Awww this book was good. I work as a student aide in my school library and the pictures caught my eye so I read it. Good pictures funny story.

I first read this book when I was 6, and fell in love with the story and beautiful pictures. I never tired of reading it and missed it terribly when it was lost during a move. Now I am buying one for my daughter, who is 6, and hopes she likes it as much as I did.

Who's in Rabbit's House kept my 4 year old on the edge of his seat. When read with different voices for each character it is even more fun. The end was a suprise and gave us all have a good laugh.

Did you ever wonder what life would look like if everyday conflicts could be solved with love and a sense of humor? Leo's collection of short stories will show you. They are set to rhythms to delight the child in you. They are examples of love the adult in you will admire. Each rhyming short story has a surprise ending. And each one reminds us that kindness, compromise and committment to life as an adventure opens doors to lasting love. Surely Leo's book is an antidote to the competitive fast-paced '90s and new millennium which offers no promise of relief.This book is a special treasure.

Leo Carpenter's book is for anyone who is young at heart. The reader feels as if he/she is friends with William, Virginia and their cats. And, being a female, it was delightful to see that a male writer would admit that women do indeed have good sense--William and Virginia are true equals. The rhyme is lyrical and the story is even more enjoyable when read aloud. (I did buy the audio as well--and I highly recommend it.) Visiting the Altonberrys of Sandwich Bay is a trip worth taking--go there now!

I found the Altonberrys of Sandwich Bay a delight of a book.The characters come alive on the page and the authors intimitable lyrical style of writing joyful and fun.A very happy and refreshing read.

I have long been an admirer of the artwork of Leo and Diane Dillon, who did a lot of covers for the works of Harlan Ellison. So it is because of the Dillons that I picked up this alphabet book in which Margaret Musgrove introduces young readers to twenty-six African peoples by depicting a custom important to each. While some of the customs are unique to a particular people, others are shared throughout the continent, but Musgrove assures her readers that all of these customs reflect African values or philosophies. From the Ashanti weavers who make a beautiful cloth called "kente" to the leaping Zulu dancers saluting their new chief, we learn about these customs. Each entry is accompanied by a gorgeous illustration by the Dillons, who show as much concern for detail and accuracy as the author. Musgrove lived in studied in Ghana where she did extensive research for this volume. For their part the Dillons did considerable further research as well. One of most interesting aspects about their pictures for this book is that most of the paintings include a man, woman, child, their living quarters, an artifact and a local animal. While there is admittedly a degree of artificiality to some of these compositions, there is obviously a concerted effort to provide as much detail in the illustrations as possible. No wonder I have been a big fan of the Dillon's work for thirty years. A map in the back of the volume shows where each of these peoples lives in Africa, which shows that the focus here is on the sub-Sahara peoples rather than the Arab influenced Northern Africa. I can easily see a grade school class studying Africa looking at a couple of pages each day to get a unique sense of the peoples of Africa. Certainly each page could work as a poster; something for teachers to think about when they are planning their unit on Africa.

"Ashanti to Zulu" presents 26 African tribes, from A to Z, and lets children learn something about the culture and customs of each one. Aside from being a learning experience, the book is visually eye-popping; the illustrations are so gorgeous you'll want to blow them up and frame them. The book won a well-deserved Caldecott Medal for the best illustrated children's book of 1977. It's a great book for helping children to learn about some of the peoples of our least-known populated continent, and the pictures will hold the kids mesmerized. It's a volume that belongs on every youngsters bookshelf.

An A-to-Z alphabet book for children in which the examples for the letters are twenty-six different tribes in Africa, exhibiting some of their varied traditions and customs. Hence, children learn of other peoples. It was illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon and it won the 1977 Caldecott Medal for best illustration in a book for children.

On the contrary, says Leo Katz: hard cases _expose_ bad law and force us to correct it. The flaws in apparently sound principles aren't always obvious when we apply them only to easy cases.

With this approach, Katz offers a book that is all but unique in the legal/philosophical literature, and one that should appeal to lawyers, law students, and nonlawyers alike. Bringing to bear a large quiverful of hypotheticals, thought experiments, and extreme cases (some real, some contrived, some purely fantastical), Katz puts common legal principles through their paces and shows us that our intuitions, while reliable in a general way, may not be as sound as they appear at first blush.

Katz's own area of expertise is criminal law, but he may have done the book a mild disservice in its subtitle: as he is himself well aware, the "conundrums" with which he deals -- What is the difference between an act and an omission? What does it mean to do something "intentionally"? What does it mean to say that something is the legal "cause" of something else? -- bear on many areas of the law, including (for example) contracts, torts, and wills.

They are also of general philosophical interest, of course, and Katz is himself a competent philosopher more or less in the "analytic" camp; indeed, his footnotes are as likely to cite Searle or Austin as to refer to a case. His discussions of e.g. tacit knowledge (a la Michael Polanyi) and judgment under uncertainty (a la the famous work of Kahneman and Tversky) are most gratifying and in each case will point the interested reader to a fascinating body of literature with which, probably, lawyers ought to be familiar. (For example, he does a nice job of tying the psychology of risk and uncertainty to the psychology of jury verdicts.)

And he is one of few writers who make (what I regard as) sound use of thought-experiments, which in the wrong hands (say, Rawls's) are merely tools for confusing oneself and others. Another writer with the right hands is Judith Jarvis Thomson -- and sure enough, Katz cites her well-known "Trolley Problem," for which see _Rights, Restitution and Risk_ and the additional discussion of the problem in _The Realm of Rights_. (By the way, Katz does not explicitly set out his own fundamental outlook but his overall approach to moral problems seems to be based on a sort of critical intuitionism not unlike Thomson's.)

The resulting volume is a thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating read. Law students in particular may want to read it as early as possible, as Katz's use of hypos is much like what we encounter in law school and will probably do more to galvanize the reader into "legal reasoning" than any ten other books on the topic. But it's suitable for a general readership.

It is also a fine corrective to the view that the law can be rendered clear and unambiguous by reliance on a handful of simple principles (e.g. by reducing all law to "property rights"). Katz is at pains to show -- I think successfully -- that no such program can hope to eliminate all vagueness or explicitly capture everything of intuitive relevance, and in at least one case ("proximate cause") he presents an entirely new argument showing why this is so.

Katz is also the author of _Ill-Gotten Gains_ and moreover has a nice essay in Dennis Patterson's _A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory_, another volume which is highly recommended (especially to law students). Katz's readers might also be interested in Patterson's _Law and Truth_, which in a way is complementary and "orthogonal" to the present work: Patterson is concerned with what it means for a proposition of law to be true, and Katz has a good deal to say that is relevant to this question.

I was one of Leo Katz' students in the first criminal law course he taught following the publication of this book, at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor. Very justifiably BA&GM was one of the required texts, as this book as as good a literary recreation of a professor's pedagogy as I have ever read. The book not only conveys Professor Katz' humor and intellectual curiosity, but also shows how brilliant he is to bring in subjects you might not at first consider germane to penal theory and law, but that afterwards you will not be able to think about criminal law *apart* from: analytic philosophy, "alternative history", the classics of American literature, and a host of fascinating stories from a variety of cultures and situations. You don't have to be a lawyer, or even interested in things criminal, to enjoy this book. It's one of those books that can change the way you think about situations in your life. Thoroughly recommended.

Leo Katz, a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, has a wonderful way of blending philosophy, history, sociology, and law together to present a compelling discussion about conundrums of law.

For example, suppose A is planning a desert trek, and B and C independently decide to kill A. B poisons the water in A's canteen. C, not knowing what B has done, drills a tiny hole in the canteen. A goes off to the desert and dies of thirst. Who killed A? After all, if C had not drilled the hole, A would have been poisoned to death.

Katz explores these and other issues with a very readable and witty style. One of the famous cases he discusses is Regina v. Dudley and Stephens, a famous (or infamous) case to all law students. Dudley, Stephens, and two others set off in a boat. Disaster struck, and they barely managed to get to a lifeboat; however, they had little food and no water. Days passed, and as they wondered if they could survive long enough to be rescued, Dudley suggested to Stephens that they kill the cabin boy, who was the weakest of the four, and eat him. The third person (Brooks) protested, but did take part in the eating when Dudley and Stephens did the killing. A couple of days later, they were rescued. Dudley and Stephens were prosecuted for murder and convicted. Should they have been? Did the desperation of their circumstances make it "necessary" for them to kill the cabin boy to survive?

These are very difficult questions and are largely unanswered, even in modern law, but Katz makes them worth thinking about, and he's very entertaining. Lawyers and non-lawyers should enjoy this book.

This is a very beautiful book; and very easy to read. Each page is like a short story that defines love, and makes the reader drunk with joy, if you will.

One of my favorite messages in this book reads, "Even when no one else seems to recognize how truly remarkable we are, we always have ourselves, the one inexhaustible resource for positive reinforcement, the one person who will always proudly wave our personal flag."

This is a wonderful message to use as an affirmation, because as one says these words, out loud, with closed eyes, 3 times per day, for 21 days (enough time to form new habits), you see, feel and hear more of your connection to the human race.

And it is in this new place, one is able to transcend the self and focus upon the needs of others around us, while we fulfill our own needs.

It is also the best way to follow the path that you are here to travel.

Born for love is not a "how to" book, but the authors ideas on bringing love into every aspect of our lives. The reading is very easy. If you are looking at a book to inspire and bring self awareness this is a great one to keep handy. It would make a great gift for yourself or friends and lovers.

Basically, anyone who can beat Bill Gates will be a computer system itself. With True A.I a computer system will have the Smartness to overtake Bill Gates. The person who can make a computer think will become richer than Bill Gates very quickly.

The city is the place where the Political Philosophy take there fulfill sense. It's the cavern where the philosopher must return and explain, with precaution, his Knowledge. Furthermore he must guide the city and the people on the right way. Trough, it's necessary explain and know what is the city, which it is their nature, what it is their relationship with the philosopher.

In this sense, in this book Strauss related us the answers to that's questions. He teaches us three different, but complementary, views of the city: the political, the philosophic and the historical perspective of the city.

He gives us numerous clues that it's must take us to value the risks of the single natural human association. He pushes us to think, in the last part of the book, about the risks of overcoming the natural limits of the city. So,he invites us to share his discussion as regards the world state.

As it's common in their books, it is an excellent index from the problems to those faces the political philosophy. I recommend it to you.
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Leo Strauss was generally uderstood to be an originator of the scholarly opinion that Plato wrote esoterically, and Plato's dialogue on justice, "The Republic" has an exoteric message (to the outsiders) and an esoteric message (to the insiders). In 'City and Man' Strauss carefully, elegantly, systematically crafts the arguement by comparing and contrasting a historian, a philospher and finally a poltical scientist. In this neat way of using real men's works, in their historical context, the careful reader can come to appreciate why it was necessary for Plato to write esoterically and why it is consistent with Justice, or say Nature. Easily, yet strikingly, Strauss leads one through the birth of political philosophy, as a political-philosophy, not as a philosophical study of things political. P.S. I love this book.

Can you imagine a world of harmony between human mind and the whole so that learned people had trustful knowledge (not either blind faith or questionable hypothesis!) as regards the superiority of the soul to the body, a man's perfecting were not second to his comfortable self-preservation, and everybody conceived of justice as a means to procure common happiness? However close to a utopia, this is the way in which the Greek classical thinkers faced political things twenty-four hundred years ago.

Some of them were nothing more (or less) than philosophers, like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; some others, like Thucydides and Xenophon, were hard-die warriors as well. In a sense, they could not be more realistic. For justice was also understood by them as the outcome of political prudence or the practical wisdom to handle situations in order to serving right and reasonably yielding to compulsion altogether. And how was it that the classics accomplished so unexpected a synthesis of the idea of Justice as a heavenly reward for the wise management of the clash between Right and Compulsion in the pursuit of common happiness? Leo Strauss masterfully tells us in The City and Man

A non-stop parade of fresh ideas, wild inventions and creatures, and original characters. One whopper of a good time!

THE ONLY WAY THAT I CAN DESCRIBE HOW GOOD THIS BOOK WAS IS TO SAY THAT READING A BOOK TAKES ME MONTHS TO ACCOMPLISH, BUT WITH THIS BOOK I COULD NOT STOP READING EACH FASCINATING DETAIL, AND BEFORE I NEW IT I HAD FINISHED THE BOOK AFTER ONLY A DAY AND A HALF!!!

All of leo frankowskis' books are very good science fiction. There are no "fairies" or dragons or majick. His books just tell you why a railroad works and how a windmill can be used to pump water or thresh grain and WHY this is a good thing.

This book was throughly enjoyable from cover to cover. It's about a couple that leave New York and moves to Alaska. They know nothing about survival in the Alaska wilderness but somehow they learn and make a go of it. I'd love to see a follow up book! If you like wilderness adventures, dog sledding, nature, and survival stories...you should enjoy this book!

This is a wonderful book, a true tale of the ultimate daydreamer's adventure taking on flesh and bones through the personal experiences of the young author, Richard Leo. In many ways the effort is a foolhardy and dangerous ones, and one comes to points of exasperation with his arrogance, frenzies, and almost mystical sensibilities as he turns from a 20's something Harvard-educated urban dweller with less than $1,000 to his name into some kind of hopped-up Alaskan mountain man. This guy actually drags his girl friend deep into the Alaskan wilderness to begin a life of what he hopes will be the real sensations and genuine life experiences of someone unfettered by civilization, and succeeds almost beyond belief. They single-handedly construct a log cabin good enough to live in, forage for food, and finds a way to eke out a living as they struggle to survive. Along the way they have a son, who the author feels he must give the opportunity to grow up naturally, without all the cultural distractions of the modern world.

Of course, there is a price to pay for such bold and foolhardy adventurism, and Leo pays it by way of isolation, deprivation, and dealing with the elements. Before the smoke clears, his girlfriend/wife has exhausted her patience and tolerance for the difficult living conditions and the incredible isolation, and flees in desperation back to something better approximating normal human contact and civilization. Thus Leo and son are left to find their own truths and their own future in the splendid isolation of the Alaskan tundra in sight of Mount McKinley. This is a remarkable tale, told in brash but sometimes soaring prose by a gifted young writer, and I soon recognized that often my frustration was with the fact that he kept succeeding at things I thought were dangerously foolish to attempt.

Finally I realized somewhere along the way that my concern was exactly the reason I am sitting in this armchair reading the book instead of following in his footsteps. I am too settled and "civilized' to try to do what he does with fervor and enthusiasm, and it is this remarkable quality of his, his zany and almost mystical faith in himself that makes the book so interesting and so easy to read. One caution; he is not an easy guy to empathize with, and he sometimes has an annoying arrogance, self-absorption and a tendency toward self-righteousness that is hard to bear, but you will enjoy his tale and all the strange and off-beat characters he bumps into, interacts with, and includes in this superbly well-written voyage of self-realization and discovery. The book is curently 'out of print', but I trust you can find it through a good search as a used commodity. By the way, if publishers can find an excuse to put books like "Running to the Mountain" about a New Jersey suburbanite's silly attempts to become a "mountain man" in rural New York state into paperback, they should also be able do so for this real adventure story. Obviously,I would love to see it come out in paperback, and be much more widely read! Enjoy!

Through Leo's adventures in the city as well as the bush... He writes about his life like it was the greatest thing sence sliced bread. All who like Alaska should read!

What an incredible book! I had to remind myself that this was not a work of fiction. I was thoroughly impressed by the style , soul and intellect of this beautifully written work.

Can you name the ten most famous people in western European history? After reading this book, you will. A monumental study of the human craving for attention, and the ways that people (mostly men) have sought it. I recommend this book for anyone who has wondered what all the fuss is about regarding celebrities today. This book was originally published in 1987, and Braudy has written an afterward for the 1997 edition -- it's very interesting to read what happens when you write "the book" on fame in the era of O.J.Simpson, Monika Lewinsky, et al.

In charting the course of fame, Braudy written a compelling and original history of Western culture. This is an amazing piece of work, clearly the product of insight, devotion, and many years of study. I've recently been seeing references to it in various mainstream publications, so I'm glad it's finally getting some of the attention it deserves, and it's nice to see that it went to paperback. It's ambitious, and I believe successful as well. It's fun to read, and it'll help refresh all that western history you forgot from school. If you don't completely love this book, you're a moron. (OK, that last statement's probably a bit much...) Anyway, note that I have no connection to the author, publisher, author's department (USC Literature), their families, or anything like that, other than having read this book.

It's so exciting to read what the direct care workers who spend their days working with autistic kids say! My son is in a school for autistic children - the entire staff surround him with love while they push him to learn and develop. ABA, the method Newman discusses, can seem cold and a little frightening when it's just words in a text or manual. To see it in action is to see why it works so well, and this book celebrates the love and caring that make ABA work. The passion in every chapter leaps off the page. It's inspiring, it's reassuring, it's the best description I've seen of ABA in daily use.

Joy, Sadness, Frustration, Love...there are not enough words to describe the emotions I go through on a daily basis. It is so refreshing to finally read something from MY point of view.

These case studies reflect my life. This is what I do and how we do it. The book is refreshingly honest with direct care workers point of views. A must read for anyone considering the field of ABA or even mildly interested.

The people are all different, but the point is always the same. it's always for the kids.

As the parent of an autistic child, I found this book to be an invaluable source of information, support, and comfort. To put it simply, this book gets to the heart of our children's everyday struggles in a real way. Drawing it's strength from numerous contributors, the case studies allow the reader to study different treatment plans in action and gain a well-rounded view of ABA. In each case study, I was able to find strategies that I could utilize to help my child attain her goals. What more could I ask for? I thought the book was terrific and I highly recommend it!! Another job well done!!!!