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| | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | N.M. Agnew and S.W. Pyke. The Science Game. Prentice-Hall, 1975. A. Allison and T. Frongia. The Grad Student's Guide to Getting Published. Prentice-Hall, 1992. R.L. Allwright. "What Do We Want Teaching Materials For?" ELT Journal (1981), Pages 5-18. Focuses on types of publications language teachers need. Calls for material addressed to learners, for "idea books" containing collections of ideas for teacher adaptation, and for "rationale books" that would help teachers understand and explain language learning theory. (lkh) Mindy Aloff. "Dance Loses Its History, Book by Book by Book," Chronicle of Higher Education, Volume 48 (August 16, 2002): Number 49, Pages B12-B13. Aloff, a dance historian, bemoans that the great dance biographies have gone out of print. Those that remain are mostly "heartbreakingly abridged." Why? Part of the problem, Aloff says, are changes in corporate tax laws in the 1970s that forced publishers to pare warehouse inventories of slow-moving books. (jv) Philip G. Altbach, G.P. Kell, H.G. Petrie and L.W. Weis, editors. Textbooks in American Society: Politics, Policy and Pedagogy. State University of New York Press, 1991. An edited volume with chapters on social and political issues, textbook reform and improvement, and the international perspective. Also contains case studies of issues in the development of reading/literacy texts and a discussion of priorities from the viewpoint of the author and that of the publisher. (lkh) American Textbook Publishers Institute. Textbooks in Education: A Report From the American Textbook Publishers Institute to Its Membership, Its Friends, and Any Others Whose Interests in the Development of the Educational System in the United States Goes Beyond Mere Passing Fancy. American Textbook Publishers Institute, 1949. An interesting analysis of the textbook industry in the mid-1900s. Although obviously biased in favor of textbook publishers, nevertheless contains valuable information on the development of textbooks. (lkh) Michael W. Apple. "The Culture and Commerce of the Textbook," Journal of Curriculum Studies (1985), Pages 147-162. Points out how little we know about textbooks. Attempts to analyze complicated set of political, cultural and economic relationships involved in textbook production. (lkh) Michael W. Apple. "Textbook Publishing: The Political and Economic Influences," Theories Into Practice (1989), Pages 282-287. Discussion of textbooks as economic and cultural commodities that play major roles in the establishment of curriculum at the elementary and secondary levels. (lkh) Michael W. Apple. "The Socio-Historical Roots of State Control," in Philip G. Altbach, G.P. Kell, H.G. Petrie and L.W. Weis, editors. Textbooks in American Society: Politics, Policy and Pedagogy. State University of New York Press, 1991. J. Applebaum. How to Get Happily Published, third edition. Harper & Row, 1988. R. Ariew. "The Textbook as Curriculum," in T.V. Higgs, editor, Curriculum, Competence and the Foreign Language Teacher, Pages 11-33. National Textbook, 1982. Discusses the compromises that textbook authors must make along with the teachers' responsibility for adaptation of materials to their own situations. Recommends "healthy skepticism" in selecting a textbook along with boldness in making necessary modifications. (lkh) D.L. Arnold. The Stone the Builders Rejected: An Initial Inquiry into the Role of the Textbook in the Professional Culture of the Higher Education Faculty. Dissertation: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1989. Structured interviews and surveys focusing on perceptions of textbooks in higher education. Areas investgated include textbooks as scholarship, textbooks selection, reviews of textbooks, and access to textbooks. Also available as an article in Publishing Research Quarterly (1993). (lkh) Diana Athill. Stet: An Editor's Life. Grove, 2001. Athill, one of her era's great book editors, looks back from retirement at her work with Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, V.S. Naipaul, John Updike and others. She offers insight into an editor's role in successful, acclaimed works. (jv)
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