Just Another Kid

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Torey Hayden faced six emotionally troubled kids no other teacher could handle-three recent arrivals from battletorn Northern Ireland, badly traumatized by the horrors of war; eleven-year-old Dirkie, who only knew of life inside an institution; excitable Mariana, aggressive and sexually precocious at the age of eight; and seven-year-old Leslie, perhaps the most hopeless of all, unresponsive and unable to speak.

With compassion, rare insight, and masterful storytelling, teacher Torey L. Hayden once again touches our hearts with her account of the miracles that can happen in her class of "special" children.

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Just Anothr Kid.......2007-07-12

I loved this book and the way Torey Hayden treats these special children. I have read all of her books and liked every one.
She just have been put on this earth for what she does for these children. Excellent writing.

The best of the best!.......2007-01-18

This is the best book Hayden has written!! I love hearing about her kids however it is Shemona who holds my heart in this book!
All her books are great. I think that every person who wants to be a teacher should be required to read her books!

Excellent! I think Torey Hayden is a genius novelist!.......2006-09-01

This book was fantastic. I had only read one of Haydens books previous to this one but you can be assured that I will have to get my hands on her whole collection.

"Miracles can happen for the most hopeless lost causes".......2006-07-08

I am also the mother of a "Special Needs" child; I happened to discover "Twilight Children", Torey Hayden's most recent book by chance in a local bookstore. I was spellbound and couldn't put it down, and when I had read that book, I ordered everything else she ever wrote from Amazon (how's that for a recommendation?). This book, (and I say this without exaggeration) literally made me gasp at some parts and cry at some others. This is a book that I feel would be of value to parents of special needs children, but also to members of Alcoholics Anonymous, or anyone who believes (or wants to believe) that miracles can still happen to the most hopeless of "lost causes".

just another kid.......2005-11-09

In this book, Torey Hayden teaches a challenging class for emotionally disturbed children consisting of Shamie, Geraldine and Shemona, three refugees from Northern Ireland, one of whom (Shemona) is an elective mute; Dirkie, who has schizophrenia; Mariana, who is sexually precocious but academically behind; and Leslie, also autistic and unable to communicate. Hayden could badly use an aide, and she accepts Leslie's mother, Ladbrooke, who is a beautiful but aloof women with a history of alcoholism and child abuse. Through their relationship, Ladbrooke comes to trust Hayden and begins to face up to her problems. Through working with the children, Ladbrooke develops considerable self-esteem. All but one of the children improve, as well, and make dramatic gains in academic and social skills. In an epilogue, we learn of updates, the most remarkable perhaps being Ladbrooke's. This is anything but a grim read, however, Hayden seasons her book with a healthy dollop of black humor.

Condensed Books: Mortal Fear, Just Another Kid, Rockets Red Glare, Brownstone Facade

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Condensed Books: Mortal Fear, Just Another Kid, Rockets Red Glare, Brownstone Facade
Reader's Digest
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JUST ANOTHER KID
HAYDEN
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Large Type Readers Digest - Just Another Kid, Roman Fever & the Wild Wheel

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Large Type Readers Digest - Just Another Kid, Roman Fever & the Wild Wheel
Torey Hayden , Edith Wharton , and Garet Garrett
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Large Print condensed versions.

Life, Death and Tribulations by JAK: Just Another Kid

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Life, Death and Tribulations by JAK: Just Another Kid
Thomas Prange
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Â“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. You go through life meeting people and not knowing what an impact they have had on you until youÂ're faced with the fact that things are changing. DonÂ't ever forget what people did for you and how much certain people made you smile because those are the ones you'll miss the most.Â”Â—Jess

Jake Davis, aka Jak, has lived a hard life and as that life is coming to an end Jak reflects back upon his life and leads you through a world of pain, happiness, and anger. That life would be the transformation from child to adult. Losing many of those close to him from such things as drunk driving, suicide and many other tragedies, Jak some how finds a way to go on with his life despite the pain he feels inside. At an age when everything is changing follow Jak and his story and see the side of a young adult you may never have seen before. ThatÂ's because for Jak, nothing is simple nor is it easy to explain. Sometimes everything isnÂ't what it may appear to be.

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MORTAL FEAR ,JUST ANOTHER KID
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Mortal Fear, Just Another Kid, Rocket's Red Glare, Brownstone Facade (Readers Digest Condensed Books, Vol. 3-1988)

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Mortal Fear, Just Another Kid, Rocket's Red Glare, Brownstone Facade (Readers Digest Condensed Books, Vol. 3-1988)

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Four novels condensed into one volume.

Mortal Fear/Just Another Kid/Rockets' Red Glare/Brownstone Facade (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 3: 1988)

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Mortal Fear/Just Another Kid/Rockets' Red Glare/Brownstone Facade (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 3: 1988)
Robin Cook , Torey L. Hayden , Greg Dinallo , and Catherine M. Rae
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MORTAL FEAR By Robin Cook: Death by natural causes. So state the autopsy reports on several patients at a Boston clinic. But to Dr. Jason Howard, a physician at the clinic, there are indications that those deaths were disturbingly unnatural. And why did a brilliant scientist, known for his advanced research in genetic engineering, die suddenly of symptoms common to a person twice his age? Something--or someone--sinister is behind those deaths, Dr. Howard is convinced. He commits himself to uncovering the answer if it's the last thing he does. And to those determined to prevent him, it will be just that. A gripping medical thriller by the popular author of OUTBREAK. JUST ANOTHER KID By Torey L. Hayden: "I love you, miss." Those words from a little girl are among the sweetest Torey Hayden can remember. But she has earned them. Months earlier, when she began to teach a class of emotionally disturbed children, she knew the challenges she faced. What she could not know were the private heartaches she would come to share with her young pupils, nor how desperately the troubled mother of one student would need her help as well. Here is the touching true story of a devoted teacher, striving to instill hope and pride among her "kids" through skill, determination, and her own special brand of love. ROCKET'S RED GLARE By Greg Dinallo: Operation Slow Burn: a cunning Soviet plot to penetrate America's nuclear shield. The fuse was lit a generation ago; now it is set to detonate. But the plan relies on a traitor, and traitors are not reliable. Just as the U.S. President is ready to sign an arms treaty that will mean grave danger to his people, a Russian agent's act of revenge unleashes a chain of events that will bring the world to a heart-stopping crisis. From first page to last, a dazzling novel that explodes with all the color and excitement of a Roman candle. BROWNSTONE FACADE By Catherine M. Rae: New York City, 1920.

Not Just Another Self-Defense Book (Streetproofing for Kids Series , Vol 1)

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Not Just Another Self-Defense Book (Streetproofing for Kids Series , Vol 1)
Hugh B. Wilson , and John William Yee
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This book can be used as a home study guide for those who cannot attend a martial arts class or for those who can only attend occasionally. This book teaches streetproofing and self-defense to children and young adults. Over 160 self-defense photographs and line drawings offer the reader drills on self-defense techniques of blocks punches and kicks

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Psychology is one of the most popular majors in college today, with the number of students enrolled in the discipline having surged some 200% in the last 10 years. In this book, dozens of outstanding practitioners and scholars explain how quickly the career opportunities for graduates with psychology degrees are growing--in talk therapy and clinical research, but also at agencies ranging from the CIA and Homeland Security to the Library of Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission. In preparing his book, Oster contacted dozens of working psychologists and asked them what advice they would offer today's aspiring psychologists. Their responses provide a glimpse into a changing and ever-expanding field. Dozens of contributors recall their thoughts and actions as they plotted careers--or landed jobs by surprise. From one psychologist who put her research aside to become president of a university, to another who ended his work with children to become an author of psychological mystery books, the dozens of practitioners interviewed share the sometimes-humorous, often-difficult experiences and decisions they faced as they completed their college years and built successful careers. The book includes advice on making the "right" choice from among psychology careers in fields old and new, the ins and outs of graduate school, and the lessons seasoned professionals learned in their quests for meaningful careers. Web sites for more information on specialties are listed, as are suggested additional readings. The book also includes sections on making the most of undergraduate years, and on balancing the demands of career and family.

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This book challenges the prevailing philosophical reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. Starting from claims of excluded groups about decision making, cultural expression, and division of labor, Iris Young defines concepts of domination and oppression to cover issues eluding the distributive model. Democratic theorists, according to Young do not adequately address the problem of an inclusive participatory framework. By assuming a homogeneous public, they fail to consider institutional arrangements for including people not culturally identified with white European male norms of reason and respectability. Young urges that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group difference. Basing her vision of the good society on the differentiated, culturally plural network of contemporary urban life, she argues for a principle of group representation in democratic publics and for group-differentiated policies. "This is an innovative work, an important contribution to feminist theory and political thought, and one of the most impressive statements of the relationship between postmodernist critiques of universalism and concrete thinking.... Iris Young makes the most convincing case I know of for the emancipatory implications of postmodernism." --Seyla Benhabib, State University of New York at Stony Brook

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A Groundbreaking Work.......2006-05-16

Ignore the silly reviews (here on Amazon) that attempt to pigeon-hole this work as somehow relevant ONLY if one believes the principles of radical feminism. Yes, Young is a feminist. But this book is about much, much more than that. It asks a question that has long needed answering: Do classical conceptions of justice (i.e. distributive justice) adequately account for the diverse experiences of differently situated actors? And if not, how are some groups and individuals marginalized by the dominant philosophical conceptions of justice which have become part of the background understanding of Western civilization? It is Young's wonderful journey seeking an answer to this question that we find in "Justice and the Politics of Difference," and the journey is worth taking with her.

Don't bother.......2002-03-04

If you love feminist philosophy, and you don't mind all the impractical ideas and flawed logic, then this is your book. I cannot stand these things, so I found this book to be a waste of trees.

Victimization by the numbers........2001-10-11

It's tempting to write an essay detailing exactly how politics as a rationale for a system of justice must fail, and indeed should fail, but I don't want to waste my time or yours because this book isn't worth it. To make a long story short, Young's thesis is that in order for justice to be met in our patriarchal, racist, classist society guilt and punishment should be measured by the relative "power" of the people involved. Thus a white man should be punished more than a white woman for the same crime. Not only that, but if a white man were to murder, for example, another white man his punishment should be lighter than if he murdered a black man. Is this justice or an attempt to apply notions of group justice to what must be a system that addresses guilt or innocence on an individual basis? Young actually creates criteria to define exactly how oppressed you are so that through her system you can get what's coming to you.

Perhaps the most ironic part of her diatribe is that she uses her criteria and argues that women are historically more oppressed than blacks. This one example destroys her argument for justice based on politics. As a feminist "philosopher" she deconstructs her argument by tipping the scales to suit her needs, thus oppressing blacks still more.

I've written more than I wanted to, but there you have it in a nutshell. If you think justice is best served through politics then buy this book. If you believe, as I do, in justice as a set of principles to be applied fairly to each person as is their due, then run, don't walk, away from this book.

(Since I wrote this review I came to realize that anybody looking for a book such as this would probably not have the qualms I do regarding misplaced social justice. Nonetheless, if this book jibes with your worldview, so be it. You're welcome to it.)

This is the conversation we need to have.......2000-12-26

Young's clasic book is most often read in seminars on social criticism and/or feminist studies. This is as it should be, for Young's work brilliantly illuminates the direction debates about justice and oppressed groups must go. However, I read the book from the point of view of the work of Warnke, Habermas, and Gadamer, more along the lines of hermeneutics and ideology critique. What I found was an absolutely riviting account of how we define the groups to which we belong, how we believe those groups interact with each other, and the way that the competing demands of these groups are met and dealt with. As Warnke does, Young realigns the concept of justice along a communitarian axis rather than an individualistic axis, proposing that we look at justice in terms of communitites than individuals. Only in this way will the individuals within those communities be able to come to the table with their respective concerns. Like Habermas, she investigates the rhetoric of power that underlies old ways of discussing justice in terms of distribution, denying that justice is a finite commodity that must be rationed. And like Gadamer, Young stresses the need for an understanding of presuppositions in developing theories of history and interpretation. After all, how we define "our" group in great part determines how we define "others".

I found her turn from a rural to an urban paradigm of community to be nothing short of revolutionary. She develops an idea of community-oriented justice that revolves not around the model of self-suffient hamlets, but around the interlocking and often messy communities that exist side-by-side (though often in isolation from each other) in cities. Showing that the idea of self-sufficiency is unworkable in the curent context, Young holds out hope that these interconnected yet distinct communities will show us the way to not only survive but flourish in the postmodern world. Justice does not compete with difference; it grows out of it.

An excellent study, it should be read by any and all, though the jargon cannot help but be technical at times. I agree with the previous reviewer, a good second-year book for students of social work, religion, philosophy, education, or politics, and a great any-time book for anyone concerned with issues of justice in the world today.

conceptual building blocks for a better world.......1997-08-20

Iris Young makes us think about justice not as a set of debts we owe other individuals but as a set of relations between social groups. In a just society, no group is oppressed. Her chapter "Five Faces of Oppression" is a classic. She brings new insights to debates about welfare, affirmative action, and disability. This book also offers a thought-provoking discussion of community. Young argues that we have based our idea of community on the rural life of an earlier age and that city life is where we should look for ideas about how community thrives in diversity.

Young tries to write for a general audience as well as for scholars. Sometimes, she succeeds, although the parts of the book that address particular groups and their predicaments or particular social policies are more accessible than the parts in which she critiques other theories. I would recommend this book for second-year students in college and up. It marks a turning point in social and political thought.

Forging Radical Alliances across Difference: Coalition Politics for the New Millennium
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Forging Radical Alliances across Difference: Coalition Politics for the New Millennium
Jill M. Bystydzienski
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ASIN: 0742510581

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As we enter the twenty-first century, scholars, activists, and others concerned with social change increasingly realize that in order to transform society effective coalitions among different groups working for social justice need to be created and maintained. This anthology challenges dominant approaches of explaining social movements and coalition building.

Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism: The Challenge of Difference for Environmentalism

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Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism: The Challenge of Difference for Environmentalism
David Schlosberg
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In the first ever theoretical treatment of the environmental justice movement, David Schlosberg demonstrates the development of a new form of 'critical' pluralism, in both theory and practice. Taking into account the evolution of environmentalism and pluralism over the course of the century, the author argues that the environmental justice movement and new pluralist theories now represent a considerable challenge to both conventional pluralist thought and the practices of the major groups in the US environmental movement. Much of recent political theory has been aimed at how to acknowledge and recognize, rather than deny, the diversity inherent in contemporary life. In practice, the myriad ways people define and experience the 'environment' has given credence to a form of environmentalism that takes difference seriously. The environmental justice movement, with its base in diversity, its networked structure, and its communicative practices and demands, exemplifies the attempt to design political practices beyond those one would expect from a standard interest group in the conventional pluralist model.

The New Politics Of Race: GLOBALISM DIFFERENCE JUSTICE

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The New Politics Of Race: GLOBALISM DIFFERENCE JUSTICE
Howard Winant
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ASIN: 081664280X

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It isn't uncommon to hear now that race hardly matters anymore—that we've somehow gotten beyond it. In the face of such pronouncements, and the misconceptions that prompt them, this book aims to show precisely why and how race has always been, and remains, absolutely fundamental to modern politics. Howard Winant, one of the leading sociologists of race and ethnicity working today, clearly locates race at the crossroads of identity and social structure, where difference frames inequality and where political processes operate with a comprehensiveness that ranges from the world-historical to the intimately psychological.

The New Politics of Race brings together Winant's new and previously published essays to form a comprehensive picture of the origins and nature of the complex racial politics that engulf us today. It is only in light of the post-World War II patterns of racial insurgency and reform that these politics can be understood, Winant asserts. His work offers a thorough grounding in these patterns, describing the breakdown of a certain racial order after World War II and identifying the ways in which racial hierarchies everywhere are being reestablished and reenergized, often in clandestine, or at least unfamiliar, forms.

Theoretically acute and empirically sound, his essays deftly analyze the character of racial formations in a world that is, on the surface, deeply committed to eradicating racism. Howard Winant is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Racial Conditions (Minnesota, 1994) and The World Is a Ghetto, and the coauthor with Michael Omi of Racial Formation in the United States.

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A mix of new and previously published essays.......2005-03-14

The New Politics Of Race: Globalism, Difference, Justice, is a collection of superbly crafted essays by Howard Winant (Professor of Sociology, University of California - Santa Barbara) dealing with contemporary American social issues arising from considerations of race and ethnicity. A mix of new and previously published essays, The New Politics Of Race combine to provide the reader with a comprehensive perspective on the origins and nature of post-World War II complex racial politics that evolve and persist to the present day. Of special note are Professor Winant's thoughts on identifying the ways in which racial hierarchies everywhere are being reestablished and reenergized (often clandestinely and in newly refashioned forms) by contemporary political state and national forces. Also available in a a hardcover edition (0816642796, $59.95), The New Politics Of Race is a seminal and critically important work of impeccable scholarship which is an invaluable contribution to academic library Contemporary Social Issues, Political Science, and Black Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

"We Ask for British Justice": Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain (Wilder House Series in Politics, History, and Culture)

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"We Ask for British Justice": Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain (Wilder House Series in Politics, History, and Culture)
Laura Tabili
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Democracy, Difference and Social Justice

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Solidarity and Difference: The Politics of Enlightenment in the Aftermath of Modernity (S U N Y Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences)

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Solidarity and Difference: The Politics of Enlightenment in the Aftermath of Modernity (S U N Y Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences)
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You're History!: How People Make The Difference

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You're History!: How People Make The Difference

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