Dead Ends..... is a true account of the consequences that come with the destruction of a young woman's youth. After being used up by men and treated like garbage (a beer bottle thrown out a car window) Aileen lost all trust for men. She didn't care what their nature was anymore because she would never trust another man, she hated all men at this desperate point in her life. And in her mind, all men she could trap in her web of hatered for men would pay dearly for the pain she had suffered for so many years by the hands of men. If someone would have loved her and shown her love, and caring nurturing , getting her psychiatric help, like so many of us need today, things may have been some what different in the out come of her future! I do believe that she did know what she was doing when she killed all of the men, but she was already to far gone with her sickiness. ( lack of having love as a child and good direction for life)She was paying every man back for what she was put through as a child and as a woman.... This book is a must read if you are a true crime reader!

Fr. Reynolds, S.J. has done a wonderful job of presenting life in the Yakima Valley of Washington State. This mystery takes place in and around this valley known for its orchards and hop fields. I found the book engaging and interesting up until the very end. The style is always very factual and as if you were in the valley travelling to Moxee or driving on Yakima Avenue. I rarely read mysteries, but Fr. Reynolds has made me a "convert" to this genre. Each book is easily accessible, but each one is also very packed with information. If you want a good summer read, you could start by bringing this book along for your summer vacation.

Democracy Unbound accurately characterizes the current mood and optimism of progressive parties. Progressive parties and movements are filled with people working to create an alternative vision for the future, a necessary complement to the single-issue activism that dominates today's politics. I sit on the national council of the Greens/Green Party USA and would recommend this book to those ready to get involved in transforming our politics to create a stronger democracy.

Published in 1995 this collection was on the edge of the disability studies movement. Though later text may have surpassed this early edition it is invaluable for it's "medical anthropology" approach to viewing aspects of disability. It contributes to the growing body of literature that examines disability as a socio-political construction rather than just a medical condition.

This book is the definitive book on the thought behind Art. It states the thought procces, and the Art and Science dualisum of the last 600 years and the reasons behind it all. If you want to be a real artist, this is the way to go. It speaks of truth and genius.

"The natural appetite or tast of the human mind is for Truth"

"Art is a point of view, Genius a way of seeing."

If the artist can grasp the truths in this book they will recieve the keys to the kingdom!

i was looking for a book for my one year old when i came across this book.In the space of a week he had started to respond to the different scenarios in the book by laughing and giggling. My one year old has a developmental delay and i have sucessfully used this book to get him to identify words with sounds. Each and every scenario in this book is familiar to him. From babys bed time to baby hugging and kissing his sister. I recommend this book to anybody who has a baby especially one with a speech and language developmental delay as it is a great help in beginning to share information and communicate with your child.

They provide 21 recipes with many different flavors so there's sure to be at least one you're dog will enjoy ...and more likely their will be several! Recipes generally call for ingredients you're likely to have already in your kitchen, and when there's an out-of-the-ordinary ingredient, they provide a brief explanation and suggestion of where to find it (usually a health food store). The stories that accompany the recipes are brief but entertaining. I know many dogs who fit the profiles of the dogs in the stories. There's "Pogo" whose accompanying recipe is called "Light Biscuits for Belly Draggers," and "Thurber" whose recipe is called "Little Passion Patties" for those dogs that are a little bit more affectionate than necessary. Each dog has its own recipe which ties in somehow which their story. My dogs love this book!!!

i have to say that the book is pretty good. it tells you alot, the highlights of her career, where she was born,the hair cut which made her popular, the romeo's in her life, and the things she went through to achieve the success as a skater. it also talks about the ice capades, i never heard about that before, but i guess it must be those ice shows they did in the 70's and 80's. she is 5'3 inches tall, the book contains pictures. the book is well written, she has had up and downs, but the thing for me is touching. she is the lady who did the vioxx commercial in where she is skating and a little girl with blue eyes stares at her-admiring the ability and the olympian. she also did (when i was little if i remember correctly) a maxwell house commercial sipping coffee, she has done other things. good book! for the most part a big majority of these ice ladies have really nice bodies, oh man!

Reynolds, a Texan, simply read what Southern newspapers were writing in the final year or so before the war began. Through thousands of articles in hundreds of papers, Reynolds showed that southern editors talked big about remaining in the union, provided northerners suppressed abolitionism and refrained from electing anyone who favored hindering the expansion of slavery into newly-acquired western territories. Once they realized that the Republican Party came to represent much of northern opinion, southerners felt their slave-based economy and lifestyle was threatened. Led by South Carolina--then a black-majority state--the south seceded rather than risk losing the slave-based society. This book takes the post-war revisionism--that the secession was about tariffs and constitutional abstractions and not slavery--and exposes it all as bunk. As this book shows through the multitude of newspapers and political speeches of the time--southern voices all--the south was obsessed with slavery, to the point of fetishism. Editors thought nothing of threatening the lives of those who disagreed with their hard-line, abolition-hating views. Many called for the lynching of suspected abolitionists, which is exactly what happened repeatedly during the summer of 1860. Reynolds argues at the end that editors contributed to the enthusiasm for disunion in the south. I might argue with that. I believe the editors, most of whom were desperate for a paying readership, simply went with the (white) mood of the times. Like their political representatives, those who were located in areas with many slaves favored secession, and those in areas with few slaves (western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina) were either tepid supporters or outright opponents of secession. Much as they would like to, modern southern partisans cannot argue with the words--and deeds--of their forbears. It needs to be said bluntly and without ambiguity--had there been no slavery, there would have been no mass secession and no war. The South said as much in its own words, on paper, thousands of times over. Yes, there was tremendous Northern hypocrisy and cruelty in the way the North waged war. But the sins of your enemies does not absolve you of your own wickedness. Something to remember before flying the Confederate flag in full view of black Americans. This book needs to be required reading in all journalism schools.

I first read this when I was nine, and a cousin was visiting and had ElfQuest Book 3. It was a brother and sister and they said that it was one of the few things they both liked, just as good for boys and for girls. I read the first 15 pages or so, and I was hooked. It was my first literary obsession--and I have to say I still take all the first 4 out sometimes (though I think that after that the quality of the series went down). Great story, complex with no easy answers or simple good and evil, and female elves get good play. What more could you ask for? And if you like Strongbow this is bar none the best ElfQuest book.