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3 reviews
David Perkins

Free Press, 1995

An indispensible handbook for educational reform!
In a world gone mad for something, anything, to repair the ills of our fledgling education system, David Perkins is a welcome voice of reason. He provides readers with a clear description of the problems in our current system and offers common-sense educational solutions. This is not a reactionary, radical reformist volume which advocates the dismantling of education as we know it in favor of ...

The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking

8 reviews
David Perkins

W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

Running through the streets naked...
I have read many books on problem solving and breakthrough thinking. This is by far the most accessible. David Perkins is co-director of "Project Zero", an educational research group at Harvard Graduate School. He has a PhD in mathematics and artificial intelligence from MIT, so he is very qualified to be writing on this subject. Perkins covers a lot of ground in this book and manages to explain ...

The Intelligent Eye: Learning to Think by Looking at Art (Occasional Papers, No 4)

3 reviews
David Perkins

Getty Publications, 1994

Learn to use Reflective Thinking while looking at art!
The Intelligent Eye is a great way to teach students (or anyone) how to think by looking at artwork! This book has an easy to read, conversational style to it as it shares some very basic truths about thinking.

Economics of Development, Sixth Edition

2 reviews
Dwight H. Perkins, Steven Radelet, ...

W. W. Norton, 2006

THE BEST BOOK IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
I have recently had the pleasure to read this book. As a researcher and consultant, I have had the possibility of reading and studying in depth most of the books, papers, and so on, published on Development but I am sincere when I say to my colleagues that I have never read anything like this book, through which Professors Perkins, Radelet and Lindauer are able to explain for Undergraduate ...

Integrating & Sustaining Habits of Mind (Habits of Mind, Bk. 4)

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 2000

Integrating and Sustaining Habits of Mind is the fourth volume in a series describing 16 types of intelligent behavior called "habits of mind." These behaviors can aid both students and adults in school and everyday life as they encounter life's challenges. The habits also encourage thinking skills essential to lifelong learning. Noted educators Arthur Costa and Bena Kallick maintain that a critical attribute of intelligence is not only ...

English Romantic Writers

2 reviews
David Perkins

Wadsworth Publishing, 1994

The Definitive Collection Of Romantic Poetry
This book of poetry depicts, displays, and describes the minds of the 18th and 19th centuries like no other. With great excerpts from Coleridge, Keats, and Wordsworth that anyone not only a lover of poetry can apprieciate.

The Thinking Classroom: Learning and Teaching in a Culture of Thinking

2 reviews
Shari Tishman, David N. Perkins, ...

Allyn & Bacon, 1994

Great Book! Intelligent Approaches to Thinking and Learning
"The Thinking Classroom:" Learning and Teaching in a Culture of Thinking by Shari Tishman, David N. Perkins and Eileen Jay is a great book. The book is one of the top picks as required reading for participants of the "Project Zero Institute" at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. These great Harvard Professors present a 207 page book that is worth reading over and over. I ...

Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education

6 reviews
Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner, ...

Teachers College Press, 2007

Research grounded in reality
Lois Hetlund and her colleagues have written an important book that grounds academic research firmly in the real world of schools. It is readable, accessable, and yet contains profound truths. Documenting and describing the sorts of thinking that can take place in high quality arts programs, the authors remind us of what a true education should contain, despite the ...

Activating & Engaging Habits of Mind (Habits of Mind, Bk. 2)

1 review

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 2000

develop self-directed learning
This book was part of a graduate course I took. It is a very good tool for promoting and instilling habits that produce self-directed learners. I was not only able to help my students by reading this book, but I also helped myself become more self-directed. I recommend this book to parents and educators.

Building Type Basics for Senior Living (Building Type Basics)

1 review
Bradford Perkins

Wiley, 2004

Loaded with info
This book is a quality overview covering most facets of long term care facility development. As with any broad coverage, there will be information that does not apply to your project, and areas that you will need other sources to complete the picture. But the authors of this book know their stuff. Written by architects and planners for same; but accessible to the lay reader. A good tool for ...

Aliens / Witchblade / Darkness / Predator: Mindhunter

4 reviews
David Quinn, Mel Rubi, ...

Dark Horse, 2001

They have to team up again!
Sarah's Witchblade and The Darkness are as different as night and day. However, they must team up with bizzard murders happen. Unknown to them though, the Predators are playing with them. Who will/can win? My only real gripe is that it needed to be just a little longer to smooth out the edges of the story more. Reviewed by Detra Fitch.

A History of Modern Poetry, Volume I, From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode (Belknap Press)

4 reviews
David Perkins

Belknap Press, 1976

Accessible to NonPoets
I love poetry. Books like "History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After" fill my bookshelves. I eat this stuff up. But one thing a lot of poetry books do is mush up the sense of it all in the hope of appealing to the academics. Since most regularly published poets are professors in English departments, it works out, but it creates a great divide between the laity and the academic. What David ...

Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence

6 reviews
David Perkins

Free Press, 1995

Great book presenting a theory of learnable intelligence
What is the nature of intelligence? How and to what extent can intelligence be developed? What aspects of intelligence can de identified and what aspects especially demand attention? While the classic view of intelligence implies that intelligence is a fixed, genetically determined characteristic of individuals this book presents a different perspective: a theory of learnable intelligence ...

RMON: Remote Monitoring of SNMP-Managed LANs

1 review
David T. Perkins

Prentice Hall, 1998

Not as good as his other book
I have bought almost all of the SNMP/RMON books and they are really nothing more than the RFC's a bit better formated and indexed. I had great hopes for this book, because Perkins "Understanding SNMP Mibs" was excellent. However, this book is no different from the dozen others that I have read. If you want a nice reference book and already have an understanding of RMON this book is nice. ...

Pocket Guide to Clinical Examination (Mosby)
Owen Epstein, G. David Perkin, ...

Mosby, 2004

This handy, well-illustrated guide provides information on all aspects of the patient examination. It covers history-taking, examination techniques for each body system, and presenting signs and symptoms for common disorders. Color illustrations and color-coded chapters aid in quickly locating critical guidance. Signs and symptoms sections describe the most important diseases associated with each body system. Boxes highlight important ...

King Arthur's Round Table : How Collaborative Conversations Create Smart Organizations

6 reviews
David Perkins

Wiley, 2002

The Holy Grail of Collaboration Revealed
David Perkins is brilliant. This book is collaboration for smarties. It aims high and delivers the Holy Grail for real seekers. Wise, clever and rich in truths, it is a new theory based upon lots of research and practice. I found it very helpful and stimulating - a treasure trove of insights, principles and things you can do to create better conversations and help teams & organizations act more ...

Keeping the Struggle Alive: Studying Desegregation in Our Town : A Guide to Doing Oral History
Michelle Fine, David S. Surrey, ...

Teachers College Press, 2002

When students in a New Jersey public middle school decided to learn about their community's history of desegregation through a year-long language arts and social studies project, no one imagined how powerful the experience would be for everyone involved. In addition to digging up newspaper articles and historical documents, they interviewed town residents who had participated in the struggle to desegregate schools up North. They soon learned how ...

Understanding SNMP MIBs

28 reviews
David T. Perkins, Evan McGinnis

Prentice Hall PTR, 1996

good understanding of MIB and SNMP
I have read many RFCs(request for comments). But I cannot understand what is the MIB of SNMP. Figure 1-4 Rules for writing MIB(Management Information Base) modules can clearly undestand that the structure of MIB and relation of MIB and ASN.1(Abstract WSyntax Notation One). Also syntax, output and format are well summarize in Appenddix.

Dungeons & Dragons: The Shackled City Adventure Path (Dungeons & Dragons S.)

6 reviews
Jesse Decker, James Jacobs, ...

Paizo Publishing, LLC., 2005

Great value in a great adventure
The price tag may look large for a "book", but only to those who haven't been following Dungeon. This single book (and it's a HUGE book) contains the adventures that were published one-to-an-issue in an 11-issue run of Dungeon magazine. To get those individual issues now would cost quite a bit more, and you would still need to go download plenty of suplemental material from Paizo's site. The ...

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