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After a gang of neighbourhood boys attacks Steven and his sister, Jenny, the Parkers are doing very well on the resulting settlement money. The family's dream of success in their new home of Salt Lake City seems fulfilled. But their period of high living soon ends, and each family member grasps at what he or she wants most. Fourteen-year-old Jenny longs for normalcy, a state she tries to find in her Mormon friends' religion. Steven's father clings to his desire for affluence, even as his more practical wife tires of his dreams. For Steven, nothing is more important than keeping his teetering family together. More Than Enough is a breathtaking dissection of human behaviour and the American Dream. In it the break-up of a very ordinary family becomes utterly heart breaking. A novel that is as powerful in its dismantling of unremarkable lives as Andre Dubus III's House of Sand and Fog. ... Read more

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An unrelenting look at a family at the boiling point
Steven Parker's family moves to Salt Lake City as his father's last chance to improve their lot.They live a rich fantasy life that covers up the harshness of their poverty in the middle of an affluent city until Steven's arm is yanked out of its socket by a boy who objects to his lack of belief in God.Billy, Steven's dad, has not paid the health insurance bills, so Steven has to be driven in the snow clear across town to the local charity hospital.When Billy negotiates a settlement with the family of the boy who beat up Steven, the temporary affluence the money causes pushes the family over the edge.

One day, when Steven's mother witnesses a death at the elder care facilty where she performs menial work so the family will never be without health insurance again, the same day Billy's grades atthe school where he is supposed to be training for a second career come in as failures, she gets fed up, and she acts decisively to break the family apart.A single day takes up two-thirds of the book as the scenario is played out, leaving her and her daughter safe and financially secure and Billy and Steven alone together with no prospects.

This book has a lot to say about teenage angst, the paper-thin veneer of many Americans' affluence and the culture shocks that can still affect us in this seemingly homogenous society.Ultimately, some of the reactions, particularly Steven's, seemed a little contrived and overly dramatic, and the reactions to him appeared unrealistic.But Fulton is a superb writer and the Salt Lake he recreates is true to life.

A well-written but ultimately unfulfilling book
First of all, let me say that Fulton can flat-out write. He does an absolutely wonderful job of capturing the nuances of human behavior while portraying a family in crisis. Why, then, didn't I give this book five stars? Because I, too, wanted some sort of redemption for its characters, and Fulton never offered it. The conflict between its characters was not resolved in a way that offered any real hope for its protagonist. As a result, I found this to be a very bleak, unfulfilling novel.

a breathtaking novel
Wow.This is the devastating portrayal of the break-up of a marriage and the collapse of a family.I read this on a flight from NY to LA and was near tears for part of the trip.The author has uncanny insight into human nature and an astonishing ability to translate emotions into words.

Family togetherness?
John Fulton explores the breakdown of the dysfunctional family so thoroughly and so intimately in this book that while I was reading I often felt the embarrassment of one who is caught snooping.Steven Parker and his sister Jenny are caught in the downward spiral of their parents hopes and regrets about the lives they've chosen.Living in the, primarily Mormon, society of Salt Lake City is making it difficult for Billy Parker, the father, to pass on his strong disbelief in God to his children.Jenny makes friends with a girl on the cheerleading squad and begins memorizing the Ten Commandments, while Steven deals with the after-effects of being bullied by some rich neighborhood brats.Mary Parker carries the financial burden of her husbands lack of work ethics and swears every time Billy goes a little nuts that she's taking the kids and leaving.

What captivated me about this story is the way that Fulton dissects this falling-out so carefully... taking the length of a book to narrate the couple of months it takes for this family's inevitable disintegration.This kind of information gives birth to gossip in the real world, but here we get the whole, messy, painfully honest story.While the ending did leave me feeling slightly depressed, it is also very realistic and, therefore, leaves that small crack of hope open.This is a wonderful story written by an author who truly knows his characters.

Falling apart was never this fun
This is a lovely first novel which follows a Salt Lake City family as it implodes. My favorite part of the novel is the extended section that takes place over a day, including some hilarious and harrowing forays into a diner and a nursing home. The adolescent protagionist's crack-up is as compelling as Holden Caulfield's--a claim I don't make lightly. I hope this wild and wooly novel finds the wide readership it deserves. ... Read more

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Describes the history, landscape, wildlife, and available activities of Arches National Park. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 494 words.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.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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As teaching evolves, teacher education must keep up. This book examines systemic reforms that incorporate new technology to improve any teacher education program.

While there are books that address the integration of technology into teaching curricula, very few address the process for teacher education faculty and the systemic reform of a teacher education program. Integrating Information Technology into the Teacher Education Curriculum: Process and Products of Change provides practical examples and suggestions for teacher education departments striving to integrate new technologies into their curriculum. It will help in the effort to motivate faculty to make utilizing new technology a natural strategy for the teachers they are educating. It describes the creation of Design Teams at Brigham Young University’s McKay School of Education (funded by a PT3 grant) and how these teams worked to successfully reconfigure the school’s teacher preparation curricula.

Integrating Information Technology into the Teacher Education Curriculum examines:

how to compose and create a curriculum design team—including both teacher education and content-specific methods instructors

training and collaboration opportunities that focus on the infusion of technology

how to facilitate alignment among a university, cooperating school districts, the State Office of Education, and other available teacher preparation programs

specific case examples of the redevelopment of teacher education courses by the instructors who teach them

the process of changing a technology course required by the teacher education program

the process of extending grant activities to the university’s partner school districts and the State Office of Education

From the editors:

Preparing tomorrow’s teachers to use technology in schools is a complex endeavor requiring the infusion of technology into curriculum and instructional practices at all levels of the pre-service program. In many early teacher education programs, prospective teachers took a computer literacy class separate from content methods classes and rarely engaged in real collaboration on how schoolteachers could integrate technology into authentic learning experiences. By focusing merely on how to use computers, technology training failed by not addressing how to teach students more effectively using a variety of technological tools. What teachers need to know most is how to teach content more effectively. Technology integration should cause teachers to develop different perspectives through rethinking teaching and learning. Teaching with technology causes teachers to confront their established beliefs about instruction and their traditional roles as classroom teachers. ... Read more

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Pia Toya, or big mountain, is a Goshute legend thatdescribes how the hawk Kinniih-Pia punished the coyote Isapai-ppeh forhis trickery, and in the process created the Deep Creek Range.TheDeep Creeks are among the most rugged of Utah's many mountain rangesand include Ibapah Peak, with an elevation of 12,089 feet.Located inUtah's west desert near the state border with Nevada, the Deep Creeksare still isolated and little known.Yet they are part of thetraditional homelands of the Goshute Indians, whose reservation andtribal headquarters nestle in Ibapah Valley at the foot of therange. The children of Ibapah Elementary School have chosen thisillustrated retelling of Pia Toya as a way to honor their heritage.Their luminous paintings, drawings, collages, and border art bringcolor, light, and life to a traditional creation myth.Theircommitment to their culture moved Utah Governor Michael Leavitt todeclare November as American Indian History Month and November 22 asIndigenous People's Day in Utah.Included in Pia Toya is a culturalinformation section about the Goshute Indians, their history, andtheir lifeways.This beautiful book will be read and enjoyed often,treasured both by children and adults who wish to deepen theirunderstanding and appreciation of a rich indigenous culture. ... Read more

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This book is great for fouth grade
I did a report about Goshut people and I learned a lot from this book. I use three places and this book had the best info. I'm glad my school libary has it. It was hard to type a half a page with out this book. I love it but you might think it's boring but it is not. Have fun reading this book and I hope this review helped.

Wonderful Native American Legend from the Goshute Children
This is a charming book.Amazingly, the children of the Goshute Indian Reservation have produced this book, complete with the native legend and their own artwork.In an age of super media over-production and superficial holiday glitz and consumption, this book is a welcome change.But it is professionally produced by a university press.How often do kids get published by university presses?

The elementary school children have created beautiful images along with the story.Each page has a differnt look to it, representing that child's contribution.

If you like native american legends, in the tradition of the old coyote, etc., then you will like this book.The story is beautiful and warm.The fact that it comes from the next (young) generation of Goshutes, and represents their desire to reach out to our busy world, is what makes it unique and wonderful.

Enjoy!

Pia Toya:A Goshute Legend
Every child will want to experience the creation story of the Goshute Mountains time and again, and every adult will want to display the simple, yet elegant water colors associated with this story.The story is made more powerful with a description of the small community defining the Goshute Tribe of today and their dedication to natural resources.Readers will find this book to be delightful in presentation, storyline, and purpose. ... Read more

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This is the last place Whimsy ever thought she'd be for her senior year of high school.What kind of a mother just up and decides to be a lawyer, anyway? And what cruel twist of fate landed Whimsy and her mother in Provo, Utah - in BYU's family housing complex, no less? Whimsy is determined to be miserable; after all, she should be in sunny Arizona with her friends, not lonely in frozen Utah.But Provo does have one perk: Josh Iverson. Whimsy admired Josh from afar back in Arizona, but now that he's going to BYU on a football scholarship and Whimsy finds herself living on campus, the change of scenery may just bring a change in their relationship.In the meantime, though, Whimsy has a lot on her plate. Does Matt Hollingsworth like her, or is he just being nice? Why is she so at ease around Matt and so embarrassingly awkward around Josh? Then there's her mother to worry about. How did her mom manage to attract the attentions of the law school's geekiest student and meanest professor? Her mom wouldn't seriously consider either of them - would she?Whimsy is about to embark on a senior year unlike any other - one that has the potential to be her best year yet, if she can survive. ... Read more

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.Amazon.com Review
The Executioner's Song is a work of unprecedented force. It isthe true story of Gary Gilmore, who in 1977 became the first person executedin the United States since the reinstitution of the death penalty. Gilmore, aviolent yet articulate man who chose not to fight his death-penalty sentence,touched off a national debate about capital punishment. He allowed NormanMailer and researcher Lawrence Schiller complete access to his story. Mailertook the material and produced an immense book with a dry, unwavering voiceand meticulous attention to detail on Gilmore's life--particularly hisrelationship with Nicole Baker, whom Gilmore claims to have killed. Whatunfolds is a powerful drama, a distorted love affair, and a chilling lookinto the mind of a murderer in his countdown with a firing squad. ... Read more

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Interesting topic...Poor book
I finished this book mostly just to say I did. I lost interest almost immediately, but this is "classic literature" right, so I gave it a chance. This is the most long-winded account I have ever read. Norman Mailer must have been paid per word. I really don't understand the rave reviews, I would never recommend wasting the amount of time it takes to finish this book. The story could be told in ample detail in half the pages. Unless you enjoy reading about people that have nothing to do with the plot of the story, I would avoid this book at all costs...unless you need a doorstop.

Breathtaking
Executioner's Song was one of those books that took my breath away.From Mailer's sparse Utah twanged journalistic prose to the profile he created of Gary Gilmore and the people around him.I am so thankful for my college professor for recommending this book to me.He had come up to me and said "you need to read this book, it will blow you away!"With a recommendation like that I had to take the plunge.I was familiar with Mailer before I read Executioner's Song, having read The Naked and the Dead.I loved that book and still consider it one of the best books of any war period.Mailer's personal life was interesting as well.He was a big Hollywood celebrity with all kinds of hip friends.He was also kind of crazy; trying to kill his wife, being sent to an asylum, and getting in fights with Gore Vidal on a daily basis.Yet within this very public figurewas a genius writer who wrote this amazing novel Executioner's Song.The size of it is enough to scare anyone away, but the joy you take in reading it is well worth the time.Any true lover of reading will find this book a joy to read.Mailer deftly creates a perception of Gilmore that is very open ended.Yes he did kill two people in cold blood and was executed by firing squad, but Gilmore and Mailer's story is so much more than that.This book really made me think not only about life and the extent of which we or the government control it, but also about capital punishment and the jailing system in America.On the one hand you can look at Gilmore's case as a man getting what he deserved or at the other end as murder begetting murder.Wrestling with these opinions is a look at the jailing system in America.From a very young age Gilmore was stuck behind bars, spending 20 of his 35 years in jail.He would be let go only to mess up and be put back in.Mailer never points blame at one person or another.Instead he constructs the novel very much like a journalist would or should present a story.Along the way the reader encounters many flawed but truly human characters like Nicole Gilmore's girflt, his Uncle Vern, cousin Brenda, and agent/friend Schuller.I did enjoy the first half of this book better then the second half, but that in no way takes away from the novel.In the end I was spell bound and honored to read such a profound and moving story.To me Mailer remains one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century and I look forward to reading more of his novels.Don't be afraid to embark on this epic journey.Executioner's Song is a song and novel you won't forget!

crime and punishment
Gary Gilmore (12/4/40) died 1 17 77 at 8:07am.
After being shot he took 20 seconds to die.He
wore a blue hood, black t-shirt and white pants.
He sat in a chair with a mattress and sandbags
behind him. Blood came out of the bottom of
the shirt. Then an autopsy was done and he
was sent tobe cremated around 2:30pm and
by 5pm he was ashes.

*****
The Executioner's Song is a true classic.

A great novel by Norman Mailer (1-31-23 /
11-10-2007). THE BEST OF THE BEST. It was
a huge undertaking.

*****
The story begins when Gary is released from
prison and paroled to relatives in Utah.Chapters
on working, meeting space cadet Nicole, drinking
beer, taking pills,stealing, 2 murders, trial and the
fight to die. We are given detailed information.

Gary had to die.He could never be in a prison cell
again. He could not cope being locked up so he
ask the state to kill him. He was a game show play-
er and the name of the game was KILL ME !

Itwasthe way for him to commit suicide.It would
be the Mormon's form of BLOOD ATONEMENT.

He deserved to die and he knew it.

Gary was an abused child but the evil he did had
nothing to do with that.He was bad to the core.It
was no fun being a good citizen. He was a wild
animal, crude,rude and un-tamed.

This book is a must read.You should also read
SHOT IN THE HEART by his brother Mikal Gilmore.
Mikal'sbook is more about Gary's family life. There
are Gilmore family photos.A family gone horribly
wrong.

This was a re-read and it was just as good as the
first time I read it....better even.I first read it in
the80's.

It is 1056 pages and weighs 3.5lbs.Your arms
tinglewith fatigue trying to read it.

There are no photos.I think there should have been.

Since there were no pictures I kept seeing TommyLee
Jones and Roseanne Arquett in my mind.They were
perfect for the part.

It is beautiful, that confounding way.
A killer killed is "The Executioner's Song" by Norman Mailer.

And how beautiful that is - the ingratiated direness ethereally evoked, the gratuity, the death, gregarious in reaching forth - and reaching forth is book conjecturing not why, but what in personification of that pulchritude... Reaching forth is a book of which warped inimically within are the caricatures and caricatures defiant - the inimitable bindings lyrically straightforward and somewhat forward pursuing, forward persuading in opposition of the seemingly self-defiant length. It conjoins voices, of Gary, prisoner engulfed in treacherous temerity, of Nicole, amorous lover intrigued in that treacherous temerity, of all else treacherous, of all else of temerity...together, together in prison rhymes, together in the "Deep in my dungeon I welcome you here. Deep in my dungeon I worship your fear. Deep in my dungeon I dwell. I do not know if I wish you well."

Singing before living are they.

They are those within those obscurity-drenched travesties, coordinating contorted perspective of subordinate, those "kind of quiet" subordinate matters into something not subordinate. The engulfment of gratuitous, greater realms, stoic disposition set - wrenching are those not so subordinate, whether for life, whether against life. All is abided, whether that malicious mutiny engraved towards one's self, in a book concrete of a topic abstract. Norman Mailer doesn't attempt to explain, but explained it is nonetheless.

It is simplistic- yet sometimes languidly lacking, yet sometimes unfathomably fulfilling in the melancholy mélange of protruding progression. Yet, that song of dire desire is a tempered resolution throughout, ravenously reaping forth of sophistication- the winter, spring, summer, to the harvest of an auspicious autumn. And the accompaniment, the harmonies perhaps discordant, perhaps not always harmonious to that unrelenting song are the details minute, the letters earnestly embodying pernicious pain of unknowing, of knowing too much, of thrusting themselves because they do not know otherwise. The supposed implications, the supposed irrelevancy, of characters are those whose names are forgotten, but not forgettable- intricate to the immense intimacy lead to. And the ifs, the mays, the uhs is treacherous- a travesty turbulent, transcending throughout life unmapped and the inscription further unmapped in chapters, in parts, in books captiously cascading. The sophistication is eminent, if not beginning, then eulogy-enunciating end.

All is worth it. All is together in the "Deep in my dungeon I welcome you here. Deep in my dungeon I worship your fear. Deep in my dungeon I dwell. A bloody kiss from the wishing well." (1050)

It is simple, that condescending way. It is beautiful, that confounding way.

An American Master
While the great American novel has not yet been written Mailer has come close several times and this is his best book.It is haunting from star to finish.Everyone should pick up THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG. ... Read more

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The authors introduce transition programs for students with moderate and severe disabilities from school to community life. Taking the position that the most effective transition programs are those that cumulatively build on the capacity of students for employment, community living, and citizenship, the authors address the full range of curricular and instructional issues that face professionals working in middle school, high school, and post-high school programs. ... Read more

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Who is qualified to tell the story of life in the Great Basin? One who has an ear for the stories of the men and women who fenced and ditched and carved homes out of arid valleys, surrounded by towering mountains, among junipers, steaming hot pots, and alkali soils. Life here is defined by distance and faith, by scant natural resources and frail yet indomitable spirit. Cowboy ministers lay hands on a dying woman to bless her. The smell of creosote-embalmed railroad ties fills the air while we wait for freight or a postcard. The aroma of ponderosa pine lingers in the night--a carved length of knotted deadfall nailed to the wall near a child's crib. Smell, taste, and drink the stories of these people, of this place, and the poet's words will ring true. ... Read more

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"Listen," said Dad.
"What's that?" I asked.
"White water!" he shouted.
"Hang on tight!"

When a father brings his son on a white water rafting trip, he hopes his son will share his love of the river. Inspired by a real life experience, renowned writer and poet Jonathan London and his son Aaron perfectly convey the thrill of speeding over rapids, the joy of seeing wild horses, and the quiet pleasure of falling asleep under a billion stars after a great meal around the campfire. Jill Kastner's lush nature paintings make it clear that this is a trip that father and son won't soon forget-and neither will the reader. ... Read more

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Great Read Aloud
I love this book.An adventure between a father and his son.I started using this book after my white water rafting trip.The descriptions and pictures are excellent for children of all ages.Excellent for readers and writers workshops.

white water
I read the book White Water. It's about a thirteen year old boy whose name is Greg. His parents have been divorced ever since he was little.

This weekend it was his dad's turn. They went white water rafting. Greg didn't want to go and his mom wasn't going to make him. He ended up going and his step brother came along too. (He does not like his step brother.)

When they arrive at the rafting house, they learn all about rafing. Then they start to go down the river. When they start their trip, everything goes wrong. His dad gets bitten by a rattle snake and almost dies. They also lose the raft.

If you like adventure you should read White Water. There are a lot of twists and turns. It kept me turing the page. Read this book to find out what happens to Greg, James, and their father. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more