Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century

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Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject.The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.

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Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century .......2007-04-05

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Good read and study of planning history!.......1999-08-18

My university is using this book as a text as part of our study of Planning History. It is a very good read and is unlike a textbook. Outlines planning history from 1880 to 1980.

The Pen and Ink Book: Materials and Techniques for Today's Artist (Watson-Guptill Materials and Techniques)
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Excellent reference and procedures

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The Pen and Ink Book: Materials and Techniques for Today's Artist (Watson-Guptill Materials and Techniques)
Jos Smith
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0823039862

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Great Book.......2007-07-23

I started drawing in Pen & ink back in high school-- IMHO it is one of the most versitile mediums out there. I found this book to be a great resource and one that I use often as a source of reference and inspiration before I begin a drawing. While some of the images may be a little dark--I think if you look at the technique used in creating them you can gain a whole new understanding of the medium. The section on the different types of materials is useful. If you have dabbled in pen & ink and have become addicted to it--then I highly recommend this book. If you are someone that has never tried inking and you want to learn this book might not be for you.

Excellent reference and procedures.......2007-02-21

This book presents procedures you can try at home to better your technique no matter what level you're at. The author generously shares his accumulation of knowledge. Very modern and contemporary. The illustrations are inspiring, you'll want to drop everything and start your own drawings!

Borrow this book from the library.......2005-09-18

I bought this book because it was part of the class list of a course I signed up for. The class was cancelled for lack of registration, and I am now stuck with it.
The most interesting part is a listing of materials used in pen and ink drawing. As for the actual instructions, they are fairly confusing and far from sufficient.They assume you already know what you are doing. This is not a book for beginners, as pen and ink drawing is definitely not for beginners in drawing. This medium requires a great deal of control. There is not much room for corrections or second thoughts. In this regard, it's similar to sumi-e (oriental brush and ink painting).
There are no step-by-step pictures. I would have liked to see how ink washes are done, for example. There are practically no drawings of landscapes. Most of the illustrations are the author's work, and I must admit I found many of them very disturbing and dark. This is not an enjoyable book to leaf through. It might give you nightmares!
I purchased this book used, at the lowest price I could find. I would not recommend buying it at all.

Good for int/adv, great materials explination, inpirational.......2001-06-12

The is a wonderful book for intermediate to advanced pen and ink artists looking for a thorough explanation of materials and a great discussion of the methodology of creating fantastic pen and ink artwork. It is packed with a wide variety of examples that are sure to inspire you.

The book starts out with a large (almost 50 pages) and excellent overview of materials and tools. I love it that the author takes the time to discuss numerous brands of pens, inks and papers instead of just generalizing them.

The following section focuses on ink drawing techniques. There is a good discussion of gray tones, parallel lines, value changes, hatching, cross-hatching and patterns. Then there are a few demonstrations of brush techniques such as laying a wash and using white on toned paper. Mixed media demos mixing wax crayons and acrylic with ink are also here as well as scratchboard and practice exercises.

The basic elements of drawing follow, including things like texture, shape, volume, color, rhythm and scale. Next, drawing strategies are covered. There are no projects or any step-by-step techniques per se. Rather, the author shows you examples of his artwork with advice on his approach, concepts and techniques. I recommend this book for those with some pen & ink drawing experience seeking ideas, tips and inspiration. There is a good list of suppliers in the back.

Smith's surreal images and mastery of a variety of styles make this a book to enjoy for the artwork it contains as well as the instruction it provides.

pen and ink for the elite.......2000-09-01

Most art technique books are either entirely for the sunday painter or they are so elitist, you need to be a phd to understand them. This book works on different levels so everyone can enjoy it. The sections cover materials and drawing techniques. My one qualm is some rather lame examples of art. A little too conzervative for my tastes. This is ART, not woolworths!

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The Essential Black and White Manual for Digital and Film Photographers is a comprehensive guide to black and white photography, both film and digital. It covers the range of cameras and lenses, accessories and other equipment, lighting, subjects, special effects, and historical context.

There's a showcase of images by professionals, including many from up-and-coming stars of black and white photography. This is accompanied by anecdotal information on how the images were achieved which also looks at the merits of using film or digital. Step by step guides show how to achieve the best results from the key techniques for your black and white images, plus how to achieve successful presentation and how to use your images.

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Green Goblin Year One.......2006-11-12

Norman Osborn is back and he wants an heir to his name. Since his son Harry died trying to take over the mantle if the Green Goblin, Norman believes the heir apparent should be Peter Parker, also known as Spider-man! We also learn about the history of his love for his wife Emily, his abusive relationship with his father, and the new love of his life, Kolina. This essentially is an origin story of the Green Goblin. Too bad he forgets he had twin children with Gwen Stacy in Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 8: Sins Past story line. Anyway, back to the tpb, will Norman succeed in manipulating and convincing Spider-man to become the next Green Goblin by taking the Goblin serum? Buy the book and find out!

Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be...the Green Goblin!.......2003-04-09

As the book title suggest's, it's the Green Goblin's revenge. Except now, Norman Osborn is using someone else as Gobby. I won't spoil it for you, though. I can say, though, that the story is very emotional, and you can see that everone has a dark, evil side. Even Peter Parker, Spider-Man. You can even feel for poor Norman, as the story reveals. Spidey is tangled in his own web, and you do not want to miss his struggle...

All in all, this ranks among some of the best GG stories (Perhaps even better than the GG/Hobgoblin team-up/battle). A must for Goblin fans everywhere.

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Oh Boy! The Stories He Tells!.......2002-03-08

Interesting annectdotes presented in an interesting way. Stories of personal encounters at the intersection of boxing and the underworld, sports and celebrity, television and film. The stories are presented in 66 letters from Conrad to his friend, a UPI correspondent. Only a few of the letters read as if written with publication in mind. The rest are distilled reporting and commentary on notable people of the mid 20th century, from a perspective of a sports writer, film writer, promotions man and bringer of people together.

Mobsters, boxers such as Liston and Ali, celebrities such as Bogart and Huston, writers such as Mailer and Wolfe all appear in Conrad's letters to his pal Muffo.

This book is definitely worth a read.

Dear Muffo 35 Years in the Fast Lane
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Dear Muffo 35 Years in the Fast Lane
Harold with (Budd Schulberg, Introduction and Norman Mailer, Foreword) Conrad
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0VFYQ

Dear Muffo: 35 Years in the Fast Lane
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Dear Muffo: 35 Years in the Fast Lane
Norman). CONRAD, Harold (MAILER
Manufacturer: Stein and Day
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000ILPKS8

Dear Muffo : Thirty-Five Years in the Fast Lane
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Dear Muffo : Thirty-Five Years in the Fast Lane
Harold Conrad
Manufacturer: Madison Books, Incorporated
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KPPTR4

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When Jeffrey Greene, a prizewinning American poet, and Mary, his wife-to-be, a molecular biologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, discover a moss-covered stone presbytery in a lovely village in the Puisaye region of Burgundy, they know they have to live there. With an unabashed joie de vivre, they begin the arduous process of procuring their slice of paradise amid the wild beauty of the French countryside -- a place of gentle farmlands and dense forests, of rivers and lakes, of stunning fields bursting with the color and heady scent of wildflowers.

French Spirits is the magical tale of their odyssey to become not just homeowners but Burgundians. In lush, lyrical prose, Greene recalls their experiences turning the three-hundred-year-old stone building -- a "château in miniature," which the locals believe houses numerous spirits--into a habitable refuge. He brings to life their adventures in finding wonderful bargains with which to furnish their new space, including a firm mattress and some rather suspicious "antiques" bought from the back of a van.

Greene offers the unexpected joys and surprises of village life, from celebrating his and Mary's simple backyard wedding to discovering summer fêtes from toiling in a verdant garden to trading insights with new neighbors. He shares the experience of surviving his mother's decision to move in and humorously introduces the locals -- both human and nonhuman -- who define his and Mary's new world. Woven throughout this luscious tale are the pleasures of rural France: wondrous food and wine, long-held rituals and feasts, dark superstitions and deeply rooted history. A memorable feast for the senses, French Spirits will entertain and enlighten all who succumb to its charms.

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It's okay.......2006-02-28

This is the 5th book of it's type I've read in a row. You know the genre, Americans buy a home in ruins and fix it up. I'm a sucker for this kind of book. But the things I've learned from these books are: 1. You have to have bottomless pockets. 2. French government regulations are enough to drive me insane. 3. If I ever do buy a house in France, I will find one that someone else has already roofed, tiled, windowed, painted, landscaped etc etc etc! What a nightmare.
If you like this sort of book, this one is great because it's located in a different, less written about area of France. And it's every bit as good as Ann Barry's. I always thought Ann was a ninny sort of wimp that depended on the kindness of her neighbors way too much. At least Jeff Greene and his wife were more self reliant.

Then what?.......2005-05-13

I just finished French Spirits and then read other reviews. It never occurred to me that the author was being a braggard. The story is full of real characters and the author's acceptance and appreciation of their quirks is obvious. My only complaint is that this swift read ends abruptly. There are implications that his mother does not continue to live with them in France, but we never learn what happens to her. Surely there is a sequel, but perhaps more life has to be lived before he will be ready to write it. I will certainly be waiting.

I've been had!.......2003-05-31

Beware the spate of books on the topic of Americans/Brits living in France! Talk about publishers milking a trend! Unfortunately, not every author is a Peter Mayle or an Ann Barry. Greene's book, for example, is hopeless--- a shambles as far as organization goes, peopled by clueless, insensitive, and incompletely delineated characters (maybe that last is the good news, because the bad news is that this is a work of non-fiction.) It is about as illuminating of the French culture and countryside as a Greyhound bus tour of the Top Ten tourist sites of the Ile-de-France.
Don't be taken in by the book's title, as I was. Even we bibliophilic Francophiles have some standards!

A memoir in France.......2003-04-02

I just finished reading this book. I have never wriiten a review , but I do feel compelled to after reading some of the other reviews posted here. For me, this is a memoir, not a travel guide. I admire anyone who is willing to share his life experiences with me--I find it a most generous act. I feel like writing to the author to thank him for his book. He brought the area and the people to life for me. I am studying French; so the sentences in French (don't be alarmed, he supplies a translation just following) were fun for me to figure out. I liked learning about Henri IV's locks, and learning about the author's childhood. I love a good memoir--and particularly, one by someone who is not famous except in his own circle. I would encourage anyone who feels the same to buy, or borrow this book--and order "Eyewitness France" if you want a travel guide. This book is a lovely eyewitness to a man's life.

Wonderful.......2003-03-24

I loved this book. It is not egotistical at all; it writes of an area less explored than Provence or Tuscany; and the author has a knack of bringing his characters alive; the house itself is so well described one feels one has walked through it. There was not a chapter I found dull, and I devoured it in a sitting. Greene doesn't laugh at the locals, or sneer at the imagined "quaintness" of Europe. You can't do better than this for travel narrative.

French Spirits: A House, a Village, and a Love Affair in Burgundy

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French Spirits: A House, a Village, and a Love Affair in Burgundy
Jeffrey Greene
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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ASIN: B000OES0OA

French Spirits:A House, a Village & a Love Affair in Burgundy

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French Spirits:A House, a Village & a Love Affair in Burgundy
Jeffrey Greene
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Company
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEHWQM

Just Me: What Your Child Wants You to Know About Parenting
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An encouraging and "reader friendly" guide for parents struggling to understand and address their children's needs and desires

Jackie is a genius!

Grandmothers Need Advice, Too!

Great parenting tool!

Just Me: What Your Child Wants You to Know About Parenting
Just Jackie
Manufacturer: One Blue Button
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Your Child Would Like to Tell You a Thing or Two About Parenting! Youve studied the experts, listened to neighbors, and sought advice from friends. Now its time to hear from the ultimate source for parenting advice. Just Me: What Your Child Wants YOU To Know About Parenting, by just jackie, offers insightful and inspirational parenting advice from a childs perspective. I was tired of reading the same parenting advice over and over and frustrated that parents seem to be struggling more than ever with raising families, just jackie explains. So I allowed my inner child to find the right words to help adults really see and hear each child. Endearing illustrations from students at The Post Oak School bring the childs spirit alive throughout the pages. This little book is the perfect parental primer for a life of love, laughter and learning with your child.

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MORE STARS.......2006-05-05

SO SIMPLE AND DIRECT - WHY DON'T WE LISTEN TO OUR CHILDREN - WHAT A GREAT BOOK FOR ALL PARENTS YOUNG AND OLD - GO GIRL

An encouraging and "reader friendly" guide for parents struggling to understand and address their children's needs and desires.......2006-05-04

Just Me: What Your Child Wants YOU To Know About Parenting by wife, mentor, entrepreneur, marketing executive and multitasking mom Just Jackie is an encouraging, illustrated and "reader friendly" guide for parents struggling to understand and address their children's needs and desires. Introducing readers to forty-three succinctly informative chapters (no more than two pages each), Just Me follows three main subject areas: I Need Discipline And Structure; I Crave Love And Understanding; and I Wand Guidance And Support. Just Me is very highly recommended to anyone (but especially to new parents) wanting conceptual insights to their child's mind and desires. Just Me is also available is a CD audiobook format (0976284928, $16.95) featuring the five young voices of Lyndze Duke, Abraham Rutherford, Caitlin Yates, Benjamin Rose, and Lindsey Gregory.

Jackie is a genius!.......2005-09-28

I received this book as a gift. I am not a parent ,but found it incredibly insightful. I take with me what I learned to practice in my day to day life whether it be in business or personal. I also shared it with several of my friends who are new parents and they are now fans of Jackie. Whether you read it for parenting or just for fun you will not be disapointed with the straight to the point manner in which this book is written. Everyone can take something with them parents or not from this book. Congratulations Jackie on such a refreshing and poignantly written book. I look forward to reading more from this author.

Grandmothers Need Advice, Too!.......2005-09-13

After raising two kids of my own, I now provide daycare for my two granddaughters, ages 7 and 3. My eldest daughter sent Just Me to her sister as a gift. I decided to skim through it and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to read. In fact, I read it cover to cover that afternoon before my daughter arrived home from work to pick up the kids. I told her that Grandma learned a few new things that day and she would, too! What a great book!

Some of my favorite tips were about remembering how to giggle and be silly, why it's important to allow children to channel their natural talents, and how to gauge a child's mood by looking at images they've drawn. I now talk just above a whisper instead of using a loud tone when faced with disobedience; it difuses the situation and helps me teach the reason behind the discipline. This tip really works!

I highly recommend this book to other parents, grandparents, and caregivers - wish I'd had it when my girls were children!

Great parenting tool! .......2005-09-01

"Just Me" was recommended to me as a tool for effective, compassionate parenting that grows smart, loving and respectful kids. Wow. Easy to read and written from a unique perspective, this book should find it's way home to every new parent. I've already bought several for my other new mommy friends. Enjoy!

Sword of the Lord : Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First Century: Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First Century (Critical Problems in History)
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Sword of the Lord : Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First Century: Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First Century (Critical Problems in History)

Manufacturer: University of Notre Dame Press
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"The Sword of the Lord" is the first book to examine military chaplains and the development of the military chaplaincy across history and geography—from the first to the twenty-first century, from Europe to North America. The scope of this work reveals the astonishing fact that the military chaplaincy has existed in a recognizable form for more than 1,600 years. Contributors analyze specific historical moments in the development of the chaplaincy, beginning in antiquity and progressing through the Crusades, the English Civil War, the American Civil War, both World Wars, and the Vietnam War.

Four key themes connect the chapters of this book. The first is the basic issue of historical development over time. Where and when did the military chaplaincy begin and how has it changed? A second theme involves the emotionally and spiritually intense relationships that develop between chaplains and the men and women they serve. How have military chaplains dealt with the enormous responsibility of ministering to soldiers about to kill or possibly be killed? The third theme is that of chaplains' often precarious position between military and religious authorities. Are military chaplains primarily morale boosters, retained by rulers and military commanders because they prepare soldiers to fight hard and face death bravely? Or are they above all pastors, caring for the spiritual needs of their constituency? How do they balance conflicting duties and demands? A fourth related theme is the profound moral and theological dilemmas raised by the chaplaincy. Even under the least morally ambiguous circumstances, chaplains work in the midst of violence, coercion, and suffering. How have they understood their tasks and carried them out in deeply troubled and brutal times? What are the ethical implications of their work?

In addition to contributions by historians, this book includes vivid accounts by two former chaplains—an American rabbi who served in World War II and an American Catholic priest who served in Vietnam. This remarkable work treats with care and sensitivity a fascinating and important topic. Anyone interested in military history, religious studies, ethics, or pastoral care will profit from reading this book.

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Church and State, published by J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 591 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First Century.(Book Review)
Author: Scott R. Borderud
Publication: Journal of Church and State (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State
Volume: 47 Issue: 2 Page: 407(3)

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The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First Century.(Book Review): An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life

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The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First Century.(Book Review): An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
Brendan Conway
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This digital document is an article from First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, published by Institute on Religion and Public Life on June 1, 2004. The length of the article is 458 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First Century.(Book Review)
Author: Brendan Conway
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The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First Century

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The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First Century
Doris L. (Editor) Bergen
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Taking on nothing less than the formation of modern genders and sexualities, Thomas A. King develops a history of the political and performative struggles that produced both normative and queer masculinities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The result is a major contribution to gender studies, gay studies, and theater and performance history.
The Gendering of Men, 1600–1750 traces the transition from a society based on alliance, which had subordinated all men, women, and boys to higher ranked males, to one founded in sexuality, through which men have embodied their claims to personal and political privacy. King proposes that the male body is a performative production marking men’s resistance to their subjection within patriarchy and sovereignty. Emphasizing that categories of gender must come under historical analysis, The Gendering of Men explores men’s particpation in an ongoing struggle for access to a universal manliness transcending other biological and social differentials.

This is volume one of two projected volumes.

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making men.......2006-05-31

King historicizes male sexuality in the Gendering of Men and in so doing challenges those histories that have treated masculinity and male sexuality as a transhistorical given and not as a social construct/ideology that serves specific political (patriarchal) purposes.

Gender theorists, like Judith Butler, have long assumed that gender is performative. That is to say one might be born with a particular sex organ but "gender" is not determined by that sex organ. Thus Butler maintains that gender is not what one is; its what one does. In short "gender" is not a natural category but a practice. Butler argues that gender identity is performative because one constructs what one is in specific social-historical contexts. And those contexts are always changing. In Butler's account new contingencies are always emerging and thus new selves are always emerging in response to new conditions of possibility. However, this does not mean that the individual has any kind of agency in the process for the performativity of masculinity and femininity can be coerced. In fact Butler and King argue that notions of gender (as well as gendered notions of privacy) are underwritten by patriarchal structures.

King argues that in early modern England (1600-1750) body practices were strictly regulated by a pederastic social structure; and that different social spaces/places required the enactment of different body practices. And that because body practices were enacted within a power continuum sexuality was not seen to indicate a particular subjectivity or agency or privacy but rather ones body practices were determined by where one happened to be placed in that power continuum. According to King in a pederastic order (courtier society) both male and female subjects presented themselves as objects for the Kings gaze in hopes of gaining favor. Since a pederastic society is one where status is everything masculinity per se was not yet the marker of privacy, subjectivity and autonomy that later epochs would construe it to be.

Many historians mark the long eighteenth century as the moment when two things emerged: privacy and heteronormative sexuality. (Many Renaissance scholars would argue that these things existed long before the long eighteenth century). The key argument of Kings book, however, is that "privacy", "sexuality" and "gender" (including notions of interiority, masculinity, feminininity, and the companionate marriage) emerge in resistance to courtly pederastic practices. In Kings account these things all arise as one emergent historical regime defines itself against another residual one.

The most prominent history of the rise of the middle class in early modern England is Jurgen Habermas's. King finds Habermas's widely accepted account whereby (mostly male) subjects become aware of themselves as newly autonomous subjects while reading novels in private to be suspect. King finds that Habermas's account tends to assume that reading practices allow men and women to reflect upon an already existent heterosexual subjectivity. King, on the other hand, sees subjectivity as an effect created and determined by new market relations. This is a key difference between Habermas and King because King, after Butler, believes men and women do not simply read to reflect upon an already existent heterosexual subjectivity but that reading practices, body practices, cultural practices etc...are constitutive acts.

Habermas assumes a sameness and consistency in all male desire throughout history and he assumes that all male desire is always already heterosexual and thus Habermas fails to read gender and gendered notions of privacy as historically constituted categories. Habermas also fails to account for the fact that a diverse population of emergent male and female subjectivities may respond to the same historical conditions and each other in vastly different ways. Kings takes into consideration both residual and emergent gender differentials and so his account allows for much more subtle and nuanced (and much more interesting) readings of seventeenth and eighteenth century texts and the residual and emergent subjectivities that they describe.

It is to the theatre (instead of the novel, Habermas's form of choice) that King looks for evidence of an ongoing attempt to produce/evolve/negotiate/regulate/disrupt/enforce notions of subjectivity (ie gender practices, gendered notions of privacy); it is also to the theatre that King looks for the political causes/implications of these new practices.

A fascinating book.

A Time of Major Change in Viewpoint.......2004-12-10

It seems to be commonly believed that Alexander the Great was sexually attracted to both young men and to women. (In fact I've heard that the Greek govenment is suing the recent TV production for claimin this.)

In this book Professor King traces the transition of a society which had subordinated all men, women and boys to higher ranked males to one founded in sexuality. He explores the subject through literature, through the actors on stage, and in portraits from the time.

I found particularily interesting his intrepretation of the many times in Shakespeare's plays that a woman and/or young man exchange identities. (It is perhaps significant that the author worked as a stage manager in Chicago before his teaching career.) This is likely to be a seminal book in gender studies for some years.

The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750 The English Phallus

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The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750 The English Phallus
Thomas A. King
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The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750, The English Phallus
Thomas A. King
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
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ASIN: B000ORT2NU

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The number of clinicians utilizing minimally invasive surgical techniques has grown rapidly over the years as has the ever expanding repertoire of endoscopic procedures. This book is a teaching text in endoscopic surgery for the general surgeon and a compendium of endoscopic surgical techniques that have been compiled and described by experts, many of whom were the original pioneers in the field. It contains specific guidelines for the recognition, prevention, and management of complications, as well as detailed procedural descriptions for standard-of-care endoscopic procedures.

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