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IN A SINGLE MOMENT
...the lives of three men will be forever changed. In that split second, defined paradoxically by both salvation and loss, they will destroy the world and then restore it. Much had come before, and much would come after, but nothing would color their lives more than that one, isolated instant on the edge of forever.
IN A SINGLE MOMENT
...Spock, displaced in time, watches his closest friend heed his advice by allowing the love of his life to die in a traffic accident, thereby preserving Earth's history. Returning to the present, however, Spock confronts other such crises, and chooses instead to willfully alter the past. Challenged by the thorny demands of his logic, he will have to find a way to face his conflicting decisions.
IN A SINGLE MOMENT
...that stays with Spock, he preserved the timeline at the cost of Jim Kirk's happiness. Now, the death of that friend will cause Spock to reexamine the fundamental choices he has made for his own life. Unwilling to accept his feelings of loss and regret, he will seek that which has previously eluded him: complete mastery of his emotions. But while his quest for the perfect geometry of total logic will move him beyond his remorse, another loss will bring him full circle to once more face the fire he has never embraced.
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Good book, but...........2007-08-02
This is a good book, but I was disappointed about the (other than flashbacks) elimination of the character of Saavik. She really needed to have been featured in this novel. And while i realize that TREK books are not considered 'canon', the writer took A LOT of creative liberty in the last three pages of this novel with Spock.
A good read overall.
Second book in trilogy a disappointment.......2007-06-27
In his introduction to this book, David R. George III writes that he trashed his original plot for this book-I wish he hadn't as it could only have been better than what he produced. This book is totally inconsistent with the character of Spock as portrayed in the post-series movies. This plot is unbelivable to the point of insulting: we are expected to believe that Spock, who has certainly faced his share of sorrow and passed with flying colors, would be so unhinged by the death of Kirk that he would again seek to purge his emotions through Kolinar and that his Vulcan teachers would encourage such a cowardly motive. The ending was simplistic and equally insulting. (By the way, those wishing to read a more believable and rewarding account of the death of Amanda should read "Sarek" by A.C. Crispin.) The only positive aspect of the book is that character of Alexandra and Spock's romance with her but only a few pages are given to this part of Spock's life, as opposed to the rich characterization of McCoy's love interest in the previous, much superior book. One receives the impression that Mr. George had little passion for this character and only sought to get his second book out of the way in order to move on the third; however, I was so displeased with this book that I refuse to read the third. Rewrite, Mr. George-rewrite! I can't believe that this shoddy piece of work made it past your editor's desk!
Intriguing study of relationship between character and event.......2007-06-08
The three Crucible books present the story of the Hugo-winning TOS episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" (in which Edith Keeler is killed) in three new ways, incorporating ideas about time travel that were developed in Star Trekiana years after this episode was aired. The main character in each book (in this book, of course, Spock) experiences this adventure they share in different ways, and for each it becomes a central (if not THE central) event among their many life experiences which simultaneously shapes, defines, and expresses the character of the individual. The story is expanded in ways that might have been inconceivable at the time the original episode was written. If you love the TOS characters as much as I do and if you enjoy what I can only term psychological fiction, then you will truly enjoy all three of these books -- but I don't think any one of these books is truly meaningful without the other two.
Poor continuity research!.......2007-05-16
Poor continuity research! Spock's mother's death was a major theme in the book by A.C.Crispin published in 1994, where she died of a wasting disease, so how come she dies here in a shuttle accident?
Not the greatest read .....
Second in the Crucible Trilogy.......2007-04-09
I bought all 3 of the trilogy, read them in order back to back. I must say this second one was slightly disappointing. I feel I've known Spock for 40+ years, but I hardly recognised him here. One thing that bothered me was Spock's use of contractions. I don't think I''d seen that before anywhere. This book deals almost exclusively with his pursuit of ridding himself of emotion. Then there's an illogical ending kind of tacked on. Mr George is an excellent story teller as witnessed in the first book (McCoy). Where the first was a 5* plus this is only a 3*.
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- Not worth the read
- Not bad at all
- Not strictly an elemental masters story
- Wonderful til the end
- The cover really is awful...
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The Fire Rose
Mercedes Lackey
Manufacturer: Baen
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Customer Reviews:
Not worth the read.......2007-08-12
I had read the "Gates of sleep, Phoenix and ashes, Serpant's shadow, Wi_ard of London and The Black Swan" all written by Ms. Lackey prior to reading this book. This book is long on self-rationality( dull, dull, dull) of the character's and short on actual action and plot. I do not recommend the waste of time on this to anyone. The ending was disappointing for a supposed simile on a fairy tale. I am sorry. The other books I mentioned were entertaining and recommendable.
Not bad at all.......2007-07-18
Very enjoyable read. A bit predictable, but great for a few hours of escape.
Not strictly an elemental masters story.......2007-06-05
Because the elemental masters series is DAW, this BAEN book doesn't quite fit although it was Lackey's first novel about an elemental master. Jason cameron is perhaps one of the best examples of a character full of hubris since the ancients and he pays for it. Set in Chicago and in San Francisco just before "the big shake" it is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast with a different spin. Yes, they live happilly ever after, but the way they get there is just a little off center. There's no need to recount the story, it's familiar to all of us. No there is no magic rose except for Rosalind Hawkins and she is indeed magic as well as being a strong woman. I like what Lackey has done with one of my favorite fairy tales. I own at least 5 retellings of this tale and this is one of the best, if not the best. She is a masterful fantasy (both high fantasy and urban fantasy)writer who does credit to her mentors--Marion Zimmer Bradley and Andre Norton --and this is one of her better tales. Hopefully it will be reissued sometime soon--before my poor paperback copy is worn out from re-reading. If you can't find it in a used bookstore, march yourself to a library and read it.
Wonderful til the end.......2007-04-24
Another favorite of mine, the beauty of this book is obvious in the imagry that Lackey pens, and the tension built by the oncoming battle. My main problem was, the battle didn't really happen. She built up so much tension and in one fell swoop, you didn't read about it. I was looking forward to a major battle or some sort of chapter explaining what happened, but alas, nothing. It is still very beautiful and provides a very new age spin on the classic fairy tale. I just wish there had been more of an ending.
The cover really is awful..........2007-03-19
After being sunken into debts and faced with the death of her father, Rosalind Hawkins is forced to leave Chicago as an heiress and move to San Francisco, a governess. But when she is received in the house of her new master, Jason Cameron, Rose is startled to find that there are no children, and her assignment is not to be a tutor but a translator of ancient texts, to a man recently disfigured and unable to read them due to a somber "accident".
But Jason's accident was merely a curse gone awry. As a Fire Master of the Elements, Cameron was more than prepared to attempt the almost impossible: change himself into a controllable werewolf form. But what he was not ready for was the permanent transformation into a half beast/half man, caused by a mistake in the spell.
Never coming face-to-face, the two soon learn what it means to care. And when Rose is forced to see the real Jason, it draws her closer. Even when he shocks her in a way no human could've acted, never will they forget the love they had, have...
I thought this book was an amazing and creative way to tie in Beauty and the Beast. Every minute of reading was enjoyable, and when you finish the story, it leaves you grinning. I do recommend this to fantasy/fairy-tale/romance readers, but if you're open to it, anyone can enjoy it.
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The Fire and the Rose Are One
Sebastian Moore
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Common Sense and a Little Fire traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics. Though they have rarely had more than cameo appearances in previous histories, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, and Pauline Newman played important roles in the emergence of organized labor, the New Deal welfare state, adult education, and the modern women's movement.
Orleck takes her four subjects from turbulent, turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe to the radical ferment of New York's Lower East Side and the gaslit tenements where young workers studied together. Drawing from the women's writings and speeches, she paints a compelling picture of housewives' food and rent protests, of grim conditions in the garment shops, of factory-floor friendships that laid the basis for a mass uprising of young women garment workers, and of the impassioned rallies working women organized for suffrage. From that era of rebellion, Orleck charts the rise of a distinctly working-class feminism that fueled poor women's activism and shaped government labor, tenant, and consumer policies through the early 1950s.
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a great book on a powerful topic.......2000-12-18
This book chronicles the lives of four working-class Jewish immigrant women from their common start as survivors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire through their careers as labor leaders. These women are absolutely astounding American heroes just waiting to be discovered. In addition to her awe-inspiring subject matter, Orleck also employes a readable and interesting writing style that is true to life and avoids becoming bogged down with useless facts. This book reminded me how much one person really can make a difference simply through conviction and perseverance.
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The honest and compelling story of a young girl's newfound independence, from her entrance into a new country to her frightening involvement in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911.My heart filled with fear and hope at the same time. I had the feeling that I was brought to America for a purpose. Something important would happen to me here.I remembered the words of the poem, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses . . .""Here we are, America," I whispered. "We're just exactly what you ordered."When she arrives on Ellis Island as a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant, Rose Nolan is looking for a land of opportunities; what she finds is far from all she'd dreamed. Stubborn and tenacious, she refuses to give up. Left alone to fend for herself and her younger sister, Rose is thrust into a hard-knock life of tenements and factory work.When the devastating Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 rushes into Rose's life, her confusions are brought to an all-too-painful head. To whom and to what can she turn when everything around her is in ashes?
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Stimulus for further reading.......2007-06-03
The main reason to read this book would be to pique your interest in the time period. You will learn a lot about immigration in the early 1900's, the Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, sweat shops, life in New York. The story doesn't have much of the ring of emotional authenticity. I don't doubt that the author's facts are true and her topic is well-researched, but I don't get much of a deeper understanding of who these characters are and why they behave the way they do. I have the sense of the author behind the scene pulling the strings to make the story turn out the way it does. The parallels drawn to 9/11 are eerie, but the fire was a very different event.
I Hate Books With History and LOVED This!!!!!.......2006-11-14
In the book Ashes of Roses, by Mary Jane Auch there was a family of six comng to america from ireland in 1911 and when they got to america the youngest of the four children is diagnosed with an eye illness and is not allowed to comce to america, so the father takes him back and the three girls and the mom stay in americ, then the mom get homesick and takes the youngest daughter with her back to ireland and leaves the two oldest girls in america on their own. The two sisters make it through the teriangle waist factory fire and lots of discrimination torwards them. This book is an overall book of loving sisterly kindness, and i would highly reccomend it for readers of all age.
Ashes of Roses.......2006-05-15
Ashes of Roses is a very interesting book. It has lots of historical reference to the Ellis Island immigration period, and is very well written.
The main character, Rose Nolan, makes the long voyage with her family to New York City from Ireland. It is a terrible, harsh voyage, and when they finally arrive, are forsed to make a horrible descision. The baby boy of the family is examined, and found to have a minor disease called Trachoma. Her father must take him back to Ireland, and Rose and her sister and mother are left to fend for themselves in the city.
When they arrive at their uncle's house, it is made very clear that they are unwelcome. His two daughters act snooty and spoilt, and I can feel Rose's anger and pain as if I were actually there with her. She is forsed to maintain a painstaking job making paper flowers for little pay just to help her small family get by.
A very nice book, but it drags on a little in certain parts. Over all, I would reccomend it.
Ashes Of Roses is one of the greatest books out there.......2006-02-04
Rose is the main Character of Ashes Of Rose. Rose is the oldest of 4 kids in her family Maureen, Bridget, and the Baby boy Joseph. Yes of course sense she's the oldest she had to take care of the all of the kids when her parents are gone or even there but and busy. When they get into America they have to go to through test and the baby Joseph has a dieses called Trachoma and Pa has to take him back to Ireland to live with the grandma and when he's better that they can come back and bring him to live in America. Pa and Joseph come back a moth later. Rose is 16 and works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. She has to have a job to help keep the house and everything they had by getting the money and the family needs. Rose hasn't been living in America for a little while now but still misses everything from Ireland. Just to add on to missing everything and wanting to go back the Triangle Factory catches on fire and everything inside is gone. Rose is strong enough to realize that she couldn't have done anything about it and that she has to go on with her life and just remember all the good things that happened in the time of her life. So Rose goes out and try's to find a new job. Rose and her family are getting back together because her baby brother and dad are back in the United States and back to see them, because when they came to America Joseph couldn't get in because he had a dieses called Trachoma. Realizing it has only been a month they can't wait to see Joseph and Pa. Now knowing that the family can come back together Rose is happy again and is glad to still be living in America. If you want to read a great book and feel like you have gone through and the stuff Rose has then I would recommend the book Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch.
Ashes OF Roses.......2006-01-05
A 16 yr old girl, Rose, faces chalenges in her life, starting with a long jouney to america, then learning to let go of her little brother, who has an eye infection. after a terible time in her uncle's flat, her mother goes back to irland, while Rose and her sister stay behind in america.many other things come up, also.read the book to find out why her only friends in america died.
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Dreams of Roses and Fire (Library of Nordic Literature)
Eyvind Johnson
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In the midst of a deadly heat wave during the summer of 1834, a woman clawed her way over the wall of a Roman Catholic convent near Boston, Massachusetts and escaped to the home of a neighbor, pleading for protection. When the bishop, Benedict Fenwick, persuaded her to return, rumors began swirling through the Yankee community and in the press that she was being held at the convent against her will, and had even been murdered. The imagined fate of the "Mysterious Lady," as she became popularly known, ultimately led to the destruction of the Ursuline convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts on the night of August 11, 1834 by a mob of Protestant men.
After battering down the front door, the men destroyed icons, smashed pianos, hurled the bishop's library into a bonfire, ransacked the possessions of both sisters and students, and finally burned the imposing building to the ground. Not satisfied with this orgy of vandalism, they returned the following night and tore the lovely gardens up by the roots. The ruins sat on Mount Benedict, a hill overlooking Boston Harbor, for the next fifty years. The arsonists' ringleader, a brawny bricklayer named John Buzzell, became a folk hero. The nuns scattered, and their proud and feisty mother superior, Mary Anne Moffatt, who battled the working-class rioters and Church authorities, faded mysteriously into history.
Nancy Schultz brings alive this forgotten moment in the American story, shedding light on one of the darkest incidents of religious persecution to be recorded in the New World. The result of painstaking archival research, Fire & Roses offers a rare lens on a time when independent, educated women were feared as much as immigrants and Catholics, and anti-Papist diatribes were the stuff of bestsellers and standing-room-only lectures. Schultz examines the imagined secrets that led to the riot and uncovers the real secrets in a cloistered community whose life was completely hidden from the world. She provides a glimpse into nineteenth-century Boston and into an elite boarding school for young women, mostly the daughters of wealthy Protestants, vividly dissecting the period's roiling tensions over class, gender, religion, ethnicity, and education. Although the roots of these conflicts were in the Puritan migration to America, it was ultimately the mob's perverse fantasies about cloistered women -- in an independent community -- that erupted in a combustible night of violence.
By unearthing the buried truth and bringing alive these fascinating characters, Nancy Schultz tells a gripping story of prejudice and pride, courage and cowardice in early nineteenth-century America that not only restores a clouded chapter in the country's history but also has a poignant resonance for our own times.
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Boston locals still call a particular hill overlooking the harbor "nunnery grounds", but the details of the convent's tragic demise have been obscured for over a century. Nancy Schultz lifts the veil of history from this forgotten story, brilliantly illuminating the tensions that roiled the young republic following the Revolutionary War. From its founding in 1826, the convent on Mt. Benedict had been rumored to conceal physical and sexual abuse of nuns and female boarding students within its walls. But in 1832, Rebecca Theresa Reed allegedly escaped and wrote a bestselling tale of women held there against their wills and subjected to cruel treatment by convent authorities. A series of anti- Catholic lectures by the Reverend Lyman Beecher (the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe) stoked existing fears of a papal plot and indecent acts and lead to a riot during which a drunken mob burnt the convent to the ground. The valiant Mother Superior led her nuns and students to safety, but it was the arsonists' ringleader who became a local folk hero. Based on years of painstaking archival research, Fire and Roses offers a gripping tale of violence and redemption, from an era when anti-papist diatribes were the stuff of standing-room-only lectures; independent, educated women were feared and reviled; and a new nation was struggling with its own identity.
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Generally accurate..........2006-05-11
Schultz's account is fast-paced, well-written, and for the most part, fairly well researched. There are some significant gaps in Schultz's research which I can't account for at all, since the sources are extant. Some of the sources she uses (such as the Whitney account) are almost entirely specious, or at least highly questionable. There are other (short) portions of the book which seem to be entirely fictional, such as the highly detailed account of Miss Harrison's escape from the convent.
Apart from these qualms, the book is for the most part well researched. It is a wonderful read, and can be enjoyed by Catholic and non-Catholic, historian and non-historian.
Thoroughly-researched, paced like a novel.......2004-09-04
An interesting read. I picked it up expecting it to be a semi-mystery in a nonfiction setting, and got a nonfiction book (my fault for not reading the jacket!). The author is a Professor of English at Salem State College in Salem, MA; she's also written on fear and religion in two other texts. She did a lot of digging into the various letters, court records, and news archives to find supporting evidence to lay out the story of the history and events that led to the eventual destruction (arson, semi-riot) of the Ursuline convent and school in Charlestown, MA in 1834. It's an interesting look into convent education of young women (many of them non-Catholics; it was de rigeur for wealthy Unitarian and Episcopalian parents to send their daughters for convent education, and the Ursulines had a rich history and system for providing it, despite any number of setbacks in Boston), and the functioning of a cloistered religious order.
I'm a non-Christian-- not that it matters, but I read lots of things about lots of different Faiths-- and couldn't put the book down. Racism against Irish and Catholics in Boston in the 19th century was a very real, very unpleasant thing in that time. Schultz' book was a very interesting read, laid out like a novel-- but with academic footnotes. There are parts that were lacking in closure, in many cases because the information trail simply stops-- not Schultz' fault, but worth noting. Picked it up as a leftover from the Dyer Library's book sale in Saco, Maine. Worth it! A good read. The Justice system in the U.S. may not be perfect, but it's come a long way since 1834 in Boston. Being a Boston-area native, this is not a proud point in the region's history-- but absolutely worth learning about-- and from.
"Sauciest Woman I Ever Heard Talk".......2002-08-10
Essentially this is an anti-feminist tract. The center of the book is Mary Ann Moffatt, variously refered to as Moffatt and (her name in religious life) Madame St. George. Based on a single letter written by a disaffected and ambitious nun in September, 1837, three years after the attempt to murder the nuns and their young students, Schultz describes Moffatt as a proven alcoholic and implies lesbian affections. Moffatt is repeatedly described from the point of view of the homicidal mob as a "termagant," unfeminine, led into unlimited ambition by the regrettable decision of the Catholic Church to allow women education and leadership roles! Schultz also implies that since a male teacher married one of his students, they had certainly had premarital sexual intercourse and at least one child born in the convent! Proof? None needed for the prejudiced.
The book is badly written. In her haste to be lurid but not just, Schultz confuses names. She calls a woman at one time by her birth name, at another by her name in religion. She skips back and forth. She rarely examines evidence. She is remarkably unfamiliar with Catholic practice, and calls ordinary prayers for the recovery of a dying nun "frenetic rituals" and "dangerous superstition."
The hero of Schultz' book is John Buzzell, the brave bricklayer who led a Boston mob to attack a few women and 50 young girls aged 6 to 14 (40 of the children Protestants) on an August night. Since the intended murder victims escaped the flames, he and his companions looted and burned the buildings, and desecrated the bodies of dead nuns. Acquitted by a Boston court, he was subsequently elected to the New Hampshire legislature for his abilities in arson, racism, and religious bigotry. He died at 90, still bragging of his attempted murder of "the sauciest woman I ever heard talk."
A great read!.......2001-10-30
Although Professor Schultz is an Englsh professor,her
work is like every good writer of popular history- meticulously
researched and very well writen. Fire and Roses is a page turner from start to finish.
A great read!.......2001-10-30
Although Professor Schultz is an Englsh professor,her
work is like every good writer of popular history- meticulously
researched and very well writen. Fire and Roses is a page turner from start to finish.
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Great to have/Great to give.......2005-06-21
There aren't enough good things to say about this book. The premise is that in losing the 'hearth' in a home, the whole family and whole culture suffers. Cooking is a sacred act and it nourishes so very much more than nutritional needs in a family. This is a global truth as the writer explores in chapters about Buddhists, ancient Goddesses, and modern families.
Rhythms and Rituals of the Hearth.......2002-12-23
The title of this review appears on the book's cover; I couldn't think of a better one. While the themes Anne Scott covers --nutrition, goddesses, ancient practices such as Chinese medicine and the spiritual meaning of the seasons-- have become quite popular recently, this book has a unique voice. It is relatively short and compact and each page is filled with a quietly intense wisdom. The unifying theme is the hearth; that too often overlooked (in modern times) place of physical or spiritual fire that provides us with nourishment. Anne Scott explores this from many traditions. She focuses on several fire goddesses -- Hestia (Greek), Pele (Hawaiian), Brighde (Irish) and Gabija (Lithuanian), relates conversations with various teachers and healers and describes how the seasons correspond to the elements of Chinese medicine. Throughout the book are personal anecdotes that relate to the subject; indeed, the book seems to come primarily from her experience and life lessons. There is also some good advice on eating appropriately for the seasons, talking to children about food and eating more consciously. Like many spiritually-focused books, this one encourages us to slow down, pay more attention to our surroundings and appreciate the abundance of nature. This one accomplishes something rare; it is itself an expression of the kind of simplicity and awareness it advocates.
Fire Goddesses, Hearth, Home, Healing.......2002-12-17
This book is a little bit hard to describe. I like its analogy of the hearth as a foundation of our lives, and the connection of the hearth to fire Goddesses, to home, to cooking, to our relationship with food, to the center (or lack of it) of our homes, and to our own "centers." The lack of hearths in our lives is described in a way that helps the reader understand the significance of that lack. And unlike many other books that just describe a problem, this book offers solutions.
The book contains much information about fire Goddesses, but not in the usual sense of merely presenting their story, their mythology. It has the history of their contribution to the world, and it's full of the author's reflections on how those Goddesses and the lack of their presence in society today affect us negatively. But again, there are solutions. There are also many, many experiential exercises and short meditations in the book to help us get in touch with various aspects of ourselves that may be hindering our ability to connect with aspects of these Goddesses and with ourselves. The exercises/meditations are important because, as the author says, "These archetypes hold tremendous power, and yet our understanding of them remains an intellectual exercise unless we experience their meaning in our daily lives. How do we bridge the distance that separates intellect from inner experience? First, we must consider our individual feelings in relationship to these Goddesses. These feelings lead us to meaning, and gradually the power of these archetypes becomes our own."
She writes about how the Goddess Pele helps us learn to see ourselves through "the eye of the heart," a watcher of sorts who is within us, who lesson is kindness to self. Again taking this lesson back to the hearth, she writes: "As we grow accustomed to this process of inner watching, we gradually awaken to ways in which be block our own nourishment."
The author talks about Chinese medicine and healing as well as from other cultures. And she talks about seasons, and how to intelligently adjust our eating to the seasons. But mostly she talks about who we are, and how we get that way and how food and hearth and home and love and the Goddesses who embody these things can help us. It's just a great all-around book for anyone into self-growth, parenting/nurturing, home life, raising children, learning about Paganism...I could go on and on. Get the book.
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- Dr. Turner's work
- A guide to the Twenty-First Century
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The Fire and the Rose: Human Core Needs and Personal Transformation
Robert Turner
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
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Dr. Turner's work.......2002-04-10
I am a student at Virginia Tech, where Dr. Turner teaches a sociology course. His course is one of the best I have taken. He really knows his subject matter. His book is great! Anyone interested in any part of sociology will love it.
A guide to the Twenty-First Century.......1998-08-05
THE FIRE AND THE ROSE is the best synthesis of sociology, psychology, and spirituality to appear since the sixties. Turner is a brilliant, compassionate, and transformative writer. His book communicates on many levels and it offers essential instruction for beginners as well as for the most sophisticated readers. Anyone trying to understand the problems facing humanity in the Twenty-First Century will find powerful insights and helpful perspectives in this indispensable volume. (Maurice R. Stein, Jacob S. Potovsky Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University)
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No one who boarded the Limited No. 4 train on the morning of September 1, 1894, anticipated disaster down the tracks, but by three o'clock in the afternoon, the sky was as black as night and everyone knew something was wrong. Soon burning trees lined either side of the tracks, illuminating the smoky sky like gigantic
torches. With fire ahead and fire behind, how would the passengers escape?
Amid the flames of the most devastating firestorm in U.S. history, the train's porter, John Wesley Blair, acted with courage and compassion throughout that terrible day. Here, finally, is the untold story of a hero whom history almost forgot.
A brief mention of the Hinckley fire in a nature magazine inspired Joi Nobisso to find out more about this awesome event. After several years of research, she uncovered the tale of John Blair's bravery and knew she had to tell his story.
Customer Reviews:
AMAZING!.......2006-09-13
Another fabulous , wonderful, and insightful book authored by Mrs. Nobisso! Do not stop with just one or two of her books. All of her books are to read, enjoyed, and passed down!
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