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If you were asked what historical New Englander loved solitude and independence, kept a life-long journal, combined interests in natural theology, idealist philosophy and romantic poetry, and influenced several of the most important thinkers of the 1800s, would you guess it was Ralph Waldo Emerson's aunt?

Author Phyllis Cole no doubt wrote this book primarily for other scholars. Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading it for several reasons. I love memoirs and biographies, and it is a detailed portrait of a remarkable and eccentric woman and of the difficult times she lived in. I have an interest in the evolution of ideas, and it describes how certain concepts were passed on and transformed through different lives and times. And I am fascinated by Transcendental philosophy, and here is the woman who, the author demonstrates, had such a profound influence on her nephew that Transcendentalism and all that came from it might not have existed in the same form without her.

Mary Moody Emerson was a woman who had to struggle against her times, which accounts for her later eccentricities. She lost her father early and grew up as almost a servant to her relatives, was never properly schooled but learned from the books she collected, avoided marriage and remained independent against the tide of her times, and sought self-expression through writing in her "Almanack," and through the influence she brought to bear on her friends and family. When Waldo and his brothers were still small children and their father, her brother, died, she stepped in to help raise the boys, and encouraged them all to be exceptional.

Always deeply religious, in her old age Mary looked forward to dying and took to wearing a white woolen shroud in anticipation. The author concludes, "Mary's famed death obsession was in fact a life obsession, a hunger for fulfillment perceived as impossible on earth." There is no surviving picture of Mary Moody Emerson, but this book is her remarkable portrait.

This well-written book is surprisingly engaging and inspirational for the potentially dry topic of finances. It provides recommendations for financial strategies across the career lifespan, clarifies financial planning concepts, and explores our psychological relationships with money that can either promote or inhibit our financial well-being. Even therapists who are not in private practice would gain from the insightful chapters on the emotional aspects of money for individuals and couples, and between therapist and client.

This VHS video is excellent and I highly recommend it for someone who is new to the Ti-83 series or Ti-84 series calculator. Its 105 minutes long and moves at a fast pace so be prepared to frequently pause and rewind the tape. Twelve topics are covered as follows: Basic Calculations, Graphing, Advanced Graphing, Matrix operations, Trigonometry, Parametric Equations, Polar Coordinates, Calculus, Statistics 1, Statistics 2, Statistics 3, and Programming Your Calculator.

This book and its author are amazing. I read this book years ago when first published. Since then I have purchased close to 3 dozen of them to give away. The results of this have been several saved marriages, and others who simply had comeplete turn arounds in their lives as a result of the impact of these teachings about correct manhood.Maximized Manhood: A Guide to Family Survival

This book helped me understand what it is to be a man.
I wish I had this book in my youth.I would have made all the
mistakes I did sexual,spritually,etc.Edwin Cole is a man truely
sent from GOD.ALL of his books are MOVING.
Mr.Cole I than you!

I am a mammalogist new to the field. I designed my first investigation, a mammalian bioinventory of a park in Costa Rica in 1999. The Wilson book was extremely helpful, and I cited it no less than 10 times in my permit application. I reccommend this publication to any persons hoping to work with mammals or currently employed sampling mammal diversity.

Most people are aware of the great historical contribution of the Cousin Jacks - amongst the finest miners in the world without whose expertise the tin, copper and gold mining industries in USA and Australia would not have succeeded. These expert craftsmen came from Cornwall in the British Isles but were not English. They were Cornish! Their rich dialect was just one of the many basic differences between them and the other immigrants from Britain. Today Cornish people are still proud of their differences - their culture, their history and most of all their LANGUAGE.
It would be anachronistic to use the term Cornish Language in application to the Cousin Jacks/ Cornish miners who came to America in the C19th. They spoke a dialect full of Cornish-derived vocabulary and may well have known many Cornish words. However, the Cornish Language had already died at least a century earlier, buried with the old lady Dorothy Pentreath in 1777 - she is traditionally reputed as being the last native speaker. While the beautiful and rich Cornish Dialect (as opposed to the Cornish Language) has never really died, the Cornish Language, like Modern Hebrew, has been successfully resurrected. Today there are a few thousand Cornishmen and Cornish ladies who can actually speak the ancient language of their forefathers ( a lovely mysterious language akin to Welsh and Breton) and there are even monoglot toddlers brought up in Cornish-speaking families who have not yet learnt English.
It is no wonder that with this acute sense of cultural identity which is evident in Cornwall, the Cornish people feel a great sense of national pride. Perhaps a logical progression from reviving their language was to revive a sense of national identity. It is therefore not surprising to see that many Cornish people today for cultural and historical reasons would like to see Cornwall (or Kernow as they call their beautiful land) independent from the rest of Britain and an autonomous state analogous with the Republic of Ireland. The Cornish people's nationalism is not a nationalism like that of Nazi Germany, despising other races; it is rather a sense of national awareness of and pride in their own culture. While most Cornishmen adamantly insist (correctly so) that they are NOT English, in no way do they have any prejudice against the English; indeed English visitors are invariably made most welcome and are often the first to appreciate the unique distinctiveness that is apparent as soon as they cross the Tamar into Cornwall.
The Cornish form of nationalism wishes to see Cornwall as an independent state with a Cornish Assembly living, as ever, in harmony with her English neighbours and friends, not in adversity. It would like through political means to achieve something similar to the bloodless Velvet Revolution that separated the Czechs from the very similar Slovaks (yet culturally the Cornish and English are much more distinct). This book is a readable and analytical examination of the Cornish struggle for independence and in particular a careful historical account of the Cornish National Party and Mebyon Kernow (literally 'sons of Cornwall'). Voters of this party (like voters for the Welsh equivalent Plaid Cymru) should feel satisfied that they can bear no share of the responsibility for Tony Blair's immoral invasion of Iraq (and for the ensuing terrorist reprisals which this evil man has provoked). Cornish Nationalism, like Welsh Nationalism is in its essence a pacifist ideology and Cornish national identity is expressed through living one's rich culture and language not in violence.
In history it is true that the Cornish were at times actively involved in battles against their English oppressors. The best example is the Cornish Rebellion of C15th in which a small host of 2,000 heroic Cornishmen were defeated by a much larger army just because they refused to pay an unjust tax to finance a war of aggression against Scotland. The leader An Gof (the Smith) was tortured and executed and has rightly been dubbed the 'Cornish Braveheart'. In recent years, as this book explains, the name An Gof came to be used for a pseudo-terrorist movement supposedly active a couple of decades ago in Cornwall. They were engaged not in killing but in blowing up government buildings etc. While real Cornish Nationalists of the time rightly condemned these acts as the work of fanatics, modern Cornish Nationalists doubt in retrospect whether these acts (attributed to the nebulous group named An Gof) were in fact the work of extremist Cornish Nationalists at all; but rather they were most likely the work of a dirty tricks capmaign organised by the press to disredit the real Cornish Nationalists and bring their cause into disrepute. An analogous example can be seen in modern Greek history where the 17th November (now an important school holiday) commemorates the heroic student uprising against the 'junta' at the Athens Polytechnic in 1973 in which several students were killed. Yet later the same name (i.e. 17th November) came to refer to a terrorist group (supposedly left wing but most probably with higher 'foreign' right wing backing). Cornish Nationalism has long recovered from the dirty attacks of those who have sought to misconstrue its goals. The movement is now strong and thriving. This book is a worthy and detailed historical analysis of this most remarkable cultural movement. It is also a tribute to a most interesting people. If you have difficulty in obtaining this through Amazon.com (I have found that Amazon can find practically EVERYTHING!!) then try the sister Amazon.uk branch. It is still in print.

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With Merlin's Kin, Everett Coles took me into a world I once dreamed of, filled with strange and beautiful creatures,fair maidens and chivalrous deeds. But more than that he made me believe it.
The story builds slowly as it tells how the teenagers got there, into Greensward, and how they have no idea how to leave or why they are there. It shows them making friends and enemies in equal measure until the group are separated and the story gathers pace.
By the end I was quite breathless with the pace, with wonderfully worked plot changes and the power of the Ley lines bringing out its own sort of magic. So much more satifying than Harry Potter not as dark as Pullman when is the next one due?

What greater legend to pay homage to than that of Merlin? Everett Coles has made tribute to the story that has inspired the world to hold onto the magic for just a bit longer. What if there were still descendants of the great Merlin out in the populace among us? What would happen if Merlin called to them from his soul's resting place? Would anyone answer the call?

In "Merlin's Kin," five young people do hear the call, and answer it, though they are not aware of their guided actions until they have traveled too far to turn back. One of them holds the key to the Seventh Way of travel, and together they must do Merlin's bidding, before it is too late.

There is an evil-minded ruler in power in the land of Greensward. Francis, Curtis, Zoe, Alison and Jude appear as visitors and are given refuge with a caravan of sorts. Before they can be delivered to the evil Calupsis though, they escape into the wilds that surround the town of Meander. They soon find friends who are willing to help them and devise a plan to find the Key Holder who can help them to return home. However, they were called to Greensward for a purpose, which is revealed to them through their dreams by the powers of Merlin himself.

This adventurous tale is a delight, full of twists and turns, surprises and wonderful creatures. Sure enough there are unicorns to be gazed upon but what is more magical is the legend of Merlin wound into a young adult story and the bond of friendship that grows among the characters. Various mystical creatures become integral parts of the plot and remnants of the Knights of the Round Table are brought into the light to be remembered.

Written for the young adult audience, this is a book that can be enjoyed by those aged 10 and up, adults included, boys and girls alike. Everett Coles has created a world you will long to revisit and a circle of friends who you will not soon forget.
(Review orignially written 11/29/04)