This book is a must for anyone interested in understanding how our world is changing shape. Captured here are the opinions and views of leaders in many walks of life around the globe of what is happening to the way we live our lives. As these are people with most influence and power, Mercer postulates that they are the very ones who will bring this future about. They have already proved frighteningly accurate in their predictions concerning terrorism and the growing imbalance between the West and the rest. It is a book for opening eyes and stimulating thinking.

Mercer Sullivan's text follows three youth cliques in the Brooklyn area (in neighborhoods he coins Projectville, La Barriada and Hamilton Park), and studies their involvement in, and desistance from, local youth crime. The study is largely ethnographic, and so Sullivan alternates between dialogue between his subjects and an analysis on their criminal patterns. Sullivan also discusses how the physical ecology of the neighborhood, the transiency of the residents, levels of education, economic opportunity, family values, and access to a network of human resources--a system of social capital--affects the youths' criminal careers, and whether or not these acts of criminality are for the purpose of entertainment or income-generation.

Being published in 1989, the text is a bit outdated, but his discussion as to youth crime in neighborhoods of social isolation is still very relevant today. Well worth reading.

Mercer's book is an excellent resource for not only Hamlet, but The Spanish Tragedy (Kyd), Antonio's Revenge (Marston) and The Revenger's Tragedy (Tourneur/Middleton?). Critical for anyone researching these plays.

this book is filled with lots of good info. the only problem is that it is for someone who has read other books or has had a college coarse in egyptian hieroglyphs. i found it very hard to read and understand. you also have to know english very well like what auxiliary verbs are, prepositions, conjunctions, and particles. it is a hard book to read. but if you have had a cource or have read other books this is a great book for you.

It is very difficult to find useful information for people who have been injured except from the strictly medical information point of view. This book tells you how to take charge of your life when you feel so vulnerable. It begins with choosing a doctor if you don't like the one you have. Suggestions are offered for handling shock and facing changes in career and lifestyle. It gives valuable information about head injury. It addresses guilt from being a "burden" and helps you through the civil and criminal justice systems, including valuable tips about dealing with insurance companies. The author is a clinical psychologist who, herself, was seriously injured. I haven't found a book this helpful for the injured and their families anywhere.

My daughter loves ALL Mercer Mayer's books. She's two and makes Dad read at least three or four per day. They're well written and beautifully illustrated. She spots something new every time we read one.

This Little Critter book is a good reminder to small childrenof the power of the word "please." Very similar to all otherL.C. books so if you enjoyed those this will be no different.

Folklore and fairy tales can be a great springboard for the imagination and Mercer Mayer's preschool version of Little Red Riding Hood is one such delightful romp. This story re-told by Mercer Mayer in an earlier version for the Little Critter series has been refined for preschoolers. The sturdy, lift-the-flap board book is appropriate for its preschool market, yet the artwork and storytelling will keep amused the hapless adult who is asked to read it over and over again The slightly unisex Little Critter's unkempt, google-eyed appearance and one-tooth smile connects immediately with preschoolers. The illustrations are pen-and-ink rendered with bright, pleasant colors. Unlike many other books in the Little Critter series, the backgrounds in Little Red Riding Hood are not vignettes but fully detailed. Children and their caregivers will delight in finding bits of humor and other treasures in the drawings through repeated readings. Mayer's gift for affable artwork extends into the storytelling. With Critter's light spirit, readers should not expect the original story's violent end. It is through the artwork that Mayer makes it easy to side-step the discomfort of straying a bit from the original tale or, worse yet, making light of the violence. Grandma is not consumed, she hides in a closet. The woodcutter does not cut open the Big Bad Wolf, the comical-looking beast simply runs away never to be seen again. Readers will find the Mouse, one of Critter's endearing friends, as usual, on every page. Mouse does his part to find the humor in the moment and it is his comments that are underneath the flap on every page. At times, Mouse helps shed light on the unfolding drama, skillfully taking even more of the scare out of the story. "Here comes trouble" and "Look in here" are a few of Mouse's straight lines, but with Mayer's expressive drawing, particularly of Mouse's eyes, you can not help but be let in on the joke and laugh. If Little Critter is Mayer's self-portrait, Mouse is surely the omnipresent Greek chorus; a voice that speaks to the emerging spirit of preschoolers as well as to their caregivers who enjoy reconnecting with their own.

Little Critter is excited about the first day of school. He has new clothes to wear and a new pencil and notebook. He wants to give the teacher his new bug, but his mom said an apple is better. Little Critter's teacher is Miss Kitty. He tells about all the things that he gets to do at school! They learn a song, draw pictures, play outside, listen to stories, and have rest time. Then they got to meet the school nurse, go to the library, and even watch a film about dinosaurs. It's finally time to go home and Miss Kitty helps them onto the bus. Little Critter is excited about show and tell tomorrow; he wants to bring his pet snake!
This book would help children develop confidence for their first day of school by seeing all the fun things that Little Critter gets to do.

A little monster tells about his day at school and his new friend, Yally. Yally is a monster that doesn't want to do anything the onther monters want to do and doesn't seem to like anything. After art the other monsters give him compliments on his drawing. He then participate with the rest of the class in the rest of the day's activitie. I think this book shows how a little encouragement can boost someone's way of looking at things. It is very important for teachers to give encouragement to students