A Friend in Need is a Man’s Best Dog is a collection of humor, essays and verse, both published and previously unpublished. The book includes satire and parodies, as well as essays on political environmental and education issues. Also included is a small collection of short verse. The book is a retrospective covering almost forty years of Fleisher’s writing career.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Humor
9 This I Believe
12 Lessons from Rats
15 The Teachings of Don Jones: A Yankee Way of Knowledge
27 Things Could Be Worse
32 The Rock Garden Gone to Seed
35 Seventeen More Reasons to End the Arms Race
39 Khomeini Ways Can You Say Ghotbzadeh?
43 A Dreadful Green Shade of Purple
51 Newly Discovered Work by Tolkien Published
53 So You Think You Have Tax Problems…
55 Two All-Beef Patties, Special Delivery
61 PBS Faces Reality
Education
65 The Fun Subs Have
71 The Reading Teacher at Work: A Revealing Glimpse for Parents
76 May I Have Your Attention, Please
80 Scoring Our Schools
85 The Educational Assembly Line: The SOLs are Limiting our Children’s Education
90 The Myth of Our “Failing” Schools
94 Reading Your Rights: The Tangled Web of Special Education Bureaucracy
98 Teaching Evolution
104 Maggie Walker’s Diversity Complex—written with Genevieve Siegel-Hawley
108 Un-American
Politics—The Arms Race and Other Campaigns
111 A Game Plan for Winning the Real Arms Race
116 Living In Glass Houses
120 It’s Time to Stop Bombing Nevada
125 Binary Weapons: Reagan 1, Sanity 0
129 The Children Need to Know: Teaching About Nuclear War
135 Babes in Arms
140 Keep Your Fingers Crossed, Virginia
145 A Time to Remember, A Time to Act
149 Preserving the ABM Treaty
154 A Day in the Life
157 Pothole Economics
160 Restoring the Voting Rights of All Virginians
165 Why Not Raise Taxes on Those Who Can Afford It?
168 Armed and Unready
172 Why Loving Matter
Verse
174
Leftovers
The Herring are Running, The Herring are Running
194 Book Reviews
195 Rush Hour
200 All that Glitters
205 A Modest Proposal
209 Solid Fuel
214 Pulling the Plug
218 In the Aftermath of Isabelle
Über den Autor
Paul Fleisher taught elementary and middle school students 27 years in theRichmond, Virginia Public Schools‘ Program for the Gifted. He has written
dozens of books for young people and educators, including Brain Food and
Secrets of the Universe. His books The Big Bang and Parasites were both
named Best Science Trade Books by the National Science Teachers
Association.
In 1988 Paul received the Virginia Education Association’s Award for Peace
and International Relations; in 1999 he was honored with the Thomas
Jefferson Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Natural Science
Education. Since retiring in 2005, Paul has served on the staff of the
Richmond Peace Education Center. More details are available at
www.paulfleisher.com.
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