The reading structure allow the reader to visualize and understand American History from outside and inside. Wonderful maps, statistical charts, great photos, and a very good section titled: historical question. If you are the type of person in exploring new perspectives of the American History, do not hesitate to look this book.

Is your child disabled by ADD? Damaged goods, limited potential? Absolutely not! Thom Hartmann explains that what some view as a disability, is a strength.

Example - Is your child distractible, or in the alternative, able to quickly shift attention and multi-task? Hyper, or able to outwork and perseverve over others? Our ADD/HD children have exceptional strengths that surpass our 'normal' children. Thom Hartmann will help the parent and ADD adult recognize the hidden benefits of ADD and how to capitalize on them and view them, not as a disability to feared and overwhelmed by, but instead as a strength and positive trait.

This is the first book I grab for my parents/clients.

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This book will change your view of ADD, as it should!

Hartmann's "Hunter in a Farmer's World" theory is incredibly enticing to people who have ADD. I was just recently diagnosed (as an adult) and though my initial feelings upon finding that there was a chemical/biological reason for my spaciness were those of relief, I still felt somewhat... broken.

But after reading this book (and buying into Hartmann's theory...whether it is scientifically sound or not I am not qualified to say, but it has the ring of common sense about it) I started to see the positive aspects of this "disease." In fairness, Dr's Hallowell and Ratey addressed the positive aspects of ADD in Driven to Distraction (also a must-read) but Hartmann drives the idea home in a very approachable way. The book is a joy to read and is very inspiring.

Now whenever I'm feeling a bit down about ADD, I scan a few pages of the book at random and leave the house confident that my hunter instincts can carry me through anything. I still use my medication for when I have to deal with the farmer world, but the rest of the time, I hunt!!

Thom Hartmann teaches us how to maximize the potential of our gift: ADD.

This book is skillfully written and is not stuffy or clinical. It's an easy, very informative book to read and understand. It's nice to know that someone (the author) offers the diagnosis as a character enhancement, rather than a negative deficit. I'm an adult "hunter," and proud of it, although I didn't know it until now, and am glad no one stuck the stigma of "ADD" on me when I was young. This should help other Hunters and parents of Hunters better understand ADD without all the negativity associated with ADD. And I agree that "Farmers are boring!" A must read for newly-diagnosed Hunters.

The following is an extract from the inside front cover of the book. "From the savage veld of Southern Africa to the glittering high society of Capetown, a specter haunts the descendants of Reuben Woolf. Woolf, the founder of an immense fortune in diamonds centered around the fabled Auber Mine, was brutally murdered by a band of marauding natives at the turn of the century, natives who claimed to have been guided by a tall white man with silver hair and glowing eyes. In passing on his wealth to succeeding generations, Woolf seemed to have passed on a vengeful curse as well. Reporter Ben Dryden, researching a conventional background story on the inner workings of a financial monolith, uncovers a trail of mysterious events that leads him back three generations. He begins to piece together unexplained deaths and accidents into a pattern reaching to the present day, from a time when desperate men scraped for wealth in the soil of a land contested by fierce Matabele tribesmen and even fiercer Boers, to a modern era in which savagery is barely masked by the trappings of power. The truth, when it comes does so in an orgy of violence that will leave many shaken. Filled with passion, courage, and heartbreak, THE HUNTED is a memorable, action-filled novel of unrelenting suspense."

This book omits several important events in U. S. History up to 1865. But is sufficient for introductory classes in U. S. History. While it does a sufficient job as a survey source, it is not recommended for an in-depth study of any period in U. S. History. Further, Roark seems to emphasize some events that seem less important to U. S. History.

This book is very well written, quite long, though