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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874?1927) is considered by many to be the first American dadaist as well as the mother of dada. An innovator in poetic form and an early creator of junk sculpture, "the Baroness" was best known for her sexually charged, often controversial performances. Some thought her merely crazed, others thought her a genius. The editor Margaret Anderson called her "perhaps the only figure of our generation who deserves the epithet extraordinary." Yet despite her great notoriety and influence, until recently her story and work have been little known outside the circle of modernist scholars.
In Baroness Elsa, Irene Gammel traces the extraordinary life and work of this daring woman, viewing her in the context of female dada and the historical battles fought by women in the early twentieth century. Striding through the streets of Berlin, Munich, New York, and Paris wearing such adornments as a tomato-soup can bra, teaspoon earrings, and black lipstick, the Baroness erased the boundaries between life and art, between the everyday and the outrageous, between the creative and the dangerous. Her art objects were precursors to dada objects of the teens and twenties, her sound and visual poetry were far more daring than those of the male modernists of her time, and her performances prefigured feminist body art and performance art by nearly half a century.
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The Baroness Lives!.......2005-06-13
Very well written compared to most art history books! This densely researched and hugely readable book brings to life a woman who was the friend and intellectual equal of Marcel Duchamp. The Dada Baroness was hugely important in the history of both fine art and poetry, yet is ignored in almost all standard art-historical reference tomes. Irene Gemmel brings her back from obscurity, she must now be included in all writing on the Dada movement, and beyond! Too many women artists have been ignored for too long by too many art historians. Demand that your library buy this book so that everyone can read it and give Elsa the recognition that she deserves.
could not put it down.......2002-12-09
I have to say that this is the first biography I've read all the way through. It is like a Danielle Steel novel, although probably not as detailed. As a student of art history I thought this was a very interesting take of the New York Dada movement, where the Baroness was the first to do "ready-mades" before Marcel Duchamp. Overall I thought it was wonderfully written, and very interesting.
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What's funnier, a dead monkey or a dead clown? How many corpses do you have to tie together to make a raft? Are pigeons recyclable? These, and many other questions we're too afraid to include here, are answered in the latest installment from cult cartoonist Max Cannon, More Red Meat. Cannon's oeuvre can be found in countless weekly papers, on Web sites, and on the sides of buildings; it has infiltrated like a particularly unpleasant strain of the Ebola virus. Plumbing the depths of ickiness--and finding it funny--Cannon has gained a fanatical following for his rubber-coated look at suburban life. This latest collection includes Cannon's classic characters like the sadistic Milkman Dan, the mentally unstable Earl, and perverted, often-naked middle-class dad Ted Johnson, as well as introducing new characters such as the sadistic marine biologist Jacques Oiseux, the mentally unstable barber Walker, and deformed, middle-class outcast Johnny Lemonhead. If you haven't picked up the first Red Meat book, do so now, then return here, buy this one, and run to the most psychedelic shag-carpeted crash pad you can find to begin a trip into illustrated delight. --James diGiovanna
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Max Cannon is at it again, with his second book of cartoons from his wildly successful comic strip, Red Meat, and it's every bit as twisted and edgy as the first one. Featured in sixty alternative weeklies and college newspapers, representing a combined readership of more than six million, Red Meat has a fervent and loyal fan base. Max Cannon also has an official Red Meat web site, which averages 30,000 page views per week. It was honored with a Cyber Star award from Virtual City magazine.
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I hate you, Milkman Dan.......2005-08-03
One thing I've discovered about most newspaper "funnies" is that they're anything BUT funny. Well, except for the occasional Garfield™ and "The Far Side" strips... but even then, the yuks are/were few and far between. Of course, the lack of real laughs in the local rag's comics section is understandable: the humor has to be "safe", non-controversial, family-friendly... soulless and sterile. Just look at the recent furor (as of this writing) over the use of a certain four-letter word in "Doonesbury", and you'll see what I mean...
Anyhoo, not being a stickler for "safe" humor, I checked out the local alternative media-- you know, the free rags featuring a couple "in-depth" reports on some regional goings-on, and half-full of adverts for 976 numbers and male bath houses-- in the hope of finding some truly hilarious captioned sequential illustrations. Sadly, I found most of the alt-media funnies I came across almost as unfunny as, albeit a lot more high-concept than their mainstream counterparts. Fortunately, "Red Meat" wasn't one of these. Week in and week out, Max Cannon's secret stash o' goodies, illustrated in the "Xerox School of Cartooning" method, rarely fails to get a laugh outta me. If a strip's circulation was based on how truly funny it was, "Red Meat" would be in three times the number of papers the totally lame-@$$ "Family Circus" presently resides in!
Between the pages of this book you'll find yourself exposed to over one hundred examples of the usual shenanigans that play out in the "Red Meat" universe, including:
- The sick mind games Milkman Dan likes to play on little Karen (these strips are the best of the lot IMHO)
- The hilariously creepy musings of the aptly-named Bug-Eyed Earl
- the pipe-smoking Ted Johnson and his neighbors exposing the dark side of suburbia for all to see... and laugh at.
- The youngish priest (I don't think he has a proper name; I just call him "Father Kurt") praying to the Lord... and the Lord responding to his prayers in a most blasphemous manner.
- And how can you not like such wonderfully bizarre subtitles as "The tell-tale tickle of tapeworms", "Something strange in the squirt-gun", or "rotten egg incubator"? You gotta be outta yer mind to not like those!
The only thing I find really UNfunny about this book is its cover price. Just under ten bucks is a bit steep for me... which is the reason why I bought it for a helluva lot less at a garage sale a few weekends back. I mean, I could get one of those "Garfield" strip books, with almost twice as many panels in it, for the same sum of wampum if I'd bought it brand new! But now that I think about it, I get twice the laugh-on with the sawbuck I spent on the "Red Meat" TPB than I ever did with any of the similarly-priced "Garfield" TPBs. So basically I'm paying for higher quality, rather than greater quantity...
All the same, I don't think I'll be collecting any more of these relatively small "Red Meat" books. I've a feeling they're gonna be re-released in big ol' honkin' coffee-table-sized collected editions, or even in "the complete run" box sets like they've done with "The Far Side" and "Calvin and Hobbes".
Until that day...
...'Late
Even I Love Red Meat and I'm A Vegetarian.......2003-05-05
Max Cannon's first volume is superior, but More Red Meat is often more brutal. When I laugh out loud at the antics of a burn victim I know I'm in the presence of genius. Milkman Dan is singularly the most evil comic strip character since the guy who created The Family Circus. The more familiar the archetype, the more uncomfortable the humor--from the classic pipe-smoking Father Figure to the Condescending Priest to the "Outsider" Johnny Lemonhead ("So...which part of 'get out of town, freak' weren't you clear on, John?") Max Cannon feeds the gamut of Americana through the Meat grinder. I wish comedian Bill Hicks could have read this, and I wish they'd come out with a volume three. While I'm at it, I wish for some more of that official Red Meat non-prescription cough syrup--it's easily the strongest stuff on the market.
More of the same.......2001-09-04
As the title implies, this is just more red meat comics. That is all I was asking for. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you might even throw up, but that's what it's for. Hopefully there will be an "Even More Read Meat" followed by a "An Obscene Quantity of Red Meat", and so on. I'd buy Red Meat books until I'm blue in the face. This isn't Family Circus, if your looking for that, then your in the wrong place.
the classic conclusions of coulrophobia.......2001-07-13
red meat is simply all it states in its title-raw, fresh, juicy, gory, addictive and taboo, yet satisfiyingly delicious. Max Cannon invites you into his world along with a sado-masochistic suburban family man (ted johnson), a groveling lacky priest and his constant battle for acceptance from god, a lemon-headed man (johnny lemonhead) who is as dense as his citrus-filled skull, a brillantly deranged drunken milkman (milkman dan), a bug-eyed paranoid creepy individual (earl), a sick jolly bearded business man (mister wally), a psychotic mailman, burn victims, and a number of unfortunate children who are surrounded by these twisted indivduals in a sickly suburb. Despite the ludicrousness of the characters, they parody a deep dark black humor of the human species in hilarious, not-so-far from reality situations. Each strip is a sweet, satisfing dose of bloody-meaty redness that will leave you sore for days. to all artists, punks, and geeks-buy this book.
Hilarious and disturbing.......2001-06-23
Red Meat is probably one of the funniest damn comic strips in recent memory. This book shows a great range of the series, from the macabre ("Don't get too close to the killer whales!" "AUGH! MY ARM!" "..Yeah, ya got too close.") to the sadistic Milkman Dan and his little girl protege ("I hate you, Milkman Dan.")
Many stories excuse their simplistic drawings with the saying that the intelligent dialogue makes it OK. Most of the time they're just excusing their own laziness. But in this strip, with the same drawings often used for every panel, it really is the dialogue that makes you laugh until you cry.
I highly recommend this book. My only quibble is that it isn't longer!
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"Plimpton will interest even the man who can't tell a pitching wedge from a putter.... This is really a book about a kind of madness with rules, and anyone can appreciate the appeal of that." -Newsweek
THE BOGEY MAN remains arguably the funniest book on golf ever written.
George Plimpton here joins the pro golf circuit for a month of self-imposed torture in the name of bringing professional sport to the sphere of the average man. Arnold Palmer, Dow Finsterwald, Wlater Hagan, and others populate this intriguing, classic, candid view from the first tee.
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Mr. Charming.......2007-08-25
Back way back when there were East Coast types that placed a high premium on what the English would call the glory of amateurism. So slip on that lime sports jacket and checked pink pants combo your grandpa used to wear, pour yourself a cocktail and meander out by the pool for some light evening conversation. Full of classic anecdotes like the one where two golfers are driving cross country and the one riding shotgun has a driver in his hand. Sometimes when they stop at a crossroads he likes to get out and take a few swings. Well out he gets one time and the driver doesn't notice, just takes off for about hundred clicks before he turns back.......
Excellent get-well gift.......1999-05-22
As old as it is, this is still an excellent get-well gift for men who lived and died with the Palmer et.al. era. One does not even have to be an avid golfer to enjoy the book. Only a casual knowledge of the game is needed. I feel this was the best of Plimpton's books.
A refreshing look at the PGA Tour of the 60's from a hacker.......1998-07-16
Plimpton doesn't pretend to be anything other than what he is: a priveleged amateur of questionable skill who is afforded the opportunity to play in several west coast pro-ams with various professionals. He relates many anecdotes, both first and second hand, several of which are hilarious insights into a tour which hadn't, at this juncture, reached the sophistication which characterizes its status today. Plimton's typical self-effacing style makes this an enjoyable read.
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Chronicling one of the greatest and most popular national cinemas, Republic of Images traces the evolution of French filmmaking from 1895--the year of the debut of the Cinematographe in Paris-to the present day. Alan Williams offers a unique synthesis of history, biography, aesthetics and film theory. He brings to life all of the major directors, setting before us the cultures from which they emerged, and sheds new light on the landmark films they created. He distills what is historically and artistically unique in each of their careers and reveals what each artist has in common with the forebears and heirs of the craft.
Within the larger story of French cinema, Williams examines the treasury of personal expression, social commentary, and aesthetic exploration that France has produced so consistently and exported so well. It is the tale of an industry rife with crises, and Williams offers a superb narrative of the economic, political, and social forces that have shaped its century-long history. He provides biographical sketches of filmmakers from the early pioneers of the silent era such as Louis Lumière and Alice Guy to modern directors such as Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, and François Truffaut. Some of their careers, he shows, exemplify the significant contributions individuals made to the development of French fllmmaking; others yield illuminating evidence of the problems and opportunities of a whole generation of filmmakers. Throughout, he presents critical analyses of significant films, from the Assassination of the Duc de Guise (1908) to works by the post nouvelle vague directors.
Williams captures the formal and stylistic developments of film in France over nearly one hundred years. Free of cant and jargon, Republic of Images is the best general account available of the rich interplay of film, filmmaker, and society. It will delight both general reader and student, as well as the viewer en route to the video store.
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Excellent portrayal of the chronology of French Films.......1999-10-04
Williams takes the reader on an exotic journey of the landscape of French Filmmaking. Williams situates French film movements against the backdrop of the simultaneous and pioneering innovations both in France and the United States that eventually led to the film revolution. Williams' lucid writing provides both beginners and seasoned film analysts with insights about the influence French films on world cinema.
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- The 3rd and final volume in this series devoted to muscial works called sonatas
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Sonata Since Beethoven
William S. Newman
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The 3rd and final volume in this series devoted to muscial works called sonatas.......2005-12-09
In the original plan for Newman's monumental testament to the instrumental forms called sonatas, the material in this third and final volume was supposed to be two separate volumes. I am glad there is only one big book covering this material. The more concision the better, I say.
Beethoven was such a monumental force in music (he has lost some luster in recent decades, but I believe he will get his momentum back) that all composers after him had to reckon with what he had accomplished in music. It is fitting that his name is in the title.
As you read this book you will read about sonatas that are actually modeled on the forms Beethoven and his near contemporaries used, forms that are actually rejections or transformations of the Classic sonata (and sonata-form), and pieces that seem to be completely new and foreign to anything like the Classic sonata except that they are instrumental works (and not always that). So, basically you get everything including the kitchen sink.
Again, I view this work and its siblings as reference books. They are valuable for looking up composers, works, and periods because Newman puts EVERYTHING in here. Well, not everything. To give you an idea of the strange balance sometimes exhibited, Edward MacDowell's four sonatas (does anyone play them anymore?) get several pages while the much more important Stravinsky is mentioned only in passing. The index for Stravinsky is also wrong and has him mentioned on a page that doesn't mention him. I found him in a parenthesis on page 719, but could find nothing on his piano sonata.
Anyway, it is a useful reference for looking up details that most others have long since forgotten and it can send you to other places to find more material.
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Thirty years ago, Mintzberg's bestseller "The Nature of Managerial Work sought to dispel the myths of the disconnected, overly analytical manager by observing a week in the lives of five chief executives. In a sense, "Managers Not MBAs is the sequel, delving as it does into current practice and the need for developing much better managers. The book examines what is wrong with both management education and management itself, and how both could be changed. Mintzberg explores the concept of management as a practice blending craft (experience) with art (insight) and some science (analysis). Conventional education in this realm, he says, encourages a "calculating" approach by overemphasizing the science, and a "heroic" approach by overstressing the art. Mintzberg argues instead for training balanced, dedicated managers who practice an "engaging" style, believing that their purpose is to leave behind stronger organizations, not just higher share prices.
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Relavant thought on the current MBA situation........2006-11-02
Mintzberg is striking a chord with this book. Industry is in desperate need of strong and ethical leadership, not just mangers with strong analytical skills. It may be time for the current business school philosophy to modify its method to produce leaders rather than just inexperienced managers.
The state of the current MBA.......2006-06-05
I read Professor Mintzberg's book for one main reason: to decide whether or not to do an MBA.
Before reading this book and thus the enlightenment, I used to think very highly of the qualification, in an overrated sort of manner. I reckoned that if I'm an MBA graduate, I would know-it-all and it'll make me a darn good manager. And this was precisely what Professor Mintzberg was criticizing on. And it's not entirely the fault of the graduates - the business schools play an important role in instilling this false belief. Graduates should be known for their humility, not arrogance. And I almost see myself going down that arrogance path. Almost.
The book shed lots of light on how managers ought to be, and what an MBA is and is not. It talks about the consequence of selecting the wrong people for the course, or the right people but were then taught wrongly. It talks about its consequences on the practice of management and on society. All these found in "Part 1: Not MBAs".
I read Part I in one sitting. It's utterly engaging and I can hardly put the book down. While Part I criticizes the qualification, "Part II: Developing Managers" puts on a constructive tone on management development. I must say that MBA NOT MANAGERS confirmed my decision that MBA is something I wanted to pursue to have a good grasp of the various important business functions, and to balance this knowledge with experience gained over time.
The pitfalls of management education.......2006-04-13
Henry Mintzberg's MANAGERS NOT MBAS: A HARD LOOK AT THE SOFT PRACTICE OF MANAGING AND MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT comes from a professor of management studies at McGill University in Canada and takes a broad look at how managers are educated and how they practice management principles, applying them to workforce realities. From management education's possible alternatives to making management a more engaging science, MANAGERS NOT MBAs surveys the pitfalls of management education processes and hwo to overcome it.
A very good book on MBA.......2006-01-06
Experience is the key and nowadays one cannot learn and completely understand a subject by sitting in a class. To truely comprehend management (or anything in general) one has to learn it by experience, hard work and by thinking logically, and thats what this book is about, as the author says "Leaders cannot be created in classroom. They arise in context." A very good book for anyone intrested in pursuing an MBA.
Will Real Managers Please Stand Up?.......2005-08-09
Mintzberg has performed a great service to those who teach management and seek to facilitate critical thinking about the organizational and societal context of managing rather than a narrow (and often narcissistic) approach. Students will find the book a vehicle for reflection on why they are pursuing a management degree; if they draw from it what Mintzberg seems to intend, they will more clearly see themselves in the classic management role of "working with and through other people" rather than getting to the top as quickly as possible--and at any cost. Management program administrators should welcome the critique of how things are and the examples of how they could be. Mintzberg's insights about the social costs of the links between MBA programs' misguided emphases, students' errantly "heroic" leadership aspirations, and the susceptibility of businesses, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies to a cult of the MBA makes at least portions of this very readable book of interest for the general reader. Those who teach management in alternative programs will likely find the book an inspiration.
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Rolling Away the Stone is a richly detailed account of the last two decades of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, a major religious thinker whose character and achievement are just beginning to be understood. This is the first book-length discussion of Eddy to make full use of the resources of the Mary Baker Eddy Collection in Boston. It focuses on her long-range legacy as a Christian thinker, specifically her challenge to the materialism that continues to threaten religious belief and practice in our time.
Hoping to retire in 1889 after seven turbulent years founding the Christian Science movement, Eddy believed the demands upon her would ease. Instead, during the 1890s and 1900s, she entered into the most active and fruitful period of her long life, becoming a nationally and even internationally known figure. The radical character of Eddy's teaching, together with her position as a woman religious leader in a male-dominated society, aroused storm clouds of controversy that have continued to swirl around her memory today. The book opens with an account of the critical point in this controversy when her very sanity was challenged in a litigation that became one of the first media events of the 20th century.
Stephen Gottschalk also traces the fascinating relation between Eddy's encounter with the problem of evil in the first half of her life and how Mark Twain, her best-known adversary, faced the same issue during his later years. Gottschalk then explores how Eddy's challenge to materialism shaped her response to a series of crises that arose as she brought her life's work to completion. This is a sensitive and serious biography of an important figure in American religious history.
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Pleased in KY.......2007-09-27
Thank you for your service. I received my order within a couple of days and I appreciated that it was packed with care and was in perfect condition.
Christian Science, being absolute, is at the point of perfection.......2007-04-16
Mary Baker Eddy took a radical stand against materialism, and, resultantly, evil. Both Mary Baker Eddy and Mark Twain experienced moments of blackness, despair. Although Twain could believe in healing through Christian Science, he could not believe that God is Love.
This new scholarly biography by Stephen Gottschalk is of interest to both historians of religion in America and Christian Scientists. The author's focus is Mary Baker Eddy's final twenty years. For the most part these years were spent by her at her New Hampshire retreat near Concord, Pleasant View. Gottschalk uses pressure points encountered by Mrs. Eddy to organize the book. The first is the regrettable Next Friends Suit triggered by inquiries of Pulitzer's WORLD. Other points used are the vehement opposition of Mark Twain to Mrs. Eddy and the World Parliament of Religions.
In the near term the Parliament was deemed a success by Christian Science adherents. Mrs. Eddy had, nonetheless, fear of overexposure and she was more perceptive than her followers in this regard. The discussion of MBE and Mark Twain is interesting in terms of the Calvinist background they shared. Mrs. Eddy is characterized as a reluctant Charismatic. Her position was a radical one. Dissension in the movement threatened its prosperity. Through unity of action the Mother Church was built in 1894. Mrs. Eddy made unremitting demands upon members and officers for concerted purposeful action. The boom in branch church edifices, though, signaled a danger--creeping materialism. Mrs. Eddy believed her source of authority was spiritual listening.
More than Emma Hopkins and Augusta Stetson, Josephine Woodbury was a conflicted follower of Mary Baker Eddy. She passed from ardent disciple to adversary. She had drama and flair. She and her students lived by a sort of miracle play of their own. Ex-communicated in 1895 for thought transference, Josephine Woodbury conducted a campaign against Mrs. Eddy in 1899. Later she sued for libel. Until victory was achieved two years later there was an atmosphere of fear and malice.
Mrs. Eddy was not always a tower of strength. She disliked self-justification. She saw it as resistance to spiritual progress. In 1908 she instructed the Trustees of the Christian Science Publishing Society to establish the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR in one hundred days. The name cemented the unbreakable link of newspaper and church.
In 1909 Mrs. Eddy sought to consolidate her gains in the affairs of the movement. Fighting old age and death, she withdrew, even from events in her own household. After Mary Baker Eddy's death the movement lost vitality. Mrs. Eddy's leadership had been bold, forward marching.
The notes and bibliography are useful to Christian Scientists and others. What is presented that is absent from other biographies is information about the households in Concord and Chestnut Hill, a sort of loss statement pertaining to the Next Friends Suit, more vivid explanations of the controversites with Josephine Woodbury, Augusta Stetson, and, for that matter, Foster Eddy.
Well done.......2006-03-25
I found Gottschalk's work inspiring, insightful, and very well written. I have read several biographies about the venerable Mrs. Eddy, and this one may just be the best.
With Grace.......2006-02-28
Gottschalk has written a graceful, lucid, and heartfelt book that captures both the inner life and outward struggle of Mary Baker Eddy, one of the more unique figures in American religious history. Though a Christian Scientist himself, he is no apologist but a clear eyed, sympathetic scholar who has the intellectual wherewithal to place her in a historical context (see his explanation of her Puritan background or the section on Mark Twain for example) and to do justice to her religious ideas. He does this while keeping in view her humanity and the steep price she paid for holding true to her own conscience-driven mission. Not a quick read but well worth the time spent.
Dispersing the mist........2006-02-24
My comments below will review the book, and also speak to a review in The Christian Science Monitor 2/21/2006 (available in archive at csmonitor [dot] com).
This book is an important story about a significant contributor to the intellectual history of the world. But the 'official' review by Monitor reviewer, Richard Bergenheim, editor of the Monitor, seems to wish Gottschalk had told a different story. And he bases some of his critique on the story not told, dismissing the book, in part, as dogmatic -- yet he does not establish his assessment charging 'dogmatism' by citing a single quote. (Here's one of his: "Regretfully, Gottschalk feels compelled to tell the more familiar story yet again, leaving examination of what Mrs. Eddy achieved during this period and how it was accomplished still largely unexplored. . . . Its tone, however, is often uncomfortably dogmatic.") 'More familiar?' RB seems to miss the point that the book is not about the church but about her challenge to materialism. What a pity. Perhaps he's the dogmatist, being more fixated by the (failing?) empire, than focused on the significant insight about the nature of matter and the way of treating it which Eddy has delivered to the world.
Yes, the book revisits ground covered by Robert Peel (in what still remains the leading scholarly biography on Eddy), but Gottschalk is on a new mission. The intrigue of prominent thinkers (Twain, Cather, Pulitzer, et al) and their differing perceptions of reality was, for me, worth contemplating. I came away with the distinct feeling that Eddy would have been much further ahead by not allowing herself to be distracted by the founding of a centralized church, an effort she attempted to resist. (Let the local branches be the church!) And one of her appointees strongly attempted to save her much of that trouble, which burdened her shoulders with the cares and struggles of a human institution; (he endeavored to help her focus her efforts, instead, almost exclusively on a publishing thrust).
This was refreshing to me. It revealed what could have been. But Eddy was not to be deterred by an underling (especially a man!), even though she herself had resisted organizing a central church. (Why does the story always seem to end by the church crucifying its founder?) What I found fascinating was that at the very end some of her closest students sought with determination to bend her intentions, and from what I can see, perhaps they did. But it is likely that those at the top don't want the pew-sitters to notice "that man behind the curtain."
This book deserves the careful attention of any who are truly interested in excellent scholarship on the history of Eddy's radical teaching and lifework. Her central thesis, called 'the scientific staement of being' found on p.468 of her seminal text, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, treats matter in a powerful new way which is far in advance of that even of today's modern physicists such as Penrose, et al, who are presently (and belatedly!) working on this very issue, questioning the relationship between consciousness and matter. They should be realizing that an unschooled little old lady from New England got there ahead of them!
Gottschalk provides a balanced view of a remarkable and dynamic woman which effectively dispels or contests much of the falsehood put on record by ax-grinding critics with dubious agendas. He shines light on the many histrionic claims targeted at this vibrant 19th century thinker at their very source. This is dogmatism? In my view, he has helped to melt the fog surrounding this controversial figure.
~eric.
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British Cavalry Sword from 1600
Charles Martyn
Manufacturer: Pen and Sword
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This book is dedicated at collectors of British Cavalry Swords and portrayed in a form that is both simplistic and an informative guide that does not claim to be an academic treatise. The essential features of sword hilt recognition, the prime means of recognizing a cavalry sword, are made by photographs and descriptions of swords from the authors own collection, supported by sketches of sword hilts that have not been generally publicised, but which show some of the history and development of the British cavalry sword. The swords have been placed in sections of time, together with brief histories of those times to give a background, and further supported by stories and accounts, either of fact, alegorical of an idea that would suit the circumstances; these accounts aimed at creating a stimulus for the collector to carry out his own research into the swords he owns, and demonstrate that not only does he own a piece of history, but can also own a sword that has actually contributed something toward that history.
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Methods of Discovery is organized around strategies for deepening arguments in order to find the best ways to study social phenomena. This exciting book is not about the mechanics of doing social science research, but about habits of thinking that enable students to use those mechanics in new ways, by coming up with new ideas and combining them more effectively with old ones. Examples from throughout the social sciences help show how these moves can open new lines of thinking. Each chapter covers several moves and their reverses (if these exist), discussing particular examples of the move as well as its logical and theoretical structure. This book offers readers a new way of thinking about directions for their research and new ways to imagine information relevant to their research problems.
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A Brilliant, Readable Introduction to the Logic of Sociology.......2004-05-18
This is a beautifully written, clear and understandable analysis of the diverse ways of thinking in contemporary sociology. It is written to be understandable by undergraduates who are serious about the discipline and are about to undertake research on their own. Graduate students will find it indispensible as they make very important decisions about their own careers. Reading Abbott is much easier than trying to figure these things out on your own . The author's concept of "fractual heuristics" is an innovative and insightful way of thinking about the interaction of different kinds of ideas in the discipline. There is too much here for me to summarize in a short review, but it is well worth reading.
Ted Goertzel, Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University.
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- Photos makes it easier to identify birds!
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Ian Sinclair's Field Guide to the Birds of Southern Africa (Photographic Field Guides)
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Customer Reviews:
Photos makes it easier to identify birds!.......2007-10-07
I love the birds in Southern Africa, but I am also very bad at identifying them, so this book makes birding fun for me. I can quickly find the bird I just saw by flipping through the book. The downside is there is not always pictures of the bird at different angles or of the immatures. However, if you're a novice like me, it shouldn't matter much at all. Get Ian Sinclair's illustration version if you're more serious about birding.
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