I LOVE this book! It's amazing.

It stars Cassy, a young girl raised by her grandmother who is sent on sudden visits to her mother, Goldie (who is slightly 'away with the faries'). Her gran sends her on one of these vists and she starts having nightmares involving wolves, linked in with Goldie's latest project, a play about wolves. And a plot unwinds...

We read this in class and everyone, even the book haters loved it. The plot is on so many levels and it all come together brilliantly. It was exciting and kept me on the edge of my seat until the end- when I went back and read it five more times!

A must read!

By far the most fantastic best researched book on the struggles and triumps of Women ever written! Burn, does all the work, she sets up a once very difficult subject to teach, in a comprehensive text. Not a peer in the field when it comes to research and scholar, a smash of a text! Gene Courter MA/MSW/ACSW.

On a scale of 10, this book rates and eleven! It is the first of its kind to include essays on countries from North America to Nepal, Kenya to Korea. It sets the standard for future international and comparative research on women and politics. A monumental work co-edited by a U.S. and a Bangladeshi scholar, it provides the first ever collection of incisive articles about women in politics in 43 countries, each chapter written by women scholars, activists, and officials in that country. Each chapter first presents a useful snapshot of political, demographic, educational, and economic data on women; handy summary tables provide easy comparison across countries in each topical area. However, chapters are not written in cookbook style; rather, each author addresses the unique historical and current political issues most salient to women in her country, from rural development to democratization, health to headscarves. Four introductory chapters give excellent orientations to the conceptual framework, research design, methodology, data collection procedures. The framework introduces important concepts in the study of women and politics, such as nationalism, international economic forces, the women's movement, formal and informal politics, women's issues, and women's gender ideologies and action strategies. A lively, accessible work, no one who is interested in women and politics should be without it

Yes, the author is my brother. But this is a fascinating book anyway. Essentially, this is a harmony of the gospels (from the Revised Standard Version) with a series of questions placed by the author in strategic places. In the gospels, main characters like Peter and John have their stories repeated three or four times, while many of the women or apostles (such as Andrew) are mentioned only once or twice. But in a harmony, the repetitions are fused together, and the women and "lesser" players become far more visible. What becomes even more apparent is that in almost every failure the men made, the women did better. The men doubted the resurrection and the women were the first to proclaim it. Only one man followed Jesus to the cross, but a number of women did. The examples are far too many to ignore once they are brought to light, and every Christian would benefit from this book -- especially Christians from a conservative background. The author does not give opinion. Instead, he gives you the text and asks the reader the right questions. The conclusions are inescapable, because readers are forced to make the conclusions for themselves. It is very sad that it took nearly two thousand years for someone to present something so simple, and so obvious, now that Jerry Clontz has pointed it out.

"Women I Can't Forget" is a book about real people, women living in other countries who may live their entire lives sub-servient, never knowing the same freedom of choice we women in America take so for granted. Hardships and sub-standard living is an accepted way of life and few women are willing to challenge for change. Those few who do will slowly bring about change and one day soon smiles of confidence will replace their haunted looks of hopelessness and they can then rejoice in being considered human beings with feelings.

As a Sunday School teacher and a grandmother, I have quite a collection of teaching and craft books. This book is absolutely fabulous. There are about 35 stories in the book. Each story is recounted briefly and has several craft ideas for both pre-school and elementary aged children. Fun to use; easy to understand; quick; from supplies you either have or can easily get.

for those of us who make long-distance (international or domestic) moves as a result of our spouses careers. this is so supportive of our emotions. we have to make things "right" and "comfortable" for our children and spouses (who are caught up in themselves) while living in a "fish-bowl" and suffering silently inside. while we are grieving for the life we have to leave and dreading the new one, we desperately need understanding---that we are PROBABLY NOT GETTING. this is the book that offers that understanding--and --some help.

Frances Martin Day, Phyllis Spence, and Barbara Ladouceur, eds., Women Overseas: Memoirs of the Canadian Red Cross Corps (Overseas Detachment). Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 1998. Women Overseas is a collection of memoirs of 31 women who volunteered to work with the Canadian Red Cross Corps overseas during the Second World War. Included here are also stories of Canadian Red Cross Corps personnel who served in the Korean War. The individual stories are based on recollections many years after the war, notes from diaries and letters, and archives of the Red Cross Overseas clubs of Victoria an Vancouver. As some of the contributors have since passed away, the book becomes a legacy many people who have veterans in their families wish they were able to have on paper. For example, we have the contribution of Audrey C. Kitching, who became the wife of Major-General George Kitching after returning home. The reader is presented with the lives of these volunteers in their various wartime phases: civilian life prior to joining the Red Cross; training in Canada and awaiting word to travel to Great Britain in the ocean-going convoys characteristic of wartime; descriptions of experiences in France or Italy, or in the case of the 1950-1953 war, in Korea. Even if a reader's first interest is the military history of the Second World War, this book offers much information about such topics as the build-up to D-Day in June, 1944 or the extent of civilian casualties in Normandy after the June-August, 1944 war, where an estimated 40,000 civilians were killed. From the memoirs there are narrations of incidents when the Red Cross staff would meet wounded soldiers being evacuated out of battle, with the mud of the battlefield, as one author describes, still permeating their clothing and boots. In such encounters, the women at the field hospitals expressed surprise at how much the soldiers felt a need to talk about their battle experiences and under what circumstances they became wounded. While other books provide more of a structured account of how the hospitals and evacuation routes were established, the reader does learn much from Women Overseas about the workings of General Hospitals, or the more forward field hospitals, and Casualty Clearing Stations. And much is presented about the workings of the Canadian Red Cross Overseas: the duties as ambulance drivers, escort officers, food administration, and handicrafts officers, working with such groups as blind veterans. The organization is described as finding much success in its work in Great Britain and on the continent in its work with soldiers and civilians, as well as in its liaison with its counterparts among the allies. Examples of the dangers of the work are also described in the memoirs. For example, in her account of "Sunny Italy wasn't warm or sunny", Dorothy Falkner Burogoyne Doolittle, from St. Catherine's, Ontario, describes what had happened to the No. 14 General Hospital that had been sent to Italy before her group. They were on a convoy that was bombed in the Mediterranean in early November, 1943. "No lives had been lost, but they had lost all their possessions, and word had got back to London that the Red Cross girls at No. 14 needed anything and everything." Women Overseas accomplishes much more than was perhaps intended as a record of personal accounts of the Canadian Red Cross Corps (Overseas Detachment). The reader is presented with a work that educates about Canadians in the Second World War through biographical narrations of women who were part of the support structure both for our soldiers and for civilians in such countries as Great Britain, France, Belgium, and Italy during the Second World War. As an important addition, so as not to neglect the Korean War, the addition of those memoirs are also most welcomed. Such a book offers great ideas for further research. On a personal note, Helen M. Egan's chapter, "We found the drivers very protective of us" mentions a reference to Jean Lamb, who "had already worked in Italy with the Canadian offensive which had pushed up from Sicily, but she had returned when the order came through that all married girls had to return to London." My father was a batman to a Captain Lamb in Italy, until the officer's death. Now I have something close to home to research. It is such little aspects of the vast and complicated story of Canadians in war that help a person continue with an interest to learn more and more.

As a Folklore and Children's Literature major at the University of Florida, I found this book to be an invaluable resource! It provides numerous resources of its own that a researcher will need to employ if he is to properly analyze folklore of the world. Clarkson and Cross give a fair and comprehensive anthology of "multicultural" tales in the true sense of the term. With notes on how to begin and follow a study through, the authors remain loyal to the true nature of the folktale and distinguish it from the vast oceans of literary works that call themselves folk tales. A must-read for the scholar and a genuinely entertaining tome for the leisurely reader.

Wonderful perspective(s) on raising kids! DeLoache and Gottlieb have succeeded in making "A world of Babies" amusing, yet there's that serious undercurrent of promoting understanding. I recommend it for young moms and dads -- there are lots of good ways to bring up babies. This grandma enjoyed it tremendously. As my own mom used to say, you can make all kinds of mistakes rearing children, but as long as you give them lots of love they'll turn out fine.