Please note -- This book is exactly what the title says -- a BEGINNING shepherd's manual. If, like me, you are a beginner, you'll appreciate the clear and consise language the author uses to explain sheep and various aspects of sheep production. After reading this book, you'll know what questions to ask if you're considering raising a small flock. A more advanced book on the subject is "Raising Sheep the Modern Way," which delves into more details, and which I thoroughly recommend.

This compliation of essays lays down the curricular and research agenda for the establishment of a Black Women's Studies program in the academy. It weaves personal narrative, literary criticism, and empirical analysis which cogently argues that Black Studies and Women's Studies in academia do not adequately address the multiple consciousness of Black women through discourses on racism, sexism, classism, and sexuality. The authors of the various articles articulate the need to look at Black women's lives as multi-faceted and complex, neither wholly positive or negative. I am not sure if the authors decided to change the name of the book to make it more marketable but the original title is "All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men,But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies." I tend to prefer the original title because it brilliantly captures the dilemmas that Black women face in higher education and the wider - negation of their experiences as Black people and as women. The book delivers an historical examination of the Black Women's Studies movement that began in the early 1970's with the formation of the Combahee River Collective, a black feminist organization and the National Black Feminist Organization. It also pushes for the development of a Black Women's Studies program that reaches out beyond the halls of academe and situates its curricular and research agenda in political and economic organizing on behalf of Black women of all educational and economic classes.

Barbara Burnett Smith has again produced a work of art in Celebration in Purple Sage. The characters are real, the settings believable, and anyone who has ever lived in small-town Texas, (or small- town anywhere!) can identify with Jolie Wyatt. Don't start this book if you don't have time to finish it, because you won't want to put it down

Deftly edited by Barbara Darling-Smith (Assistant Professor of Religion, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts) Courage is the latest addition to the "Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion" series and showcases a truly impressive selection of contributions by a variety of learned and scholarly authors writing about the conceptual and emotional virtue of "courage", and those who possessed this quality in full. Ranging from true stories of bravery, to courage in classics of literature, Courage views the trait of defying fear from a multiplicity of angles and dimensions. Courage is an inherently fascinating read and a highly recommended addition to personal reading lists, as well as academic and community library collections.

This book was just what I needed. I am a new teacher in Sunday school and learned so much from this book. This book is one you will want to keep and read multiple times. I would recommend this book for anyone who is teaching children.

If you enjoy ghost stories you`ll enjoy this book. Its full of Fascinating stories about people who have had encounters with ghosts or had paranormal experiences in Manitoba. A very good book to read on a boring day.

This book helped me to expand my knowledge and my appreciation for black feminist thought, especially for black, lesbian, radical feminist thought. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to figure out how to reconcile their fight against racism with their battles against sexism and homophobia, within their own communities. Fifteen and twenty years ago, these women were already finding answers...so we can too!

This is one of the books showcasing the Museum of the American Quilt Society's yearly contest "New Quilts from an old favorite". Each year a traditional block is selected for the challenge and quiltmakers from all over the world produce wonderfully inventive interpretations of the theme block. The quilts selected as prize winners and finalists are shown in the MAQS and a book is produced. Each quilt is presented in color on one page and commented on by the maker on the opposing side. Each quilter tells a little about her quilting and explains a bit about the way she arrived at the contest quilt. In the back of the book there are patterns for several sizes of the traditional block as well as further technical tips by the quilters whose work is presented in the book.

This book showcases quilts derived from the Kaleidoscope block: there are quilts you can clearly trace to that block and some where you can hardly find it, traditionally inspired quilts along with art quilts. Quite a few quilts were inspired by Paula Nadelstern's Kaleidoscope quilts.

All the books documenting this challenge are well worth owning as they are great inspirations and show the many different ways a theme can be interpreted.

"Love is...the motivating force in our lives and the sustaing strength in our trials." It is the "nurturing power that makes it possible for us to do more things than we ever dreamed possible," writes Barbara B. Smith, former president of the Relief Society. In this compliation of thought derived largly from talks given during her nearly twelve years of service in that calling, she reflects upon the most powerful attribute: love.

From the 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion Review: This book is very handsomely presented. It is an ideal coffee-table edition showing many of the troops in various situations and depicting many of the outstanding events that were part of the 704th's historic drive across France into Czechoslovakia.