Dr. Wall combines a scholarly survey with an approachable writing style. Where else can one find the combination of a Rhodes Scholar anthroplogist and a world-class academic physician as the author of such a work?

Hausa traditional medical practices are of tremendous import to millions in West Africa. Anyone involved in medical care in West Africa should read this book.

It's the basketball league championship and Cody suspects trouble when nobody shows up for practice. Larry Bird Lewis miss a practice? Something big must have happened. Cody spends precious time investigating as the minutes tick off for the semifinals. Fast and fun reading.

When I was little, my parents would read to me "The Headstart Book of Knowing & Naming." It's one of those books that you can read to your kids again and again. Designed to reach children between the ages of 2 and 6, the other activities that are included as alternatives still drive the enjoyability of children into the younger elementary levels.

"Knowing & Naming" teaches everything from the alphebet to body parts, from directions like up and down to your address. This book will also help build quality time between parents and children who don't get to see much of each other. The interaction designed for parent and child is wonderful.

I don't read catagory romances much, but this one will always be a favorite of mine. The characters, the plot, the romance, it's all top notch. Nothing is gratitous. It's all very realistic. I look forward to reading more by this author.

My mother gave me this book for Christmas when I was younger, I have never forgotten the impact in made in my life. This book made me realize my dreams and helped jump start my education. I competed for the title in my hometown of Warden for the Warden Junior Miss Program. After winning the title, I then competed at the Washington Junior Miss Program. I did not win however it did help me realize that dreams are very reachable. I worked hard in school and was later given a full scholarship in to The University of Washington and the NASA Space Grant. My dream of becoming an Aeronautical Engineer is becoming a reality. This book is great for young adults. I recommend it to parents for their teens.

Suzanne Lewis really knows her stuff. Every exquisite picture is accompanied by a narrative describing the flowers and their history. What a delight for heirloom lovers. And the photos are stunning.
Bill Leeson
Austin, Texas

Plot Summary: Mary Jane Potter, who lives in Austin, is acting as a surrogate mother for her best friend Arielle and Arielle's husband Morgan. Arielle was Mary Jane's nanny, basically raising her when Mary Jane's father distanced himself after the death of his wife, so Mary Jane feels she owes Arielle a lot. One horrible day, Morgan arrives with the news that Arielle is now dead, and as they deal with their grief over her death, and struggle with who Arielle was to both of them, they also begin to fall in love.

"Her Best Friend's Baby" is part of the Maitland Maternity series by Harlequin. I can't speak on how it fits into the remainder of the series, because I haven't read them.

This is a really well-written, well-developed offering by Thompson. The characters are believable and become very real, and the development of the romantic relationship between the two characters is sensitively handled.

In a situation such as this, it would be easy for the development of the romance to feel like a violation of Arielle's memory. But Thompson does a good job of developing both the character's feelings towards one another and their eventual acceptance of their grief. As both of them come to terms with the reality of their relationships with Arielle, they also come to understand how much they can give to one another.

Because this book comes out in a more mainstream line, Thompson doesn't include any of the imaginative erotic scenes that are part of her Blaze/Temptation books. However, she still handles the love scenes with a deft and sensitive touch, making them both erotic and believable.

An incredibly sensitive and well-developed offering from Thompson.

Number twelve in a distinguished, and, multivolume effort by Dr. Gary Moulton, The University of Nebraska, The "Herbarium" volume of "The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition" is the most comprehensive, edited botanical reference of the known plant specimens of the Corps of Discovery, 1803-1806.

As an impressive culmination to the Journals, the herbarium collection finalizes the extensive botanical scholarship contained in the notes produced by Dr. Moulton in the previous eleven volumes, published periodically over the past twenty years. The product of extensive research into the known world repositories of the extent plant specimens, this volume contains only one known error in terms of inclusion of a plant specimen that cannot be attributed to the expedition's collection. This one specimen at the Charleston Museum has been discounted since publication.

Nevertheless, this volume contains relatively high-quality image reproductions of the known 238 specimens in the Lewis and Clark Herbarium, in addition to a clear introduction to the history of the Herbarium collection and the scholarship behind its most recent publication. 227 specimens are currently housed in the Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia, and the remaining 11 are housed in the Kew Gardens, London. Of this list, 177 are distinct, individual specimens.

In the future, it is more than likely, despite this exhaustive effort on the part of Moulton, that a few new specimens will emerge from the depths of the American Philosophical Society, The Academy of Natural Sciences, and Kew.

Until such a time, this volume is an absolute necessity for anyone seriously interested in understanding the natural history ramifications of the expedition, the study of Lewis and Clark, and, for that matter, America's landscape legacy. One wonders how many more specimens would have been added to this collection if Lewis' early collections for the lower-Missouri had not been lost to decay during the expedition itself.

"Volume 12, Herbarium of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," Gary E. Moulton, Editor, The University of Nebraska Press, completes a fantastic series and must be added to complete one's collection of the first eleven volumes of the truly great American literary epic.

The only wish of this author would be the publication of high-resolution, color digital images of the Herbarium on CD or DVD, as a compendium to this volume. Perhaps in this way, we could all experience more clearly the wonder of viewing this most valuable treasure.

Dr. Gary Moulton should be congratulated for a job very well-done.

Alex Philp The University of Montana

The work is a pure architectural delight. High quality photography, drawings, and project texts. Everyone should know this work.