Reviews for Babies manual and intelligence

The average rating for Babies manual and intelligence based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-04 00:00:00 Sheila Sexton At first I didn't care for this parenting guide - it's kind of tedious to read. But when taken in small chunks, it's pretty insightful. Be prepared for LOTS of repetition and some very conservative views (like advocating that one parent stay home with their child - yay!). But it's well researched and I especially like the info about what kind of toys actually work for different aged kids.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-05-03 00:00:00 Adam Baughman Sensation Novels have largely been forgotten; Winifred Hughes’ 1980 book Maniac in the Cellar is one of the few studies of the genre. And Hughes’ is a very intelligent study, analyzing its writers, its audience, and the ingredients of plot, character, and atmosphere that made the Victorian Sensation Novel such a publishing phenomenon in its day. Hughes discusses Victorian expectations of fiction; explores the works of Charles Reade, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs. Henry Wood, and Wilkie Collins; shows how novels that came before the Victorian era contributed to the rise of the sensational; and discusses the novels that came after the Sensation Novel. Yes, Maniac in the Cellar is an older text, written in 1980 by a professor and therefore is a little dry and scholarly at times, but Hughes’ book is still the best resource to learn more about the Sensation Novel in its Victorian era context. It’s an excellent explanation of why, for the Victorians, “a book without a murder, a divorce, a seduction, or a bigamy, is not apparently considered worth either writing or reading; and a mystery and a secret are the chief qualifications of the modern novel.”