In this upbeat appraisal of modern city management by the former mayor of San Jose, Tom McEnery not only illuminates the role of the city-state in our culture, but also brings his experience to bear in offering a prescription to the many ills that currently beset our cities. Using San Jose as his prime example - a city larger than Boston, Atlanta, Washington, Seattle, or Miami, yet having the lowest crime rate of America's top 50 cities - the author challenges the negativity in the press and elsewhere that condemns our cities to hopeless despair. Replete with sidebars, anecdotes, and profiles of such big-city mayors as David Dinkins, Tom Bradley, Richard Daley, and Marion Barry, this lively but serious book calls on everyone from Don Corleone to Rodney King in dispensing advice on how to improve our cities. The end result, however, is a thoughtful consideration of our present urban conundra, and a hopeful look at the future of the city-state.
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Grade 4-6-- A former field biologist describes his successful rescue of three mountain lion cubs in Colorado. Farentinos tells in a matter-of-fact style how the cubs became orphaned when a farmer shot their mother, and how he tracked them. The middle section of the book consists of his lengthy, but compelling dream in which readers enter the world of the young mountain lions as they witness their mother's death and struggle to survive alone and unprotected. There is a poor transition between the first-person narrative and this dream sequence, and it is sure to confuse children. In the closing section, the author recounts how he at last captured the cubs, spent an exciting night with them in his home, and then turned them over to a wildlife rehabilitation center. Arranged in a picture-book format with lovely colorful illustrations and pen-and-ink sketches, this offering will attract younger readers. However, the lengthy text is not broken down into chapters, making it difficult to read aloud, and the vocabulary is too difficult for primary graders. Older children are likely to be turned off by the format. --Barbara B. Murphy, Shaler Area School District Libraries, Pittsburgh
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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