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"More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research."
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Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten.
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The Guns of August.......2007-09-15
If you have any interest in World War I the Guns of August is a must read. This book has been sitting on my bookshelf for years--I know this because the price on the jacket is under $20.00. I was always concerned that the book would be a slow and plodding work with too much time invested in describing the strategies of the various battles.. Yes, there are varied descriptions of the various August 1914 battles, but they read like a novel, are essential in understanding the futility of the War and the superficial understanding of the world that England, France, Russia, and even the United States had in 1914.
Barbara Tuchman is an excellent writer--it is know accident that she won the Pulitzer Price for this book. Surprisingly, this is a quick read and the 400 pages (hard cover) go very quickly. One develops a keen understanding of the mindset of the French, English, and Germans before and during the war. Tuchman gives fair treatment to the French, English, and Germans. It is not surprising that the war aims of the Germans do not seem to differ much between WWI and WWII. . Tuchman paints a portrait of pre war Europe with its artificial entangling alliances as a powder keg ready to explode. As you read the story of the first month of the War you are struck with the overarching theme, which I think is true of most wars, that while the powers sough an early overwhelmingly decisive battle you feel the foreboding by those in the know that if timetables are not met this will be a long and stalemated conflict. August of 1914 certainly sets the stage for the remainder of 20th century history. This is a great book. I do not know why I waited so long to take it off my shelf
Guns of August.......2007-09-12
Super account of the first days and campaigns of WWI.
"Guns of August" is particularly good in its ability to capture the mindsets of generals on both sides. The account of the violation of Belgian neutrality and the civilians' taking up arms to defend their nation at all costs was especially effective (and well-researched).
A great start.......2007-09-12
For those of you just beginning to explore the Great War and it's causes this book is the place to start. Tuchman's ability to weave together the all to human story of the mistakes and blunders committed by egotistical, naive, and often downright stupid leaders, still resonates clearly today. This book should be required reading for all politicians and State Department officials.
Strong anti-German bias.......2007-08-27
This book has excellent military analysis and I can see why it has many admirers. However, I purchased it in order to learn more about the origins of World War I and was profoundly disappointed. The analysis is quite limited and dominated by a heavy anti-German bias. Of course all works of history will show the author's bias to some degree, but parts of this book read like a melodrama, with Germany as the villain and Belgium as the hero.
Studying the start of World War I gives us an opportunity to learn better ways of preventing future catastrophic wars. When the analysis of German war aims relies on "the hatred of a barbaric culture against anything civilized," that opportunity is lost.
An August Book.......2007-08-23
While it's been a while since I read this, I clearly remember that it was superb. Tuchman's ability to bring history to life is unsurpassed.
I'd strongly recommend this book to anyone with the least interest in the subject of WWI. While just using the war's first full month, BT gives us a clear view of that world and its people who became involved in the incredible machine of death that was The Great War.
I would also suggest Keegan's "The First World War" for a fuller description of the war in its entirety.
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The "Hundred Days" campaign during Word War I was one of the greatest victories in British military history. In three months the British Expiditionary Force helped bring the German Empire to its knees. The purpose of this book is to rescue the campaign from relative obscurity.
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In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr Stolypin, a crucial event in the years leading up to the Revolution of 1917, is reconstructed from the alienating viewpoints of historical witnesses. The sole voice of reason among the advisers to Tsar Nikolai II, Stolypin died at the hands of the anarchist Mordko Bogrov, and with him perished Russia's last hope for reform. Translated by H.T. Willetts.
August 1914 is the first volume of Solzhenitsyn's epic, The Red Wheel; the second is November 1916. Each of the subsequent volumes will concentrate on another critical moment or "knot," in the history of the Revolution. Translated by H.T. Willetts.
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august 1914 - a tragicomedy.......2007-01-15
I skim read the reviews of this book on amazon, the lower star ratings shocked me more than the others in certain comments they made.
I am about 620 pages through this book, I have read the earlier draft version previously. I have also read one life in the day of ivan denisovich, cancer ward, the nobel speeches, letter to the soviet leaders and the first ward all at least twice (and very thoroughly). also the gulag (some chapters multiple times).... I am still in my early twenties. I agreed with a point a reviewer made about it being hard to work out which battalion is fighting who etc. The earlier draft has list of all these characters and also the russian army layout (it seems strange that this was left out in the later edition)(...so for me this never was a problem, especially since I am reading the book for the second time, a habit i encourage).
However, this book is by no means contrived, it requires a great deal of imagination to be able appreciate it. I find it strange that people compare this to War and Peace, even though Solz clearly critizes Tolstoy in this very book (as he does in Gulag chapter ascent). ALthough to be honest I haven't fully read Tolstoy's book (I started Anna Karenina, but stopped after about 40 pages a couple of years ago)...(so maybe in form there are similarities, I do not know).
Solzhenitsyn only holds bias in the sense that when one sees mass oppression of peoples one is bound to feel agrieved, and bitterness. If one didn't we could rightly claim that they had ceased to behave like a human being (and more like a rat!).
Be careful what translations you read, some seem far superior to others.
When reading this book one must remember how many different human beings are involved, each different.
Man's Folly.......2005-10-31
Although difficult to follow at times, this work relates the tragedy of war, specifically war undertaken without the proper understanding and preparation necessary to sucessfully see it through. The sections written as a screen play are a mystery to this reader, even though the content of these sections are vital. Particularly touching and poignant is the sheer frustration experienced by the fictional Colonel sent to Second Army, and particularly sad and ironic is the account of Gen. Samsonov's turmoil, from the moment we are first introduced to him, to the bitter and unnecessary fate which is his.
Inexorable flow of events.......2003-10-21
This is a momentous work - quite unlike FIRST CIRCLE or the GULAG ARCHIPELAGO. Solzhenitsyn cannot himself from centering on people. Despite the epic events depicted, the start of WW1, the Battle of Tannenburg, the meeting of cultures, in the end this is a book of individuals, great and small.
The word pictures he has created of the rolling plains of battle, the lumbering armies, life in the military, are some of the greatest ever painted. One is transported back to that date when backward, religiously zealous, serf-like Russia meets the modern age. The story of the first vision of the industrial West by the illiterate Russian soldier - and the impact it makes on them - was breathtaking.
The story switches from one vista to another, battlefield to palace, and finally from the Romanovs to Lenin as the march of history continues steadily and inexorably onward. Even knowing the awful outcome does not decrease the pleasure of the story. At the end, you have come only so far and are ready for the next in the series, NOVEMBER 1916. I like the method in which he has chosen to write history - the selection of specific periods of time which he considered to have had the greatest impact on the modern Soviet state.
I really liked it. . . A Great Book.......2003-08-15
August 1914
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
I remember when my son was little. He would bring me August 1914 and ask me to read it to him. There were no pictures in this book, but he knew that it was a book that I loved. So we would lie on his bed and as I opened the book and read to him about a world he could only discover in a book. Solzhenitsyn is one of my hero?s, a moral voice speaking against the tyranny of Soviet repression. This book about the battle of Tennenberg in August 1914 is not only a brilliant historical novel, but also a critique of the forces that lead to the October Revolution in Russia. Let?s talk about the story, before we continue the review.
The story is about the entrance of Imperial Russia into World War I. War is declared and Russia in its hurry to honor its commitments to France, invades Prussia. Its army under the leadership of General Samsonov is unprepared for war and Russia suffers a humiliating defeat as the army is surrounded and destroyed. The story is told through the eyes of a Colonel Vorotyntsey who alone sees the coming disaster and vainly tries to avert it.
It is a story of an Army that did not understand modern warfare. Samsonov, a cavalry officer, is used to sitting on his horse and viewing the battlefield; this battlefield, however, stretches for hundreds of miles. Communication is non-existent; supplies are scarce. The Germans, however, understood the new technology and were able to listen in on all the Russian communications. Samsonov makes one blunder after another; he is out classed and doesnt know what to do. With his army collapsing around him, he is lost. Lost in a forest, he ends his life with a bullet as he and his staff are attempting to escape the encirclement.
It is a wonderfully written book. One can hear the hoof beats of the charging cavalry, see the sabers glistening in the sun, sense the terror of the soldiers huddle in their trenches as thousands of shells fall around them and smell the cordite as it drifts across the fields. But Solzhenitsyn?s purpose is more than giving us a history of a battle fought long ago, we wants to expose the corruption of a Czarist Russia that lead to an even greater corruption of the Soviet System. This is a novel about truth and the attempt to conceal it. The old Czarist regime and the Soviet one that followed could only survive by the suppression and the corruption of the truth. No wonder that this book was banned in the Soviet Union.
It is a great book; I have read it at least a half dozen times over the years.
Best Left in the Dustbin of History.......2003-07-07
I first read August 1914 nearly a decade ago, and I must have enjoyed it as I spent the next ten years looking for a reasonably priced edition of the next book. Having finally found one, I decided to re-read August 1914. I have no idea what I could possibly have liked about it the first time through.
Solzhenitsyn tries too desperately to write his own War and Peace and fails miserably. Where Tolstoy truly breathes life into his characters, Solzhenitsyn creates cardboard cutouts that lack depth and ring false at every turn. Where Tolstoy kept his historical lectures separate from the narrative, Solzhenitsyn puts his in the mouths of the characters, creating incredibly obtuse dialogues that make one want to throw the book down. Perhaps realizing that the readers are not likely to releate to the characters, Solzhenitsyn tells how character A (whom we apparently are supposed to like) really likes character B (whom up until now we haven't cared for at all), so now, therefore, we must like him, too. Characters, like Russian general Samsonov, who might have had some subtle nuances get stamped with "good" or "evil", completely destroying any chance for the reader to form his own impressions. Partly this occurs because Solzhenitsyn, as he did in his earler works, is pursuing his own agenda and is unable or unwilling to provide a dispassioned viewpoint (one need only skim through Lenin in Zurich, originally part of August 1914).
Once the Battle of Tannenberg gets underway the situation improves, but it is a long, long painful slog until that point and it is not worth it.
Do not misunderstand me; Solzhenitsyn will remain a part of my libary for the Gulag Archipelago and his semi-autobiographical fiction. But the Red Wheel series will not be rolling in my house anymore. Rereading August 1914, I kept recalling Vladimir Voinovich's caricature of Solzhenitsyn in Moscow 2042 - a writer utterly convinced he alone can save Russia by riding in on a white horse. That's the Solzhenitsyn we see in August 1914. Avoid this one.
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From renowned comics writer Pat Mills and legendary artist Joe Colquhoun comes a truly classic piece of graphic storytelling: thrilling, horrifying and deeply moving.
In 1916, Charley Bourne lies about his age to fight in France. But thoughts of glory and patriotism are swept aside by the horror of life and death in the trenches of the First World War. In this second volume, we follow the continuing trials of Charley during the bloody and disastrous Battle of the Somme.
Charley's War also features an appreciation by comics writer Garth Ennis (War Stories), a `director's commentary' by Pat Mills, and a fascinating article on the cultural history of World War One.
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Charley's war.......2006-11-10
Absolutely fantastic just as emotional and visually exciting as when I first read them as a child. Beautifully presented and reprinted. Highly reccomended to anyone interested in the first world war or looking to get into studying it as a hobby. Keep em coming !!!
It just keeps getting better and better.......2006-07-16
It's actually quite impossible to come up with something concerning the second collection of comics about Charley Bourne and his experiences during WWI that I haven't already mentioned in my review of the first collection.
This amazing comic simply keeps going. It's still as exciting, still as detailed, and most importantly, still as well-written.
However, while the good stuff keeps coming, so does the bad. The lack of color still hamper the realism, and this unfortunate fact is just as frustrating as before. Still, since all the good stuff continues to impress the reader, the overall impression is, once again, nothing but amazement. Not only that, this collection also has several quite abrupt and highly unexpected changes in the storylines, which is very positive. After all, that's how war is.
Finally I just have to mention the fact that there's one scene in particular that, well, came out stronger and more intense that any other scene of war I've ever encountered in a comic. Obviously I won't tell you which one - I prefer not to include spoilers in my reviews - but just let me say that the tragedy of warfare, particularly World War I, suddenly becomes very vivid.
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Typical Ms.Craven ............2005-12-08
Will he get his wedding-night baby? Virginal beauty Cally Maitland has become accustomed to life on the run since fleeing her marriage to aristocrat Sir Nicholas Tempest. But Nicholas isn't prepared to let Cally go. Indeed, he has a harsh ultimatum to deliver: give him their long-overdue wedding-night - and provide him with an heir!
Eventhough the idea is not new, I love most of Ms.Craven's story line, very typical and interesting.
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Virginal beauty Cally Maitland has become accustomed to life on the run since fleeing her marriage to aristocrat Sir Nicholas Tempest. But Nicholas isn't prepared to let Cally go. Indeed, he has a harsh ultimatum to deliver: give him their long-overdue wedding-night - and provide him with an heir!
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The Seattle Times said of Angry Candy: "Ellison's stories rattle the bars of complacency that people put around their souls . . . Razor sharp . . . piercingly profound." Once again, Ellison's writing defies all labels. These seventeen stories by a modern master are an "assembled artifact" of anger and faith - as bittersweet as a"jalapeno-laced cinnamon bear." The sixteen stories collected here are spread over the farthest stretches of time and space, but even the bleakest of them is warmed by a passionate faith in the endurance of life and its ultimate possibilities.
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unbearable.......2005-09-28
I couldn't get through much of this garbage, and I recommend anyone thinking of reading it do some browsing of the pages at a library or even via Amazon's nifty feature that lets you read a few pages, before you make a terrible mistake. This overblown windbag (Ellison) is so full of himself that his masturbatory writing style oozes filthy wetness right off the page. I had to look this guy up after reading some stuff, and it turns out he's a real jerk in person too, which explains a lot actually. I recommend doing some research on the author even more than even his books. You will be sickened by the thought of reading anything puked up from that mind. Just remember, you're reading a book written by someone who thinks he's better than you and wants everyone to know it.
you won't find a better collection of short stories.......2005-03-26
This World Fantasy Award-winning collection was the first taste of Harlan Ellison that I had, and boy, was it a good introduction. I have since read a great deal more of Ellison's work, and, while I find that pretty much all of it affects me deeply, the stories in _Angry Candy_ are the ones I find myself coming back to the most.
Death is the theme tying together the stories in _Angry Candy_--death, and our difficulty accepting it as an inevitable part of life. The book is saturated with anger and loss, yes, but also with dark humor and a sense that life is something worth fighting for.
Other reviewers have talked about the standout stories in this collection, including "Paladin of the Lost Hour," which picked up a Hugo Award, "Soft Monkey," and "The Importance of Dream Sleep." No one has mentioned "Stuffing," which is not generally considered one of Ellison's strongest stories, but which affected me deeply when I first read it and which remains one of my favorites. I read it while struggling through a profound depression, and the sense of futility and powerlessness it conveyed struck a chord in me. I think that typifies _Angry Candy_: while every story in this collection is admirable, there is almost certain to be at least one that resonates particularly strongly for you. And if that doesn't make you want to read this book, I don't know what will.
Essential.......2004-06-17
Not just essential to fans of Harlan Ellison, this book is mind-altering, beginning with the first line of the opener, "Paladin of the Lost Hour". I can't recommend this book enough. I kept it checked out of the library when I was younger and much broker; I got older and less broke; and now, much like another reviewer, I keep buying new copies after I loan them out and they never return. Combine this with "the Essential Ellison" and you will understand why people are so rabid about the works of Harlan Ellison.
Ellison- challenging, puzzling, dynamic.......2003-02-06
Harlan Ellison is one the world's great short story writers. Forget about labels, SF, fantasy, etc. He is just one of the better practitioners of this art form. He also can be one of the most infuriating, writing experimental stories that take many pages to say nothing. ANGRY CANDY is bit of both with the good outweighing the incomprehensible.
"Paladin of the Lost Hour," "Prince Myshkin," "Laugh Track," and especially "Soft Monkey" ( an incredible tale of survival in the heartless city) are all fine examples of Ellison's ability to create a variety of stories that can grip you with suspense or put a mile on your face ( a rare talent in any writer). It is the few occasions where Ellison drifts off into the bizarre; with stories like "The Region Between" or "Eidolons" where the point is...well I'm not sure where the point is; this being the problem. It is these types of stories that keep me from giving this collection the highest rating, but one thing about Ellison's writing it is never boring and it will always challenge the reader's emotions and intellect. ANGRY CANDY is another example of Ellison's ability to do both of these things magnificently.
Death pervads this masterpiece.......2002-05-03
Angry Candy is considered by some to be Harlan Ellison's best collection of short stories. I think Slippage is a tiny bit better, but Angry Candy is powerful. The collection starts with an essay Ellison wrote after the deaths of many friends in a short time period (A list is provided; organized by month of death; human mortality is truely freightening). The common thread throughout these stories is death. Death shows up everywhere: from the Titanic to werewolves in Paris to an Aunt trapped for eternity on a "Laugh Track". The stars of the collection are "The Paladin of the Lost Hour," which was an episode of the New Twilight Zone. "Paladin" is a beautiful tale of race relations and human emotions. "Soft Monkey" is a tale of a New York bag-woman who chooses the wrong place to sleep one night and the relationship she has with a doll. "The Function of Dream Sleep" was written last and deals with Ellison's loss of friends. It seems it was written as a release from the pain of loss. All of the other stories in this collection are sound and most importantly entertaining. Ellison knows how to tell the story.
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Can we re-imagine divine power as deeply related to the changing world? Can we re-imagine the creation of the world as an on-going process of co-creation in which every individual from particles of atoms to human beings plays a part? Can we re-imagine the world as the body of Goddess/God? If we can, then we can understand the deeper meaning of female images of divine power, including Goddess, God-She, Sophia, and Shekhina. Carol Christ's gift is to make complex ideas seem simple and radically new ideas seem familiar; She Who Changes is for everyone who has ever wondered about re-imagining God as female.
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Well written and thought provoking..........2006-02-14
Carol Christ has written an engaging, thought provoking book with "She Who Changes: Re-Imagining the Divine in the World." The book is an exploration of the influence process theology has had on Christ's own notion of the divine. Rooted in her own experience, and the "problems with God" she encounters (including the problem of evil) Christ details the potential answers process theology offers.
Writing about the perspective of process theologian Charles Hartshorne, Christ recounts the six mistakes of classical theism (including belief in scriptural infallibility and belief in the afterlife) and possible alternatives to them. There is an emphasis on social justice and ecology, and on enjoying life.
Although this book is rooted in process theology, there is still considerable overlap with other theologies. How does this stack up, and differ, from other alternatives to classical theism? Episcopal bishop John Shelby Spong has written about similar issues in "Why Christianity Must Change or Die." There are less theistically based denominations, such as Unitarian Universalism. Some forms of Christianity and Judaism focus on environmental issues, and use gender inclusive language and symbology. I would put Christ in complement to these, not in contrast. Her focus may be outside Christianity but that doesn't put her in opposition to it.
religion better re-imagined.......2005-11-29
This is a truly great and potentially life changing book. I highly recommend it for anyone who has had their fill of "domination religion" and would like to look into a more compassionate understanding, hopeful and even realistic look at faith.
Contrary to the popular "stern father figure in the sky with a whipping belt" type of belief system, Carol imagines a loving, compassionate and most importantly co-creative deity. This more "feminine" goddess/god that she refers to seems much more in line to me with the teachings of great religious minds like the Buddha or Jesus than with any of todays contemporary religious beliefs. It may not be what belief is today, but it is what it should be.
If you have ever thought that religion or faith should be about love, understanding, helping, or compassion, then this book is a must read, regardless of your own faith or religion or gender or upbringing.
An atheistic guide to The Goddess.......2003-12-12
This is a book of philosophy and history and Goddess spirituality....if you can call it that. Goddess spirituality as a veneer over process philosophy is a more accurate assessment of what this book actually is.
This is a well written, well thought out book. However, in my opinion it belongs in the woman's studies section of the bookstore as opposed to anything related to religion/spirituality. There is nothing here for anyone interested in the "spirit" part of Goddess spirituality. I give it two stars becuase it deserves that much for the information within as the author is very intellegent and makes some very good points. I would have given the book 3 stars if the presentation didn't use the Goddess as a fiction.
In fact, the author states, rather boldly and with an impossible certainty, that there is no afterlife, no soul and no actual God/dess. So essentially, this book is a book of feminist philosophy that uses the Goddess as a symbol/metaphor.
One reviewer says that the author has taken a " leaner, rational approach to the Goddess as characterized by process philosophy." This isn't true. The Goddess (as divinity) has been removed from the equation and has been relegated to the status of symbol. This isn't a rational approach to the Goddess as much as it is a redefining of the term Goddess so that she is nothing more than a metaphor for a philosophical point of view. And no, there is nothing particularly New Age about keeping The Goddess as a goddess considering that by definition that is what "She" as divinity is supposed to be.
I have to question the use of the idea of the Goddess at all in regards to this book. I feel that a potential reader who doesn't get the benefit of Amazon.com reviews may be very disappointed to discover that this is a book of philosopy by an atheist and not a book that will deepen your spiritual connection to the feminine aspect of the Divine.
I don't think that women need to re-imagine the God right out of the Goddess. And I certainly don't believe that women's healing requires a divorcing of women from theism altogether. The concept itself is a massive case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater in the worst possible way.
We may not have a soul, but change is good for it........2003-09-30
How the reviewer from Butler, New Jersey, could not have known beforehand that the author was deeply engaged by process philosophy and that the book was all about the application of that philosophy to thealogy is beyond me. Such information was on the dust jacket, in the introduction, and everywhere in the book. Perhaps the reviewer bought the book sight unseen, in which case she clearly hadn't read Ms. Christ's earlier book REBIRTH OF THE GODDESS where her initial interest in process philosophy was spelled out.
The reviewer said Ms. Christ states "there is no deity, no Goddess, no after-life, and we have no souls." This is strange in that the entire book is about deity and God/Goddess. I think the reviewer is upset that Ms. Christ has moved from a New Age Goddess perspective to a leaner, more rational approach characterized by process philosophy. From that perspective questions of after-life and the existence of a soul are not particularly relevant.
I think many in the New Age and Goddess movements will be unsatisfied with Ms. Christ's turn towards a less touchy-feely metaphysic. Others -- those of us who came to Goddess from within the Jewish and Christian traditions -- will likely find this informative and inspiring.
Also, for those of us who are well-read in process philosophy and theology, this book takes the discussion in a much needed direction -- away from specifically Christian applications where such discussions are usually to be found and into the world of comparative religion.
"Process Pagan Panentheism" may be too much of a mouthful to describe Ms. Christ's developing approach, but I think it fits well, and I look forward to more from her and others who recognize the implicit wisdom of this direction.
P.S. Those reviewers who assert that Ms. Christ is an atheist might want to consider that just because her God/dess isn't yours doesn't make her any less and you any more oriented to the Divine.
Groundbreaking.......2003-08-23
The more I think about this book, the better I like it and the more important I think it is. I believe it is groundbreaking for theology and religion in the way that Women's Ways of
Knowing was for women's studies and epistemology. Like all great books, it may raise as many questions as it answers. So it deserves a slow, careful reading and a thoughtful, thorough discussion. If I were still teaching college, I would use it in my women's studies classes. But it would also be great for book clubs.
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