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Finders and Keepers perfectly describes my colleagues' and my experiences. We are Ivy League graduates committed to progressive public school education. After five years of teaching in New York City public schools, even the most tenacious of us has been forced to shrug her shoulders and conclude that, "this job is just unsustainable." Finders and Keepers argues that this need not be our trajectory. Johnson and the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers accurately identifies the range of demands on new teachers, and proposes practical and achievable solutions that will enrich the learning environment of any school.

Finders and Keepers sounds an urgent call to attention and puts an end to the finger-pointing game. All players-administrators, principals, superintendents, teacher preparation programs, veteran teachers, union leaders, and policymakers-share responsibility in adequately preparing our schools for the new generation of teachers. We need to make teaching a sustainable career.

Every administrator, supervisor, education college professor should own this book. Too many novice teachers leave the profession before they really get their feet wet. This text will help professional educators who mentor teachers realize more fully the challenges and difficulties that beginning teachers face. The value of this book is that the problems of beginning teachers are clearly related from teachers on the job. We as educators must provide the right climate for these wonderful new teachers; this book will provide the insights into those challenges and the alert those in charge of teacher preparation and those whose responsibilities including hiring new recruits as to the myriad ways that the system may be failing our brightest and best candidates for the teaching profession. The answers come directly from those struggling through their first and second years in the profession. This book will be an excellent source to find and keep our best teachers.

This book is full of great do-it-your-self projects for kids (and adults) to build. Great stuff for cub scouts. I especially enjoyed the space shuttle/rocket booster powered by air preasure.

We just received Flight (Make it Work!) in the mail and promptly started on a project! We are homeschoolers and always looking for fun ways to learn. This book really impressed me. The projects are colorful and interesting, and captured my children's interest immediately. As I write my 9 year old son is making the cannon - page 12. Now that is high praise!

Even though this book isi'nt very well known, It's a great read. American Girl fiction usually publishes mediocore reads (I.E. Letters to Cupid) But this book is nothing near mediocore. Even though this book has large print and is pretty short, this book is good for any age. I really recomend it to anyone. Its also a great book for teachers to put in your classroom library.

I liked this book because the main character, Pogo (Patricia), worked hard to reach one of her goals in her life, to go to Gymnastics Summer Camp.She is an inspiration to all the girls who love gymnastics and to kids in general who have dreams and goals. I think you should read this book.

David G. Baker edits FLYNN'S PARASITES OF LABORATORY ANIMALS, 2ND EDITION, an excellent college-level reference for advanced students of veterinary science. From the biology of the protozoa to parasites of rabbits and hamsters, mice and birds, reptiles to dogs, cats and even sheep, edits FLYNN'S PARASITES OF LABORATORY ANIMALS offers up extensive chapters packed with black and white photos, tables and charts, diagnosis, hosts, lifestyle, and pathologic effects, and more.

Dr. Baker has done an outstanding job of updating and expanding the classic Flynn's Parasites of Laboratory Animals. This new edition has chapters summarizing the biology of each class of parasites as well as a chapter for each commonly used laboratory animal. This is the definitive text on the subject, and will likely remain that way for many years like its previous edition.

This book (along with others in the Straightforward Science Series) is incredibly informative and exciting. On every other page, there are practical ways to bring the subject matter to life. Unlike other books, the content is presented in a way that you read straight through. Many books have a paragraph here and there and seem unconnected, not so with this book. The books are very colorful, interesting and informative. Best science series that I've read.

I think this book was very descriptive and a well writen book. Its perfet for research for anything and my kids loved it. They read it for a week then they asked if there was a nether "Forces and Movement" out that they could read! Thanks, Jeremy Lacocque

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I found this tutorial to be well written and very useful. It is in two formats. In one format you hear the author discussing the subject while you are viewing slides that graphically illustrate each point. In addition, all of the material, including the figures and descriptive text are in a PDF file that you can print and use for reference or review at a later date. A really nice feature is the powerful search capability within Adobe Acrobat which makes it possible to instantly search the entire tutorial for specific topics and keywords and then play the multimedia clips directly from within Acrobat reader. I have previously had just enough exposure to Foundation Fieldbus to be able to recognize that the author is, without question, an expert on the subject. Now, with this tutorial under my belt, I feel prepared to build a Foundation Fieldbus segment and start getting hands-on experience.
Jon Monsen, Ph.D.

This book is an interesting juxtaposition of two things--Frank Lloyd Wright's complex dealings with a maverick, and some very rare, beautiful photos.

The first part of this is probably of interest to only Frank Lloyd Wright's fans. But those photographs are something else.

Most people know only the exterior of Hollyhock House--cold, forbidding, monolithic; but are unfamiliar with its breathtakingly beautiful interior--in this book, displayed with some photos in vivid color. In my opinion, the interior of this building is the most beautiful of all Frank Lloyd Wright houses; a masterpiece of interior design in the Prairie Style. As an added bonus, there are some extremely rare photos of Residence B--long-demolished, it was a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece, probably unique in its use of mitred wood and corbeled posts. (I've never seen a house like it in my entire life).

The photos make this book a must-read, must-have part of your collection, suitable for display on a coffee table.

As the author of this book, I know that I have brought together a collection of drawings, archival photos, plans and drawings made especially for this publication that document and analyze one of Wright's largest and most famous commissions during the period of the 1920s. His work with Aline Barnsdall was extrememly complicated and covered over a decade in his career. My book puts the Hollyhock House in context of the larger commission for Olive Hill. Drawings are reproduced from several sources, mainly the Wright Archives. Hundreds of letters and documents were consulted. A section of color photographs shows the house in detail with fully furnished interior views. This book is a must for the library of every reader interested in Wright. I hope you enjoy it and value it too.

Freedom Summer attempts to explain who gets involved in high-risk political action, and how their experience shapes their economic and personal decisions. McAdam uses the 1964 "Freedom Summer" program, where primarily Northern, white college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters. The experiences of the volunteers serve as a microchasm of the politics of the era; the lingering influence of the conservative 1950's with its fears of communism and idealized suburban nuclear families through the turbulent 1960's, and the collapse of the multi-racial civil rights movement into various atomized social movements - feminism, environmentalism, and of course, the anti-war movement.

The methodology here is fascinating in and of itself: McAdam obtained the original applications for the Freedom Summer program, and used them to track down both those who did and did not go to Mississippi that fateful summer. This allowed him to demonstrate not only how people are motivated to participate, but the difference that such participation can make on future life choices, not only for political engagement, but employment and even marriage. Along the way, he shatters some of the mythology about the baby boomers - especially the idea that everyone shed their love beads and picket signs for lattes and SUVs. However, he also is careful not to glorify the volunteers, many of whom found adjusting to life outside of "the movement" to be a difficult process (an issue McAdam handles with care and dignity).

Perhaps what is most admirable about this book, however, is that it gives a fresh view on the 1960's, an era that has been written about ad nauseum, and manages to do so in a way that is both academically sound (McAdam is a sociologist at Stanford) and easily accessible to a non-academic audience. Be sure to read the appendices as well as the main text; he includes SNCC's "incident list" detailing the daily litany of harassment and violence that the volunteers faced daily. It is especially chilling, not only for the savagery it details, but the matter-of-fact tone in which it is recorded.

Highly recommended.

This book should be required reading for any of us crusty old lefties. A nice reminder (along with Martin Luther King Jr's "Why We Can't Wait") that sometimes with enough strength and drive, we can make the impossible possible. A great recounting, not only of the civil rights movement, but also the emerging New Left philosophy. Rich and detailed to earn a place as a university textbook, but still as plainspoken and accessible as to be read by anyone.

Highly recommended.

I saw the exhibit of these photograghs at Grand Central Station when I was in NYC. The pictures were beautiful, and you could truly see the humanity in the eyes of the people photographed. The photographers really captured the spirit of the people in these pictures. I was so moved just looking at the pictures. If you love photography you will love this book.

I saw the exhibit of these photograghs at Grand Central Station when I was in NYC. The pictures were beautiful and you could truly see the humanity in the eyes of the people photographed. The photographers really captured the spirit of the people in these pictures. I was moved to tears just looking at the pictures. If you love photography you will love this book.

Finally a textbook that doesn't read like a textbook! My son is breezing through this book when we have struggled with nearly every other history text. Not your typical dry textbook, it is engaging and well written, with beautiful pictures and artwork throughout.

It weaves in the Catholic Faith effortlessly, rather than some other books which so obviously are trying to be "Catholic".

A close to a "living book" as you can get in a text!

We are homeschoolers who have gone through all four books of Story of the World (SOTW). We are on our second go-round in the four year history cycle. After using Mystery of History for ancients (Protestant) and History Odyssey (secular) with additions for Middle Ages, I am happy to settle on From Sea to Shining Sea for next year. Unlike (SOTW), the focus is on American history. The chapters end with a summary, review questions, activities and a section called "American Larder" which talks about what people were eating at the time covered in each chapter.

This is a great Catholic text- well-balanced, nice pictures, well written. I will be using it next year with my 7th and 4th graders.

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