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Gilman was a woman who went through much pain and suffering this book tells of her life being taken away from her by her Psychiatrist whom she hated for the rest of her. She speaks of being put on the Rest Cure for Post-Pardom Depression and how the doctors told her not to have anymore children. She speaks of her 8 years being locked up in her own house and in an insane asylum and she tells how her doctor put her on a regamine for the rest of her life. She also speaks of how she was not able to write and generate what she loved most--writing; because her doctor told her not too. She speaks of her publication of her first short stories and "The Yellow Wallpaper" and many others of her stories. She also or the author also speaks of how Gilman commits suicide in the end. It gets really depressing, but you really see how Psychologists thought in the 19th century and how a great writer had to live her life.

Conrad gives new insight into this very interesting topic. This book opened my eyes, and changed my views on the effects of gender, sexuality, and nationalism on Irish political thought.

As a whole i thought this book was very good. Im not a big reader but i enjoy reading on sports history, and who better than the most famous coach in the NFL. It does a very good good on keeping you entertained. In the start of the book it kind of talks about his life when he was in highschool. It shows that he was very intrested in sports at a young age. His highschool was on the the best highschools around in football. Then it tells some great stories about when he was in college and then of course, tells about some of his best NFL games when he coached for the Packers. I really thought this was well written and it really kept me intrested through out the entire book. Then also another nest thing is in the back of the book it shows a bunch or stats that are just cool to look at. If you are a sports fan of any type, or just intresed in Vince Lombardi, then i really recommend this book.

College boxing as a national experiment lasted only a few decades. Its most popular and most successful team was coach John Walsh's University of Wisconsin Badgers, and this book is their story. They demonstrated all of boxing's fascinating contradictions, and exemplified the reasons for the college sport's boisterous birth and sudden death. While boxers were the most lionized athletes on campus, Walsh discouraged his students from thinking in terms of pro careers. Despite the fact that boxers enjoyed great camaraderie,even with their opponents, nothing in sport really parallels the personal physical attack of a hard punch to the face. And while boxing, with a blow heard round the college world, brought death to Wisconsin's Charlie Mohr in the ring in 1960, it brought a richer and fuller life to almost every other one of its participants. For some, it turned pretty dismal prospects into an open highway to success and fulfillment, and to all it offered a family of brothers that survived the decisions to pull the plug on boxing after the Mohr tragedy in 1960, and exists to the present day. Doug Moe's dogged resarch has yielded up a tale that paints the sunrise and the sunset of this most intimate of athletic competitions at the college level and, along the way, lays to rest what the Smithsonian Magazine was recently calling the "controversial" dispute concerning whether Mohr's death was really caused by a blow in the ring. All of the men whose memories went into this book are old now, and while they are going down swinging, they are leaving us. Anyone who has ever been captivated by the dizzying mysteries of the sweet science owes Doug Moe a debt for realizing that this story had to be told now if it were going to be told at all, and for telling so well that readers can shut their eyes and feel the excitement of 15,000 fans packing the old Fieldhouse as the house lights go down and two spotlit figures enter the ring.

No poet on Earth explores, reveals and revels in the big and small wonders of being human quite so compellingly as David Clewell. Not only is he a master poet, he is a profoundly humane human being, a man not afraid to feel deeply, to fall head-over-heels in love with real life in all its pop-cultural, kitschy glory, and to publicly share that love in language so infectious, personal and just plain F-U-N that your heart has little choice but to dance exuberantly along...

Yes, David's poems reference flying saucers, L.S.D, conspiracy theories and H.G. Wells... But that's not why you should read him. Read these poems because you care about language as art. Read these poems because you care about Humanity, about exploring and celebrating good, old fashioned earthy humanness, in all its strange-familiar guises. Read these poems to be reminded where life's pleasure most purely resides - in the fine details of every moment, in the hands and faces and quirky behavior of the people closest to us, in the syncopated rhythm of two hearts pressed together in the spooning embrace of sleep.

As Robin Williams phrased it in the film "Dead Poets Society":

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is full of passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering; these are noble pursuits necessary to sustain life, but poetry, beauty, romance, love... These are what we stay alive for..."

David Clewell "gets it." This is real poetry for real people. So, buy the book already, okay?

This book has more great stories about Caddie Woodlawn. If you enjoyed the first book then you will love this one.

Making The Modern Medical School: The Wisconsin Stories by Robert Oliver (Fellow in the Center for the Study of Cultures, Rice University) is a collection of true stories about the evolution of medical instructional facilities in Wisconsin. From faculty disputes to advances in medical science, the anecdotal stories and slices of "insider" history in Making The Modern Medical School is simply fascinating reading, and highly recommended for anyone who wants to know the real story behind what happens in Wisconsin's medical school environment in order to teach young men and women how to save lives.

The book is an awesome product. The colored photos is what makes this such a great field guide.

In the past scholars often depicted the rise of the factory system as a decisive step in the development of modern economic life, in many cases as a synonym for the industrial revolution. This emphasis, while understandable in terms of the contrast between the handicraft shop and the early factory, now seems less appropriate. If nothing else, the contrast between the large plant of the present day and its nineteenth-century predecessor suggests the need for a revised view. The following essays, accordingly, focus on a subsequent period, when the factory and, above all, "the associating principle" changed significantly. The dominant themes of this process, the substitution of formal, centralized controls and the increasing influence of management over the factory and its labor force, were the bases of the "new factory system," which in turn became the foundation of the modern industrial administration.
--- from book's preface.

I have the earlier edition of this book. It's one of the first comprehensive books about snow. What it is and how it affects life. Even a lot about skiing, and avalanches, and clearing snow from roads, etc. Great to see that it's available again. There's sure a lot more to snow than one would think!