I am currently entered as a freshman in college and we are required to use the book. This book helps you show how to work out the problems in the best way possible. They should continue using this book for years to come.

"A mural of the lives of working Americans emerges through the stories, essays, poems and photographs of the book's 43 contributors...Material is organized around themes of family and neighborhoods, the working state of mind, ingenuity and persistence, struggles and getting by and dignity and the work ethic." -The Monitor, Bonnie Blankenship /// "This collection takes an unfiltered look at what most American citizens are: working people....GETTING BY steps toward achieving a worthwhile goal." -Robert Powers "Bookshelf" Marietty TIMES

Everything about Hirschfeld was already said. He's a genius. He's the Line King. He's almost 100 years old. And he's alive. Get this damn book. Buy the old ones. Collect them. Buy the video. Cut his drawings from the Sunday NYTimes. Stop buying stupid eletronic gadgets, save the money, and then spend 2 thousand in an original lithograph. I did it. Twice. And there's nothing in the world that can make me feel better. Maybe another one.

Wow, what a book! I fell in love with the graphics first and then the book. David Shannon is a talented illustrator as well as an inventive author. This picture book will charm older children (and adults) of all ages. The lessons hidden in this wonderful story about how baseball was saved by a young boy come across easily to all levels. Our junior high is using it as a schoolwide springboard for our annual Literature Week and we'll have everyone from the P.E. department to math and science building lessons around this treasure of a book. If you like a good story, if you love baseball, you'll certainly want to enjoy this book.

I used to for my EIT test. It's a great book preparing me for IE EIT.

A good friend just gave us this book for our 9 month old daughter. She LOVES it! The rhymes are fun and have good rhythm as well. The little finger puppet that is attached to the book is almost as fun as the book itself.

The illustrations are bright and vibrant. Irene loves looking at the book and playing with the finger puppet.

I highly recommend this book.

The subject of death is a difficult one to explain to childrenand send a positive, yet real message. Death happens, and"sometimes there isn't a single reaons in the world for something to happen." It is okay to grieve and talking about it can sometimes be the best way to work through a loss. The writer clearly portrays a boy struggling to understand the loss of his dog, and meeting up with his neighbor-- an older man who's wife died previously. The older man understands the boy's frustration and grief, and empathizes with the boy's feelings word for word. As the boy describes his life with the dog, the man remembers his life with his "best friend" (his wife.)

The book does not specifically address where people go after they die, except to clearly state that they are in a better place, happy, able to run and see, etc. (I would hope that people from any religion would be able to interpret this to be whatever they wanted.) And, the man teaches the boy how to be with his dog whenever he wants, by just closing his eyes and imagining... Really beautiful!

This subject matter is difficult, but I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has suffered a loss. I think this will help children understand their feelings and know they are not alone in losing someone. Very well done!

I was very pleased at all the ideas and step by step instructions in this book. I wanted to build a cover for my patio and bought this just based on the front cover (had a picture of the type of cover I'm looking for). With great suggestions on what MY patio might need, I'm going forward with my plans! Before this I had no idea where to start. Now I have a good amount of information to make me feel comfortable with drawing up the plans, figuring out my materials list, and starting the project. The photos in here offer some great ideas and really get the creative juices flowing.

"Our Town" is a poignant and powerful legal thriller. This is perhaps a surprising way to characterize a work by UCal, Berkeley policy wonks, published by one of the lesser known university presses, but this book deserves the widest possible readership. It tells the epic, heroic, heart-rending, and true story of the attempt to bring fair housing policy to New Jersey, the most suburban state in the country, and by extension, the most representative of American housing trends. It tells the story of an attempt by the African-American community of Mt. Laurel, New Jersey - a community whose origins date back to the colonial period - to create affordable housing in what was then, in 1968, a largely rural, white township of southern New Jersey. In response to thier request for the necesary zoning approval, the then mayor of Mt. Laurel (and wealthy farmer and late state senator) William Haines told the black community of Mt. LAurel: "if you people cannot afford to live in our town, then you will have to move." (this is a quotation from memory). The legals battles that followed over the next 25 years were epochal for New Jersey and for the country. This story is an epic (not unlike Jonathan Harr's book about the toxic wazste dumps in Massachusetts, A Civil Action) with genuine heroes such as Ethel Lawrence , the black New Jersey woman who led the fight, and even NJ supreme court justices who saw through the racism of Mt Laurel officials and the subtler but equally insidious intransigence of NJ governor Thomas Kean, who, for my money, is the worst villain of the lot. (I am, by the way, a New Jerseyan myself).Everyone who care about racial justice in America should find this book worthwhile. For an essentialy academic study, it is astonishingly moving. I read it in hardcover, when it first came out, mainly because I was attracted by its stylish cover, but it is the kind of book I actively recommend to my friends and family.

PR Visionaries is a remarkable piece of work! It provides you with the techniques and secrets of the best and leading members of the industry, from Ketchum, Porter Novelli, Brodeur Worldwide, and other leading players.

While strong on the strategic side, PR Visionaries is a bit weaker on the tactical side. I don't hold the editors responsible for this, however, as this is not a how-to manual, per se. For the tactical side, I found Guerrilla PR: Wired by Michael Levine to be a more than adequate resource.

PR Visionaries, as the title says, has the giants of the public relations industry tell you how to get noticed, build a brand, develop and protect a reputation, and how to be effective with key opinion-leaders, including the CEO. While it might be overly dramatic to say the book spills their secrets, PR Visionaries covers the various facets on how to successfully manage a powerful public relations campaign on all levels, one that clearly resonates with key stakeholders and publics.