The text/workbook is particularly appropriate for students in the upper elementary or middle school grades. It was written to fill a void for Christian-oriented schools (and homeschoolers) ages 11-14, depending on ability, who are looking for an up-to-date Illinois history/geography text with strong moral values.

Besides the student text/workbook, there also is a Teacher's Guidebook and a Test Booklet.

Sure to be controversial, this important collection of essays challenges the glib assumption that "inclusion" is best for all students. While acknowledging the huge benefits that inclusion holds for some students, the authors put forward the case that for other students, it may have equally huge disadvantages, both educational and social, and that by jumping on the bandwagon of "full inclusion", educationalists are actually seriously failing some students with disabilities.

Instead, the book argues, a range of educational possibilites are needed, so that each student's individual needs can be met most fully, with the goal being inclusion in society as a full and equal participant (which includes the right to be different). The essays include both those attacking the theoretical arguments involved and those which examine the issue with respect to specific disabilities such as autism, learning disabilities and deafness.

As a disabled person whose life was very nearly ruined by my experiences in the "mainstream", I hope that this book may cause some educationalists to think twice before sacrificing the rights of students with disabilities to the cause of "educational correctness".

This book really shows the incredible skill of Jose Limon. I am a dancer and I really enjoyed this book because it clearly showed the technique of Jose Limon. I would suggest this book to any dancer because it really gives you new perspective on some types of movement. This book really made Limon's technique and movement come alive.

Being the editor of this book, I wanted to be the first to say a few words about this significant achievement. Images of Africa is not just any other book on Africa. Images of Africa: Stereotypes & Realities offers rare and exceptional insights into the historical and cultural processes through which the various perceptions of Africa since ancient times came to crystallize themselves in the form of negative images and stereotypes so pervasive and profound that the continent, to date, has had a hard time shaking them off.

Working from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors to this volume, including Martin Bernal, world-renowned author of the revolutionary Black Athena, add substantially to the pool of new Africanist/Afrocentrist knowledge and revisionism that, in the past four decades or so, has helped to uncover huge chunks of purposefully hidden and deformed African history. This book therefore sets the record straight by deconstructing the multifarious images and stereotypes that, century after century, came to deform, invalidate and misconstruct the African universe, burying it under layers of historical fallacies that explorers, missionaries and 18th- and 19th-century scholars and thinkers consecrated as historical truths in their attempts to denigrate the non-west in general, and Africa in particular.

Contributors to this impressive volume include not only Molefi Asante, who wrote the preface, but also Martin Bernal, renowned author of Black Athena.

I can only congratulate you if you bought this book. But I also urge others, whether they know Africa well or not, to buy the book because they will see in it a side of Africa that has not always been put forward in books that have endeavored to do justice to the history of this most stereotyped continent.

This book presents arguments that the manner in which state Supreme Court Justices ascend to office, either by public election, Gubernatorial appointment, or legislatively selected, impacts their tendencies to decide cases in several legal areas. This conclusion differs from general Political Science thought that the manner in which Justices are picked for office makes little to no difference on how they ultimately decide cases.
The author concludes that groups with little political and/or economic power fare best with Supreme Court Justices who are appointed. This is important as members of these powerless groups require innovative state Supreme Court decisions to obtain remedies they have been unable to achieve from conservative leaning federal courts. Elected state Supreme Court Justices tend to make more traditional stances and sun the innovative decisions.
The book examines state Supreme Court decisions on similar issues in business law, criminal law, and family law in six states: two with elected Justices (Pennsylvania and West Virginia), two with Gubernatorial appointed Justices (New Jersey and Connecticut), and two states where legislatures select the Justices (Virginia and Rhode Island). 36 issues were chosen. This is a statistically signficiant sample size. Considering the multitude of decisions these courts make and the subjectiveness in comparing decisions where specific facts may vary, the argument can continue as to whether these conclusions may be broadly reached and whether these differences would occur in different times. Still, this is a remarkable study that combines case studies and backs these studies backed with statistical evidence. It is highly recommended to those wishing to learn more about Supreme Court decisions.

Lothane has brilliantly researched the most written-about of all psychiatric patients. The author has webbed together a fascinating account from multiple perspectives, including historical, legal, psychoanalytic, political, and medical. It is the first source to consult about Schreber. Lothane has painstakingly researched his subject, has made important historical discoveries about Schreber and his times, and has given us a valuable commentary on issues such as diagnosis, Freud's formulation of paranoia based on the Memoirs, and the influence of Schreber's famous father. It is indispensable reading for anyone interested in this fascinating man and his work.

My mother was visiting with me and was telling me what a good book this was for building our trust in God and then at the end of the book the publishing company had omitted 16 pages from 105 to 121. She really enjoyed the book and would like to read the omitted pages. Could you please help us to secure this pages. Thank you and God Bless.

This novel really makes me wonder who I am. According to this book, I am the author, I am Rene Descartes, and I am you. We are all the same person. I do in fact recognize myself in some of its pages. But where does that leave me? Here? There? Everywhere? Nowhere? This is a philosophical labyrinth in which you must lose yourself in order to find yourself. My favorite lines in it are, "Mirrors are the darkest glass in Plato's cave," and "When again I looked I was gone."

Daniel Defoe based his famous Robin Crusoe castaway character on the real-life seafaring adventurers of men who were his contemporaries - and who did survive for years on isolated islands after shipwrecks. Tim Severin camped out on islands castaways once survived on, and searched South America for the tribes which were a model for Crusoe's companion Man Friday. In Search Of Robinson Crusoe is highly recommended history blended with adventure and travel in a revealing and thoroughly engaging.

Few writers, Thomas W. Lippman wrote in the Washington Post, have explained so lucidly the complex developments of Muslim history.

It is difficult to address the questions of Islam, the Arabs and their relations with Israel and remain nonpartisan. But Business Week's Ronald Taggiasco called Pipes' scholarly explanation of events and faith in that little-known, volatile, and important part of the world well worth reading.

Pipes' reasoned, literate explanation of what generated the Islamic resurgence goes a long way to explaining recent events. Written in 1983, this book provided the first comprehensive political study of Islam's extraordinary role in modern world. We are fortunate indeed that the political and global implications of the Islamic revival, revealed here, are soon to be rescued from the out-of-print category.

The book is divided into three sections. The first covers the premodern legacy of Islam's sacred laws and its failure to implement the public ideal represented by those laws--as existed in the single state for Muslims (Dar al-Islam) from 622 to 753 A.D. According to Pipes, for most of Muslim history, traditional Muslims were willing to accept the gap between the ideal and the actual, to live with a less-than-complete implementation of Shari'a, although the Muslim approach to politics derived from the "invariant premises of the religion" established more than 1,500 years ago.

The second section covers Islam's encounters with the West, beginning with the matched powers of Crusaders against the Ayyubids, and proceeding quickly to Napoleon's 1789 invasion of Egypt. (This prompted the Ottoman Sultan Selim III to declare Jihad against the French and join the infidel British and Russian empires to keep his own in tact).

Muslims had ruled millions of Christians in Europe for 450 years before being displaced by Turkey. Then the western cultural onslaught began in the first half of the 18th century, and ran from Umma's eastern end (China and Indonesia) to its west (Crimea). By the end of 1919, only Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Arabia and Yemen retained political independence, the first three by balancing the claims of Britain against those of Russia and the latter two simply by being remote and completely barren. Meanwhile, the Muslim Empire had also lost battles of scientific, technical, mechanical, geographic and historical knowledge. Even daily Western life differed markedly from that of the Islamic east. Thus fundamentalists began lobbying for strict Shari'a everywhere in the Umma.

In contrast, reformist Muslims argue that traditional Shari'a is hopelessly illiberal and conflicts with the true Qur'anic values. They reject Shari'a traditions emanating from Hadith, consensus of the 'ulama and reasoning by analogy as inauthentic and outdated, respectively. Similarly, they approve of parliamentary systems of government, but view hold their record in Islamic society in contempt. On some fronts, liberal views conflict with themselves. While they admire pan-Islamic solidarity they are not committed to it; and they recognize national interests but disapprove of Muslim states fighting one another. And as for non-Muslims, according to Pipes, reformists are caught by ambiguity, between their desire for equal status for all and the wish for Dhimmi laws that traditional Islamic states use to bestow a special place on Muslims, while relegating all non-Muslims to inferior, even slavish conditions. The fact that Westernization did not markedly improve the Muslim world in the 1970s led to increasing fundamentalism.

Pipes devotes the third section to Islam in current affairs, detailing the effects of the fundamentalist surge on 22 Muslim-dominated nations from Indonesia, Afghanistan and Pakistan in Central Asia and Asia to Algeria, Morocco and Egypt in Africa and Syria, Iran and Iraq, in the Middle East. In at least 8 other nations, from Malaysia to Nigeria, Muslims vie with non-Muslims for power. In one of these--the Sudan--the conflict has grown bloody since this book was written, forcing millions into subjugation and slavery. Pipes also reviews 20 areas, including the former Soviet Union, where Muslims account for less than a quarter of the population but are asserting themselves. Pipes includes an extensive 50-plus page look at the means that the oil boom provided to promote Islam. Oil is behind the political importance of Saudi Arabia, and the Iranian Revolution, for example.

But Pipes also concludes that an Islamic revival dependant on oil constitutes a mirage, for the cash that oil provides cannot last forever. This, Pipes predicts, will leave the Islamic world with a choice that has become increasingly urgent--to adapt and come to terms with global Westernization, or to accept apologetics, introversion and poverty.

This broad treatment remains as helpful in understanding current events as when it was written nearly 20 years ago. Alyssa A. Lappen