Walsh Books

I am an adult who is an avid reader of young adult books. Grace was by far the best book I have read in a long time. It is well written. It captivates one's attention every step of the way. The language is seemingly realistic for the era and yet totally understandable. It is a great historical novel because it transports you back in time. You are never reminded that the author had to change this or that to make it comprehensible to the reader. I look forward to reading more books by this author.

I read this book for a school project, and once I'd read the 1st chapter I couldn't put it down! The story is set in 1838, in England. Grace Darling is a 22 year old woman living with her parents in Longstone Lighthouse. One day Grace spots a wreck of the "Forfarshire," despite the troublesome storm Grace abd her father set out to save the recks survivors. Little did they know that the road after this one act of heroism wouldn't be smooth. It would be bumpy filled with fame, fortune, but many acts of jealousy and misunderstandings! This book is a excellent example showing money is not everything! A great read!!

Grace, by Jill Paton Walsh, was another one of those illustrious titles on my seventh-grade summer reading list. I bought it, and picked it up just 2 days ago to read for a discussion. Though I had heard things about it being "slow", "boring", and "confusing", I found none of these to be true. I whipped through the book in 2 days flat and was amazed at this heart-warming tale of heroism. Grace Darling, a 22-year-old daughter of a lighthouse keeper, was on the morning watch one stormy day when she sighted the wreck of the Forfarshire. She and her father rescued the survivors of the wreck, and Grace became a national hero. In this telling of the tale, the author weaves fact with fiction to tell a truly believeable tale of a young lady who, against all odds, saved 9 lives. The novel also tells the tale of Grace's life after the rescue- suddenly flung into the public eye of Great Britain. This book is a great read for young adults, and I reccommend it to all!

"Grace" is the captivating tale of a young woman who risks her life to save the lives of passengers of the Forfarshire who are stranded on a rock not far from her family's lighthouse. "Grace" is based on the true story of Grace Darling, and Ms Walsh does a tremendous job with filling in details and adding feeling to her story. Although Ms Walsh's additions are fictional, they are also extremely realistic, and I am sure much the same as Grace's were. Ms Walsh also captures her audience and keeps them in the palm of her hand throughout the story.

I bought this book for my daughters, and they really enjoyed as did I. If you want a good Christmas story with references to God instead of Santa, this is the book for you.

We love GiGi and this book certainly doesn't disappoint. My 4yr old daughter loves the stories and videos that always bring the message home for her.

Princess Gigi is a little girl who is waiting impatiently for the arrival of Christmas Day and all the gifts for her that will be under the tree on Christmas morning. Being a princess, Gigi is positive that this is the Christmas that she will be receiving her royal crown. But when Christmas morning finally arrives, there is no crown-sized box or package. That's because there is no crown! Instead, Gigi will be getting a gift more wonderful than any crown she could ever imagine! Children's author and Christian communicator Sheila Walsh has crafted a simply wonderful and inspiring picturebook story for young readers that is delightfully enhanced by the colorful illustrations of Meredith Johnson. "Gigi, God's Little Princess: The perfect Christmas Gift" is the perfect addition to family, elementary school, and community library Christmas season storey books for young children.

The Perfect Christmas Gift is Book #3 in the Gigi, God's Little Princess Series. This is less a Christmas book and more a Gigi book that takes place at Christmas. Fans of Gigi will love it.

Gigi cannot wait for Christmas to come! She knows she is getting a big gift and the anticipation is killing her. This must be the year she finally receives her royal tiara with jewels befitting the princess she knows she is.

On Christmas Eve, Gigi's daddy reads to her about the birth of Jesus. She decides a stable and manger are not nearly good enough for a baby king. "But at least He got gifts...that must have made Him feel royal." Her father replies: "He was the gift. God's perfect present to all of us."

On Christmas morning Gigi tears through the mountain of gifts, hunting for the tiara she knows is there. She can't find it. Finally, with a tear on her cheek, she opens the biggest present, knowing there will be no princess crown this year. Inside is something she loves even more than a jeweled crown. That night she decides the shepherds were probably just as surprised as she was. "Who would have ever thought that the very best gift in the world would come in such an unexpected package?"

The last page of the book quotes Luke 2:10-12 and Matthew 2:10-11.

What I Like: Gigi is endearing. She's precocious and sweet with a tender heart. Using such an adorable character, this book makes a wonderful point: that sometimes the best gifts are not at all what we expect; sometimes we don't even know what we really want the most -- a message which the target audience (girls who think they're princesses) need to learn. I love the illustrations! The book would not be the same without them. Also, the price is nice. Usually hardcover picture books of this size and quality are much more expensive.

What I Dislike: This book is long and, like the main character, seems to lose focus in a couple spots. My daughter loved The Pink Ballerina (Gigi, God's Little Princess), but this book didn't hold her attention. She is below the suggested age range, so the length may be perfect for older kids. Another minor detraction, the mountain of gifts she receives on Christmas is daunting. I understand Gigi is an only child, but I felt this reinforced the materialism with which princess-crazed girls already struggle.

Overall Rating: Very Good.

Tanya -- Christian Children's Book Review

unless Mr. Walsh prefers 'musicologist' to 'biographer'. When I finished volume II, I immediately went and bought volume I. I rated the book 5 stars but wish I could give it 6. As a retired music librarian, I am cautious in following the hype about any new book on music/musicians/musicology that is making the rounds and more often than not, while the reviews may be accurate, regrettably, there are times they're not accurate enough. I think Mr. Walsh's two volumes are stunning. I think they are so good that once started, one wants to do nothing but sit and read them.
The period and the musical life out of which Stravinsky emerged is not unknown to me and I think the deepest connection I developed with Stravinsky's music was when I played in a performance of Symphony of Psalms. Whether or not I walked away humming portions of it (which is unlikely since I cannot sing), the music has left, to use a trite phrase, an indelible mark on both my musical and cultural psyche, but so has the personality of Stravinsky himself. And Mr. Walsh does an incredibly job of making him breathe. It isn't just Stravinsky who breathes in the course of reading this book (I haven't finished Volume I) but the words and the events and the people take on a life that is far more than facts as accurate as they might be.
I cannot recommend these two volumes highly enough and I only wish it was possible for Mr. Walsh to write a third.

Following up the wonderful first volume of his biography of Stravinsky, Cardiff University musicologist Stephen Walsh gives us a second and final volume that begins in 1934 and ends with Stravinsky's death in 1971. This takes us through the unsettled 1930s, his emigration to America and then the final years with his conversion to ultra-modern techniques. It would appear that Walsh has read and digested everything written about the composer during the times in question, and he has interviewed many people who knew and worked with him. At times the narrative is weighted down by 'and then he conducted X in Y' but his always graceful, indeed beautiful, prose makes even those laundry list sections interesting reading. There is some attention paid to the ins and outs of the works themselves but this does not pretend to be an analysis of Stravinsky's oeuvre; Walsh has already written such a book, the exceedingly valuable 'The Music of Stravinsky.'

There is, of course, a good deal of mention of that most important of late Stravinsky associates, Robert Craft, who has himself written extensively about the composer. There are some disagreements with Craft's published statements, but less than one might imagine and it is done with evenhandedness and tact. Nonetheless, he indicates that Craft's personal involvement with Stravinsky led to some imprecision in his observations and assessments.

For those who have read the earlier volume this is a must-have. For those who are tempted to get this volume without having read the earlier one, I'd suggest some caution. In the present volume there are many references to incidents and people whose importance is unexplained and which can only be gleaned from having first read the earlier volume, 'A Creative Spring.' But taken together these two volumes are indispensable for anyone wanting to understand Stravinsky the man.

Scott Morrison

Regardless of your opinion of his music, there is no doubt that Igor Stravinsky was one of the most significant composers of the twentieth century. I love his music and find his many changes in style fascinating. And while his big well-known masterworks (even the debate over which those are) are more widely appreciated, I also find his smaller works interesting and engaging. No matter what he did, Stravinsky created works that were among the most lively and engaging in whatever style he was using. He was fiercely independent and uncompromisingly himself. Given the course of the life he led and the multiple exiles alluded to in the subtitle, the strength he had to maintain that originality is possibly the most amazing thing about the man.

This very large and very detailed biography of Stravinsky's life from 1934 until his death in 1971 is fascinating on several levels. For me, the most interesting part and the primary reason I wanted to read the book is to read in more detail the circumstances of the birth of the compositions from this half of the composer's life. Who commissioned what, how the final composition was or was not what was originally discussed, what the considerations were for the resources used, and then Stravinsky's use of serial techniques (and how that developed and how the variety of approaches he took to serialism remained Stravinsky).

There is also the story of his life in Europe and then the move to the United States. The strange relationship between Stravinsky's first wife (whom he loved all his life even after she died) and his second wife, Vera, while his first wife was still alive and Vera was his mistress. Of course, this affected his relationship with his children, as did his life in Hollywood while they lived in Europe. Soulima later came to California and lived with Stravinsky for a time, but got a post on the piano faculty of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Stravinsky's family details are not simple and it is interesting how the author, Stephen Walsh, teases them out.

Stravinsky never held an academic post beyond some short term lecturing and teaching of composition. He never even received an academic degree. He was a man who had to depend on himself and his music to make his way in the world. The reputation he had developed as modernist was both a source of pride and riches as well as a reason for others to attack him (from both the old and new guard). That he was strong enough to take the blows and keep composing and creating wonderful new works is a testimony of his own internal strength and of those who cared about him and supported him emotionally and in the practical day-to-day matters that allowed him time and space to compose.

Of course, whenever one considers this portion of Stravinsky's life, especially his close associates, the name of Robert Craft is right at the front if a bit off center. Walsh presents a complex picture of Craft (which means it is likely close to realistic) that acknowledges the important role Craft performed in getting Stravinsky through his compositional crisis after "The Rake's Progress". Stravinsky thought he was finished. He was nearly seventy years old and most composers (with a few notable exceptions) are no longer composing by that age. But many writers and composers have a period of being blocked at one time or another and find a way out. Would Stravinsky have found a way out on his own? Maybe. However, Craft was there and it was his support and guidance in the serial methods that gave Stravinsky new impetus and we have several wonderful masterpieces and many other interesting works from 1952 that would certainly not have come about without Craft and the role he played. However, Walsh also takes a clear and dispassionate look at Craft's statements and finds some of them truthful, others somewhat at odds with the facts, and others to be outright misrepresentations. The author is also as clear as it is possible to be about which letters, reviews, and books Craft wrote in Stravinsky's name. At some point it is not knowable whether Craft was saying what Stravinsky wrote in different words or which pieces are Craft using the Stravinsky name to advance his own agenda.

The last few years of the composer's life, after the "Requiem Canticles", are a period of decline and rising family tensions. How all that explodes in sad recrimination and jealousies after Stravinsky's death is quite sad. Nobody comes off all that well, but Vera and Craft least of all. I am sure they would tell this story differently (and Craft has), but it seems to me that the children (then older adults) were not treated as well as they should have been.

In any case, I am grateful to Craft for the support he gave Stravinsky and music that support allowed him Stravinsky to write and the support he gave Stravinsky in promoting his work and in conducting and recording his works, especially when Stravinsky was too frail to do the work himself. Craft as a person is simply human after all with feet of clay (maybe clay up past the knees for all I know), but he still fulfilled an important purpose in Stravinsky's artistic life. Others may well have their own jealousies and resentments against him that exaggerate his flaws and assign motives that do not exist. Still, this book does a fine job in sorting out certain aspects of various situations that have been muddled and misrepresented until now.

The author does say some strange things about disease, but he is using the language the Stravinsky's used. For example, that a cold worsened into the flu or that tuberculosis was inherited. There is more of this kind of thing. He also focuses a great deal on the high commission and conducting fees Stravinsky charged. This is a fair point, but isn't really given its full context. Stravinsky was in huge demand; he was a unique commodity so he simply asked for enough money to make it worth his while. This may have upset some who would have preferred to get his work more affordably, but so what? Just compare what he received to popular artists such as Elvis and Frank Sinatra and all of a sudden he doesn't look so well paid.
For me, the most odd thing the author said is on page 464 where the author refers to "The Rite of Spring" as a late romantic masterpiece. I was so startled that I had to stop reading. I remember when I first heard this work in 1971 or 1972 in a high school music theory class (music rudiments and grammar, really). It astounded me because I had never heard anything like it. As I played recordings for my friends, some thought I was running the music backwards. Nowadays, it does not shock nearly as much as it did even a few decades ago, but it certainly still has freshness and power. Stravinsky is a modern composer, not a Romantic composer of any stripe. You might get away with calling Firebird romantic, but even there it has little in common with Mahler or Richard Strauss or even Rachmaninoff does it? Such a label seems to me to be too much bowing to the serialists and other academic moderns. Is this really the term being used for this founding work of modern music outside the Boulez - Stockhausen - Babbit believers?

I enjoyed this book a great deal and it will have a valued place in my library.

Mr. Walsh's new book on Stravinsky has some interesting anecdotes and insights into the years in America for the composer but seems to lack real relevance historically.

What seems to be missing from this new book is any primary sources for his many anecdotes. The Stravinsky estate after his death is a matter of public record in the courts, yet Mr. Walsh has not done the research to get the real facts. Why?

There are excellent books by sources much closer to Stravinsky--to say the least Robert Craft's. Craft a twenty year associate of Stravinsky documented just about every waking moment of Stravinsky's life. Referring back to some of Craft's books on Stravinsky I find that Walsh has lifted numerous writings from Craft rather than bringing anything of real interest to life for the reader.

I have to say, this book is not the best work on Stravinsky and I hope other readers will go to better sources for a cohesive and cogent telling of Stravinsky's life and career.

The first time I heard about the "Indenture servants" and white slaves was in London. Some American, Jamaican and Irish friends told me about their story.

The story of whites slaves (from Britain and France) has been told earlier by scholars like Eric Williams ( "Capitalism and Slavey" and "From Colombus to Castro" and J A Rogers ( Sex and Race Vol II and III, and "Africa gift to America").

It was the first time I knew about their story in history books. Don Jordan and Michael Jordan did a great job, this book is focused on Britain white slaves and the research is deep and sound.

They bring new facts we didn't know like for example:

- Portugueses were the first to get rid o the vagrants childs in their East indies colonies.

- Britain expelled some convicts in Africa (South Africa).

- The first black slaves in the USA (1619), were in facts wars prisoners. The british bucaneers kidnapped them into some Portuguese Slave boats. At this moment Portuguese were waging a colonial war against the Congo kingdom in Africa. The AFrican prisoners were sold in the new world.

This subject concerning of whites slaves is generally hidden in European history. The French scholar Gabriel Debien said in 1951 that the white slaves traffic was the foundation of Black slavery. The capital driven from their traffic allowed the Franch trade slavers to destroy Africa.He was talking of course of the French "engagés" ( French equivalent of Indentured servants)

Eric Williams said it in "Capitalism an Slavery", the kidnappers of vagrants, childs and Prostitutes in Bristol and London earned their first pounds into the Indentured servant and convicts traffic.

I recommend this book to everyone who is interested in the history of slavery into the new world.

Jordan and Walsh "don't beat around the bush", white slavery is the foundation of black slavery in the new world. The last one was justified upon racial prejudice. And these white slaves were sold by the European monarchs and merchants...Williams an Rogers said it in the 1940's


They also describe the process which made the first black servants ( The first blacks in the USA were treated like indentured servants see: J A Rogers and Michael A Gomez) into perpetual slaves...

La vérité finit toujours par vaincre : Truth will always win

The plight of millions of American slaves has been overlooked by historians for far too long. Slavery in the Americas was not limited to black Africans nor were the depredations inflicted on non-African slaves.

This well-documented, scholarly expose of white slavery is a must-read for historians and civil-rights advocates, many of whom will be surprised by how widespread this practice was. The practice of indenture was well-known, but the fact that bondage often lasted until the end of life is not. I found this work to be simultaneously heartbreaking, infuriating, and riveting in content.

My husband's sixth-great-grandmother and her son were sold on the block in Charleston, but whenever we tell this story, other people actually try to "correct" us with, "No, she was an indentured servant, not a slave." (Not true). This long-overdue work is a memorial to the nameless individuals who died in bondage as well as an expose of a practice too long forgotten and ignored by American history textbooks. Five stars.

It's good to see another addition to the few books on the transportation of convicts to North America. But like its predecessors, this book pretty much ignores the law. It describes all white forced servants as being slaves. In doing so, it somehow assumes that the law was a sham.
In law, there was a great gulf between indentured labourers and convicts. The latter were transported as a condition of their pardons from death sentences. As a consequence, they remained attainted until their sentences were served. Attainted persons were unable to hold property, sue in the courts or give evidence. That became a matter of great significance in New South Wales, which succeeded North America as the convict dumping ground.
In analysing indentured and convict workers as slaves, the authors blur the legal difference between them. Wittingly or otherwise, they adopt the essentially Marxist analysis of law which ended among legal historians with the publication of EP Thompson's Whigs and Hunters (1978). Until then, Marxists assumed that the law was merely a ruling class plot and that its pretensions to the rule of law were merely a mask for class preference. Famously, Thompson claimed at the end of his book that the rule of law was, without qualification, a Good Thing. At the least, it was to be taken seriously.
So for an old legal historian like me, this new book is a curious historical relic, a throwback to the age of the 60s and 70s.
Isn't it time for a North American legal historian to take the law of convicts seriously? 50000 convicts were transported to North America. In practice they may well have been treated as slaves. How did that practice meld with the law? What did the courts say when the sales of convict labour were tested, or when convicts tried to give evidence?
3 out of 5 because it tells an important story in a compelling fashion. But, my, the analysis is weak.

This book's authors take a new look at a very old subject. As you probably know by now, WHITE CARGO equates the experience of indentured servants with slaves in colonial America. While this may initially strike some people (me included) as a mere polemic, this book makes its case convincingly.

The book starts with discovery of the body of a teenaged European boy in Maryland in 2003. The remains date back to the 1600s, and he is found in a mound of trash. But who was this kid? And why was his body disposed of so unceremoniously?

Walsh and Jordan tell the story of this anonymous indentured servant, and the hundreds of thousands of others like him, from both sides of the Big Pond. The first group of them arrived in 1619, and most of them were kids swept up from the streets of London. "Society's sweepings" were shipped west and made into indentured servants.

As their stories unfold, the authors accumulate the evidence and arguments that show that both indentured servants and slaves were stripped away of virtually all civil rights and reduced to mere property. Further, the privations visited upon indentured servants (abuse, shortened lifespans, overwork) are so hair-raising, it's surprising this argument hasn't been made so convincingly long before 2008.

This book is vital, it's engaging, and it's news to me. (See also Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.)

This book is without a doubt the perfect addition to the game that has entranced and enitced me for so long. Are ya stuck? Well this book get you out of it. And man was I stuck in a few places. Brady Games took a great game and made it a little more user friendly. Thanks Brady Games.

I have to say the Prima Guide for Ace Combat 4 was far superior! Brady Games does a fairly good job overall, however, the Prima Guide was much more specific in regards to what you have to do to achieve the "S" rankings and unlocking everything on each level. My advice is pretty simple...Save your money, look the stuff up online and print it out. You'll be better off hearing what people have done, and the methods they use to get the highest rankings and how they unlocked everything.

This strategy guide is so much more imformative than ace 4's was.This strategy guide list all 50 planes and special weapons.It even tells you which wing formation to pick for your wingmen and also how much each plane is once it is shot down.It also gives you pictures of the 4 characters you will be flying with and of course it has pictures of every level.In the secrets section it even tells you were the enemy painted planes are on each level after you finish so you can shoot it down and put it in your hanger.It also list all other bonuses too.This is a must have if you are playing ace combat 5.

A wonderful collection tales of the ladies of the Emerald Island from folklore and history. This is a great book to pick up and read a little bit at the time since each woman is written in a short story form.
Those who want to enrich their learning of the women, whether real or imagined,who contributed to the building of the Irish culture will find this a fascinating read.

I loved the book. Most all the women in the book show the Irish spunk. I also learned a bit of the history of Ireland. The history is a bit bloody but Im greatful that the author did not go into great detail with it. It also gave me a little understanding about their war. I would recommend this book to anyone, even the young. I am of Irish decent myself and love learning about where my ancestors came from.

Contained within the pages of this book are the stories of thirteen legends of Irish history, all of them women. Each story comes to life, making the characters seem like real people, which of course they were.
Folsom's book takes us from early Irish history through events in the twentieth century, providing us with a look at many of the major events that took place on the island during those years- wars, revolutions, invasions, betrayals.
Not all the women are admirable in the deeds they performed, often being the cause of wars and great suffering. The sheer magnitude of lives lost during all these battles is astounding, whether they were full fledged wars or warfare between rival kings and chieftains. In those days women apparently were resigned to having their husbands and sons slaughtered.
What comes out of this book is the resiliency some of these women possessed, along with bravery in the face of insurmountable odds. Others were willing to defy societal norms to accomplish what they felt strongly about.
I absolutely loved this book. One of the best things about it is that you can read it a chapter at a time, and not feel like you have to read it straight through and lose track of what was going on. I would recommend having tissues nearby, for some of the stories are very sad.
It certainly cleared up misconceptions I had about Irish history, just hearing bits and pieces over the years. It isn't just a history lesson, however. It is a study of character, both good and evil.
I, for one, would certainly like to see a sequel.

This product provides all the things you need for. It contains pages of accurate maps, jinjo locations, jiggy locations, Jamjar locations and Cheato page locations. This guide will give you tips on how to beat a certain part of the game and it gives you a neat and organized path of where to go if you can complete a level in many ways. In other words, it gives you a clear path without going all over the place and you will get all the things you need to beat this game. This guide also provides a friendly reminder called "Bear in Mind" to go back to certain areas of levels you coudln't reach before. Great Guide! Great Help!

A brand spanking new game from Rareware, Banjo-Tooie is hot on its heels and has many new features. One of the most important features that makes this special is the multiplayer mode, and the new characters like Mumbo Jumbo, the infamous washing machine, a submarine, and other things. There also many more new moves that bring up a whole new level of strategy than the original Banjo-Kazooie. That plus the countless jiggys is what you'll be referring to the guide the most. Their are eight gigantic worlds that take place in diverse environments like a coal mine, a lagoon, an amusement park and more. The strategy guide took away much of the satisfaction in finally collecting all those tough jiggys. I'd suggest people play through the game and enjoy it as much as possible since it is a great game and refer to the guide only as a last resort, or just for pleasure.

I dont believe in cheating but if you have been stuck on one part for ages and you cant progress any further then a guide is what you need. This guide will tell you where all of the jiggies are so it will make playing the game easier. The guide is very good so i recommend that you only use it when you have to or otherwise you will complete the game far to easily and there will be no satisfaction in knowing that you conquered the game.

I am really enjoying this book. The arrangements are great for mandolin and Irish bouzouki. The CD that is supplied with it makes the whold thing complete. The only 'slight' problem that I have with it is that some of the arrangements may be a bit too 'classical' for the strong traditionalist.

This is a very nice book and CD. It is not session music per se, and might not be welcomed at sessions. The CD is interesting, and you can tell the artist's Russian heritage from the playing. I found myself listening to the CD for pleasure, along with my family.

The tunes are lovely, well-arranged and make for great playing. It is a beautiful book CD combo, and highly recommended for the player of slow airs in the Celtic and early music.

I normally play a guitar for personal enjoyment (that means I am the only one who will listen to me play). I bought a mandolin in September and I wanted something other than Blue Grass so my wife bought me this book for Christmas.
You have to have some idea on how to play mandolin before jumping into this book. Fortunately I already had a beginners book that taught about what pick to use, how to hold the instrument and pick, etc. This book is strictly music and tab. It is flat-pickin all the way.
None of the songs were familiar, I had not heard any of them before. But the book comes with a CD so you can hear them all played. The songs cover a range of moods and tempos. The level of difficulty varies also. The final challenge is conveying emotion through the music.
None of these songs are going to make the pop charts, but they are fun to play and I find myself humming them during the day.

'Criminology - A Global Perspective' delivers exactly what its title promises. Although it is written and published in the United States, the authors recognise that crime is not confined to the USA and they provide a wealth of data drawn from Europe and, where it is available, from elsewhere in the world. Most unusually, for an entry-level text, the book and its data are fully referenced. This is cleverly achieved though the use of a website ([...]) which is said to be updated as any errors are discovered. The tables are well presented and the text is leavened, but not overburdened, with relevant illustrations. The book is compact in size, well laid out and comprehensively indexed. Although it was published in 2000, it does not appear dated. However, five years is a long time in the life of a textbook, so maybe a new edition is due. Provided the mixture remains the same, that book should be good for at least the next five years.

The book was okay nothing special, it was very informative but the information could have been delivered in a better format. If you are looking for information on the theory of criminal behavior and don't mind a boring read this book is for you!

Lee Ellis and Anthony Walsh have accomplished what no one else in the field of criminology have done -- they have written an informative and comprehensive text that has global appeal. Most texts in this field are discipline-specific and do not include a thorough review of various other perspectives. In fact, many books that attempt to cover materials that are not in the authors disciplines often include inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading information. This book is not biased in its approach and integrates various behavioral sciences in an attempt to present a broad range of theories, findings, methods and interpretations. As a result, the reader can come to his or her own conclusions which are well informed and critical. In addition, the authors provide a wealth of resources in the form of tables, figures and references from a vast literature for the student or scholar to further investigate various substantive areas that are covered. In sum, the depth with which criminological topics are addressed is impressive, and should prove to be an invaluable resource for all interested in this field.

My 5-yr-old daughter really enjoys watching Diego on TV, so this book was a big hit with her. I love how she learns so much about animals.

The Dora and Diego items are great because they encourage a sense of helping and caring about the world. My niece loves this books. I gave it to her with the Go Diego Go! Rescue Pack and they went together well. These books are very portable so she can look through them while on car trips and take them with her to friend's houses.

I really like this book. I liked it the best because it has Diego and his cousin Dora. I really liked the baby maned wolf pups. When cousin Dora visits the Animal Rescue Center, Diego shows her baby maned wolf pups. Mommy Maned Wolf gets worried when her littlest wolf pup goes missing. I don't think getting stucj in the prickly forest is good. I've never seen a forest of prickers and throns. When Diego and Dora find the baby maned wolf, they return it to the Animal Rescue Center. I thought it was funny when Baby Maned Wolf licked Diego on the cheek.