Bill Hausman, an American diplomat in Guyana, has scarcely heard of Jonestown, the religious "paradise" that has recently established itself deep in the Guyanese jungle. He knows very little about the Peoples Temple or their leader, Jim Jones, a passionate, pro-integrationist minister with a vision of a harmonious future for all God's children-and dark personal demons that will twist that vision into a horrifying nightmare. Yet Bill quickly becomes acquainted with all these things when his world collides with that of John Olsen, an American businessman whose ex-wife has moved to Jonestown,...

Autismo: La educacion de Mark Hartmann es una historia de surgimiento. En el se documenta el progreso de un estudiante, desde el triunfo, seguido por la expulsion, solo para concluir con el resurgimiento y triunfo una vez mas. Mientras que los educadores pesimistas y los abogados revuelven en un caso legal para explicar la exclusion de Mark Hartmann de la educacion inclusiva, Mark, su familia, y sus aliados marchan hacia adelante en la busqueda de formas creativas para demostrar que Mark puede florecer como estudiante con autismo. Con una narrativa rica y suntuosa que se extiende todo el...