{"id":1150,"date":"2008-01-05T18:55:29","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T18:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/books-time-to-order-for-the-new-semester\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:36","slug":"books-time-to-order-for-the-new-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/books-time-to-order-for-the-new-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Books: Time to Order for the New Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\"> My favorite part<br \/>\nof gearing up for a new semester is finding out what books to order. As<br \/>\nusual, Amazon offered the best value all up with a combination of both<br \/>\nnew and used books. Here is the list for Spring 2008:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/jswidget.php?reporton=badgerjen01&amp;amp;show=recent&amp;amp;header=&amp;amp;num=10&amp;amp;covers=medium&amp;amp;text=all&amp;amp;tag=spring08&amp;amp;css=1&amp;amp;style=4&amp;amp;version=1\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"LTwrapper\" style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;\">\n<div class=\"LTitem LTodd\" style=\"clear: right; padding-top: 5px;\"><a set=\"yes\" linkindex=\"15\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0130947946\/ref=nosim\/librarythin08-20\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0130947946.01._SY142_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" style=\"margin: 4px; display: block; clear: right;\" border=\"0\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><a linkindex=\"16\" href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog.php?book=25527160\" target=\"_top\"><span class=\"LTtitle\">Cognitive Psychology and Instruction, Fourth Edition<\/span><\/a> by <a linkindex=\"17\" href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/author\/bruningrogerh\" target=\"_top\"><span class=\"LTauthor\">Roger H. Bruning<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"LTitem LTeven\" style=\"clear: right; padding-top: 5px;\"><a linkindex=\"19\" href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog.php?book=25234629\" target=\"_top\"><span class=\"LTtitle\">Task Analysis Methods for Instructional Design<\/span><\/a> by <a linkindex=\"20\" href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/author\/jonassendavidh\" target=\"_top\"><span class=\"LTauthor\">David H. Jonassen<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"LTitem LTodd\" style=\"clear: right; padding-top: 5px;\"><a set=\"yes\" linkindex=\"21\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1412939798\/ref=nosim\/librarythin08-20\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1412939798.01._SY142_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" style=\"margin: 4px; display: block; clear: right;\" border=\"0\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><a linkindex=\"22\" href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog.php?book=25234564\" target=\"_top\"><span class=\"LTtitle\">Images of Organization<\/span><\/a> by <a linkindex=\"23\" href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/author\/morgangareth\" target=\"_top\"><span class=\"LTauthor\">Gareth Morgan<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"LTitem LTeven\" style=\"clear: right; padding-top: 5px;\"><a set=\"yes\" linkindex=\"24\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0205495974\/ref=nosim\/librarythin08-20\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0205495974.01._SY142_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" style=\"margin: 4px; display: block; clear: right;\" border=\"0\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><a linkindex=\"25\" href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog.php?book=25234448\" target=\"_top\"><span class=\"LTtitle\">Basic Statistical Analysis (8th Edition)<\/span><\/a> by <a linkindex=\"26\" href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/author\/sprinthallrichardc\" target=\"_top\"><span class=\"LTauthor\">Richard C. Sprinthall<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"LTitem LTodd\" style=\"clear: right; padding-top: 5px;\"><a set=\"yes\" linkindex=\"27\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0131890255\/ref=nosim\/librarythin08-20\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0131890255.01._SY142_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" style=\"margin: 4px; display: block; clear: right;\" border=\"0\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><a set=\"yes\" linkindex=\"28\" href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog.php?book=25234371\" target=\"_top\"><span class=\"LTtitle\">Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh: Analyzing and Understanding Data (5th Edition)<\/span><\/a> by <a linkindex=\"29\" href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/author\/greensamuel\" target=\"_top\"><span class=\"LTauthor\">Samuel Green<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"LTitem LTeven\" style=\"clear: right; padding-top: 5px;\"><a set=\"yes\" linkindex=\"30\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0415139090\/ref=nosim\/librarythin08-20\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0415139090.01._SY142_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" style=\"margin: 4px; display: block; clear: right;\" border=\"0\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><a set=\"yes\" linkindex=\"31\" href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog.php?book=25234255\" target=\"_top\"><span class=\"LTtitle\">Foundations of Distance Education (Routledge Studies in Distance Education)<\/span><\/a> by <a linkindex=\"32\" href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/author\/keegandesmond\" target=\"_top\"><span class=\"LTauthor\">Desmond Keegan<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"LTprovided\" style=\"padding: 5px 0px; text-align: right; clear: right ! important; font-size: 9px;\">powered by <a linkindex=\"33\" href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/\" target=\"_top\">LibraryThing<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear-block clear\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"terms\">\n<ul class=\"links inline\">\n<li class=\"first taxonomy_term_132\"><a linkindex=\"34\" href=\"http:\/\/designedtoinspire.com\/drupal\/taxonomy\/term\/132\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"\" class=\"taxonomy_term_132\">ODU<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"last taxonomy_term_33\"><a linkindex=\"35\" href=\"http:\/\/designedtoinspire.com\/drupal\/taxonomy\/term\/33\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"\" class=\"taxonomy_term_33\">reading list<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"links\">\n<ul class=\"links inline\">\n<li class=\"first blog_usernames_blog\"><a linkindex=\"36\" href=\"http:\/\/designedtoinspire.com\/drupal\/blog\/1\" title=\"Read Jennifer Maddrell's latest blog entries.\" class=\"blog_usernames_blog\">Jennifer Maddrell&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"last statistics_counter\"><span class=\"statistics_counter\">249 reads<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"comments\">Comments<\/h2>\n<div class=\"comment odd\">\n<div class=\"clear-block\">\n      <span class=\"submitted\">Sun, 01\/06\/2008 &#8211; 11:37pm \u2014 <a linkindex=\"37\" href=\"http:\/\/www.learning-blog.org\/\">Alex Ragone<\/a> (not verified)<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a linkindex=\"38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/tv-pbs-frontline-growing-up-online\/\" class=\"active\">That SPSS one&#8230;<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\nlooks interesting;) I dream of being back in school as a full time<br \/>\nstudent. Wow. It would be great to be able to read that much, but on<br \/>\nthe other hand, it&#8217;s great to apply it (or at least attempt to) each<br \/>\nday. Thanks for sharing. &#8211; Alex <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"links\">\n<ul class=\"links\">\n<li class=\"first last comment_reply\"><a linkindex=\"39\" href=\"http:\/\/designedtoinspire.com\/drupal\/comment\/reply\/563\/1731\" class=\"comment_reply\">reply<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite part of gearing up for a new semester is finding out what books to order. As usual, Amazon offered the best value all up with a combination of both new and used books. Here is the list for Spring 2008: Cognitive Psychology and Instruction, Fourth Edition by Roger H. Bruning Task Analysis Methods&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3008,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/3008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}