Massachusetts Books

This book is for any nature lover, even if they have never been to the High Ledges Wildlife Sanctuary. Dr. Barnard has lived on and loved this land for decades and it shows! Furthermore, the wood-cut illustrations are beautiful.

In this work, David Grayson Allen examines how Puritan communities brought the economic and social structures of towns in Old England to towns in New England. Allen details how different English communities rebuilt themselves in America. Allen then briefly outlines what factors ultimately encouraged a degree of homogeneity among these distinctive New England towns.

For even more statistical and personal detail on the migration to New England, see Roger Thompson, Mobility and Migration: East Anglian Founders of New England, 1629-1640. See also David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, which examines the transference of four different regional cultures of England to four different regions of America. Fischer studies Puritan Massachusetts as the seedbed of one such regional American culture. On the Puritans, consult any number of books on the subject by Edmund S. Morgan.

Sarah's father has left to seek gold in California: as his favored daughter, Sarah feels his absence keenly and chafes against the strictness of a mother who shows her little love or fun. The family's struggles to keep the farm running in their father's absence makes for a realistic story, and Sarah's ultimate realization of her beloved father's shortcomings makes In Plain Sight an inviting, warm story of changing family relationships.

This booklet consists of an alphabetical list of more than 5,000 persons who moved from Massachusetts to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and other states of the middle west during 1780-1880. The purpose throughout is to supply name, date and town of birth, date of removal, and state in which the pioneer settled. Additional information given includes name of spouse and date of marriage.

Students, scholars, and diarists will enjoy and benefit from reading this volume in part of whole. The editors quote generously from diaries, and the bibliography suggests further reading in every direction . . . 15 accessible, jargon-free essays expand the "discussion of the diary itself" and contribute to "the ongoing assesssment of its place within autobiography, writing by women, and the audience and cultural communities" . . . The variety of situations, uses of diaries, and new ideas about women's diaries in this collection is enormous. --P. A. McHaney

This detailed, clear map is practically indispensable for navigating in Boston, whether on foot or by car. The laminated format makes it not only very durable, even after much use, but easily folded to show the segment of the city one needs. The detail is really excellent, showing many things including large and small streets, parkway access roads, points of interest, surrounding communities, Logan airport, etc. The map's clarity is much enhanced by the use of well-chosen color. It would be helpful if the names of Boston's many squares were regularly included, as these seem to be a prominent feature of navigation in Boston, and if possible, to indicate more of the one-way directions of streets. All in all, I find this an extremely useful and well-made map, highly recommended for navigation in a complicated but fascinating city.

She is justifiably proud that though she is female and only thirty-five years old, she is the superintendent of Horizon House, a halfway house for ex-cons about to be released into society. At present, the only irritant in Nat's life is Suzanne, a Horizon House inmate and the mother of her lover's five-year-old son, Jakey. Detective Leo Coscarelli has custody of Jakey but he wants Suzanne in their son's life.

A new resident at the halfway house is very worrisome for the stuff because transsexual Lynn Ingram spent most of her four year sentence for second degree manslaughter in isolation for her own protection. Only a few days after coming to Horizon House, she is brutally attacked and left on the street to die. She lapses into a coma with the only person who has a clue to the perpetrator is Suzanne and she isn't talking even when she is attacked and almost killed.

This is a very gritty, take no prisoners (no pun intended) thriller that gives readers a glimpse into the lives of people who live in the shadow of society. INSIDE OUT is not a pretty book but it isn't meant to be. It is a glimpse into a portion of humanity that most people would like to ignore but are unable to do so, sort of like having a rehab next door. People like the protagonist who believes in rehabilitation and serves as a role model that leaves the audience with hope for the future of humanity.

Harriet Klausner

1st, very creative design of guide I should say, I'll give six stars for the design, very compact as small as a PDA, equiped with pen and mini-compass that can be rotated to your viewing angle (really usefull and inovative). Great thing that it has pre-folded maps. 4 maps inside = Downtown Boston (2), around Harvard Square, and Greater Boston.
Also It is one of the easiest guide to use.
It is not the most complete and detailed guide. But the info really DOESN'T suck, (filled with junk)->like most of the very detailed &complete one. Yes, it got guide to restaurants, entertainment, places to stay etc,etc.
And yes the price is at the top end of guides that are considered a compact guide.

Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States is an anthology of essays by learned authors concerning the evolution of the modern institution of the library, from the late eighteenth century to the modern digital era. Individual essays include "Subscription Libraries and Commercial Circulating Libraries in Colonial Philadelphia and New York", "Faith in Reading: Public Libraries, Liberalism, and the Civil Religion", "Women Writers and Their Libraries in the 1920s", "Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era", and many more. An astute and scholarly exploration of what composes a library and how libraries have affected modern culture, and a welcome addition to library history and library science shelves.

This little booklet looks with a spiritual eye at the philosophical question of the relationship between the human soul and body.

Table of Contents

1. There are two worlds--the spiritual world, where spirits and angels are, and the natural world, where men are
2. The spiritual world existed and subsists from its own sun, and the natural world from its own sun
3. The sun of the spiritual world is pure love, from Jehovah God, Who is in the midst of it
4. From that sun proceeds heat and light, and the heat proceeding from it is in its essence love, and the light from it is in its essence wisdom
5. Both the heat and the light flow into man--the heat into his will, where it produces the good of love, and the light into his understanding, where it produces the truth of wisdom
6. Those two, namely, heat and light, or love and wisdom, flow conjointly from God into the soul of man, and through this into his mind, its affections and thoughts, and from these into the senses, speech, and actions of the body
7. The sun of the natural world is pure fire, and by means of this sun the world of nature existed and subsists
8. Therefore everything which proceeds from this sun, regarded in itself, is dead
9. The spiritual clothes itself with the natural, as a man clothes himself with a garment
10. Spiritual things, thus clothed in a man, enable him to live a rational and moral man, thus a spiritually natural man
11. The reception of that influx is according to the state of love and wisdom in a man
12. The understanding in a man can be elevated into the light, that is into the wisdom, in which the angels of heaven are, according to the improvement of his reason; and in like manner his will can be elevated into the heat of heaven, that is into love, according to the deeds of his life; but the love of the will is not elevated except so far as the man wills and does those things which the wisdom of the understanding teaches
13. It is altogether otherwise with beasts
14. There are three degrees in the spiritual world, and three degrees in the natural world, hitherto unknown, according to which all influx takes place
15. Ends are in the first degree, causes in the second, and effects in the third
16. From these things it is plain what is the quality of spiritual influx from its origin to its effects