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I find this book to be disturbing in the sense that it could have been anyone of us who were close to the Church. The photography is stunning and beautiful. My heart goes out to the men and women who suffered/suffers in the hands of these monsters. It has changed my view of the church. Hail to my cousin Carm who helped put the facts out there. My prayers are with all those people.

Picking up this beautifully bound photography book, one could not imagine the experience hiding inside. In his debut publication called SHELTER, Lucky Michaels rocks the photography world with a book chronicling the lives of the young queer people living at a New York City shelter. Michaels' images are shockingly intimate and from first page to last, they weave a story of what it is to be queer, young, and homeless. In one image, a shelter resident snorts the blue powder from a pixie stick. In another, a pair of transgender girls fix each other's hair as they get ready to leave for the day. Michaels has an eye like no other photographer and it's clear that he truly loves his subject matter.

The photographs are accompanied by text that tells a more narrative version of these young people's lives. We follow the lives of a handful of the people seen in the book and see what the world is like through their eyes. The stories are often tragic, gut-wrenching vignettes, but each of them holds an element of hope and promise that their worlds will get better. The real magic, however is found in the photographs themselves.

This book is a treasure that deserves a place on everyone's bookshelf. It's a reminder of the work still left to do and a celebration of young lives that excel in survival. And watch out for Lucky Michaels. This guy clearly has a healthy, successful career ahead of him.

The material in this book only contained three posed shots, realistic imagery of the lives of LGBT runaways and discarded youths. They need a shelter and a home - this book brings to light that need and lays it very honestly before you. It has a prominent place on my living room table for all to see and inquire.

I ran across this book on a friend's desk and found it to be full of everything curriculum people need to know. Every model, book reviews, important names....just everything. I've order one for all my staff.

I ran across this book on a friend's desk and found it to be full of everything curriculum people need to know. Every model, book reviews, important names....just everything. I've order one for all my staff.

Curriculum Essentials is a compact paperback that contains of the "right stuff" for graduate study in curriculum and instruction. It also would serve as the sole resource for school personnel. Included are annotated bibliograhies, models, program summaries, important dates etc. There also is a very sound treatment of the curriculum development process including how change can be promoted in a number of program areas

This book is riveting and will take the reader to places he or she may never have been before. Plotted around a gay man, his "business", and the passions of and in his life, this book is full of good old fashioned sleuthing, intriuge, and a bit of moral-values clarification. This is simply a very good read.

Let me start off by saying that I have a real weakness for revenge books. There is just something truly decadent and delicious about taking a well-orchestrated (and violently nasty!) vengeance against those responsible for the murder of...the only person you've ever loved! Even more impressive is solid writing and interesting dialogue (how often can you say that?) which are accented by a tight plot that actually avoids the usual genre-driven pitfalls. Oh, and the hero is _totally_ hot (or at the very least, smart and charismatic).

Santos De La O (yep, it's a fake name) is a half Italian, half Mexican gunrunner/enforcer for a drug cartel in Mexico. He has family connections in the Italian mob, but leaves to start his own business because he's gay and his uncle, Vito the fixer, "can't employ no finocchio in this business, if you'll pardon the expression."

We get to watch Santos be really clever, make lots of money selling cool high-tech guns and missiles, and discover his softer side by of course falling in love with Tony. (All this happens in only about 70 sparse but perfect pages. The novel is only 200 pages long.) I can't express what a pleasure it was to read a book that has NO wasted filler, yet manages to convey a clear and emotional impact. When Santos is standing over Tony's body at the morgue "he kissed his fingertips and pressed them gently against the empty face" and says "Te amo...te amo tanto, tanto. I love you. I love so very much." Yes, my eyes actually teared up.

Without giving the rest of the book away, let me just mention some of the things the book doesn't do.

(1) Santos doesn't magically know who is responsible. We have an actual witness. And a license plate number. Wow.
(2) The drug cartel has nothing to do with Tony's murder. Yes, we were spared the tired and annoying drug cartel conspiracy plot.
(3) Not all of the cops are stupid and corrupt.
(4) Not one of the cops is a genius. ;-)
(5) Santos only does "normal" stupid things and he's only mostly lucky. We are not subjected to plot holes a 12 year old can figure out.
(6) There is no impossible action. No one jumps through a second-storey window and survives.
(7) The violence is not our usual boring blah, blah, blah violence. Really. Santos's revenge against one of the murderers is, um, original.

Hopefully I've convinced you to try this book. Oh, and if you're worried about the gay sex angle, well I'm sorry to have to say, it's of the boring ...and the next morning they woke up together...variety. Alas there is no explicit sex.

This well constructed, tightly edited mystery brings a new character to the mystery/thriller genre. This is the assassin we have all been waiting for. This is the killer with a heart that we yearn to identify with in all those other books, but with whom we are never really satisfied. The "man with no name" in Conner's story is based on the stereotypes we thriller fans have met before, but succeeds somehow in a very short space of time to grab our sympathies and rivet our attention.

Tales of revenge are many. In some the hero is redeemed and returns to society, in others he goes down with his foe. This book leaves us hanging, hopeful that he will come back again in another incarnation, and wondering whether this is a character who will be able to live any other way but in the thick of deceit, lies, and greed on the grand scales of drug empires and intelligence agencies.

Necessarily short, so carefully worded that it could not be longer than it is, it reads quickly and when I came up for air I ran to Amazon looking for a sequel. Guess we just have to wait and hope.

This is an excellent account of the effects of allowing marketing of Tamnbocor (flecainide) as an anti-arrhythmic based on "surrogate" intermediate endpoints. Later there was recognition that in fact the drug was associated with increased cardiac death rates when a "gold standard" randomized controlled trial was undertaken. It also shows the problematic relationships between the payment and support of academic researchers into drug effectiveness and the drug firms, many of whose products have been life saving and life transforming. A very well balanced book and very enjoyable reading. The author erroneously describes RA Fisher as an American Genius which would irritate the very English (& later Australian) Cambridge professor of Genetics!

This important investigative work explains HOW and WHY the American Pharmaceutical Industry KILLS and no one seems seriously interested in stopping it, least of all the FDA! Legally prescribed drugs are now the 4th LEADING cause of death in the US. We are trying to change this by helping to train physicians and the public to use natural approaches instead of drugs, inspite of the continous FDA and FTC harrassment of all doctors in Alternative Medicine. Our system that financially rewards doctors millions of dollars for KILLING people is seriously out of control. If natural therapies are even alleged to have slightly harmed even 1 patient, the FDA stands ready to seize ALL of the supplies and put everyone involved in jail. Yet drugs are provably killing over 100,000 each year and the GAME goes on. I believe this book could help everyone understand that this must all change and soon. This book merely describes the tip of the iceberg and the 70,000 dead from these heart medicines described in detail here, is just a fraction of the real number needlessly killed by American medicine and surgery everyday at great taxpayor expense. WE have safe and EFFECTIVE alternatives to virtually every drug, including aspirin (not tylenol!) and most heart surgery is done on the WRONG plaque and does not significantly reduce the likelihood of a heart attack. There are SAFE natural alternatives not just for heart disease but for virtually every one of the major diseases today! contact G.F. Gordon M.D.D.O. President Gordonresearch.com and InCALM.com 1-520-472-9086 Payson AZ

Ralph Moss wrote an excellent review of this book in the Spring 1997 edition of the Cancer Chronicles. I am writing only to put his review into context. There have been many books written describing the shortcomings of medicine, particularly those questioning claims of the efficacy of medical intervention. These include Robert Mendelsohn's Confessions of A Medical Heretic; Richard Taylor's Medicine out of Control; Ivan Illich's Medical Nemesis; the New Medical Foundation's Dissent in Medicine; Samuel Epstein's The Politics of Cancer; Ralph Moss' Cancer Industry and Questioning Chemotherapy; Ulrich Abel's Chemotherapy of advanced epithelial cancer - a critical survey; What Doctors Don't Tell You's Cancer Handbook, What's Really Working; and Neville Hodgkinson's AIDS, the failure of scientific medicine. (I have also published two papers questioning the efficacy of surgical treatment of cancer in Medical Hypotheses.) These together support and explain the claim in the editorial in the British Medical Journal of October 1991 (Vol 303: 198-99) "Where is the wisdom...? The poverty of medical evidence" that "Only about 15% of medical interventions are supported by solid evidence... This is partly because only 1% of the articles in medical journals are scientifically sound". Thomas Moore's earlier (1989) book Heart Failure describes the poor record of treating heart problems with bypass surgery, balloon angioplasty and drugs to lower serum cholesterol. Moore's more recent book homes in on particular drugs such as those used to treat arrhythmia. With deaths from heart disease accounting for more than 40% of all deaths these two books on the inefficacy of treatments for heart problems fill an important gap. As a scientist I found the section explaining how "surrogate endpoints" are used instead of actual therapeutic benefits to test efficacy particularly useful. It explains why so many claims for the efficacy of chemotherapy are invalid. It is a pity that the book is now out of print.

This book is not one to disappoint. In fact I am a slow reader and I was able to read this book all the way through on a five hour flight! Muchamore's best writing characteristic is his characters they are deep and REAL which makes this book and all his others excellent beyond comparison. In fact I ordered some of his other books from England because they were not available in US.

I purchased this book for my 14-year old son. He loves this series. Read each book in a couple of days because he couldn't set it down.

The Dealer
By: Robert Muchamore

The book I read was The Dealer by Robert Muchamore. In this report I will be telling you all about the book. I will tell you things about the main characters to the plot, the setting and my opinion on the book. Well I know you can't wait to read this let's get started.
"Good Guys": The main character in this book is James Adams. He was also the main character in the first book in this series. James is a 13 year old boy who works for a secret part of the British Military called Cherub. Kyle Blueman is one of James best friends at Cherub. Kyle met James at an orphanage while recruiting for Cherub. Kerry Chang is also one of James best friends at Cherub and he has a little crush on her. James and Kerry went through basic training together (basic training is a 100 day training period where agents prove they are worthy to be in Cherub). Nicole Eddison is another Cherub agent, one of James and Kerry's friends. James little sister Lauren, is also at Cherub, but she hasn't passed basic training yet.
"Bad Guys": The main bad guy is Keith Moore. He is a drug dealer and head of Keith Moore's Gang. Keith Moore Jr. (aka junior) is one Keith Moore's son (more about him later). April Moore is one of Keith Moore's daughter. Ringo Moore is Keith's other son and Erin is his other daughter. Dinesh is the son of Keith Moore's business partner, who helps bag cocaine for Keith Moore.
The story is about how four kids (James, Kerry, Kyle and Nicole) help bust the drug dealer Keith Moore. The kids assignments on the mission are to befriend the Moore children. James has to befriend Junior, Kerry and Erin, Nicole and April and Kyle is supposed to befriend Ringo. This is a dangerous job. James becomes a drug deliverer for Keith and so does Kerry. Nicole gets a thing going with Junior and James pretends to like April. James, April, Nicole and Junior all are friends and they go over to the Moore house a lot. Kerry finds out about Dineshe's Dad and Kerry James and his sister Laurens investigate the warehouse and found where Keith gets his cocaine bagged. James and Kerry get their cocaine stolen on a test run and they fight to get it back. After they do, Keith is very proud of them and tells them that Kerry can work with James on deliveries. After a party Nicole and Junior use cocaine and Nicole has to go to the hospital. Junior invite's James to go to Miami with him and his dad, Keith. On one of there last nights in Miami there house gets ambushed and James kill's a man in self defense. Then James runs away and meets up with the DEA official who has been helping him. They end up getting Keith Moore in prison for 15-20 years.
This story's setting takes place in a couple of places in London and in Miami, Florida.
The theme of this novel is about kids our age that work for MI5 and they help put a drug leader into prison.
I absolutely loved this story. I have read this book around 8 or 9 times. I can't stop reading it. The author makes it very addicting. The story is so good and exciting you never want to put this book down. I love how the author doesn't make it too unbelievable, yet he doesn't make it boring either. I also like the topic. Now there is a major problem with drugs and it makes sense to write a story about it. Robert Muchamore did a great job writing this book from a kid's perspective. It seems like a 12 or 13 year old kid is telling you this story. I highly recommend any 5th or 6th grade student, or older to pick up this book. Actually they should read the first book in the series (I could go on and on about it also).
Review was written by Matthew Wine.

Dont Wait for Me provides a painful and heart-rending window into the lives of a family struggling with their loved one's mental illness and drug addiction. Morris is able to write about this saga with real grace and insight that made it an amazing read. She is a talented writer, and while the subject matter can at times be hard to deal with, this book was well worth the read.

This is an unsentimental yet heart rending account of a nightmare decade one family lived through. Any one of the agonising episodes described would be too much to bear for most but, in an almost unsettlingly calm voice, Ros Morris describes the unrelenting nature of bi-polar disorder coupled with drug abuse and the ripples it sends out. Highly readable and beautifully written, I cried and laughed whilst I raced through it in two sittings. Don't Wait for Me: How a Mother Lost her Son to Bipolar Disorder and Drug Abuse
If you're dealing with or have ever dealt with a mental health or drug abuse issue, you should read this book. If you are a spouse, parent or sibling to someone with a mental health issue, you should read this book. If you have any interest in mental health issues or drug abuse, you really should read this book. If you have a heart and an interest in how human relationships can survive and overcome the most terrible tests, then read the book.

This book has been described thus: 'A lucid, searingly compelling book that lays bare, in all honesty, the highs and lows of Bipolar Disorder. Beautifully written, it is a shocking account of the tragic state of mental health organisation in the twenty first century.'

'A powerful and moving description of the effect of this debilitating and misunderstood disease.'

'Written with a sensitive, heartfelt sincerity.'

'A compulsive read for all those working in mental health.'

'It took several days before I had the courage to open the first page and started reading but I soon found that I could not put it down which, to tell the truth, is very rare occurrence.' Nina Grun

This is one of the best books I've ever read. Not one page was boring. I would recommend this book to anyone.
The author does such a great job on her research, I really wish there where other books she wrote that were similar to this story.
This book would be 6 plus stars if that was an option. Buy it now!!!

Being from philly, i know alot of the characters in this book. that being said, i know alot of the characters in alot of gangster books written about philly, and alot of them suck or are a bunch of lies. this one is an exception! it's true, interesting and very detailed. so detailed that there's a chapter that basically tells you step by step how to re-rock coke. Carol Saline did a great job. i was impressed. AAAAAAA+++++++

also, 'doctor dealer' is pretty good too. it was written by mark bowden, the guy that wrote 'black hawk down'. both authors are local philly writers.

An interesting tale of Larry Lavin. A dentist with a career ahead of him. The Lure of money led to him dabble in the "Candy" of the 1980's. Intriguing was how he hid so close to the authorities as a fugitive. Good reading. Perhaps he was pursuing what many of taught is the American Dream....well worth the read.

C. Nicandro Cruz UNAM. México

This book is an precise and extensive endeavor for understanding the problems, boudaries and potential use and application of knowledge for improving governmental performance.

Te basis of Dunn's approach to policy analysis, is that it depends to the production and transformation of five policy relevant information (about policy problems, policy futures, policy actions, policy outcomes and policy performance) through five policy-analytic procedures (problem-structuring, forecasting, recommendation, monitoring, and evaluation).

Perhaps the most important distinction is that problem structuring, "...which affects the use and asessment of the other four procedures, is really a metamethod (method of methods) that funtions as central regulator of the overall process of policy analysis." (page 65)

This analytical framework provide one of the most single effective way to analyze public policies and government programs, where the most important analyst's role is both to generate useful knowledge for decision making in all phases of policy process, and to generate plussible arguments by analythical procedures.

It is an ideal book for bachelor and graduate students interested in public problems that face governements, and in the role that can play all policy analyst in policy making.

Dunn's contribution to the study and use of policy analysis in academic and professional activities its out of question. 06-04-200

nickcruz@teleline.es

Everyone once in a while a work comes along that redefine the way humanity organizes itself. The Bible, the Magna Carta, the Unibomber Manifesto, and Mr. Dunn's book all can be placed in that category.

Having attended his classes while in graduate school, I internalized his teachings and made myself a better bureaucrat than anyone could has imagined. Every day I use his book to enlighten me on the manners and ways of building a better bureacracy in my village panchayat in Viknashapathanam District of Andra.

This book is only book I use.

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Driven By Drugs: U.S. Policy Toward Colombia by Russell Crandall (MacArthur Assistant Professor of Political Science, Davidson College) is a straightforward history of American relations vis-a-vis Colombia with particular emphasis on the last decade. An exhaustively researched, scholarly presentation surveying U.S. drug dependency, and its relationship with the roots of violence and guerilla groups in Colombia, as well as the volatile political situation revolving about who owns the land and what is to be done with it, Driven By Drugs is a fascinating, insightful, revealing, and greatly disturbing account of the troubled interaction between these two nations. Driven By Drugs is an important contribution to academic and community library International Studies supplemental reading lists and reference collections.

Russell Crandall's "Driven by Drugs" is an excellent guide to understanding the impact of U.S. policies and the current chaotic situation in Colombia. The author provides background on U.S.-Colombian relations and an overview of Colombian society to help the reader contextualize recent events. While violence in Colombia is rooted in that country's stratified social relations, it is America's "War on Drugs" that now might rip apart what little remains of Colombia's civil society.

Professor Crandall teaches Political Science at Davidson College. Crandall writes in a concise and scholarly manner, and his expertise on the subject matter is readily apparent. The author uses solid research; the numerous footnotes include a number of first-person interviews with knowledgeable sources as well as author translations of Spanish-language sources. The author's arguments are convincing and his conclusions are air-tight as they appear to be based on a rational evaluation of the evidence.

Principally, Crandall argues that Colombian-U.S. relations changed from a mutually-agreeable anti-Communist philosophy to a "narcotized" orientation by the mid 1980s. The narcotized state of affairs, Crandall suggests, is driven by America's multiple addictions; this includes of course the widespread consumption of illicit substances among its population and a congress dependent on defense industry dollars. (To this I might also suggest a peculiarly American need to rationalize its foreign policies in a moralistic manner.)

Perhaps not surprisingly, recent Colombian administrations have had mixed reactions to U.S. policies. Crandall writes that in fact our efforts have only succeeded in undermining Colombia's central government at the same moment when narco-trafficers, paramilitary groups, and guerilla fighters have exploited fear and uncertainty among the populace in order to gain strength. One hopes that Crandall's plea for U.S. policy makers to learn "from past mistakes" and instead implement policies that address Colombia's core socio-economic needs is heeded soon.

With so much of today's news reporting obsessed with other regions of the world, I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about the decades-long war that America has been waging in Colombia.

Russell Crandall has broken new ground. His dynamic focus on U.S. policy during the Samper Administration (1994-1998) and the Pastrana Administration (1998-2002) provides a powerful insight as to why Colombia is the third largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid in the world after Israel and Egypt. The author also cautions of the many political landmines in the road ahead. Crandall is a tier-one academic and a polished writer.

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