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A 183-page on child bullying issues in our schools. ... Read more

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Excellent resource for teachers
Weakfish is an enlightening story about a boy who has been bullied througout his school career.The author provides insight into why the bullying occurred and provides excellent information and resources to help teachers, administrators and parents prevent bullying in their own communities. A must read.

This is a wonderful book!
This is a wonderful book.I have read it myself and I have used it to teach a unit on bullying to a high school class.

An Excellent Message
Today I heard Michael Dorn speak as part of our "beginning of the year" inservice.I am a second grade teacher and was profoundly affected by Michael's message.He has helped me remember the powerful influence and presence I have in my students' lives. As a parent, his message has helped me question and be very connected in my own kids' lives and education.He is an excellent speaker and writer.I highly recommend this book to all people who influence children in any way.It is an eye-opener and a wonderful reminder of how precious and beautiful our children are.

A "Must-Read" for Teachers, Parents, etc!
I have not yet read the book, (working on that!) but I have met Mr. Dorn in person after hearing a lecture he gave to my school. His lecture and books are a must for all involved in educating students today! He explains adults what to look for when finding those students "slipping through the cracks." ... Read more

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THE MUST- HAVE NATIVE WOODY PLANT BOOK for Eastern United States homeowners, designers, contractors, nurseries, and students* Discover the wonders of gardening with native plants in Native Woody Landscape and Restoration Plants of the Eastern United States by expert, Michael L. Dorn.* Choose from 85 native trees, shrubs, and vines to incorporate into YOUR landscape. * Create woodland gardens, restore stream banks or wetlands, stabilize shorelines, construct buffers, enhance habitat, and more.* Dorn's 246 color photographs show beautifully, the physical characteristics of each plant.* Reference charts help you locate specific plants for particular purposes. * Native Woody Landscape and Restoration Plants of the Eastern United States is the most valuable native plant reference guide available today. ... Read more

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Innocent Targets – When Terrorism Comes to School provides an informed and rational examination of this difficult subject, starting with the 1970 murder of nine Israeli school children and three adults in a brutal attack that left nineteen others crippled for life.Tracing the history of school related terrorist attacks in twelve countries to Beslan and its aftermath, the renowned father and son co-authoring team invoke the counsel of other top experts in evaluating this timely, emotional and critical subject. ... Read more

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Falls short on details and relevant information
Innocent Targets: When Terrorism Comes to School by Michael Dorn and Chris Dorn is really a brief overview of school violence related to terrorism. Chapters 1-4 discuss terrorist events that have occurred in schools. Unfortunately, the information is so brief and without significant analysis that is fails to add value to the book. In addition, there is some information presented on the Beslan school massacre that is not factually correct. The remainder of the book has sections on:

- Terrorist Tendencies
- Combating Terrorism in Schools
- Impacts and Analysis

Again, these sections are very brief and really leave out significant detail. Innocent Targets is more of an outline on important information that must be considered to have safer schools. I do not believe this book would be a valuable resource for those looking to implement a school safety plan.

This is not a book that I would recommend. I would strongly recommend Terror at Beslan by John Giduck which is an excellent book about the Beslan school massacre.

of moderate value
The base premise for this book is correct but it lacks sufficient development. Facts need to be checked more closely, ie Beslan. The authors take a subject that does need serious attention and give it a gloss over, granted we do not wish to hand terrorist a play book, but the book should be more detailed on terrorists group, mindset.

dealing with potential terrorism at schools
Michael Dorn is an internationally-recognized expert of school safety and anti-terrorist measures who has worked with government agencies, foreign law-enforcement departments, among other organizations. He is also associated with the leading defense and intelligence agency Jane's. After analyzing a few notorious incidents from around the world where terrorists took school children hostage for the reasons for the success or failure of government authorities in dealing with them, Dorn--with his co-author his son, also a recognized authority by government agencies and the media--discusses general principles which can prevent a terrorist incident, be prepared for one if it does occur, and if so minimize the number of school children and teachers taken hostage and the potential loss of life. The timely, authoritative manual addresses the natural concern over the safety of children with a realistic perspective on the probability of a terrorist attack on any particular school. The recommendations put forward follow the guideline of being pertinent and responsible without being excessively costly to school systems and governments at different levels. ... Read more

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The first book from the former Police Chief whose leadership caused a dramatic improvement in the level of safety in a troubled school system. The effect his department had was so profound it came to be known as "The Macon Miracle." Read this how-to guide based on the program that became a model for school systems around the country based on its 90% reduction of weapons violations in less than ten years.

Some of the topics discussed in this book include:

-How to incorporate police officers into your schools without offending students
-How to screen and hire school police officers
-Informational and educational programs that can be taught to increase the level of safety of your students
-Dealing with weapons and keeping them off campus
-Campus patrol methods
-Emergency Operations Planning for schools
-School search and seizure
-Gangs

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-A 15 page reference guide to more information on school safety and police in schools
-40 pages of forms and materials developed and used by the Bibb Campus Police and discussed in the book
-Anniversary dates of school shootings ... Read more

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School/Law Enforcement partnerships:
School/Law Enforcement Partnerships: A Guide to Police Work in Schools Great book to have. ... Read more

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When a famous scientist is murdered in one of the ship's science labs, the Enterprise crew get caught up in a dangerous web of deceit, betrayal and madness. Worf and Troi find themselves up against a ruthless assassin set on revenge - for whom murder is only the beginning. ... Read more

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Classic murder mystery.
In this book, although the characterizations are not too far off the mark from those established for the characters, much is sacrificed in order to fit the classic murder mystery plot. One must accept, for instance, that it is possible to fire a phaser on board the Enterprise without the computer being immediately aware of the occurrence, and signalling security; that it is, in fact, possible for a member of the ship's complement to replicate a loaded phaser without clearance or any record of the transaction; that there is no high-tech way to establish the identity of the person who fired the phaser, or even whether a particular phaser was the one fired at a particular time, and many other very dubious propositions.

Still, the book is well-written, and if you enjoy detective and mystery fiction as well as Star Trek-style space opera, it should provide an enjoyable read. It uses a very Agatha Christie-esque method of maintaining suspense and uncertainty as to the question of "whodunit" by making almost all of the non-regular characters behave suspiciously at one point or another.

Not really my style, but well done if you like that sort of thing. ... Read more

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An essential anthology of an innovative American poet

Edward Dorn was not only one of America’s finest poets but a rare critical intelligence and commentator. He was a student of Charles Olson, who helped him to see the American West as a site for his quest for self-knowledge; at the core of his work is a deep sense of place and the people who occupy it, underpinned by a wry ironic dissent. It was Dorn’s comic-epic masterpiece, Gunslinger, which began appearing in 1968 and had already become an underground classic by the time it was published in its entirety in 1974, that established his reputation in the wider world. This new volume brings together poems from Dorn’s entire career, including previously uncollected work. ... Read more

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never west enough
Edward Dorn's work is driven, turbulent, acute; there are tender moments too of course (eg "Song: Europa"), often interlaced with a poignant irony and a searching view of the contemporary. From the early reflective poems, writing himself out of rural Illinois, to the first flush of inspiration at Black Mountain (Olson, Sauer) to the time in the UK (esp. at the then new University of Essex) to the late reflections on heresy and chemotherapy, the sense of groundedness in a living tradition, but wanting to expand out of it, is clear. As he writes in the late poem "Tribe," his "tribe came from struggling labor" and this struggle to articulate the new is characteristic of his best work. This volume greatly expands the 1997 "sampler" "High West Rendezvous" and includes a generous selection from his parody epic "Gunslinger," not included in the much earlier "Collected Poems" (but available through Duke UP); yet "Way More West" shows that Dorn is much more, and other, than--as the cover has it--"the author of 'Gunslinger.'" Unlike its "Ur-text," Black Sparrow's 1993, "Way West: Stories, Essays and Verse Accounts : 1963-1993" this volume has no prose (ok, it's in a poetry series). Given however the range of Dorn's work, his classic narrative of Puget Sound, "views," "interviews" and prose commentaries and accounts of all kinds, and the abiding interest of this material (published through smaller houses), could this also be licked into popular shape?
A strong line of rather quizzical comedy runs through the volume, and a little poem like "the hazards of a later era" with its pastiche of Williams's icebox poem adds a reflection on the state of agribusiness, etc. (again, the rural).Dorn plays with his sources and influences, among themD. H. Lawrence, whose work can be detected at times from "Los Mineros" of the '60s to the "Languedoc Variorum" of the '90s. Always searching, probing, listening; "way more west", yes, but also never west enough.

Ed Dorn,Essential Reading
From his early lyrics like "The Air Of June Sings" and "The Rick Of Green Wood" and "Like a Message on Sunday" through his first experiencing England: THE NORTH ATLANTIC TURBINE, the long poem "Oxford" most specifically, to his breakthrough "spiritual" address in GUNSLINGER (notably Books I & II), and his gem, RECOLLECTIONS OF GRAN APACHERIA, on through LANGUEDOC to the brave work of CHEMO SABE, Ed Dorn has created a body of lucid and resonant and controversial poetry, in which there is often an effortless shifting of discourses within the poem, a mode whichhe developed into a postmodern way of usually hard-edge jump-cut justaposition.Tom Clark's impressionistic biography of Dorn is a useful accompanying text. ... Read more

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Published on the occasion of Michael Krebber's Cologne exhibition of the same name, this volume includes 96 drawings and paintings by the German conceptual painter born in 1954 and known in the 80s and 90s as the antithesis of other Berlin and Cologne painters like Baselitz, Lupertz, Kippenberger and Oehlen. ... Read more

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Collectible magazine is in good shape. ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Franz Kafka, Otto Bradfisch, Robert Oskar Julius von Görschen, Rolf Majcen, Hanns Dorn, Michael Hendricks, Gerhard Erdmann, Karl August Friedrich Samwer, Ludwig Grosse, Hermann Döring, Karl von Hülsen, Vladimír Klokočka, Rolf-Peter Hoenen, Dietmar Kuhnt, Hans Samwer, Christoph Uleer, Maximilian Mehnert, Hermann Wilhelm Thywissen, Gerd Eidam, Gerold Loos, Peter Rebsch, Hans von der Goltz, Wolfgang Poppelbaum, Michael Diekmann, Paul Blunk, Herbert Fischer, Friedrich Kiefer, Paul-Otto Faßbender, Friedrich Kuhnle, Gustav Bothe, Oscar Stübben, Hans Goudefroy, Egon Lorenz, Bernd Späte,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Franz Kafka (* 3. Juli 1883 in Prag, damals Österreich-Ungarn; † 3. Juni 1924 in Kierling - heute Stadtteil von Klosterneuburg -, Österreich; selten auch tschechisch František Kafka) war ein deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller, der aus einer bürgerlichen jüdischen Kaufmannsfamilie stammte. Sein Hauptwerk bilden neben drei Romanen bzw. Romanfragmenten (Der Process, Das Schloss und Der Verschollene) zahlreiche Erzählungen. Kafkas Werke wurden zum größeren Teil erst nach seinem Tod und gegen seinen erklärten Willen von Max Brod veröffentlicht, einem engen Freund und Schriftstellerkollegen. Seither zählen sie zum unbestrittenen Kanon der Weltliteratur mit vielfältigen, anhaltenden Wirkungen. Franz Kafka, etwa fünf Jahre alt Kafka als Schüler (vor 1900) Kafkas Schwestern: v. l. Elli, Valli, Ottla Franz Kafkas Eltern Hermann Kafka (1852-1931) und Julie Kafka, geborene Löwy (1856-1934) entstammten jüdischen Familien. Der Vater kam aus dem Dorf Wosek im Bezirk Pisek in Südböhmen, wo er in einfachen Verhältnissen aufwuchs. Er musste als Kind die War...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=1605 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Doors and Hardware, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1616 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Safe buildings by design: the basics of crime prevention through environmental design.(school SAFETY)
Author: Michael S. Dorn
Publication: Doors and Hardware (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 71Issue: 9Page: 32(4)

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Chapters: Emory Bellard, Michael Dorn, Tamron Hall, Riley Odoms. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Emory Bellard (born December 27, 1927, in Luling, Texas) is a former college football coach. He was head coach at Texas A ... Read more

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Collectible magazine is in very good condition and is long out of print. ... Read more

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An international modern method of fingerpicking guitar techniques presented in a fun and easy progressive approach. Influences of Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Marcel Dadi are noticed throughout the songs in this book. These guitar solos were written to teach anyone learning to play guitar the joy of being a solo guitarist. Written in standard notation and tablature to encourage guitar players of all levels of skill to enjoy this study of fingerpicking guitar solos the fun and easy way. The companion downloadable audio enables the student to hear and play along for easier learning. ... Read more

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Written by Mark Okrand, the creator of The Klingon Dictionary,Conversational Klingon is an audio program that can teach anyone to speak authentic Klingon.It includes the words, phrases, pronunciations and customs for any situation, including: proper voice inflection, key Klingon words for emergencies, and sample conversations between Klingons. ... Read more

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Nice to have, but not neccessary
If your into Klingon's this is a nice buy, especially if yor unsure how to pronounce some of the more difficult klingonesse idoms. While I was glade I bought it at the time, now it's just gathering dust.

A Great Introduction
This is an excelent introduction to the language. It has a very good pronounciation section and contains all the phrases one would need to "get by". It also has a basic vocabulary that provides a good foundation for further study.

But remember it is only an introduction. And the grammar section should be taken with a grain of salt. It mentions twodifferent sets of "pronouns" when one is realy a set of verbal prefixs (jI- bI- ma- Su-), also it says that pronouns come at the end of a phrase this is not always true (eg. taHqeq gragh matlh'e'Maltz is a "taHqeq").

If you want to learn the basics this is an terrific buy. If you want to know more go buy The Klingon Dictionary. Qapla'!

So you want to speak Klingon, tlhingan Hol dajatlh a'
The how to in basic klingon speach, learn some expression and the basic klingon philosophie, you will go through many different aspect of the speach: how to be polite -> get to the point... no small talk, curse warfare, toasting, replacement proverbs, secrecy proverbs, holiday proverbs... and so on !! just bare in mind to keep a towel near by.. ... Read more