It should come as no surprise that a large share of this year's business books focus squarely on the 2008-09 financial crisis and security-backed mortgage implosion. Investing books followed the trend as either alarmist titles advocating selling stocks, or books urging readers to take advantage of this time to buy undervalued investments. An…

An essay reviewing current sources of information on women. (MBR)

Second part of a series begun in the October 1971 issue of "Classical World". (DS)

This handbook (for use with R. T. Robertson's "Terra Incognita") contains three kinds of study aids: (1) notes on over 100 British Commonwealth authors, (2) a chronological arrangement (1830-1930) of the works of the above authors, and (3) glossaries of proper names, local slang, and other unusual terms found in literary works from New…

A LISTING OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IS PRESENTED, CATEGORIZED AS FOLLOWS--(1) BIOGRAPHY AND FICTIONALIZED BIOGRAPHY, (2) LORE AND LEGEND, (3) STORIES AND NOVELS, AND (4) GENERAL INFORMATION AND BACKGROUND MATERIAL. (ES)

Surveys the career of Ann Nolan Clark and her commitment to a life of teaching and of writing for and about an ethnic minority--the Indian. (Author/MB)

Illustrated. (RD)

Lists and annotates eight new adult books of interest to high school readers. (GT)

More and generally better books on higher education appeared in 1967. A great number of them were concerned with solving problems related to institutionalized religion at a time when the church-related college in the US finds itself confronted with the most serious challenges of its long history. Several better than average institutional histories…

Designed to enrich the reading program, this bibliography lists books, films, filmstrips, and records for fifth-grade children. The list, which is divided according to readability into easy, average, and difficult, is prepared from the suggested lists of the Ginn, Houghton Mifflin, Lippincott, and Scott, Foresman reading series. The bibliography…

PURPOSES WERE TO PROMOTE ENRICHMENT, TO DEVELOP CRITICAL THINKING, TO HELP THE STUDENT EXPLORE THE POTENTIALITIES OF LIFE, TO STIMULATE IMAGINATION, AND TO INCREASE VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSION. IN EACH CLASSROOM, AN ENVIRONMENT FOR LITERATURE SHOULD BE CREATED, AS A LITERARY CORNER WITH FREE BUT GUIDED SELECTION. THE CHILD SHOULD BE TAUGHT TO READ…

Books listed in this bibliography are related to Appalachia in some way, and range from picture books to books classified as adult. Brief annotations from a variety of sources are provided for most of the titles, while grade levels are indicated for some of the books. Topics include pioneer history, folksongs, biographies, folk tales, Cherokee…