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Interest your child in reading by making your child the Star of the Story in this personalized children's book. This book teaches your child to use the potty and to be proud of it. When you receive the book, simply fill out the perforated information card, tear it out of the book, and mail it to the address on the card. You will receive a sticker sheet with all of your child's information that includes simple to follow instructions on putting the stickers in your book. The stickers are designed to blend in with the graphics of the book and become permanent within 10 minutes.
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Excellent.......2000-08-05
I have about 5 of these books, all of them are personalized.I own a child care facility where we assist in Potty training.The children loves these books as so do the parents.I would recommend "No More Diapers" to all parents who are potty training
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No more diapers for me! That’s what toddlers will proudly proclaim after they hear this appealing tale of a lovable duck who takes the big step. When Piggy can’t come out to play because he’s busy sitting on the potty, Ducky realizes it’s time to grow up, too. A sweet and subtle story, with two huggable animals that children will embrace.
Bernette Ford is the author of the forthcoming First Snow, and co-author of Bright Eyes, Brown Skin.
Sam Williams has illustrated numerous picture books for children, including Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck by Lisa Westberg-Peters and Little Red by Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York.
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Delightful!.......2007-10-10
My 3 year old and 5 year old love this book and so do I!
The pictures are wonderful, and the dialogue between the characters is very cute. This is a wonderful tool to get your little one thinking about the transition from diapers to the potty (and may even provide enough inspiration for him/her to try immediately)!
No More Diapers For Ducky.......2007-10-08
I read this book to my daughter just once before she tore off her diaper and used the potty. Nothing seemed to inspire her but this. We had borrowed it from the library and she loved the book. I stopped reading it to her and she stopped using the potty...so I bought it. Anytime she tries using her pullups for anything other than accidents, I get the book out and she is determined to use the potty once again.
Ducky and Piggy are FABULOUS!.......2007-08-19
I love this book! My daughters ages 2 and 6 love this book. And even my husband loves it too! It is just so darn cute. We've read it a zillion times and still don't mind reading it again. I can't say that it inspired my 2 year old to use the potty but she was potty trained by her 2nd birthday. I am buying this book for friends and cousins with little ones. We checked the No more bottles for bunny out from the library and none of us were impressed.
A little too simplistic.......2007-05-15
I really like the other book in this series, "No More Bottles for Bunny". But this book is far less helpful in dealing with potty training than "Bottles for Bunny" is in dealing with bottle weaning. To summarize: Inspired by her friend Piggy's potty habits, Ducky decides one day that she doesn't want to wear diapers anymore. So she takes off her diaper and starts using the potty. And that's it. Oh, if only it were that easy for any child! There are no misgivings, no fears, no hesitation, no accidents, no back-and-forth between success and failure... It's cute, but it just doesn't accurately reflect the process of potty training. I'd recommend "A Potty for Me" by Karen Katz instead.
A CUTE LITTLE BOOK FOR ONE ON ONE READING. .......2007-05-06
This is a neatly done and cute little book addressing the potty training issue. Ducky and her buddy Piggy, both in diapers, figure out that potty training does not come quickly in some cases, and is a "wait until its time" affair. This is a beginning reader which is best read with the child as it opens the door for many questions and good discussions at the child's level. The illustrations are quite good, the text is is excellent and goes well with the simple pictures. It has been about 40 years since I went through the potty training stages with my children, so it nothing else, it did bring back memories.
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A GREAT BOOK.......2003-08-19
This is a terrific book....my daughter loved the idea of her dolly going potty!
my boy has a crush on betty-lou.......2003-05-11
I didn't know this was a girl-starring book before I got it for my boy, but he loves the book anyway. My husband said he refuses to read the book to our son, but I found him reading it to him anyway.
The single most helpful book in getting my daughter started.......2002-09-04
potty training! She loved seeing her favorite Sesame Street characters in the book. The book is more geared for girls than boys. I think every girl who is potty training should have this book.
No more diapers!.......2001-07-28
I think this book is very helpful in starting the potty training process. After reading this book several times with my daughter, she wanted to copy what we read in the book. She is not fully trained yet, however, she has gone potty 6 times after reading this book.
no more diapers for Sam, too.......2000-06-06
This is a cute book featuring the Sesame Street Muppets: the seldom-seen Betty Lou is the star and Elmo and Zoe play supporting roles. It is bizarre seeing Elmo and Zoe in clothes, but my son doesn't seem to notice. He likes the fact that his friends are learning to use the potty, too. I do emphasize that he gets to wear "big boy pants" just like Betty Lou and Zoe wear "big girl pants". He enjoys this little book.
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No More Diapers for Elvis!
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Michael Cohen
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NO MORE DIAPERS
Manufacturer: Random House
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When the Abu Ghraib torture scandal broke in April 2004, Americans and the rest of the world were stunned. President George W. Bush condemned the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers and blamed it on a few bad apples who, he said, had "dishonored our country and disregarded our values." Mark Danner, a journalist with The New Yorker, argues that a key fact was lost amid the media coverage: the torture was part of a deliberate policy of "enhanced interrogation" planned at the highest levels of the administration. But no punishment awaits the senior U.S. officials who orchestrated the abuses in Iraq and other U.S. detention facilities around the world, Danner writes. With the help of a Republican-controlled Congress, the White House and Defense Department have so far succeeded in limiting the fallout from the scandal and blaming it on a handful of overzealous, low-ranking soldiers.
Danner's 580-page book is divided into three parts. The first consists of three essays he wrote on the Abu Ghraib scandal in 2004. In them, he cites U.S. military personnel who estimate that 70 to 95 percent of the Iraqis they arrested were detained by mistake. Most were nabbed in night-time "cordon and capture" sweeps and had no intelligence value. Yet, military intelligence soldiers, under enormous pressure to combat a mounting Iraqi insurgency, worked with military police to squeeze "actionable intelligence" out of the detainees. The soldiers urinated on prisoners, threatened to rape them, sodomized them with sticks and chemical lights, deprived them of sleep, beat, kicked, and slapped them, and restricted their breathing with hoods. The rest of Danner's book consists of other essays he wrote about the war in Iraq, photos of the abuses and the texts of official reports and memos that, in grim detail, catalog both the torture and the U.S. policies that made it possible. Abu Ghraib, Danner writes, is just the tip of the iceberg. --Alex Roslin
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Includes the torture photographs in color and the full texts of the secret administration memos on torture and the investigative reports on the abuses at Abu Ghraib.
In the spring of 2004, graphic photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured by American soldiers in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison flashed around the world, provoking outraged debate. Did they depict the rogue behavior of "a few bad apples"? Or did they in fact reveal that the US government had decided to use brutal tactics in the "war on terror"?
The images are shocking, but they do not tell the whole story. The abuses at Abu Ghraib were not isolated incidents but the result of a chain of deliberate decisions and failures of command. To understand how "Hooded Man" and "Leashed Man" could have happened, Mark Danner turns to the documents that are collected for the first time in this book.
These documents include secret government memos, some never before published, that portray a fierce argument within the Bush administration over whether al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners were protected by the Geneva Conventions and how far the US could go in interrogating them. There are also official reports on abuses at Abu Ghraib by the International Committee of the Red Cross, by US Army investigators, and by an independent panel chaired by former defense secretary James R. Schlesinger. In sifting this evidence, Danner traces the path by which harsh methods of interrogation approved for suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Guant‡namo "migrated" to Iraq as resistance to the US occupation grew and US casualties mounted.
Yet as Mark Danner writes, the real scandal here is political: it "is not about revelation or disclosure but about the failure, once wrongdoing is disclosed, of politicians, officials, the press, and, ultimately, citizens to act." For once we know the story the photos and documents tell, we are left with the questions they pose for our democratic society: Does fighting a "new kind of war" on terror justify torture? Who will we hold responsible for deciding to pursue such a policy, and what will be the moral and political costs to the country?
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Chilling! A great book!!.......2006-12-05
This book offers a chilling rendition of the events that occured at Abu Gharib. It fairly reviews the events through official reports, which are quite chilling! A must read!!
The Forgotten Victims of the War on Terror.......2006-08-26
I bought Mark Danner's TORTURE AND TRUTH several months ago from Amazon, and find it ever more relevant to current events. For the numbers of people detained and tortured in the War on Terror-- many of them believed by reputable individuals and organizations to be innocent-- continues to rise, and extends far beyond Abu Ghraib. The very fact that the majority of these people have never been formally charged with involvement in terrorist activity nor tried seems to prove their innocence, for it would be very easy to keep someone in jail these days if one could present solid evidence of their involvment in terrorism. Those who object that the tortures inflicted on these detaninees is not as bad as that which some totalitarian governments inflict upon their victims ignore the fact that the "soft torture" techniques in development since the end of World War II have been found to be more effective in "breaking" victims than simple brutality (see Alfred McCoy, A QUESTION OF TORTURE: CIA INTERROGATION FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE WAR ON TERROR). The suffering of these wretched detainees keeps me awake at night, yet to this day most people seem unconcerned about their plight. Danner's comment from the Introduction to his book still holds true: "Like other scandals that have erupted during the Iraq War and the war on terror, it is not about revelation or disclosure but about the failure, once wrongdoing is disclosed, of politicians, officials, the press, and, ultimately, citizens to act."
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror.......2005-10-31
Like its companion, The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, Torture and Truth is an essential resource for scholars or researchers on this subject. However, because of its length (500+ pages)and scope it is an excellent choice for the more general reader. It is a compilation of reports and letters, mostly from the Bush Administration, on the Iraq War and torture issues. Because of its primary source components, it is invaluable for anyone doing research on the subject. It is well-organized, and will find a place in many dissertations in the years to come.
By far the best journalistic account.......2005-03-07
This is by far the best journalistic account of the torture of suspects at Abu Ghraib. This is also the best book to read after reading the books of documents, which give you the vital context for understanding Danner's book. Read them first and then this one - you will then be able to understand what really happened and why. British and US troops really did commit terribe acts against their prisoners, with tragic consequences for the reputation of both nations in the Middle East. Read Danner and the documents books to discove why. Christopher Catherwood (author of CHURCHILL'S FOLLY: HOW WINSTON CHURCHILL CREATED MODERN IRAQ: Carroll and Graf, hardcover 2004, paperback 2005)
Not A Few Rotten Apples, Systematic Torture at Abu Ghraib.......2005-01-16
The author strongly makes the case that the Abu Ghraib torture scandal was not caused by a few rotten apples on the night shift, but was systematic torture as policy. The Red Cross report and other valid reports are in the book so that the reader can see for himself that the torture at Abu Ghraib was certainly far more than a few rotten apples that were military police serving in the reserves that were sent to Abu Ghraib.
There was sadism at Abu Ghraib. There was a breakdown in law and order at Abu Ghraib. There was a breakdown in discipline at Abu Ghraib. This, of course, puts our entire Country and our entire military at risk.
Not only is the torture wrong, but, beyond that, torture is ineffective and many of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib had no intelligence value in the first place. Torture is very harmful to our Country politically speaking. It is certainly the case that any information that was obtained by torture would be overshadowed by the political damage caused by the activities.
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A Compelling Summation of American Torture Law.......2007-09-15
This book gets my highest accolade: it is explanatory. It explains in clear prose the complex subject of the evolution of American torture policy. It starts with the CIA's early cold war fear and fascination that the Russians could so successfully "brainwash" Hungarian Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty. It traces how the CIA then adopted these Communist brainwashing techniques, and how finally the Military Commissions Act of 2006 enacted them into law for official CIA use. The cruel anhd illegal has now become lawful for the CIA. Along the way the book explains, for one among many examples, how John Yoo's infamous memo justifying torture did so only by ignoring the Geneva Convention (which is a ratified treaty and therefore binding US law).
This book is a brilliant jury argument to the American people as they begin to gather into judgment about the present regime's attempt to collapse all power into the hands of a single Branch. This book makes the case that the President has had no respect for the law, particularly the law against torture, and that finally in 2006 the Congress was scared into going along with him. Like a good lawyer's summation to a jury, this book is long on facts and short on argument. It lets the facts make the case - because it's facts that sway juries. The author is a journalist but he can argue a case like few lawyers can. This book needs to be read by any American in the jury who wants to have an informed say about torture.
No matter how evil terrorists may be, when we become evil in return we destroy the law that makes us strong. Torture is costing the United States its soul, and even at this price torture yields little useful information.
A 'must' for any college-level collection strong in ethics or social issues........2007-06-09
AMERICAN TORTURE is a hard-hitting survey revealing how torture became a standard practice in the War on Terror, how it was honed and legalized and how the US military and CIA had used torture before both at home and abroad. These tortures were legalized using the laws designed to eradicate their use as the Cold War ended: chapters survey the history of torture in American prisons around the world, discuss teachings of U.S. military survival schools and programs supported by the U.S. around the world, and consider the social impact of torture's acceptance. A 'must' for any college-level collection strong in ethics or social issues.
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Abu Ghraib unveiled a lengthy list of disastrous actions and cover-ups by the Bush administration and the American military. Abu Ghraib examines the problem from many different perspectives, gathering together timely essays on the prison scandal from prominent progressive writers. Barbara Ehrenreich looks at the story through the lens of feminism, noting that the most infamous photos involve female soldiers. John Gray argues that Iraq is worse than Vietnam. Looking to future ramifications, Meron Benvenisti reflects on the "powerless rage" of an occupied culture. David Matlin deconstructs President Bush's declaration that the Abu Ghraib images do not represent America. Giving voice to those directly impacted, Mark Danner reports on the anger and humiliation experienced by the victims and their families. This book provides a broader understanding of the issue and its repercussions.
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When the American media published photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the Bush administration assured the world that the abuse was isolated and that the perpetrators would be held accountable. Over the next three years, it refined its narrative at the margins, but by and large its public position remained the same. Yes, the administration acknowledged, some soldiers abused prisoners, but these soldiers were anomalous sadists who ignored clear orders. Abuse, the administration said, was aberrational-not systemic, not widespread, and certainly not a matter of policy.
The government's own documents, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, tell a starkly different story. They show that the abuse of prisoners was not limited to Abu Ghraib but was pervasive in U.S. detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan and at Guantánamo Bay. Even more disturbing, the documents reveal that senior officials endorsed the abuse of prisoners as a matter of policy-sometimes by tolerating it, sometimes by encouraging it, and sometimes by expressly authorizing it. Records from Guantánamo describe prisoners shackled in excruciating "stress positions," held in freezing-cold cells, forcibly stripped, hooded, terrorized with military dogs, and deprived of human contact for months. Files from Afghanistan and Iraq describe prisoners who had been beaten, kicked, and burned. Autopsy reports attribute the deaths of those in U.S. custody to strangulation, suffocation, and blunt-force injuries.
Administration of Torture is the most detailed account thus far of what took place in America's overseas detention centers, including a narrative essay in which Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh draw the connection between the policies adopted by senior civilian and military officials and the torture and abuse that took place on the ground. The book also reproduces hundreds of government documents& mdash;including interrogation directives, FBI e-mails, autopsy reports, and investigative files& mdash;that constitute both an important historical record and a profound indictment of the Bush administration's policies with respect to the detention and treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody abroad.
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Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib
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How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently this question has acquired new urgency, and in Religion, Empire, and Torture, Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Persia.
Lincoln identifies three core components of an imperial theology that have transhistorical and contemporary relevance: dualistic ethics, a theory of divine election, and a sense of salvific mission. Beyond this, he asks, how did the Achaemenians understand their place in the cosmos and their moral status in relation to others? Why did they feel called to intervene in the struggle between good and evil? What was their sense of historic purpose, especially their desire to restore paradise lost? And how did this lead them to deal with enemies and critics as imperial power ran its course? Lincoln shows how these religious ideas shaped Achaemenian practice and brought the Persians unprecedented wealth, power, and territory, but also produced unmanageable contradictions, as in a gruesome case of torture discussed in the book’s final chapter. Close study of that episode leads Lincoln back to the present with a postscript that provides a searing and utterly novel perspective on the photographs from Abu Ghraib.
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Title: Images of abuse haunt torture survivors.(Politics)(Victims of political violence at a Eugene rehabilitation program are shaken by photos of Abu Ghraib prisoners)
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Date: June 28, 2004
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As the wife of a Guatemalan tortured to death, Jennifer Harbury brings a gripping and unique perspective to analyzing the role of torture in US policy. From Central America to Abu Ghraib, 23 cases are presented to illustrate stunning similarities between techniques that prove torturers had received training. CIA involvement, Harbury shows, is both direct and longstanding policy. Exhibiting a stellar range, Harbury draws on comparisons with Algeria and other conflicts to assess the efficacy of torture in the war against terrorism.
A human rights lawyer,
Jennifer Harbury has national name recognition for her three hunger strikes in an effort to save her husband's life, featured on 60 Minutes in the 1990s. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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