Loose Covers

Just a bit contrived (but I am really reading these books right now)...This book was a gift (people rarely give me books). It's proving to be useful for the upcoming/impending Austen talk (and of course gives me permission to read more of/reread Austen's juvenilia -- Love and Freindship is brilliantly satirical and Jack and Alice is a real hoot!)




This one is for a class I'm teaching this week on "designing explanations".



The cover attracted me. I thought it was about a prof. who breakdances for his class. It's actually quite ok, very smooth easy read on pedagogical excellence based on a study done by Ken Bain.