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The article reviews the book "The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: Flora: The Erbario Miniato and Other Drawings," by F. Garbari and L. Tongiorgi Tomasi.

The article reviews several books including "The Library and Archive Collections at the University of Aberdeen: An Introduction and Description," edited by Iain Beavan, Peter Davidson, and Jane Stevenson, "Virtual Visits to Lost Libraries: Reconstruction and Access to Dispersed Collections. Papers Presented on 5 November 2010 at the CERL Seminar Hosted by the Royal Library of Denmark, Copenhagen," edited by Ivan Boserup and David J. Shaw, volume 11 in the "CERL Papers" book series, and "The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Vol. 2: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800," edited by Stephen W. Brown and Warren McDougall.

A review of the book "Through the Mill: Personal Recollections by Veteran Men and Women Penicuik Paper Mill Workers," edited by Ian MacDougall is presented.

The article reviews the book "A History of Scottish Philosophy," by Alexander Broadie.

A review of the book "St. Ninian & the Earliest Christianity in Scotland: Papers From the Conference Held by the Friends of the Whithorn Trust in Whithorn on September 15th 2007," edited by Jane Murray is presented.

The article presents a review of the book "Scandinavian Scotland -- Twenty Years After: The Proceedings of a Day Conference Held on 19 February 2007," edited by Alex Woolf.

A review of the book "The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life Work at 72," by Molly Peacock, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Scandinavian Scotland – Twenty Years After: The Proceedings of a Day Conference held on 19 February 2007," edited by Alex Woolf, St John’s House Papers number 12.

A review of the book "The Shaping of Scottish Identities: Family, Nation, and the Worlds Beyond," edited by Jodi A. Campbell, Elizabeth Ewan and Heather Parker, is presented.

The article reviews the book "The wisdom of birds: an illustrated history of ornithology," by Tim Birkhead.

The article reviews the book "The Fourth Crusade; Event, Aftermath, and Perceptions," edited by Thomas F. Madden.

The last few years have seen an explosion of scholarly interest in, and publication on, the Irish Sea World in the central middle ages. The godfather of this trend is undoubtedly Seán Duffy of Trinity College Dublin who opened up the field in a number of important articles in the early 1990s,1 but in the new century we have suddenly been exposed to a series of monographs and essay collections which puts publication in some adjacent areas, including perhaps mainstream Scottish history, to shame. Benjamin Hudson has produced both a monograph, Viking Pirates and Christian Princes: Dynasty, Religion and Empire in the North Atlantic (Oxford, 2005), and a collection of his own essays, Irish Sea Studies, 900–1200 (Dublin, 2006); Clare Downham has published the book based upon her doctoral thesis, Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland: the Dynasty of Ívarr to A.D. 1014 (Edinburgh, 2007); and Duffy has returned to the fray with an edited conference proceedings, The World of the Galloglass: Kings, warlords and warriors in Ireland and Scotland, 1200–1600 (Dublin, 2007), which contains a number of papers dealing with the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the Irish Sea World. Finally we have the book under review here written by an Assistant Professor at Brock University (not far from Niagara Falls) in Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]