This is a great book with great insight to help struggling people. Many people have a mental illness that are undefined. Great way to deal with issues that no one discusses.

This book has been the only real connection between me and the meaning of my feelings. I finally can understand what makes me do the things I do, and feel the way I feel. In reading this book, I was able to bring out things that have happened to me, that I was never able to explain. Thank goodness for the honesty in the author.

This text is a must for any professional who works with individuals with multiple and severe disabilities. Well written, wonderful examples and illustrations, helpful ideas for developing modifications to meet the educational needs of these students.

A must for an orthopedically impaired teacher. Gives a complete guide to physical, sensory, and health characteristics.

This Ballantine paperback printing is full of printer's errors, an insult to the author's fine work and vitally important topic.

It is regrettable, and a mystery to me how a book that it is so well-written and important can go out of print, but such is apparently the case with Kati Marton's book "Wallenberg". Reading this book is something I will never forget. It is the story of Raoul Wallenberg, a young Swedish diplomat whose heroic and selfless efforts saved thousands (some say as many as 100,000) Hungarian Jews from certain death in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Budapest's Jews were among the last substantial population threatened by the Nazi's, and in July of 1944 Wallenberg was sent there by the Swedish Foreign Ministry in an effort to rescue the remaining 200,000 Jews from planned deportations. He issued thousands of Swedish Embassy-stamped "Schutzpassen" which were provisional or "protective" passports, granting the bearer not only an exemption from wearing the humiliating yellow star, but (more importantly) extending to them the rights of Swedish citizens, with the eventual intention of being "repatriated" to Sweden. With funds supplied from the War Refugee Board, Wallenberg also secured property which he then converted into "safe houses" for those rescued from deportations. Can you imagine? At times, Wallenberg put himself on the line and pressured SS officials into turning over to his custody "prisoners" who were already on board deportation trains! He then organized a network of hundreds of Jewish agents who managed the distribution of food and medicine to Jews in his shelters.

The tragic twist to this story is that after Budapest's liberation, Wallenberg himself was arrested by the Soviets on espionage charges and imprisoned, presumably until the rest of his life, for his fate remains shrouded in mystery. All attempts by his family and government to obtain his release were frustrated. To placate the mass of inquiries, Lubyanka Prison officials gave a date of Wallenberg's alleged death as being July 17, 1947. The end of Marton's book goes into many reasons why such an ending to Wallenberg's life seems suspicious. She explains how that Wallenberg was "quite possibly the Soviet's most important prisoner. His name and his legend were too powerful to release." A free Wallenberg would be a "living indictment" and would have presented a dangerous competition to the Communist party's most jealously guarded possessions: legitimacy and power.

The author says in chapter 10: "Wallenberg was imbued with a conviction that anything was within reach, any goal could be met if one just applied oneself, and all of one's God-given gifts to its fulfillment." Here where I live in the capital city of Canada there is a Raoul Wallenberg Park... and whenever I drive by it I am powerfully reminded of the importance of remembering this hero of humanity, who, in the name of the civilized world sacrificed his own freedom in a fight to hold the uncivilized portion of that world accountable to the last.

I just took a class with Professor Horwitz of the same title here at Harvard, and this book clearly summarizes the major themes of the Warren Court. It is wonderfully written, moves very fast, but there are details given about this wonderful era of change.

The book centers on the Warren Court's view of substantive democracy as a central organizing principle for the many decisions. It espouses the ideal that while responding to times, the Court also had higher ideals and used these two together.

The book works through major case areas and is divided as such, looking first at the race relations and civil rights cases, then moving on to the response to McCarthyism with Free Speech, and views of Rights and Democracy. Each section builds on each other until Horwitz's great theme is revealed.

It really gives the reader a great understanding of the Court, and one can come out of it feeling great. It works well with the course and would work very well on its own too.

Professor Horowitz provides a very accessible accounting of the Warren Court's impact on America and American jurisprudence. For those with legal training, this short history puts all the doctrines learned in law school-the void for vagueness application to the First Amendment, the Carolene Products Footnote Four analysis-into a tidy, compact context. For the non-lawyer, Horowitz avoids the legalese and shows how the Warren Court rulings affected the course of American events. Horowitz examines the court's impact in several areas: civil rights, democractic principles of governance, free speech, and the incorporation doctrine as applied to criminal procedure. Horowitz truly has admiration for his subject, but that admiration is not unqualified, and he takes the court to task for buckling under McCarthyism and for not standing up for its First Amendment principles, although Horowitz clearly blames one justice, Justice Frankfurter, for the court's reluctance to take on McCarthy. An excellent summary of the Warren Court, its decisions, and the justices who together made up its collective personality.

it is a good book

From a physics undergrad: This is one of those wonderful, highly concentrated books that deliver extensive Wisdom in only a few pages of hardcore, to-the-point Theory, without simplifying. If you enjoy being told things in a frank manner and without excessive preambles, even if this means slower reading, this book is for you. The theory is built from scratch, but a lack of general abstract mathematical culture might prove problematic. Not recommended for the unprepared or those greedily seeking immediate applications.

This book is great for someone who has never picked up a guitar before. It teaches you how to read music as well as play. It is set up in an easy to understand and follow format.

One of the most fascinating CD_ROMs available. Mixes imagery of Max Ernst with Subonick's thrilling music in a way that is incomparably unique. A must have for your collection.

Someday I will visit London; until then I will hold onto this book to be my guide of the city where famous Americans lived, worked and loved. It is a wonderful book. Someday I will go to London and I will be able to follow in the steps of famous Americans, and join their experiences with mine.

Brian Morton takes you on a walk (with street-by-street maps) of Paris through the eyes and lives of famous Americans who lived, worked and loved in Paris. You can feel and live in your imagination their lives - through gossip, fact, or read between the lines - a wonderful vacation from my reading chair. . . I can't wait to visit Paris with this book in hand.