Mountain of Black Glass (Otherland, Volume 3)

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Otherland, the quartet of which Mountain of Black Glass is the powerful third part, combines some terrifying speculation on the future of virtual reality with adventures no less terrifying because they are technologized dreaming. These are dreams the adventurers cannot awaken from and in which, if they die, they are really dead.

An epidemic of comatose children has led Renie and her San friend !Xabbu into the net and to a series of dream worlds created as palaces by the corrupt aspiring immortals, the Grail Brotherhood. Two of those children, Orlando and Fredericks, have become adventurers in their own right, while their parents' lawyer Ramsey follows real-world money and lesbian cop Calliope tracks a serial killer with serious ambitions to become an angry god. In this volume, adventures take place in a mythic ancient Egypt and a rambling Gormenghastlike house before all the virtual adventurers meet where they were always destined to, before the walls of Troy.

"All around, death. It was not a quiet presence during the long day--not a pale-faced maiden bringing surcease from pain, not a skillful reaper with a scalpel-sharp blade.... Death on the Trojan plain was a crazed beast that roared and clawed and smashed, which was everywhere at once, and which in its unending fury showed that even armored men were terribly frail things."

Tad Williams takes the gameworld and turns it on its head, passionately; how do we know that what bleeds does not feel pain? He writes a classic of cyberspace adventure that has a sorrowful heart. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk

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New York Times bestselling author Tad Williams presents...

The hardcover edition of Volume Three...

First time in print!

"A powerful, near-future cyberthriller."--Booklist

"Williams proves himself as adept at writing science fiction as he is writing fantasy....Fascinating." --Publishers Weekly

"An exciting addition to the growing virtual reality literature."--Library Journal

* A bestselling author--New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, London Times, Publishers Weekly

Customer Reviews:

Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

Mythological allegories abound. The Grail Brotherhood, the immortality
seeking wealthy bunch of near-dead in the real word are set up as
Egyptian gods in one virtual realm, and squabble. The adventurers,
quite literally of the heroic fantasy warrior type, for a couple of
them, must survive this, and other weird worlds to get to a
confrontation in a virtual representation of ancient Troy.

Otherland....Greatest Sci-Fi Series of All Time!.......2005-09-13

I can't tell you how much I have enjoyed reading the Otherland series. In my opinion, it is the greatest epic novel ever written, even better than Lord of the Rings. I particularly liked that it was a book that was relevant to our times; I think a lot of what Tad Williams wrote may come true in the not to distant future. I simply could not put it down. Although some have complained here that he bounced around too much from story line to story line or that he could have wrapped it up in just one or two novels, I think those readers are just lazy or are part of the "I want it now" generation. I really could have cared less if he ever ended the series; I enjoyed it that much.

I have been a fan of Stephen King, Tolkien, and Asimov, and have read almost all the books they wrote. However, Tolkien and Asimov are dead and King seems to have got tired of writing the kinds of books we all loved. Anyway, I was looking for someone to fill the void and ran across the Otherland series. Thanks to Tad Williams for filling the void!

chizz.......2005-08-22

I actually liked this one better than the first two because of the increased rate of plot development. Everything start happening really fast toward the end and all the side plots are starting to come together. Some of the questions left by the first two books are finally answered in this one (although this one also presents some new puzzles). And of course Williams intorduces a couple of really intriguing new VR nodes (the endless house and the land of Troy).

There is a heavy sense of desperation for the characters in this third book that wasn't there in the first two. You can really see the increase in the action and a sense of urgency as each of the side plots are approaching their climaxes. The next book promises to be exciting and to be full of unanswered questions.

I highly reccommend this entire series.

An interesting continuation.......2004-10-11

The story continues with the heroes and heroines trapped in the otherland network and the Grail Brotherhood about to launch their long overdue masterpiece...Immortality. But the plot unfolds in a rather unexpected manner, which gives Tad Williams to go on tho a fourth book. Some may find the series too long, but the way Tad writes this story, it's better to have an ending piece after this one. Well sustained story. I would highly recommend this book.

Way too long.......2004-09-18

(this review encompasses all four books)

Otherland will have its fans. However, its mechanical endings, its ridiculous length, and similar themes having been better executed by superior authors will make its influence and popularity extremely short-lived. Yet a lot of people like Williams... it's because he's not a bad author and if you have the stamina to get through him you'll find bits and pieces worthwhile. But bits and pieces are not a genre-shaping event nor will they exert much influence on other authors.

WHO SHOULD READ THIS:

Williams writes convincingly and well; his works, while mechanical, do not lack a sort of charm. Fans of Williams' other works should indulge themselves in Otherland. They're prepared for the absurdly long. Similarly, those particularly impressed with cyberspace and its future applications will find large sections very appealing-but read Snow Crash first.

WHO SHOULD PASS:

Unless you are one of those die-hard Williams fans or a complete techno-geek, read something else. Life is too short to read such a long work that has such little reward. Our site is built so that you can avoid such wastes of your time when you get can equal or better satisfaction with other, shorter books.

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Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Glass Mountain Pamphlets)

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Classic and worth reading

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Glass Mountain Pamphlets)
Deirdre English , and Barbara Ehrenreich
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ASIN: 0912670134

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Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female practitioners and male professionals. This pamphlet explores two important phases in the male takeover of health care: the suppression of witches in medieval Europe and the rise of the male medical profession in the United States. The authors conclude that despite efforts to exclude them, the resurgence of women as healers should be a long-range goal of the women's movement.

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disappointing.......2007-05-31

I purchased this book looking for an historical perspective of women healers. Although this book does provide a history it is extremely biased towards the feminist idealogy. The book was written in the 70's and it shows with it's bias and underlying anger. The good thing about reading this is to realise how far women and the health system have come in the equality debate.

An Outdated and Flawed Thesis.......2006-10-10

Ehrenreich and English's book has been highly influential in some feminist and New Age circles since its publication in the early 70s. Its thesis - that the women persecuted as "witches" in the Witch Craze tended to be midwives and healers - fits neatly with some ideological views of the suppression of women and has since been seen as historical confirmation of a patriarchal desire to control science and medicine and maintain control over birth, healing and women's bodies.

As a result, their thesis has become orthodoxy in these circles and has recently been given a popular boost via Dan Brown's pseudo historical thriller, *The Da Vinci Code*.

Unfortunately, Ehrenreich and English's research was selective, incomplete and ultimately false. Their study was subjected to critical analysis in later decades and found to be deeply flawed. Ehrenrich and English had taken a few isolated cases, assumed they were the norm and then extrapolated from them to conclude that healers and midwives were a particular target of the Witch Crazes. In fact, the evidence indicates otherwise.

David Harley systematically examined the evidence in his article "Historians as Demonologists: The Myth of the Midwife-Witch" (Social History of Medicine 3 (1990), pp. 1-26.) and found that being a midwife actually *decreased* the chances of being charged with witchcraft. Many accusations of witchcraft centred on still-births and infant deaths, with the blame for these occurrences being put on the malicious magic of witches. Far from being more likely to be accused of witchcraft, midwives and village healers were more likely to be the accusers, or to be witnesses summoned to support such accusations. In *The Witch in History*, feminist historian Diane Purkiss writes "midwives were more likely to be found helping witch-hunters" than as victims of their inquiries.

As a result, this book's value lies mainly in its indication of how some early feminist views of history were marked more by ideology and enthusiasm than rigor, comprehensive analysis of the data and objective methodology. It's value as a work of history is minimal.

great easy read.......2006-08-28

It's less than 50 pages long, but it's a great short history about witches, midwives, and nurses. It tells about how the profession began and why there aren't more women in the field today. It's good to learn the history of things that is rarely talked about. I would highly recommend this book to whoever may be interested!

interesting bit of history.......2006-04-21

As a witch and a labor/delivery nurse, of course I had to check out this pamphlet. History is the key word in the title. This pamphlet was published in the early 1970's as a propaganda tool for the feminist women's liberation movement. The history it works through is mostly valid, entertaining (the pics especially), and informative. The discussion on the current state of health care may have been the case in the early 1970's, but in no way represents modern times. Gone are the days where female nurses blindly follow the male doctor's orders. I work with just as many female doctors (if not more) than male, and when I was in another specialty, I worked with several male nurses. It's also the sign of a poor nurse not to question all orders (at least to her/himself) first before carrying any out. If the order is valid, and non-harmful to the patient, then I proceed, but I've caught too many errors and suggested too many alternatives to blindly follow the page-- this is also the case for just about every other nurse working today, with our levels of training/schooling/experience.

Classic and worth reading.......2004-02-26

For any one interested in women's history and in the real idea of "total history" from the Annales school, this book is a must. Of course is not perfect, what it is? However it is time to recover our past, and for that we have to depart from a different perspective, even if it is threatening and contested by some.

Milk Glass Moon: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

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GOOD READ
Milk Glass Moon
The third book in the "Big Stone Gap" quartet
Wonderful book!

Milk Glass Moon: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Adriana Trigiani
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Release Date: 2003-07-01

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Milk Glass Moon, the third book in Adriana Trigiani's bestselling Big Stone Gap series, continues the life story of Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney as she faces the challenges and changes of motherhood with her trademark humor and honesty. With twists as plentiful as those found on the holler roads of southwest Virginia, this story takes turns that will surprise and enthrall the reader.

Transporting us from Ave Maria's home in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Italian Alps, from New York City to the Tuscan countryside, Milk Glass Moon is the story of a shifting mother-daughter relationship, of a daughter's first love and a mother's heartbreak, of an enduring marriage that contains its own ongoing challenges, and of a community faced with seismic change.

All of Trigiani's beloved characters are back: Jack Mac, Ave Maria's true love, who is willing to gamble security for the unknown; her best friend and confidant, bandleader Theodore Tip-ton, who begins a new life in New York City; librarian and sexpert Iva Lou Wade Makin, who faces a life-or-death crisis. Meanwhile, surprises emerge in the blossoming of crusty cashier Fleeta Mullins, the maturing of mountain girl turned savvy businesswoman Pearl Grimes, and the return of Pete Rutledge, the handsome stranger who turned Ave Maria's world upside down in Big Cherry Holler.

In this rollicking hayride of upheaval and change, Ave Maria is led to places she never dreamed she would go, and to people who enter her life and rock its foundation. As Ave Maria reaches into the past to find answers to the present, readers will stay with her every step of the way, rooting for the onetime town spinster who embraced love and made a family. Milk Glass Moon is about the power of love and its abiding truth, and captures Trigiani at her most lyrical and heartfelt.

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Milk Glass Moon, the third book in Adriana Trigiani's bestselling Big Stone Gap series, continues the life story of Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney as she faces the challenges and changes of motherhood with her trademark humor and honesty. With twists as plentiful as those found on the holler roads of southwest Virginia, this story takes turns that will surprise and enthrall the reader.

Transporting us from Ave Maria's home in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Italian Alps, from New York City to the Tuscan countryside, Milk Glass Moon is the story of a shifting mother-daughter relationship, of a daughter's first love and a mother's heartbreak, of an enduring marriage that contains its own ongoing challenges, and of a community faced with seismic change.

All of Trigiani's beloved characters are back: Jack Mac, Ave Maria's true love, who is willing to gamble security for the unknown; her best friend and confidant, bandleader Theodore Tipton, who begins a new life in New York City; librarian and sexpert Iva Lou Wade Makin, who faces a life-or-death crisis. Meanwhile, surprises emerge in the blossoming of crusty cashier Fleeta Mullins, the maturing of mountain girl turned savvy businesswoman Pearl Grimes, and the return of Pete Rutledge, the handsome stranger who turned Ave Maria's world upside down in Big Cherry Holler.

In this rollicking hayride of upheaval and change, Ave Maria is led to places she never dreamed she would go, and to people who enter her life and rock its foundation. As Ave Maria reaches into the past to find answers to the present, readers will stay with her every step of the way, rooting for the onetime town spinster who embraced love and made a family. Milk Glass Moon is about the power of love and its abiding truth, and captures Trigiani at her most lyrical and heartfelt.

Customer Reviews:

Book Review.......2007-10-01

Great book! Author is awesome. First time reading her books & really enjoyed the triology.

GOOD READ.......2007-06-01

I BOUGHT THIS FOR MY STEPMOTHER AND AUNT. THEY BOTH LIKE HER BOOKS REALLY WELL.

Milk Glass Moon.......2007-02-11

I have loved all of the Big Stone Gap Novels - "Milk Glass Moon" is the third in this series which will charm anyone who enjoys a kind of "down home" story, as we journey through life with Ave Maria, her husband,Jack, and their daughter, Etta, and all their friends in Big Stone Gap. I call this one of my "feel good" books (Please note, I feel the same way about Fannie Flagg's books) - you want to pack up and move to Big Stone Gap and be a part of their lives.

The third book in the "Big Stone Gap" quartet.......2006-09-09

After following the troubled MacChesney marriage in the second book, readers now focus on the adolescent Etta as she struggles with growing up. Her mother Ave Maria, too, has difficulty allowing her daughter this passage, especially after losing her toddler son Joe to leukemia.

Yet, like her mother, Etta promises to become a strong young woman. This doesn't make the MacChesneys any easier, though, when longtime family friend Stefano Grassi comes to visit from Italy...

This book is the second of the "Big Stone Gap" quartet; the fourth book is scheduled for release at the end of October 2006.

Wonderful book!.......2006-05-24

Like the 2 previous novels about Big Stone Gap and the MacChesney, I love this one too! I am glad to see that there is another book, The Return to Big Stone Gap, coming out in September.

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Hugh glass = fresh
Hugh glass = fresh
Great story
Old book
excellent book

Hugh Glass, Mountain Man
Robert M. McClung
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Hugh glass = fresh .......2005-09-28

Hugh Glass mountain man. This book is about A hunter Who is in a fur collecting company. One night hewas in a very exciting fight with a bear. He shot it in the head and stabbed it repeatedly and the bear dies and hugh is severely injured. His fellow hunters don't think he will live and leave him for dead. He lives and struggles to stay alive eating whatever he can find. Meeting indians, neutral and aggressive. It's a really well done survival book.
I recomend this book for people who like rugged survival books.

Hugh glass = fresh .......2005-09-28

Great story.......2005-09-11

Although we don't know much about Hugh Glass, Robert M. McClung writes in a way that makes us think we do. It is a story to interest anyone in our American Pioneering Era.

Old book.......2004-02-19

This book was old and ok but kinda boring. I thought that the dude was pretty cool and knows his stuff. I probably wouldn't have been able to do that.

excellent book.......1998-02-13

this book held the attention of my son who will only read books about the outdoors. This book is right up there with all of the Paulson books

The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man

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Not a novel
Hugh Glass: Elevated to immortality by a grizzly bear
A nifty saga...
A Legend Revived
Entertaining

The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man
John Myers Myers
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ASIN: 0803258348

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Before his most fabulous adventure (celebrated by John G. Neihardt in The Song of Hugh Glass and by Frederick Manfred in Lord Grizzly), Hugh Glass was captured by the buccaneer Jean Lafitte and turned pirate himself until his first chance to escape. Soon he fell prisoner to the Pawnees and lived for four years as one of them before he managed to make his way to St. Louis. Next he joined a group of trappers to open up the fur-rich, Indian-held territory of the Upper Missouri River. Then unfolds the legend of a man who survived under impossible conditions: robbed and left to die by his comrades, he struggled alone, unarmed, and almost mortally wounded through two thousand miles of wilderness.

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Not a novel.......2006-03-08

When I bought this book, for some reason I thought it was a novel about Hugh Glass. Instead it is a history book. Dull and boring as far as I was concerned. I did not finish reading it. Gave it away.To me it was a waste of money.

Hugh Glass: Elevated to immortality by a grizzly bear.......2005-12-08

Sometimes all it takes is a single spectacular event to catapult a man into the sphere of immortality. That's what happened to Hugh Glass, thanks to a grizzly bear.

Little is known about Glass's life up to the time he joined William Ashley's first expedition up the Missouri River in 1823. Rumor had it that he was a pirate with Jean Lafite, but it can't be substantiated. After being wounded by the Arikaras in 1823, he went with Andrew Henry's party overland to the Yellowstone River.

It was on this trip that destiny struck. He was attacked and mauled badly by a grizzly bear; two other mountain men, John Fitzgerald and James Bridger, were left with him to tend him in what everyone assumed would be his final hours. But the two men abandoned Glass before his time had come, and Glass held on to life alone. Somehow he crawled 300 miles down the Grand River, living on berries and buffalo carcasses left by wolves, eventually reaching Fort Kiowa on the Missouri.

After recovering from his wounds, Glass set off on a trail of revenge. He ventured to Fort Henry where he suspected Fitzgerald and Bridger to be, only to find the place deserted. More death-defying traipsing resulted until he tracked down Bridger on the Big Horn River; learning that Bridger was only 20 years old, he Glass decided to forgive him. He also learned that Fitzgerald had gone into the army and was beyond his reach. Disappointed in these results, little did he realize that a legend had been born.

During subsequent years Glass trapped throughout the West, being wounded again in an Indian attack near Bear Lake and thereafter became a hunter for Fort Union (ND). Sometime in the winter of 1832-33 he, along with two other men, was killed by Indians on the Yellowstone River.

The accomplishments of other mountain men far outweighed Glass's, but it was his encounter with that grizzly and his incredible survival of the mauling that assured his name would be added to the pantheon of Western heroes. Frederick Manfred wrote a book-length poem based on Glass's feat, but this book by Myers is broader in scope and fuller in detail. There is a long introductory chapter on the legendary aspect of Hugh Glass that places him in the scheme of things. Myers is an excellent writer, but the book contains no footnotes (annotation of some kind would be useful) and no index. Other than that, the book is a Western classic and will be enjoyed by anyone interested in this legendary character or in the fur trade period of the early West. Highly recommended.

A nifty saga..........2005-04-26

My previous exposure to John Myers Myers consists of his two works of fiction (Silverlock and The Harp and the Blade), both of which I enjoyed greatly and have treasured. I knew that he'd written historical books like this, but had never run across one. A review on Amazon tipped me off to this book.

Myers has a very peculiar, particular voice which he uses a great deal early in this slim volume (his text settles back into a more mainstream flow as the pages fly by), which is a little odd, but somewhat amusing. He wears his heart on his sleeve and it is quite clear what he thinks of his sources, of the historical characters, and so on. Balanced and nuanced this book ain't!

But then maybe it shouldn't be. Here is a story that just seems too tall a tale, right up there with a certain large lumberjack and his technicolor ox or stretched from the same cloth as Dan'l Boone was in Fess Parker's portrayal, about a man who wouldn't say quit come pirates, bears, or (forgive the era that spawned it) "wild" Indians. Hugh Glass, if you've never heard of him, might have been the greatest of the mountain men.

Myers builds a pretty good case for the man and his adventures having taken place. Here's a hero I hadn't really encountered before and Myers make his legend believable without ruining exploits worthy of campfire retellings. Not too big a book, just right. I recommend it (in spite of Myers's oddities).

A Legend Revived.......2005-01-17

Mountain man Hugh Glass was a legend to his peers, many of them legends themselves. His fame spread to the East, where his incredible story was told in the newspapers of Philadelphia. His legend entered the lore of Indian tribes as well, where it was still being told many decades after his passing. But with the coming of the 20th century, Hugh's legend faded into obscurity. John Myers Myers' The Saga of Hugh Glass is an excellent attempt to rescue Hugh from the obscurity that he had faded into and restore him to his rightful place among American frontier legends.
The central tale of Hugh's legend is almost too fantastic to be believed. Attacked and mauled to the point of death by a grizzly bear, he was left in the wilderness to die by companions who robbed him of his rifle, knife, tomahawk, flint, and nearly all the tools necessary for survival in the wild. Yet Hugh, though horribly wounded, near death and weaponless, navigated over 300 miles of virgin wilderness back to a frontier outpost. Then, after refitting with weapons and equipment, and before his wounds were fully healed, he set out into the wilderness alone once more to make an incredible solo winter journey to retrieve his precious rifle and take vengeance on the companions who had robbed and abandoned him.
Many historians had discounted this story as balderdash - nothing more than the outlandish boasting of a blowhard's self-aggrandizement. Myers addresses this in the first section of his book, carefully assembling the remaining evidence, and building a powerful case for the veracity of the legend. Before launching into Hugh's story, he has already reasonably established that though fantastic, the story you are about to read is true, not just another tall tale.
John Myers Myers is a favorite author of mine. Though he thoroughly researched his histories, he had nothing of the academic about him when telling a tale. He was a pure folk historian, and his writing style is utterly idiosyncratic, and resembles nothing more than a grizzled old story teller telling tales around the fire. His prose is loaded throughout with colorful phrases - "pickled in print", "throwing lead", and "not a bet on which Lloyds of London would risk a confederate dollar". These are just a small sampling of Myers' unique voice. For ears accustomed to more traditional forms of history, his rambling and folksy style may be off-putting. I, however, find it perfectly suited to his subject matter and a charming and refreshing change of pace from the ordinary.
This book should be of great interest for those who study the period of the mountain men and fur trade. It should be on the bookshelf of anyone who loves tales of great American legends. And it is highly recommended reading for anyone who loves stories of amazing true adventure told well.

Theo Logos

Entertaining.......2003-05-15

This is an enjoyable read of an early day fur trapper and his adventures (misadventures) in the uncharted wilderness. I must agree with some reviewers that the author can be quite quirky in his writing style with offbeat, way-out puns and phraseology, but nevertheless a good read. Myers justifies the many hardships of Hugh Glass through several second hand sources for those unbelievers of this somewhat, but not, fictional character. Glass was captured by pirates, escaped, then was captured by the Pawnees and later lived with them for some years. He then left the Pawnees and joined Ashley's fur expeditions to the Rockies. Many a narrow escape with Indians, but probably the most celebrated adventure of his life was the mauling by a grizzly and the ensuing tales thereof. One reviewer mentioned how they should make a movie out of this book. Well, they did, many years ago. "Man in the Wilderness" starring Richard Harris is based on Hugh Glass and his heroic adventure with the grizzly.

Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness (Glass Mountain Pamphlet)

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It's one of those books that is fascinating, factual and a real page turner
too short
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Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness (Glass Mountain Pamphlet)
Barbara Ehrenreich , and Deirdre English
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In this exciting sequel to their underground bestseller, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English document the tradition of American sexism in medicine before and after the turn of the century. Citing vivid examples, including numerous "treatments" and "rest cures" perpetrated on women through the decades, the authors analyze the biomedical rationale used to justify the wholesale sex discrimination throughout our culture-in education, in jobs, and in public life. Ever since Hippocrates, male medics have treated women as the "weaker" sex. By the late 19th century, when the authority of religious documents had waned, the ultimate rationale for sex discrimination became solely biomedical. In this intriguing pamphlet, the authors raise the diffuclt question: "How sick-or well-are women today?" They assert that feminists today want more than "more": "We want a new style, and we want a new substance of medical practice as it relates to women."

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It's one of those books that is fascinating, factual and a real page turner.......2007-04-20

I'm fairly stunned at the two two-star reviews here. This book was co-authored by Barbara Ehrenreich who went on to write several other WONDERFUL books, such as "Nickel and Dimed" and "For Her Own Good."

"Complaints and Disorders; The Sexual Politics of Sickness" is a short book (95 pages) but that's part of what made it such a good read. Once you start reading it, you won't want to stop until you're to the last page. And there's a lot of info packed into those pages.

On page 37, the authors write, "The entire mystique of female sickness - the house calls, the tonics and medicines, the heatlh spas - served, above all, to keep a great many women busy at the task of doing nothing."

That's what was done to women in the Victorian era. In modern times, we use beauty and weight as the lure to "keep women busy as the task of doing nothing."

There's also some background info on how women healers (or witches, as the men liked to call them) were removed from power so male doctors could enjoy their ascension to power and wealth.

It's one of a handful of books I've pressed into the hands of my daughter and said, "you have GOT to read this book." And *that's* the highest recommendation.

too short.......2001-06-19

This book is way too short for such an interesting topic. Another problem is that it depicts women as main victims of weird medical practices in 19th and early 20th century, which is not entirely true. At those times (and may be true today in some cases also) one would be far better off if one stayed away from medical profession. Also, there are some really hillarious things about treating hysteria which authors didnot bother to mention. For the hystory of vibrators as legitimate medical treatment for hysteria, Rachel Maines has done very good job in dealing with this topic. What is also a pity is that authors didn't pursue various medical superstitions about females and different treatment of females which are present in modern times. For example, nobody questions the articles published in peer reviewed medical journal which state that patient's absolute refusal is "relative contraindication" for performing episiotomy. Is there any other surgical procedure which can be inflicted on a patient against patient's explicitly stated wishes? Or for example the fact that many health insurances cover Viagra but don't cover contraceptives. There are many topics well worth investigation which belog to the topic "Complaints and Disorders : The Sexual Politics of Sickness" which authors have chosen not to address in this pamphlet (can't even call it a book).

Good Bathroom Read.......1999-11-29

An account of modern (post-Industrial Revolution) medicine's attempts to squish women under the juggernaut of progress by declaring them weak and/or unfit to achieve. While we here at History House are always suspicious of any work with an obvious political agenda (printed by The Feminist Press), the accounts of doctors and their loopy practices in the nineteenth century are a hoot. If push came to shove, we would suspect some of the wilder accounts given are probably minority views, but the prevailing notion of women as fragile bits of fluff subject to the whims of their productive systems was probably held by a majority of the docs during the period in question. Besides, it's only about ninety pages. A good bathroom read. [HistoryHouse.com]

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Cinderella Story for Boys

Boots and the Glass Mountain
Claire Martin
Manufacturer: Dial
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Binding: Hardcover

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Cinderella Story for Boys.......2004-03-29

Boots and the Glass Mountain has the classic Cinderella plot but with a masculine twist. Horses, trolls, step-brothers and a glass mountain engage the reader beyond Cinderella and into a wonderful adventure story.

A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee (Mormon Chronicle)

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A Morman Chronicle

A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee (Mormon Chronicle)
John D. Lee
Manufacturer: Huntington Library Press
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John Doyle Lee (1812-1877) was one of the most controversial figures of early Mormon history. A fervent convert, he was adopted by Brigham Young and rose to become a leading member of the church's hierarchy. Lee left behind a number of colorful diaries that reveal in fascinating clarity and detail the everyday life of Utah's pioneer settlers. In them, he describes his close relationship with Brigham Young, his experiences in converting Native Americans to Mormonism, his trials with farming and livestock, his encounters with his 19 wives, and his eventual exile to the barren wastelands of Lee's Ferry.
In the 1950s, five of Lee's diaries in the Huntington collections were meticulously edited and annotated by historians Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks and published in two volumes by the Huntington Library in 1955 to great acclaim as A Mormon Chronicle, The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876. The University of Utah Press kept the book in print until the 1990s; it has now been reprinted as a Huntington Library Classic with a new foreword by Andrew Rolle, a Huntington research fellow and retired Cleland Professor of History from Occidental College. In his foreword, Rolle discusses the collaboration between Cleland, a leading historian of the Southwest, and Brooks, a notable scholar of Mormon history.

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A Morman Chronicle.......2007-09-01

John D. Lee's diaries were of great interest to me, he was my great great grandfather. The family had collected parts of the diaries and other information through the years. This was a great addition to the family history collection.

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Sea Glass

Sea Glass (Golden Mountain Chronicles)
Laurence Yep
Manufacturer: Harpercollins Childrens Books
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When Craig Chin's family moves from San Francisco to small-town Concepcion, California, he thinks he'll never fit in. And his father won't stop pushing him to succeed in sports -- a hopeless goal. But his life begins to change when odd old Uncle Quail shows him a secret sea garden.

This new entry in the Golden Mountain Chronicles features the same stunning design as the previous books in the series, including Newbery Honor Books Dragonwings and Dragon's Gate. Award-winning author Laurence Yep has written a highly readable historical novel that hints at the complex experience of the children and grandchildren of the Chinese immigrant generation.

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Sea Glass.......2002-03-05

A Sharp Summary about Sea Glass

Sea Glass is about a kid named Craig Chin who lives in San Francisco's Chinatown and is trying to fit in with this New World he has entered after moving from China. The kids won't accept him though and they call him names like Buddha Boy and the fat kid. His father tries to help encourage him by saying things like "Any Chinese person has to try twice as hard as any western person". His uncle is the only person who really understands Craig's situation. His uncle helps by opening a whole New World to him except this time it's the sea world. Craig figures outs that he still has a chance to fit in, so he tried.
My opinion is that it is a great book for people still in grade school, secondary school, high school, and up. And is great for people who feel picked on. I give this book 4 out of 5 stars, because it was a slow start. It had a very interresting story once you got started though.

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The Glass Mountain: Twenty-Eight Ancient Polish Foltales and Fables

Great collection of fairy tales

If you like Polish tales, you will like these.

The Glass Mountain: Twenty-Eight Ancient Polish Folktales and Fables
W. S. Kuniczak
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The Glass Mountain: Twenty-Eight Ancient Polish Foltales and Fables.......2005-09-22

Book was recieved in very good time and was better then hoped for. Searching for Folktales that are rather uncommon, this book provides great ones.

Great collection of fairy tales.......2003-11-19

"The Glass Mountain: Twenty-Eight Ancient Polish Folktales and Fables" is a charming book published by Hippocrene Books (1997). Some of the stories in this book are 1,000 years old, and are universal in all Western Slavic languages and cultures. Other stories in this volume go back to the Middle Ages. W. S. Kuniczak does a fantastic job retelling these stories, each attention grabbing and delightful.

The stories resemble fairy tales and although they are supposed to be traditional Polish stories, there is nothing obviously Polish about them. The stories often have princes, princesses, devils, and fools as characters. Two of the stories have dragons in them ("The Oak Plucker and Mountain Topper" and "The Glass Mountain"). Although the legend of the dragon near Krakow is the most well-known Polish dragon story, these two show that it was not the only one.

This book is a great collection of stories. There are also eight beautiful illustrations by Pat Bargielski in this volume. For adventures with witches and devils, princesses being saved, and justice meted out, this book is just what you have been looking for.

If you like Polish tales, you will like these........1999-01-29

Although this book is called "a retelling of traditional Polish tales," an American reader will find much that is new to him/her. The reader will find a story about an evil sorcerer who put a curse on a young man so that he was kept whirling in the sky--all the winds tortured him. He could see life on earth, could see his sweetheart on earth but could not go to her. When he finally promised the sorcerer to give up his betrothed so the sorcerer could have her, he was released--but he was a bony skeleton by now. Read how a witch helped him defeat the sorcerer. The title story, "The Glass Mountain," relates how a princess waited 7 long years at the top of a glass mountain for a hero to come rescue her. Many brave knights lost their lives trying to do just that, but it took a handsome young scholar to think out how he might climb the mountain (wildcat claws). He was almost defeated when he was saved by an eagle who tumbled him into an apple tree on top of the glass mountain. More--much more--happens in this story. Even the titles are interesting in this book of Polish folktales.

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