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books by Peter Wright

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20 reviews
Peter W. D. Wright, Pamela Darr Wright

Harbor House Law Press, 1999

Wrightslaw: Special Education Law
As a parent of a child with autism, I have faced many struggles. Working with the public school system to provide my son an appropriate education has been the hardest struggle by far. I have read Wrightslaw: Special Ed Law and From Emotions to Advocacy by Peter Wright and have found them to be an invaluable resource for parents of special needs children. As with any disability, parents must ...

Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy - The Special Education Survival Guide

27 reviews
Peter W. D. Wright, Pamela Darr Wright

Harbor House Law Press, 2001

A Must Have! An excellent book for anyone in the system.
I have an autistic son and this book has been my savior. It is a must have for anyone entering into the "world" of special needs. I have many other books but I constantly refer to this book in the end. It walks you step-by-step on how to write letters requesting information from your child's school and provides templates for many other well written letters you may need to use. This book ...

Hindsight

5 reviews
Peter Wright

iUniverse, Inc., 2005

Closer to science fact than science fiction
I am a techie (Silicon Valley electrical engineer, MIT grad) and never enjoyed science fiction. While Hindsight might technically be classified as sci-fi, it is not of the shoot-'em-up outer-space vintage. Rather, this novel is well grounded in physics, life on earth, and human nature. The story is entirely plausible and is well developed. Hindsight is the kind of book that makes you want to ...

Cook Like a Mother! Clean Like a Pro!: The Single Dad's Guide to Cooking and Cleaning

3 reviews
Peter Wright

PM Wright Communications, 2002

How to provide proper nutrition and a clean environment
Cook Like A Mother! Clean Like A Pro!: The Single Dad's Guide To Cooking And Cleaning is a combination cookbook and homemaker skills "how to" instructional written by Peter Wright especially for men who are neophytes at the fine art of keeping an orderly home. Specifically intended for single fathers who need to quickly learn how to provide proper nutrition and a clean environment for their ...

Beginning GTK+ and GNOME

4 reviews
Peter Wright

Peer Information, 2000

Well written and diverse
This book is very easy to read thanks mainly to the author but also to a nice font and layout. The examples are very helpful and cover a broad range of areas within GTK and GNOME programming. Bottom line would be the quality of writing and the diverse coverage. I have 5 GTK/GNOME books, and I like this one the best.

Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition

8 reviews
Peter W. D. Wright; Pamela Darr Wright

Harbor House Law Press, Inc., 2007

A critically important addition to school district and community library Educational Laws & Guidelines reference shelves
Now in a newly updated and significantly expanded second edition, "Wrightslaw: Special Education Law" provides parents, educators, child service advocates, and family attorneys with a clear and superbly organized introduction to the federal laws affecting the education of children with disabilities. An invaluable guide to special education rights and responsibilities, co-authors Pete Wright (who ...

Perl Debugged

8 reviews
Peter J. Scott, Ed Wright

Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 2001

Super advice for Perl programmers, and others
I'm tremendously pleased with Perl Debugged. It's half a book about Perl debugging, and half a book with more general advice, all pleasantly blended together. Peter and Ed take you on an unrivaled tour of the ups and downs of Perl debugging. It's sort of like Effective Perl Programming's "Debugging" chapter except hugely and brilliantly expanded. It's comprehensive and imaginative without ...

Beginning Objects With Visual Basic 5

7 reviews
Peter Wright

Wrox Press, 1998

Peter does Databases and VB OO programming
He non-chalantly covers what has been a very stick y subject. His style is friendly ... a little wordy. But when he puts nuts and bolts together .. the guy has quite a philosophy ... I've been a VB programmer since v3. VB3 and VB4 didn't do objects .. so I went to Java. Even though I am familiar with OO programming ... he was NOT boring ... and spelled things out simple stupid 123. If you ...

Armed and Considered Dangerous

3 reviews
Peter H. Rossi

Aldine Transaction, 2008

A thorough analysis of sociological research about guns.
Intending to build the case for comprehensive federal gun restrictions, the Carter administration handed out a major gun control research grant to sociology Professor James D. Wright, and his colleagues Peter Rossi and Kathleen Daly. Wright was already on record as favoring much stricter controls, and he and his colleagues were recognized as among sociology's brightest stars. Rossi, a University ...

Spycatcher : The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer

4 reviews
Peter Wright

Viking Penguin, 1987

(not a review - please read carefully)
this is not a review, but a note to amazon.com for "spycatcher" by peter wright, you have on the same screen an interview with peter wright. unfortunately for you, Peter Wright-who=wrote-spycatcher DIED a few years ago. He is an ex-spycatcher (cue dead parrot sketch). So please REMOVE your "interview-with-DIFFERENT-PeterWright" link from the spycatcher book page. I hope this note is ...

Judgmental Forecasting

1 review

John Wiley & Sons, 1987

A Collection of Essays on Judgmental Forecasting
From Contents: Part I - The Psychology of Individual Judgment 1 - On the Adequacy of Judgmental Forecasts - Lawrence D. Phillips 2 - Beliefs and Expectations as Causes of Judgmental Bias - Jonathan St. B.T. Evans 3 - Assessing Human Judgment: Has it Been Done, Can it Be Done, Should it Be Done? - Lee Beach, Jay Christensen-Szalanski & Valerie Barnes 4 - Substantive Estimation of Precise ...

Wrightslaw: No Child Left Behind

2 reviews
Peter W. D. Wright, Pamela Darr Wright, ...

Harbor House Law Press, Inc., 2003

Another must-read from Wrightslaw
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is more than just standardized testing. In this book, the Wrightslaw team leads a clear path through NCLB, explaining important aspects such as requirements for qualified staff, the ability for children to transfer from dangerous schools, and more. Although I started out skeptical of NCLB (and still have issues with standardized testing), reading this book ...

Subjective Probability

2 reviews
George Wright

John Wiley & Sons, 1994

A substantial treatise on how people view probabilities
I was deterred from buying this book because of its high price, but finally did so, and, after reading it, recommended to our university library that they do so too. The book has a lot of unusual insights, for example, a theory of hope, and of gamblers perceptions of luck.

The Best of Cold Blood

1 review
Peter Sellers, John North, ...

MJF Books, 1998

good book!
This is one of the best book I've ever read!

All Things Betray Thee: The Life and Times of a Liverpool Sailor

1 review
Peter Wright

Authorhouse, 2000

A captivating personal history of English life at sea.
If you like to read books that grab you -- whose characters enter into your psyche so completely you feel them pop up inside of you for days, maybe years after reading their tales -- this is such a book. Not only the characters are captivating, but their unique speech as well. I found myself thinking and speaking in a Liverpool English for days after each reading session, so deeply did the ...

Manzanar: Photography by Ansel Adams, Commentary by John Hersey

1 review
John and Peter Wright Armor

Vintage Books, 1989

Ansel Adams Book Review
I had been looking for this boook for several years ;when I saw it on Amazon I was excited. When I recieved it . I t was exactlly as ordered about the Japanese Internment camps with Photography by Ansel Adams and comments by John Hersey.

India (Country Topics)

1 review
Anita Ganeri, Rachel Wright

Franklin Watts Ltd, 1994

a great hands-on cultural geography book
This is a great book for teaching units on India to gradeschool age kids. The format is simple and interesting. It applies itself well to kids and offers hand-on projects to make the country more real to children. My daughter and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

A History of the Frankfurt Book Fair

1 review
Peter Weidhaas

Dundurn, 2007

The origin of the model that all modern book fairs follow.
Book fairs have been an important part of the publishing industry since the days of Gutenberg and the invention of movable type. Recognized as the Mecca for all who are connected to the book publishing industry, the Frankfurt Book Fair is over five hundred years old. "A History of the Frankfurt Book Fair" looks to cover all of its history, as covered by the director of the event for a quarter of ...

Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition: From Novice to Professional

1 review

Apress, 2006

An excellent guide to learning VB 2005 Express
Finally the right book to get me into the world of object oriented programming! (in addition to VB 2005 Express) The small examples are easy to digest and the writing style is down to the point. I especially appreciate the author's pointing out few things Microsoft did which make VB 2005 Express different from traditional OOP and advising the traditional alternatives. This will help me get into ...

The Church and the Crown (Doctor Who)

1 review
Cavan Scott, Mark Wright

Big Finish Productions Ltd, 2002

Three cheers for historicals.
The Church and the Crown is a wonderful second adventure for the new team of the Doctor, Peri and ex Pharaoh Erimin. We find ourselves in the time of Cardnial Richeleu and to nobody's surprise there is trouble between the King, the Queen, the Cardinal and Lord Buckingham with the tardis crew landing in the middle of it. Caroline Morris does a fantastic job in the part that seems to be made ...