When one reads this book, they should keep in mind that this was written in an era when astrology was rather to new to the masses and by an individual who revolutionized modern astrology...making it less of a taboo and re-creating it on a level that anyone could understand.
For a serious astrologer, I do feel she places more emphasis on generalization than I think is necessary, however, I revert to say once more Your place in the SUN says it all.
Ms. Adams' method of explaining each sign and planet revolves around creating them as individuals with characteristics interacting with one another. I believe this is a very helpful method when teaching astrology to beginners.
If you can find this book, I would suggest holding on to it.

I liked Lee Adams Young's book. As a scientist, Young has lived in a world of discovering Nature's secrets. His extensive interest and research into the Bible, Lexicon and many other tomes dealing with religion and the hereafter launch the reader on a voyage of a new perspective in dealing with the concept of 'Heaven'. This book should be read by anyone who has ever pondered about the many conflicts found in the Bible and the Bibles' influence on much of the world's peoples. I consider it recommended reading for anyone who has an interest in the world's religions and their influence on the equality of women.

This is one of the classic modern campaign supplements for Call of Cthulhu, and I'm surprised to see it still available 13 years later. There's a lot of good ideas to mine here, but I've never known anyone to run it without major modifications. It seems like everyone hates different sections. The root problem is, it's too all-over-the-place: Too many widely divergent scenarios, themes, and creatures, haphazardly slapped together. Even so, there are a lot of parts that I love, and some bits--such as Mr. Shiny, Tcho-tcho restaurants, Dawn Biozyme, and the City of Samson--have become enduring parts of CoC canon.

What I'd really like to see is a total makeover of this supplement, along the lines of the redone Day of the Beast and Masks of Nyarlathotep. The scenarios could be made more consistent, the monsters more logically related (I mean, really, why would shoggoths and cthonians work together in a vast consipracy? Gimme a break.). And it's a perfect opportunity to add a chapter on how to turn the whole thing into a Delta Green mission.

This book serves as an excellent companion to geology students in describing and identifying sedimentary rocks under a polarized microscope. The pictures are clear and colored. The descriptions are brief, but very informative.

In 1938 the 2,000 page diary of William Johnson of Natchez, Mississippi was discovered along with numerous other personal and legal documents. The widow of Johnson's grandson made possible the publication of the diary in 1951 which led to publication of The Barber of Natchez in 1954.

This book is relevant to the history of the U.S. because of its detailed, up-close portrait of one city--Natchez, Mississippi--in the antebellum period. Further enhancing the books value is that the barber, William Johnson, was a free Negro. And while Johnson had enough education to create an extensive, if not acute, sixteen-year chronicle, he could not foresee the impending cataclysm of Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow. Johnson's diary, therefore, is important because of its unvarnished, unintellectualized objectivity.

Johnson was scrupulously honest, but his integrity, while known by many, could not change the color of his skin. Neither would industry or imagination, both of which he possessed. He ultimately would dwell in a sort of nether-world between white society and slavery. And his disdain for the local white trash of Natchez reaffirmed his status as a man with no true place in the world. From birth he was banished.

In antebellum Mississippi true freedom was contingent upon skin color, although a modicum of freedom would be acccorded to a mulatto who aspired to live as a white man. It was this limited acceptance that Johnson pursued relentlessly throughout his short life. And his murder in 1851 was committed with naked impunity, as if Johnson had never been free at all.

Organized thematically by chapters covering every facet of Johnson's existence, The Barber of Natchez paints a vivid picture of everyday life in the Old South. While supplemented occaisonally with other primary sources, the book relies first and foremost on the diary of William Johnson, which is recreated with its imperfect grammar, spelling errors, and archiac slang. A daguerreotype of the diariest is reproduced and there are no maps or diagrams of any kind.

Well thought out and intersting progression of the Barbizon school and its influence on impressionism, and the art world at large. Compelling historical account for the non-art lover as well.

The life of an unattached woman in England was not always an easy one. Even when the woman has some talent, as inherited from her parents (Henry Mayhew, the tragedian, and his wife, Sophia Thredbourne, known as Madame Palestrini) Elmira Mayhew did not find the success she might have expected. Now, rather middle-aged, but persistent in her pursuit of a career as a singer, Elmira is on her way to Barbury Hall, having been invited there to perform for her cousin, Drusilla, who is now the Viscountess Barbury.

Traveling with her accompanist, M. Mauvoisin, they are accosted by a highwayman before they get there, and the handsome dastard steals the small diamond pin from the cover of Elmira's scrapbook. Elmira and M. Mauvoisin had been rehearsing a song attributed to the tragic Marie Antoinette, the only copy of said song being in the possession of M. Mauvoisin.

Poor Elmira, doomed to constant disillusionment. While her parents traveled in pursuit of their careers, she was sent to Miss Parkington's Academy for Young Ladies, and it was while she was there, that the sad news was brought to her -- her parents had died in a fire in Trieste. Elmirea then became a governess until, in 1814, she was taken up by the Dowager Countess of Withington, and became something of a success as a singer/actress.

To her greater distress, Barbury Hall is great pile, incredibly disorganized, with secret stairways and a totally incompetent staff. Of course it is Miss Mayhew who, in the middle of the night, discovers the body of the elderly, lecherous Viscount, stabbed, a scrap of paper clutched tightly in his fist. Then begins the chase. She is a genteel combination of Miss Marple and Mrs Malaprop.

All of the traditional house party guests may be found at Barbury Hall; beautiful young women, handsome young and not-so-young gentlemen, including of course, the dandy and the scalawag! Soon a second murder occurs, and after accusing nearly everyone in turn of the murders, some more than once, finally, Elmira accuses her cousin of both murders. Not so. Drusilla certainly knew the identity of the highwayman, but after all, he was only accumulating funds, so they could run off together.

This is a well-plotted, engaging mystery set during the English Regency. There is even the occasional nod to romance, and those who read and enjoy the latter genre should enjoy this book as well. The author has mastered the Regency 'voice' and sprinkles the words of that special language throughout. A super critical person might wish for a better proof-reader, but for a first book, one could also do much worse! Actually, this reader wishes for more of Miss Mayhew.

I have used the Cooke text in teaching electronics math for a few years now. The treatment is thorough if a bit technical. If you want a good math book without electronics theory look elsewhere. The electronics is rigorous but the book is a good companion to Grob's Basis Electronics.

In Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals, editors Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams bring together seven articles on ecofeminism, an ethic of care, and animal liberation from a variety of perspectives. As a whole, the collection seeks to apply a feminist ethic to the philosophies of well-known figures such as Tom Regan and Peter Singer. Working through a feminist lens, the anthology attempts to propose an appropriate mode of behavior through exploration of contextual relationships between humans and non-human animals. Animal liberation is discussed in reference to the current dominating theories and to a new proposed ethic of care.
Feminist critiques of philosophers such as Regan and Singer suggest that although these men condemn Cartesian scientific practices for their lack of consideration of the worth of moral beings, they in fact use these Cartesian objectivist modes of reasoning to suppress emotional knowledge with hierarchical systems of natural rights or utilitarianism, respectively (p 45). The persistence of these mainstream philosophers in denying their appeal to emotion when analyzing the case for animal rights shows their biased masculinist perspective that does not take into account the very real epistemology of emotion and sympathy. It is this sympathy, feminists like Josephine Donovan claim, that ultimately has driven vegetarians and animal rights activists to their defining behaviors. Since one does not oppose cruelty to animals on logistical claims of fairness (as in, 'I oppose the systematic slaughtering of animals because such treatment of humans is not tolerated!'), but out of very real emotional sympathy for the animals, an ethic of care must be accepted in the animal rights movement and not dismissed as weak or irrational. Both Regan and Singer argue in favor of a justice approach, claiming that a caring ethic is not enough to sustain the animal liberation movement. Feminists declare that these claims are based on the philosophers' low estimations of the human capacity to sympathize. However, author Brian Luke proves these estimates inaccurate by revealing the extensive mechanisms employed to undermine sympathetic opposition to animal exploitation such as rationales of divine permission, 'cover stories' like human need of animal medical research and food, denying the harms caused to the animals and shielding the public from them, etc. (p 81). These attempts at guiding the public away from sympathy for animals show how powerful emotion is in dictating one's actions. An ethic based on sympathy is determined by Josephine Donovan to be appropriate and useful as it is a 'complex intellectual as well as emotional exercise' that pushes one toward animal liberation out of compassion for the animal and its well-being in exploitative circumstances (p 149).
Feminist ethics redefine rights and cross-species identity to be relational, contextual, and mutually accommodating, affording non-human animals rights to themselves, regardless of how identical to (or different from) humans they are (p 63). An ethic of care essentially tries to undermine the private/public dichotomy that keeps appeals to emotion in general and sympathy for animals in particular from their rightful place in the animal liberation movement, while creating contexts where care can thrive as non-exploitative. This contextualist ethic of care does not require (as popular animal liberation theory does) that one consider all interests as though no relationship existed between any of the parties, nor does it view animal rights as a contest between competitors for moral standing based on applied rules. This ethic also refrains from popular debate about the abstract 'right to life'. Instead, an ecofeminist caring ethic recognizes the role that our relationships with others play in our understanding of a situation and creates a central place for values of friendship and trust (p 61). Ecofeminist Rita C. Manning introduces an 'ethic of magic', in which the earth is recognized as a sacred living body of connected parts, all of which are deserving of respect and care. Humans should care about the natural world and all of its animal constituents because of the similarities in humans and non-humans, because of the role that animal care plays in the building of our character, and because some animals are genuinely entitled to care because they are as valuable as humans (p 103).
The issue of diet is looked at from a feminist perspective to reveal that our use of animals as food is not a gender-neutral issue. Language places positive slants on the consumption of animal flesh ('a meaty question'), while associating women and passivity with both vegetarians and vegetables ('watching TV will turn you into a vegetable'). In addition, the dairy and egg industries exploit the reproductive capacities of the female. An ecofeminist caring ethic calls for an end to the violent consumption of animals as food. Ecofeminist thought reveals the connection between the body and the self, claiming that our bodily selves develop a framework for violence when we inflict violence needlessly (when eating meat) (p 72).
Carol J. Adams addresses assumptions about women in a care-giving role in Western patriarchal culture in regards to an ethic for the treatment of non-human animals. She claims the autonomous rational being to be an illusion, revealing that men are as much or more so relational than women as they rely so heavily upon their relationships with women. The fact that they depend on the invisibility of women's caring activities is what allows men an illusionary façade of the autonomous rational individual (p 172). This shows that the patriarchal culture that we live in has created (in addition to the systems of animal exploitation in place today), contemporary animal rights philosophy that reflect patriarchal values. A feminist approach to looking at both animal exploitation and animal liberation emphasizes the value of caring and nurturing in the relationship between humans and non-human animals, rather than an objective, non-relational, 'rational' look at the exploitation of animals, and determining it morally unacceptable.

I HAVE THIS BOOK, MY DAUGTHER AND I HAVE READ THIS AND IT REALLY HELP HER TO UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT THE BIBLE. WE ALSO GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE BACK THEN. YOU WILL LOVE THIS BOOK.