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Dr. Murray tells his story of growing up with a severe stutter. Because there was not much help for people who stutter at the time of his youth and young adulthood, he was not able to find much help for it. Later he became a caring, dedicated speech pathologist. His story is worth reading.

Les Murray is quite simply one of the finest poets of his generation. He combines the earthiness of a Seamus Heaney with the passion of a Dylan Thomas. Add a healthy dose of humour and a deep and compassionate understanding of the falibility of humankind and you're getting closer.

"Subhuman Redneck Poems" is a book full of gems - I challenge anyone to read "Burning Want" or "The Last Hellos" and remain unmoved. Les Murray has the gift of being able to quickly and clearly convey a person, a setting, or a situation. The poems are very accessible, which must surely be a rarity given the prevalence of Post-Modernist babble.

He is a poet of, and for Australia, but his appeal is not limited to Antipodeans. From a discussion of cultural cringe ("A Brief History") to a heartbreaking look at the life of his autistic son ("It Allows a Portrait in Line-Scan at Fifteen"), he carries his audience effortlessly.

This is a superb book of poetry. But don't take my word for it - see for yourself why it won the 1997 TS Eliot Prize.

In Suicide In The Middle Ages: The Curse On Self-Murder, Alexander Murray (Fellow and Praelector in Modern History, University College, Oxford) explores the origin of the condemnation of suicide in medieval Europe. This historical, 620-page, exhaustive survey (the second in a planned trilogy) explores medieval theology, law, mythology, and folklore regarding suicide. During an era when brutality, hardship, widespread disease, and superstition would offer a plentitude of reasons for not wanting to go on living, the ways the culture and community utilized to block the suicidal escape from such factors provides the history student with a unique and informative perspective on medieval religion. Also highly recommended for medieval studies collections and reading lists is Alexander Murray's Suicide In The Middle Ages: The Violent Against Themselves ...).

It's worth not only reading but WORKING on it. Sad that the companion tapes can't be found. No matter, it's a great book anyway!

Truly a classic! Exposure to this book will help ground the experimental, quasi-experimental, or applied (Sidman's term is behavioral engineer) researcher. Useful in conducting and reading psychological research.

This book is a wonderful combination of words and pictures that connect the old and new testaments. It explains God's plan in a way that children can comprehend. It takes something that is so big that it sometimes seems too much to relate to a child and makes it clear and easy. The illustrations are very colorful and will grab little ones attention. I highly recommend it to all parents that want to make God's story a real one.

This book is perfect for those interested in the history of Italians in America at the turn of the 20th century. Set in Madison, Wisconsin, Murray carefully researched individual families and provides stories, pictures, and best of all recipies. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

Teach Me, by Murray levin, is the most important book I have read concerning how black and latino adolescents see the world and how their vision effects their life. Teach me also contains a vivid description and analysis of an inovative and succesful pedagogy. Levin taught his students the elementary principals of logic-what is a cause, what is an effect, what is a system- and why is conflict and opposition necessary. Half of his students are now in college, the others are gainfully employed. Levin provides an imaginative and workable way of reaching the students that are educational system is failing. The result is totally compellin, and education for anyone who reads Teach Me.

Expensive but worth it for anyone interested in the history of 20th-century American linguistics, especially anthropological linguists. There are two withering chapters on Chomsky's permanent revolutions, as well, but Murray's greatest sympathy is for Gumperz-Hymes ethnography, the Sapirian tradition (though not the man himself), John Weslet Powell, and Leonard Bloomfield. Murray focuses on interconnections (groups) more than on romantically isolated individual heroes. The post-WWII history of sociolinguistics is available in a more affordable paperback (American Sociolinguistics).