Browsing 2000-2016 Oakland Journal by Title
Now showing items 31-50 of 463
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Bar Scene
(Oakland University, 2015-01-01) -
Bartering Books: Doing Research in Central Brazil
(Oakland University, 2000-10-01)The author describes some of the more interesting characteristics of doing historical research on a remote region of Brazil in the late colonial period. -
Basic Training
(Oakland University, 2003-10-01)A young woman's experiences in military basic training, -
A Beautiful Economics Story: A Review of Grand Pursuit by Sylvia Nasar
(Oakland University, 2012-10-01)This isn’t what textbooks on the history of economic thought typically look like, and if you want a book much denser on the theory side you will have to look elsewhere. But Grand Pursuit is richly entertaining and often ... -
Behind Every Poem a Story
(Oakland University, 2005-01-01)Teaching poetry to 6th, 7th and 8th grade students. -
Beyond Biology: A Statistician’s Perspective
(Oakland University, 2006-10-01)The relationship between genetics research and statistics -
Beyond the Secret Decoder Ring: Guidelines for Constructing Assignments That Fulfill Rather Than Frustrate Student and Teacher Expectations
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)Are there ever cases when we faculty frustrate even our most diligent students’ efforts to perform? This discussion is designed to help my colleagues more fully demonstrate our role as rhetoricians when we compose and ... -
Bibliophily In the USA
(Oakland University, 2002-10-01)The state of bibliophily in the United States, starting with its colonial beginnings and tracing it to the present day. -
Bigger/Better: Enrollment and Oakland University’s Vision 2010
(Oakland University, 2006-10-01)Oakland University's enrollment and providing a quality education. -
Block that Pundit!
(Oakland University, 2007-10-01)After every election, the pundits and spinners come out to play. They interpret the election results, often based on a cursory look at the vote totals and/or exit polls. -
Blood on Blanket Hill
(Oakland University, 2009-10-01)Reflections from a 1995 interview conducted by Gary Shepherd with Gail Roberts, an attorney, in her modest frame home in a working class neighborhood in Akron, Ohio while conducting research on the 1970 Kent State shootings ... -
The Blue States And The Red States: Scouting The Electoral Map At The Outset of The 2004 Presidential Campaign
(Oakland University, 2004-10-01)How the electoral vote influences political campaigns in the United States -
Book Review: Edmund Morris, Dutch
(Oakland University, 2000-10-01)Book review of a biography of Ronald Reagan. -
Book Review: Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter
(Oakland University, 2015-01-01)Review of book Three Steps to the Universe by brothers David and Richard Garfinkle -
Book Review: University Ethics: How Colleges Can Build and Benefit from a Culture of Ethics
(Oakland University, 2016-01-01)Assessment of the culture and practices of the whole of university life from the perspective of ethics. -
Book Secrets
(Oakland University, 2013-01-01)Author shares experience of adventures online researching his ancestry. -
The Books I Wanted to Write
(Oakland University, 2016-01-01)Author lists book titles he would have liked to have written and humorous descriptions of them.