The Economist July 21 2007
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international
affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited
in London.
It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it
in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one
million copies a week, about half of which are sold in North
America.[1] Consequently it is often seen as a transatlantic (as
opposed to solely British) news source.
Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science
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Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science
It is an excellent, balanced presentation of evolution and how it should be taught in public schools.
It presents clearly what most people fail to understand.
This is a great book for teachers, and every teacher who cares about scientific truth should read it.
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Child in Mind - A Child Protection Handbook
All public sector workers in contact with children and families, both in health care and allied services, need access to clearly written information about what to do if they are concerned about the safety and welfare of a child. Ensuring the safety and promoting the welfare of children who are at risk of harm is not an easy undertaking. The Child in Mind will help health service workers negotiate the complexities of child protection practice, with the aim of preventing abuse and neglect and protecting children from further harm once it has occurred.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES must be as close to a perfect novel as anyone has written in English. It is a genuine tragedy with a girl/woman as tragic hero. It is about life on earth in a way that transcends mere sociology. It has the grandeur of Milton but concerns itself with the lives of mortal beings on earth, as much with sex as with dirt, blood, milk, dung, animal and vegetative energies. It concerns itself with only essential things the way the Bible does. It is almost a dark rendering of the Beatitudes.
The story is built with such care and such genius that every incident, every paragraph, reverberates throughout the whole structure. Surely Hardy had an angel on his shoulder when he conceived and composed this work. Yet it was considered so immoral in its time that he had to bowdlerize his own creation in order to get it published, at first. Victorian readers were not prepared for the truth of the lives of ordinary women, or for a great many truths about themselves that Hardy presents.
Erich Segal’s Acts of faith is a compelling novel that revolves around two religions: Christianity and Judaism and three protagonists. The shear fact that the author has succeeded in smiting the inner cords of many readers like me, who have never seen a jew in flesh and bones and have known little or nothing about Judaism speaks volumes about the author’s success, the efficacy of this book and the impact that it brings on the readers.
Erich Segal’s Acts of faith is a compelling novel that revolves around two religions: Christianity and Judaism and three protagonists. The shear fact that the author has succeeded in smiting the inner cords of many readers like me, who have never seen a jew in flesh and bones and have known little or nothing about Judaism speaks volumes about the author’s success, the efficacy of this book and the impact that it brings on the readers. 
