The editors have brought together a series of articles and studies on the deployment and integration of technology in our schools. The book approaches its subject from several perspectives: curriculum development, professional development, and policy and administration. It provides a good, high level survey of these issues, and its thorough and careful documentation provides anyone wishing to dive more deeply in any given area excellent direction for further investigation. It was a quick, interesting, and entertaining read.

This book should not be the first choice for those looking for specific and tactical hints on technology integration into curriculum. But it provides an excellent overview of the wide range of issues technology raises for education, and as such would be valuable for administrators and policy makers seeking to broaden their perspective in this area.

I was required to buy Visual Anthropology for my Visual Sociology class my sophomore year of college. This is one i didn't sell back to the bookstore after the class was over because it is so useful. It is a great book to help a person learn how to use a camera as a research tool and get the most out of it.

This is one of the most beautiful books I've ever seen. I wish they would have given details on the printing process for this book. I've never seen such vibrant, sharp, photographs in a book. They look almost as good as professionally done prints on photographic paper. As for the artistic merit of the photographs themselves, they are wonderful, something to get lost in.

This large collection of short stories by Collier (1901-1980), written between 1931 and 1951, won the 1952 International Fantasy Award in Fiction, the second book to win that award (although John Clute erroneously says it was the first winner; that distinction belongs to Stewart's "Earth Abides") (Interestingly, one of the individuals who originated the International Fantasy Award was John Beynon Harris [John Wyndham], and "Fancies and Goodnights" beat out Wyndham's "The Day of the Triffids" for the award.) Most of these stories appeared in mainstream magazines and contain fantasy or science fiction elements, often with some humor and a twist in the story. Although many of the stories now appear dated, it is only because Collier has had so many "descendents." The collection is also of interest to young writers as it can serve as a source for new ideas. Interestingly, this collection also won a 1951 Edgar Award for best mystery short stories of the year, even though there were only a handful of stories that one would call mysteries.

John Collier has the distinction of being the only writer who wrote a short storywhich I read decades ago, and remembered for years _as having been a novel_.The story was "Youth from Vienna" and it is only twenty pages long. I find that quite a few people remember individual John Collier stories which have been burned indelibly into their minds, without, alas, remembering the name of the author. "Oh, the story of the people living in the in the department stores..." "Oh, the one where Helen of Troy says 'here I am on a bearskin again.'" My continuing quest to replace worn-out, falling-apart paperbacks with new hardbounds continues to frustrate. How can this book possibly be available on cassette, but not in print?

I have seen John Collier grouped with Poe, O'Henry and Saki--to that list I would add Roald Dahl. Collier is a brilliant, subtle, and powerful writer of wicked little stories that take the reader by surprise. Clever, ingenious, and original are other words that come to mind. Collier himself said he had learned a great deal about writing from reading James Joyce--and we in turn can learn a great deal about some of the darker aspects of human nature (tinged with humor) from reading John Collier. Excellent.

Good-Bye Billy Radish was about a ten-year-old boy named Hank Kerner. He lives in a town where all the men work in a steel mill once they turn fourteen. He is not so popular, so he gets picked on alot and he has no friends. He was so happy when he found out that they were getting a new student,his name was Blazyli Radichevych also known as Billy Radish. They later became best friends. Billy Radish is from a different country, Hank was thinking why would anyone want to come to the little town of Canaan, Pennsylvania.
I did like this book. I thought it was very neat how a writer would write about a young boy in a small town durring the time of World War I.
I would recommend this book. if you are a person who likes to read a book with lots of description this is a good book for you. To know more about this book go to your local library and check it out today!

It's been a long time since any book, adult or child's, has moved me to this extent. The relationships portrayed were complex, with multi-faceted and often conflicting feelings the rule rather than the exception. The portrayals of the two boys coming of age and of their friendship were sensitive and dead on accurate. Fascinating and sometimes unsettling historical fact and cultural detail were seamlessly integrated into the story line.

Mention Roger Corman's 1962 "Tales of Terror" and you immediately think of Vincent Price teaming up with Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone. But for me this film owes as much to writer Richard Matheson, who adapted four Poe stories into three film vignettes. "Morella" is another one of those dark family secret stories. The title character (Leona Gage) had died in childbirth 26 years before, cursing her baby daughter. When Leonora (Maggie Pierce) comes home suffering from a fatal disease, she discovers her father Locke (Price) has been keeping mom's mummified corpse in his bedroom. "The Black Cat" also works in elements of Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado." Montressor Herringbone (Lorre) finds out his wfie Annabel (Joyce Jameson) is having an affair with Fortunato Lucresi (Price), a rather foppish wine connoisseur. Unexpectedly funny because of the comic performances of the two stars, the story is this sequence inspired Corman to make "The Raven." Finally, "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," an elderly man (Vindent) whose dying days have been eased in part because of a hypnotist, Carmichael (Rathbone), whos wants to hypnotize Valdemar at the moment of death. The experiemnt succeeds, after a fashion, but Carmichael refuses to release Valdemar until his wife Helene (Debra Paget) agrees to marry him.

"Tales of Terror" is noteworthy for two particular impacts it had on horror films. The first was the emergence of anthology films that followed in its wake, such as "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors" and "Black Sabbath." The second was the revival of interest in former movie stars at American International, which would soon add Boris Karloff to their roster. The stand out segment of this film is certainly "The Black Cat," with Lorre and Price showing marvelous comic timing. Lorre takes such perverse glee in walling up his wife and Price, plus there is nothing like the macabre politeness of movie villains . There is something transcendent about watching these old Hollywood pros have fun with taking these roles so seriously, so to speak.

Vincent Price stars in three shorts all based on Edgar Allen Poe stories. This was the first of the Roger Corman - Poe films I ever saw and it left an impact on me. Morella is the opening story and I feel it is the best and the one that is most like the rest of Corman's Poe films. Price is good at riding on the edge insanity while livng in a cob web covered house with his dead wife louning in a back room waiting to rise. Peter Lorre shows up in the Black Cat which is a combination of that story and the Cask of Amontillado. This entry is one of those horror - comedies that is very similiar to Corman's Raven. Price and Lorre both have some fine moments in this film including the dream sequence where Lorre's head is being tossed around like a ball. The Case of M.Valdemar comes last and this one has Basil Rathbone doing scientific experiments with Vincent Price with the expected ghastly results. Price has to were some gooey make-up in this one that was hot when they put it on. Price does great at playing a victim in these three different stories and there are some good people in the supporting cast. This one has the standards you expect in one of Corman's - Poe films, we have castles, corpses and killings.

Being a fan of Vincent Price and Peter Lorre for that matter, this was just priceless (no pun intended). Aside from Peter Lorre not aging well at all, this just makes his "tale" all the more realistic.
The first tale is called Morella where Vincent Price blames his visiting daughter for the death of his wife. Yet there is a twist to the story regarding the daughter. Really well done.

The second tale is The Black Cat with Peter Lorre as the main character here in one of the best parts I've seen him play.
He puts pathetic, mean and humorous into one role and is hysterical doing the classic wine testing scene with Vincent Price. I was truly laughing out loud. The facial expressions that Price has in this one when acting with Lorre are worth this DVD alone.

The third and last tale is the scariest in my view. It is called the Case of M. Valdemar where Basil Rathbone plays a man who tries to gain control over a dying Vincent Price. This is a pretty scary one, and Rathbone completes his role nicely.

The ladies in these tales (Maggie Pierce, Joyce Jameson and Debra Paget) are all absolutely stunning. You just can't compare the beauty of that day with today.

Get this DVD, especially if you like Price and Lorre....not to mention Poe. I promise you it is something you will watch over and over again.

I read the book My Brother Sam is dead for a school project. It only took me seven nights to complete this book I'm in 8th grade and I'm not a very fast reader. This book starts out when Sam comes home from Yahle and tells his family that he is going to fight in the war against his country( he wants to be free from England). Sam and Tim's dad was in a war and does not want his son to fight because he knows how hard a soldgers life can be. Sam and his dad get in a fight and Life (dad) kicks sam out sam went to live with tom he snuck back into the house one night to get the Brown Bess (gun) a couple of days later tim found out that Sam stole the gun adn tried to get it back but sam wouldn't let him. Well if you want to find out what happens, you will have to read this excellent book.

In my 8th grade English class I had to read My Brother Sam Is Dead as a reguired historical fiction book. I read the book in class as well as out of class on my own time. My Brother Sam Is Dead takes place during the Revolutionary War in a little town called Redding. Tim, a teenager, is telling the reader his feelings of the war and how the war affected him. I think teh author choose to tell the story through Tim because he was torn between being a Loyalist like his father or a Patriot like his older brother Sam. Tim's father doesn't think that his family shoyuld be involved in the war and Sam thinks it's his duty to fight for his country. Irony, was what made the book My Brother Sam Is Dead interesting. A good example is when Tim finds out his father had died on a British Jail Ship. This was unexpected because he was a Loyalist and he died on British Jail Ship. I expected him to die on a Patriot Jail Ship. Once you read what happens, your like I didn't expect that to happen. The same thing happens to Sam at the end of the book, but in a different way. In My Brother Sam Is Dead there were three main conflicts. The conflicts were personal, political, and character. Tim was the character withthe personal conflict. He was trying to decide whether to be a Patriot or a Loyalist. Tim knew his father had his reasons for being a Loyalist and so did his brother Sam. Tim wanted to be like his father, but also wanted to be like his brother Sam. The next big conflict was the political one. England and The Colonies were fighting over who got to run The Colonies. England thought they should get to run them because they had founded The Colonies. The people living in The Colonies thought they should get to run The Colonies because they lived there and didnt' believe in England's rule. The last conflict was between Sam and his father. This kind of conflict is called a character conflict. Sam wanted to go to war and fight an the Patriot side, while his father didn't think he should fight in the war. Sam's father was also a Loyalist so he didn't believe in anyhting the Patriots did or thought was right. In the book My Brother Sam Is Dead there were many great parts that I enjoyed. One part of the book that really got me interested was when Tim and his father were ambushed on their way to Verplex Point to trade the cattle for supplies they needed for their tavern in Redding. An other part was when Tim finds out Sam took his father's only gun, Brown Bess, when Sam's father specifically told Sam not too. If I had to pick a theme for the book it would most likely be "Everything happens for a reason." To me, it was like everything that happened to Tim changed the way he lived, acted or even thought. My Brother Sam Is Dead was full of suspense all the way through the book. I could hardly put the book down since I started reading it. I also read a historical fiction book called, One Thousand White Women. It was great too! One Thousand White Women was written in a journal form and I liked that format better than the traditional story form of My Brother Sam is Dead. I hope you enjoy both of these books as much as I did.

My Brother Sam is Dead- By James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier-This book is about a 16 year old boy who goes to war in the 1700's. His name is Sam Meeker. Sam Meeker fights as a Patriot when his farher,Life, is a subject of the English king. On the way back from Verplanksm Point Life gets captured by the cattle thiefs, cowboys, who take him as a British prisoner and gets put on a British prison ship. 1 month later he dies of Cholera on board the ship. This same year Sam got executed. He was executed as a cattle thief for stealing his own cows from the MEEKER TAVERN. His family's tavern. At this time the book ends. This book is my favorite book . I have never read a book as good as this. I like reading about the Revolutionary War. I is so realistic.

This book is an elegant and agreeable summary of Kotler's marketing management and Porter's competitive strategy. This is half of what I was expecting. However I was also expecting that these broad marketing concepts would be adapted and tailored to the specifics of The Pharmaceutical Industry. Unfortunately and unlike what is suggested by the title, the book has the rhetoric and the feel of a general marketing textbook rather than a Pharmaceutical oriented manual. At a macro level the words "product" or "person-to-person" are far more common than "drug" or "sales representative-to physician". At a micro level the book also favors generalities instead of important Pharmaceutical details. For instance, in the Chapter about Communications (8) the authors extensively discuss the elements of the promotional mix and the relationships with an advertising agency (something important for any industry). However, even in that chapter's section about other considerations, they totally ignore the interaction with regulatory agencies such as the FDA's Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and Communications. This, as any Product Manager in Pharmaceuticals knows, is crucial for the success of the promotional message. Another similar example can be found in the Chapter about Sales Strategy (7). In here general management consulting matrixes (of the BCG 2X2 type common to any industry) are discussed in detail but the actual industry-specific strategy issues, such as sales force rotation and segmentation of calls to health care professionals, are avoid. Finally I believe that the price of the book ... is meant to be elitist so that is bought only by top management (the potential clients of the authors which are consultants). This is a pity because despite its flaws the books present handy general marketing information in an easy-to-read, friendly format, that emphasizes tables and bullet lists rather than extensive text. It will be useful for non-marketing Pharmaceutical Industry Professionals that interact with Marketing and by Product Managers with no academic business background. For those PM out of business school the book is too basic and contains a relatively small amount of data pertaining to the pharmaceutical industry. Such data can be found elsewhere. For instance the 27 pages of Chapter 2 (marketing Pharmaceuticals) of Schweitzer's book on Pharmaceutical economics and policy contain much more data than this entire Pharmaceutical marketing planning book.

Much of the classic marketing thought (Identifying core capabilities, External/Internal analysis, SWOT analysis, Marget segmentation, BCG analysis, Commuunications techniques, Promotion mix analysis, etc.) as well as presentation and communication techniques are discussed here. The book has a nice addition on the PR side ties with Marketing, important specifically to the DTC side of advertising pharmaceuticals. Specifically deals with market plan development, working with various agencies, and the roles of various managers in the marketing planning process.

The book is not just about analysis and asking the right questions, it also provides great ways of presenting these ideas appropriately.

This is a good reference book, and review for upper management, while providing a stimulus for doing deep analysis and real strategy development instead of the daily grind that dulls your senses over time.

Also, look into Revitalizing the Pharmaceutical Business: Innovatiive Marketing approaches. This book will come out soon.

well John lidstone has done a recommeddable job in the book. The Methodology is to the point and The process is implementable in any type of Therapy/Product.This book serves as a Ready reference for any marketting plann where we need to BE RIGHT for sucess of the Brand.

Normally I'm not into historical non-fiction, but I'll make an exception for this book. _The Ninth Man_ tells what was happening in America during the 1940's with a personal twist that brings the facts to life. I encourage the purchase of this book, it is not for all ages but is defiantly a must read for anyone interested in spies and WWII.

Lots of fun. Corresponds to the historical record on the 8 Nazi spies almost perfectly, but still reads like a good spy novel.

"This masterful study charts the extensive common ground and telling differences between two widely separated coal-mining communities: Lanarkshire, in the Clyde Valley of southwest Scotland, and the northern Illinois coalfield that became a prime destination for skilled Scottish migrant miners in the mid-nineteenth century.

"Challenging the prevailing exceptionalist paradigm of labor history, John Laslett examines the social, economic, and political context of each of these communities in generous detail. He traces the progressive heightening of class consciousness as the coal industry evolved from skilled hand labor to mechanized extraction and the escalating hostility between miners and mineowners as their interests split along class lines. Examining the rise of militant industrial unionism in both areas, Laslett provides a sophisticated explanation of the American and Scottish miners' divergent approaches to collectivist solutions.

"Based on a profound knowledge of both communities, Colliers across the Sea tells a compelling story of democratic aspirations, community, and industrial transformation's human costs."

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"An exceptional work of scholarship. . . . Laslett's findings are important and will be widely noticed, debated, and assimilated into the labor history canon." - David Brody, author of Steelworkers in America