Tropical Fish (Nature's Children)

By K.J. Houtman

Book Overview

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, natural habitats, and care of various types of tropical fish. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0717290778
• ISBN13: 9780717290772
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Grolier Educational Corporation
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Read

I read this book when it first came out and just re read it. The people then are just like people now. A gossipy fun book

Victoriana

The author avers that every marriage is a narrative construct. Phyllis Rose describes the courtship and decision to marry of Jane Welsh and Thomas Carlyle. The extraordinary and almost exclusive connection of John Ruskin with his parents is depicted. The thought-out plan of Frances and Charles Kingsley in the first four weeks of marriage is presented by way of contrast to the circumstances of John Ruskin and Effie Gray...

A Relevant Exploration of Marriage

Phyllis Rose' Parellel Lives is an exploration of marriage: what makes a marriage, how marriages operate, the power struggles within marriage, the impact of patriarchy on marriage, sexuality within marriage and many, many other issues. Ms Rose uses Victorian marriages to discuss these issues. This is a perceptive move. Our current culture, filled with self-help manuals and marriage classes, is in some ways less tolerate of...

A gem!

Wonderfully balanced and perceptive, this probing look at five unconventional Victorian marriages provides many insights into the sexual mores of that era. The section on the novelist George Eliot is especially haunting.