An elegant, informative, and (often) witty book exploring how far we've come and how far we have yet to go! Highly recommended. If you enjoy this book, check out Stories of the Academy: Learning from the Good Mother by Mary Beth Spore et al. for a similar, equally compelling, look at life for women in Academe.

In Gender Equity Or Bust!, editors Mary Dee Wenniger and Mary Helen Conroy have assembled a compendium of informative and thought-provoking contributors to provide the reader with a broad view of the progress women have made toward achieving full and fair career recognition within the institutions of American higher education. Highly recommended for women's studies, as well as history of American education reading lists and reference collections, Gender Equity Or Bust! contributors blend serious commentary, sage advice, and wry humor with their stories and commentaries on how they broke through the academic "glass ceiling" to rise up through campus faculty and administrative ranks.

Bestfeeding is an excellent book for new mothers wanting to breastfeed. Besides covering breastfeeding "basics", Bestfeeding also deals with many of the difficulties than can arise. Perhaps its best feature are the clear pictures depicting both good and the less-than-perfect positionings of babies on the breast--very helpful for the inexperienced breastfeeding mom. Most other books only give line drawings of a proper attachment. This book shows the reader examples of poor positioning and then explains what is wrong with the picture. If a new mother is going to buy one book on breastfeeding before she has her baby, this is the one I recommend.

I knew that I was going to breastfeed my 1st baby, no matter what anyone told me, and my midwife recommended this book to me. I think I read it 3 times in total. it is absolutely excellent, the author reviews key points throughout, so when you are done, you have a very firm grasp on how to be successful at breastfeeding, as well as giving lots of troubleshooting ideas. The pictures are excellent. Overall an A+ !!

This book is wonderful because it doesn't just tell you how to breastfeed, it SHOWS you! More pictures, and better pictures, than any other breastfeeding book I've seen.

As a Foreign Service Brat, it is interesting to read how close some military experiences and how far others are from my own, and Wertsch's book was certianly well written. While I enjoyed it and certainly found it well documented, I thought Mary Truscott's Brats: Children of the American Military Speak Out a much better read. I have a problem with the way Wertsch used a metaphor and then ran with it for the entire book. I would say in general that Wertsch's book is a great resource for a person writing a paper, while the human side of the experience is better brought across by Truscott. The one caveat is that Wertsch's book, written much more recently, covers alcoholism and abuse much more in depth. If you read this book and enjoyed it, I would highly recommend Truscott's.

I also found this book to be incredibly insightful. Those 'brats' who criticize the book are apparently ignoring the fact that Mary Edward Wertch is merely reporting what she learned from interviewing real people.

I think it especially struck home for me since I'm a 2nd generation army brat, my mother having been brought up by an army lifer. My parents met in post-occupation Germany, where my grandfather was CO of a US base and my father was a young officer. They married on base there and I was born two years later in New Orleans. The roller coaster ride didn't stop till I left home at 18, but still I never lived anywhere more than three years at a time till I reached the age of 30. I'm still a perpetual traveler, having chosen a career (guidebook writing) that has kept me on the road -- still great at saying hello and goodbye, not so great at the stuff in between.

I certainly have experienced many of the same ups and downs outlined in Military Brats, and like others I found it very therapeutic reading. I generally loathe self-help or pop pysch books, but this one's different - at least for me. My mother and father both refused to read it and I still haven't got my sister to read it. That says something right there ...

Being a writer myself, I know what kind of effort it takes to put together a book like this. Congratulations to Wertch.

my mother gave both my brother and i this book 10 years ago and it is still one of my most prized possessions. for some reason before i read it, i had not thought of mine as a common experience probably because living among civilians as an adult, my upbringing was not the norm and even living in a military town, i was Army not Navy so that was not the same. i was amazed at how on target many things were like answering the phone in a certain way to certain qualities i recognized in myself. i'd always felt mine was a good experience and i have no regrets having grown up as a military brat (and had never considered that to be a derogatory term!). my father was an officer but my parents had been high school sweethearts so always felt i had that common 'root' even tho it had not been my root and i was the only one not born in this country. we moved every year but i always looked at it as we moved together and my famly was close, and the one experience i didn't share in the book was having a dysfunctional family, mother or father. my dad was not rigid and we spent time together as a family and i have many happy memories. i looked forward to each move, each new experience, new house, new possiblities (altho i did not try to create a new me every time). i didn't mourn losing my friends and was fortunate to have always moved during the summer giving you time to make new friends before school started, it was just accepted, and i did run into people i had known in other places and even if we hadn't been close there and weren't close at the new location, it was still a thrill. (i recognized one girl in the 9th grade in Alabama that i had been in the 2nd grade with in Munich,Germany, got out my old class photo and sure enough it was her! i also worked with a woman as an adult in Florida that i had lived next door to in Kansas briefly as we moved in and they moved out.) its true there were adjustments once i was no longer a brat and not moving so often, i realized i compartmentalized my experiences by where i had lived at the time and once i had lived somewhere a long time i was often lost as to where i knew someone from or the time frame. i also realized that i really had no experience in maintaining long relationships outside my own family. my ex-husband had grown up as the author said in one or two houses(2)while my husband now moved as often as i did growing up, not in the military (altho his family had all been career military prior to his generation) but due to other circumstances and i find i have more in common with him and see many of the same qualities in him (able to get along with anyone, and stability is very important to him). i could go on! definitely a must read for every military brat.

This book is a good book for learning the basics to crazy patchwork. It shows the steps needed in order to obtain a beautiful quilt of "scraps." The stitch illustrations are handy, plentiful and useful. Some of the projects are a bit dated, but interesting to look at for a reference. A very practical book for the beginner quilter and a valuable resource for the long-time quilter.