As a longtime reader and contributor to NVSQ, I have been occupied for quite a while with trying to select what book is worthy of a review in NVSQ. So many new books cover aspects of the nonprofit sector or voluntary action, or both, that the list of books alone would take the entire space allocated for book reviews. Rarely do I encounter a book that is unknown by most scholars in the field yet...

It is perhaps unusual to write an academic review of a casebook. After all, the received wisdom in academia is that casebooks rank somewhere just above book reviews in the hierarchy of intellectual merit. When I began my career in teaching, I received no shortage of advice about different forms of scholarship. Despite the fact that many of the biggest names in scholarship had pinned their names...

This paper uses detailed weekly data on sales of hardcover fiction books to evaluate the impact of New York Times book reviews on sales. In order to weigh the relative propensity of reviews to inform and to persuade, the analysis utilizes a measure of review opinion obtained through a systematic reading of each review. The estimates indicate that in the case of book reviews, any publicity is go...

http://journals.cambridge.org/bjh This leading international journal publishes scholarly papers and review articles on all aspects of the history of science. History of science is interpreted widely to include medicine, technology and social studies of science. BJHS papers make important and lively contributions to scholarship and the journal has been an essential library resource for more than...

Edited by Thomas C. Todd and Cheryl L. Storm. © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2014 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This resource succinctly describes and critiques the most common assessment instruments used in systemic supervision to evaluate supervisees’ competencies. The first section focuses on measures of individual counseling skills that have been used in creative ways to assess syste...

Let me begin with my conclusion: Rob Sampson has written a great book. It is a mustread for almost all sociologists and demographers, and especially important for urbanists. Though I have written numerous book reviews and read countless others, this essay is by far the hardest one I’ve been asked to do. It is hard for two reasons: first, there is so much excellent material in Great American Cit...

Science serves its readers as a forum for the presentation and discussion of important issues related to the advancement of science, including the presentation of minority or conflicting points of view, rather than by publishing only material on which a consensus has been reached. Accordingly, all articles published in Scienceincluding editorials, news and comment, and book reviews--are signed ...