Product Description: The plan was to teach for a year, make a little dough, and get back to doing stand-up comedy. The comedy routine got lost in the shuffle and William Snyder’s one year gig stretched into a 29-year career that included stints teaching at inner-city schools, Catholic schools, charter schools, accommodation schools, and boys reformatories, in addition to working as a satellite TV teacher and teaching at an upper-middle-class “normal” school that turned out to be anything but normal...read more

Product Description: When 16-year-old Jim Collins' basketball dreams start coming true, his path takes some unexpected turns. When 1959 becomes 1960, Collins learns that growing up Irish-Catholic in Philadelphia did not prepare him for life on-the-run as a self-exiled son in Miami...read more

Product Description: It's the day after Christmas. Bill Snyder, a disillusioned high school teacher who's pretty sure he's been receiving signs from a higher power, feels compelled to wander up a mountain trail and into a mysterious valley where he undergoes a bona fide transcendental experience...read more

Product Description: This is a systematic presentation of the parametric approach to child language. Linguistic theory seeks to specify the range of grammars permitted by the human language faculty and thereby to specify the child's "hypothesis space" during language acquisition...read more

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Product Description: Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, Zeljko Boskovic, Steven Franks, William Snyder (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Three wars have dominated world events in recent years: The conflict which erupted between the United Kingdom and Argentina over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands; the multinational conflict in Lebanon involving Irsaeli, Syrian, and FLO forces in Lebanon; and the savage struggles between ground and air units of the Iranian and Iraqi forces...read more

Tory Bacher, a young gay hustler sets up a trendy nightspot that surreptitiously offers any illicit pleasure its wealthy patrons may desire