Author: Ann Lathrop File Type: pdf In the past, it was the struggling student who was more likely to cheat just to get by. Today, above-average college -bound students are just as likely to do so. This sequel to the eye-opening Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era A Wake-Up Call (2000) is a call to arms for students, teachers, administrators, librarians, and parents to transpose school culture from one that ignores or tolerates cheating into one where every effort is made to value, encourage, and support honesty. First person accounts lend credence to a cornucopia of practical ideas and actions. No home, school, or library should be without at least one copy. Cheating continues to be a national epidemic. Here, Lathrop and Foss have produced a sequel to their 2000 eye-opener Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era A Wake-Up Call. But where the first volume focused on honor codes and careful monitoring of student tests and written assignments, their latest work is a call to arms students, teachers, administrators, librarians, and parents must make a concerted effort to change school culture from one that ignores or tolerates cheating into one where every effort is made to value, encourage, and support honesty. Each chapter offers quick and easy access to practical ideas and actions that can be taken off the page and into the classroom or home situation. Among these, first-person accounts dominate, with such compelling themes as Why I Didnt Cheat, Policies That Support Honest Students, and Student Whistleblowers. It is a myth that the struggling students are the ones who are more likely to cheat just to get by. The above-average, college-bound students are just as likely to do so as they compete for scholarships and college admission. No home, school, or library should be without at least one copy of this book. **

Author: Nora Berend File Type: pdf This is a study of the economic, social, legal and religious position of three minorities within the medieval Christian kingdom of Hungary. The book demonstrates that the status of such minorities depended not simply on Christian religious tenets, but on a larger framework--including the legal and social system, economic possibilities, and conflicts between kings and the clergy. It also investigates the situation at the gate of Christendom--the frontier with the nomad world--and the way this affected both Christian and non-Christian interaction and Christian ideology.Review...a fine first book from an excellent young scholar. One looks forward eagerly to the next. SPECULUMThe book is a model for future studies of Jewish-Christian and Muslim-Christian relations in the Middle Ages. Theological StudiesNora Berends book will certainly become an indispensable tool for those interested in the history of medieval Hungary, the relations between the Catholic majority and the non-Christian minorities in European countries under Romes spiritual influence, the policy of the theocratic papacy toward the non-Catholic communities in the thirteenth century, and the specific situation in the bordering countries of the Latin Christian world. Slavic ReviewThis enlightening book will be helpful for all those interested in the dynamics of ethnic identity, persecution and tolerance, and religious identification. Stephen D. Benin, Religious Studies Review[An] impeccably researched and beautifully organized book. American Historical ReviewBerends research shows a fascinating variety of approaches to dealing with non-Christian minorities, and she is able to show how many factors contributed to the varying efforts to convert, exterminate, tolerate, or even incoporate these groups into Hungarian society...A good...resource for academic libraries supporting upper level history students. Catholic Library WorldNora Berend has found a unique topic that presents a wide range of questions on religion and social identity...Berend uses an impressive array of documentation...an interesting and recommendable study. Comitatus Book DescriptionThis is a study of the economic, social, legal and religious position of three minorities within the medieval Christian kingdom of Hungary. The book demonstrates that the status of such minorities depended not simply on Christian religious tenets, but on a larger framework--including the legal and social system, economic possibilities, and conflicts between kings and the clergy. It also investigates the situation at the gate of Christendom --the frontier with the nomad world--and the way this affected both Christian and non-Christian interaction and Christian ideology.

Author: Lisa Duggan File Type: pdf From Library JournalThe political and cultural battles over issues of sexuality that have affected the nation since the mid-1980s are explored in these 15 essays written over the past decade by Duggan (history, NYU), who co-founded the Feminst Anti-Censorship Taskforce (FACT), and Hunter (law, Brooklyn Law Sch.). With refreshing authority, passion, wit, clarity, and outspokenness, these articles, which appear in book form for the first time, seek to encourage dialog about, as they offer cogent feminist analysis of, such complex and provocative issues as the call for regulationcensorship of pornography by Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin, the effects of Bowers v. Hardwick (in which the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Georgias sodomy laws), the distinctions between queer theory and lesbian and gay studies, and the implications of the Sharon KowalskiKaren Thompson case (Thompson fought Kowalskis parents unsuccessfully for the guardianship of her comatose lover). This historic compilation is an important contribution to the field of sexual politics.?James E. Van Buskirk, San Francisco P.L. 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review...willingness to probe rather than pronounce is part of the collections strength, as is the excitement of a taking up a good fight... they provide concrete suggestions for action and fresh thinking. -- The Womens Review of BooksWith refreshing authority, passion, wit, clarity and outspokenness, these articles seek to encourage dialog about...such complex and provocative issues as the call for regulationcensorship of pornography by MacKinnon and Dworkin, the effects of Bowers v. Hardwick, and the distinctions between queer theory and lesbian and gay studies. -- Library JournalThis historic compilation is an important contribution to the field of sexual politics. -- Library JournalDuggan and Hunter have been important voices in the sex wars. Their activism, dedication, and vision are amply demonstrated in the writings collected here. These indespensible documents are scholarly, passionate, sobering, and contain many pointed lessons that still scream for assimilation by mainstream feminism and other progressive constituencies. -- Gayle Rubin, University of California, Santa CruzSex Wars is an invaluable contribution to the current debate on feminism and sex. Its essays reveal with cogent and dismaying clarity the repressive logic that links anti-pornography feminism with religious fundamentalism and homophobic paranoia. Feminists who have been struggling to combat this all-too-prevalent logic will be grateful for this new and powerful weapon in our own `sex war arsenal. -- Ellen WillisSex Wars provides a much-needed antidote to the recent tidal wave of Republicanism. This collection of a decades worth of writing by theoristsactivists Nan Hunter and Lisa Duggan offers us a sobering lesson in the recent history of sexual repression in America. But they do not leave us wringing our hands--their useful concept of sexual dissent suggests a route out of the civil rights strategies that backfire and anti-identity politics that seem dangerously close to self-annihilation. -- Cindy Patton, Temple University

Author: Maria Mili File Type: pdf The fertile plains of the ancient Greek region of Thessaly stretch south from the shadow of Mount Olympus. Thessalys numerous small cities were home to some of the richest men in Greece, their fabulous wealth counted in innumerable flocks and slaves. It had a strict oligarchic government and a reputation for indulgence and witchcraft, but also a dominant position between Olympus and Delphi, and a claim to some of the greatest Greek heroes, such as Achilles himself. It can be viewed as both the cradle of many aspects of Greek civilization and as a challenge to the dominant image of ancient Greece as moderate, rational, and democratic. Religion and Society in Ancient Thessaly explores the issues of regionalism in ancient Greek religion and the relationship between religion and society, as well as the problem of thinking about these matters through particular bodies of evidence. It discusses in depth the importance of citizenship and of other group-identities in Thessaly, and the relationship between cult activity and political and social organization. The volume investigates the Thessalian particularities of the evidence and the role of religion in giving the inhabitants of this land a sense of their identity and place in the wider Greek world, as well as the role of Thessaly in the ancients and moderns understanding of Greekness. **