I had to do a report a few years ago on shirley, and I would recomend this book for children who want to do a report on shirley, or just learn interesting facts about her and her career. so i would definitley look over the book, it is really heplful!!!!

In this bleak novel Elizabeth Gaskell deftly weaves a dark thread of history into her narrative tapestry. While war hovers on the margins of the novel, no one is left unaffected by its horror. After a sometimes painfully slow setup of domestic life in the seaside town of Monkshaven in the first third of the book, the sense of doom grows increasingly palpable. Sylvia, the novel's heroine, is isolated by her supposedly protective domestic sphere, but Gaskell shatters the delicate domestic circle that surrounds her. While Sylvia is left to bear emotional scars, becoming an impassive, hardened woman, Charley Kinraid, her true love, returns from war a ghost, haunting the margins of Monkshaven to hide his terrible physical scars. The full realization of the blight on Sylvia's life comes when the novel spirals down to its inevitable conclusion, where even reconciliation and understanding brings a powerful sense of loss.

It's a useful book for parents who want to share excitement in storytelling. We can call it guidance. It always gives some tips, questions, and story activities for each story. By reading the stories, you can open your children mind up toward moral values. The stories teach children to be confident with them, to be wits, to appreciate differences and to like music. Probably, the one you have to need is to be proficient in telling the stories. But don't worry, because the book will guide you. You just practice it. Remember that practice makes perfect.

The author did a gutsy thing of including romance and sex in a religious novel. But she breathed the breath of life into an otherwise anecdotal account of a thief whom Jesus chose to welcome into Paradise! Luke's account was accurate, but it did not provide the Rest of The Story. I liked the love story, and I savored the intrigue of Pilate's Court. That she was able to access the original accounts of Caiphas, Herod, and Pilate which were stored in the Library of the Vatican gave me some new slants on the Lord I worship. My only regret was that it lacked a sequel. It left the qustion unanswered: "What happened then?"

An interesting overview from the eyes of women. At times uneven, but satisfying overall. In particular, Sheila Eichenblatt's work is impressive. It could prove a good look back for future generations, as well as perhaps transcending the times.

Children and baths are like children and bed: hard to get `em in, and even harder to get `em out. My usual refrain is to come out before they turn into raisins, because they`re too small for prunes. Of course they identify with Shirley. When her mother tells her it`s time to come out it inspires her fantastic journey through the plumbing (we spend the longest time over that illustration,) and her aquatic adventures. No great revelations here, but the idea and whimsical illustrations never fail to captivate my dirty little monkeys of five and seven years of age.

Richmond, California became a World War II boomtown. And almost as quickly as it burst at the seams with shipyard productivity, population surges, and overflowing housing, schools, and day care needs, the boomtown deflated. To a San Francisco-centric mindset, Richmond is no more than a sprawling urban ghetto. But it's a community that deserves more than quick dismissal. As Shirley Ann Wilson Moore writes, "This book examines the history of the African American community in Richmond during the critical transitional years of the first half of the twentieth century. It places the activities of black working-class men and women, regarded by some as unlettered peasants who were spatially and intellectually isolated from larger social currents, at the center of the nation's most profound, transformative events."Published dissertations generally have an awful density about them -- a frustrating compression of stats, dates, and repetitious topic statements. Moore's book is somehow magically void of this while maintaining its scholarly value and dignity. Richly supported by oral histories, the book is unique for telling a community story of California, the American WW2 home front, and the African American experience all at once.Moore's work is an insightful and appropriately succinct package encompassing the exodus of thousands of African Americans from the Jim Crow south to establishment of community, church life, self-sufficiency, war work, blues clubs, prosperity and stability in Richmond -- if not for all, at least for some instead of none. These Richmondites were urban pioneers who laid the basis for the Civil Rights Movement in following generations.

This book of easy, low calorie recipes is a must for the weight conscious, active person today. My wife is the author so I have intimate knowledge of the book. It is easy to use; each recipe is on a seperate page. The pages are held together with rings. Give it a try!

This text provides many theories to which family policies can be applied. Zimmerman provides human services applications that bring the theories to life in a way that students and professionals can understand. Despite the theoretical nature of the book, readers will find it easy and interesting to read.

Ms. Nicholson deftly gathers some thiry years of diaries, letters and clippings and knowlegly weaves them into the great and small events in victorian england. Marion Sanborne, wife of Linley Sanborne the Punch illustrater, began a diary in 1881 and through it you get an understanding of what life was like for a woman who was neither famous or infamous. Fasinating insights into daily life. Visitors to London can visit her preserved home which houses the England Victorian Society. Ive read it through three times- love the problems with servants and linleys early use of photos