This book should be mandatory reading for any course about the civil rights or black arts movement of the 60s. Freedomways magazine, edited by Esther Cooper Jackson, chronicled the entire civil rights and black arts movement with insightful analysis, critique and articles. Includes work by W.E.B. DuBois, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, and other legendary Black poets and writers who first started out by publishing in the magazine. Also, it provides interesting research on the struggle for social, civil, and political rights here in this country and abroad. A must read as many of the articles within the "Reader" have never been published elsewhere.

this is a Great book that covers so much Historical important information.a wide view of knowledge of the struggle all here.a must have.books like this cover so much.

From 1961 to 1986, Freedomways published the words and thoughts of the leaders of the freedom movement; yet few modern Americans have heard of the publication. Esther Cooper Jackson and Constance Pohl's Freedomways Reader gathers key writings from the pages of the various Freedomways booklets, charting the struggles for racial equality and providing an oral history of black freedom struggles, from reports of the Freedom Riders to short stories.

This book will leave you wondering about your own faith...would you have the same strength Esther shows? I didn't...and so I wrote to her after reading the book, in one evening, when she still lived in Pa. I lost a baby in 1988 at 5 mths pregnant...it was only 8 years later, after reading Esther and David's story that I felt peace at last. She wrote me back and told us to come visit on our next trip there, which was that same week! That was 8 yrs ago and in that time, I came to know Esther, David and the children. We visited them at their home, took Esther out shopping with us, had pizza and popcorn at their place, watched a cow born on their farm, watched our children off playing together, and we drove them both and 2 of their freinds around Lancaster County, to look at examples of barns to build before they did move to Indiana.
And now...I miss my dear friend so. She gave me back a reason to find my faith again. She is a very special person with a special message to share! :)

This book is a must read for those going through or having been through the loss of a child. Esther's strength and courage, you will soon feel in yourself!

This book is fantastic! Friends of mine over a period of 2 years had lost a son or daughter. I found this book by accident in Lancaster. Read it in 1 night ( you will not be able to put it down) Then passed it on to my dear friends (4). Esther has since moved to Indiana We keep in touch and have shared special feelings about her writings. I have lost a brother, Esther and David have lost 2 sons. They share such wonderful feelings. Thoughts and letters from all involved. This is truly a wonderful experience please read. L

This is an essay by a mother who lost her six year old son in a motor vehicle accident. I cried throughout but could not put it down. It was one of the most moving books I have read.

This is the most moving story I've read in a long long time. Other reviewers have espoused the story's merits, and I can only agree with them.

Of all the moving and haunting scenes I think the scene in London's Covent Garden where Ruth, on her way to a rehearsal of Verdi's "Don Carlos," is rivetted to the spot when she sees a bag lady wearing the coat that Daniel bought in the early 1970's and had given away when he joined the church. Ruth 'identifies' the coat by the tear in the pocket that she herself had repaired, and gives the uncomprehending lady some money. It makes Ruth's final meeting with Daniel all the more heartbreaking. Their final parting, their last, almost indifferent, goodbye. And Ruth final matures as an artist. As the conductor says to her after the first night of Don Carlos; "Something happened to you between the dress rehearsal and the opening." "Well, yes, you could say that." replies the liberated Ruth.

It was interesting reading the other reviews as I had to look up both Colin Dye and Dorothy Squires on the Internet, and the scene where Daniel inists the shopper is Dorothy Squires is very funny. I can't quite see Pastor Dye doing this these days.

I also enjoy the panorama of the book, the varied locales, and the, oh so human, situations.

A great book.

I enjoyed this tome very very much. It manages to be both funny and sad and inspiring all at the same time. I have lived on a kibbutz as a volunteer and the scenes there are very well depicted. I think the funniest moment in the book, besides the Dorothy Squires business, [which is funny, but like the reviewer below, I had never heard of her], is the section where Ruth is fired as a tour guide at Yad Vashem for humming the overture to Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" under her breath whilst showing round a group of elderly Americans. [Wagner is more or less banned in Israel.]

The scenes in London I find bitter-sweet, but enjoyable. What does come across is the loneliness of artistic endeavour in the young, when they are sustained by hope alone. Hope, and each other.

Ruth's fearful reunion with Daniel after ten years is heart-rending, but it rings so true. She has lived with an idealised vision of him, sustaining her through so much, and suddenly, in just a moment, the vision is gone.

It's well worth reading, and Iverna Tompkins is a very talented writer.

What a heart warming story this is. It a success story, and we all like a success story.

The book is about a young girl, Ruth Ben-Lazar, who longs to be a performer. Against her mother's wishes she leaves Tel Aviv and makes her way to London where, after a few dancing lessons, she gets work in a club as an exotic performer. The hours are long and the work dreary, but little by little she earns the money for her singing and dancing lessons. She works hard. Ruth is sustained in her daily life by a boy at her dancing school, Daniel, [whom I've been told is based on Colin Dye], who plans to give up dancing and become a preacher once he has fulfilled his ambition of dancing a leading role with a major ballet company.

There is a lot of humour and compassion in the plight of the two youngsters making their way in London. Ruth falls in love with Daniel and hopes he is willing to give up the life in London and return to Israel with her and live and work on a kibbutz. No such luck! Daniel takes on leading roles, and moves in very grand circles and then vanishes at the end of a season. Ruth discovers he has gone to Bible College.

Ruth returns to Israel. Ten years pass. Little by little she makes a career as an opera singer. She gets an engagement to sing in London and discovers Daniel who, instead of ministering to a small flock in the outer Hebrides as he expected to, is now the leader of a charismatic church in London.

I won't spoil the delight of the rest of the book. There's one sad little scene which especially haunts me. When Ruth finally meets Daniel again he is married. Having lived with an idealised image of him in her mind for over ten years she is shocked to see what he has become. The final straw is when Daniel's wife, Mary, [clutching a grapefruit juice spiked with gin] says quietly to Ruth: " I hope you don't love him too much - he isn't worth it any longer." Ruth flees the building and gets on with her life. She never sees Daniel again.

I find the theatrical aspect of this book very well written, it's obviously been carefully researched, if not actually experienced. Likewise the religious areas. Some of the parts with the young people living in London in the early 1970s is killingly funny. The scene where Daniel accosts a middle-aged lady in Kensington High Street and insists she is Dorothy Squires and will brook no denial despite the lady's protests had me weeping with laughter. [If Daniel is really Colin Dye and he really did this it's both very funny and a little bit cruel. Dorothy Squires, a famous Welsh torch-singer who died a couple of years ago aged 83, was actor Roger Moore's first wife, some years older than him, and led a very up-and-down life. Two years after she and Moore divorced in 1968 the 55 year old singer spent $10.000 of her own money to hire the prestigious London Palladium for a comeback. Her close friends were sceptical but the theatre was sold out within 10 hours of the box office opening and she had a huge success. She was a major 'camp' [not neccessarily gay, either,] icon of post war period in the UK and was always good for copy. She had legions of fans of all ages and from all walks of life. This isn't too well explained in the book, and I had to look her up on the Internet to understand who she was.]

Another haunting scene is Ruth's explanation of the story of her biblical namesake, Ruth, and Naomi, from the book of Ruth, to a group of young children on the kibbutz.

This book is about courage, guts, gritty landscapes, beautiful blue skys, hopes, fears and acceptence. Read it.

Marti was a prodigy, a genius, yet he is little known in the U.S. either for his prose or poetry. Those who have heard of him may associate him with Radio Marti or know him as a Cuban revolutionary.

While this beautifully rendered translation includes a broad spectrum of Marti's works, some not previously translated, his descriptions of America in the latter half ot the nineteenth century are by themselves sufficient reason to buy this book.

Marti, coming from a different culture, sees things about America that we do not, and he describes them with a passion lacking in the reportage of his North American contemporaries.

Here at last--in English--is a comprehensive selection of Martí's writing, translated by a masterful hand. It leaves all other attempts at this task far behind. Esther Allen meets the challenges of Martí's exuberant and complex style with extraordinary success. This book will be a landmark text for college courses on Martí as a Latin American and Latino writer, and is an excellent introduction for the general public. Bravo to all involved in this effort to bring Martí to American readers!

The Cuban character, as it turns out, is not so much a development of the post-Castro trauma in which so many Cuban-Americans live but rather the expression of a deep and inescapable sense of exile. In this gorgeous, captivating translation of Marti's writings--some appearing in English for the first time--this 19th century journalist and poet is truly the epic voice of the Cuban people, articulating their pathos and homesickness in his dispatches from New York, putting his finger into the wounds of their suffered humanity in his poetry and travelogues. An elegant, profound picture of the Cuban soul, long before the Ilan Gonzalez events cast such an unfriendly light upon it.

We Win! Thats whats happening in Westbridge High, the football team seems to be winning games all of a sudden. So Brad says that all the football players should not change underwear, take showers, or even change socks, and of course the football players do just that! But once Sabrina finds out she is determined to stop all this sill superstition and get the football players to take showers. Just then a spell is cast, superstitions start to really come true. So when someone walks under a lader or brakes a mirror they have bad luck! What will Sabrina do?

I loved this book, it was excelent, its almost like watching sabrina the teenage witch on TV, but you are reading the book. Especially that was my first sabrina the teenage witch book that i ever ready, and because i liked this book i want to try all the others. Its like the book gave me a passion for reading Sabrina the teenage witch books! Its great! i really recomend to order this book, because if i liked it, maybe you will too!!!

As an 8th grade teacher, I love any book that keeps my kids reading, and according to the girls in my class, this is a must read. So I tried it, and really enjoyed it, even though I'm a bit older than the target market. Very cute, and it reminds me of my kids at school!

Wonderful book! Funny, witty, interesting and I couldn't keep my hands off it.

I read this book during my freshman year of high school and I immediately fell in love with it. How could you not fall in love with a book which can boast such characters as the hopelessly gullible and naive (not to mention failing) magic student Kendar Gangle, a.k.a. "Ratwhacker" and a cat with an attitude from Earth named Scandal who constantly talks about movies and other things that only someone from Earth would understand and thoroughly confusing all the other characters. In fact, the only other book I have read which comes even close to being equal to Majyk by Accident is the sequel!

You like humor? You like fantasy? You'll like this book. Much of the humor in this story lies in the first person perspective. Kendar has a way of accenting his good moments and downplaying his bad ones that just reflects on Friesner's great sense of humor. Besides being funny, this book does not let you put it down. Friesner's style and ability to bring humor into a situation will leave you wondering how long it will take you to get a few more of her books.

This book was so exciting to read and the illustrations were fantastic! I REALLY enjoyed reading it and learned lots about the game of FOOTBALL.

I'm so happy to have a copy of this well written and comically illustrated guide to the game of football. I always enjoyed going to football games but never really understood it. Now I know the calls before the referee calls it! Thanks to the authors for explaining it and illustrating it in a way that even youth can understand it.
I certainly say this book is a MUST HAVE guide to anyone who enjoys the game and if you don't enjoy the game, I have a feeling you will after reading this cute book.

This book let me learn what I didn't know on my own time. I didn't play football but I like watching it on TV. This book answered all the things they talk about and the pictures make me laugh to myself.

To put a long story short, this is a great book. At age 23, I'm out of my teens and just beginning my journey into the dullness popularly referred to as "adulthood".

I must admit to never being an aficionado of poetry, but this book I enjoyed greatly. Every time I read them, poems like "Exasperation" and "Following directions" take me right back to being 15, with all the rage, joy and pubescent angst that comes with it.

Layout-wise I have no complaints. The colors were well chosen, and the illustrations were great :-)

I really loved the whole idea of the book; there is nothing like being a teenager, no matter what decade the feelings are the same. It is indeed painful..but delicious.

I grew out of my teen angst as I grew out of my Cure T-shirt. Where I used to get lost in poetry, now I'm lost in biros and bankstatements. Still-and I don't understand it-'The Pain Tree' is simply my favorite book. Handy-sized, softback, unassuming-and chock full of illustrated treasures!

Reading it takes me right back-in palate, in texture, in sureness of purpose-to my old bedroom, where a young me, loose-limbed and eager, hunches over an inky poem. And probably every one of the twisted illustrations (from the robot in underpants to Ms Watson's vicious spiky boots) is tacked to the bedroom wall.

Yeah, that's what it's like.

Well, I bought three copies. And I don't even know any teenagers. Not a one. But if I get to, I'll give them a copy. I will.

I could never write a review about a jens bjernebö book.... He left to the world his masterpieces to read and comprehend and love. A hypersensitive book about brutality. A hymn to human heart.

The first time I read this book was for my own pleasure, and I thought the story was an exciting adventure. The second time I read it was in school when we analyzed it. Then I suddenly saw the allegories this book is packed with. Now this book is one of my favorites and I have read it several times.

A sea adventure worthy of comparison to Conrad and Melville, The Sharks tells the tale of "the last, meaningless, incomprehensible voyage" of the bark Neptune. The novel is set in the year 1899; the issues of diversity, violence, oppression, love, and interdependence presented are familiar concerns for contemporary readers at the end of this century. The narraator is Neptune's second mate Peder Jensen, a sailor who is afraid of the sea and yet can not leave it: "This is my fate and my curse: to love what I hate." The polarity, and ultimate union, of opposites is a theme which runs throughout this allegorical book. A white European, Jensen is in a privileged position as officer aboard a British ship. He gains our sympathy by being aware of his privilege and resisting the role of oppressor. He feels a revulsion toward his sometimes cruel and greedy fellow-officers and is supportive of the crew, "that strange assemblage of folk from every corner and edge of the globe, of every colour and race, denizens of the whole world's docks and ports." As the crew moves toward mutiny, Jensen is caught in the middle of the power struggle betweeen groups. Throughout the book, Bjorneboe acknowledges the inextricable connections between people and the mixture of good and bad in all of us. Jensen learns that he can not truly be as independent as he imagines himself, free of all ties: "One's every act toward another -- help included -- brings obligations and creates fate. One is caught in the net." Love and hate are two sides of the same coin; Jensen reflects that "of course destruction dwells in us all. In each there lives a murderer. But there also dwells a saviour and rescuer in us." The surprising and uplifting ending of the book brings out the best in each of the characters, and leaves the reader with a sense of hope for the uncertain future. Sensitively rendered into English by translator Esther Greenleaf Murer, this book represents a significant contribution to world literature, as well as being "a good read."

I borrowed this book from the Library and love it so much I wanted to buy one to keep readily available. I hope somebody decides to reprint this one. I'd love a copy of my own. It breaks down the Constitution into bite sized pieces into something even I can understand.

I bought this book in high school school in 1956 for a Problems in American Democracy course. I have used it in high school, college Constitutional Law courses, law school courses and the practice of law. It breaks the Constitution down almost word for word and restates it in easy, simple layman's terms. It tells you why the phrase is there, what the citizen gives up under it and what the citizen receives in benefits from it. It alows you to find and understand specific sections of the Constitution and how they apply to you. Every American should have and study this book. It is the best simple explination of this complex subject I have ever seen. The fact that it is out of print and not available, particularly to young students, is a sorry comment on our society.

As a young boy - nobody could believe the a family member of mine wrote this book. I used it in government class in Junior High and High School in the 1970's. This book should still be required reading by every student in the United States

David Findlay Stafford