This is an excellent book for counselors who are looking for something more than "talk therapy". Through the use of sandplay, dreamwork and other creative therapies, Dr. Lewis enters the "imaginal realm" with her clients. According to the author, it is in this sacred place that true healing and "transformation" occurs. The author has developed her own integrated theoretical orientation which is rooted in both Gestalt and Jungian Psychology. Through the use of case illustrations and pictures of actual client art work, Dr. Lewis invites the reader into their world. This approach is original, insightful and delicately magical. A must read for the energized, dedicated and creative therapists out there yearning for more. This is it!!

I love this story! The dialogue is so natural and fun. It answers questions many african americans have wondered about. The main characters are like typical urban kids. I recommend it for all multicultural classes. The illustrations are excellent. It's a fun read for kids, especially those who are deprived of the pleasure of interacting with those of other cultures. Makes a great black history project. Pick it up! You won't be dis-appointed!!

this is a great book on the history and development of credit use in the united states. i recommend it highly.

My eight-year-old is required to do three book reports each week and that can be overwhelming. But the Cul-de-Sac Kids series is a great way to overcome that. The books are entertaining to my child. They do a great service by bridging that gap between easy, babyish books with no real plot and longer, harder books, like Harry Potter. They are easy to understand and read without being simplistic and boring. We have really enjoyed them!

It all begins when Eric wants to find a present for his grandfather. Erics granddad had been living with them every sinceEric's father died. Eric knows what his grandfather knows best.Before he does that he goes to an art classs with a girl named Stacy.(Eric really likes her but doesn't tell her.)Eric trys to make an Egale but he's not to happy about take and gets made. Later the art teacher calls and asked Eric to come back for classes and it worked out!(Here the other part i was telling you about.)Pickle pizza but the problem is that Dee-Dee Winter Trys the pizza and almost [throws up]!Eric is about to give up and giive the Pizza to the birds and then Grandfather eats it and likes it and they all had a great father"s day

The content of this book is self-explanatory, as revealed by the title. The reason I ranked this book as five-star is not because its detailed and comprehensive researches on how different cultures (which is one, but not only, critical element about human behaviors and thinking according to the book) affecting human nature. Instead, it's the AUTHOR'S THINING STYLES AND PROCESSES that impress me most. The author explcitly, and skillfully, articulates how he came up with each idea in the book. This makes me, as a reader, feel that I was having a face-to-face conversation with the author when reading. The author analyzed his own thinking processes like an open book(just an analogy here, don't take it literally hehe), like a psychology surgeon dissecting his own thoughts. Also, the readers may not only benefit from the concrete knowledge from the book, but also, more importantly, from improving the readers own thinking abilities by modelling the author's. I would say this book can be viewed as a reasoning guide book as well.

Lewis, in the Second Edition of the Culture of Inequality, makes the reader uncomfortable: can I, a well intentioned person, help ease the consequences of persistent, harmful inequalities in the US? A careful reading of this rich, deep description of "our town" will most likely generate a sense of futility -- the type that makes it even more important to look for all the ways that policy makers, teachers, parents, or anyone with influence can work to avoid contributing to the reproduction of inequality. No town, no city, no social institution, and no geographic area is immuned to the "culture" of inquality. Moreover, individuals and groups engage in everyday behaviors, and even everyday thinking, that help to maintain the culture of inequality.

Charles Tilly(1998)in Durable Inequality gives the reader a detailed and complex theory to explain persistent social inequalities across time, nations, and cultures. Michael Lewis puts Tilly's theory into action. He brings it to real life, using examples we all recognize. In a study of one ordinary place, Professor Lewis makes us wish that his study is, or could be dated. It is such a shame to realize that it isn't.

JoAnn Miller Associate Professor of Sociology Purdue University

I have read both of the authors books and I find myself always being blessed as I read them. He always touches upon just what I need to be reading for that day in my devotions. He has a way of taking you the place that he is speaking of that day. I have learned so much about faith, life, God's unspeakable love and compassion from this book. It is a must have for daily devotions. I found myself not wanting to stop at reading just one day at a time. I am hopeful that the author will go on to continue sharing life experiences with us all. It is a welcome addition to any library and I do recommend it highly! Thank you for another wonderful book!

I am using this book for daily devotional and find it very refreshing and informative. It provides a wonderful sampling of the lives and theology of these great figures of the Christian faith. I look forward to working through the tome(p.400), and then reading more of the original works of these mighty Christians(Julian of Norwich, Thomas a Kempis, Bonhoeffer, etc.)

Ben Reitman was a hobo, medical doctor, anarchist, and social reformer of the early 20th century. This book reveals his world, a world that most history books tend to ignore- the world of the hobos and political radicals (they were often one and the same) of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is the world of "Hobohemia." Much of this world centered around old time Chicago (the winter quarters for most hobos) and such institutions as the Hobo College, the Dill Pickle Club, and Bughouse Square. I know that one doesn't think of hobos discussing politics, economics, literature, and the arts, but that was a large part of their world. In many ways it reminds one of the world of the Beats during the 1950's- Jack Kerouac would have fit right in. In fact, considering the surprising prevalence of jazz,"free love" and recreational drugs, it uncannily prefigured the Beat scene.

The people that Reitman knew makes an impressive list: Emma Goldman, Jack Reed, Walter Lippman, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, General Jacob Coxey, James Eads How (the "millionaire hobo") and Al Capone. The description of the many, now unknown, hobo philosophers is even more remarkable, for these were very remarkable men. These were free thinkers and intelligent and sensitive critics of the society around them. As for Reitman himself, I not only feel that I know him from reading this book, but I admire him and regret never actually meeting him.

Oh yes, while most of the men covered in this book were labeled as "radicals" by the authorities of their time, all they really wanted was to improve life for the average working man (the hobo was essentially a migrant worker) and make society a little fairer. For this they were persecuted, imprisoned, beaten, and often murdered. Some things never change....