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¡n we get some reality in here?ߡsks Judy Sheindlin, former supervising judge for Manhattan Family Court. For twenty–four years she has laid down the law as she understands it:
● If you want to eat, you have to work.
● If you have children, you'd better support them.
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required reading.......2007-07-21
this book should be required reading for all kids in jr. high school. Judge Judy has an uncanny ability to glean the truth out of a pile of b.s.!
Eyeopening to say the least!.......2007-07-20
If you've ever wondered what goes on in a family court in the City of New York, here's your chance to see it from the eyes of the judge. When you see Judge Judy on tv, I believe you're seeing a lighter side to her. After reading this book, you'll realize that she has had to rule on the most heart breaking of cases, only to have the social service administration or the parole system undercut what she determined to be the right decision.
Judge Judy has chutzpah!.......2007-01-28
Judge Judy doesn't mince words! I really liked her frankness in this book. It's a shame that some of her ideas are not tried in our justice system. She has spent a lifetime seeing things that many of us could never even imagine. I really enjoyed her honesty!
"I CAN PROVE JUDGE JUDY IS RIGGED" .......2006-12-30
Judge Judy = UNPROVOKED EVIL!!!
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CHEERING FOR JUDGE JUDY!! .......2006-10-26
This book made me want to cheer out loud!! Judge Judy points out, as so many in society do, that there is a lack of responisbility out there. So many people in our county refuse to take responsibility for their own stupid mistakes and the rest of us pay for it. There is too much reliance on people who live by the law and live their lives responsibly.
I did feel rather sad to realize though, that she is just ONE judge who takes action in her own little corner of America. If more people thought like her, and followed her actions on getting tough with the deadbeats of the nation, this country would not have the severe problems it has. I wish more people in a position of power could see things how she sees it.
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Tackling the crucial issue of our day--the rebuilding of countries following ethnic cleansing and genocide, this book evaluates the role of trials and tribunals with regard to social reconstruction and reconciliation. The voices of the people of Rwanda and Yugoslavia are heard through the results of extensive surveys and recorded conversations. Their thoughts of past and future controversially conclude that international and local trials have little relevance to reconciliation. The contributors find that communities interpret justice far more broadly than defined by the international community and the relationship of trauma to a desire for trials is not clear-cut. An ecological model of social reconstruction is proposed, suggesting that coordinated multi-systematic strategies must be implemented if social repair is to occur. Finally, the contributors suggest that, while trials are essential to combat impunity and punish the guilty, their strengths and limitations must be acknowledged. Eric Stover is Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) until December 1995. He has served on several investigations as an "Expert on Mission" to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague. He is author of (with photographer Gilles Peress) The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar (Scalo Verlag Ac, 1998), War Crimes in the Balkans: Medicine Under Siege in the former Yugoslavia 1991-1995 (Physicians for Human Rights, 1996), Landmines: A Deadly Legacy (Physicians for Human Rights, 1993) and co-author (with Christopher Joyce) of Witnesses from the Grave (Little Brown, 1992) and The Breaking of Bodies and Minds: Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Health Professions (W.H. Freeman & Co., 1985) Harvey M. Weinstein is Clinical Professor in the Joint Medical Program at the University of California, Berkeley. He has done research in and taught health and human rights, refugee health and mass violence and social reconstruction. Weinstein is a member of the Advisory Council of the State Refugee Health Program, and the International Human Rights Committee and the Caucus on Refugees and Immigrants of the American Public Health Association.
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- Your Values, My Values: A 'Must Read'
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Your Values, My Values: Multicultural Services in Developmental Disabilities
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Enabling and Empowering Families: Principles and Guidelines for Practice
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This engaging book shows how to provide culturally responsive services that support the values of the people receiving them. The author combines her experiences of working with adults with developmental disabilities and her background in anthropology to offer practical methods for discovering variations in values. Readers will learn to apply these strategies to support self-advocacy, facilitate community inclusion, and interpret challenging behavior.
Through the stories of people with diverse ethnic and class backgrounds, the text explores cultural differences in values such as decision making, self-reliance, reponsibility, privacy, independence, and equality. This knowledge will enable family members, teachers, social workers, clinicians, and support staff to identify values that affect behavior. Topics covered include sensitive areas such as cleanliness, relationships, theft/ownership, pain, money management, and anger.
Use this thought-provoking guide to expand your knowledge of culturally appropriate services and to design successful, respectful programs and supports that build on the strengths of each person's values.
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Your Values, My Values: A 'Must Read'.......2002-09-05
Reviewed by Ann Penhallurick, for Intellectual Disability, Australasia: March, 2002 pp. 16-17
This book is definitely a "must read". Forget the "Multicultural" in the title, or, more precisely, do not limit yourself to Australian definitions thereof. This is not a how-to guide for, say, Chinese-Australians to work with Lebanese-Australians: the book's concept of culture is much broader than nation-of-origin. Lilah Pengra was originally an anthropologist with an interest in culture not usually recognised as relevant in the delivery of social and disability support services. However, she began working with people with disabilities who were also people of indigenous American culture and, in the book, she cites some wonderfully thought provoking examples of the conflicting sets of values that brought her anthropological training into play and eventually resulted in what is evidently excellent practice, and also this remarkable book.
And it is remarkable; one of the most accessible reads that I have come across in a long professional career while, at the same time, one of the best informed and informative books I will have on my shelves for, I suspect, a long time. Having said that, I have to also say that I do, personally, have some problems with what seem to me to be inherent contradictions between Pengra's assertion that culture is learned and her lack of analysis of the learning that has taken place for her clients: it seems that she accepts and even promotes their values without thinking about how we all acquire values that are, for example, market-driven or gender-driven and not necessarily consistent with either ourselves or our well-being. However, the examples of value conflict and resolution that Pengra so eloquently cites are essential to read and to think about because, quibbles aside, good practice in disability support cannot become excellent practice without a very clear awareness of the issues she is raising.
Your Values, My Values is also more than extremely readable presentation of information about how culture (which could be class culture, gender culture, national culture and so on and on) affects service direction and delivery. Pengra also deals with the way culture is embedded within our cognitive schemas, providing a well researched theoretical basis that moves away from the simple behaviourist theories that have dominated thinking in disability services for too long. The 256 page book is divided into four parts: Principles of Values-Based Service, Designing Values-Based Services, Values-Based Services in Context and My Own Values. There are three chapters in each of the first three sections and one in the final section. Sub-sections of chapters like "Identifying Problem Behaviour and Designing Interventions", and "Identifying the problem from the person's point of view" seem standard but present an easily accessible, alternative analysis of approaching a "problem" that we are all familiar with. The book is well referenced, too, and has a good index, particularly given that it is not written as an academic text so would have been much harder to index than most.
I've already made a dozen notes and whipped off half a dozen overheads from this book in planning for various talks I am giving in the near future. I would recommend the book for ALL services which support people with disabilities, ALL policy makers, and just about every academic course in disabilities that is around. It's focus is American and as aforesaid there are times when I find it perhaps overinclusive or perhaps overgenerous in its notion and analysis of culture, but, if you will forgive the cliché, Your values, My Values really is a giant step forward.
Reviewed in Disability Studies Quarterly.......2001-08-27
Beyond "Cultural Competency" reprinted, with permission of the author, from Disability Studies Quarterly summer 2001 special issue, "Engaging Anthropology in Disability Studies." Beyond Cultural Competency by Devva Kasnitz, Ph.D., Mary Switzer Fellow In Your Values, My Values: Multicultural Services in Developmental Disabilities, Lilah Morton Pengra (2000, Paul H. Brooks, Baltimore) has written an unusually successful and useful book. Marketed for service providers, it also belongs in the collections of disability studies scholars and applied anthropologists. And, it is a good read. It is not a research piece. For those interested in Pengra in research mode, I direct you to her dissertation. This book is both theoretical and practical. She uses a theoretical framework of "value based services" and "schema analysis," the analysis of groups of meanings and norms that together underlie "definitions and beliefs that specify what features of the environment to notice" (p. 26). This framework is well described and documented with scholarly care. Her bibliography alone is valuable. In the heart of the book each new topic is introduced with reference to the literature and demonstrated with examples of real-life situations. She culls these examples from her South Dakota career in social services to people considered developmentally disabled, many of them Dakota or Lakota. She then follows with service protocols. These are actual fill-in-the-blanks and check-off assessment, progress, and evaluation tools. She closes each chapter with "Points to Remember." At first this seemed too "teachy" to me. Then, I realized, that is exactly the point. You can read the book on many levels. Why not remind those who may skip some of the scholarly text and go directly to the protocols what to remember during their use as you photo-copy and enlarge and try to decide if you will need to retype and edit a protocol for your own situation. The book also hangs together if you skip the protocols entirely and read for the theory and its implications. Taken together, policy makers and service directors will gain insight. I called this brief book reviewing "Beyond Cultural Competency" out of my biases. I remember Cultural Competency as an idea creeping in and around medical anthropology more than twenty years ago. It started innocently enough with the assertion that service providers needed to understand the culture of the people with whom they work. However, it quickly devolved into a cook-book approach, this is what to do with a Latino patient, this is how to treat a Chinese person, Native American, Black, etc. This is more dangerous than a travel phrase book without a dictionary. And who certifies "competence?" Hiring a token person of the culture in question then became the next step. This, of course, puts tremendous pressure on the supposedly "representative" staff member. First, it ignores intracultural variation. Second, if the individual wants to succeed in their career in the service sector they can usual only do so by bolstering the existing structure. They effectively become the one who helps their cultural group reinvent themselves in the image of the dominant culture so that they can fit in and receive services through the existing structure. We all know that minority culture groups adapt to new bureaucracies much faster than bureaucracies change to reflect diversity. What are needed are approaches that expect and value cultural diversity. We need scholars, policy makers, and service providers who are skilled at recognizing, including, and protecting cultural diversity. This book makes a significant contribution in that direction. Read it.
Culture and Values.......2000-10-29
Very well thought out book, which could be used as a neat reference for all who work in the helping profession. Ms. Pengra establishes herself as knowledgeable in her assesments of people espeacially ones with disabilites. She cuts through the analytical language making it understandable for all. Thus, giving them the ability to apply towards one's own daily living. Highly recommended.
Thoughts of a school ditrict PT.......2000-08-29
I have worked in an urban school district for over 15 years as a Physical Therapist. My work started out mostly in the schools, where the values of the teachers/administration in each school were accepted without question. "You came to my class/school, you hold my values" was a given. As I moved "down" the scale to work with younger children - preschoolers and infant/toddlers - I found myself more and more in the homes of these children. What started out as "I am in your home to help you with what I think you need" has, over time, and through lots of food-for-thought sessions on my part turned into "what can I do to help you with what you know you need". I have turned into more of a listener than a doer - which seems to be what many folks are wanting the most. I think it becomes the most clear that I need to listen when I have to depend on an interpreter to tell me not only the words that are spoken but the values the family holds and how they view my intrusion into their lives. "Your Values, My Values" affirmed my experiences and helped me to go many steps further into considering how important it is to understand the values of each person and to be sure that I am providing assistance that they view as helpful and meaningful. I will never again form an opinion about a person or his/her behavior without first listening and allowing the situation to "play out" awhile before I jump in with my "solutions". The examples the author gave of actual situations were quite helpful to explain the principles she wrote about, as were the summaries at the end of the chapters. I found myself saying, "Aha!" many times as I read the book - especially in the areas of control and privacy, as these are issues I deal with often in working with families with infants and toddlers who have developmental delays. The assessment of the schema of theft was most interesting - in fact, I shared it with my husband, and we think about it when we find ourselves in some of the situations that were described in the assessment. A big THANK YOU goes to Pengra for her insights and experiences and for her efforts to share them through her book. I found it very interesting and helpful, and I know that others will also benefit from her experiences when they read it.
S. Jarratt PT, MS
Decision Making and Values.......2000-08-11
I am a city planner for an older, industrial, urban city. While I do not work with developmentally disabled people, I do work with community groups on land use issues. Decisions I make affect where people live, work and play. The nature of my work influences the values of my community and hopefully should be reflective of it. Hence my interest in this book.
One section I found valuable was a discussion on decision making. I deal with community groups trying to reach a consensus on a variety of land use issues or elected leaders trying to make a decision. Learning how values influence decision-making styles opened my eyes and allowed me to evaluate how I communicate with the public, structure my decisions or make policy recommendations. The information provides a good guide to assist in determining where changes in the "routine" can be used to provide better services to the public. Dr. Pengra provides recommendations on how to address situations where your values are either unknown or different from a service receiver's. I could draw corollaries to working with community groups and other consumers.
While the book deals with providing services to individuals, it provides easy to use assessments to assist the reader in making determinations about themselves on various issues. (Easy to use does not imply you like what you learn!) It provides a practical tool to learn more about yourself, your customers and provides the information necessary to create positive, effective action that will ultimately gain a happy consumer. The book will challenge you to change your behavior.
The book also delves into such topics as anger, pain and empowerment -- topics near and dear to all public officials' daily work. Learning how culture influences the expression of anger and pain was almost scary. Realizing a change in approach could help empower the consumer was refreshing. While it may seem obvious that there are cultural barriers -- the author offers practical advice and assessments that can be applied on the job to do something to overcome the barriers. You begin to see that flexibility might not seem like a bad or terrifying thing. I am sure as a service provider there will a certain level of discomfort but the rewards of a satisfied customer should eventually outweigh those feelings as it appears to have occurred in the author's experiences.
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Voices from the margins
This is a book about alternatives to the status quo of "might makes right" in running a school. It’s a book about diversity and equity; about people changing people’s lives.
Nine diverse women’s personal stories about their experiences give you a different way of looking at school leadership. These women see power not as "power over" but, rather, "power through and around and in-between." These women make a real difference in the lives of their students and staff.
The women here use their power in innovative ways. And they pay close attention to education’s bottom line: what’s best for student learning. A common thread runs through the stories: the belief that a successful school is one in which
- Children learn in a safe environment
- Everyone is welcome and feels a sense of belonging
- Learning and teaching are meaningful and productive
- Connections with family and community are valuable parts of school lif
- Opportunities for global learning and critical thinking are included in the curriculum
The stories in this book are personal, real, and moving. You’ll recognize yourself and the people you work with in theses stories. You’ll see how you can make more of a difference for your students and how to motivate your staff and colleagues to add more of "themselves" to their profession.
This diverse group of women will help guide you in creating a new type of school leadership that is both challenging and exciting. Add your voice to theirs, and change people’s lives.
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My Wishes: Your Plan for Communicating and Organizing the Essential Information Your Family Needs
Benjamin Berkley
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Everything Your Family Needs-to Organize Essential Information
My Wishes is an essential guide to organizing your life and preparing for the future. It provides an effective way to communicate to your loved ones all of your life plans, and it gives your family immediate access to information when long searches for vital documents are the last thing they want to do.
Whether you are looking for a way to send a lasting message or simply want to get all your affairs in order, My Wishes provides the peace of mind needed in times of sorrow. Follow its simple steps to ease a trying time and start your family on a healing path. Use it to quickly organize all your affairs.
o Prepare a will or trust to distribute your wealth among your loved ones
o Arrange for hospice care and treatment options with your doctor
o Write your own obituary and eulogy
o Organize your bills, insurance policies and other important papers
o Execute powers of attorney to safeguard your health and your finances
o Make final arrangements so your family won't have to
My Wishes organizes and communicates all the information you want your loved ones to know, when they need it most.
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Just this one tip alone was well worth the price of the book!.......2006-12-09
My wife and I don't have a large estate to pass on to our two children. But we would like to leave as much of it to
them as we can and avoid as much probate and taxes as possible. Being a hopeless do-it-yourselfer, I started browsing through the estate planning section at the local Barnes and Noble. That is of course until I came across this gem. My Wishes had everything I was looking for and quite a few things my wife and I never considered.
First of all, My Wishes is written in English and not legal jargon. I found it to be very easy to read and comprehend. All the legal documents I needed were in the book. For the most part, I just copied them and filled in the blanks. I took the author's advice and had the documents notarized so that there wouldn't be any dispute as to their authenticity. My Wishes also has several organizational pages and check lists that I found very useful.
What really impressed us - and something we were not expecting, was the way the author tells the stories of other people he's known and worked with. My wife took several of the stories to heart and acted on them. She gave one of our daughters our fine china, our silverware to our other daughter, and split the crystal between them. These were things my daughters have adored sense childhood. It gives my wife immeasurable joy to watch her girls enjoy a gift that only her parents could give. I'd like to add that lately we've been invited over to dinner and to play with our grandchildren with much more frequency. Just this one tip alone was well worth the price of the book! - Phil
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Revolution is my profession
Ed Butler
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-- New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, 1996
"Useful introductions to the world of work". -- BL.
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Just okay.......1998-11-03
I thought this book was just OK. I thought a far better book on this subject was the Vault Reports Guide to America's Top 50 Law Firms, which has 10-pages or so on each firm and is loaded with an insider perspective on what life is like on each of these law firms.
Mildly interesting anecdotes of first-year lawyers........1998-08-21
This book consists of 18 short chapters by lawyers who tell of an experience they had during their first year after law school. Though all of the stories are mildly interesting, few really tell us much about either the legal profession or the lawyer as a person. One strength of the book is that the lawyers who contributed chapters come from a wide range of legal areas and employment situations, including one woman who left the law to be a journalist.
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