Intercom Online......February 24, 2000

Book Shelf

Ralph J. Sabock, retired associate professor of physical education.
Coaching: A Realistic Perspective, 6th Edition, published by Collegiate Press, San Diego, Calif.
The book places great emphasis on ethical behavior for both coaches and players, discipline, recruiting, parent involvement, organization and planning. The material, an in-depth description of the coaching profession, is applicable for both men's and women's coaches of all sports.
An earlier edition was translated into Japanese and adapted by Nagasaki Prefectural Women's Junior College in Nagasaki, Japan.

Jack Selzer, professor of English at Penn State, and Sharon Crowley, professor of English at Arizona State University.
Rhetorical Bodies, published by The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.
Selzer and Crowley address some of the most important topics currently being discussed in the human sciences through this collection of essays that look at the public arenas in which rhetoric is operative -- from abortion clinics and the Web, to discourses on AIDS prevention and Demi Moore's "beautiful pregnancy."
The book focuses on ways in which language and other symbols reflect and create the physical world.

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