douglass C. North
1 September 2005 – 10:32 pm
I took Economics 200 - Micro-Economics last spring at Seattle Central Community College. It was an online course; my only trips to campus were for the mid-term and final exams. I didn’t really expect the class to be tough. Instead I was using it as a way to get myself back into the swing of a college routine. But I digress before I even start. The Economics of Public Issues was one of the two required texts for this class. Sadly, we did not use this book for anything in class. (…)
