The book I read was good. It tells you everything that one little girl had to go through. Well she really wasn't little she was 16. Her mom had to make dresses for the nazis so they didn't get taken away. The girl had to get job after job so her and her mom could get money so they could get food and pay for the stuff to make the dress. They had a brother he went to college I am not sure how old he was. He was the one that got the girl most of her jobs. Finally the government passed a law and there was a place for Jews to live and the Nazis could not kill them or anything. The girl had some kind of job for someone and she had to sneak out of her house in the middle of the night and give something to someone. The girl and her mother wanted to find a way back to America. So they could see their brother. There was a problem they had no way to get there unless they sneaked to the other side with the Nazis.

I dont have time to read much but I could not put this book down. A wonderful Book. A must read. I would like to find out if there are more of The Stafford Chronicles out there.

This is an indispensable guide to the best independent retailers San Francisco has to offer. I particularly like the page-by-page illustrations of the different stores and their owners. If you are in to finding the best of San Francisco shopping, this is the definitive guide.

This is an indispensable guide to the best independent retailers San Francisco has to offer. I particularly like the page-by-page illustrations of the different stores and their owners. If you are in to finding the best of San Francisco shopping, this is the definitive guide.

This past weekend I finished the "Gedanken Fictions", which is a collection of short stories edited by Thomas Easton. All the stories in this collection are first rate - - Easton is, after all, a book reviewer. Some stories are thought provoking, others moving and still other ones are funny. In particular I enjoyed "Out Of Copyright" by Charles Sheffield. It is a story about cloning individuals from the past when the copyright on their genetic material expires. It just so happens that this past weekend, a controversy erupted over profiting from the sale of Ted William's DNA. Even more strange is that ever since I read "Sparrowhawk", I have developed a curiosity about what Easton is up to. One of the reasons I read the "Gedanken Fictions" is because after reading "Sparrow Hawk", I was shocked to hear the media reports about the remote control rats being developed for search and rescue work. In "Sparrowhawk", Easton envisions animals being genetically engineered organic machines used to replace the internal combustion engines that are destroying our environment. He has another unique story along those lines in this book as well.

Wildside Press are doing a great service of taking risks and keeping valuable work available.

One of the main threads of science fiction has long been the dramatization of scientific and technological ideas, especially those of physics and astronomy and their effects on human lives. The purpose of this book is not to survey all of sicence fictoin, nor all of hard science fictoin, but to present a few stoires that illuminate some of the issues discussed in courses on science, technology, and society, which are currently served by nonfiction books and anthologies.

This book's title, Gedanken Fictions, refers to a basic tool of science, the gedanken or thought experiment that must be used when laboratory experiments are not practical or possible.

Dr. Thomas A. Easton is Professor of Life Sciences at Thomas College in Waterville, Maine. He is also the author of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Science, Technology and Society.

While the conspiracy of the title is, of course, the main theme of the book, I found the personal life of the main character most absobing and even a bit disturbing. Gabe, an Anthropology professor, faces his wife leaving him, making accusations of abuse and assault, possibly fueled by her therapist's leading questions. In the face of such tragedy, he aquires an embarrasment of riches, three women wanting to heal his wounds, a huge grant to think interesting thoughts about similarities between human and aliens and talk about them, and university administrators pleased at the attention he is generating. Then his troubles multiply, fire bombs, computer viruses, and kidnapping to name a few. Through it all, the wife keeps coming back, refusing to be shut out, refusing to get on with her own life, and refusing to let him get on with his. This strikes such a personal chord that I kept putting the book down to digest the emotion of the scene.

How often are seminal ideas discovered? Are they discovered at a constant rate? This is one of **two** mysteries Tom Easton manages to weave skillfully into "The Great Flying Saucer Conspiracy". The characters are interesting and very human. The story moves along at a nice clip and is immensely entertaining. I would be dog tired at the end of the day but would struggle to read "just one more page" . Fresh and original also come to mind, which is no small feat in a field full of original thinkers. I like the decidedly cockeyed humor in the story. The aliens are neat. I would heartily recommend this to anyone who likes stories that strike a nice balance between lightness and thoughtfulness.

On a side note, it was decidedly odd to hear the recent news stories about the remote control rats being developed for search and rescue work. Back in 1990 Professor Easton published another book I read called "Sparrow Hawk". In it he envisioned animals being genetically engineered organic machines used to replace the internal combustion engines that are destroying our environment. At the time I remember thinking, "Nice idea but way too far out there!" The Robo Rat in combination with some of the odd things being engineered, like the mouse with an ear on its back, make this all seem less far fetched. I would keep eye an eye on this guy!

This book is one of my absolute favorites. When I pick it up, I feel like I am transported to another time and another place. The pictures and stories depicting life in Nauvoo in the 1830's and 1840's are treasures that will remain on my bookshelf and in my heart.

This is a wonderful book that is both interesting and visually stunning. You will learn about the LDS people who settled and made Nauvoo the properous city it once was as well as see lovely photographs of the buildings and the area. You'll feel like you're right there.

This is more for the adults than something I would share with my children. It has some fastinating insights as to how we treat eachother on a daily basis, what we take for granted and what we expect of eachother. I read it twice to be sure and gather all the information in and was surprised at what I had missed the first time around. I have told several of my friends about this book and have perchased it for a close dear one as well. This is a must read for anyone looking for the "self" and thinking it's in far away places. It's only as far as your heart and mind, as far as you allow it to be.

For over a period of 30 years this Englishman has "regularly dropped my ordinary routine and gone walkabout in remote and untamed regions of the world, or taken myself off along some pilgrimage route that aims at the heart of one of the world's great spiritual traditions." Because I have been unable and often unwilling to do that, Housden's spiritual quests are as compelling a read as I have found in the "spiritual" book category. From St. Catherine's in the Sinai (one of my favorites) to St. John the Divine cathedral in NYC, his adventures touch the heart, the soul and the funny bone. Read it and give it away to your friends, which is what I did for Christmas.

The characters in this book talk and act like real people -- a rarity in books for this age group -- and the story is compelling and beautifully written. My 12 year old read this straight through and told me she couldn't put it down. Just one warning: don't give this to your kid unless s/he's finished homework already!

This is one of the funniest books I've read. It's so cool, and the mystery gets really scary at one point.

Artists in Their Gardens is a book for the gardener who loves the garden as a means of self-expression. In the ten gardens described, each of us will find things we love, and perhaps things which disturb us. I love the austerity of potter Ann HIrondelle's garden, the zaniness of Lewis and Little's work, the majesty of Lee Kelly's monuments. I could never live with the kitsch of Leter and Barton, yet it is fascinating to see their artistic vision as developed in plants and plastic. The sections on The Artist's Eye helped me see how to translate these visions to my own garden. After all, in my own garden, I am the artist! This book encourages me to be daring in shaping my own garden vision.

In 1989, Chicago began an experiment with radical decentralization of power and authority. This book tells the story of what happened to Chicago's elementary schools in the first four years of this reform. Implicit in this reform is the theory that expanded local democratic participation would stimulate organizational change within schools, which in turn would foster improved teaching and learning. Using this theory as a framework, the authors marshal massive quantitative and qualitative data to examine how the reform actually unfolded at the school level.With longitudinal case study data on 22 schools, survey responses from principals and teachers in 269 schools, and supplementary system-wide administrative data, the authors identify four types of school politics: strong democracy, consolidated principal power, maintenance, and adversarial. In addition, they classify school change efforts as either systemic or unfocused. Bringing these strands together, the authors determine that, in about a third of the schools, expanded local democratic participation served as a strong lever for introducing systemic change focused on improved instruction. Finally, case studies of six actively restructuring schools illustrate how under decentralization the principal's role is recast, social support for change can grow, and ideas and information from external sources are brought to bear on school change initiatives. Few studies intertwine so completely extensive narratives and rigorous quantitative analyses. The result is a complex picture of the Chicago reform that joins the politics of local control to school change.This volume is intended for scholars in the fields of urban education, public policy, sociology of education, anthropology of education, and politics of education. Comprehensive and descriptive, it is an engaging text for graduate students and upper-level undergraduates. Local, state, and federal policymakers who are concerned with urban education will find new and insightful material. The book should be on reading lists and in professional development seminars for school principals who want to garner community support for change and for school community leaders who want more responsive local institutions. Finally, educators, administrators, and activists in Chicago will appreciate this detailed analysis of the early years of reform.

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