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Her classroom was the last stop for a group of troubled kids. Teacher LouAnne Johnson, the petite ex-Marine of Dangerous Minds, was their last chance. The boys, like handsome Latino Julio Escovar, expected to end up in jail. The girls, like regal, golden-skinned Simoa, often mysteriously disappeared. But not in LouAnne Johnson's class.Risking her life, and her heart, LouAnne cajoled, bribed, and loved these teens. She went out on tough urban streets to track down Simoa, she faced a dangerously angry father to get pretty, talented Araceli into art school, and she fought drug pushers, trouble-making dropouts, and burned-out teachers to leave her kids alone. Her goal was to get her kids to graduation. Her method? Believe in them....until they believed in themselves.
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Amazing and inspirational.......2006-07-28
I've worked in high schools for the past several years, and now am trying to get a job as a teacher. This book will be on my shelf to assist me with dealing with my class. Her methods are great! Too many teachers are so uptight that they are the cause of their own classroom problems. This author shows that great results can be had with compassion, a sprinkle of humor and a true love of her students.
Feel the LOVE!.......2006-01-17
What a wonderful book, for teachers, students, parents, anyone who might need to be reminded of how much we have to give, if we just "will". The author shows her love for her students in every passage, and it was well written, witty, and a wonderful read.
Highly recommended as an entertaining, and insightful, book on teaching children who need love desperately.
Fine Teaching.......2002-03-15
I had the wonderful chance of reading this book. This book made me laugh and cry and jump in suspense. Ms. Johnson is a wonderful teacher who deserves awards beyong awards. The book taught me to see other parts of education. I really enjoyed reading this book and recommend it to anyone who is going into the education field
I can relate!.......2001-12-09
This should be required reading for every education major. I teach in an urban school; Ms. Johnson had something some of my young colleagues who quit teaching after a year do not have--resolve, persistance, and determination. There are no "bad" kids, there are kids who do "bad" things or come from "bad" environments, but as Ms. Johnson writes, it is possible to save the kids by giving a lot of ourselves.
How can she bear such a heart pain?.......2001-02-21
I'm also an English teacher who have been teaching teen-agers for 10 years. Teaching teenagers is hard work, very stressful, depressed by themselves and the surrounding of them. I don't have such energy of love to my students as Louanne Johnson. But I can feel her pain in heart because I myself love my students. They are devils and angels at the same time. If they were devils, I could ignore them. If they were angels, I could just smile, do nothing, and just ignore them. But they are irresistable.
I agree with Hal, her master teacher. He said to her, "Teenagers are supposed to be ungrateful little brutes. They're supposed to trample your tender feelings, break your heart. It's their job." He is always right. I wish he would be with me!!!
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Published in France in 1980, Marine Lover is the first in a trilogy in which Luce Irigaray links the interrogation of the feminine in post-Hegelian philosophy with a pre-Socratic investigation of the elements. Irigaray undertakes to interrogate Nietzche, the grandfather of poststructuralist philosophy, from the point of view of water.
According to Irigaray, water is the element Nietzsche fears most. She uses this element in her narrative because for her there is a complex relationship between the feminine and the fluid. Irigaray's method is to engage in an amorous dialogue with the male philosopher. In this dialogue, she ruptures conventional discourse and writes in a lyrical style that defies distinction between theory, fiction, and philosophy.
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Difficult, maybe preposterous, with few comic triumphs.......2004-10-07
The first thing that I am likely to notice about a book is whether it has an index. This book has no index. I have the 1991 English translation by Gillian C. Gill of Luce Irigaray's book MARINE LOVER OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE in paperback, and between pages 75 and 119, the only indication at the top of the page to show what this part is about are the words, "Veiled Lips." This is not too surprising for a book that seems to be mainly about the attractions of Nietzsche's ideas because it builds on a section of SPURS / NIETZSCHE'S STYLES by Jacques Derrida called `Veils' in which truth is compared to woman as "Nietzsche revives that barely allegorical figure (of woman) in his own interest. For him, truth is like a woman. It resembles the veiled movement of feminine modesty. Their complicity, the complicity (rather than the unity) between woman, life, seduction, modesty--all the veiled and veiling effects . . ." (SPURS, p. 51).
Fortunately, there is an index in WOMANIZING NIETZSCHE / PHILOSOPHY'S RELATION TO THE FEMININE by Kelly Oliver, and "Veiled Lips" even appears in her index, for a discussion of this book in a chapter on Jacques Derrida (3 The Question of Appropriation). Kelly Oliver suggests, "Irigaray's criticism could be seen as a lesson in psychoanalytic theory." (Womanizing Nietzsche, p. 81). The theory here is not as interesting to me as the possibility of gaining a woman's perspective on a point at which philosophy seems to be close to humor, if modern comedy is recognized in the playful manner in which Derrida explains the great question "Supposing truth to be a woman--what?" found at the opening of Nietzsche's BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL. His translation gains clarity by emphasizing a term of contempt: ". . . all philosophers, when they have been dogmatists, have had little understanding of women . . . [and] the gruesome earnestness, the clumsy importunity with which they have been in the habit of approaching truth have been inept and improper means (ungeschickte und unschickliche Mittel) for winning a wench (Frauenzimmer is a term of contempt: an easy woman)?" (SPURS, p. 55).
Do I need to be forgiven for such a rude interruption? By emphasizing the comic aspects of modern society, I often make myself feel that I am interrupting people who have far more serious concerns. This could be a good time for appreciating the earnest efforts of a woman to meet Nietzsche halfway on ideas which he chose, as Luce Irigaray attempts to do in MARINE LOVER OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE. The section `Veiled Lips' opens with a few paragraphs containing words that might be found in joking about which lips are meant: "if not its accessories and its underside. And the opposite remains caught up in the same. . . . With a flip of the coin," (p. 77). She knew what Nietzsche's laughter was: "And you laughed at having been so blindly trusting. And burned as you reclaimed the flames once devoted to their cult." (p. 53). I have not usually been too concerned with the interpretation which might be placed upon Nietzsche by typical modern scholarship, such as it is, but the problem of the education of women looms large in trying to understand what moderns might consider the worst things he wrote.
Nietzsche had excelled in school in studies of the ancient Greeks, and he was made a professor at the age of 24 in 1869 so he could teach Greek ideas to boys in an educational system that was primarily about dead European males. His first book, THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY, praised the Greeks as surviving from one culture to another:
"And so one feels ashamed and afraid in the presence of the Greeks, unless one prizes truth above all things and dares acknowledge even this truth: that the Greeks, as charioteers, hold in their hands the reins of our own and every other culture, but that almost always chariot and horses are of inferior quality and not up to the glory of their leaders, who consider it sport to run such a team into an abyss which they themselves clear with the leap of Achilles." (BIRTH OF TRAGEDY, section 15, Kaufmann translation, p. 94).
Taking such a long view of things hardly helps the modern student who is looking for something useful, but this book is not likely to find readers for whom it accomplishes much. Women having equal access to such an education could hardly fail to make their own proclamations about what might be worth knowing, and the chaos of modern society gets boosted for diversity in the process, but my personal theme of praising the hemlock which Athens granted Socrates as a sentence for engaging in philosophy is not too wild to be found in this book, even where it is not stated explicitly. "What are you unable to abandon? What place are you unwilling to leave? What weight always holds you back at the same point? The will to live or to die? . . . Because to receive, without swallowing up what has been given to you . . ." (p. 42).
"Socrates desiring death, and achieving it thanks to a drink given to him by the citizens, signifies his allegiance to the Dionysiac. It is by this means that he will take away its power. . . . the death `for a laugh' of the philosopher whose potion is the logos." (p. 98).
I probably left out the best parts (for everybody but me), but by cherrypicking a few themes and some indication of who might consider this book important, some people might get the idea that guys aren't likely to do great in the humanities anyway, so why try?
Irigaray tries hard but misses her mark.......2004-07-05
Unfortunately for feminists, the mythology and set of symbols commonly recognized by feminists as "universal" do not apply in a large part with anything Nietzsche writes. Granted, Nietzsche does address similar subjects of discourse as include such symbols, but he doesn't utilize his symbology the way feminists have decided he does. Furthermore, Irigaray intentionally confuses Nietzsche with Man In General, and thus loses sight of Nietzsche as individual, with individual experiences and opinions concerning Woman In General and separately the individual women he loved. The worst part of Irigaray's failed attempt to respond or understand Nietzsche is when she declares *evil* his inability to find greater good in the happiness of others as opposed to his own individual goals! Has she never read Thus Spoke Zarathustra? Has she no idea what this cult of the ego is all about? Humanism is outdated. Nietzsche was probably the first individualist, and she apparantly just doesn't get individualism. She takes his individualism as an attack on gender, which it simply is not. Overall, Irigaray's commentary is only more self-serving man-hating feminist pseudo-intellectual vomit.
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I Like It!.......2007-07-13
This book is full of quick and easy receipes. I have made a few for my family and they loved them. This book is very helpful for people who are trying to get the hang of the "Live It Plan". This one has made it to my kitchen bookshelf. It's a keeper!Renew, Refocus and Recover!
THE BEST!!.......2007-03-22
I did First Place through my church 10 years ago when they first developed the program. Back then the cookbook was nothing to brag about. WOW!! This one is a 100% IMPROVEMENT! The recipes are easy to prepare, contain normal, easy to find ingredients, and taste like regular food (not diet food)! Most of the recipes are "normal" Southern cooking which is SO VERY hard to find in diet cookbooks. Another great thing is that you won't have to cook something different for the rest of your family because they will happily eat the things you are eating! I can't recommend this cookbook enough. Amazon's price is also the lowest around on this one.
First Place Favorites.......2007-01-20
This a really great cookbook for diabetics and others who choose to eat good healthy recipes.
firstplace favorites recipes.......2006-08-09
WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY ABOUT THE FIRSTPLACE FAVORITE RECIPE COOK IS THIS THIS IS A ,MOST WONDERFUL BOOK, ALL THE RECIPES ARE SIMPLE GLOCIOUS, THEY DON'T TAKE LIKE A LOW CALORIE LOW FAT RECIPES THEY TASTE LIKE A GOOD REGULAR RECIPE, AND I JUST LOVE ALL OF THEM, AND YOU AMAZON WEBSITE, ALL THE BOOKS THAT I HAVE BOUGHT ARE REALLY GOOD PRODUCT, I WOULD RECOMMEND THEM TO ANYONE.
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Round up your apron, ring the dinner bell, and get ready for some rib-sticking grub that'll satisfy'til the cows come home. In RETRO RANCH, Dutch oven expert C.W. Welch presents more than 75 classic cowboy recipes to feed the crew from dawn to dusk. Even the slickest city slicker will feel at home, home on the range with these simple recipes for boot-scootin' breads and stews, six-shooter soups and sides, tasty taters, hearty cakes, and more. Featuring simple, easy-to-find ingredients, RETRO RANCH has you covered whether you're aiming to re-create campfire cooking in the kitchen or pack up your canteen for a backcountry trip. Vintage western images, ranch-hand lingo, and tips on how to use a Dutch oven are sure to bring out the inner chuck-wagon chef in everyone.
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Needs something more.......2007-09-12
When I first saw this book, I was excited by the idea of it. I wanted to have folks over for a cookout, and I thought this would help me create a theme menu for the party.
Unfortunately, the book suffers on two fronts. The first is that nearly every recipe requires a Dutch oven. I don't have a Dutch oven, and I definitely don't have more than one (which I would need if I was cooking a number of dishes for a large group). The second problem is that there are no pictures of food in this book. It really helps the decision-making process if you can see what the dish is supposed to look like when you're planning the menu.
A final note: This isn't really the book's problem, but I didn't see one recipe in the book that sounded at all appetizing. I am assuming that's a matter of taste, but given the "everyman" vibe I felt when I first examined the book, I thought there would be something in here for me.
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- Beautiful pictorial history of whaling and Hawai'i
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Whalesong: A Pictorial History of Whaling and Hawai'i
Goodman Simpson , and
MacKinnon Simpson
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Beautiful pictorial history of whaling and Hawai'i.......1999-03-31
Researched and written by MacKinnon Simpson, with many beautiful photographs to accompany the text, WhaleSong provides a 21 Centurian the opportunity to view artifacts of the whaling industry and the influences of whaling on Hawai'i during the 1800's. This book is recommended as a keepsake following a visit to Honolulu's Lahaina Whaling Museum - or as a gift to those who can only hope to go. Robert Goodman's photography is exquisite and the items that he and Mr. Simpson chose for exhibit in the book are of interest to all ages. Kudos for a wonderful job!
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Integrate image transfer into your next craft project.The explosion of home computers, digital cameras, and photos being available on cd's or floppy disks has resulted in photos, images and clip art being at your finger tips for inclusion in a wide array of projects.
The book will be arranged in two sections. The first is an overview of each technique, explanation of materials, digital how-to, glossary of terms. The second is divided into chapters on different materials: fabric, wood, porous surfaces: terra cotta, tumbled marble, stone, polymer clay.
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Not to Good.......2005-04-13
If you're already into transfering images to fabric, this book won't tell you much more than you already know. It's main focus is store bought heat transfer sheets. I wanted more. I also have "Fabric Photos" by Marjorie Croner, which is a far better book and goes into different ways to transfer using mending tape and fabric. It does have some good images in the back you can use, but I like my own better. Skip it, look for something with more detail.
Graphic Design Meets Crafting.......2002-09-01
As a graphic designer I was drawn to this title. I've always wanted to try my hand at some home furnishing projects but thought I would just make a mess with out the benefit of Edit > Undo on my Mac. Livia McRee took me step by step through my first project (Stone tile coasters p. 58) and I was amazed when they were done. Totally cool 50s clip art on coasters. I love it. SUPER BONUS: the book is filled with full color pages of great artwork like vintage luggage lables, indian folk art, and old time illustrations that you can xerox or scan for use in the projects. People won't believe you when you tell them you made this stuff!
actually easy & great free artwork!.......2002-09-01
When people say this stuff is easy, I think, "maybe for you"! But this book is. I also thought I would have to use chemicals or find a bunch of stuff to do the transfers, but all the techniques are safe and the products are easy to find. I really like the free artwork in the back, too; lots of interesting and funky stuff.
nothing new.......2002-07-28
this book is derivative of the wonderful "transfer" by isabel de cordova- which is the best book on this subject i've seen- ms. cordova's book has more clever ideas and much better design.
Easy transfers for any Surface.......2002-06-13
Transfers! Who can resist them! Even as children we were interested in this craft. Well, this book is not for children, no, it is for all of us adult crafters that aspire to produce spectacular work with ease and satisfaction!
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The complete, fully illustrated guide to natural and chemical-free gardening. Whether an experienced gardener looking to go organic or a beginner wanting to create a healthy, eco-friendly garden, Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening contains the tips and techniques needed to produce beautiful flowers, top-quality herbs, and appetizing, wholesome fruits and vegetables. Explore the latest methods for cultivation without chemicals, discover the benefits of composting, and learn how to maintain an organic garden year-round.
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Poorly researched.......2007-09-27
This book is poorly researched. One section of the book talks about fungi being plants that do not undergo photosynthesis. This idea has not been accepted by the science community since the mid 50s. It goes on to mention potato blight as common pathogenic fungi....potato blight is not casued by a fungi. The causative pathogen (an oomycete) was once in the kingdom fungi but later moved to a different kingdom in the late 70's. This leads me to beleive that the authors have taken a lot of updated information for granted. I could go on and on about this book. If you are new to gardening and and want something to ready this is an OK book. If you want or need a book that give real uptdate advice this is not the book. In my opinonin this book falls into the catagory of books that are ment to be on a coffe table and not really used. A good name was used to sell a poor product.
Gardening made easy........2007-08-27
I find this book very user friendly. I find the format helpful and it's contents very informative. I especially find the care and pruning guides helpful and the variety of topics inspiring.
Brilliant! Buy this book........2007-07-26
I've been gardening for a few years, and this book really broadened my knowledge. Also made me feel less like a cheapskate for not running out to buy all the latest garden gizmos - they point out that you can reuse pruned shoots, for example, to stake up your garden plants. Highly recommended.
excellent resource.......2007-03-18
If you are interested in organic gardening, this is the book to have. I have not had one question that it couldn't answer yet!
Awsome reference book.......2006-12-01
If I could only have one book it would be this one. It is what is says...an Encyclopedia. Luckily I'm not limited to only one book as it does not cover some topics as well as other books. But that's the point of an encyclopedia..touch on all topics as best as can be done for the space available.
The first 30 pages are dedicated to the history of the organic movement and the basic design recommendations for an organic garden.
The next 70 pages cover the basics of soil care, watering, weed control, plant health and raising plants.
The next 100 pages cover various garden aspects like lawn care, woody plants, garden flowers, container gardening, gardening for wildlife and the use of greenhouses and covers.
Another 100 pages cover growing fruit, herbs and vegetables. This section alone is larger than 90% of most gardening book and well worth the price of the book alone.
It has the standard appendix and reference sections you would expect for a gardening book but a surprising extra is the H.D.R.A Organic Guidelines for Gardeners that is included as an appendix. I didn't even know such a thing existed until I read this book. Absolutely wonderful!
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This book is the best-ever practical guide to the identification and biology of beneficial organisms that control pests. Growers, pest control advisers, landscape professionals, home gardeners, pest management teachers and students, and anyone fascinated by natural enemies and their prey will want this book to find, identify, and use natural enemies to control pests in almost any agricultural crop, garden, or landscape.
The Natural Enemies Handbook is superbly illustrated with 180 high-quality color photographs and 140 expertly rendered drawings, showing hundreds of predators, parasites, and pathogens that attack pest insects, mites, nematodes, plant pathogens, and weeds. The handy Quick Guide allows readers to locate natural enemies that they are likely to find on almost any crop or in the garden and landscape. They can then go to the main text for clear, detailed information.
Natural enemies are organisms that kill, decrease the reproductive potential, or otherwise reduce the numbers of other organisms. Biological control is the practical use of natural enemies to manage pests. Living natural enemies are the agents of biological control. Virtually every pest has natural enemies that reduce its populations under certain circumstances. The book features chapters on biological control of plant pathogens, nematodes, and weeds as well as individual chapters on parasites, predators, and pathogens of arthropods.
References, suppliers, and a comprehensive index make this an indispensable source book. The up-to-date review of applied biological control literature will appeal to scholars.
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Biological Pest Control handbook.......2007-01-09
This is a great reference for anyone interested in biological pest control...lots of great photos for reference. Great price for anyone's home library.
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An essential reference for amateur & professionals alike........2000-04-06
Composed by the editorial staff of Sunset Magazine, An Illustrated Guide To Organic Gardening: How To Garden In Harmony With Nature covers every aspect of organic gardening including composting, natural fertilizers, integrated pest management, and offers a plant selection guide to ornamentals and edibles. By following the reader-friendly instructions, anyone can create a flourishing gardening brimming with flowers, vegetables and fruits using only naturally occurring materials. An Illustrated Guide To Organic Gardening is an essential guide and reference for both amateur and professional gardeners.
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Better than Time Management!.......2006-05-20
This was the first book of Easwaran's that I read. I was expecting a normal time-management handbook - how to prioritise my busy life, how to step back from daily pressures and really organise my To Do list properly. But the opening words were "This is a book about slowing down..." How would that help? I needed to know how to get things done faster, not slow down!
Gradually, gently, through story after story, Easwaran shows that hurry and pressure are best handled by getting control of your own mind. The book is easy to read yet full of wisdom, and behind the the conversational style there are conclusions which impact you with real strength. This is a handbook on time-management but more than that it's a handbook on getting balance in your life, dealing with your relationships, and re-energising yourself.
Take Your Time--Quiet Your Mind and Enrich Your Life.......2000-07-14
Read this book and you will discover some of the best ways to experience a more spiritual and selfless life. Sri Eknath Easwaran, the late founder of the Blue Mountain Center for Meditation in northern California, has developed an "eight-point program" of living, which includes daily meditation, reciting a mantram to bring balance to the mind, slowing down, putting others first, and other ways of enriching your life and the lives of those with whom you interact.
The author makes a point of emphasizing the distinction between slowing down and being lazy. There is a difference--we can slow our mind and still move quickly and efficiently. It's often when we try to do more than one thing at once that we run into problems with focus and concentration on the job at hand.
His suggestions, lively sense of humor and anecdotal style make this a highly readable and enjoyable book. I have found his suggestions to be quite effective in providing balance in my life and think that this small volume (and his other work) will be necessary reading in this day and age of road rage, school violence and unrestrained greed.
Other titles of Easwaran's are just as relevant--favorites of mine are Meditation (guide for learning to meditate), God Makes the Rivers to Flow (anthology of inspirational passages for meditation), The Compassionate Universe (ways of guarding the Earth for our children) and Conquest of Mind (expands on the eight-point program with new ways of considering it) and find them to be excellent as well. Another related title, bestseller The New Laurel's Kitchen Cookbook, was written by students and friends of Easwaran's, and originates from the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation. (written by Laurel Robertson, Carol Flinders and Brian Ruppenthal.)
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Else Lasker-Schuler: A Life
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Else Lasker-Schüler, a pivotal figure in German Expressionism, presided over avant-garde café life in pre-World War I Berlin in much the same way Gertrude Stein did in Paris around the same time. While her work is not yet very well known in the English-speaking world, it has been enjoying a critical and popular revival in Germany.
This full-length biography of Lasker-Schüler—the first in English—explores her poems, plays, prose and graphic works in light of her life. It begins with her fleeing to Switzerland after Hitler's accession to power in 1933, looks back at her childhood in Wuppertal, then follows her life through to its end in Jerusalem in January 1945. As a Jew, a woman and a bohemian, Lasker-Schüler defied every category. Her two marriages—first to Dr. Berthold Lasker, then to Herwarth Walden, founder of the leading avant-garde periodical, gallery and publishing house, Der Sturm (The Storm)—as well as her interactions with Karl Kraus, Franz Marc, Gottfried Benn, Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem, are documented in letters and poems, many included here both in the original and in translation.
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Social Discontinuity in the Novels of Elizabeth Bowen: The Conservative Quest (Studies in British Literature , Vol 38)
John Coates
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