Madam: Chronicles of a Nevada Cathouse

Book Description

Sex is for sale 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in Nevada's legal brothels. Former madam Lora Shaner takes you into the parlor- and bedrooms- of Sheri's Ranch, in this compelling account of the sex-for-money culture.

You'll read about Mary Clair, the nun turned prostitute; Ellen the errant wife; Coral and Millie, the happy-hooker tag team; and Alice, the pro with the heart of gold; as well as the turn outs, part-timers, sex addicts, and adventure-seekers, and other ladies of the house.

You'll also meet the cathouse clientele: Lester the rodeo rider, who liked to warm up by playing horsey; Mr. Yamaura, who paid thousands for three minutes of pleasure; and Golf Guy, who employed Sheri's girls to help him perfect his stroke; as well as the hunks, nerds, pimps, cheapos, professional athletes, and other customers who ring the brothel doorbell at all hours.

Madam's piercing character studies and poignant sketches of day-to-day life in a legal brothel strip bare the myths about the world's oldest profession, revealing the hearts and soul of the women who sell sex-and the men who buy it.

Before moving to Pahrump, Nevada, and taking a job at Sheri's Ranch as a full-time madam, Lora Shaner worked as a civilian public information officer for the Department of Defense in El Paso and San Francisco. Now retired from the brothel life, Shaner owns and operates a small public relations and advertising business.

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I am not Lora Shaner's daughter.......2002-08-01

but she is someone I would like to meet. If you want to know what it is like to work in a brothel, this is the book for you. You get an honest and even handed look at the girls (to include their persnalities and motivations), the Johns, the job, and the business of legal prostitution. It was a good and entertaining read to boot. The only thing wrong with it, was it was too short!

A MUST Read!.......2000-05-05

My 84 year-old mother has been anti-prostitution from the time she found out "the disgusting things" prostitues do. She wouldn't allow the term spoken in her presence even in terms of a social problem.

After I read this book, I literally forced my mother to read it by thrusting the book into her hands and nagging at her constantly until she read it to make me stop annoying her. She devoured it cover to cover, then said "I've been wrong all these years. I didn't have the right to judge these women without knowing anything about them."

This book is a revelation. Congratulations to the author and to the thousands of people enlightened and moved by this marvelously executed work.

You will laugh then cry!.......2000-01-16

If you have ever been curious about legal prostitution read this book. I felt as I was on the inside looking in as I read the stories of the girls, the good times , the bad times, but always the "family" times. A definate read.

It Knocked Me Out!.......1999-11-06

A wonderful, insightful collection of stories that create a vivid portrait of who legal prostitutes really are and why they do what they do. The beautifully-written stories dispel the misunderstanding of these women promulgated by the media. Want the truth? Read "MADAM: Chronicles of a Nevada Cathouse." Compelling!

An emotional rollercoaster.......1999-07-18

One minute you're crying. The next you're angry. The next you're rolling on the floor with laughter. This is a wonderful book... hard to put down... and one that makes you long for more when you finish the final chapter. And to the ladies at Sheri's Ranch and the other brothels in Nevada I say: Hold your heads high and walk with pride. I, personally, would consider it an honor to know any of you.

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Madam: Chronicles of a Nevada Cathouse
Lora SHANER
Manufacturer: SOLD
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OP5NT4

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This just perpetuates what may be the best hoax of all time........2002-06-02

Though well written stylistically, it's horribly researched. The author basically just took Wanderone and his fans' word for it, on everything. As most people with any knowledge of billiards history know, "Minnesota Fats" was a fictional character (from the novel, and later movie, "The Hustler"). Wanderone, who had been known as Brooklyn Fatty and New York Fats at the time, adopted the name and then began making up stories of his "exploits". But, in fact, he never played against most of the people he claimed to, much less beat them, and was not a very accomplished player at all (as completely crushing defeats at the hands of real pros, at least one of the televised, demonstrated). In Wanderone's defense, his snookering (pardon the pun) of the media and the general public was a masterpiece of p.r. manipulation, and his stage presence (he did many demonstration tours and other public appearances) was lengendary for its charisma, humor and general entertainment value. Still, people should not be taken in by this book or any other book that treats Wanderone as actually being "Minnesota Fats" (who never existed, nor was based on Wanderone), or as actually being a great player. He was mediocre on the table at best.

Great Book! Wonderful Father's day Gift Idea!.......2001-05-28

Written by someone that really knew the Great Pool Hustler! Walther's sincere compassion for the game of pool and for Minnesota is clearly evident. Not just a "Billiards" Book, it offers much more. And the proceeds go to a good cause too! A sincere fan, Mike Soper

A great read on my last flight.......1999-06-02

I read the book on my last flight...I htought it was very insightful as to what this man experienced. It gave me a real feeling of what it must have been like to have this kind of skill, not just shooting stick, but everything that went along with it. I enjoyed it.

Captivating, Insightful and Poignant. A must read........1998-12-15

Fred Walther demonstrates his talents as an author with this wonderful read about the greatest pool player that has ever lived. For anyone interested in billiards or veteran students of the game this book is a must read. It's filled with insightful, helpful and humorous tips and stories from the master himself. What's even more intriguing, is Walther's insight into the fascinating life of Rudolph Walter Wanderone (a.k.a. Minnesota Fats). Walther balances objectivity as an author with his genuine affection for Fats who was his longtime friend. I've read it and re-read it numerous times always finding something new.

Technically, the book is well laid out with large print. The section on "Tips" straight from Fats is priceless. You can open to any page and start enjoying. I highly recommend this diamond in the ruff.

Peter Billingsle

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Minnesota Fats Never Behind the Eight Ball
Walther Fred
Manufacturer: Cool Springs Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UECFLS

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What difference does it make when a woman wields the camera? Has the gender issue been eclipsed by questions of race and class? Does feminist theory still make a contribution to practice? This wide-ranging volume of new work brings together women filmmakers and critics who speak about what has changed over the past twenty years. Including such filmmakers as Margarethe von Trotta, Deepa Mehta, and Pratibha Parmar, and such critics as E. Ann Kaplan, this comprehensive volume addresses political, artistic, and economic questions vital to understanding the relationship of women to the art and business of filmmaking.

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The first major historical work about the most influential artistic movement in America since the Beat Generation revolutionized literature.

A provocative chronicle of the guerrilla art movement that changed comics forever, this comprehensive book follows the movements of 50 artists from 1967 to 1972, the heyday of the underground comix movement. Through interviews with the participants and other materials, Rebel Visions is the most intimate look ever at the people and events that forged the phenomenon known as underground comix, from New York to San Francisco, from the corn belt to deep in the heart of Texas, beginning that day in 1968 when R. Crumb debuted Zap #1 from a baby carriage on Haight Ashbury Street. Rosenkranz has spent 20 years researching this book and acquiring the cooperation of every significant underground cartoonist who worked throughout this period, including Crumb, Gilbert Shelton (Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers), Bill Griffith (Zippy the Pinhead), Art Spiegelman (Maus), Jack Jackson, S. Clay Wilson, Robert Williams, and many more. The book is illustrated with many never-before-seen drawings by all of the underground cartoonists, and exclusive photographs.

The book focuses on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, where Crumb and the rest of his Zap cronies commingled with the rest of the city's counter-cultural scene, notably musicians like the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin. The counterculture was omnipresent in San Francisco for those few years, with underground tabloids like Yellow Dog and Gothic Blimp Works steering the zeitgeist out-of-control, along with the music, political, and psychedelic drug scenes, all of which found a group of unlikely revolutionaries who drew cartoons right at the epicenter.

"It did feel like this must have been what the cubists were going through, like all the magic of being in Paris for the post-Impressionistic movement did feel somehow like being in San Francisco in the early 1970s." — Art Spiegelman, from Rebel Visions

"Like any utopian experiment, ideals were challenged and rewritten in the face of the daily grind. It was a harsh life lesson for me, but there were lots of laughs and some beautiful times, too..."— Justin Green, from Rebel Visions

"Underground comics were more like art and less like comics." — Gilbert Shelton, from Rebel Visions

Customer Reviews:

The Inside Scoop.......2004-01-02

If you don't know what a comix is, maybe you should go on e-bay and buy yourself a copy of ZAP. While you still can.

For those who are familiar with underground comic books, Patrick Rosenkranz has provided an amazing amount of background information about the creators and the times that produced what could be viewed as the trashiest and/or the most significant cultural artifacts of the second half of the 20th Century.

Unlike previous histories and articles that simply reprint the more or less shocking comic pages and regurgitate the same old information, misinformation and opinions about the hippies and their graphic art, Rebel Visions is based on Mr. Rosenkranz own interviews and correspondence with the first wave of underground comix creators. In lengthy footnoted quotes, the artist/writers are finally allowed to tell their own strange and wonderful stories. And by following the stories organized in yearly chapters, I cames to understand something of the birth, bloom and demise of a phenomena that never made the transition to mainstream product or the 1980s.

Rebel Visions also presents a significant amount of previously unpublished art for the connoisseur as well as an exhaustive index for the scholar.

A word of warning: these comic books are not, and never were, intended for children. Most of the comix displayed and discussed in Rebel Visions were all about breaking taboos, about freedom of expression in the face of a repressive mainstream culture and not about tittilation. That came later. If you're interested in cartoons, graphic art, the counter culture, art, politics, the sixties, propaganda, freedom and censorship, as well as the usual sex, drugs and war, check it out.

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Rebel Vision: The Underground and Comix Revolution 1963-1975
Patrick Rosenkranz
Manufacturer: Washington: Fantagraphics Books,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PT584O

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BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO WINNING CHESS

Manufacturer: Follett Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H883Y0

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Beginner's Guide to Winning Chess
Fred Reinfeld
Manufacturer: Wilshire Book Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000LBM1TQ

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Beginner's Guide to Winning Chess

Manufacturer: Chicago: Follett, 1964
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GZB08A

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Bewarte the notation, otherwise cool

Beginner's guide to winning chess
Fred Reinfeld
Manufacturer: Wilshire Book Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006PC6LK

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Checkmate. This is probably the best chess tutor a beginner can buy. is a new Speed-Method that is virtually guaranteed to teach the game quickly and will build great skill beyond the beginner level. Fred Reinfeld presents a simple method utilizing the algebraic system and a number and letter grid. is a simple presentation of a demanding subject. The great chess teacher Fred Reinfeld continues to command respect for his several classic books on this game of skill.

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Bewarte the notation, otherwise cool.......1999-08-24

Note that this book was originally written in the 1960s and therefore uses the old-style (non-algebraic) notation. Otherwise this is a fine beginner's book with lots of good examples and few typos.

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Very Misleading Title

For all photo printer users

Aged commentary still somewhat useful

Take your digital printing to the next level

More about how to spec printing equipment than about making prints

Mastering Digital Printing, Second Edition (Digital Process and Print)
Harald Johnson
Manufacturer: Course Technology PTR
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1592004318

Book Description

This book serves as a unique, comprehensive reference guide to digital printing for photography and fine art. It combines a thorough introduction to this expressive medium, instruction in the latest techniques, and a gallery of the best examples of digital art into a one-of-a-kind resource guide. Whether you are a photographer, traditional or digital artist, or printmaker, this book will help you master the techniques unique to the new world of digital printing.

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Very Misleading Title.......2007-09-03

Only 25 pages (Chapter 8) out of almost 400 total actually talk about making a print. The technique the author uses is highly based around the trial and error method. A Master printer, in my mind, should be able to hit it on the first print not after experimentation and a lot of testing. If that is not enough to lose interest in this author, there are some serious mistakes in those 25 pages as well. For instance page 268, there is a reference to the Print Space Profile--Same As Source. Anyone who knows how to print, knows that Same As Source is used ONLY to print a Target. I didn't see any reference in the book to a Target. I don't think the author knows what a Target is. This Book is a big disappointment for me. Take out Chapter 8 and come up with a different title.

For all photo printer users.......2007-06-20

This book will help any digital photographer/printer to learn about printing phtographs.

Aged commentary still somewhat useful.......2007-01-04

This book is getting mighty long in the tooth. It addresses inkjet printers from long before they became so good and useful. The approach to CMS, or color management systems, is superficial, and does not even address tools available when the book was written. It completely skips color spaces and the understanding of light and color.
However, it does give a broad beginning approach to understanding color printing. If you are just beginning to learn, this book is a good introduction covering many of the topics you will need an introduction to. Once past the introductory phase of learning, this book is of little value, being to basic in its handling of subjects to really be useful.

Take your digital printing to the next level.......2006-09-06

Mastering Digital Printing is a comprehensive manual/textbook for the professional photographer or artist who demands the knowledge to control every aspect of his/her final output, as well as the printmakers who assist them in this process. From printing techniques, file management, history, paper selection, every aspect of printing is here. The photos and bios of printers, artists, and photographers in their studios is helpful to see the layout of the workspace and creative ways of using the space available. This is the book you need to take your digital printing to the next level.

More about how to spec printing equipment than about making prints.......2006-04-20

This handsome volume badly disappointed me. I think the proper rating for the book is about one and a half stars, but I gave it two out of generosity.

If you don't have a printer and are looking to buy one, it gives a pretty good round-up of the choices, technologies, and papers. The problem with this kind of thing, of course, is that it is necessarily dated--so it can't really serve as a buyer's guide.

If you already have a printer--I have an Epson 4800--and a source of digital images, you won't find much information here about how to make great prints. The only section on the actual print making process shows the dialogs for one printer, probably the author's. Totally unhelpful unless you have that printer (and you've probably already figured out how those dialogs work if you have that printer).

The section on RIP software is way overview, and doesn't provide any decent guidance on how to proceed with it.

I'm not given to writing negative reviews, and I don't often return books (as I am with this one), but in the face of all the positive feedback for this book I feel compelled to provide my opinion. As I said, if you are looking to buy a printer, this might help you understand the basic technology issues (although the models have changed since the book was written). Otherwise, the only use I see for it is as a "gee whiz" coffee table book for would-be digital printers rather than a serious reference manual.

Como Dominar la Impresion Digital, Segunda Edicion/Mastering Digital Printing, Second Edition

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Como Dominar la Impresion Digital, Segunda Edicion/Mastering Digital Printing, Second Edition
Harald Johnson , and Translated by Yago Moreno-Lopez
Manufacturer: Course Technology PTR
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hile still a young boy, Robb White built his first boat, hewn from the tin roof of an abandoned chicken coop in the backyard-stamping and primping it into shape, then testing it out in the back creek. Today, without any formal training, White constructs some of the most sought after small wooden boats around. This colorful portrait of the author's life invites readers into his special world-a world uncluttered by computers, telephones, and rush orders. With chapters such as 'Seagull: In which I learn not to be so gullible' and 'The canned ham incident: In which I did not participate, so hurrah for the other side,' White shares some of his wisdom gained from boat-building. Here as well are tall tales of a childhood spent exploring the Gulf of Mexico, and lessons learned from having his own family. Both wise and entertaining, How to Build a Tin Canoe will find a place on the shelves of readers who love Bailey White (the author's sister), Roy Blount, and Garrison Keillor.

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Just the BEST BOOK IN YEARS!.......2006-03-02

Robb White's descriptions of growing up along the Florida Panhandle sets the stage for one of the funniest, most entertaining books I have read in years. Beginning with a gang of kids, toddlers in diapers to gawky teenagers, who wandered shallow bays and sandy beaches from dawn to dark, White moves on to his Navy years in Puerto Rico, where he spent his off hours (and there were a lot of off them) watching local boat builders, and finally beginning his own boat building business. Stateside, he followed the boat-building trade as best he could, struggling to earn a bare living, with long periods of cash-money work such as crewing aboard tugboats which pushed oil-laden barges around the Gulf Coast and up tiny tidal waterways. I practically rolled on the floor laughing at his accounts of life aboard the tugs, which included ritual trading of tattered "porn" magazines and a crewmate who literally "gutted" an annoying tug captain. Interspersed through lively, often hysterical, accounts of his travels and travails, are delightful chapters about small boats and boating: jury rigging ancient outboard motors, building classic fishing skiffs and featherweight sailing canoes, capturing and cooking the sealife of the Gulf. I couldn't put the "Tin Canoe" down, read it through without stopping and loved every page!

A brief comment.......2005-04-28

If you're a fan of nature or outdoors writing, especially the sort that provides a good deal of local color, you'll probably enjoy this book. It reminded me of William W. Warner's wonderful little book, Beautiful Swimmers, which was about the blue crab and other fisherman of the Chesapeake Bay. (By the way, I can highly recommend Warner's book as it is not as well known as it should be, but it is a much loved classic among those who do. Try reading the reviews here on it and you'll see what I mean. They're practically all rave reviews).

But getting back to White's book, White recounts the life of a Georgia small boat builder and waterman from his earliest childhood to his more mature years. White was practically born building small boats, and it shows, as his knowledge of small boat building and craftsmanship is as broad and deep as the waters he has plied for decades in his homemade canoes.

But the book isn't all about boat building, as White is a first-rate raconteur and tells many funny stories and anecdotes along the way, in addition to giving you his down-home philosophy about people, boats, and life in general. Overall an enjoyable read and if you follow other authors in the genre, like Randy Wayne White, you'll probably want to try Robb White (no relation as far as I know) too.

Great Reading, but not mainly canoe.......2003-09-29

I got this from the library as I am a canoe nut. Turned out more of a continuing "autobiography"(?) in the McManus tradition (THEY SHOOT CANOES. DON'T THEY?)only this is all in the deep south. It is funny, informative and best of all highly irreverant. This guy was corrupted by some of the same forces that did me six decades ago. I am ordering it now for a keeper.

Mark Twain with Salt.......2003-06-04

In this slim but tugid volume, Robb White, heretofor known only to a narrow audience of small-boat nuts, introduces the wide world to his native waters, the Florida Gulf Coast, just like Mark Twain did for his, the Mississippi. This is no idle comparison: Like Twain, he has played with and piloted all kinds of boats upon his waters, met all life's characters there, and kept his eyes wide open all the time. If you think his language can't be as pungent, his characers as rich, his stories as deceptively simple -- well, don't judge till you read him. Then you might agree, Huck Finn ain't got nuthin' on ol' Robb White.

Quality, rightness and virtue: the wildman's revenge!.......2003-05-22

Robb White writes of his wild childhood and wild boating life. And he gets away with it because he's so good! This is candid, uproarious writing of the best sort. It's specific. And you know he knows what he's talking about because he's been there. What a tonic! His work reminds me of Jack Saunders. : ) --A fellow folk writer who hasn't gotten his break yet. Robb's is rough'n'tumble family storytelling, yet it's gentle. It's personal...and it's general. Just the right stuff. More! ...OK, I have to let the cat out of the bag: if you want more, subscribe to the thrifty, friendly little magazine "Messing About In Boats" right now. Robb has been writing biweekly columns for it for years now. What great good times! And fiesty, helpful boating (and living) info, too. (Did you know that Robb is the world's best bass fisherman? He'll tell you why sometime...)

How to Build a Tin Canoe: Confessions of an Old Salt

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Last of the marine biologist old salts

How to Build a Tin Canoe: Confessions of an Old Salt
Robb White
Manufacturer: Hyperion Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JGWDXM

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Last of the marine biologist old salts.......2007-01-29

Robb White was (he died last year undergoing a dangerous operation) that unlikely combination of an educated, literate person who wrote in the vernacular of his region, south Georgia and north Florida. A trained marine biologist who would have excelled in higher education, he instead made a career of designing and building small wooden boats.
Despite the title, the book is more about how to live a life than how to build a boat.
Robb once wrote that making a living as a boatbuilder was a lot like making a living as a poet. You have to have a benefactor. His wife, Jane, was a career teacher, or as he once said, "teaches four-year-olds how to be explorers." He wrote like that, showing us the unconscious grace of everyday life. His writing is deceptively simple and (mostly) precisely grammatical.
This book includes many of the delightful articles he wrote for the tiny magazine "Messing About in Boats." He also wrote occasional articles for the more-widely circulated "WoodenBoat" magazine. His writing is opinionated, judgmental, irascible, molded by the realities of wading knee deep in a rising tide of irrelevant modernity. (He never would have written that sentence. He would have said something like, "This guy bought one of those big-deal plastic boats, apparently in the opinion it wouldn't fall apart when he ran it into a rock by not noticing where he was going.")

If you are interested in crimping a canoe-like object from a sixteen-foot length of roofing tin, the directions are there on page 13, with an implied warning about the tippiness of such a project. "Short tin might seem, at first, to be more workable, but we are messing around on the fringes of possible here, and twelve or fourteen feet of tin won't keep you out of the water quite so long as sixteen feet will." That's right before the sub-head, "Stomping the Boat into Shape."
People who grew up reading "The Old Man and the Boy" by Robert Ruark will find this book delightful, and not nearly so self-consciously sentimental, since Robb White takes both roles -- the Old Man, and the Boy. Those who enjoyed Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi" as a travelogue set in time will be overjoyed at the straight-forward writing describing the longleaf pine, seashore environs of Robb's childhood and old age.
If I were teaching adolescent boys how to write -- or how to read -- I would probably include selections from this book in my syllabus. But the book ain't so simple that you can't get the goody out of it if you're a grownup.
Dang, I'm going to miss Robb White.

How To Build A Tin Canoe: Confessions of an Old Salt (Library Edition)

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How To Build A Tin Canoe: Confessions of an Old Salt (Library Edition)

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A mediocre overview of some famous prisons

Notorious Prisons: An Inside Look at the World's Most Feared Institutions
Scott Christianson
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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Here are the stories of the most brutal and infamous prisons in history, including the Bastille, Alcatraz, the Tower of London, and San Quentin.

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A mediocre overview of some famous prisons.......2006-11-02

I read ''Notorious Prisons'' out of curiosity after seeing a show on TV show about Alcatraz. I was hoping to get some historical perspective on prisons and how they are, or were operated. While the author covers a broad swath of information on prisons, there is insufficient depth to most chapters. Some chapters focus on a few prisoners' experiences, while others are broad overviews. For example, a chapter called "The Worst Prisons of Today" mentions just two - one in Tibet and one in Thailand. There are lots of pictures and drawings throuhout the book, and many needlessly take-up a large portion of the page. Another complaint is that the book is written in a simplistic manner, which diminishes its value as a valuable resource. It's OK for a quick overview, but there's not enough material here to satisfy most readers.

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Lilian G. Katz

Angela Andrews and Paul Trafton know from experience that kindergartners can do great math-especially if they are engaged and challenged from the start. This collection of stories from Angela's classroom highlights the problem-solving potential of very young students. Arranged by month of the school year, each of these ten stories is an inspiration for a classroom lesson. Together the stories provide a comprehensive picture of what can be accomplished with little kids: making sense of math is the focus of the teaching; respecting children's thinking makes it possible.

Several major themes recur throughout the stories:

the distinction between academic and intellectual goalsthe intellectual dispositions in action in this classroom reveal how children can make sense of experience and observations, how they can estimate, predict, hypothesize, analyze, and apply mathematical concepts in practical and visible ways.

the real meaning of a "community of learners"how children can help, occasionally hinder, but ultimately challenge each other.

perseverancethe ability of even very young children to persist until they have resolved problems. To see the deep satisfaction kindergartners gain from hard work, or what they call "hard fun," is what makes Angela's day-to-day life in the classroom so wonderful and rewarding.

accountabilityhow teachers can satisfy NCTM principles and standards in math while addressing children's needs and capabilities.

With every story, Angela provides not only a narrative, but also a thoughtful appraisal of her own decisions, dilemmas, and choices in the teaching of math. At the end of each story, Paul Trafton focuses on the math involved and the mathematical reasoning of the children. Clearly evident throughout is the authors' conviction that teachers not only need to understand the math in the problems the children are tackling, but also to listen respectfully and to question them honestly about their thinking. In this way, teachers can support their young students and capitalize on the opportunities at hand, the many "teachable moments" this book so successfully captures.

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Outstanding math lessons for kindergarten .......2004-11-30

Kindergarten students are loaded with enthusiasm for learning, but they also possess an equivalent lack of patience. If the problem is interesting and allows them to examine and manipulate objects, they are capable of surprising insights into the world. This book is a month-by-month journal of the problems solved by a kindergarten class taught by Angela Andrews.
The problems are all well suited for a kindergarten class, and as the solution process is described, you can almost hear the enthusiastic comments made by the children. In most cases, the teacher is a passive participant, speaking up only to damper a potential conflict or point the class in another direction when they have reached an impasse. This was a very sensible approach, as the children rarely get frustrated, in most cases someone in the group thinks of a way to solve the problem. Each of the problems given to the students also allows them to collaborate in the solution. This is essential for the socialization of the group, although it does require the teacher to be a bit more involved in trying to get every student to contribute.
In the current educational environment, teachers are being pressed to do much more with much less. One of the solutions is to select only outstanding material for their lessons, and this is one item that fits that description.

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Sampling and Analysis of Airborne Pollutants is a compilation of recent work addressing air pollution and the measurement of airborne compounds conducted by leading environmental scientists. Themes ranging from electro-optical remote sensing to new directions in sampling techniques are represented, and topics covered include innovative sampling methods, visibility research in national parks, analysis of carbonyl compounds, artifacts in aerosol sampling, methods of volatile organic compound (VOC) sampling and analysis, data interpretation of ambient VOC data, and interpretation of data from environmental tobacco smoke. Sampling and Analysis of Airborne Pollutants presents topical reference material that will be valuable to air pollution scientists, statisticians in air pollution, consultants, and analytical chemists.

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