A veteran teacher who uses unconventional methods in his work with at-risk youth describes his innovative one-room school and demonstrates how his ten rules have helped transform some of L.A.'s most troubled youngsters into solid citizens.

Product Description: Cultural Writing. MOVING TARGET is the memoir of journalist Ron Arias. It is an exploration of his childhood, the search for his father, and the fruit of his desire for a connection between his past and present. Arias's father was a career soldier who was held as a POW during the Second World War and the Korean War...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: It was January 19, 1988. The waters were calm and the skies cloudless as five fishermen set off on a week-long trip off the Costa Rican coast. Five days later, their twenty-nine-foot wooden craft was foundering against thirty-foot waves as a dreaded north wind -- El Norte -- struck with full force...read more

Fausto Tejada decides he will not die without freeing body and soul and begins a journey in time, space, and consciousness, accompanied by his niece, a young car thief, the cast of a film, and a band of undocumented immigrants.

Explores ancient and modern-day approaches to alternative medical therapies--including music therapy, reflexology, aromatherapy, and energy medicine--in relation to the promotion of good health and healing, drawing on accounts from patients and data from studies and case histories. Reprint.

Explores ancient and modern-day approaches to alternative medical therapies--including music therapy, reflexology, aromatherapy, and energy medicine--in relation to the promotion of good health and healing, drawing on accounts from patients and data from studies and case histories. 25,000 first printing. Tour. (view table of contents)

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Chronicles the five-month saga of five Costa Rican fishermen who, after setting out for a week-long trip, were caught in a treacherous storm on the Pacific