Synopses & Reviews
Bookstores are filled with shelves and shelves of books telling students how to get A's, how to manage their time more effectively, how to succeed socially, and how to get along with their roommates. Few, however, combine all these elements into a single, handy volume, and almost none are written by students themselves. Unique in its approach, The Complete Guide to College Success adopts a conversational style that engages the student in dialogue with its question and answer format, all the while providing useful, hands-on suggestions that translate into a positive college experience.
Divided into three sections, The Complete Guide tackles Personal Development, Social and Interpersonal Excellence, and Academic Success. Each section is filled with self- improvement tips and strategies to make the college experience in its entirety a rewarding one. Descriptive and prescriptive in nature, the guide both informs readers and advises them:
Do you have trouble taking tests? Here are some easy, and extremely effective, ways to enhance your memory and ace your exams. Are you always at a loss for time?The book provides straight-forward and proven strategies for time management. Nervous about meeting new people? Richard Newman has just the advice to put you at ease and to show you how to engage others. Concerned about dating, relationships, and sex issues in college?This book presents perspectives from students all over America.
Newman also serves up an in-the-trenches look at college life with his Student Views, which introduce most chapters. Student Views are a collection of quotes gathered from college students around the country, who give their take on the issue that the chapter discusses.
While most college guides are written by professionals in the fields of psychology or health, The Complete Guide to College Success is one of the only books written by a real experta student himself. Newman knows the reality of contemporary college life and here presents a wide range of college issues. Informal, candid, and easy-to-read, The Complete Guide to College Success is a book no college student should be without.Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Power of Belief
2. Courage: The Foundation of College Success
3. Taking Risks
4. Overcoming College-Related Fears
5. Expanding Your Comfort Zone
6. Diet and Exercise
7. Entering the Winner's Circle
8. Choosing the Right Major and Career
9. Goal Setting
10. The Art of Making a Great First Impression
11. Reaching Out: Embracing New Experiences, Meeting New People, and Getting Involved on Campus
12. Dating, Relationships, and Sex
13. Eight Traits of Expert Conversationalists
14. Roommate Dynamics
15. Becoming a Leader among Leaders
16. How to Remember People's Names
17. How to Give Dynamic Presentations
18. Active Listening
19. Effective Note Taking
20. Getting in the Mood: How to Psych Yourself Up for Effective Study Sessions
21. Optimal Studying
22. Getting the Most out of Reading
23. How to Write A-Grade Papers
24. Time Management
25. How to Enhance Your Memory
26. How to Ace Your Exams
Index
A Note from Me to You
About the Author
Review
"A powerful and intelligent volume. Its attention to inequalities associated with class, race, sexuality, nation, and globalization, as well as its serious engagement of cultural ideas about kinship, make it a critical resource for scholars, students, practitioners, and others interested in adoption in the contemporary era."
-Teresa Toguchi Swartz,University of Minnesota
Review
"It is a breath of fresh air to have an international group of scholars finally weigh in on the movement of children between nations for the purpose of adoption. This important book, including perspectives from both sending and receiving countries, illustrates the 'two-ness' of transnational family-making."
-Ellen Herman,author of Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States
Review
"This comprehensive volume is timely and useful... This volume is sufficiently theoretical and provides useful empirical detail. The book's geographic scale is noteworthy, including classic sites for consideration of child circulation, such as Hawai'i, and well-know sending countries such as Russia and China. But it also attends to less well-studied areas: Spain, Quebec, Lithuania, Brazil, and Peru."
"Certainly the most comprehensive set of essays on international adoption ever assembled, this collection represents but also stretches beyond the recent renaissance in adoption scholarship. Perhaps its greatest innovation is that 'international' is not just a reference to the circulation of children across borders, but also to the impressive range of geographical, social, and theoretical perspectives proffered by the book's authors. They are veteran scholars as well as some fresh new voices. Marre and Briggs provide smart, historically informed editorship, making the book a must-have for humanities and social science scholars interested in kinship, globally stratified reproduction, and gender."
"It is a breath of fresh air to have an international group of scholars finally weigh in on the movement of children between nations for the purpose of adoption. This important book, including perspectives from both sending and receiving countries, illustrates the 'two-ness' of transnational family-making."
"A powerful and intelligent volume. Its attention to inequalities associated with class, race, sexuality, nation, and globalization, as well as its serious engagement of cultural ideas about kinship, make it a critical resource for scholars, students, practitioners, and others interested in adoption in the contemporary era."
Review
"An 'in-the-trenches' look at college life... Newman uses a conversational style, question-and -answer format, self-improvement tips and strategies, and quotes gathered across the United States" -Grand Rapids Press ,One of the only college guide books written by a real experta student
Review
"Certainly the most comprehensive set of essays on international adoption ever assembled, this collection represents but also stretches beyond the recent renaissance in adoption scholarship. Perhaps its greatest innovation is that 'international' is not just a reference to the circulation of children across borders, but also to the impressive range of geographical, social, and theoretical perspectives proffered by the book's authors. They are veteran scholars as well as some fresh new voices. Marre and Briggs provide smart, historically informed editorship, making the book a must-have for humanities and social science scholars interested in kinship, globally stratified reproduction, and gender."
-Sara Dorow,University of Alberta
Review
"This lively collection of seventeen essays is devoted to variations on the theme of international adoption. The essays . . . present a comprehensive overview of a wide range of issues, with thought-provoking contributions on a variety of case studies from sending and receiving countries."-Giovanna Bacchiddu,Social Anthropology
Synopsis
In the past two decades, transnational adoption has exploded in scope and significance, growing up along increasingly globalized economic relations and the development and improvement of reproductive technologies. A complex and understudied system, transnational adoption opens a window onto the relations between nations, the inequalities of the rich and the poor, and the history of race and racialization, Transnational adoption has been marked by the geographies of unequal power, as children move from poorer countries and families to wealthier ones, yet little work has been done to synthesize its complex and sometimes contradictory effects.
Rather than focusing only on the United States, as much previous work on the topic does, International Adoption considers the perspectives of a number of sending countries as well as other receiving countries, particularly in Europe. The book also reminds us that the U.S. also sends children into international adoptions—particularly children of color. The book thus complicates the standard scholarly treatment of the subject, which tends to focus on the tensions between those who argue that transnational adoption is an outgrowth of American wealth, power, and military might (as well as a rejection of adoption from domestic foster care) and those who maintain that it is about a desire to help children in need.
About the Author
Diana Marre is senior researcher in Social Anthropology at the Instituto de Infancia y Mundo Urbano in Barcelona. She is co-editor of
La Adopción y el Acogimiento.
Laura Briggs is Associate Professor and Department Head, Gender and Women's Studies, University of Arizona.