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I ran across this book this afternoon, and was so impressed with what I read that I _felt_ that I _had_ to tell others about it! That doesn't happen very often with me.

(I think that this book will squeeze in (barely) this thread with "Deals". Please consider:
- There _is_ a savings, claimed by Amazon, of 5% (less than "print") right now.
- The book has just been published--December 10. The savings is bound to get better, over time, and maybe quickly, making this a better deal soon. (You've got time to wait because the material in the book is not likely to go out-of-date for quite a few years).
- One or more other vendors--I only checked Amazon--might have a bigger discount--maybe much bigger.
- If you set a price alert at, say, _ereaderiq.com_, you're bound to catch this book when it's got a bigger discount than now.
If you don't see the post later, hopefully it only will have been moved by a moderator to another subforum, and not deleted!)

The book is _Convergent Teaching: Tools to Spark Deeper Learning in College_, by Aaron M. Pallas and Anna Neumann. It's $28.45, from Amazon.

Now, about the contents of the book . . . . It supports something that I've found bothersome for a long time. (I'm speaking generally in the following--I don't know the circumstances in all states, of course, or even requirements by the federal government!) Prospective teachers of K-12 (for those who are not familiar with the U.S., that's kindergarten (preschool) through Grade 12 (the end of "high school" ("secondary school," is a more formal term, I think)) are required to take "education" (how to teach) courses in order to be certified as teachers. But for most colleges and universities, a prospective professor has to have _no_ training in teaching before he or she can be a professor! The results are predictable.

That problem seems to be at least one of the kind of circumstance that Pallas and Neumann address in their book. I have not read any of the book other than things in the (extended) preview; however, "Part I. A Roadmap" seems to address the theme of the book."

A matter of the nuts and bolts of the book . . . . it appears that there is at least one quality issue with the book, at least in the the first part of the section that I mentioned above. The first part of "Part I. A Roadmap" is in some kind of sans serif font; beyond that is a serif font of some kind. I briefly looked around for a link to report a "quality issue," but I didn't find one. Would someone kindly direct me to the place where I can report the issue? Thanks.