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  The Amateur Hour - A History of...

  Jonathan Zimmerman

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  American college teaching is in crisis, or so we are told. But we've heard that complaint for the past 150 years, as critics have denounced the poor quality of instruction in undergraduate classrooms. Students daydream in gigantic lecture halls while a professor drones on, or they meet with a teaching assistant for an hour of aimless discussion. The modern university does not reward teaching, so faculty members at every level neglect it in favor of research and publication. In the first book-length history of American college teaching, Jonathan Zimmerman confirms but also contradicts these perennial complaints. Drawing upon a wide range of previously unexamined sources, The Amateur Hour shows how generations of undergraduates indicted the weak instruction they received. But Zimmerman also chronicles institutional efforts to improve it, especially by making teaching more "personal." As higher education grew into a gigantic industry, he writes, American colleges and universities introduced small-group activities and other reforms designed to counter the anonymity of mass instruction. They also experimented with new technologies like television and computers, which promised to "personalize" teaching by tailoring it to the individual interests and abilities of each student.But, Zimmerman reveals, the emphasis on the personal inhibited the professionalization of college teaching, which remains, ultimately, an amateur enterprise. The more that Americans treated teaching as a highly personal endeavor, dependent on the idiosyncrasies of the instructor, the less they could develop shared standards for it. Nor have they rigorously documented college instruction, a highly public activity which has taken place mostly in private. Pushing open the classroom door, The Amateur Hour illuminates American college teaching and frames a fresh case for restoring intimate learning communities, especially for America's least privileged students. Anyone who wants to change college teaching will have to start here.

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  Chronicle The - Book Three -...

  Mr Punch

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  The Chronicle – Book Three (July to September) 
    
  This is history... but not as you know it! At Waterloo, women are stripping the corpses of their valuable shoes and stockings yet the Highlanders are left in mass graves with their coarse tartan socks still on. Roy Strong attending a private dinner with the Prime Minister notes that Margaret Thatcher in floaty chiffon is "the apotheosis of the boss's wife, with the appeal of cosmeticised putty." Even at the  coronation of George IV, Queen Caroline, who is denied entry to the Abbey, is observed looking like "a blowsy landlady". As for the nude revue 'Oh Calcutta', it is noted that "there are some parts of the anatomy over whose movements the choreographer has no control”.  Join Fanny Kemble as she travels at break-neck speed aboard Stephenson's Rocket and Joyce Grenfell as she washes her tennis balls and bakes them in the oven while Lord Byron conducts a fiery seaside funeral of his close friend Shelley. 
   
  “It’s WONDERFUL.  In fact, I would describe it as one of the all-time audio greats... an unmissable five-star production.”  (The Guardian) 
  “I recommend the reader to hunt down and buy this series wherever it may be found.”  (The Spectator) 
   
  Dramatised and performed by a distinguished cast of over 30 actors, including Charles Dance, Harriet Walter, David Suchet, Timothy West, James Bolam, Maureen Lipman, Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Joss Ackland, Eleanor Bron, John Sessions, Imogen Stubbs. 
   
  Also available as part of the CHRONICLE BOX SET, over 11 hours of audio bliss.

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  Inside Wiesn - Tell me where you...

  Christian Rupprecht-Essig

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  "Tell me where you drink, and I'll tell you who you are!" This could be the motto of this book. Munich insider Christian Rupprecht takes you on a tour around the world's biggest beer festival, lovingly described and peppered with numerous anecdotes.
  Which celebrities frequent the Käfer tent and who prefers to sit in the Bräurosl? Where can you find the tourists, and where does the wealthy elite gather? Where does everyone want to be, and where should you avoid getting lost?
  Numerous interviews with Oktoberfest hosts, security guards, waiters and many more complete "Inside Wiesn", making it an indispensable guide to your Oktoberfest visit, taking you along the secret paths and revealing to you the unwritten laws of Theresienwiese.

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  Spanish and Portuguese in the...

  Editors Charles River

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  In 1451, Prince Henry the Navigator helped fund and develop a new type of ship, the caravel, that featured triangular lateen sails and would be able to travel in the open ocean and sail against the wind. In 1488, Bartholomew Diaz rounded the southern tip of Africa, named the Cape of Good Hope by King John of Portugal, and entered the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic. 
  One explorer, Christopher Columbus, sought funding from the Portuguese to search for a passage to Asia by sailing westwards, but he was rejected. At this time in the late 15th century, Portugal’s domination of the western African sea routes prompted the neighboring Crown of Castile and the Catholic monarchs in modern Spain to search for an alternative route to south and east Asia (termed Indies), so they provided Columbus with the funding he required. By the time Christopher Columbus started setting back east from the New World after landing there in October 1492, he had explored San Salvador in the Bahamas (which he thought was Japan), Cuba (which he thought was China), and Hispaniola, the source of gold. As the common story goes, Columbus, en route back to Spain from his first journey, called in at Lisbon as a courtesy to brief the Portuguese King John II of his discovery of the New World. King John subsequently protested that according to the 1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas, which divided the Atlantic Ocean between Spanish and Portuguese spheres of influence, the newly discovered lands rightly belonged to Portugal. To make clear the point, a Portuguese fleet was authorized and dispatched west from the Tagus to lay claim to the “Indies,” which prompted a flurry of diplomatic activity in the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

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  Summary of Jared Diamond’s The...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jared Diamond’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee 
    
  In The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee (1991), Jared Diamond traces the history of the human species and uncovers the ancestral origins of our social and environmental issues. Our problems have been intensifying for a long time, along with our growing numbers and powers. Even though we have managed to rise from our past animal state, we are slowly walking towards the demise of our human race, unless we can learn from our mistakes. 
   

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  The Benediction of Meditation -...

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

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  "The benediction of meditation - 17 November 1968 
  • We shall explore together into this life, existence, in which is included 
  relationship, love and death, not merely as a phenomenon but as something tremendously significant, to be cherished, deeply lived. Meditation is the approach to this problem of living. 
  • It is only a free mind that is capable of attention in which there is no achieving or losing or fear. It is only a quiet, attentive mind that can understand this immense problem of living. It is only the quiet, meditative mind that can come upon what is called love. 
  • What is living? 
  • The observer cannot possibly do anything about envy because he is the cause 
  and the effect. Whatever he does with regard to envy is still envy. 
  • What does it mean to die, knowing the organism comes to an end? What does it 
  mean to die psychologically, inwardly?"

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