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Cosmos Crumbling American Reform and the Religious Imagination
In the forty years before the Civil War, America rang with the cry of reform. Abolitionists stormed against the cruelties of slavery. Temperance zealots hounded producers and consumers of strong drink. Sabbatarians fought to make Sunday an officially recognized sacred day. Women's rights activists proclaimed the case for sexual equality. Others offered programs of physiological and spiritual self-reform: phrenology, vegetarianism, the water-cure, spiritualism, and miscellaneous others. 'Even the insect world was to be defended', Emerson mused, 'and a society for the protection of ground-worms, slugs, and mosquitoes was to be incorporated without delay'. Cosmos Crumbling brilliantly reassesses the religious roots of these antebellum reform movements through a series of penetrating profiles of key men and women who sought to remake their worlds in sacred terms. Filled with vivid anecdotes and penetrating analysis, the book presents a genealogy of reform cosmology that begins with the American Revolution and ends with 'the woman question', the issue that drove a wedge between traditional evangelical reformers and the more radical reformers who questioned the very foundations of the conventional Christian cosmos. Here is the story of Declaration of Independence signer Benjamin Rush and his lifelong odyssey to bring together his unorthodox Christian ideals and his revolutionary republicanism. Other portraits highlight the guiding role of religion in the careers of the tireless abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, the evangelical minister Lyman Beecher and his daughter, influential educational reformer Catharine Beecher, as well as of Angelina and Sarah Crimke, and Lydia Maria Child, fearlesswomen who made enormous strides in reimagining the spiritual and moral power of women and their place in society. There is also an intriguing chapter on leaders of the body reforms, including phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler, who began his career reading the heads of his fellow students at Amherst College for small change, and William Andrus Alcott, who advocated a bland vegetarian diet, cold water bathing, and a profusion of daily rituals to guide his followers through their every waking moment. Arguing that we cannot understand American reform movements unless we understand the sacred significance reformers bestowed on the worldly arenas of politics, society, and the economy, Abzug presents these men and women in their own words, placing their cherished ideals and their often heated squabbles within the context of their millennial and sometimes apocalyptic sense of America's role in the cosmic drama. Tracing the lasting impact of what began as a peculiarly Protestant, largely New England, style of social action on the uniquely American traditions of activism that flourish today, Cosmos Crumbling is a signal contribution to our understanding of the myriad ways in which the quest for enlightenment and salvation continues to shape American politics. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461720512
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Warpaths Invasions of North America
A history of the numerous attempts of European invaders to conquer North America details the successful efforts of the Native American peoples to repel these invasions - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461720536
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Essentials of Tat and Other Storytelling Techniques Assessment
Provides quick-reference information for applying TAT, CAT, and other popular storytelling instruments in assessing personality using the popular Essentials of Psychological Assessment series format. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461720936
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Essentials of MMPI-A TM Assessment
The MMPI-A is the most frequently used objective personality instrument for adolescent psychopathology; it's based on the popular MMPI-2 for adults. Essentials of MMPI-A Assessment is the only comprehensive overview of this measure, packaged in a quick-reference format. It is a must for busy clinicians and students seeking valuable advice on administering, scoring, and interpreting this complex assessment tool. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461720941
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Essentials Of Neuropsychological Assessment
Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment provides quick reference information on selecting, administering, and interpreting neuropsychological assessment instruments, including the Halstead-Reitan and Luria-Nebraska batteries and the Boston Process. It also discusses other types of neuropsychological assessment, such as Premorbid Assessment (e.g., WASI, K-BIT), Memory (e.g., WMS-III, CVLT-II), Language (e.g., BDAE, K-SEALS), and numerous others. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461720945
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Greek Oratory Tradition and Originality
Some of the finest Greek writers - Demosthenes, Lysias, Antiphon - were also great orators. However, a number of other Greek writers who specialized purely in oratory have largely been overlooked by classicists. Usher addresses this imbalance by showing the diversity of the inherited rhetorical tradition, and by demonstrating through close critical examination how the individual characteristics of the orators were developed. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461720708
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*BUNDLE RECUERDOS-REV TXT+ACD+SAM+LABTAPE+CDR PKG
THE CONTENTS OF THIS PACKAGE INCLUDES: 003026748X > RECUERDOS/SALUDOS-CD-ROM > OZETE > 2000 0030267986 > RECUERDOS-SAM > OZETE > 2001 0030268060 > RECUERDOS-LAB TAPE > OZETE > 2000 0030342775 > RECUERDOS-REV TEXT+ACD PKG > OZETE > 2001 - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461117290
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The Avian Brood Parasites Deception at the Nest
This book discusses all of the world's nearly 100 species of obligatory brood parasites--those birds that reproduce only by laying their eggs in the nests of other species--and the ecological and evolutionary aspects of this remarkable behavioral adaptation. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124390
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Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Estimating Equations
The book also extends beyond simple root search algorithms to include a discussion of the testing of roots for consistency, and the modification of available estimating functions to provide greater stability in inference. A variety of examples from practical applications are included to illustrate the problems and possibilities thus making this text ideal for the research statistician and graduate student. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461410455
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What Price Love?
Jaded and disillusioned with love, Dillon Caxton, the protégé of Demon Cynster, has no time for marriage-minded young ladies, devoting himself to thwarting a criminal scheme threatening the thoroughbred racing world, but his plans take an unexpected turn when he meets beautiful Lady Priscilla Dalloway, in Newmarket to rescue her twin brother from a swindler. (Romance) - Books Reading - New - 461510536
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The Best of SAIL Magazine's Things That Work 200 Sea-Tested Improvements for Your Boat
Culled from 'Sail' magazine's 'Things That Work' column, these practical and ingenious boat improvements can make sailing easier, safer, and more fun. 130 illustrations. - Books Reading - New - 461571328
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The Complete Climber's Handbook
'Essential insights from a master of the sport.'--'Outside Magazine This outdoor classic, praised by major climbing magazines, is one of the leading guides to a sport that at least 7 million Americans enjoyed last year. 'The Complete Climber's Handbook is now fully revised to ride the crest of climbing's surging wave of popularity. - Books Reading - New - 461571354
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The Tao of Warren Buffett Warren Buffett's Words of Wisdom Quotations and Interpretations to Help Guide You to Billionaire Wealth and Enlightened Business Man
A collection of words of widom from the billionaire investor and philanthropist brings together Buffett's investment strategies, financial principles, and personal life philosophy as he shares the secrets of success. 125,000 first printing. - Books Reading - New - 461572950
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A Comprehensive Guide to Clematis
Provides descriptions of two hundred varieties of clematis, and offers advice on choosing, growing, and maintaining these flowers - Books Reading - New - 461718591
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