I tried so many places to obtain this book which apparently was out of print, but finally was able to buy one through the mail. It was certainly worth waiting for! Lizzie has already lost one husband to an accident, and her second husband has suffered severe brain damage and now has the mind of a child. Yet, she feels eternally married, and dares not allow her feelings to go beyond friendship and neighborliness for Brad, the widower who is raising his girls alone. Yet, as smallpox spreads through their community, many key players die, and Lizzie is forced to depend on Brad to save her life and her family...and the ensuing developments sorely try her faith in God. Yet, being the strong prairie woman of faith that she is, she is able to regain her health and find happiness in a quite unique manner. I found this book to definitely be Feldhake's best of this series so far, and I am now reading book 5.

This book is simply wonderful. And it's not just because it's dedicated to me. He's a fantastic man, and a fantastic author. He knows so much, and writes in a style in which a person can really get into the story. I HIGHLY reccommend this for anyone to read! Try it!
Lindsey

Hover has beautiful, intriguing photographs. The stories are haunting and wonderfully written to match the photographs. I highly recommend this delightful book.

This is it, folks -- the point at which classical and modern liberalism began to diverge. Everybody in either camp is indebted, in one way or another, to the great Thomas Hill Green. And sooner or later, everybody in either camp will have to come to terms with him.

Now, in my own not entirely humble opinion, Green's criticisms of other liberal theorists are well-founded and he himself has gotten the philosophical foundations just about exactly right. Basically, his claim is that (my paraphrase) the source of our rights against one another, as well as the source of the state itself, is our possession of an ideal common end in which the well-being of each of us is coherently included.

He develops this account very painstakingly, and one of the joys of reading it is watching him make sense of Rousseau's tortured notion of the "general will." By the time Green is through rescuing this doctrine from Rousseau, it becomes something altogether respectable: that (my paraphrase again) there is an overarching ideal end at which our actions aim, and it is that end which we _would_ have if all of our present aims were thoroughly modified and informed by reflective reason.

I say "_would_ have" with some reservations, since for Green (as for Bosanquet and Blanshard, who followed him here) there is a clear sense in which we _really_ have this ideal end. But this point takes us afield into Green's metaphysics, which are better covered in his _Prolegomena to Ethics_.

As I said, this volume marks the watershed between classical and modern liberalism. Green is often associated with the "modern" side of the divide, but today's reader will be surprised to see just how "classical liberal" Green was (in, e.g., his opposition to paternalistic government and in a good many other respects). Why, heck, there are passages that could have been lifted from David Conway's _Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal_.

It does seem, though, that in allowing a positive role for the governmental institutions of a geographically-demarcated State, he has started down the slippery slope to the modern welfare-warfare state. Like Hegel before him and like Bosanquet after him, Green usually means by "state," not the bureaucratic machinery of a territorial government, but the whole of society including _all_ of its "institutions of governance." But -- also like Hegel and Bosanquet -- he does not always keep these two things firmly distinguished, and at times he is clearly thinking specifically of the governmental institutions of a territorial nation-state rather than what some of us would call the "market."

He is also a bit unclear on the ground of "rights." W.D. Ross rightly takes him to task for this in _The Right and the Good_: Green writes on one page that we have _no_ rights until these are recognized by society, and then turns around and writes as though "society" is recognizing rights we _already_ have. To my mind Ross clearly has the better of the argument here, though the problem is not, I think, terribly hard to fix.

On the whole, then, it is probably no wonder that Green and his crowd set into motion -- whether inadvertently or otherwise -- a stream of "liberalism" that would eventually find a far, far larger role for the State than any that Green himself would have approved. But to my mind, these difficulties are removable excrescences, not the heart of his theory. (And it is also worth bearing in mind that Green provides moral grounds for _resisting_ the State: he acknowledges that no actual State is really ideal and, insofar as it falls short of the ideal, should be brought firmly into the service of our common end.)

The theory itself seems to me to be sound. In fact, despite the aforementioned disagreements and several others, I would nominate this volume as perhaps _the_ single greatest work on liberal political theory.

Again, at some point every "liberal" of any stripe will have to come to terms with Green's ideas (perhaps in highly mutated form). And if, with minor tweezing, Green's basic outlook is sound, it also -- suitably adjusted -- forms the proper basis for the classical-liberal commonwealth.

It therefore behooves classical liberals and libertarians to get the word directly from Green himself. Those other "liberals" aren't _entirely_ wrong.

Collaboratively compiled and edited by Diane M. Barone (Professor of Literacy studies, University of Nevada, Reno) and Lesley Mandel Morrow (Professor, Department of learning and Teaching, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University), Literacy and Young Children: Research-Based Practices surveys and presents the latest techniques in literacy education. Grounded solidly in scientific research, Literacy And Young Children focuses on helping young children develop their skills and talent in reading and writing. A variety of essays by learned authors address multidimensional approaches to beginning literacy, literacy among Latino families, the expansion of what true literacy means in the digital age, organizing expository texts, and more. Highly recommended reading for educators, tutors, and homeschoolers of young children Literacy And Young Children is an invaluable and seminal contribution to the field of Literacy Education.

After discovering Literature Links to Phonics, I'll have help locating perfect books to convey the lessons I plan to teach. This book lists quality children's literature--both fiction and nonfiction--that children will enjoy and that emphasizes particular elements. These elements include the alphabet, common phonetic principles, high-frequency words, core words, and common concepts (such as number words, days of the week, contractions). If, for example, I am looking for several good books for early readers that help them use the "wh" digraph, I find eleven books listed with the reading level, publisher's name, and a brief summary of the book. In addition, the author includes several instructional strategies for each phonetic principle provided.

This book would be a great gift for beginning teachers as well as experienced ones!

Even though I am partial to the book (that is my daughter Lindsay on the cover), Susan has captured the feelings the children (and some adults) have for their cherished possessions. My daughter at 4, is more attached than ever and know that will be her best friend for life.

Ambrose Bierce's partner in establishing a "fin-de-siécle" decadent/simbolist movement in America.

His tales are just astounding and simply unexpected endings lead the reader to unknown emotions.

The perspective of the doctor and his coldness in describing the horrors he sees (which are always extreme), together with a hint of cruel humour and the fabulous twists in the end are something else! How come this writer is so neglected?

Rexroth scores again in this second "Classics Revisited" volume. The books he loved -- the classics of the non-Western and the Western world -- he saw as emanations of living feeling, lines of communication miraculously kept open.

Rexroth wrote in the first volume: "Life may not be optimistic, but it certainly is comic, and the greatest literature present man wearing the two conventional masks; the grinning and the weeping faces that decorate theatre prosceniums. What is the face behind the mask? Just a human face -- yours or mine. That is the irony of it all -- the irony that distinguishes great literature -- it is all so ordinary."

(By the way: These essays are such that one can read volume two before volume one.)

Hard to believe no one has reviewed this yet. For those seriously interested in the poetry scene in this country, the Morrow Anthology is essential. Some of the poets--Rita Dove, Tess Gallagher, Jon Anderson, Stephen Dobyns, Carolyn Forche, etc--have gone on to bright careers, while others have faded in the decade or more since the anthology was first published. But what a monumental task Dave Smith and David Bottoms---excellent poets themselves---took on by putting together this book. Incredible book, hands down.