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The great migration begins : immigrants to New England, 1620-1633
Published in Unknown Binding by Fromm Intl ()
Author: Robert Charles Anderson
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Excellent genealogy resource for New England.
The author, sponsored by NEHGS, has written a comprehensive 3 volumne genealogical document of everyone known to have lived in New England between 1620-1633. This book brings many well know sources together for a researcher. Its a 'must have' for anyone with roots in New England!


Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635
Published in Hardcover by New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999)
Author: Robert Charles Anderson
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Great 1st Volume of Six
The book continues the super work of "The Great Migration Begins," published in 1996...

The internet, ancestry CD's and even a lot of the IGI is filled with so much genealogical fantasy that it is always refreshing to see serious scholarship, and nobody has ever done a better job with seventeenth century New England emigrants than Robert Charles Anderson. His Great Migration Project was brilliantly conceived and is being painstakingly carried forward.


Hammering Hot Iron: A Spiritual Critique of Bly's Iron John
Published in Paperback by Quest Books (1993)
Author: Charles Upton
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read this book
This is a very good book - if you are lucky enough to find a copy and wish to read and think about real questions this book may be for you. I feel very grateful to the author for this work.

Charles Upton challenges Robert Bly's interpretation of the Grimm's fairly tale Iron John, an interpretation which had a strong impact on a generation of confused men looking for answers about what it means to be a man. Upton's critique draws from the perspective of the traditionalist school of writers - notably the French metaphysician Rene Guenon - and presents a profound alternative reading of the fairy tale in which the question of what it means to be a man is eclipsed by the greater question of what it means to be truly human.

Upton writes: '...Bly states that his intention is to talk about male initiation alone. My intention is to try and situate this initiation in its greater context, that of the attainment of the fully human state.'


A Hidden Place
Published in Paperback by Spectra (1989)
Author: Robert Charles Wilson
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fascinating fantasy
After his mother dies, Travis Fisher travels to the Midwest town of Haute Montagne to live with his Aunt Liza Burack and her husband Creath. It is the Great Depression and jobs are hard to come by so Travis works for Creath at his ice plant. The Baracks have a strange but beautiful boarder named Anna living in their attic and Travis is attracted to her even though she sleeps with Creath.

Travis starts dating Nancy Wilcox who wants to help Anna escape from Creath. Anna begs Travis to take Anna to a safe place before she starts changing. With Nancy's help he succeeds, but also glimpses Anna in her other form and knows she is not human. He leaves and Nancy watches over Anna until she completes the change. Anna is also waiting for her other half before she can return to her home world, but Haute Montagne is on the verge of exploding and Travis, Nancy, Anna and her other half could get caught in the middle of vigilante justice.

A HIDDEN PLACE is a fascinating work of fantasy starring two misfits who see themselves through an alien's myopic eyes. Nancy's easy acceptance of Anna's origins and Travis's rejection of her is a reflection of the lives they lived up to this point. Anna is a complex character who can see the beauty in humanity, which is the reason Nancy is so willing to help her. Travis is also a complicated person running from a past he can't accept and a future he doesn't believe in unless he makes peace with the mother he both loved and hated.

Harriet Klausner


The Human Nervous System: Structure and Function
Published in Paperback by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (1996)
Authors: Charles R. Noback, Norman L. Strominger, and Robert J. Demarest
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Good intro to the human CNS
This reference has been a widely used university text introducing the human nervous system. Chapters on neurophysiology and neurodevelopment are followed by a consideration of sensory and motor functionality, and examination of components of the central nervous system.


Industrial Fluid Power
Published in Paperback by Womack Education Publications (1984)
Authors: Charles S. Hedges and Robert C. Womack
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concise and well presented
This text is the perfect start text for those interested in thefiled of industrial hydraulics. The author presents this somewhatconfusing subject in a manner incredibly clear and concise. Thecoverage is broad, allowing the author to expose the reader to various aspects of pumps, cylinders, valves and accessories. Continue reading the remaining 3 in this series for greater detail into various segments of the hydraulic fluid power aspects of valves, pumps and cylinders.

Overall a perfect starter text for those interested in the field.


Inside the Green Berets
Published in Paperback by Berkley Pub Group (1986)
Authors: Charles M. Simpson and Robert B. Rheault
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A book worth searching for.
Inside the Green Berets by Bill Simpson (Col. Charles M. Simpson III USA Ret. Written a year before his death in 1984, documents the history of the US Special Forces through the Viet Nam conflict.


John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West
Published in Hardcover by Hudson Hills Pr (1998)
Authors: Patricia Junker, Henry Adams, Charles C. Eldredge, Robert L. Gambone, M. Sue Kendall, Lucy J. Mathiak, and Theodore F. Wolff
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Definitive Tribute to an Important American Artist
At last, John Curry has a book in print worthy of his art. Ms. Junker has suceeded in paying a noble yet sadly overdue tribute to this unique and often neglected artist. Curry's paintings capture the emotion and natural force of American scenes in a way that was very much his own. Works like "Tornado over Kansas" and the scene of John Brown in "A Tragic Prelude" embody some of the greatest expressions of conflict to be found in American art.


Kipton and the Android (The Kipton Chronicles, Book 8)
Published in Paperback by Royal Fireworks Press (1997)
Authors: Charles L. Fontenay and Mary Hanson-Roberts
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a classic paradox
Now seventeen, Kipton is on another case of murder on the planet Mars in the 8th novel of the Kipton Chronicles.
Fontenay, a master storyteller, has once again combined the best elements of science fiction with those of the mystery genre in a very fascination story that is filled with interesting characters like gruff, who helps her solve the puzzling tale. Fontenay has also included the Asimov Laws of Robotics for the Android character who has confessed to the murder that sets
up the rest of the novel.


The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin
Published in Hardcover by New York Review of Books (12 March, 2001)
Authors: Mark Lilla, Ronald Dworkin, Robert B. Silvers, Aileen Kelly, Steven Likes, Avishai Margalit, Thomas Nagel, Charles Taylor, Michael Walzer, and Bernard Williams
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Mark Lilla and Ronald Dworkin together???
Can't wait to see this one. Lilla and Dworkin is like a collaboration between Ken Vandermark and Wynton Marsalis.


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