The New York Review of Books

Ashley Fenner SPED 715 Book Review Don’t Shoot the Dog! Pryor, K., (1999). Don’t Shoot the Dog!: the New Art of Teaching and Training (pp. 1-183). $11.64 (softcover.) New York, New York.: Bantam Books. The target audience of Don’t Shoot the Dog! is for anyone who wants to learn more about the area of behavior management. The audience base is large and includes: teachers, administrators, parents, psychologists, and counselors. Karen Pryor attempts to address how to change a behavior, or ‘train’…

throughout his lifetime and published his first book in 1827, which was titled Tamerlane, and…

Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (Book Review) Robert Courtney Smith (Ph.D. Columbia), the author of Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants, is a Professor of Sociology, Immigration Studies and Public Affair at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and the Graduate Center in the City University of New York (CUNY). Smith may specializations include Ethnography, Globalization, Ethnicity, and Migration. His foremost book, Mexican New York:…

H October 7, 2015 LET THE GREAT WORLD STOP SPINNING "Let the Great World Spin," by New York Times bestselling author, Colum McCann, is one of the most tedious, rambling, and incomplete novels ever published. I’ve never in my life had to force myself to read a book. While reading this novel, I constantly felt myself waiting for it to pick up and excite or thrill me but sadly, it never did. I love the idea of the book and the concept that all these lives could be woven together by a single moment…

There is so much to see and do, that I couldn't help but feel overwhelmed with my to-do list in New York. I was told that there is only one way to experience New York, and that is on foot. A big part of what makes New York so great is its atmosphere, and you can soak it up for free from just walking the city streets. Of course I took the metro to places too far to walk, but on Saturday, I decided to conquer Soho on foot. The city's neighborhoods, from the Upper East Side to Chinatown to…

parenthesis within the text. Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (New York: Broadway, 2007), 17. See Sheffield, 17–-23. Subsequent references are given in parentheses within the text. Geoffrey O’Brien, Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Life (New York: Counterpoint, 2004), 108. Thurston Moore, ed., Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture (New York: Universe Press, 2004), 94. Subsequent references are given in parentheses within the…

The New York City Department of Probation (DOP) is hosting a brunch for a diverse group of teen girls engaged in the New York City justice system on Saturday, June 3rd. At the brunch the young women accompanied by a parent and our guardian, will meet with mentors in an effort to assist in preparing them for future career opportunities. The Garden of Roses is a year-long program designed to support the development of court involved young women and offers engaging and dynamic activities to…

Ellen Hopkins has written a lot of New York Times best-selling novels because she is one of the greatest poem and novel writer of the 21st century. She is most noticeable by observing teenagers and young adults for her novels such as the crank series, burned series, impulse series, and many others. Ellen Hopkins has contributed many wonderful things to literature and that makes her a great writer, but what people don't know is that her life and her work are an also important reason for her being…

Based off the reviews of In the Belly of the Green Bird, I chose to read this historical account book. In the Belly of the Green Bird was written by Nir Rosen, who is a political journalist for the United States. The book is written as a personal account of what the writer was seeing in 2003 Iraq. While I was reading the historical account of Iraq, I was able to understand what was truly happening in the region. I was also able to understand why Iraqis view Americans the way they do. Based…

Hillbilly Elegy, a book written by J. D. Vance, is one of the more recent New York Times bestsellers. The book itself is essentially a memoir of Vance’s (the author’s) life growing up In the Appalachian region of the United Sates. Though it is possible to provide a thorough summary on what this set of memoirs is, it will probably be made easier after it is explained what they aren’t. Despite what the title of the New York Times’ and other sources with the likes of the same title “Review: In…