The Flora capensis of Jakob and Johann Philipp Breyne (Brenthurst series)

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The Flora capensis of Jakob and Johann Philipp Breyne (Brenthurst series)
Jakob Breyne
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Flora Capensis of Jakob and Johann Philipp Breyne.
Mary Gunn
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Flora Capensis of Jakob and Johann Philipp Breyne.

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At one time or another, almost everyone has entertained the fantasy of living abroad. In one's dreams, language is no problem, the natives are always friendly, and every day is another adventure in paradise. The reality, however, is quite different--especially for the dependants of people whose careers take them overseas. Suddenly, the tag-along spouse finds him or herself in a strange land, without friends or family, and often without a job. There's a household to be set up and run, social events to be navigated, and often children to be raised--all in a foreign culture whose rules the spouse may be struggling to understand. For those transplanted better halves, help is on the way in Robin Pascoe's Culture Shock! A Wife's Guide. Though Pascoe has obviously written her book with traveling wives in mind, the sound advice she gives is applicable to partners of either sex. From dealing with pre-departure jitters to hiring household help, from making the cultural transition to fighting off boredom, Pascoe's suggestions are equal opportunity. So if your life's partner is about to head overseas for a long-term assignment, get Culture Shock! A Wife's Guide to help ease you over the rough spots of getting adjusted.

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With bags packed, crates shipped out, children briefed, parents consoled, you are ready for life in a foreign country. All is fine until initial excitement gives way to fear and doubt. "Will I be accepted" "Will the children fit in?" "Will I be able to get a job?" "Will the people understand they way I speak?" "Will they have my favorite brand of denture cleaner?" Your worries, guilt, resentment and secret aspirations surface and you cannot cope. Take heart, you are not alone. Comforting and funny, encouraging and practical, this collection of honest soul-baring and helpful advice tells you how to cope with the gamut of emotions and situations experienced by most "accompanying" wives or spouses.

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Finally someone understands............2000-06-29

For those of us who are veterans of countless overseas moves, and perhaps particularly for first-time expats, what a relief it is to find this book, which so movingly and wittily defines the expatriate process. Yes, there are countless benefits to an international life, but there is also the pain and heartache of upheaval, rootlessness, missed loved ones and a career set indefinitely on hold. Robin Pascoe holds a mirror up to the expat soul, and shows it for what it is: delighted, resentful, joyful and miserable, and often all on the same day. The glue that holds every overseas assignment together is the accompanying spouse, and Ms. Pascoe's book is the best how-to guide a girl ever had. Don't leave home without it.....

A good starting place in preparing for a move abroad.......2000-05-24

We are planning a move to the UK within the next year, and I bought this to prepare myself for what it might be like. The book is helpful in the broadest sense, in that it gives one an idea of what one woman's emotional experiences have been like. However I found it lacking in the practical detail that I craved - how to estimate standard of living differences, how to navigate school systems and make schooling choices, even how to decide what household objects to take with us and what to leave behind.

That said, though, I still think that this is a book worth buying and holding on to if you are comtemplating an international move for your partner's work. I expect to find it useful *after* the move as well.

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Culture Shock! : Successful Living Abroad - A Wife's Guide (Culture Shock! Practical Guides)
Robin Pascoe
Manufacturer: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K3SG0I

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Culture Shock! : Successful Living Abroad - A Wife's Guide (Culture Shock! Practical Guides)
Robin Pascoe
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ASIN: B000K3SFZY

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Culture Shock! : Successful Living Abroad - A Wife's Guide (Culture Shock! Practical Guides)
Robin Pascoe
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ASIN: B000K3QEXY

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Culture Shock! : Successful Living Abroad - A Wife's Guide (Culture Shock! Practical Guides)
Robin Pascoe
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ASIN: B000K3QDM6

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Culture Shock! : Successful Living Abroad - A Wife's Guide (Culture Shock! Practical Guides)
Robin Pascoe
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ASIN: B000K3SG1M

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Culture Shock! : Successful Living Abroad - A Wife's Guide (Culture Shock! Practical Guides)
Robin Pascoe
Manufacturer: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company
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ASIN: B000K3UFBG

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History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby’s Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Rothstein was much more—and less—than a fixer of baseball games. He was everything that made 1920s Manhattan roar. Featuring Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, speakeasies, showgirls, political movers and shakers, and stars of the Golden Age of Sports, this is a biography of the man who dominated an age. Arnold Rothstein was a loan shark, pool shark, bookmaker, thief, fence of stolen property, political fixer, Wall Street swindler, labor racketeer, rumrunner, and mastermind of the modern drug trade. Among his monikers were “The Big Bankroll,” “The Brain,” and “The Man Uptown.” This vivid account of Rothstein’s life is also the story of con artists, crooked cops, politicians, gang lords, newsmen, speakeasy owners, gamblers and the like. Finally unraveling the mystery of Rothstein’s November 1928 murder in a Times Square hotel room, David Pietrusza has cemented The Big Bankroll’s place among the most influential and fascinating legendary American criminals. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs are featured.

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Goes beyond "the fix".......2007-01-18

Although the 1919 Series is in the title, the book goes beyond that, so if you're a curious baseball fan this book might have more than you are game for. Pietrusza seems to know his New York criminal element of the era, and the books travels down spokes out from the Rothstein hub into these areas, which certainly helps to put Rothstein into perspective, at least from a "buisness" standpoint.

I have uncovered additional info about Rothstein's personality with simple google searches, and in other books; the sources seeming to be reliable. Presuming these are accurate, they do help to supplement what we learn about Rothstein here. That's no big criticism, but the book left me with some unanswered questions about Rothstein's personality -- answers that might or might not be difficult to answer.

Rothstein was not a well-kept secret, even in his era, and there seems to have been enough written about him that I would think it might not be difficult for an author to give us more about his personality. This author choose to focus on dozens of peripheral characters, and if you're a history fan that proves to be illiuminating, but does not always illuminate Rothstein, just places him in a context. Still, readers can argue the "business" of Rothstein and his fellow criminals is the compelling part of his personality, and speaks volumes itself.

Fantastic, historical read!.......2006-04-14

A glimpse into history and a ruthless time in America. Not only a good baseball story but a great read for anyone wanting to learn more about the time period.

The man behind an empire!.......2006-01-21

Without trying to repeat what has already been said, A.R. comes alive in reading this book. He really didn't have many friends, just business associates. His life was all business and that business was making money! He was the ultimate gambler seeing an opening and taking it (no matter who you were - family, friend or foe). A.R. was involved in all types of scams, legitimate and illegal, for the sole purpose of turning a profit. After reading this book - you also find out a few undesirable traits about A.R. such as him being a welsher, and not paying debts on time. He wasn't the most honorable among thieves. This was an interesting characteristic of the book for it isn't one-sided. It gives you the facts about A.R. whether good or bad. This book paints a true portrait of the extent of vice which involved politicians, mobsters, athletes, policemen and of course actors and actresses. There is extensive research with regard to who killed A. R. I found this part of the book to be very interesting to see all the facts and the "behind the scenes" work unravel. It reveals the motives: the who, what, when, where, why and how. The last chapter keeps you very motivated and wanting for more. There were some great quotes from some old timers and I think one can learn a few things from reading this book. The book is recommended to other readers.

Enigmatic man.......2005-08-03

Tackling the biography is Arnold Rothstein is not like undertaking to deal with the life of most equally known men of even the same time. Rothstein was covered, as can be seen in the bibliography, in hundreds if not thousands of articles of the time in newspapers, magazines, books, and legends. The problem is not lack of words written, but lack of actual knowledge of the subject. Simply put, much of what has been written is legendary, apocryphal, repetitive, speculative or downright false, and it must have been an overwhelming task to wade through the junk to find the goods. Pietruszka has done as good a job of it as likely can be done at this remove.

Further complicating the task is the personality of the subject, in this case a man who was clearly highly intelligent, charismatic, and industrious, but was missing some kind of chip to his personal makeup that would have made him fully human. Judging from the book, AR loved the multiplication of money in any way possible, judging everything and everyone useful or not useful based strictly upon the expected financial return. Associates passed in and out of his life and he had no compunction about lying to them or ripping them off or leaving them hanging out to dry, to take whatever heat might come down in his wake, and he'd pick them back up again if there was money to be made with no personal feelings entering into it. It must have been hard to resist his charismatic pull, but harder to actually like the man.

Before reading this book I had known a little about Rothstein, mostly from the gambling/World Series angle. I had been unaware of his deep involvement in drugs and similar financial adventures. I wonder to what degree some of the crimes ascribed to Rothstein are simply a case of saying that because he was involved in this, with so-and-so, he MUST have been involved in that, with so-and-so. Notably, Rothstein's own little black book of records may well have been `edited' by the cops after it was found, and of course the missing sheets are missing. There seems to have been little actual written proof of much of anything Rothstein did, and there are so many conflicting stories and points of view it is hard to know the man's actual deeds with any certainty.

Rothstein's relationship with his wife stands in complete contrast: the one person from whom he did not intend to make money he put on such a pedestal that he found himself unable to approach her as a wife, as a woman, and of course this created further suffering.

I think that this man was a very one-sided genius, essentially an amoral machine. Pietruszka has done an excellent job of trying to separate fact from fiction of his fascinating subject.

Solid work on an amazing man.......2005-04-04

Author David Peitrusza deserves plenty of kudos for his sweeping biography of Arnold Rothstein, the mad credited for fixing the 1919 World Series. In "Rothstein" we have an overview of the man and his times with perhaps too much of an emphasis on peripheral people and events. The reader will be regaled by stories of turn-of-the-century through prohibition era gamblers and big time criminals. Readers will acquire a greater knowledge of the East Coast underworld and some of the prominent figures who walked the line between criminal and legitimate. From casinos, race fixing and high society's degenerate gamblers to crooks both small time and big, "Rothstein" is an excellent account of the times of the famed gambler. Rothstein surely ranks as one of this country's most notorious criminal master minds.
As much as I enjoyed the book I would have liked getting to know the man himself a little better. While readers will enjoy an opportunity to learn what AR, (as Rothstein was sometimes called) did, where and with whom he did it you cannot be sure to understand what made him tick. His childhood and early years are skimmed over while great detail is given his murder and its subsequent investigation. Hopefully someone can come along who will provide a fuller view of Rothstein. For that biographer and anyone interested in a man immortalized by F. Scott Fitzgerald in "The Great Gatsby" Petrusza's book is a must-read. Whatever "Rothstein's faults as a biography, it is still a good read and highly recommended.

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Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery
Richard H., Jr. Randall
Manufacturer: Hudson Hills Pr
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M.D.) Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore
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Garden Home City: Creating an Urban Haven
Bonnie Trust Dahan , Sean Sullivan , and Shaun Sullivan
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Love flowers, but not so fond of country living? Garden Home City is bursting with ideas created with you in mind--at once urban, modern, and brightly blooming. Original ways to bring the great outdoors into your living room are designed around the constraints of city living. We may love our lofts, but with problems like small balconies and nearby towers blotting out the sun, effective city gardening can be a tricky business.

Unusual containers are key, according to author Bonnie Trust Dahan. Vases carved from stones, tiny galvanized pots, shallow copper pans, and simple glass shapes are shown holding everything from cheery primroses to feathery orchids. Tabletops are strewn with tiny chrysanthemum heads or leafy mesclun starter plants; tiny alcoves are decorated to reflect seasonal changes. Floating blossoms are recommended. A single hyacinth or gardenia is enough to perfume an entire apartment, and the look stays crisp and modern.

While the focus of the book is mainly on inspirational photos showcasing lush colors and clever combinations, you'll also find short essays discussing palettes, scents, and beneficial houseplants. The two-page resource guide is focused on the San Francisco area, but also includes several widely available sources. Even if your available space is no bigger than a windowsill, you can give it new appeal entirely in keeping with your metropolitan life. --Jill Lightner

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Picking up where the best-selling Garden House left off, Garden Home: City demonstrates how to infuse an apartment, loft, flat, or other city home with the spirit of the garden. Clusters of yellow blossoms in brightly colored pails on a sill create a flower bed where there’s no space for one. Carefully arranged indoor topiaries bring the whimsy of a manicured garden inside. And a wall painted the vivid color of a favorite flower adds warmth and vibrancy to a small room. Garden Home: City also shows how to soften the boundaries between indoors and out with the creative use of window boxes, fire escapes, and balcony gardens. Anyone who lives in an urban setting will appreciate this richly illustrated, inspirational guide to transforming any space into a modern-day Eden.

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This book teaches hearing parents how to use simple sign language gestures to communicate with their hearing infants before their infants can speak. Joseph Garcia uses anecdotes, practical guidelines and humor to explain the benefits and method for taking advantage of this unique form of early communication. He will help you recognize when your child is receptive to learning. He recommends which signs to teach first and shares ideas for games that can be fun and useful when introducing new signs. The book is also a useful reference with 145 clearly illustrated signs, enabling you to choose and teach the signs that will be most beneficial to you and your child. This book is also included in a separate "package" edition called the SIGN with your BABY Complete Learning Kit - which is comprised of the book, 60 minute training video and quick reference guide.

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Great Book.......2007-10-13

This book is great for teaching your child sign language. The beginning of the book goes through the benefits of teaching sign language to children before learning to talk, then takes you through how and when you should start. It was very informative on the subject. The end of the book goes through the different signs, showing the main signs like eat, bottle, drink, mommy, daddy, etc., but it also includes fun signs like rabbit, frog, and elephant. If you want to continue reading, I'll just list all of the signs included:

again
airplane
all gone
alligator
apple
baby
banana
bath
bear
beautiful
bed
bee
big
bird
book
bottle
boy
bread
brother
bull
burn
butter
butterfly
cake
car
cat
catch
change
clean
clouds
coat
cold
cookie
corn-on-the-cob
cow
cry
dance
delicious
dirty
dog
down
dream
drink
earache
eat
elephant
fall down
father
finished
fire
fish
flower
fly
friend
frog
get
girl
go
good
grandfather
grandmother
happy
head
headache
hear
hello
help
hide
home
horse
hot
house
hug
hurt
i love you
ice cream
in
insect
jump
ketchup
lion
little
meat
milk
mine
monkey
moon
more
mosquito
mother
mouse
no
orange
out
over
pain
pie
play
please
popcorn
potato
rabbit
rain
run
saxophone
scared
search
share
shoes
sick
sister
sit
sleep
snake
snow
socks
sore throat
sorry
spider
spoon
squirrel
stomach ache
stop
sun
telephone
tell
thank you
throw
thunder
tickle
tired
toilet
touch
turtle
under
up
wait
want
warm
water
where
work
worm
yes
you're welcome

Love It!.......2007-09-22

I don't have much to say about this book except I love how it is all broken down and really easy to use. My baby is 4 months right now and I didn't know how long it would take me to learn the signs so I started reading it already. My baby still has a couple months before he can start picking up on signs but I will definatly be prepared because the book was so easy to read and refer back to. I hope that if you are interested in teaching your baby signs that you choose this book.

Good Resource.......2007-08-16

I found this very helpful in communicating with my little guy until he fully develops his language skills.

Fabulous book, all infants should sign.......2007-07-05

I have thoroughly enjoyed teaching my child signs from this book. I watched her blossom as she used signs to communicate her wants and needs. This is a great tool that all parents should have and use to teach their infants how to 'talk' before they can speak.

Good item but you may want to wait a little longer before buying........2007-01-16

I thought this book was very helpful but I purchased it a little too late. My daughter started talking after the age of 2 and as soon as I purchased the book she started to speak. Trying to teach an infant sign language is a little difficult but if you are able to I am sure it is very helpful (especially with temper tantrums when they are trying to communicate but can't).

3 Parenting Book Collection; 97 Ways to Make a Baby Laugh; Sign with Your Baby: How to Communicate with Infants Before They Can Speak; Baby Signs:how to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk

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3 Parenting Book Collection; 97 Ways to Make a Baby Laugh; Sign with Your Baby: How to Communicate with Infants Before They Can Speak; Baby Signs:how to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk
Jack moore , Joseph Garcia , Ph.D. Linda Acredolo , and Ph.D. Susan Goodwyn
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3 Parenting Book Collection; 97 Ways to Make a Baby Laugh; Sign with Your Baby: How to Communicate with Infants Before They Can Speak; Baby Signs:how to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk.

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3 Parenting Book Collection; Sign with Your Baby: How to Communicate with Infants Before They Can Speak; the Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer; Baby Play
Joseph Garcia , M.D. Harvey Karp , Dr. Wendy S. Masi , and Dr. Roni Cohen Leiderman
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Sign With Your Baby Complete Learning Kit: How To Communicate With Infants Before They Can Speak With DVD

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Sign With Your Baby Complete Learning Kit: How To Communicate With Infants Before They Can Speak With DVD
Joseph Garcia
Manufacturer: Northlight Communications
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ASIN: B000N5ZS90

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From Hoboken to Hollywood, Frank Sinatra was always a larger-than-life package of talent, charisma, and controversy. Singers had been big before, but there had never been a sensation like the young Sinatra. He drove the women wild, then drove his career into the ground. He lived a life of monumental drama and intrigue: Was there truth to the mob rumors? (Some.) Were the suicide attempts over Ava Gardner real? (One of them was.) Did he really split with Jack Kennedy over something as small as a snub? (Sure he did.) And then: the ferocious comeback that secured his status as an icon of the highest order; one of the towering figures of the American century.

And then: the ferocious comeback that secured his status as an icon of the highest order-one of the towering figures of the American century. "Nobody's ever been a bigger star than me," Sinatra said as a young man. "This'll never end." Well, it has, finally, for him. But for those of us left behind, there is the incomparable music. And the movies. And now, thanks to these pictures and reminiscences from the editors of LIFE, vivid memories of the extraordinary life and times of Francis Albert Sinatra.

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Sinatra in pictures...need I say more?.......2002-04-23

They say a picture's worth a thousand words. Well, the pictures in this book are worth millions. Some are in black and white and others are in color but ALL portray Frank Sinatra as he was - without the sugar coating. The pictures gave me a whole new take on Sinatra's life. I found out things I never knew before about his personality, his devotion to his music, his late night parties and his temper. I recommend this book to anyone, not just Sinatra fans, who wants to get an insight on this legend's life through the beautiful photos of Life magazine.

A Real Closeup Look at The Chairman of the Board !.......1999-11-03

130 pages of superior photographs of this giant entertainer and personality. You'll marvel at the closeup pictures of his life and times that are provided. The volume begins at his childhood and takes you all the way to the end. Includes a personal farewell from Tony Bennett. Sinatra fans will enjoy adding this to their music or book library.

The Frank Sinatra Scrapbook: His Life and Times in Words and Pictures

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The Frank Sinatra Scrapbook: His Life and Times in Words and Pictures
Richard Peters
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Frank Sinatra: A Life in Pictures
Tim Frew
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He was the Sultan of Swoon, Ol' Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board, and above all: The Voice. In a career that spanned more than six decades, Frank Sinatra made his presence felt in music, film, television and even politics--and this pictorial biography captures every dimension of Sinatra's amazing life. There he is, in Hoboken, New Jersey, as a child; with his very first singing group; touring with Tommy Dorsey's band; being greeted by throngs of screaming fans; and making movies such as From Here to Eternity and The Man with the Golden Arm. Sinatra is shown in the recording studio; on stage and off, in family portraits and side-by-side with both starlets and presidents. From his performances in New York's Paramount Theater to his days with his "Rat Pack" buddies, this tribute to a transcendent entertainer is something no Sinatra fan will want to miss.

Remembering Sinatra - - A Life in Pictures

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Remembering Sinatra - - A Life in Pictures
Robert Sullivan
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Remembering Sinatra a Life in Pictures
Robert Sullivan
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Remembering Sinatra: a Life in Pictures
Robert Sullivan And The Editors Of Life
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REMEMERING SINATRA: A LIFE IN PICTURES

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Sinatra a Life in Pictures

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Sinatra a Life Remembered
Lew Irwin
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Sinatra: A Life In Pictures
Tim Frew
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Sporadic journal of a United Irishman.......2000-11-13

Thomas Russell was, with T. Wolfe Tone, one of the founding members of the United Irishmen, the group behind the 1798 Rebellion and Emmet's Rebellion in 1803. Russell was not as dedicated to his journals as Tone was, nor was he really writing for an external audience. The content, tone, and style of his journals definitely indicate that he was writing for his own benefit. Content ranges from his activities in the United Irishman, to his failed romance with Eliza Goddard, to his late-night drinking sessions, to his scientific experimentation and observations. There are gaps of weeks, months, and years between journal entries - a good portion of this due to his lengthy prison stays.

C. J. Woods has done an excellent, professional job of editing the manuscripts. He has gone to great pains to explain the background to Russell's comments, and has taken equal care not to impinge on Russell's own writing with revisions. Woods has also provided a good introduction, index, brief biography and chronology of Russell's life, in addition to the extensive and well-researched footnotes.

I would have liked to see the inclusion of some of Russell's correspondence, as few of the letters in his papers have yet been published. Woods does refer to some of the letters in footnotes, enough to give you the impression that there's a lot more out there.

Coming at this from a genealogical/family history perspective, as I am, this book is of major interest, but not a font of information. From the viewpoint of a historian of the United Irishmen, it might be of ancillary interest, but is not a great resource for primary material. For someone interested in knowing the internal thoughts of a late-18th century Irish patriot, it's priceless.

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Memoirs, Journal And Correspondence Of Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1430467223

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

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