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A six-step model offers invaluable assistance for selecting a topic, searching the literature, developing arguments, surveying the literature, critiquing the literature, and writing the literature review. ... Read more

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Must Have for Grad School
The process of writing a Literature Review step by step can be daunting.Very helpful book, explains the who, what and why of the process.

Great Book - Very Helpful for Dissertation Process
This is a nice book, concise, good information to help on the dissertation process.Shipping was quick!

Great help.
I had to purchase this book for a doc level class. The class was cancelled but I read it anyhow. It helps newbies to figure out the process for writing lit reviews, in plain language.

BB
This is a book that can help navigate the ins and outs of a literature review.There is a well-organized plan that is easy to follow - not to say that the overall task is easy but it takes a lot of unnessary work out.

Essential for graduate students beginning work on their thesis or dissertation...
This book is a much-needed life raft for graduate students lost amid the sea of literature on his/her topic. Straightforward, logical, and concise, it's an easy-to-use "calm-down pill" for those working through (and freaking-out over) the literature review stage of their thesis or dissertation.

Ok, gently rub your sweaty palms together, take a deep breath, and open this book and read and/or skim-it from cover to cover; (it's only 154 pages). Then, take a legal pad to take notes and and begin using the book as a workbook to work through your own topic. Start with the Introduction -- read this section again very carefully, it's the template for the whole process.

Then, when you're ready to begin, say to yourself five-times, "I can do this," and take another deep breath. You're about to embark on a most interesting journey; when you arrive, you'll know more about your topic than you ever imagined!

Now, begin working your topic through the whole step-by-step process as outlined by each chapter in the book:

Step 1: Select your topic (if you haven't already) -- follow Machi and McEvoy's guidelines as to how to specify a research interest.

Step 2: Search the literature, following their suggestions.

Step 3: Develop the argument-- build your case and evaluate the various parts of your argument.

Step 4: Survey the literature -- assemble your collected data, synthesize it and look for patterns.

Step 5: Critique the literature -- look for logical interpretations of evidence to produce propositions that signal a specific conclusion.

Step 6: Write your review -- write it to understand, that is, to develop and understand your topic and to be understood as well. If necessary, redraft the content; you want to make sure your work accurately and adequately communicates the ideas to your readers.

The author's closing words are excellent advice: "The act of writing is not necessarily a joy, reading a well-written piece that you have worked through carefully is a joy. To have written is. For that reason, Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. Seize the day, and put no trust in the morrow! Get on with the writing, and tenaciously follow it wherever it takes you. Craft it well. Experience the joy of completing a good work, to understand and be understood."

Highly recommended for college and university library collections and individuals writing a thesis or dissertation.

R. Neil Scott
Middle Tennessee State University



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Very satisfied!
Thank you for the quick turnaround.I appreciate it as I needed it for a class this semester, and the class had already started.The book was in great shape.

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Useful guide, but beware of bias
Galvan's book is well-structured and easy to read. The organization of the book--using guidelines--makes it easy to follow. However, I would be cautious to restrict myself only to the guidelines recommended as they are not comprehensive. For example, the chapter on how to review qualitative research lacks other guidelines for establishing the credibility of a piece of research. Another point to note is that there are different styles of literature based on one's epistemological beliefs and the purpose of the review, hence the guidelines recommended as well as samples included may obscure other ways of organizing literature review. Overall, a useful book to start one off a literature review, but I would supplement this book with others to obtain a more balanced point-of-view.

Step by step instruction
Easy to read and understand. With exercises at the end of each chapter. Helps with synthesizing your research.

Very good ordering experience
Ordering through this seller was a great online experience. The book came within a very reasonable amount of time, despite doing standard shipping. This was a very good purchase/ordering experience and I recommend this seller/sender to anyone!

Quality research
By having this book in my hand I have been able to sort through what is quality research and also how to evaluate quantitative and qualitative articles. ... Read more

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The Third Edition of Conducting Literature Reviews: From the Internet to Paper provides readers with an accessible but in-depth look at how to synthesize research literature. Bestselling author Arlene Fink shows researchers how to justify the need for and significance of research, and explain a study’s findings.

Key Updates to the Third Edition

• Presents nearly a hundred new online examples and references from the social, behavioral, and health sciences
• Offers a revised and updated list of online articles databases
• Includes case studies in the use of major online databases
• Expands the exercises at the end of the chapter to include more online searching
• Clarifies some of the basic concepts of research that are essential in making judgments about the quality of research methods
• Incorporates more examples and clearer explanations of the differences between research design validity (internal and external) and measurement validity
• Introduces the major formal systems for evaluating the literature’s methodological quality
• Provides more qualitative research examples and information on how to evaluate their quality
• Illustrates in greater detail how to write up reviews and how others have done it
• Contains nearly 100 Power Point Slides linked to each of the five chapters available at www.fink3einstr to qualified instructors who adopt the book

The text also discusses the use of Boolean operators for simple and advanced searches, tells readers how to use bibliographic software to organize literature reviews and search "The Virtual File Cabinet.”

Intended Audience

This text is for graduate students in the social science, health, educational, and business fields. It is also appropriate for anyone who design and manage public and private agencies, conduct research studies, and/or prepare strategic plans and grant proposals.

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Useful, well-organized, succinct
As part of my educational requirements, I was required to write a literature review. While I understood what that meant, the nuts and bolts of doing so was overwhelming to me. Thankfully, I found this title on Amazon. I found this book to be incredibly useful in writing my literature review. What seemed to be the most important factor was that this book lays out a step-by-step plan in writing the review, and what exactly must be done. Additionally, the book de-mystifies the idiosyncrasies of writing style when writing one of these. I firmly think that if I had not found this title, I would have had a much more difficult time writing my review. Highly recommended!

An informative guide to identifying, interpreting, and analyzing published and unpublished research literature
Now in its second edition, Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From The Internet To Paper is an informative guide to identifying, interpreting, and analyzing published and unpublished research literature. Checklists, sample cases, exercises and more illustrate the intricate difficulties and useful methodologies for selecting questions that will make the review most effective, identifying the most appropriate databases, setting inclusion and exclusion criteria, conducting and evaluating descriptive literature reviews, and more. The second edition offers new features including tips for searching the web for research information, flow diagrams to aid the reader in applying each step of the review, new references and other online resources. A scholarly and extremely practical guide especially for students and professionals in need of a strict process to sift through the dross and find the hidden gold within the information highway.

An informative guide to identifying, interpreting, and analyzing published and unpublished research literature
Now in its second edition, Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From The Internet To Paper is an informative guide to identifying, interpreting, and analyzing published and unpublished research literature. Checklists, sample cases, exercises and more illustrate the intricate difficulties and useful methodologies for selecting questions that will make the review most effective, identifying the most appropriate databases, setting inclusion and exclusion criteria, conducting and evaluating descriptive literature reviews, and more. The second edition offers new features including tips for searching the web for research information, flow diagrams to aid the reader in applying each step of the review, new references and other online resources. A scholarly and extremely practical guide especially for students and professionals in need of a strict process to sift through the dross and find the hidden gold within the information highway.
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Health Sciences Literature Review Made Easy helps students and practitioners better understand scientific literature by instilling the essential skills (via the matrix method) needed to critically evaluate article findings. The fundamental principles of searching, organizing, reviewing, and synthesizing are covered at the most basic level. Visual examples and a single case study are woven throughout the text. This easy-to-read and practical reference is an invaluable aid to students, researchers, and practitioners.The Third Edition has been completely revised and updated to reflect the switch out of "paper" mode and into electronic mode. Clinical practice examples and references to PubMed and PubMed Central have been added throughout along with information on reference management softwares such as endnote and refworks. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (9)

of limited use for the organized type
the crux of this book - the matrix - is already used by many of us for routine organizational tasks. the book did offer some prompts on important lit review considerations, but the "matrix method" is pretty much common sense

More Than Expected
I ordered my book and it arrived 2 weeks earlier than promises in excellent condition

Excellent Method
This book is excellent for anyone who needs help organizing the myriad of information that comes with research.The method is spelled out step by step with colloquial examples. A must have for any graduate student.

Health Sciences Lit review made easy
I ordered this book but needed a different edition. This was a great book!!! The matrix model is useful for lit reviews in MANY fields!!! I used it for numerous papers and to sum up my research...The Table formatting makes all the information easy to review and succinct! I can look back at my Matrix and remember the articles I read right away from the descriptions. I learned how to format them properly from this book's examples.

highly recomended
Came on time, whold recomend this seller, condition of the bookwas in exact stated condition. A dependable site to make purchases. ... Read more

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great service
product arrived on time and in the condition described in the add. Nice doing business with you.

Essential!!!
This book is written in a very simple and easy to follow format.The chapters are short and to the point providing just enough information and practical examples.Now that I have this book it will be a regular resource in my graduate school writing.A must have with excellent full length examples at the end of the book.

Great seller!
Fast shipping, great price, book in described condition. Easy to work with, and would work with this seller again.

Author is straight on
Author is straight on and right to point with requirements of writing a dissertation. I purchased this book as it was one of three items I needed to write my Doctorate dissertation. In just four weeks of the class I now know what is required and the direction I need to go. This book will stay on my shelf and be used as a dissertation resource.

Excellent Resource
Exactly what I needed to help me prepare and produce a literature review. Well organized, the text provided good examples and advice for condcuting the research, how to evaluate existing research, and how to organize the literature review. A great refernce that I refer to often. I also found the exercises (when conducting research) and guidelines (when writing the lit review) extremely helpful. ... Read more

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Reviewing the literature for a research project can seem a daunting, even overwhelming task. New researchers, in particular, wonder: Where do I start? What do I do? How do I do it?

Doing a Literature Review can help. This accessible text offers advice on how to:

{ search out existing knowledge on a topic;

{ analyze arguments and ideas;

{ map ideas, arguments and perspectives;

{ produce a literature review;

{ construct a case for investigating a topic.

Doing a Literature Review is a practical and comprehensive guide to researching, preparing and writing a literature review, an essential component of research projects. It is an essential tool for postgraduate students but also for undergraduate and novice researchers across the social sciences and humanities.

Doing a Literature Review is a set book for The Open University Postgraduate Foundation Module (D820) The Challenge of the Social Sciences.

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Useful
Useful guide for writing literature reviews and making literature maps.It also has information on dissertations and writing a research proposal.

An outstanding book!
A brilliant book written in such a wonderful, transparent and understandable style. A real gem that is best in its class. Excellent reference when judging graduate and post-graduate thesis works. Shows that this is one of the hearts in research process and sadly, today, present less and less in proper form, content and execution! Recommended warmly! PS With all due respect to those that have written negative reviews - seems they have reviews the wrong book or simply have no clue whatsoever about doing research in social sciences.

See the answer in the book: what is the purpose of literature review
I did a research work and the most difficult part was the literature review. This book makes clear why to do do the literature review, the particular difficulties in the social sciences and how to proceed step-by-step to complete the work. I do recommend.

not for the beginners
I bought this book because it was in the medical school bookshop, and I was looking for something about literature review. However, this book is written for people in the social sciences. It has a limited value for someone in clinical research.
There are however some good things, it opens the mind to a different aspect in writing reviews. I am sure I have gained some knowledge from it but it was time consuming. It is well written and has examples.
It will not tremendously help people in clinical research.

A good guide on how to analyze ideas and synthesize new ones
Hart's material will benefit anyone who needs to develop and demonstrate their expertise on a topic. He describes how the review contributes to the defense of a research topic and its findings, at the master's and doctoral levels. He presents examples of what thesis and dissertation boards look for in research proposals and papers.

The book describes techniques to extract clues about theories and methods a researcher used. Hart provides excellent guidance on how to analyze the literature on a topic, develop a map of ideas, and synthesize a new contribution.

Anyone who wants to develop their skills as a researcher, or student, should definitely purchase this book. I also shared many of this book's insights with my friends, who are not researchers.

Although I strongly recommend the book, I only rate it 3 stars. The book is unorganized, and the writing is poor.

In an example from Chapter 4, Hart presents a table of 19 common fallacies. The first column presents the type of fallacy (in no logical or methodical order). He titles the second column "What it is and how to avoid it" but only the first entry presents any "how to avoid it" data. The remaining 18 entries have no advice on avoidance.

I also felt some diagrams present no useful information; and his prose rambles and repeats itself. In short, Hart gives us dynamite information, but it is frustrating to sort through its sloppy presentation. ... Read more

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The Literature Review is a concise step-by-step guide to conducting a literature search and writing up the literature review chapter in graduate dissertations and in professional doctorate theses. Diana Ridley describes how to carry out a literature review in a systematic, methodical way, providing useful strategies for efficient reading, conducting searches, organizing information, and writing the review itself. ... Read more

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Lit Review Book
Thanks for the book although I was very surprised at the time it took to get it from Delaware as I am in Maryland.
The book was in very good condition and well-packaged.

Definitely does the trick
I am writing a doctoral dissertation in the fine arts, and I found this book exceedingly helpful. I wasn't sure initially from reviews of this books and similar books which to choose, but I think this one is the right choice. It's helpful for various levels of study, it's clear and "step" driven (rather than abstract), and it provides a ton of specific examples. I learned a LOT of new stuff reading it, and I came away with a much more rigorous lit review than before. Highly recommended.

Straightforward and practical
I read both Ridley's book and Chris Hart's book, "Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination." Ridley's book is very readable. It is basic and practical for students at the masters degree level but still valuable at the doctorate level. In contrast, Hart's book is more advanced and more theoretical. It is probably suited best for doctorate students. Some of the discussions in Ridley's book are obvious but nonetheless valuable when under the pressure of performing a literature review. Perhaps, one of the most valuable parts is the practical aspects suggested in this book to manage the process of doing a literature review such as controlling database searches, interconnecting ideas from multiple journal articles, and so forth. If you order both Ridley and Hart texts, and have not recently read another text about doing literature reviews, I suggest you start with Ridley. Doctorate students probably want to read Hart after Ridley. Masters students could probably get by with only Ridley.

My only criticism is that the author's writing style tends to be too wordy and sometimes is not as clear as it could be. However, neither of these are fatal.

EXACTLY what I needed
I had been working on my darn lit review for a few months, spinning my wheels and not knowing exactly what to write.This book takes you from the beginning and the title says it best "step-by-step". The first chapter talks about what is a lit review and many different examples of published lit reviews from dissertations.Then it goes into the types and you can figure out which lit review is best for you, or a combination of approaches.It tells you how to take good notes while you're studying so that you know exactly what to put in the review and as a bonus for me, it shows you how to incorporate EndNote in your search.Then it explains how to structure the review, the difference between critical reading and critical writing, etc etc etc.This author has found the perfect middle ground between sounding too simple and too complex.If I had this book months ago, my dissertation would probably be complete by now.I also bought Chris Hart's book "Doing a Literature Review" but this one is much better.Very easy to read but packed with extremely helpful information.Get this if you've never done a lit review before and need guidance. ... Read more

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Lauded by thousands of readers for providing researchers with the first practical approach for doing systematic literature reviews, this popular book has been thoroughly updated and revised to include the latest information on the use of electronic technology and the Internet to conduct literature searches.

This new edition of Synthesizing Research includes expanded discussion of retrieving and coding information from research documents to the production of coding sheets, as well as updated coverage of report writing that includes APA's new guidelines and recent practices adopted by research syntheses.

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Synthesizing Research:A Guide for Literature Reviews
Good text.I'm using it for a class where I'm doing an integrated literature review in prep for my dissertation.It is very systematic in its approach.

Best buy for intro to meta-analysis
Among the various works on doing a synthetic literature review, I found this book to be the most informative for its size. All essential aspects seem to be well-covered. The much larger work co-edited by the same authoronly adds detailed treatment of statistical issues. The only drawback tothe book is that it is written in the extremely dense prose preferred bypsychology professors. If the style of psych journals puts you to sleep,you may prefer the similar work by Fink. ... Read more

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"This book is superb. Most undergraduates have to undertake some form of literature review which may be daunting, this book explains it in an clear, easy to understand format. Explanations are given as to why undertaking a literature review is undertaken. Summery sections at the end of each chapter allow the reader to reflect on what they have just read, allowing the information to sink in. This book should be on every university's recommended reading list."
Kerry Davis, Student Nurse, University Campus Suffolk, UK

"This book is fantastic!It gives a clear, concise guide to carrying out a literature review, which is of course a widely used formative assessment technique in a nursing program ... (it includes) in depth explanations and reasons as to how and why it is important to do a literature review ... the summary section at the end of each chapter is excellent, and allows the reader to review their understanding of what they’re just read. Overall an excellent book which is a must for any student nurse!"
Gem Smith, Student Nurse, Northumbria University, UK

"This book is superb. It explains the entire process of writing a literature review very clearly ... extremely helpful as the prospect of reviewing literature can be quite daunting."
Vicky Bain, Student Nurse, University of Nottingham, UK

"A comprehensive, easy to read guide which will help students to understand how to undertake a literature review, and how to use the resultant information effectively."
Anne-Marie Warnes, University of Central Lancashire, UK

This bestselling book is a step-by-step guide to doing a literature review in health and social care. It is vital reading for all those undertaking their undergraduate or postgraduate dissertation or any research module which involves a literature review.

The new edition has been fully updated and provides a practical guide to the different types of literature that you may come across when undertaking a literature review. It includes:

• Examples of commonly occurring real life scenarios encountered by students
• Emphasis on the importance of setting a question at the very start of the project
• Advice on how to follow a clearly defined search strategy
• Details of a wide range of critical appraisal tools

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College-level collections will find this a powerful addition!
TELLING A RESEARCH STORY: WRITING A LITERATURE REVIEW presents Volume 2 of the revised, expanded edition of ENGLISH IN TODAY'S RESEARCH WORLD, and covers the basics of writing a literature review. It's a revision of a work on writing abstracts that appeared in English in Today's Research World and presents a range of issues particular to the writing of literature reviews. College-level collections will find this a powerful addition!

Use for class
This book has useful concepts for a research based writing class. It is a little boring to read, but does provide some guidance in how to formulate research introductions and literature reviews. Each chapter has exercises that are tedious to complete and do not fully help the reader. ... Read more

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What makes the difference between your collaboration's failure or success? Collaboration: What Makes It Work, Second Edition answers this question with an up-to-date and in-depth review of collaboration research.

What's new in the second edition:

- An important new success factor (there are twenty in all) related to the collaboration's pace of development and its evolution over time
- Improved factor descriptions with fresh examples based on experience of organizations throughout the world during the 1990s
- Research drawn from an additional pool of 281 research studies
- An expanded bibliography and up-to-date list of collaboration experts
- The Collaboration Factors Inventory, a practical tool for assessing how your collaboration is doing on the twenty success factors, along with instructions on interpretation
- Examples of how organizations have used the inventory and a case study illustrating how one collaboration assessed itself and used the results to take action to improve its success
- New ideas for using the factors based on examples of how others used the first edition.

Practical information to help you benefit from the experience of others
This is not an academic report! It provides useful information to help you:
- Expand your thinking about ways to help your project succeed
- Gain background information before beginning a collaboration
- Compare your situation with others
- Determine if your plans include necessary ingredients
- Uncover and resolve trouble spots
- Choose between cooperation, coordination, and collaboration.

This helpful resource also gives you...
- A working definition of collaboration
- Details of the twenty factors influencing successful collaborations
- A handy one-page chart comparing the elements of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration
- Practical suggestions for using this research. ... Read more

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Scoring high on the AP English Literature Exam is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about English literature—only the strategies and information you’ll need to get your highest score. In Cracking the AP English Literature Exam, we’ll teach you how to

·Ace the reading passage questions by using clues in the answer choices
·Conquer difficult poetry and prose passages by zeroing in on the main ideas
·Safeguard yourself against hidden traps
·Score higher by learning essential concepts from the glossary of literary terms

This book includes 2 full-length practice AP English Literature tests. All of our practice questions are just like those you’ll see on the actual exam, and we explain how to answer every question.

Cracking the AP English Literature Exam has been fully updated for the 2009 test. ... Read more

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Really great!
This book, at first, didn't feel like it was helping me.

But after taking numerous practice tests, I figured out that it did.

Today I found out that I got a 5 ON MY LIT EXAM :D

They give you a ton of poem names that it is strongly advised for you to look at over the summer. But if not, its okay. Look at some of them.

Don't just read their tips, DO THEM.

And do all the practice questions.

This book was very helpful and optimistic at a time when I was pessimistic.

Also, the examples in this book were much harder than the actual AP Exam. So if you think this book is a little hard, then you'll be fine on the ap exam! :)

Useful but not necessary
I bought this for my son who browsed it only briefly before passing the test with 5 (highest possible).The practice tests are helpful, but a good AP class will prepare your student adequately.The exam is designed to assess knowledge and understanding of the rich meaning of limited body of high school literature.That understanding is best gained by reading the original works and practicing the art of critical thinking and writing.

Best test prep review series
My daughter used an earlier version of this book to study and pass the English Lit. & Comp. test in 8th grade! Having now studied for many other tests using a variety of expensive books, she's learned to start with Princeton Review, as their books are consistently accurate and much more helpful than any other publisher's study guides.
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This book shows how to interpret and analyze published and unpublished research literature.

The author unravels the intricacies of: selecting questions to maximize the efficiency of the review; identifying subject headings and key words for electronic searches; identifying the most appropriate databases; including supplementing computer and Web-based searches; identifying and dealing with unpublished studies; setting inclusion and exclusion criteria; justifying methods for reviewing only the `highest quality' literature; preparing a structured literature abstraction form; ensuring the reliability and validity of the review; synthesizing and reporting results; conducting and evaluating descriptive literature reviews; and, how to understand and evaluate the principles of meta-analysis.

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Readable guide
This is a readable guide to executing a large-scale literature review, with special attention to the issues of doing a quantitative synthesis. It is written for people in the health professions rather than scholars, sothe latter may find the treatment a bit light. ... Read more

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The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SAT Literature Subject Test is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about literature–only the techniques and information you’ll need to maximize your score. In Cracking the SAT Literature Subject Test, we’ll teach you how to think like the test writers and

·Learn what subject matter will be tested so you can study more effectively
·Review key terms, types of literature, and reading-comprehension concepts that will help you decipher complicated questions
·Use proven techniques to raise your score

The 2007-2008 edition of Cracking the SAT Literature Subject Test is revised and updated to include the most current information possible ... Read more

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princeton review is a light of hope (metaphor alert!)
This review book was short and sweet, and pretty interesting too. It gave me all the info i needed to prepare. In the meantime, there were frequent drills and stuff that used really great literature, such as excerpts from moby dick, or a poem by emily dickinson. also, there are tons of reminders of vocab throughout such as what I did in the title for this review, so it really sticks. It's clear that it was written by someone who actually loves literature, because they reference awesome books throughout. for a test prep book, it's a good read. ... Read more

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The test prep experts at The Princeton Review provide all the tools you need to succeed on the AP English Literature and Composition Exam. Cracking the AP English Literature & Composition Exam, 2010 Edition includes proven strategies for test taking so you can score higher, as well as

•2 full-length practice AP English Literature and Composition tests with detailed explanations
•A detailed walk-through of how to write a great essay for your AP
•An engaging review of important literary movements that you will need to know for the exam
•A comprehensive glossary of key terms ... Read more

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Although there is extensive research on the psychosocial factors that influence the etiology, progression, and effective treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD), these findings are seldom applied in clinical situations.There are several possible reasons for this, including the questionable quality of some of the research, and a lack of productive dialog between psychologists and physicians. This book aims to correct that situation.The chapters in this volume are based on a systematic meta-analysis of the international literature by 40 German scientists who convened to evaluate the research and discarded all but the highest quality data on psychological aspects of CHD.The result is a collection of chapters that synthesize the most significant findings and indicate productive avenues for intervention and further research. Among the topics covered are: chronic emotional distress in the workplace; psychodynamic research on the etiology, course, and treatment of CHD; smoking cessation--risk reduction and evaluation of interventions; physical inactivity as a risk factor and treatment models; anxiety and depression in CHD patients; type A behavior and hostility as risk factors; chest pain, angina pectoris, panic disorder, and Syndrome X; psychosocial aspects of heart catheterization, coronary angiography, and coronary angioplasty; and stress management, relaxation, and Ornish groups.Summarizing tables are included in the book and in an accompanying website.This book will be an important reference work for health psychologists who work with CHD patients, researchers, and cardiologists and other medical professionals. ... Read more

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Containing stories from National Review's private collection of St. Nicholas Magazine volumes (spanning the period from 1874 through the 1930s), this beautifully crafted and lavishly illustrated book includes some of the most entertaining, touching, and wholesome children's stories that have ever graced paper. ... Read more

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Give the Gift of Reading to the Children in Your Life
Searching for a read-aloud book that you might share with your children, you would score a consensus winner with this compendium of rich, highly captivating tales.The two selections from Jack London, "In Yeddo Bay" and "To Repel Boarders" were springboards for our youngsters beyond this book and on to "The Call of The Wild" and "White Fang."Similarly, short fables from Louisa May Alcott and Lewis Carroll opened our ears to continue with more famous, longer works by those authors.Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and Mowgli's Brothers", "Tommy and the Meadowmice" by Thornton W. Burgess, "Juggerjook" by L. Frank Baum, creater of Oz, and "The Voyage of the Northern Light" by John Townsend Trowbridge each held my kids' attention as we read them aloud at dinner or at bedtime.The inestimable Mark Twain weighs in with a novella "Tom Sawyer Abroad" that is a perfect followup to a summertime reading of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."There is plenty of selection here for everyone to be happy.Give your kids the gift of colorful, imaginative literature...then read it aloud with them.

If Mr. Buckley's politics or his pomposity is a bother, worry not about it here...he pens a pithy pre-amble, and among the classics also includes a modern-day computer adventure entitled "The Temptation of Wilfred Malachey."Just plain fun!

A timeless and memorable anthology
Compiled and edited by William F. Buckiley, Jr., the Treasury Of Classic Children's Literature is an anthology of enduring stories for young folk, painstakingly selected and compiled by William F. Buckley, Jr. for their lasting appeal across the generations. Works by Jack London, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Thorton W. Burgess, Palmer Cox, and others, are embellished with black-and-white illustrations in this timeless and memorable anthology which is a welcome and recommended addition to school and community library Children's Literature anthology collections. ... Read more