Professor Shapiro has provided a first rate addition to the disability literature in this wide ranging and very readable volume. From the need to change attitudes to the historical roots of the oppression of persons with disabilities to the unique problems of special education and many practical suggestions, Shaprio's work is impressive in scope. He has written both a textbook for the field of special education and a reference work useful to all scholars examining disability issues. This book is also a "must read" for policy makers, both in and out of education. As a graduate student in the cultural and intellectual history of disabilities, I expect to make repeated and substantial use of Shapiro's book in the years to come.

Where has this scholar been hiding? Shapiro has written a tome on disabilities and the education of teachers and students--the book has sources, resources and is written in a way that engages the reader immediately. a must have for those involved in education

Dr. Shapiro has written an excellent book on an important topic -- how to successfully promote positive attitudes toward students with disabilities.

Unless teachers and parents plan for the social as well as the physical and academic integration of students with disabilities, the concept of inclusion in regular education classes will not work. Students with disabilities will be rejected, teased, and ignored.

"Everybody Belongs" is a sensitively written, practical book for making inclusion work. Shapiro's ideas are based on years of experience and a detailed, insightful understanding of the relevant research and the history of disabilities. It is also based on a keen understanding of schools, teachers, and children.

"The Final Goodbye" is a book that will make yourethink, your treatment of people you love dearly, After reading thewords of the ten year old character in the book, I am going to be more understanding of my children and love ones. It is a good read, I read it twice and thinking about reading it again for the third time.

"The Final Goodbye is an excellent book to read, it is an inspiring and uplighting book that tells the story of one woman struggle to gain control of her young life. You're missing a treat by not purchasing this book.Jim

The Final Goodbye is worth the money spent for its purchase, I read the entire book before putting it down. The author, is very skilled in her craft, she makes her characters come alive, strongly recommend this book as a noteworthy read.

I have purchased this book a few years ago after a few not too successful attempts at oriental-style cooking.

The book is wonderful in the fact that it covers techniques, gives tips and explains main details of stir-fry and wok cooking for people who are not necessarily great chefs and/or have not learned oriental cooking in their mother's kitchen. It is also important that it gives recipes from all over the Orient, and does not concentrate on just one cuisine, allowing for variety that was very enticing to me, as a beginner home chef at the time.

The recipes are wonderful, easy to prepare, and very satisfying to both, eyes and palate. The dishes lend themselves to presentation at casual dinners or luncheons with friends, or an intimate dinner with a significant other (cooking these together is a lot of fun!). The book is written for the average person, and does not contain strange uneplained terminology or unexplained names of styles that confounded the younger me in many more "serious" cookbooks.

I would definitely recommend this to anyone who would like to learn the basics (and more!) of oriental cooking without specializing into one cuisine. If you are already a pro, this book can still provide plenty of ideas and inspiration.

I own many cookbooks however, this is my most favorite stir-fry cookbook. I find that I use this cookbook more often than the others. I have cooked since I was 9 years old and I am considered by my friends and family to be an excellent cook. I love the way this book is organized. It is wonderful to have the introduction chapter address equipment, fresh produce, herbs and spices, flavoring ingredients, and techniques for preparation and frying. The step by step food preparation guides are helpful and the color photographs are beautiful. This presentation makes it easier for those who may be new to wok cooking and helpful for old-timers. There is a desire-activating photograph for each dish. Most of all, the dishes I have prepared tasted incredible!!! If you love stir fry recipes and wok cooking that has a strong essence of imagination, great taste, a sundry of uses (personal and for company) this is a "must have" for your collection. Enjoy, you will not be sorry!!! Great job Shirley and Liz!!!

Offers lots of recipes with ingredients and spices the novice in Asian cuisine never felt tempted to try. This book introduces techniques and ingredients in recipes. It entices you to try at home what you did not want to ask in a restaurant, the 'How did you do THAT?'. The recipes range from quick starters (Salmon in Teriaky, 3 minutes) to full blown menus that may take up to an hour of your time and needs to be prepared a day in advance. My mother loved it at first sight and even more after a thorough review. Now I am trying to get a copy, because I gave her mine and she is asking for four other copies, because her guests want copies, too.

I have enjoyed all of the books by Shirley MacLaine, but these tapes have touched me and assisted me in so many ways. I recommend them to everyone in my metaphysical group who asks for a nice guided-meditation tape. The meditations are superb! I use the meditation that helps you find and balance your chakras all the time! In fact, I just had to order a new one because my old one finally wore out from such frequent use! These are great tapes for both beginners and long-time meditators.

After reading this book and listening to the audio tape as well...I must say I was transformed. I used her tape to guide my meditations, during which I had a vision of my sister in the hospital. I called home and found out my sister was in emergency surgery and had almost died. If we just open our mind, it's amazing what we can see.

This sixth entry into the collection of Shirley MacLaine's spiritual odyssey, strays from the roots of the rest of the books. This guide is a guide to be in tune and in harmony with your self. Let me tell you, it helped me. She discusses the Chakras, Chanting, Sexuality, and the New Age Movement in general. An insightful and very informative read!!!

This was a great book I think about a girl going insane. The small vignettes of reality are intertwined with a seemingly lesbian like nightmare. I wish this author had been more prolific, however she had a lot of problems of her own. Her biography is fantastic and sad.

[...] I have to admit out front that the reading experience was not totally enjoyable. On the contrary, although the book is very readable I found myself sitting on edge wondering what will happen next. What horrible things are now to happen? You expect the worst.
It is not that anything horrible or sickening does happen. This is not a "horror" book in this sense - the horror is more inside your brain and your uncomfortable feelings. You feel uncomfortable because something wrong is happening and you do not always know how to point it out.
Do you know the feeling you get when you are having a conversation with someone and only after you end the talk you say to yourself that he said or hinted things you should not have tolerated and that you should have reacted differently... or maybe that the message delivered was not what you initially had in mind and then you are very upset at yourself for not crying out and saying this or that...? Well this is my attempt to describe some of the emotions this book has evoked in me.
However, having said this, I think that the uncomfortable feeling is exactly what the writer has tried and succeeded in creating and thus the reading is worthwhile. It is like being in another mind which is both similar and different from your own. So many things are familiar and so many thoughts are thoughts you have thought before; and yet, so many actions and reflections are so totally unusual....so defying .
Natalie, the main character is not someone I like (why? because I cannot understand her; because she upsets me. I kept thinking "Can't you see this is dangerous; why aren't you more careful of the other girls... " ). However, she seems so troubled you do not want anything bad to happen to her. You also share Natalie's confusion - the theme of "did THIS happen or not" and "am I really here" is very strong throughout the book and the reader is a true participant in this sense. You are not sure if the things described did happen or not? If the characters did exist (the girl Tony - is she real or is she an imaginative friend? A close soul mate everyone wishes for, someone who can read your brain, even the hideous things in your mind ) and what are their motives? You can only guess. And maybe nothing really happened? The terror is really subdued and is sometimes conveyed in seemingly innocent (women) conversations. These polite dialogues can be very cruel and someone is sure to be stabbed in the back.
I despised Natalie's father. This person sees everything as a life experience you must endure in order to grow up and be a "better person/writer/critic" and thus although he can see Natalie has problems in college his only words are that this is a good experience for her. He has no empathy. He is a person which is so self centered he has no time for sympathy / real emotions or real communication. I think that he sees Natalie as his creation and this self centered feeling he confuses with love. I see the father as the true villain of this book and I blame him for most of the bad things Natalie has to endure.
Natalie is alone in the world (at least this is how she feels).
I am tempted to write "aren't we all... " - we all spend our lives in trying not to be and this is why Hangsaman is such a troubling story.
Bottom line of this depressing review is that I do reccomend the book. Its a book that stays with you.

I am giving this book 5 stars even though I did not understand the ending at all; only Shirley Jackson is capable of winning my praises in spite of my confusion over her work. This book is quite difficult to review; I cannot give voice to my questions without potentially giving something away to the reader (if it is even possible for me to give away something I never really "got"). Natalie is an unusual young lady. Her mother is unable to express her love to her, and her father spends his time training her for a life of writing and affable intellectualism. He daily meets with Natalie to review things she has written and to converse on an adult, though instructional, level. He is a writer of sorts and has frequent parties; Natalie is allowed if not encouraged to engage in adult conversation, drink, and smoke. Natalie lives in two worlds at once; she is constantly imagining vivid exchanges between herself and others--particularly a cop trying to make her confess to a murder. At one party, she is led off into the woods by an older man, and something important and probably not good happens to her--she constantly pretends that nothing happened, but an important change in her begins at that point. As she goes to college, she changes drastically. She is unhappy at school; the other girls are silly, conniving, vain, deceitful, etc. She becomes friends with her English teacher and his wife, both of whom are dysfunctional human beings; the teacher is especially bad and spends way too much time drinking and meeting his young female students outside of class. Although she seems to adapt to college and make some friends, her personal struggles take a turn for the worse; this process is accelerated when she meets a strange girl named Tony, endures the laughter her classmates direct toward her, and isolates herself more and more from those around her. Tony's influence helps set the stage for the conclusion of the story.

I imagine that loners like myself will strongly sympathize with Natalie and her struggles. I was amazed to see her expressing thoughts I myself have at times: Am I really here? Am I really alive or just dreaming that I am alive? Are the people around me real or are they just "actors" in the performance that is my life? Are they all conspiring against me and plotting my downfall? If I think of something today that I have not thought of in a long time, will I not encounter (and thus have created by my thoughts) that thing tomorrow? Natalie clearly deteriorates mentally as the story progresses, but I (like her) am left with questions about the events described--What was real and what was not real? What really happened with the man in the woods? Was Tony real? To what does the title Hangsaman really refer? There are many questions I am left to ponder after finishing this book. I can't say that the ending was bad; my expectations were proven wrong, which is always a good thing about a book's conclusion. If the whole story had been explained in detail, I realize that its effects on me would have been minimal, whereas my questions will keep the story in my mind for some time to come and will probably compel me to re-read the novel at some point in the future. Shirley Jackson tells a gripping story and makes Natalie a character I strongly liked, sympathized with, cheered for, and worried about. The writing is really quite magical and unlike anything else I have read from other writers. As weird as the story and characters sometimes are, you still feel a close, emotional connection with both. The writing is so powerful that it is quite capable of bringing on anxiety attacks of a sort for this reader. Jackson's writing is equivalent to a roadside accident--although you may see something unpleasant, you have to look, and then it is all but impossible to ever look away. In its own way, Hangsaman is as good a read as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

The shelves, in stores and online, are weighed down by cookbooks, including those for Chinese cuisine. If you're looking for all the basics of Chinese food & cooking, plus a variety of interesting (but easy) recipes, all presented in a breezy, concise manner, look no further. The author was born into a Chinese restaurant family and has come full circle, teaching cooking classes and conducting highly-regarded tours of San Francisco's Chinatown. But that's another book...

No other book on Chinese cuisine does such a good job of teaching the subject. This is the first book every Chinese chef, cook or wannabe should read.

Experienced chefs as well as those just venturing into the world of asian cooking will find this book helpful. Fong-Torres is a true expert and master chef.

"Life is a Circus" was one of the most refreshing true stories that I have ever read! It took me back in time to my first visit to the circus and years later when I took my children to the BIG TOP! I can hardly wait to take my grandchildren.

Who ever wrote the inside cover of this delightful book was 100% right in stating, "When you turn the last page of "Life is a Circus", you will feel as if you have laughed and shared memories with a "new best friend" My only complaint was I read the book in an evening and wanted to read more!

Shirley O'Connor's first book,"Life is a Circus" is undeniably a three-ring circus of her charmingly warm and humorous experiences with the "Greatest show on Earth". Most of us only dream of running away to join the circus,Ms. O'Connor had the circus practically run away to join her! She shares with us her amusing trials and insights in living side by side with the circus community: the clowns,the side show artists,the aerialists and trapeze performers and,with myriad laughter,the animals. Ms. O'Connor's delightfully true story of herself as a young bride sharing her honeymoon with a leopard nervously roaming the back seat of the bride and groom's jalopy will leave you wondering what other outragous adventures lie ahead for these newlyweds;she doesn't let us down! With her circus experiences Ms. O'Connor gained some of the valuable lessons that brought her to a future as a pioneer in a then untried field of women in commercial public relations. One has to marvel at the approaches she must have used during that neoteric time. Every enjoyable page of "Life is a circus" is filled with a delicious freshness of 'feel good' experiences that will leave you wishing that you,too could run away with the circus,no matter what age you may be. So grab a bag of peanuts and snag a front row seat in your own private Big Top with Shirley O'Connor's "Life is a circus".

I really enjoyed "Life is a Circus" by Shirley Carroll O'Connor. It is a warm humorous love story and a first hand insight into what it was like being part of circus life in a bygone era. Shirley writes about of being a newly wed on a Circus train, learning the ropes and class system of Circus life, living on the road and about the friends the bride made among the performers and side show acts. What better training for a woman who later became one of Hollywood's top Press Agents than sharing your life (and car) with wild and dangerous animals. O'Connor's perspectives and insights into the Circus culture can be appreciated by circus fans or anyone who likes a good autobiographical story. Her idea of a bad day was when she (literally) lost a heard of elephants in downtown Hollywood. I found myself smiling and laughing my way through this book. Buy, borrow, or check this book out of the library, it is a great read.

I thought I'd add my review to this short list of reviews because I found my everyday life and my Dreamtime experience to be greatly enhanced when I read this wonderful book by Norma Milanovich.

After I read 'We The Arcturians', I bought 'The Light Shall Set You Free'. The first time I opened it, I was on a short solo camping trip to a favorite spot in the Zaleski Sate Forest near Lake Hope here in beautiful Ohio. That night, I read about 30 or 40 pages and then went to sleep. I am someone who love and uses crystals, and I had some with me that night. I set them up at the 6 corners of my hexagonal tent. I also had one hanging straight down over me from the roof supports and one around my neck. Well, that night my body was full of electricity as I was visited by 8 Ascended Masters! My dreams were all lucid as one Master after another would come to me (in the tent!) and deposit geometry into my body. Can you believe it! I tell you, this book contains very high vibrations and those vibrations are trasnsmitted into your 4 bodies (physical, mental, emotional and spiritual) when you read it, much like the channeled material of Barbara Marciniak. I recommend these books by Norma Milanovich because she has a direct link that she shares through these books. I understand she has workshops also, but a healer may want to have the reward for healing to just be the fact that she is able to do the healing and not have it be alot of money for further information installments. This same experience recurs whenever I open the book and read another chapter, another Universal Law. In any case, get this book and launch your earth-bound self to heaven as your Higher Self gets grounded here on the planet Earth... OK? It's worth the small donation to her bank account only if you believe the material as I do. It's a great journey, one of fun and amazement!

The Light Shall Set You Free is a revelation!!! It requires not that you accept it's contents at face value, but that your mind and spirit are open to consider it's truth. It is profound in it's simplicity. Since reading and incorperating it's principles into my life I've had peace and blessings. I highly reccomend this book for anyone searching for answers and truth.

This book is not for the inflexible. It requires thinking WAY outside of the box, to use the latest business management jargon.

With 30 years of metaphyscial research I'm well positioned to recommend this book. If you could have only one, and your goal was soul growth, this is your book. Wait no longer, buy it now!

If you have further questions please write to me at my email address. I've a free gift for you, too!

Peace,
Dr. Rev. Nathan Ray Stephenson

I didn't know a Regency Romance could be so riveting until I started reading Shirley Kennedy's books. Her writing has depth, her characters are real, and her stories are awesome. I'm looking forward to the next one!

The author of The London Belle is to be commended for her skillful recreation of the Regency era. I felt tranported in time, as if I were living alongside her characters. Ah, and such marvelous characters they were. . . Shirley Kennedy treats her readers to a wonderful blend of wit and wickedness, all the while pulling the heartstrings with a passion not to be denied!

London Belle is fast paced, emotional, and captures the era to a tee. Shirley's characters are well drawn and she has a knack for surprising her reader. I enjoyed her first book "Lady Semple's Secret" and loved "London Belle" even more. Who could resist a story of fortunes lost, family secrets, castle ruins, a jeweled chalice that brings out the best and the worst in those who possess it, and a rogue hero to die for? With each book, Shirley becomes a stronger writer and more engrossing storyteller. If you like Regency, "London Belle" is a must read.

A Medical Diary is a great resource for any person whether in good health or not. It is a wonderful way to keep track of appointment and aliments as well as personal health history. The organization and size of the diary makes for easy use. I would recommend this book to everyone. It is an essential tool for a healthy, organized life!

Having unfortunately lost my parents at a relatively young age, I have no medical records to trace family health history. Since so many of the conditions which threaten our adult health seem to be genetic, family history is a crucial part of the puzzle. This wonderful book offers a very easy means of documenting such information so one is never left to worry about the impact of "what we don't know". It is also extremely helpful in tracking our own history as we look for patterns or potential clues to maintaining good health. I particularly like to keep notes on the effectiveness of varouis types of treatment or medication which have been prescribed for similar symptoms over time to learn which ones provide the best result for me. The book provides a terrific audit trail to help manage my health now which can be passed on so that my children will never have to wonder.

This book is wonderful! How amazing, What a great idea! It will be so helpful, especially for older folks, who do tend to forget sometimes! Thanks!