Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates.

A person who is ignorant of legal matters is always liable to make mistakes when he tries to photograph a court scene with his pen; and so I was not willing to let the law chapters in this book go to press without first subjecting them to ...

In addition, the book examines the social and ethical implications of these ideas and of new technologies that may soon offer the means to predict or manipulate human traits.

Now, this new edition has been significantly revised and updated to include these improvements... more clinical information integrated throughout the text; screened "clinical correlates" and clinical "problems to solve" in each chapter; ...

The following pedagogic features and updates in the 14th edition help facilitate student learning"--Provided by publisher.

First pub. 1964. Author's most dramatic work, won him the prestigious Shincho Literary Prize. In the novel the narrator tells how he responds to the birth and problems posed by his handicapped child. Recipient of the 1994 Nobel prize.

Story of a young officer and a crippled girl, a tragedy of prewar army life in Austria.

Annotation This is the largely forgotten story of the rubella (German measles) epidemic of the early 1960s & how in the United States it created a national anxiety about dying, disabled & 'dangerous' babies.

Time is running out for the Peculiar Children.