I find it hard to believe so many women gave this story 5 stars. I guess it is like the old perfect 10 in gymnastics, too many until people wised up. I have no complaints with the writing of this story. It is a darker regency, no belle's in their evening glory, giggling, at Almacks. But the premise of this story is just to ridiculous to believe. Lady Sarah, whose younger sister ran away from home to marry against her father's wishes, gets a message from the same sister to come to her aid. She dies in childbirth and makes Sarah, the older sister, promise she would not tell the real story of her bastard son's birth. And Sarah does this at a ridiculous cost. She breaks off her engagement to a man off fighting because she realized no one believed that the boy was not hers. Like dahhh...4 years later, her former love returns a wounded war hero. She offers herself in marraige to save his estate and to give Drew, this boy, a father. He excepts but it is a marriage of convenience. Why in the world would he agree to that? Why go through the bother of mending his estate when he would have no one to pass it on to? Seemed crazy. And why in the world would Sarah refuse to tell him the real story? Hello Sarah, your sister, a child herself, is dying in childbirth. It was the sisters mistake, not Sarahs, and she kindly took the boy in but the point - not to betray her sister - was way overplayed to the point of stupidity, hers. I am sure her sister would have not minded her telling the story to the man she was to marry. He would never have deserted Sarah. AFter all, she was a virgin so obviously not her son!!! So it was all incredibly stupid.

Gayle Wilson has done it again -- great story!
Loved the emotional and mental growth of Lady Sarah in the four years that she takes sole care of her "child" not to mention her father.

Justin Tolbert, the new Earl of Wynfield, has nothing but debts and a wounded body to offer anyone. His greatest fear, would Lady Sarah be tolerant of his being less of a man? It takes the child, Andrew to soften up Justin's emotions that he can tolerate a marriage of convenience. But the worst fear happens as he realizes he has not lost his love for Sarah over the past four years.

The threat from the natural father of Andrew really ties up the story -- and what a way to end -- couldn't help but grin.

Cant't help it -------- but dahh! N.Y, something tells me that you have no understanding of the emotions or morality of the regency period. They didn't think like the general public of this day and age.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED -- a story that should be enjoyed by all.

This was my second Gayle Wilson book, I'm so glad I found this author! You will love the story, its so different then your typical romance. And that sweet little blue eyed Drew, I wanted to keep him myself! If you can find this one, grab it!

Great read! Well written, well thought out but I disagree strongly with parallels drawn with human societies. Would recommend this wholeheartedly for every thoughtful reader.

I rated it a 5, so theres not much left to say. Its a classic and if you are involved anywhere in the biological sciences you should have this book on your shelf (especially if you want to understand the new papers coming out on biodiversity such as those that challenge the ideas of island biography).

One has to wonder what all the controversy was about, back when this book was first printed. (In fact, there is an excellent book on the subject of that controversy, so I won't get into that.)

But here, and in "Consilience," Wilson was making a very important case which we cannot ignore or dismiss: the ancient Greeks dreamed of all knowledge coming together, and we are in a position to start making this happen. For example, we would regard a chemist proposing a theory which violated the laws of physics with deep suspicion. Physics and chemistry are already conceptually united, and I think mathematics falls into that domain, as does astronomy.

Psychology allegedly lies in an entirely different domain.

What about biology? Is it possible for a biologist to propose a theory which violates the laws of evolution, and remain coherent?

In any case, this is where much of the excitement of the 21st century is going to come from.

A landmark work!

When Angelica wants to watch TV and she can't because of parental limits of 30 minutes. When there is a marathon the hole day. There's going to be trouble. To get to watch TV she tells the babies that parents that sleep in will turn in to Zombies. The babies didn't want the "zombies" to eat them so they start to cry and make some racket to wake them up so they don't change in to Zombies. Now the parents are tired and have droopy eyes and look like zombies. Until the babies find out that Angelica is lying like she does in every book or movie or show. This book is a good book for kids to show that there are different people in the world and some of them do lie.

With the recent release of a Rugrats movie, along with a flooding of Rugrats related merchandise into the market, it is no surprise to see this popular cartoon franchise to branch off into children's books. In The Rugrats and the Zombies, author Sarah Willson does a good job capturing the irreverent humor that has made the cartoon series so popular. The story begins with a frustrated Angelica fuming over the half-hour T.V. restriction that has been placed upon her by her babysitters, the Pickle family. Scheming to get the adults out of her way, she tells Tommy, Chuckie, Lil, and Phil that adults who sleep in late turn into zombies. The babies, worried that their parents will turn to zombies and eat them, in turn begin crying early in the morning to keep their parents from sleeping to late. At this point, the babies tired and groggy parents begin acting more like zombies than they did before, causing some humorous mix-ups to occur. Eventually, the babies get wise to Angelica's lie and, in an ending typical of the T.V. series, foil her plan. In this book, Willson has constructed a story that follows the tradition of the Rugrats cartoons perfectly. Like the show, Willson's book appeals to young children because of the youth and innocence of its main characters. Children identify with the babies fear of zombies, yet they also gain a sense confidence at seeing characters that are less knowledgeable and more gullible than they are. Slightly older children may also tend to identify with Angelica and her endless quest to frighten the babies. The humor in this book is also direct from the T.V. show. Many of the laughs come courtesy of the exhausted parents and their crazy hijinks. There are also the standard baby-mispronounces-word jokes. Willson's humor in this story is directed at a broad age group. Older children will laugh at Angelica's scheme or at the parents goofy acts, but younger children will laugh at the babies fear and the silly pictures. In fact, much of the humor comes via the illustrations. Barry Goldberg snuck in quite a few site gags, including a women wearing a tie, a man buttering a newspaper, and a cup of tongue depressors in the doctor's office labeled, "AH STICKS". The pictures themselves are colorful and easy to look at. Unlike some other books, the illustrations cover the entire page, with the words set inconspicuously out of the way. The writing itself fits this age group perfectly. Sentences are short and to the point, and their are only a few words that may give a first or second grader trouble. The plot moves along in a logical and organized fashion, and the dialogue manages to fit all the characters without being too complex for younger readers. The story also gives a good lesson about to young children about the dangers of lying. Due to the excellent combination of well drawn illustrations and a humorous, well thought-out story, The Rugrats and the Zombies will appeal to both very young kids and accomplished readers. It also makes a very good bedtime story book for parents to read to kids. Between Willson's humor and Goldberg's drawings, kids will be reading this book over and over again.

-Tim Gage

The Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, 1899-1902, may have been known as the 'last gentleman's war' but it also produced some remarkable women. Author Brian Roberts looks at 3 of the lion-hearted females of the conflict and the title of his book is derived from Lord Kitchener's remark about one of them, as 'that bloody woman.' Lady Sarah Churchill, aunt of Winston, was a conventional jingoistic imperialist involved in one of the great sieges of the South African conflict at Mafeking ; Hansie van Warmelo was a staunchly pro-republican Boer (Afrikaner) who worked clandestinely for her people against the British army of occupation ; and of course the female colossus of the war, Emily Hobhouse, still the much-loved Englishwoman amongst Afrikaners for exposing the neglect, incompetence, and the appalling death rate in the British concentration camps. Kitchener loathed her but then he didn't have to face the consequences of his military policy that inflicted misery and death on 26,000 Boer women and children.

The two small Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (Transvaal), ultimately failed in their attempts to beat the British invasion but their heroes and heroines are many - including those mentioned in this fine publication.

The Jossey-Bass series has a good reputation, as does Kent Dove. But this book is a huge disappointment. It is billed as an indispensable aid for practitioners and a textbook for students, but it serves neither set of readers well. Practitioners looking for solid advice and good examples to illustrate principles in action find nothing of the sort. And pity the poor student who has to slog through this to pass a course. This is an uninspiring, tendentious, tedious exercise in making the elegantly simple art of fundraising appear to be some arcane mystery that only the likes of a long-time practitioner like Kent Dove can master.

Most people are intimidated enough about asking for money, they don't need to be scared/shamed out of the field by reading this kind of mumbo jumbo that makes them feel stupid or inadequate.

The book has a few good tables and nuggets of useful information, but not enough to justify a [money] price tag. I'm glad I borrowed this from the library to preview it before buying -- it saved me the effort of returning it.