This is the perfect book for counselors and other mental health professionals who want up to date information about ADD/ADHD. The way the book is written makes it an excellent referrence for parents and families who are living with a child, or children with ADHD. Parents and teachers can simply turn to the chapter or chapters that deal with pertinent information for their situation. Despite this format, the book is no less cohesive or interesting to read cover-to-cover. I recommend this book without reservation.

I loved the easy-to-read format and the breadth and depth of the information. A definite go-to handbook for parents of ADD children who are trying to get appropriate services for thier children. Loaded with insights and humor that help me understand and communicate effectively with my son AND his teachers. and my husband and the grandparents....highly recommended.

I am a special education teacher with many ADHD students. I found this book very helpful in the classroom setting. I also have a parent group for their ADHD children and this was our text used in the group. It is easy to read for parents and teachers.

This is the absolute masterpiece of Russian poetry for children. I was read this book since I was 1 year old. I was absolutely ecstatic to see one of my favorite book available in English. It is funny, entertaining and educational. What else can you ask from a book? If name of great Samuil Marshak does not tell you much, try it. It will after you finish reading.

i think this book talked in great deatail about not only my fathers rescue but alot of other interesting stories. my father repelled out of a helicopter to sve victims in the world trade center,and i think it is great his storie was included in this book.

An excellent visual coverage of the controversial exhibition of Young British Artists. Includes a few essays at the beginning of the book, and a few photo examples of each artists work. I would have liked a bit more information on the artists, under each of their names for easier reference. Overall an excellent catalogue of one of the best exhibitions of the decade. Artists included are Jake and Dinos Chapman, Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin.

Great piccies...plenty of authority types spouting about art...a key catalogue on yBa's...especially recommended for art students desperately seeking quotes from the stuffed shirts of art, on Saatchi's girls and guys...don't get hung up on the media controversy...it's only art...it can't bite you...and if you don't get it, then 'Sod You Gits!'...as Sarah Lucas says.

I went, if you didn't, buy this. Lots of love, Liz Delag xxx (young, British and an artist...shouldn't I be famous by now?)

Recommended for any serious artlover, especially those with good taste. Oh yes.

Azevedo's 1890 book depicting life and death in a Rio de Janeiro slum is one of Brazil's early masterpieces. It follows the fortunes of Joao Romao as he expands his business interests from small-time shopowner to upwardly striving slumlord. Dozens of neighborhood denizens wander in and out of the story, fighting, singing, working, copulating, and dying. The characters, dialogue, and scenery are vivid -- the slum comes alive as blacks and mulattos scramble with Portuguese and Italian immigrants to climb off the bottom of the social food chain. Women's roles are fascinating: virgin/prostitute, submissive head of family, object and subject. Race relations are critically examined. For modern readers seeking a developed plot line, the story might seem to slip off the rails. Identified with the Realist/Naturalist literary schools, Azevedo's slum seeks to broadly describe and illuminate a social setting rather than the stories of particular characters. Even so, the imagery is colorful and the language powerful. Brazil's slums don't seem to have changed much in the century since Azevedo wrote about them.

This book is a masterpiece for several reasons. It is filled with complex and interesting characters, none especially likable but all interesting. Some of the passages, including the scene where Jeronimo stands, hypnotized, watching Rita Baiana dance for the first time, rank among the best prose I have ever read (I hope the translator does it justice). Structurally it is unusual because no individual person is the main character. The main character is the Slum itself, which is treated as an organic unit. This fact brings me to my next point- Azevedo's idea of treating a neighborhood as an organic entity predates Chicago School Sociologists like Wirth and Zorbaugh by 40 years. People interested in Urban Studies will be fascinated by Azevedo's description of the birth of the slum and it's growth to the point where, towards the end of the story, it begins to fill up with students and artists and starts to gentrify. It also serves as a valuable historical document, showing what day to day life was like for poor Brazilians and immigrants in Rio de Janeiro during the twilight of the Empire. Apparently, one of the main differences between then and now in Brazil is that in those days, slums actually had owners. Today, most Brazilian slums are formed by squatters and this (judging from this book) seems to be an improvement. All This is not to say that the book doesn't have its flaws. One thing that I find troublesome with a lot of naturalism, including the Slum, is that it focuses almost entirely on sadness and tragedy while giving the appearance of objective storytelling. In any event, evil characters are often more interesting than good ones and the slumlord Joao Romao is one of the great literary hypocrites of all times.

I read about this book in one of the many book review publications I read. The reviewer correctly called it a masterpeice. Apparently only one other person read that review or perhaps she found it on her own. We were both lucky. It is a book so well worth reading that it is hard to find enough suitable words of praise yet it is unknown. This book throbs with the colors, odors and sounds of a Brazilian slum: the excitement, the perfumes, the sexuality and the despair. It is deceptively easy to read. In fact, it almost finishes too quickly. One wants to continue to bathe one' senses in the luxurious words. This is not to say that the reader's morality and intellect is not also engaged. It is a scathing commentary on Brazilian attitudes towards race and the poor during the early 20th century. The reader cannot help but recognize that thhese attitudes are still with us in the early 21st century. However, Azevedo does not preach to us. He simply presents us with the issues, quietly, even deceptively. We do not know how deeply we have thought and felt until the last page.

It is ok for what it is . If you want true stories of k-9 polcie this is the book for you. I recomend a movie called k-9 cop witch is the tranning of these amazing dogs .

I thought the book was great. I thought the stories about the San Diego Police K-9 Unit were the best. That dog Flic is a riot. They really sound like they are on the cutting edge. These dogs are so brave, I think people should read this book to get a feel for what they face.

I have owned this book for awhile now and have re-read parts of it more than once. I loved Hannibals story and can understand how close an officer can become to this kind of dog. I can also understand what the officer went through getting acceptance as the wife of a 20 yr veteren! An informative and well written book