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Datini, a fourteenth-century Florentine merchant-banker, provides us with one of the great success stories of the Middle Ages. A dealer in wool, sacred pictures, spices, and iron, he established an import/export house with branches in Pisa, Genoa, Barcelona and Majorca. He also left behind, in wooden crates, the entire archive of his business - over 150,000 letters, some 500 ledgers and accounts books, and a mass of personal and business documents that Iris Origo tracked down, translated, and, through patient selection and perfect understanding, made accessible to the modern reader in this award-winning and singular biography.
In her fine introduction, Barbara Tuchman asks, "Why is this book one of the great books of historical writing of the twentieth century?" She answers, "[Origo's] success in resurrecting not only a personality whom we can recognize but also his times, his town, his marriage, his household, his country home, his friends and associates, makes for a work of extraordinary interest with that quality to grip and take hold of a reader that makes a book everlasting." And as for Datini himself, the epicenter of this remarkable historical recreation, she writes, "the story of his achievement is something more signifcant than the mere record of the enrichment of a single man. In the extent and variety of his ventures, in his powers of organization, in his international outlook, in his swift adaptability to a society in turmoil, as in his own ambition, shrewdness, tenacity, anxiety, and greed, he is the forerunner of the businessman of today."
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A historical study at its finest........2006-09-18
This is probably the most famous book of Iris Origo, who at the same time offers to the world the most extensive study of Francesco di Marco Datini, a Tuscan merchant of the pre-renaissance. The book is directly based on thousands of letters and contracts that were found in the 1870's and that allow this unique insight into the life and the work of a merchant, but also a private person of his time (1335-1410).
The book is divided into two parts. The first part discusses the merchant; the second part discusses the head of the private household. Since the source used is extremely large (500 account books, 300 associate contracts, insurances, transport documents, etc., but above all more than 140000 letters, of which 11000 are private correspondence). With such a source, and the research efforts that went into this book, we thus get a very detail insight, which is a delight to read. Not only, does the author discuss the career of a true self-made man, but also does she explain, in the first part, how international trade, at the eve of the commercial revolution that preceded Datini's life-time, was organised. In the second part we learn about his marriage, his life in the 14th Century, and of course his excesses.
The style is easy and straight-forward. The author goes into great detail, almost a flauberian style, to explain everything that the reader might want to. Five stars are awarded for this truly excellent piece of work!
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- A remarkable act of historic recreation.
- The best book on fourteenth century life
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Merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datini
Iris Origo
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A remarkable act of historic recreation........2001-10-03
In his will, the medieval Tuscan merchant Francesco di Marco Datini ordered that all his account books and correspondence be gathered together and stored for posterity. These archives were lost soon after Datini died in 1410, but found again, remarkably intact, in 1870. These archives, constituting nearly 140,000 letters to and from Datini and 503 files of business documents, constitute the most complete record of medieval Italian life ever found. Iris Origo mined this treasure trove for all it was worth in "The Merchant of Prato," creating a fascinatingly detailed portrait of how people lived, what they ate, and what they thought in late-14th-century Tuscany. Because Datini was a merchant, his ledgers provide an intimate account of what goods were available to affluent Italians of his time, and in what quantity. Even more fascinating than the details of family life are Origo's reconstruction of the lives and personalities of her three central characters: Datini himself, his young wife Margherita, and his best friend Ser Lapo Mazzei. "Certainly he was a difficult man, either to serve or love," Origo says of Datini, and indeed it is a difficult character Datini presents to us through his letters: grasping, imperious, sharp-tongued, morbidly suspicious--in short a model of a self-made tycoon in any age. But a better side of Datini is shown in his correspondence with the spirited, outspoken Margherita--who could give as good as she got--and with the kindly, philosophical Lapo Mazzei. Mazzei--who founded a winemaking dynasty that continues to this day, and whose distant descendant Filippo Mazzei was a close friend of Thomas Jefferson--was constantly reminding Datini of his duties as a Christian, and at length succeeded in persuading him to leave the bulk of his vast fortune to the poor. The foundation for the poor created by Datini's will continues in Prato to this day. Origo recreates Datini and Mazzei as characters of Dickensian richness, with Mazzei--if you will--playing the Ghost of Christmas Present to Datini's Scrooge. This book is a masterpiece, and how it could be allowed to fall out of print is a mystery to me. It should be reprinted in a new edition as soon as possible.
The best book on fourteenth century life.......1999-08-11
Fransesco di Marco Datini left 150.000 letter detailing every aspect of his personal and business life. Every aspect of life of a successful merchant in Prato, Italy and Avignon, France is clearly detailed. Iris Origo is must reading for history lovers, specially those interested in the Renaissance in Northern Italy.
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- A Notre Dame Legend
- Will the Real Gipp please Stand Up ?. . . Finally he does.
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Gipp at Notre Dame: The Untold Story: Finally - The Truth About "The Gipper"
Emil W. Klosinski
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Over the years since George Gipp's death at 25 in 1920, much of what has been written about the enigmatic young man has been based on sketchy research or downright fabrication. This book contradicts the latter with facts and first hand information about one of the greatest athletes of all time. While former president Ronald Reagan's name is synonymous with “The Gipper” because of his movie role as George Gipp, the story of the real “Gipper” is a fascinating one replete with not only gridiron heroics but intrigue, romance, humor, and pathos. This book includes exclusive accounts of everything from how Gipp really got the nickname “Gipper” to Notre Dame's rise to national football prominence under the Knute Rockne-coached teams led by Gipp. Other never-before-told historical surprises are in store within. Gipp, a great athlete, but also human, had frailties and virtues as we all do. This book is for everyone.
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A Notre Dame Legend .......2006-02-22
When at Notre Dame, I heard all about George Gipp and his football exploits. Now, having read the book, I know the REAL story. George Gipp was much more multi-dimensional than he has been portrayed.
An excellent read. The author labored mightily to place Gipp in the context of the early teens and has suceeded brilliently.
Will the Real Gipp please Stand Up ?. . . Finally he does........2005-10-27
There are now two books about George Gipp that I believe we can believe. One For The Gipper by Patrick Chelland and now this beauty. The author (Klosinki) has done a magnificent job of telling us the real story of "The Gipp," and in doing so, has cast out many of the distortions we've heard out of Hollywood. Notre Dame should make this part of their curriculum since it shows the spirit of a guy who was a totally independent thinker and doer and yet a team success. This is a great read.
A Gem of a Book.......2004-07-30
This is one of those books that is even better than anticipated. If you've heard of the real "Gipper" -- George Gipp -- you may have read a lot of the fabricated stories about him. If you haven't heard of Gipp, this is the book to read. It is full of first-hand facts and information that have never before been printed. Gipp was a fascinating young man and his name has become legend thanks to the late president Ronald Reagan. This is Gipp's story while he was at Notre Dame, told by people who actually knew him, including the author's father. A terrific read.
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Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy
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Singing in the Saddle: The History of the Singing Cowboy
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In this innovative take on a neglected chapter of film history, Peter Stanfield challenges the commonly held view of the singing cowboy as an ephemeral figure of fun and argues instead that he was one of the most important cultural figures to emerge out of the Great Depression.
The rural or newly urban working-class families who flocked to see the latest exploits of Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter, and other singing cowboys were an audience largely ignored by mainstream Hollywood film. Hard hit by the depression, faced with the threat--and often the reality--of dispossession and dislocation, pressured to adapt to new ways of living, these small-town filmgoers saw their ambitions, fantasies, and desires embodied in the singing cowboy and their social and political circumstances dramatized in "B" Westerns.
Stanfield traces the singing cowboy's previously uncharted roots in the performance tradition of blackface minstrelsy and its literary antecedents in dime novels, magazine fiction, and the novels of B. M. Bower, showing how silent cinema conventions, the developing commercial music media, and the prevailing conditions of film production shaped the "horse opera" of the 1930s. Cowboy songs offered an alternative to the disruptive modern effects of jazz music, while the series Western--tapping into aesthetic principles shunned by the aspiring middle class--emphasized stunts, fist fights, slapstick comedy, disguises, and hidden identities over narrative logic and character psychology. Singing cowboys also linked recording, radio, publishing, live performance, and film media.
Entertaining and thought-provoking, Horse Opera recovers not only the forgotten cowboys of the 1930s but also their forgotten audiences: the ordinary men and women whose lives were brightened by the sights and songs of the singing Western.
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Makes for some fine reading hours.......2006-12-31
Interesting therapeutic stories presented in the same tradition, and by the same authors, as The Mummy at the Dining Room Table. Again, and perhaps unbeknownst to the individual therapists, the theory and technique do not even begin to compete with the healing relationship between therapist and client which is the true source of these "finest" outcomes.
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An Imperative Book for Any Company.......2000-03-15
Setting our mission statement had our company had us knocking heads until we picked up Mr. Abrahams' book. "Mission Statement Book; 301 Corporate Mission Statements from America's Top Companies" is a must for any dot.com company.
Excellent Reference.......2000-01-13
This book is a very helpful brain-storming tool. You're making work for yourself if you write a mission statement without consulting it.
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Cynthia Kaplan takes us on a hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking journey through her unique, uncensored world -- her bungled romantic encounters and unsung theatrical experiences; her gadget-obsessed father and her mother, who, if you should want to know, is fine; her pill-popping therapist, eccentric grandmothers, and fearless husband, whom she engages in an ongoing battle over which of them is the most popular person in their apartment; and, of course, her vengeful, power-hungry, one-year-old son.
Kaplan's voice is a lot like the one in our heads -- the one that most of us are only willing to listen to late at night . . . maybe while locked in a closet. What a relief it is that someone finally admits that she is afraid of nearly everything; that she is jealous even of people whose lives are on the verge of collapse; and that she has, at times, tried to pass for a gentile.
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A Kindred Spirit.......2007-09-28
I'm here to rave about this book. It's a gem! Cynthia Kaplan writes in an unpretentious style that makes you want to invite her for coffee and a good chat. I'm afraid my copy of this book is "flagged" because I couldn't put it down. I related to many of her stories, from the pain of a loved one slipping away with Alzheimer's, to the brief insanity brought on by the presence of a moth, to the experience of living with migraine, and most of all, the all-consuming love you have for your children. I'm going to read her other book (books?) and hopefully she'll write lots more.
Maybe you have to have been there?.......2007-06-05
A number of negative reviews of this book stem from what appears to be a set up. Cynthia Kaplan didn't compare herself to David Sedaris after all. When I depend on reviewers to choose books for me, I'm most often sorely disappointed. I know what I like and I had only to read the intro line, "The eyes are the windows of the head," to figure I was going to enjoy this one.
Most likely, the reason I laughed out loud as well as felt Kaplan's pain, is because I've been there. So much of what she wrote reminded me of experiences in my younger life and in fact, her book lit a spark in me to do some writing about my own early adventures.
Yes, Kaplan is self-absorbed. This is memoir! It's the self-absorption that makes the book amusing. She's able to poke fun at herself and her own foibles and experiences which is something most people find very difficult to do.
I'm not saying this is the best book ever written, but if you like to laugh, take a day trip into Kaplan's world and see what happens.
A hilarious and moving quick read.......2007-01-18
I loved this book so much that I have given it as a gift to all my friends!
Why I'm Like This.......2006-10-05
Wow, this book was excellent. I loved it as much as I loved "Running with Scissors" and that says a lot. Perhaps it's because I'm just as neurotic as she is (I've been known to fear "mountain men" from time to time), or maybe it's because this book is just extemely heartfelt and entertaining. It's totally worth a read.
I find myself quoting this book...........2006-07-06
Acutely insightful, hilarious, profound. I find myself quoting lines from this book all the time.
It's rare that a writer can make me laugh again and again just thinking of a line. "...I went out and bought myself a new hat." "...he fell asleep on the bench with a piece of toast in his hand" "this hand-holder," etc. Cynthia Kaplan is one of those rare few.
As I did with David Sedaris when I first became aware of him, and Patrick Dennis, when they re-issued Little Me, Why I'm Like This is one of those comic gems that I find myself giving as a gift to people I really like.
I hope she writes another book. Soon.
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You probably enjoy eating codfish, but reading about them? Mark Kurlansky has written a fabulous book--well worth your time--about a fish that probably has mattered more in human history than any other. The cod helped inspire the discovery and exploration of North America. It had a profound impact upon the economic development of New England and eastern Canada from the earliest times. Today, however, overfishing is a constant threat. Kurlansky sprinkles his well-written and occasionally humorous history with interesting asides on the possible origin of the word codpiece and dozens of fish recipes. Sometimes a book on an offbeat or neglected subject really makes the grade. This is one of them.
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A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas? Cod--frozen and dried in the frosty air, then broken into pieces and eaten like hardtack. What was the staple of the medieval diet? Cod again, sold salted by the Basques, an enigmatic people with a mysterious, unlimited supply of cod. As we make our way through the centuries of cod history, we also find a delicious legacy of recipes, and the tragic story of environmental failure, of depleted fishing stocks where once their numbers were te fate of the universe. Here--for scientist and layperson alike, for philosopher, science-fiction reader, biologist, and computer expert--is a startlingly complete and rational synthesis of disciplines, and a new, optimistic message about existence.
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Strange, whimsical biography of a fish.......2007-10-15
Mark Kurlansky has made something of a reputation for himself, writing whimsical histories of things which usually don't merit books. His first book in this vein, Salt, was something of a bestseller, and he's written a book on oysters since the current volume. However, today we're writing about Cod, a book which recounts the harvesting, or fishing, of a species of fish mostly from the Atlantic Ocean.
Kurlansky spends most of the book recounting how these fish are caught, prepared, and consumed. The author spends considerable time dealing with the issues of over-fishing, the various controversies surrounding the ownership of the schools and shoals of fish. Each chapter concludes with a short section on preparing the fish, usually including an actual recipe, often from long ago.
I enjoyed this book. I found it unusual, perhaps even unique, and it's a fresh look at history from a really different angle.
A Tremendously Important Story Well Told!.......2007-09-23
Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been based on it, economies have depended on it, and the settlement of North America was driven by it!
There are few fish more important to man than cod and in this endlessly insightful and colorful history of our obsession with this fish, author Mark Kurlansky, a historian, food critic, and world traveler sheds light on a thousand years of human civilization.
Unfortunately, the vast schools of cod that once inhabited the world's oceans and seas have disappeared, the result of overfishing, and may never return again.
This is a tremendously important story well told!
Cod: a very important book.......2007-08-23
Kirlansky deals with history both in this book and in "Salt" like someone swimming in familiar waters. His approach is thematic and this theme ties continents and centuries together.
Would You Rather Be A Fish?.......2007-07-22
This short book suggests that there is more to the codfish than meets the eye - or the palate. It is not a biography; it traces the impact of cod on the economic history of North America and Europe, starting at about the time of Christopher Columbus or, more properly, the time of Columbus' fellow Genovese, John Cabot. It was Cabot who stumbled across the secret fishing ground of the Basques and who claimed it for England under the name "New Found Land." The waters at the tip of the Gulfstream were teeming with cod and the frigid weather was conducive to drying and salting processes that were necessary to preserve the fish on their journey to European markets.
Cod was a "money crop." It was also a source of nutrition that greatly extended the distances that ships could travel without resupply of food. Like other valuable commodities, the cod spawned greed on the part of fishermen, merchants and nations that wanted the money for themselves. Greed also drove the development of mechanized harvesting equipment that greatly increased the number of cod being taken from the sea. It never occurred to the cod industry that it was dealing with a limited supply of fish until that supply was depleted.
Cod presented a challenge to lawmakers who wanted to develop effective regulation of an international industry in a world that insisted on international waters being open to all nations. Precipitated by the regulation of cod, national waters were extended farther and farther from coastlines. National policies were challenged, economic, diplomatic and military as fishing vessels, coast guard cutters and naval warships skirted each other in the icy waters of the North Atlantic.
The issue is still in doubt. Can the cod be saved? Think about it when you order fish and chips.
Recipes for cod dishes - most of them unappetizing - are sprinkled throughout the book. The final chapter is a collection of recipes. Also throughout the book are many quotations relating to cod.
The style of the book is very readable. The first portion is a bare-bones history with the author's views being stated in an ex cathedra manner that makes the reader wonder whether the author has a solid basis for those views or whether the facts have been stretched to meet the predetermined theory of the text. His statements with respect to the Catholic Church are suspect. Moreover, the involvement of cod is often described without any mention of other more substantial factors, resulting in a myopic view of what happened. For example, the author gives the impression that the American Revolution centered on the cod-fishing industry of Massachusetts and that the War of 1812 was won by seamen who attained their skills as New England fishermen. The last half of the book is written in the style of newspaper reporting which, although undoubtedly accurate, is not as interesting as the ex cathedra statements that may not be correct but that grab your interest.
I liked it.
Intriguing look at the the history and influence of cod.......2007-07-08
_Cod_ by Mark Kurlansky is an intriguing look at the influence on history of the cod and the history and future of the cod fishery.
The Atlantic cod, _Gadus morhua_, had been fished as far back as the Middle Ages by the Vikings, who were the first to cure cod, preserving them by hanging the fish in the winter air until the fish lost four-fifths of its weight and "became a durable woodlike plank," which could be broken apart and eaten like hardtack (without which the epic Viking voyages to Iceland, Greenland, and the New World would not have been possible). Medieval Basque fishermen had salt (which the Vikings lacked), and were able to salt their cod before drying it, making it last much longer (aided by the fact that cod is close to fat-free) and producing a vital trade good for a truly international market, aided by the Catholic Church, which declared Fridays, the forty days of Lent, and various other religious holidays as "lean days," forbidding worshippers to eat most animal flesh other than fish. Basque fishermen ranged so far and wide in search of cod that they discovered the New World before Columbus and were encountered in large numbers in North American waters by such early explorers as Jacques Cartier.
The cod is "the perfect commercial fish;" it thrives in cold waters, will eat just about anything (including young cod), and is found in huge schools in shallow waters and close to shore. Its flesh, prized for its whiteness, has very high protein content (18%) and when dried becomes even more concentrated (almost 80%).
There is little to waste on a cod. The throat (called a tongue) and small disks of flesh to either side (referred to as cheeks) are very flavorful. The air bladder (commercially called a sound) has been rendered into isinglass, which was used to make some glues and clarifying agents (though in the past was often eaten fried or in chowders). Roe is eaten, as is the female gonads, a two-pronged organ called the britches. Icelanders and Scottish Highlanders made sausage-like concoctions out of cod stomachs. Tripe is eaten in the Mediterranean. The skin is either eaten or cured as leather. The British were "great cod-liver oil enthusiasts," using it as a remedy for many ailments. The remaining organs and bones were used as fertilizer (though until the 20th century Icelanders softened the bones in sour milk and ate them too). By the way a number of historic cod recipes are included.
Codfish include ten families with more than 200 species, nearly all of which live in cold salt water in the Northern Hemisphere, though there is one tropical species (the tiny bregmaceros, of no commercial importance), one South Atlantic species, and one freshwater type, the burbot (enjoyed by lake fishermen). To the commercial fishermen, there are but five kinds of gadiform fish, the Atlantic cod, haddock, pollock, whiting, and hake (and increasingly a sixth form, the Pacific cod). The Atlantic cod is the largest, has the whitest meat, and is generally but not always the most highly prized (Icelanders prefer haddock, as do Nova Scotians and those in northern England and Scotland). Cod though "is the prize," in demand for centuries as a cheap, long-lasting source of nutrition and now as an increasingly expensive delicacy.
The Pilgrims settled was then called North Virgina, hoping to make a profit from the cod fishery. Cod shaped the economies of both Newfoundland and New England, though quite differently. The Newfoundland economy was built around Europeans arriving, catching cod for a few months, and then taking the fish back to Europe, but New England, with its ice-free harbors, longer growing season, and arable land attracted far more settlers. Additionally, cod spawned off the coast of southern New England in the height of winter while in the summer in Newfoundland (which would conflict with any Newfoundland farming season). Cod built Boston, as it was a product Europe and European colonies wanted and something that gave the population money to spend on European goods. Eventually Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, lacking internal markets or population, became fishing outposts serviced by and servicing Boston. Salt cod merchants of New England saw a huge market in the Caribbean for their wares, as food for slaves on sugar plantations, enabling the sugar industry to thrive and further enriching New Englanders. So rich did this trade make the colonies that England worried they would no longer need the mother country and sought to reassert control starting with the Molasses Act in 1733 and eventually the hated Stamp Act, one of several things that lead to the American Revolution. One of the seeds for another war was sown thanks to disagreements among American delegates following the war, as Southerners complained that the interests of nine states were being sacrificed by the demands of fishing rights to British waters by the other four, creating one of the first North-South splits in the U.S.
The cod stood little chance against an ever improving fishing industry. Kurlansky covered the evolution of cod fishing, showing how each new innovation -long lining, gill nets, the otter trawl, the steam engine, innovations in freezing food, the advent of the factory ship - allowed for ever larger catches of cod to be landed and sold but also in the end doomed the fishery. Not only were too many fish caught, some of the new methods were quite destructive, as some of the huge trawl nets devastated the seafloor, leaving behind deserts, bereft of cover or animal life.
Many early attempts at conservation failed. Mesh size was tried, but once a net became filled with enough fish, few fish of any size can escape. Quotas were issued, eventually for individual ships, but that was of no help as fishermen would radio the shore to find what the fish were worth and if the market price was too low, would dump the fish - all already dead - and save their quota for another day.
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In this book, two leading experts on community action provide the first scholarly examination of the civic renewal movement that has emerged in the United States in recent decades. Sirianni Friedland examine civic innovation since the 1960s as social learning in four arenas (community organizing/development, civic environmentalism, community health, and public journalism), and they link local efforts to broader networks and to the development of "public policy for democracy." They also explore the emergence of a movement for civic renewal that builds upon the civic movements in these four arenas.
In contrast to some recent studies that stress broad indicators of civic decline, this study analyzes innovation as a long process of social learning within specific institutional and policy domains with complex challenges and cross-currents. It draws upon analytical frameworks of social capital, policy learning, organizational learning, regulatory culture, democratic theory, and social movement theory. The study is based upon interviews with more than 400 innovative practitioners, as well as extensive field observation, case study, action research, and historical analysis.
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Lots of material, but very weak analysis.......2002-11-21
This book contains several very readable chapters that review organizations, movements and projects that any student of social action and community advocacy should be aware of. Sadly, the book leaves out any effort smacking of controversy or campaigns dealing with identity (where some of the largest efforts today at social change come from). Worse still, it paints controversy in change efforts as backwards. Several of the projects covered are also elite-directed, and not very participatory. The real nail in the coffin, however, is that their analysis is at the level of simply reporting "what people told us." E.g., the authors never ask if purported results are real, or should be truly attributed to the campaigns in question.
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- The northerners, a study in the reign of King John,
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- The Privateering Earl: George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, 1558-1605 (Biography, Letters & Diaries)
- THE RULING HOUSE OF MONACO, THE STORY OF A TRAGIC DYNASTY
- The Silicon Boys: And Their Valley of Dreams
- The Silver Queen: Her Royal Highness Suzanne Bransford Emery Holmes Delitch Engalitcheff 1859-1942
- The Sudan Journal of Ismay Thomas
- The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronant's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds (Audio Editions)
- The Wild Child: The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (Free Press Paperbacks)
- Thomas Basin 1412-1490: The History of Charles VII & Louis XI (Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, 57)
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