Kakaku：
Trafford Publishing
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (A relative) 『Not only was this a terrific story, but even more interesting, since it's my family she writes about! I remember my mother talking about the missing cousin. I started reading and didn't stop until I read the whole book. It's sad that I never got to meet her when she came to St. Louis. She is now deceased. I would have loved to have shown her pictures of her father as a boy, along with the rest of the family. I am listed in the back, Myra Rogers (Punky), the grandaughter of the Uncle, Ernest Friton.』
(It's a "history mystery") 『The sign of a good book is when you are very sorry to turn the last page! I liked the fact this book combines an interesting mystery with a facts about the United States during the 1920s to 1960s. There are lots of fascinating old pictures to pour over.』
(A Changed Man, An Old Army Mystery) 『This is a fascinating true mystery! The historical comments are interesting as well. Much of the book reads like a "Little House" book, except for adults, and about a different time period. Humorous anecdotes add a personal touch. The author goes back and forth between the mystery of why her father changed his identity and left his family, to her mother's extensive memoirs of the period between 1919 and 1980, to things happening with her father's family in St. Louis, to world history events. The book is full of photographs stratecically placed. A recommended read!』 『Ruskin Friton (the author's father) disappears from his loving family in St. Louis, and serves in the US Army under a different name during World War I. He marries an Army nurse, Margaret Kumpman, who knows him only as Thomas Burton. Daughter Betty, who has been researching this unsolved mystery for 10 years, wants help from readers.』 fetish『 Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America 』
Chris Dixon
Kakaku：
Duke University Press
Usually ships in 3 to 5 weeks IPhone 3G used's review (My love was true...my patch of sky was splendid) 『THE THIRD AND ONLY WAY, REFLECTIONS ON STAYING ALIVE by Helen Bevington, Duke University Press (Durham and London) 1996.
Helen Bevington tells us early in the book, that it is the story of her resolution to live beyond solitude and despair. Early in life she determined to escape this destiny, to live a third way, even if not yet having found it or knowing where to look.
Thus like Don Quijote answer to Sancho's "Where-to today?" she goes abreast: "That is as it may turn out." As it turns out, Helen writes all her life, ; and in this book as in some others, she writes just about anyone: writers, poets, famous and infamous figures in history , common and uncommon ways of life of men and women.
We learn of St. Francis wearing bells on his sandals for the benefit of earthworms, of Ninon de Lenclos, the seventeenth century "grande cocotte" (or "grande horizontale" if you want) "her succession of lovers and valued friends...the Great Conde (with whom she spoke Latin in bed), La Rochefoucauld, the crippled poet Scarron, ...Saint Evremond, who loved her most of the seventeenth century and part of the eighteenth,...Moliere, (and the rumored turned down) Cardinal Richelieu.''
She tells us "that writing causes women to become oddly out of focus...recluses and spinsters of Victoria's time--Emily Bronte Christine Rossetti, Emily Dickinson--and deplore they hadn't become wives and mothers, healthy and well adjusted...The talented ones in our time too seemed out of sync, retiring souls living sheltered and unwed in a Southern town, like Eudora Welty; spinsters monstrously fat like Amy Lowell, fey like Marianne Moore, flaky like Edith Sitwell, mad like Gertrude Stein; women embattled like Mary McCarthy, oversexed like Erica Jong, suicidal like Virginia Woolfe, Sylvia Plath, Ann Sexton."
Helen Bevington continues saying that she seems "to forget the reason for her writing at all. It is, she says, the only way (she) knows to escape the solitude that attacks (her), the fear of being without occupation, the terror of living for a lifetime alone. Through books and more books--always books to banish the clouds--you can begin to look more closely at someone else's life, where it is going and finally how it ends."
This has been for her much of her "third way." She asks herself where has the search for a third way taken her? "By staying alive, what have I learned? To stand alone. To keep the forked end down (?)"... The third way may become the "third and only way," the mirvana of Buddha , the still center of Eliot or Yeats.
"As for the obligation not to be unhappy, not even God manages that...For years I hated my solitude, having no talent for it, till it came to seem less a predicament than a company of one, nature's beneficent plan to set me free...of undue hope of a new dispensation, free not to care. Most of all, not to care."
Then add this memorandum , Helen, Remindful of a world that ended: Say that my love for him was true, Say that my patch of sky was splendid...
Helen Bevington, A MEMORANDUM OF IT 』
("It takes courage") 『Helen Bevington passed away in March 2001, a 94-year-old author and poet, who wrote a 1965 memoir, "Charley Smith's Girl," that included details about love affairs in the rural Otsego County town where she grew up. One of these affairs involved her father, Charley, a Methodist minister. The book was controversial enough to be banned in 1965 by the Worcester Free Library. Knowing this, "The Third and Only Way" speaks to the courage of her mother, "who survived without lament", compared to her father, who lived a life of despair. Bevington assures us through her vignettes of uncommon women like Simone de beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, Beatrix Potter and many others. She demonstrates there is a third and more hopeful way to live one's life, deviating from that portended by one's family. A compelling read, her lyrical style is mesmerizing and wrought with lots of tabloid details.』 『A literary scholar confronts old age after her father's suicide and the suicide of her son after an automobile accident, appealing to literary figures in her flight from solitude and search for renewal.UP.』 『An impressive and touching collection of essays contemplating the travails of life and the comfort found in the lives and works of literary idols. Inspired by such memoirists as Michel de Montaigne, T. S. Eliot, Anton Chekhov, and Wallace Stevens, Helen Bevington weaves the details of her rich and full life into wise and entertaining reflections on the meaning of it all.』
Kakaku：
Transaction Publishers
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Brilliant, Insightful--if speculative) 『One of the few sociological books I have read that deserves the descriptions "brilliant" and "exciting." The author traces the decline in ethical individualism and the ideal of the ethical state in Britain between the late 19th century and the 1950s and 1960s. This old belief is replaced by something she calls causalism. The former rested on the principle that "the main purpose of public policy was to reward the virtuous, portect the innocent nad penalize the wicked." In the causalist vision of the world, the purpose of policy is to "minimize harm in aggregate regardless of the dessert." Further: "Moralism assumed the existence of the autonomous and responsible indivdiual frely choosing betwen modes of conduct. Causalism, by contrast, assumed thathe actions of individuals were to a large extend cased by their circumstance."
The author traces the replacement of the old order of things by the new causalism by examining the langage of debates over capital punishment, abortion and homosexuality. She also uses sociological and anthropological data to buttress her arguments.
The book concludes by arguing that the new language of causalism undermines the traditional notions of national sovereignty.
The book is brilliantly, if speculatively, argued. The author frequently makes comparisons to the United States, arguing that in Britain the state is conceived of as moral, unlike the States where the individual tends to take moral precedence. She has interesting observations on the connection (or lack of connection) between the "family values" movement and treatment of homosexuals.
The book should be read by people from the political left and right. THe book is less about the "decline of morality" as the title might imply, than the rise of a new form of power operative in modern British (and European) society. The author occasionally lets her preferences show and she does not consider the possiblity that Britain may retain its moral stature--despite not retaining medieval attitudes towards cap. punishment, homosexuality and abortion.
Nevertheless, a must read.』 『In the last half of the twentieth century, a once respectable and religious Britain became a seriously violent and dishonest society, one in which person and property were at risk, family breakdown ubiquitous, and drug and alcohol abuse rising. "The Strange Death of Moral Britain" demonstrates in detail the roots of Britain's decline. It also shows how a society, strongly Protestant in both morality and identity, became one of the most secular societies in the world. The culture wars about abortion, capital punishment, and homosexuality that have convulsed the United States have little meaning in Britain, where there is neither a moral majority nor an indigenous emphasis on rights. In the period when Britain had a strong national and religious identity, defense of this identity led to legal persecution of male homosexuals. As Britain's identity crumbled, homosexuality ceased to be an important issue for most people. Similarly, all the pressing questions on abortion, capital punishment, and homosexuality were settled permanently on a purely utilitarian basis in Britain, where all sources of moral argument are weak. The ending of the death penalty marked the decline of the influence of the official hierarchies of church and state, the Church of England, the armed forces, and their representative, the Conservative Party. "The Strange Death of Moral Britain" is a study of moral change, secularization, loss of identity, and the growth of deviant behavior in Britain in the twentieth century. Based on detailed scholarship, it is a tightly argued and clearly written volume that will be of interest to scholars of religious studies and British social history.』 fetish『 West Texas Tales: 1925?1933 』
Donnie Kingman
Kakaku：
iUniverse, Inc.
Usually ships in 24 hours 『Sitting at the breakfast table in the old farmhouse on the hill, Mama holding the baby and Daddy buttering the kidsÂ’ biscuits while theyÂ’re hot, helps tell the story of a familyÂ’s struggles and joys during the drought and depression on a West Texas farm.
This story by the author ofOdyssey of Innocentsis her memory as a young girl from 1925 to 1933.
Each chapter contains an incident of family life: going to a Medicine show, the Pie Supper, making lye soap, and when the Watkins man came, all big events. Other stories of being frightened by screams of a mountain lion and a brave five-year-old boy helping his mother kill a rattlesnake.
Lessons learned at school, picking cotton and wishing for rain are a part of life. Coping with a family tragedy, a tornado and crop loss, the family never looses hope for a better life.
Wonderful illustrations and great country recipes help make this book an unforgettable work.
Kakaku：
Palgrave Macmillan
Usually ships in 24 hours 『
Stories of twins are told with astonishing frequency in contemporary culture. Films and novels from recent decades repeatedly tell of the stranglehold of brotherly love, the evil twin who steals her sister's lover, the homicidal mutant twin, the reunion of twins separated at birth, warring twins, and confusion between look-alikes. Juliana de Nooy asks why we keep telling twin tales and how these have been transformed in recent retellings to reflect the preoccupations of the times.
Kakaku：
Shoreline
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Kakaku：
Broadview Press
『The Girl’s Own Paper, founded in 1880, both shaped and reflected tensions between traditional domestic ideologies of the period and New Woman values in the context of the figure of the New Girl. These selections from the journal demonstrate the efforts of its publisher (the Religious Tract Society) to combat the negative moral influence of sensational popular literature while at the same time addressing the desires of its audience for exciting reading material and information about topics mothers could not or would not discuss.
Selected fiction gives a rich sense of the conventions and the domestic ideology of the time; the nonfiction prose ranges from essays on conduct and household management to articles on new opportunities in education and work.』
『In this analysis of Victorian medical history, Professor Smith places the patient at the centre of his study. Structuring the text around the progression of human life - childbirth, infancy, childhood and youth, adults and old age - the author recounts in detail the ignorance and malpractice responsible for the very high mortality rates. Numerous medical and lay writings are used to reveal the chaotic state of the 19th-century medicine, and the reader is made very aware that the improvements to the nation's health owed far more to developments in sanitation, better housing and living conditions than to advances in medical science. The study concludes with an examination of the relevance of the Victorian experience to present-day medical care.』
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