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What Diantha Did
Charlotte Perkins Gilman , and
Charlotte Rich
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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ASIN: 0822335190 |
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This edition of What Diantha Did makes newly available Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s first novel, complete with an in-depth introduction. First published serially in Gilman’s magazine The Forerunner in 1909–10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fiancé to start a housecleaning business. A resourceful heroine, Diantha quickly expands her business into an enterprise that includes a maid service, cooked food delivery service, restaurant, and hotel. By assigning a cash value to women’s “invisible” work, providing a means for the well-being and moral uplift of working girls, and releasing middle-class and leisure-class women from the burden of conventional domestic chores, Diantha proves to her family and community the benefits of professionalized housekeeping.
In her introduction to the novel, Charlotte J. Rich highlights Gilman’s engagement with such hotly debated Progressive Era issues as the “servant question,” the rise of domestic science, and middle-class efforts to protect and aid the working girl. She illuminates the novel’s connections to Gilman’s other feminist works, including “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and Herland; to her personal life; and to her commitment to women’s social and economic freedom. Rich contends that the novel’s engagement with class and race makes it particularly significant to the newly complex understanding of Gilman that has emerged in recent scholarship. What Diantha Did provides essential insight into Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s important legacy of social thought.
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It's not because I don't love you, Mother. It's because I do. And it's not because I don't love Ross either:--it's because I do. I want to take care of you, Mother, and make life easier for you as long as you live. I want to help him--to help carry that awful load--and I'm going--to--do--it!
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Fascinating font of factoids.......2002-10-30
Seven years ago, my wife and I thought we were going to be clever and original if we named our daughter "Hannah". We didn't know any Hannahs in our generation. But now it seems every other family had a "Hannah" in the 1990s. After reading Lieberson's book, I understand that we got swept up in one of the many waves of name-fashions that he so ably chronicles.
This is an entertaining book, remarkably so considering the author's intention which was to write a serious work of academic deep-think. So there's a great deal of sociologist talk, which is decidedly not entertaining. But, just as the cartoons redeem even the worst issues of the _New Yorker_ , this book is worth getting just for the many statistical charts. You can follow the spectacular career of "Jennifer", the ups and downs of Biblical names, learn about names and social class, and so on.
Finally, I recommend this book to economists who are interested in fads and herd behavior.
What's in a name? Lieberson knows!.......2001-09-04
Lieberson has written a scholarly, witty, and extremely informative book about the factors influencing parents' choices of first names for their children. Using data from 7 countries plus the states of Illinois and California, he shows that "fashion" affects children's names just as much as it does choices in clothing or music. Names became objects of fashion several centuries ago in the West, when, among other influences, state regulations and religious customs loosened their hold over what names parents could choose. With the changes concomitant upon nations entering the modern era, name choices subsequently became more matters of individual preference rather than custom and tradition. However, parents made their choices within the context of changing tastes driven by forces "internal" to the naming process itself, rather than being "determined" by external technological or mass media forces.
The sounds of names themselves display explicable trends, such as the preference for names ending in "a" or "n." Groups of names with similar endings rise and fall together, in fairly orderly, long-term movements.
Lieberson does a brilliant job in presenting evidence, using simple graphs and tables, rather than elaborate quantitative statistical analysis. His chapter on trends in name choices among ethnic and racial groups is particularly compelling, as he shows the joint affects of internal mechanisms (e.g. how names "sound") and external influences (e.g. a group's desire to assimilate quickly).
Want to know why your parents named you "Judy" rather than "Judith"? This book has the answer!
A Taste of names.......2000-09-15
A MATTER OF TASTE is a powerful contribution to our understanding of the factors underlying the popularity of first names. Lieberson has brought together a wealth of ideas, concepts, and principles to the analysis of social change. He has used empirical data from the research on names to do this. The data come from several locales including various parts of the United States, England and Wales, Scotland, Denmark and France. Extensive attention paid to the media influence (or lack of) on the popularity of names. For anyone interested in first names this is a valuable background source to understanding their importance.
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In her new book (and television series) Matters of Taste, Nathalie Dupree gives us recipes drawn from all over America, encompassing some of the diverse ethnic influences that make up today's melting-pot style of cooking. There are twenty-seven menus -- something for every occasion -- with recipes that are fresh, flavorful, varied, and often easy to prepare ahead.
Coping with difficult dinner guests? Nathalie suggests a buffet-style dinner so that everyone can serve him- or herself -- wrapping Charcoal Rib-eye Steaks in tortillas or pancakes and choosing from a variety of sauces and condiments -- to help break down everyone's reserve.
Inviting friends who are on a diet? Try the elegant Zucchini and Red Bell Pepper Soup, Chinese-style Asparagus and Chicken Breast, and Tiny Meringues with Lemon Yogurt and Strawberries.
Planning a summer wedding feast for a crowd? A cool Spinach and Tortellini Salad, do-ahead Lemon-Roasted Cornish Hens, and a finale of Cream Puffs would be just the right thing.
Why not make a special breakfast that will bring the whole family together? Perfectly poached eggs, Maple-Glazed Ham Steak, Baked Cheese-Grits Casserole, and Nut Bran Muffins are what Nathalie recommends.
Knowing that the pleasures of food are invariably linked with moods and memories, Nathalie weaves around each menu a story taken from her popular newspaper column, which has been running in the Atlanta Journal/Constitution for the past two years. Above all, as a TV performer she has the gift of being direct, relaxed, and practical. She is the next-door neighbor sharing a recipe, offering advice and inspiration. And she is right here for us on every page of this beguiling book.
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A Matter of Taste
Manufacturer: Macmillan
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The Definitive Seasoning Cookbook.
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Matter: See It, Touch It, Taste It, Smell It (Amazing Science)
Darlene R. Stille
Manufacturer: Picture Window Books
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Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life
Donna R. Barnes , and
Peter G. Rose
Manufacturer: Syracuse University Press
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A Matter of Taste (Tor Horror)
Fred Saberhagen
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Not bad, just not very good.......1999-11-18
Not a bad premise, essentially, but the whole thing felt rather slight and I found the device of Dracula's recorded memories to be contrived. The idea of linking Dracula to the Borgias was interesting enough, but it never felt like it became fully fleshed out enough. It was good enough to encourage me to read other books in the Dracula series to see if I find them better than this.
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- Nothing new in Terraforming Earth and kind of a Canticle for Liebowitz clone
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Terraforming Earth
Jack Williamson
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ASIN: 0765344971 |
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First Paperback, Contains the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning The Ultimate EarthWhen a giant meteor crashes into the earth and destroys all life, the small group of human survivors manage to leave the barren planet and establish a new home on the moon. From Tycho Base, men and woman are able to observe the devastated planet and wait for a time when return will become possible. Generations pass. Cloned children have had children of their own, and their eyes are raised toward the giant planet in the sky which long ago was the cradle of humanity. Finally, after millennia of waiting, the descendants of the original refugees travel back to a planet they've never known, to try and rebuild a civilization of which they've never been a part. The fate of the earth lies in the success of their return, but after so much time, the question is not whether they can rebuild an old destroyed home, but whether they can learn to inhabit an alien new world--Earth.
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Unbalanced.......2007-07-16
The first problem with this work is it never really lives up to the title. There is no hard science behind the Earth's future evolution as chronicled here. The characters cloned on the moon charged to repopulate and re-form the Earth's ecology do by happenstance- or perhaps a complete lack of care on the part of the author's. They all just bend with the wind, their actions never directly affecting change. They are simply observers- which also could be the fault of Williamson's choice to use the first person narrative for the book, told by the clones' official biographer and journalist.
I kept reading just to see what the next generations of clones would encounter, and was somewhat disappointed with each section. All of the chapters are almost separate short stories, with the original short, which this work builds upon (which I have not previously read) somewhat sticking out like a sore thumb.
Williamson also shows signs of not quite maturing beyond his 50s sci-fi novels, with winged creatures and mind-controlling parasites populating a few of the chapters. Sorry Jack, but contemporary readers need more than a chronicle with such a heady topic.
Nothing new in Terraforming Earth and kind of a Canticle for Liebowitz clone .......2007-05-27
After my failed attempt to read Williamson's previous effort, *The Black Sun*, I decided I needed to read the only other book of his I own but hadn't yet read to see if it was as bad. I can report that it is not. But, for all the promise of the story idea, it is flat and a little unimaginative.
A store of all life on Earth is placed on the Moon in case of catastrophe. The catastrophe eventually arrives in the form of a massive asteroid strike that wipes out life on Earth. A new set of caretaker clones are created on the Moon and the terraforming of Earth begins to build it back to a life-supporting planet. Through generations of these clones over millions of years, the effort the help guide evolution anew through such technology of "Life Bombs" slowly brings earth back to a thriving ecosystem under the watchful eyes of the clones.
Sounds potentially great doesn't it? Except, instead of taking this opportunity to evolve life in an entirely new direction, and exploring where this could go, *Terraforming Earth* is more of a history is doomed to repeat itself motif that is just plain stale in the end - right down to whites subjugating Blacks to slavery. What *A Canticle for Liebowitz* did so brilliantly within the context of its story, this book does so flatly and predictably.
*Terraforming Earth* is lightly entertaining, but fully lacking in what it could have been.
Shallow on every level.......2007-05-15
Forget the title and the intriguing cover art, both are misleading. This book is about the earth getting whacked and a bunch of cloned kids passively waiting for it to re-evolve on it's own through many generations--no assembly required. So if you're hoping for great feats of engineering look elsewhere.
There is absolutely zero tension in this novel. The writing at times is so detached it becomes unintentionally sociopathic--as when the children visit their super-evolved and much-beloved uncle, but when they arrive unexpectedly he abandons them and suggests they should find their way to a museum exhibit where they will fit in with the interactive robots. I'm not kidding. It's about equivalent to telling an orphan to go live at Chuck E. Cheese with the animatronic band who seem very friendly. But in a few more pages, he's their beloved uncle again and a hero figure for the book. It's disturbing, but not in a good literary kind of way, more like a "Is Mr.Williamson taking his meds?" kind of way.
And there's precious little science in this fiction. The clone kids are along for the ride while the "computer" makes all the decisions and never explains it's analysis to them or the reader. The criminally incurious kids may not want to ask the big questions, but that's a pretty big reason why people read SF novels. I don't how an author gets to be a Grand Master without figuring that one out. I'll just assume Williamson's former novels were better, though I do plan to avoid them along with the books touching them on either side just to be safe.
Please, people rating this book highly, read some Dan Simmons or Greg Bear. Dust off the old Asimov and Heinlein sitting in libraries for free. There's so much better to be had. This is a one-star book if these ratings are to hold meaning.
Grade B Work.......2007-01-05
This was an interesting idea with a hopeful but down beat ending.
The story of a failsafe base on the moon started by some well meaning scientists and the clone children who are reborn with each catastrophe that strikes the earth over literally millions of years was interesting but grew repetitive. Upon reflection you really could see that the last part of the story was the novella he won accolades for and the prior portion was filled in to flesh out the story.
This is why Williamson is a Master.......2006-09-16
Jack Williamson was one of my favorite writers when I was growing up and their is enough to this novel to remind me of why I have enjoyed his books so much over the years. At the same time it also illustrated what is missing in some of the science fiction that is written today.
This book takes place initially in the near future after the earth has been decimated by the impact of an enormous asteroid. Fortunately millionare Calvin DeFort had narrowly completed an outpost on the moon and has robots in place to ensure that the clones of a select few survivors will carry on the human species.
What makes these connected series of novellas work is that Jack Williamson never loses sight of what makes us human-both the good and the bad-and the triumphs and the tragedies that go with being human. Combined with a sense of wonder about the universe and evolution this is an very entertaining and captivating tale from a true master of Science Fiction
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This is a personal essay about the last decade or two of my life as a novelist, about how and why my books have so often been about environmental issues, and about how the recent paradigm shift in climatology, recognizing the reality in the past and probably the future of abrupt climate change, became a central feature of the new trilogy of utopian novels I am writing.
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Writing Beyond Genre.......2005-09-18
Most of what Kim Stanley `Stan' Robinson writes is classified as science fiction. His works also often wear the label `literary,' but I read a little bit of everything, including unliterary science fiction, so I think dispensing with labels would be appropriate at this point. Stan's novels are the works of a writer with broad interests and a penchant for accuracy, so getting into his head through the Amazon Shorts titled "Imagining Abrupt Climate Change: Terraforming Earth" was lots of fun. In this 20 page electronic download, Stan lets us in on the genesis of his current project, a near future trilogy [including Forty Signs Of Rain and the soon to be released Fifty Degrees Below] that has the Earth descending into a sudden cold period. He relates connections to his personal interests and two previous novels [Green Mars from the Mars trilogy and the stand alone Antarctica, which he wrote after being part of the Antarctic Artists and Writers' program]. There are several methods for reading the piece, and other than a few typos, I really enjoyed "Imagining Abrupt Climate Change" and look forward to pieces by other authors in the Amazon Shorts series - a series I hope is long term and will not abruptly end.
Nobody makes 'boring science' as interesting as KSR does.......2005-08-21
I'm of the belief one should never pass up the chance to read anything Mr. Robinson publishes. His prose is like the crispest poetry, but without poetry's pretentiousness. This essay, like his fiction, presents theories without shying away from the difficult task of giving the reasons why they're worth considering -- even when it means explaining concepts from paleontology, climatoly, and other similarly unglamorous sciences. It is an engaging read that will help those eagerly awaiting "Fifty Degrees Below" bide their time until that novel's release while also helping to understand the author's motivation and thought process.
Even if you've avoided Mr. Robinson's works because you're put off by books that get called 'Hard Sci-Fi' in reviews, this essay is a perfect example of what sets his writing apart. Frankly, aside Robert A. Heinlein, I've been bored to tears by most writers who pick up that tag. Mr. Robinson, like Mr. Heinlein, has always held my interest because he has a strong moral voice and his fiction makes an argument that is organic to whatever story he is telling. Anwering the question, why another trilogy?, Mr. Robinson writes: "Some stories just need lots of pages to tell right. I wanted to describe what such the experience of abrupt climate change would feel like, from the point of view of a number of individuals. I wanted also to describe how science works in the real world, today, and how it relates to the worlds of power politics, capital, and daily life. I wanted to explore some ideas about how certain Buddhist concepts might apply to the situation, and help us think our way through it. Because in the end this environmental crisis, and the possibility of catastrophic abrupt climate change, is being brought on because of the way we live now; and the way we live is formed by the values we share." The connection he points to between cultural values and their impact on individual lives as well as on the world as a whole, is intensely compelling; it is his ability to weave scientific and moral investigation into an entertaining dramatic structure that makes him, I believe, one of the most important writers of end of the last century and the beginning of this one.
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A complete cookbook, from the most elegant to the most basic, with every recipe tested for the American kitchen.
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Meine Deutsche Küche.......2007-08-08
Having spent several years in Germany, I was anxious to try and replicate various dishes I had experienced in restaurants and gasthauses there. What I have produced from the recipes in this book have been excellent. They may vary slightly from restaurant faire which is subject to the individuality of the chef, but they all seem genuine and have been quite enjoyable. If I have any complaint at all, it's that not all of the ingredients specified in the recipes are readily available in my area (suburban Philadelphia). It would be helpful if the author provided acceptible substitutes for the more aesthetic ingredients.
What a book..........2006-09-21
I like this book. It has a lot in it. The recipes are a little on the long side. The food is good. Most of the ingredients are easy to find. I like to use it for holidays and special meals a lot. To me German foods says Christmas.
all I expected.......2006-08-21
Great cookbook, mostly using ingredients available here in the midwest. Brings back fond memories of Grandma's kitchen.
Decent Recipes, no pictures........2006-04-08
This book has a TON of recipes in it. Many of these recipes are for German fare that I have never tried. I've made serveral dishes from the book, and I have a few comments based on these experiences.
-Some of the ingredients are difficult to find in my neck of the woods (parsley root, celery root, juniper berries)
-Some of the dishes are a bit bland if you follow the recipe exactly as written. I've found that I need to season some of the dishes a little more strongly to make them taste like anything.
-There are NO PICTURES. I don't have any idea as to how most of these dishes are supposed to look.
-The book has a very good variety of recipes including casseroles, meat dishes, side dishes, and desserts.
-Most of the recipes are quite easy to follow, other than those that call for live fish. Those are tough to come by in Iowa unless you are a fisherman.
In short:
Pros:
-Very complete
-Great variety of recipes
-Recipes are a great starting point for experimentation
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-No pictures
-Some Ingredients difficult to find
-Some dishes a bit bland if made exactly as printed.
Two German Cookbooks Compared. This one wins!.......2005-02-11
`The German Cookbook' by Mimi Sheraton and `The New German Cookbook' by Jean Anderson and Hedy Wurz are both written by leading American culinary writers. Although their publication dates are separated by thirty years, Ms. Sheraton's earlier book has been brought up to date at almost exactly the same time the newer book was published by Ms. Anderson and her co-author.
The raw numbers put Ms. Anderson at about 390 pages of recipes for a list price of $30 and Ms. Sheraton at about 500 pages of recipes for a list price of $35. Ms. Anderson includes an excellent bibliography of both English and German sources, including a reference to Ms. Sheraton's book. Ms. Sheraton has no bibliography, but includes the excellent feature of an English and a German index. Ms. Anderson includes a very nice glossary of German culinary terms. Ms. Sheraton's list of terms is much shorter, at the end of a short chapter on cooking utensils, which looks almost identical to such a section you would find in a good book on French recipes. In fact, it has a lot of similarities to a much more complete section in Julia Child's landmark `Mastering the Art of French Cooking' which appeared just a few years before Ms. Sheraton's book. While my primary objective is to compare the two German books, I will say at this point that neither comes close to matching the quality of Ms. Child's classic.
Ms. Sheraton, with the longer book, is claiming to be a complete guide to mastering authentic German cooking while Ms. Anderson specifically aims her book at `new' German cooking and avoids any claim to being a survey of all German cuisine (Ms. Sheraton does say, here and there, that there are some typical recipes which are simply so starchy and plain that she thinks they will be of no interest to American cooks, so she leaves them out). A quick look at the first few chapters confirms this assessment. In appetizers, Ms. Sheraton has 18 recipes while Ms. Anderson has but 10. In the next chapter on soups, Ms. Sheraton has 38 recipes while Ms. Anderson has but 25. And, Ms. Sheraton follows her soup chapter with a chapter on soup garnishes.
Which of these two books one may wish to buy has a lot to do with what you want from a `German cookbook'. I happen to be from a German and Pennsylvania German background, so I am looking for a wide variety of recipes for classic German and Austrian dishes. For this, I certainly prefer Ms. Sheraton's more complete coverage. I think the most typical buyer may be interested in a few famous German / Austrian recipes such as Sauerbraten, Sauerkraut, Spatzle, Wiener Schnitzel, Sausage dishes, and Strudel (It is entirely coincidental that all of these dishes start with an `S'). A comparison of all these dishes in both books shows that in every case, not only does Ms. Sheraton have more recipes, her recipes are also more complete.
One place where this is most dramatic is in the recipes for strudel. Ms. Anderson gives but one recipe for strudel, calling it a `Bavarian Strudel', and accurately stating that it is less like the classic Austro-Hungarian dish than like a cobbler. And, rather than giving a homemade recipe for the dough, Ms. Anderson's recipe uses frozen filo dough. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this, as long as you are not buying her book to get a good classic strudel dough recipe. Ms. Sheraton does give us a full recipe for the classic Austrian strudel dough plus recipes for apple, cheese, cherry, plum, poppy seed, rhubarb, and Tyrolean strudel. Everything but cabbage strudel (however, there is a sauerkraut strudel recipe under sauerkraut recipes)! With sausage dishes, the picture is similar. Ms. Anderson has but three sausage dishes while Ms. Sheraton gives us ten.
Ms. Sheraton's recipes do tend to be just a bit more concise than those in Ms. Anderson's book. This is understandable since Ms. Sheraton says at the outset that her book assumes you know your way around the kitchen and know in practical terms, the difference between blanch and poach, for example. And yet, with very important recipes such as with sauerbraten and spatzle, two dishes which require considerably more than the average amount of technique, Ms. Sheraton's recipes are more descriptive than those from Ms. Anderson.
It is entirely appropriate that Ms. Anderson's co-author is a German travel writer, as one of the things in `The New German Cookbook' which is missing from `The German Cookbook' are sidebar stories describing the origins of most recipes.
The bottom line for all of this for Ms. Anderson's book is that it is very similar to a cookbook of recipes from a popular modern German restaurant. And, restaurant cookbooks are bought primarily to supply the reader with new ways of doing classic dishes and cute stories of how the executive chef came by the recipes. The main difference is that unlike recipes from great French and Italian restaurants, the recipes in Anderson's book are primarily simplified versions of the classics rather than fancy new twists.
Really want good recipes from the authentic, traditional German cuisine, get Ms. Sheraton's book. If you are so devoted to German recipes that Sheraton's book simply does not supply enough variety, get both books. Both books give good sketches of wine and beer production in Germany and there is little redundancy. Ms. Sheraton adds the extra touches of recipes for wine and beer based drinks and punches.
Ms. Sheraton's book is a reasonable addition for German cuisine to the great one volume treatments of ethnic cuisines done by Diane Kochilas on Greece, Diana Kennedy or Rick Bayless on Mexico, Penelope Casas on Spain, Barbara Tropp or Virginia Lee on China, Shizuo Tsuji on Japan, and Jean Anderson on Portugal!
Recommended as a standard on its subject.
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