La Capacidad de Produccion y Los Costos

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'500 Tips for Trainers' is a treasure trove of more than 500 enlightening, practical suggestions. all are easy to read and simple to use.

This handbook is great as a quick reference when it's time to:
*organize the venue
* create flip charts and handouts
* motivate the participants
* fill five minutes until coffee!

This entertaining book is packed with good ideas, creative techniques, and extensive appendices available for photocopying. It is a basic handbook for trainers in areas such as industry, government, and healthcare, as well as for personnel and HRD staff, and staff development officers in education.

Phil Race, an open and flexible learning specialist, conducts staff development workshops on learning, teaching, and assessment throughout the world. He has co-authored many books, including '500 Tips for Tutors', '500 Tips for Teachers' and 'Assess Your Own Teaching Quality'.

Brenda Smith is teaching and learning quality manager at Nottingham Trent University. She facilitates seminars and is co-editor of 'Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education'.

Customer Reviews:

Perhaps the 500 need to be distilled somewhat.........2002-02-10

This is a good resource for the beginning trainer and as a reminder/memory jogger for the rest of us who `take it for granted'. However, some of the tips are just too obviouse even for the absolute novice (as pointed out below).

The tips are arranged into categories:
1)Planning & Preparation.
2) getting Participants Going.
3) Using Things Around You.
4) Keeping your Training Sessions Going.
5) Looking after Yourself.
6) Evaluating your Training Sessions.

Just Use Common Sense Instead.......2000-12-19

The title is compelling simple, and the book is even simpler. "Learn people's names", "Arrive on time", "Don't write too small". You don't really need a book for this. If you do, well.....you probably shouldn't be in this business. Sorry.

500 Computing Tips for Trainers (500 Tips Series)

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500 Computing Tips for Trainers (500 Tips Series)
Steve McDowell , and Phil Race
Manufacturer: Kogan Page
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0749426756

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This great addition to the series offers up-to-the minute advice for trainers wanting to harness the power of new technology to their training sessions. Packed with great ideas for both those used to using computers as part of their training, and for those anxious to integrate computers into their training but unsure of the first steps, the book provides stimulating new approaches to learning. Grouped into logical sections that entertain as well as inform, the book offers lively practical advice on everything from using the Internet to computer-based training presentations.

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500 Computing Tips for Trainers

Manufacturer: Crest Publishing House
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ASIN: 8124204195

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500 TIPS FOR TRAINERS
Phil Race
Manufacturer: NY
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ASIN: B000N6KDWG

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This book describes the cellular and molecular mechanisms that are involved with the regulation of cell and tissue growth, including development and body composition. The emphasis is on circulating hormones, local growth factors and gene transcription factors which regulate growth and
differentiation of skeletal muscle, bone and adipose tissue. This book starts by introducing the reader to basic aspects of whole animal growth and presents an outline of the important concepts in molecular and cell biology that are required for an understanding of the processes of animal growth
control. It then goes on to explain the endocrine system along with hormonal regulation and the relationship of specific hormones to domestic animal growth.

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Chemicals for Animal Health Control
G. C. Brander
Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis
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ASIN: 0850663113

Farm Animals. Their Breeding, Growth and Inheritance

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Farm Animals. Their Breeding, Growth and Inheritance
John Hammond
Manufacturer: Edward Arnold
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ASIN: B000ODPS78

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FARM ANIMALS. THEIR BREEDING, GROWTH AND INHERITANCE.

Manufacturer: Edward Arnold
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ASIN: B000HG5ORG

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FARM ANIMALS: THEIR BREEDING, GROWTH, AND INHERITANCE.

Manufacturer: Arnold
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ASIN: B000HGH618

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FARM ANIMALS: THEIR BREEDING, GROWTH AND INHERITANCE
JOHN HAMMOND
Manufacturer: ARNOLD
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ASIN: B000S74RJ0

Follicular Growth and Ovulation Rate in Farm Animals (Current Topics in Veterinary Medicine)

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Follicular Growth and Ovulation Rate in Farm Animals (Current Topics in Veterinary Medicine)

Manufacturer: Springer
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Growth of Farm Animals
T. L. J. Lawrence , and V. R. Fowler
Manufacturer: CABI
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ASIN: 0851988490

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An understanding of the processes which change the size, shape, and composition of farm animals is fundamental to all aspects of production which seeks to meet human dietary and other needs. This book provides, within the limits of a student text, a broad review of how animals grow and change in shape and composition, as well as those factors which affect growth processes and which dictate the extent and direction of changes within the animal. The presentation progresses from cell to tissue to entire animal and includes a description of those factors within the animal, particular genes, hormones, and gender, which fashion this progression, and how efficiency for production can be maximized. The main focus is on classical principles of growth and its measurement rather than on topics such as growth manipulation or molecular biology. Most of the information focuses on farm mammals, particularly cattle, sheep, and pigs. The book fills a gap in the literature by taking the reader from cell to complete animal, based on original anatomical studies and quantitative approaches which have been developed subsequently. It presents a core text for advanced undergraduate courses in animal science and production, and will be an essential acquisition for librarians in agriculture and veterinary science.

Manipulation of Growth in Farm Animals (Current Topics in Veterinary Medicine)

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Manipulation of Growth in Farm Animals (Current Topics in Veterinary Medicine)

Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0898386179

Ruminant Physiology: Digestion, Metabolism, Growth and Reproduction

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Iused it for a lit review

Ruminant Physiology: Digestion, Metabolism, Growth and Reproduction

Manufacturer: CABI
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ASIN: 0851994636

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The international symposium on Ruminant Physiology (ISRP) is held every five years and is the premier forum for the presentation and discussion of advances in our knowledge of the physiology of ruminant animals. The ninth ISRP was held in South Africa in October 1999. This book brings together edited versions of the keynote review papers presented at the symposium. Contributors are the leading world authorities in their subject, drawn from all continents of the world. The book represents a definitive statement of the current knowledge in this subject.

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Iused it for a lit review.......2007-08-11

This book is the conference proceedings of the ISRP in 1999, the 9th, I believe. The individual papers that I needed (feed intake, peptide uptake) are well written and useful.

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J.R. McNeill, a professor of history at Georgetown University, visits the annals of the past century only to return to the present with bad news: in that 100-year span, he writes, the industrialized and developing nations of the world have wrought damage to nearly every part of the globe. That much seems obvious to even the most casual reader, but what emerges, and forcefully, from McNeill's pages is just how extensive that damage has been. For example, he writes, "soil degradation in one form or another now affects one-third of the world's land surface," larger by far than the world's cultivated areas. Things are worse in some places than in others; McNeill observes that Africa is "the only continent where food production per capita declined after 1960," due to the loss of productive soil. McNeill's litany continues: the air in most of the world's cities is perilously unhealthy; the drinking water across much of the planet is growing ever more polluted; the human species is increasingly locked "in a rigid and uneasy bond with modern agriculture," which trades the promise of abundant food for the use of carcinogenic pesticides and fossil fuels.

The environmental changes of the last century, McNeill closes by saying, are on an unprecedented scale, so much so that we can scarcely begin to fathom their implications. We can, however, start to think about them, and McNeill's book is a helpful primer. --Gregory McNamee

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One of a kind book on environmental history.......2007-06-04

I wrote my economics undergraduate thesis on development and environmental management back in 1976-77, and surely I would have enjoyed and valued to have Professor McNeill's book in my hands in those years.

His book is remarkable in many ways. It is a well written book, extraordinarly documented and well supported with eye opening statistical tables and illustrations. His material is useful for graduate and undergraduate students alike, and also for wider audiences interested on reviewing a different approach on history's complexities.

As the book front page indicates, the author centers his work on the 20th century's humankind events, termed by himself as the most influential on the process of ecology's evolution.

The book is very well organized so the reader keeps information organized in a properly way. At the end, Professor McNeill leaves many questions open that will be ample material enough to study in the years to come. Among those questions is the one concerned with society's will to deal seriously with environmental crises that have accumulated on the latest decades. We can have a readily answer to that subject if political leaders continue to privilege the narrow view of economic growth, instead of considering to seriously discuss the implementation of more integral strategies that would deliver environmental friendly sustainable economic development at the end.

Without question I recommend this book.

Easy to read and full of history everyone should know.......2006-12-13

This book may be the best historical survey I've ever read. (And with an M.A. in history, I've read a few!) I got this book to complement my hard science slogging on global warming, and found so much more than I hoped for or ever imagined! McNeil's book provides the historical background and the human context for all the graphs and numbers in the science texts. If you're looking for one book to give you a focused overview of just how much human civilization has accomplished, good and bad, in the last 100 years, this is it.

The organization of the book is excellent. McNeil sources everything, ends each chapter with an excellent summary, and wraps it all up with his own thoughtful commentary on climate change. He uses an inspired mix of the small detail (birds dying mid-flight) and the enormous concept (the Aswan dam affected the entire Mediterranean ecosystem). He describes chains of cause and effect and makes connections other historians and scientists seem to miss. The chapters dealing with agriculture are, I think, particularly relevant to our everyday lives; but students in nearly every subject will find this book useful. My husband is a family physician, and has read the sections on public health; my neighbor is a biologist with the USGS, and is reading the chapter on dams and irrigation.

Thomas Midgley's epitaph.......2006-11-11

Sub-titled "An Environmental History of the 20th Century", this is a sober and objective survey of environmental changes over the past 100 years. I was concerned this would be an emotional appeal or judgmental polemic from the left - but not the case, it is academic and professional history from an environmental perspective (the environment, not "environmental movement"). It's encyclopedic in scope and style.

I would not call this an "entertaining" read (although some of the facts really fire the synapses), but it is deeply rewarding as a broad survey of a very large and complex problem. The chapters and sub-sections are arranged in a logical outline making it possible to read the chapters in any order.

The main idea of the title "something new under the sun" is that humans have so fundamentally changed the environment that things really are very different now than they have ever been historically. To regard our current conditions of energy availability, access to water, unending economic growth - as enduring and normal appears to be an interesting gamble given the facts.

Some interesting trivia: humans did not become the dominate primate until about 8,000 BC with the rise of agriculture (baboons outnumbered humans before then). About one-fifth of all humans that ever lived did so in the 20th century. In sheer energy terms, if all modern technology and energy sources were not available, the average American would need about 70 human slaves to maintain the current standard of living (each American "directs" 70 energy-slave equivalents). Each year, humans move more earth and soil than glaciers, wind erosion, mountain building (plate tectonic uplift), and volcanoes combined. Probably the single most damaging biological organism in earths history was the human primate Thomas Midgley Jr from Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania born in 1889. He invented Freon (which destroys the Ozone layer), and also leaded gasoline, which has polluted most of the worlds soil lasting thousands of years (all of us carry elevated lead levels because of it and will continue to do so for centuries to come, leading to birth defects, lowered IQs, etc..). Midgley contracted Polio at age 51 and invented a system or ropes and pulleys to move his crippled body off the bed - he became tangled and was strangled to death in 1944 by his own invention, before learning how damaging his inventions were.

complete.......2006-11-08

This work is very comprehensive and easy to read. Lots of relevant information.

More People, Bigger Cities.......2006-07-20

The issues of population growth are politically charged and center on social forces behind environmental changes. Indians and Africans argue that population growth matters little; Americans and Europeans argue that it matters greatly. McNeil argues that population growth matters vary dependent on effective environmental management of resources.

Two forces were a part of the population surge and reached a crescendo in the 1950s: improved food supply and disease prevention. The improvements caused a decline in mortality. "By 1996 the total annual increment of population had peaked at about 92 million to 95 million more births than deaths". The demographic started first in Europe then in East Asia after 1950 and in progress, in Africa after 1990. "After 1950 the locus of fast growth changed. In the ensuing half century, Asian numbers more than doubled, Latin America population tripled, and African population quadrupled. Meanwhile Europe and North America grew more slowly, having completed the demographic transition by 1950".

Between 1890 and 1990, world population increased by a factor of 3.5 while CO2 climbed 17 fold, 31% associated with population growth; global emissions of sulfur increased 13 fold, ¼ associated with population. "One may safely suppose that population growth had a minimal role in releasing chlorofluorocarbons into the stratosphere". Pollution and combustion were loosely linked to population. In rich societies, such as the US and Germany, additional people raised pollution levels between 1900 to 1970 because they drove cars, heated with oil or coal, and in general increased combustion. In poor societies they had less of a contributing impact for combustion emission. Population growth without significant industry had must less impact on pollution levels except for human waste and domestic smoke.

Population growth both caused and prevented soil erosion. In places where population growth drove food production to steep hillsides, it quickened soil erosion. Elsewhere, population labor built and maintained soil conservation schemes. Soil Salinization caused from salt deposits moved more agricultural land into non-agricultural status. Food demand drove most of the centuries doubling of cropland.

Population growth accounts for much of the world increase use of water. Between 1900 and 1990 water use increased ninefold.

Deforestation is a murky conundrum of environmental issues and population growth. Deforestation occurred in Ethiopia even when population growth rates were lower. Deforestation can occur in conditions of population growth, population stagnation, and population decline. Population growth rarely acts alone causing deforestation.

"In sum, population growth accounted for a modest share of air pollution-related environmental changes and a large share of those pertaining to water and biota, especially those involved in food production."

Mass migrations from humid to dry lands repeatedly provoked desertification or the progress loss of vegetation. Migration into forest zones brought deforestation. Between 1830 to 1920, Europe alone sent 55 to 70 million emigrants to America, Australia, and Siberia. Large groups of Italians migrated to Brazil too work the coffee fields.

Large cities struggle against the costs of managing waste, garbage, and food supply chains. Consider the tempo of change. "A millennium ago China and the Islamic Middle East had the world's most urbanized populations, but even in these lands 90 to 95 percent of the people lived outside cities." In 1700, only five cities had populations exceeding half a million people. By 1900 there were 43 cities with over a half a million and by 1990 about 800 cities and 270 had populations over a million and 14 topped 10 million. England was the first country to have over half its population living in cities, US reached this level in 1920, Japan 1935, USSR and Mexico 1960, S Korea and S Africa 1985. In 1998, the whole world reached this level. The total number of urban dweller rose from 225 million in 1900 to 2.8 billion in 1998, a 13 fold increase.

Cities absorb large quantities of water; in exchange they pump out goods and services, as well as pollutants, garbage, and solid wastes. In the 19th cities with the exception of Japan reeked of garbage. In Surat, a city of 2.2 million in India, one fifth of the garbage went uncollected leading to the bubonic plague of 1994 causing 56 deaths. By 1997, Surat is the second cleanest city in India. "By in large cities did not address pollution that threatened only diffuse, disorganized, or powerless communities." Poor cities rapid acquired the pollution problems from industry and from fleets of cars, buses, and trucks. Only a few societies accumulated enough capital to invest in pollution abatement. Cities remained concentrated nodes of pollution. Growing cities also needed timber, cement, brick, food, and fuel. "Chicago by 1900 exerted a gravitational pull on timber, livestock, grain and other fruits of the land from a huge region in the heart of North America".

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Still enduring....

One wonders what these people would have become

A friend remembered.....

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A So Long Ago Tragedy Finally Remembered

Frozen in Time: The Enduring Legacy of the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Team
Nikki Nichols
Manufacturer: Emmis Books
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Most sports fans have heard the tragic story of the plane crash that killed all the members of the 1961 U.S. World Figure Skating Team, along with sixteen of their friends, family and coaches. Now, for the first time, Frozen in Time takes readers inside the lives of the skaters, telling one of the most iconic stories in the history of American sport.

The dramatic focus lingers on two families of powerful women. Maribel Owen—the most famous woman in figure skating at the time—who relentlessly drove her two young daughters, pairs champion Mara and the spectacular Laurence, who graced the cover of Sports Illustrated. Myra Westerfeld, meanwhile, lost her marriage while guiding her daughters Sherri and Steffi to the pinnacle of the sport.

Author Nikki Nichols also explores the crash’s aftermath, an unprecedented period in American athletics. The U.S. skating program had lost all of its stars and struggled to rebuild with very young competitors, such as Peggy Fleming. But, perhaps the most far-reaching effect was the creation of a memorial fund that would support skaters who would not otherwise be able to afford the sport—among them Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguchi, and others.

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Still enduring...........2007-10-08

In 1961, the greatest tragedy in U.S. figure skating history - and possibly world figure skating history - took place when a Sabena-Belgian Airlines Boeing 707 developed problems trying to land at Brussels airport. The plane nosedived into a farmer's field, killing everyone aboard. Among those on board were 18 members of the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating team, who were heading to the World Championships in Prague. This is the story of those skaters.
This book focuses largely on Laurence & Maribel Vinson Owen, as well as Stephanie Westerfield, who were the most well-known members, but also mentions skaters such as Laurie Jean Hickox and Doug Ramsay. It talks in-depth about the training & competitions they went through to become U.S. Figure Skating team members, as well as the terrible accident itself & how it affected U.S. Figure Skating at large - especially the rush to produce new skaters to replace those so tragically lost.
Journalist (and adult competitive figure skater) Nikki Nichols has done an excellent job in telling the very real stories of these people who were the Americans' best hopes for 1964, and never got to perform. Most of today's figure skaters have never heard the sad story of the 1961 US team, and this book is an excellent telling of their story. Highly recommended.

One wonders what these people would have become.......2007-02-14

.......the Vinson-Owen legacy in its fifth generation.......?

This is the story of the 1961 American figure skating team whose plane crashed, outside Brussels, en route to the world championships in Prague, killing all aboard and changing the face of American figure skating forever. Previous reviewers criticize the author for relying so heavily on speculation, but for an event that happened nearly five decades ago and many of the people who could tell the story are deceased as well, I think she did an excellent job.

To me, the biggest scandal in the book was not the Laurence Owen/Stephanie Westerfeld rivalry, but rather the dissolution of Stephanie's family shortly before the crash. Her parents have both been dead for over 20 years and therefore cannot tell their stories, but to have a child who was a champion figure skater AND a budding concert pianist.....are there enough hours in the day?

Maribel Vinson-Owen didn't seem to be the most likable person (a vast understatement) but she blazed trails without realizing it. A Radcliffe graduate, the first woman sportswriter at the New York Times, AND she nearly destroyed her coaching career by allowing a black skater to practice at her rink? That took some guts. This skater, Mabel Ferguson, continues to promote skating to the black community.

This book is a quick read, and I ordered it at the library the day before seeing "We Are Marshall", about a plane crash that also killed 75 people. The Sabena crash officially had 73 casualties, but one of the passengers was pregnant and a farmer was killed on the ground by falling debris. It doesn't look like things have changed much regarding the treatment of crash survivors' families, but that's another book altogether.

Most of the 1961 performances can be viewed on You Tube.

A friend remembered............2007-01-30

I truly enjoyed this book. One of my best childhood friends died in the 1961 plane crash, her name was Laurence Owen. This book brought back many memories of a wonderful young girl taken far to soon. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves Figure Skating. It gives insight to many of the wonderful people who died on that February day.

Frozen in time a review.......2007-01-28

I have known about the accident that clamed the us skating team lives and have written about it in class writing projects. I have to this the best and only book on this sad footnote in skating history that I feel has been been buried by the figure skating community for years I only wish this book came out earler. I highly recommend this book as a start in any research in this sad day in us figure history I only wish more would come out on this subject

A So Long Ago Tragedy Finally Remembered .......2007-01-26

This story pays respect and tribute to talented young athletes who exited the sporting stage with a high price --- their lives. The author introduces these skaters to the reader along with their coaches and family members. She also attempts to tell the readers of what these people were like both athletically and personally by imagining herself observing them. I found this book to be a reverent memorial in that Nichols brings these artists to life and succeeds in showing that they have not been forgotten.

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If a brother wanna get ahead, he gotta use every minute to better himself. Everything I did made me better -- tougher, stronger, richer, smarter -- or I didn't do it.

Take high school. A waste of time. Nobody there taught me what I needed to survive on the streets....

Ty Johnson knows survival. Since inheriting his pop's business at sixteen, Ty's developed smarts, skills, and mad discipline. The supply game's in his blood. And life is pretty sweet when you're on top.

But one slip -- or one serious competitor -- and life turns ugly fast. Suddenly, Ty's got to rethink his whole strategy. And for the #1 dealer on the streets, strategy is not just about staying ahead. It's about survival.

Customer Reviews:

i love ittttttt.......2007-07-23

i really love this book a lot. I read it only one day because i liked it so much. i love that is about real issues and about a kid around my age. But it's also amazing only 17 being on top of the drug game! now that's hard to find in real life. but i like that it's so realistic to make you feel that you're really there, and you're always hanging back on the last sentence to see what happens next. It's a book you don't ever want to put down. The author says this is her 1st novel, so i'm looking forward for more books to come from her.

Street Pharm Fabulous.......2007-03-10

I thought that this book was outstanding because of the honesty it had. I enjoyed reading about real life things and something that I could relate to because of the boy's age.

Courtesy of Teens Read Too.......2006-11-27

Ty Johnson knows how to survive in the real world, to take care of problems on the spot. He has everything in control and knows the way to run things. He's intelligent, patient, and skillful, everything he needs when he inherited his father's business. Everything is running smoothly for Ty and that's the way he wants it.

But then a series of struggles and obstacles ruins the way Ty does things. Not only does he have to take care of a competitor who wants to run him out of business, but he has to deal with school, the only thing his mother wants him to focus on. That could be especially difficult when a girl like none other, Alyse, enters his life and makes him feel happy for once. The hardest part is trying to hide from his mother, and almost everyone new he meets, that he is involved in dealing drugs, the business that Ty's mother hoped to forget after Ty's father went to prison for it.

Ty starts to question every action he does, from the moment he entered the business. With so many problems to handle, can Ty get through it all?

Allison van Diepen takes on a risky plot that so many teens have heard about, but never knew much about, and pulls the reader in. STREET PHARM is a true coming-of-age story that causes the reader to be at the edge of their seat, quickly turning pages, and in the end wanting more. A quick, fast-paced read that is necessary for all teens to read.

Reviewed by: Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen

An excellent urban thriller.......2006-10-05

"Street Pharm" is an excellent novel,especially for teenage males.It's
the gritty,powerful story of a young and very successful drug dealer who
decides to change his life.The book is violent and raw,but brilliantly
written with fully developed characters.It is an astonishing debut by
a talented new author.I can't wait to see what she does next!

Excellent.......2006-09-30

I am adult who enjoys reading good teen lit and this book qualifies. While I did not really care for Ty in the beginning of the book, you can slowly see his progression into "the real world" and it is a joy to go through it with him.

I also liked the honest look at the street life and the fact that the author did not make it sound like a romantic thing.

The writing is good and the storyline goes at a steady stream. I would be interested in reading a second book in this series to find out how Ty and Alyse make on and how Ty deasl with his father.

The only thing that would have made this book better would have been if it had been a true story.

This is an enjoyable read.

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