This book was one that I would definetley love to keep in the family. Kids of all ages can enjoy as well as adults. This book is something that family's can share together. It not only has a charm to bring people together, but it can also teach lessons. I loved it!

This perticular story has the potintial to inspire millions. I could totaly relate to Irving. I feel as if Irving was me.The story is mystical and heart warming. Irving is an inspireing hero that always win in the end.

This story has action and suspense. It taught ne not to be scared of monsters. I like being able to pretend Irving the dragon is really with me when I am afraid because he is a good dragon.

if your into the men who flew this a/c then buy this book. half of this book is written on individual men who flew it, what happened to them then and where they are now. it also breaks down kills of the aircraft by ww2 combat units. 97 squadrons, 37 groups. very good read. bolillo_loco

If you're the type of person who wants to know the details, then this is one of the books you must have. Photos and information contained in this book are not found elsewhere. Pamela Reynolds-Woods is not an aviation author I recognise, but I would not hesitate to buy another of her aviation books, particularly a P-38 book. Facts are compressed into one, two, and three page summaries of specifications, battles, campaigns, theaters, fighter groups and squadrons, and personal stories. A number of important lists are herein, and not in any other of the 40+ P-38 books I've read. Some 50+ bios on pilots and crew-chiefs are here, look no further. Want to know about WASPs and the P-38, they're here too. Check your 6, and your wallet now. Go get one.

Reynolds is my medical anthropology professor at UC Berkeley. The book, like Reynolds, is engaging and interesting. Reynolds is compassionate and very intelligent. These qualities are clearly evident in her book. It is a wonderful resource for both laymen and anthropologists, for anybody interested in healing systems outside of the Western tradition. Read the book.

Blindness, the inability or refusal to see why we commit violence and to see the effects of violence on ourselves and others that continue for generations, is a kind of spiritless, hopeless and, in the end, impotent power.

That is one of the points of this marvelous book, a collection of articles written by anthropologists who have been through or who have been with those who have been through violence. Not only does violence kill, main and destroy, it changes those who live after. Violence sears identities, amputates parts of self, twisting how the survivors see themselves and others. We are some of those others.

From China to South Africa to Sri Lanka to the former Yugoslavia to India to Pakistan to Nigeria to what we call Western civilization, these essays carry us around the world to meet people to have done their human best to deal with inhumane circumstances. Sorting identities of the circumsized as opposed to the non-circumsized, trying to be a man when men have no fathers and whose primary role is to serve as targets for the enemy, the erasure of identity through steralization and the importance of memory are questions faced by the most ordinary of people. One of the most riviting and thought-provoking essays is titled, "On Not Becoming a "Terrorist"". In a culture of terrorism, can a person refuse to become one - and survive? It was a Mayan social commentator, Sam Colop, coming to terms with the decades of mass murder, who described the conqueror type. "It is not merely that his power makes him blind," he wrote, "nor that his power is accompanied by blindness, nor even that his power required blindness; it is, instead, quite simply that is blindness, his willed amorality, is his power, or a large part of it." And is it then the victims who should likewise seize power?

Arthur Kleinman brings it all home to "the violence in middle-class life under the regieme of disordered capitalism." "Rather than view violence, then, simply as a set of discrete events, which quite obviously it can also be, the perspective I am advancing seeks to unearth those entrenched processes of ordering the social world and making (or realizing) culture that themselves are forms of violence: violence that is multiple, mundane, and perhaps all the more fundamental because it is hidden or secret violence out of which images of people are shaped, experiences of groups are coerced, and agency itself is engendered." Or, to use a "mundane" example, can you recall in either a movie or TV show a single non-family dispute that was resolved without violence or aggression? Can we any longer imagine a way of solving social and political problems without violence, the threat of violence, creating new weapons, passing "tougher" laws, building new prisons or insisting (making) "the other person" make the sacrifice?

A great book.

Earth Times Two is a parable about a parallel-universe United States. A boy with low-grade telepathy is transported to a different dimension when he meets his mysterious cousin. He discovers a world dominated by telepaths with the technology of the mid-Industrial Revolution. The nominal democracy in the US is a police state; he helps his new friends on the path to freedom while trying to return to our world.

I first read this book when I was in fourth grade; it is appropriate for readers in grades 3-7.

This comprehensive manual provides all the detail any clinician would need to focus on geriatric rehabilitation. There are 7 units, dealing with general physiological health, psychological health and a new paradigm that focuses on concepts of wholeness and uniqueness vs. the traditional medical model. Pathokinesiology is addressed along with therapeutic interventions. Sensory losses are addressed also, a great book for the novice gerontologist or one with experience to have information at one's fingertips.