books about: neighborhoods     books:     Neighborhoods      Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community Heather Coburn Flores Chelsea Green, 2006 Wonderful Book This book has so many great ideas that I just had to have it. She makes many great "eco" points that had me going "ah, I never thought of that." I'm very glad I purchased this book.             Touch and Feel: Touch and Feel Neighborhood Animals (Baby Einstein) Julie Aigner-Clark Disney Press, 2008 My Two Daughters Love This Book This is a wonderful first book for babies. My oldest daughter loved her first copy so much that it fell apart because of so much use. I ordered two more copies (one for her -she is now 28 months old) and one for her younger sister (14 months old).             The End: A novel Salvatore Scibona Graywolf Press, 2008 A powerful insight into the Italian immigrant The End by Salvatore Scibona was slow going at first, but the fresh metaphors and prose kept me going, and I am so glad I did. What an astonishing first novel...the dialogue, the descriptions, the emotions touched a cord with this daughter of a second-generation ...             The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs Betty G. Birney Aladdin, 2007 A book that gets the family together Our town chooses a book each winter, which they call the "One Book, One Community Project". We just moved here so this is our 1st and I am very excited about the project. As soon as I heard about it, I went to the library and checked out the book. Even before my 3rd ...             The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood David Simon, Edward Burns Broadway, 1998 The Corner, maybe the most relevant book on the topic The Corner clearly tells us about the life of inner-city neighborhoods and its inhabitants. The dark side of the world is revealed through extremely realistic descriptions, terrible moments of life that are so usual in there. The gap is deep, the suffering is obvious, ...             Gracias The Thanksgiving Turkey (Scholastic Bookshelf: Holiday) Joy Cowley Scholastic Paperbacks, 2005 N.Y. Hispanic family has turkey for dinner! I use this book with at-risk 2nd and 3rd grade readers. It is wonderfully multicultural, and involves a multigenerational,Hispanic family living in New York city at Thanksgiving time. Miguel's father is a long-haul trucker who sends him a live turkey to raise for ...             Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith Diana Butler Bass HarperOne, 2006 Reflections after a congregational study I would like to express my appreciation for "Christianity for the Rest of Us." As the pastor of a small, struggling mainline congregation, much of what Diana Butler Bass has written here resonates. My congregation just spent almost six months with this book. We used ...             Fisher Price Cars, Trucks, Planes, and Trains Lift the Flap (Fisher-Price Little People) Nancy Rindone Reader's Digest, 2004 Fun book, holds their attention well. My 19 month old twins love this book. They don't quite understand the activities in it yet, such as finding all the monkeys and identifying the shapes, but they love to open and close the flaps on all the pages. It is densely animated, but it makes it more fun and ...             Frommer's New York City 2009 (Frommer's Complete) Brian Silverman Frommers, 2008 America?s #1 bestselling travel series Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer?s Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do. More annually updated guides than any other series 16-page color section and foldout map in all annual guides ...             Seedfolks (Joanna Colter Books) Paul Fleischman HarperTeen, 1999 Almost certain to make my best reads of the year list. Paul Fleischman, Seedfolks (Harper Collins, 1997) I've read a lot of books in the past few weeks, as I often do right around the new year for some reason. The best of them this year was Seedfolks, a kids' book about a community garden in Cleveland and how it came to ...             Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, Third Edition Jay Macleod Westview Press, 2008 Moving and Troublesome I read this years ago in an anthropology/sociology class in college, and I can say that it still carries as much weight today as it did then. Jay manages to weave entertaining narration with factual reporting, resulting in a moving work that points a critical finger ...             Harriet's Halloween Candy (Nancy Carlson's Neighborhood) Nancy L. Carlson First Avenue Editions, 2003 We love this book! We reread this book every Halloween! It gives us an opportunity to discuss selfishness and the consequences of negative behavior- like the way Harriet "cheats" her baby brother out of the "good candy" and the way hiding her candy becomes obsessive- not to mention ...             Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood Michael Walker Faber & Faber, 2007 FANTASTIC BOOK I grew up less than 5 miles from that area during this time and never realized what was going on there. I remember driving through Laurel Canyon to go out to the San Fernando Valley to visit my cousins and to find out about these singers living in that area was amazing ...             Frommer's Dubai Shane Christensen Frommers, 2008 America?s #1 bestselling travel series Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer?s Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do. ? More annually updated guides than any other series ? 16-page color section and foldout map in all annual guides ? Outspoken opinions, ...             From Neurons to Neighborhoods : The Science of Early Childhood Development Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development, Youth, and Families Board on Children, ... National Academies Press, 2000 super terrific This book is a staple in the early childhood mental health field. It represents everything good in the promotion of social-emotional development in our society. Creating neurobiologically friendly environments for young children is a crossroad our society faces in an ...          products you might be interested in search for books christianity, fisher-price, neighborhood, neighborhoods, rock-and-roll, transforming      geepe.com    web we recommend The Corner, maybe the most relevant book on the topic randomly chosen DVD: Firehouse Dog (Full Screen Edition)