Educational Resources
Parkinson Pete On Living and Dying with Parkinson’s Disease, by Peter G. Beidler
Parkinson Pete on Living and Dying with Parkinson’s Disease is a direct, honest, and sometimes funny assessment of what it can be like to face a life and a death with a neurodegenerative disease like Parkinson’s. Most of the writers of the books Pete reviewed in Parkinson Pete’s Bookshelves dealt exclusively with the easy early stages of the disease. Then they mumbled…
Read MoreParkinson Pete’s Bookshelves: Reviews of Eighty-Nine Books about Parkinson’s Disease, by Peter G. Beidler
Parkinson Pete’s Bookshelves: Reviews of Eighty-Nine Books about Parkinson’s Disease (260 pages), is an invaluable reference work for anyone who lives with the disease or knows someone living with the disease. The book is divided into three sections: 30 works of nonfiction by doctors and others who do not have the disease, 36 works of…
Read MoreWriting Matters (Second Edition), by Peter G. Beidler’s
For several years, Peter G. Beidler’s Writing Matters has been a popular textbook for high school and college students. In the revised second edition of Writing Matters (230 pages), Beidler improves on the first by presenting an expanded section on editing. Many students dread writing essays because no one has bothered to break down the…
Read MoreRisk Teaching, by Peter G. Beidler
Risk Teaching: Reflections from Inside and Outside the Classroom (250 pages), by Peter G. Beidler, is a retrospective of an award-winning college professor’s teaching career. Both students and teachers can learn from its valuable insights. “Strongly worth considering for any teacher who often finds themselves overwhelmed by their profession, Risk Teaching is a solid and…
Read MoreA Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (Second Edition), by Peter G. Beidler
The second edition of A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye by Peter G. Beidler is a valuable and entertaining resource for American literature students as well as fans of J.D. Salinger and his ground-breaking novel. “For those of us who have not read or taught The Catcher in the Rye for…
Read MoreChaucer’s Canterbury Comedies and A Student Guide to Chaucer’s Middle English, by Peter Beidler
Chaucer’s Canterbury Comedies: Origins and Originality 328 pp, $18.95, ISBN: 978-1-60381-075-3 Chaucer’s Canterbury Comedies, by Peter G. Beidler, is a collection of essays that represents nearly forty years of scholarly research. **CLICK THE IMAGE TO ORDER ** Chaucer’s Canterbury Comedies has received generous advance praise from many renowned Chaucerian scholars. Here is a sampling: “Reading…
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