Magnificant book! The authors have done a tremendous job collecting together a broad but representative array of readings about Eve from three religious traditions. Anyone doing research on the Adam and Eve story, or anyone wanting the background to the naming and valuation of women which has developed from the Adam and Eve story must get this book! Helpful summaries move the reader through the plethora of material, noting important changes and developments in thinking through the centuries. A great text for women's studies, feminist theologies and literary studies.

I am so glad to find that this book is still in print! It is one of my favorite stories from childhood. Can't really say what I liked about it specifically but I remember being facinated by the illustrations and being pretty amused with the ending.

Definitely a great gift if you're looking for something outside the typical library of children's books.

This book has wonderful ideas for your classroom or home. I have enjoyed exploring the hundreds of activities, listed by monthly themes. My children are always finding new things to keep them busy. I have salvaged many a rainy day by pulling this off the shelf. Whether you are looking for stories,arts and crafts, or finger plays, this book has it all. It truly is the "everything" book.

In a day when public internet access is increasingly available in libraries, schools, and even shopping malls, a book like Valerie Petro and Lauren Marley's Family-Friendly Web Sites For Kids comes in handy even for those who don't yet own a personal computer! Compiled by Valerie Petro, a teacher and the Christian mother of a computer-literate teenager, Family-Friendly Web Sites For Kids features well over 100 web URLs with suggested age ranges, content summaries, and concise reviews that note whether sites contain advertisements, outside links, languages, etc. There is also a glossary of internet terms, from "adobe acrobat file" to "virus" and "worm", which will prove useful to young and old internet amateurs alike. Family-Friendly Web Sites For Kids is an excellent and "user friendly" resource for getting the family's feet wet in the exciting World Wide Web.

This is a very unique book about the experience of the Cortez colony, the last Japanese agricultural community formed by Abiko in 1919. It is written from a feminist perspective and thus gives unique insight into the Nikkei experience. Matsumoto conducted over 80 oral histories in tracing the history of this colony's foundation, through the relocation camp experience, and through the agriculture upheaval of the 70's and early 80's. If you are a serious historian of the Asian American experience, I strongly recommend this book for your collection.

In this fascinating new study, Valerie Steele shows how eroticism formed the basis of the Victorian ideal of feminine beauty and fashion, indeed, how the very concepts of beauty and fashion are in essence erotic. Far from being passive sex objects, Victorian women, like their modern counterparts, chose to emulate an erotic ideal as an aspect of their own self fulfillment and were not merely presenting themselves as men wanted to see them.

Fashion And Eroticism is not only a radical revision of our conventional understanding of Victorian fashion; it is also a major contribution to the history of women and sexuality. Steele offers a powerful and convincing new interpretation of the Victorian woman, who has traditionally been presented as strait-laced and prudish, her clothing an outward sign of her sexual repression and exploitation. Steele shows that the Victorians were, in fact, well aware that women had legs. Even the notorious corset was neither fetishistic nor an unhealthy instrument of torture, although its complex and ambivalent sexual symbolism aroused controversy.

Steele explodes the myth that progress triumphed over fashion. She explains how the twentieth century look of sexy, healthy beauty evolved from within the prewar world of fashion, and not as part of an anti fashion or dress reform movement. Her conclusions are based on prodigious documentary, visual, and material research (including the study of costume collections in the United States, great Britain, Europe, and even Japan), set within a sophisticated interpretive framework. Her use of psychoanalytic theory to explain the connection between fashion and eroticism is both lucid and persuasive, and her discussion of eroticism is sensible and precise, a far cry from the usual prurient and anecdotal histories of sexuality. Fashion And Eroticism approaches its subject from the perspective of the most recent work in women's history and concluded that fashion and feminism are by no means irreconcilable.

Valerie Steele received her Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1983, and was the 1984 First Ladies Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution.

This is the greatest books i have ever read .They are everything you would want in a book !They'r so good I have my own collection and i think if you like to read and love you would love these books!BEST BOOKS!!!

This was a great Theatre Kit! I recommend this to anyone who loves to act or direct! My sister and I are in the process of getting ready to preform it.

Flavorful Wild game offers the kind of recipes I really want to prepare - contemporary things that my friends and family will enjoy. The marinades chapter alone is worth the price of the book! I like the range of wild game featured, too. Many times I am given wild game and don't know the best way to cook it. This book tells all. Also, the dessert chapter is great - for the grand finale of a yummy wild game feast. Best book I've seen so far on cooking wild game.

Valerie Wilkinson has captured the imagination of young readers with these outstanding photos of various types of flies. She has managed to keep the text both interesting and easy to read and understand. A must have for any child learning about insects, their habits, and body structures.