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Playwriting: Writing Producing and Selling Your Play 6 reviews
Louis E. Catron
Waveland Press, 1990
The Number One book I recommend to playwrights
This book has withstood the test of time. I think I was one of the first to buy it when it came out in a Prentice-Hill hardcover, and it still is the first book I urge playwrights to get. The author is a first-class teacher who knows precisely what playwrights need to learn, in what order, to write the first play or revise the 100th. The only thing better than studying this book would be to ...
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Gypsies16 reviews
Jan Yoors
Waveland Press, 1987
One of the best Romani resources.
I am of Romani descent, my ancestors were Czech, and as a girl my great-grandmother told me fascinating stories about her family's nomadic lifestyle. For me, Yoors' work was a continuation of my grannies stories. Of all the material I have read on the Romani, I found "The Gypsies" to be the most concise. Yoors had the amazing opportunity to not only observe the Romani society, but also to be ...
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Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration & Practice6 reviews
Waveland Press, 1995
A Best Textbook for a Course on Rhetorical Criticism
I have used Sonja Foss' RHETORICAL CRITICISM: EXPLORATION & PRACTICES as a textbook for my Rhetorical Criticism class in the past three consecutive years. Among many other choices of textbooks, I find this one to have more strength and most suited for my students and my teaching style. First, the layout of the book is very easy for students to approach. It proceeds from traditional to current ...
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Hydrology and Hydraulic Systems7 reviews
Ram S. Gupta
Waveland Press, 2001
Excellent refresher
Bought this book to brush up on hydrology and hydraulics for the PE exam. I wish my college courses had used this book. It presents somewhat complex material in a format that is easier to understand than most books. There are example problems for every type of calculation. I highly recommend this text to college professors to use in their classes.
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Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali52 reviews
Kris Holloway; Consulting Editor John Bidwell
Waveland Press, 2006
Monique and the Mango Rains
Monique and the Mango Rains is the moving account of Kris Holloway's experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa, assisting Monique Dembele, the area's local midwife and medical worker. In the crippling poverty of Mali, Monique and Kris work to help Mali's women and children in times of medical distress. From the birthing of babies to relationship counselling, fending off disease ...
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Principles of Communication Engineering7 reviews
John M. Wozencraft, Irwin Mark Jacobs
Waveland Press, 1990
Should be in every library
This 1965 textbook is arguably the most scholarly textbook ever written for communication engineers. Although the Proakis and Sklar (and also McKay) books are the standard textbooks for digital communications and estimation/detection theory nowadays; they don't even come close to this textbook. The Proakis textbook has gotten the unfortunate reputation as having the most comprehensive treatment ...
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Hard Living on Clay Street: Portraits of Blue Collar Families8 reviews
Joseph T. Howell
Waveland Press, 1990
Best Book For "would be" Cultural Anthropologists Ever
Howell utilizes a "hands on " approach to drive home the reality of a very large segment of our society by literally moving in with them and living the life - in spite of peril for one year. Through this approach, he gains the trust of two families, the Shacklefords and the Mosebys, and we are able to move into their homes, travel with them on their drunken runs, and thereby gain an insight from ...
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The Geology of Ore Deposits5 reviews
John M. Guilbert, Charles Frederick Park
Waveland Press, Inc., 2007
The Geology of Ore Deposits
This book, by Guilbert and Park, is the "Bible" for any economic geologist on ore deposits. As a graduate student in geology, I am constantly using it as a reference and use it more frequently than any other book I have. We used another textbook for my economic geology course, but all of us referred to "The Geology of Ore Deposits" when some info was needed. It is also on several ...
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The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV8 reviews
W. H. Lewis
Waveland Press, 1997
History in the Grand Manner
W.H. Lewis wrote this famous book (dedicated to his brother C.S.) in 1953, but it has stood the test of time very well and provides an excellent introduction to the history of France during the reign of Louis XIV. "The Splendid Century" is history in the grand manner, written in the style of Trevelyan, Runciman and Roy Porter. The erudition is everywhere apparent, but it is worn lightly and the ...
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Our Global Environment : A Health Perspective9 reviews
Anne Nadakavukaren
Waveland Press, 2000
The Environment and a Bit More...
This book was a required text for one of my courses. In the past I have not had the best experiences with texts that offer such broad overviews of topics, and as result, I was not looking forward to reading this book. However, I have found the book extremely well written with an abundance of references for additional reading and further research. Every chapter has inserts of up to date events ...
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Bacon to Kant : An Introduction to Modern Philosophy, Second Edition3 reviews
Garrett Thomson
Waveland Press, 2001
Excellent Secondary text
I've been teaching Modern Philosophy to undergraduates for a number of years. As anyone who has taught this period knows, trying to make the issues and arguments clear to beginning students of philosophy using only the primary texts is extremely difficult (and if we can remember back far enough to when we were in the students' seats in Modern Philosophy, we probably recall not making much sense ...
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The Choral Experience: Literature, Materials, and Methods3 reviews
Ray Robinson, Allen Winold
Waveland Press, 1992
STILL the text of choice.
I teach Choral Music at a University, so every time the class comes back around that is to cover Conducting Technique as well as Choral Literature and Performance Style, I re-evaluate the available texts in case something better has come along. In several decades nothing has. In my mind it's still the one text that covers in a very basic way all the essential aspects of conducting choral music. ...
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A Fool's Errand: A Novel of the South During Reconstruction3 reviews
Albion Winegar Tourgee
Waveland Press, 1991
Moral Melee
I was particularly impressed by Tourgee's use of dialogue. By constantly hearing both sides of each design and every brainchild, the reader is allowed to come to his or her own conclusions. Whether A Fool's Errand would be considered a historical account or a novel is ambiguous, but then maybe such a combination of fact and fiction is what allows literature to survive the passage of time as this ...
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The Kensington Runestone: Approaching a Research Question Holistically5 reviews
Alice Beck Kehoe
Waveland Press, 2004
An excellent look into the process of science
As an amateur historian who has been researching the Kensington Runestone (or KRS), a runic inscription that is an account of a Norse exploration to Minnesota 130 years before Columbus, I have been looking forward to reading Alice Kehoe's new book, The Kensington Runestone: Approaching a Research Question Holistically (Waveland Press). Kehoe is an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin, ...
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Space and Time in Special Relativity5 reviews
N. David Mermin
Waveland Press, 1989
also good for "specialists"-to-be too
I'm writing this review based on my impressions of this book when I read it 9 years ago as an undergraduate physics major at Berkeley. We used it in an honors sophmore-level physics class for physics majors. I'm know a physics grad-student at UCSB. I want to dissavow the impression you might have that this is just a light-weight, pop-science book. This book is very axiomatic and it really ...
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Artstrands: A Program of Individualized Art Instruction2 reviews
Guy Hubbard, Enid Zimmerman
Waveland Press, 1982
Inspiring Ideas For The Uninspired
This book is particularly helpful when a student is impaired by a lack of creativity. Even with the assignments the prompts are vague enough to ensure that students create original artwork.
I recommend this book for any artist that feels out of ideas and any educator that needs to have lessons on demand for fast learners or uncreative students.
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Techniques and Experiments for Organic Chemistry3 reviews
Addison Ault
Waveland Press, 1994
Great Text
An excellent book for organic chemsitry students. This is the definitive lab manual for beginning o-chem students. A must have for any chemistry undergrad!
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Sanapia: Comanche Medicine Woman3 reviews
David E. Jones
Waveland Press, 1984
Intriguing account of a fascinating woman's life
David Jones gives an overview of Comanche history and a biography of Sanapia and her tradition training in Comanche doctoring and lore. Highly interested for historians as well as anthropologists, or anyone interested in Native American life and custom.
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Human Origins : The Fossil Record4 reviews
Clark Spencer Larsen
Waveland Press, 1998
Awesome illustrations and coverage of the specimens
Covers a ton of prominent homind specimens with detailed black and white illustrations (drawings not photos) that accent the morphological features of each specimen. Includes detailed descriptions of the specimens and also a nice description at the beginning of each section. As a bonus also includes a section with non-hominid primate specimens. This book is great for anthropology students ...
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Classics of Organizational Behavior4 reviews
Waveland Press, 2001
CLASSICS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
I use this book as a primary source for a graduate level Organization Development Course. It presents a comprehensive foundation of the field using original articles by the "founders" of OD. It is the only OD book I have found that gets all of this between its covers! Highly recommend. Dr. Lloyd Greene, Texas State University.
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