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The challenge of public education, an issue of national concern, is illuminated through compassionate intelligence and art in this exploration of three Boston-area schools by psychiatrist Robert Coles and photographer Nicholas Nixon. A cross-section of American schoolchildren today, the students photographed by Nixon range from the profoundly challenged to the most gifted, in pictures taken at a Cambridge elementary school, the Boston Latin School, and the Perkins School for the Blind. The photographs are accompanied by quotations from the children and a three-part essay by Dr. Coles, himself a graduate of Boston Latin and intimately familiar with the other two schools. Dr. Coles reveals the students' inner lives with extraordinary compassion while recalling key moments in his own educational experience that have shaped his influential outlook. A brilliant demonstration of the power of documentary as art, School is destined to become a classic.

CATEGORY: Non-Fiction

Hyundai
Part of the Chilton's Total Car Care Repair Manual Series. Offers do-it-yourselfers of all levels TOTAL maintenance, service and repair information in an easy-to-use format. These manuals feature exciting graphics, photos, charts and exploded-view illustrations.
PUBLISHER: NP/Chilton
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction

The Shawnee Indians by Joanne Mattern
Description not available.Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Shawnee people, covering their daily activities and customs.

AUTHOR: Joanne Mattern
PUBLISHER: Capstone Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction

Help! I'm Trapped in a Movie Star's Body by Todd Strasser
When a cool movie star comes to Jeffersonville to shoot a film, he jumps at the chance to change places with Jake and live like a normal kid for awhile. Soon Jake is riding around in a limo, signing autographs, and being a good actor ... maybe too go...

AUTHOR: Todd Strasser
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction

I'm Not a Racist, But... by Lawrence Blum
Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing. Use of the word racism is pervasive: An article about the NAACP's criticism of television networks for casting too few minority actors in lead roles asks, Is television a racist institution? A white girl in Virginia says it is racist for her African-American teacher to wear African attire. Blum argues that a growing tendency to castigate as racism everything that goes wrong in the racial domain reduces the term's power to evoke moral outrage. In I'M NOT A RACIST, BUT...Blum develops a historically grounded account of racism as the deeply morally charged notion it has become. He addresses the question whether people of color can be racist, defines types of racism, and identifies debased and inappropriate usages of the term. Though racial insensitivity, racial anxiety, racial ignorance and racial injustice are, in his view, not racism, they are racial ills that should elicit moral concern. Blum argues that race itself, even when not serving distinct racial malfeasance, is a morally destructive idea, implying moral distance and unequal worth. History and genetic science reveal both the avoidability and the falsity of the idea of race. Blum argues that we can give up the idea of race, but must recognize that racial groups' historical and social experience has been shaped by having been treated as if they were races.

AUTHOR: Lawrence Blum
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction

Camaro Owner's Handbook by Ron Sessions
This essential guide for owners of the first- and second-generations of these ponycars includes step-by-step photo how-tos that make it easy to complete over 30 repair, maintenance, restoration, and upgrade projects in a single weekend or less.

AUTHOR: Ron Sessions
PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction