Azerbaijan Industrial And Business Directory

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Azerbaijan Industrial And Business Directory (World Business, Investment and Government Library)

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Azerbaijan Industrial And Business Directory (World Business, Investment and Government Library)
USA International Business Publications
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ASIN: 0739791702

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More than 1,000 religious and mystical sites are covered in this extensively illustrated guide. The significance and history of each locale is defined on stunning, state-of-the-art maps, revealing how humankind connects with its deepest beliefs.

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The Modern Pilgrims Travel Guide.......2001-01-18

One of my top things to do on my "fantasy list" is to visit every sacred site listed in this informative book. I love the lay-out and ease of use of most "DK" books. This book is particularly interesting in that it gives a fairly decent summary of each holy site. It is a good beginning guide and may help to "spur" interest in a particular area that you can then delve more deeply into at a later time. However, I thought they could have given a bit more information on some of the English sites. They also tended to focus mainly on pagan sites.

Minaret of Djam was omitted.......2000-07-03

I wish that the author had included a discussion of the Minaret of Djam, located in Ghor Province, Afghanistan.

Excellent For The Explorer.......1999-09-13

This book is just what is claims to be: an Atlas of Sacred Sites. It is not chock full of brilliant ideas like Wilson'e more typical books, but neither is it intended to be. It is designed for the explorer who intends to visit these sites and to show the interested where these sights are. unless you have done a great deal of reading, the book will seem woefully inadequate in explaining most of these sights as mere curiosities. So if anything here interests you, a great deal of supplementary reading will be necessary.

A feast for the eyes..........1999-02-08

Human history is made up of powerful ideas and beliefs, not of economy, industry and mere survival. This should be clear to anyone who takes the time to consider the enormous energy which was naturally put into the building and ornamentation of temples and monuments of all ages and places, an energy far beyond all purely practical purposes.

This atlas of holy places and sacred sites gives us a much more qualitative picture of the world than any purely geographical, statistical or political representation ever will. However, readers without some foreknowledge in world traditions, comparative religion, archaeo-astronomy and the like are unlikely to see how each site fits into a more universal whole and so might feel a bit lost in the myriad of places (and periods) the book visits. But then, of course, one can hardly pretend to be a connoisseur in a more complex thing than the history of civilization.

Also, readers will inevitably think that something important was left out or that the author was either too cautious or too daring in his interpretations of the origin and use of specific sites, mainly the older ones. But, by taking on himself the impossible and thankless task of pleasing every seeker and lover of our spiritual legacy, Colin Wilson has produced a beautiful book (gorgeous pictures, layout and binding) with a very helpful gazetteer (takes more time to make than one thinks!) to which or from which each reader can add or subtract whatever he feels is incumbent.

Yes, this book is "more than just another pretty coffee-table book"; in fact, there is no reason why you should not have this work of reference on your shelf - even the price is surprisingly reasonable.

Jesper Sampaio.

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Alan Greenspan became chairman of the Federal Reserve a scant two months before the stock market crash of 1987. His deft handling of that crisis presaged his triumph in the 1990s, when he kept America from succumbing to the Asian financial flu, and received as much credit for the nation's booming economy as President Clinton. At appropriate points in this solid biography, former Fortune magazine staffer Justin Martin lucidly explains the intricacies of the financial system that Greenspan has dominated for 13 years. But the more fascinating revelations deal with the enigmatic Fed chairman's private life. Born in 1926, Greenspan was a Juilliard student and professional jazz musician before he entered New York University's School of Commerce in 1945. Novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand had a powerful influence on his economic thinking, and Greenspan spent 15 years as a member of her inner circle while he built a successful consulting practice. He made a few slips at the Fed, particularly when he failed to prevent the recession of 1990-91; but Martin shows him learning from his mistakes. Judicious quotes from interviews with colleagues and friends convey Greenspan's intriguing contradictions: aloof, yet collegial at work; deliberately obscure when testifying before Congress, but judged a fascinating conversationalist by the women he's dated, most of whom have been journalists. (He married NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell in 1997.) Is the secretive Chairman Greenspan secretly a media hound? In this instance, and many others, Martin's evenhanded portrait lays out opposing views and lets readers draw their own conclusions. --Wendy Smith

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A national bestseller-the acclaimed chronicle of the life and times of Alan Greenspan.

Greenspan: The Man Behind Money presents the famous Fed Chairman as few know him. It spans his hardscrabble childhood in Depression-era New York City, his fascinating decades-long friendship with controversial author Ayn Rand, his Juilliard education and days spent touring with Henry Jerome's jazz band, as well as two marriages, a dynamic D.C. social life, and service to six U.S. presidents. Based on unprecedented access to Greenspan's family members and peers, including Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford, and Milton Friedman, Greenspan: The Man Behind Money is the only book to shed real light on one of the most private public figures of our time.

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A delightful read.......2003-08-26

Justin Martin's "Greenspan" -- from beginning to end -- is a delightful read. I was laughing over and over as the pages turned, and was disappointed upon running out of pages to read.

Here is one humorous example (page 225), about Greenspan changed his seating position at the FOMC meeting table.

"Then there's the table flap. Since 1977, the FOMC has conducted its business around a twenty-seven-foot-long table fashioned out of Honduran mahogany, with a center section made of black granite. It weighs two tons. Since becoming Fed chairman, Greenspan had always sat at the head of this table. But in November 1998, attendees at one of the Fed's periodic public meetings noticed that he had moved to a spot in the middle.

"The hubbub began immediately. What did it mean? Was Greenspan sending a message about increased 'collegiality' at the Fed? Turns out the move was for the sake of acoustics. 'Given the speed of sound, the advice arrived too late and inadvertently we got behind the curve,' joked Greenspan, during a meeting of the Fed's Board of Governors."

I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in economics.

Disingenous.......2002-05-31

Read all about the frightened little ec0nomist who happens to be (pragmatically) the most powerful man on the planet.
Greenspan's dreadful fear of inflation is really the origin of our current economic recession, his timing is worse than a paranoid knife thrower afflicted with Parkinsons disease.
This book isn't written objectively and will only benefit those who worship the detritus he leaves behind. It works too hard to portray him as well meaning guy who just happened to luck into his current job, but skims or omits his blunders and mistakes.
This book is best for the Greenspan groupies.

Interesting Material and Captivating Presentation.......2002-05-07

This book is an excellent journalistic account of Alan Greenspan's life up to the first part of 2000 - the zenith of his career and fame.

The book is not a serious biography. You will be disappointed if you expect the book to give you a deep and insightful analysis of Greenspan's life philosophy, his work methodology, or a revelation of the detail working of the Federal Reserve System.

On the other hand, this book is a fascinating account of his life - both its private and public sides. Greenspan's brush with band music, his own economic consulting business which employed mostly female economists, his relationship with Ayn Rand and as an esteemed member of her Objectivist Collective, his role and relationship with the Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush and the Clinton teams. There are also some vivid accounts of how he handled some high profile financial and monetary situations as well as how he left his handprints on several important presidential commission reports and recommendations. And, of course, the book has not neglected to give brief but interesting accounts of the women in his life.

This book is very well written - the material is interesting and well organized, and presentation is smooth and captivating. I find it to be very enjoyable reading.

Read to the end. The last two paragraphs of the book were as weighty as everything written prior!

Great Source on Chairman Greenspan.......2002-03-11

The principles that Alan Greenspan follows politically and economically are all accounted for in the in-depth writing Justin Martin presented in this book. Justin Martin even gets into small details about Alan Greenspan that not many people know about. I recommend this book to anyone willing to learn rock solid principles surrounding our economic conditions.

People Magazine Bio.......2002-02-01

An extremely shallow book that offers no insight how Greenspan thinks or makes his decisions. The reason Greenspan is such an interesting character is how he has managed to constantly adapt to changing market conditions. The real story would be why and how he came to the decisions he did, but this book just reports his actions. There is almost no economic anlysis or justification. Anyone looking to gain some understanding of Greenspan's thought process will be left wanting and extremely disappointed with this book.

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Greenspan: The Man Behind the Money
Justin Martin
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Prakash Loungani
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The Wastell family had much to contend with on a daily basis. Besides running a sawmill and surviving in very un-genteel circumstances, Norris's mother, a registered nurse, was the only source of medical help in the community. Not surprisingly, she had to treat all types of ailments ranging from pneumonia to severed fingers and deliver numerous babies in all sorts of conditions. The sawmill's tugboat often had to serve double duty as an emergency ambulance.

It was not an easy life or childhood for Norris and her younger sister, but it was an exciting one. She never learned how to ride a bicycle, but she could row a skiff or hook a runaway log as well as any grownup. As kids, Norris and her sister ventured out in an open boat with a 2 hp engine to salvage wood, all the time contending with tides and unpredictable weather. They grew up in a world of kelp dolls and killer whales and a very odd assortment of West Coast eccentrics, new Canadians with little English, mill workers, coastal drifters in leaky boats and jacks-of-all-trades from the streets of Vancouver.

Norris's memoir, full of humour, hardship, and remarkable events is "one of the more charming and insightful portraits we have yet had of upcoast life between the wars, a busy and colourful period justifiably described as the golden age of the BC coast."

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No longer the only Savitri Devi biography

Devi was nuts but wrote some good stuff and lived an interesting life

An unecessary book, but great if you're really into the subject

not worth the paper it's printed on!

Savitri Devi: Hindu Nationalism and Esoteric Hitlerism

Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism
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"[A] superb study. . . . Goodrick-Clarke has done a service to sanity, even if the gullible will go on swallowing [Devi's] recycled poison rather than his antidote."
--Times Literary Supplement

"An excellent, thought-provoking volume. . . . We may readily accept that Devi was a revolting creature. But it is as well that we realise that such demons in human form existed and still do exist."
--Independent

"An admirably cool-headed history of an inflammatory subject. . . . It is likely to stand as the definitive study of a subject that a lesser author would have exploited for maximum sensationalism."
--Gnosis

"An engrossing, disturbing, and important book. Well-researched and evocatively told, the strange story of Savitri Devi is a mirror of the twentieth century's dark undercurrents and deserves to be widely read and pondered."
--Robert S. Ellwood, University of Southern California

"[A] provoking volume."
—Bulletin of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, No. 10

In this window onto the roots and evolution of international neo-Nazism, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke reveals the powerful impact of one of fascism's most creative minds.

Savitri Devi's influence on neo-Nazism and other hybrid strains of mystical fascism has been continuos since the mid-1960s. A Frenchwoman of Greek-English birth, Devi became an admirer of German National Socialism in the late 1920s. Deeply impressed by its racial heritage and caste-system, she emigrated to India, where she developed her racial ideology, in the early 1930s. Her works have been reissued and distributed through various neo-Nazi networks and she has been lionized as a foremother of Nazi ideology. Her appeal to neo-Nazi sects lies in the very eccentricity of her thought - combining Aryan supremacism and anti-Semitism with Hinduism, social Darwinisn, animal rights, and a fundamentally biocentric view of life - and has resulted in curious, yet potent alliances in radical ideology.

As one of the earliest Holocaust deniers and the first to suggest that Adolf Hitler was an avatar-- a god come to earth in human form to restore the world to a golden age - Devi became a fixture in the shadowy neo-Nazi world. In Hitler's Priestess, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke examines how someone with so little tangible connection to Nazi Germany became such a powerful advocate of Hitler's misanthropy.

Hitler's Priestess illuminates the life of a woman who achieved the status of a prophetess for her penchant for redirecting authentic religious energies in the service of regenerate fascism.

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No longer the only Savitri Devi biography.......2007-03-31

This is the first biography of Savitri Devi. For a long time, it was the only biography. Thus I recommended it in spite of the author's dry style and evident distaste for his subject.

But HITLER'S PRIESTESS is no longer the only game in town. Most of its biographical information is drawn from ten hours of interviews taped by Savitri Devi in New Delhi in 1978. These interviews have now been transcribed as And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews. The interviews are mostly autobiographical, but Savitri Devi also discusses her ideas on religion, history, National Socialism, and contemporary society. They are lively and entertaining reading.

It is interesting to check HITLER'S PRIESTESS against the original. Some, however, might wish to skip the copy and go directly to the original. For me, the primary interest of HITLER'S PRIESTESS now lies in its summaries of Savitri's books, its account of her last four years, after the 1978 interviews, and the connections it draws between Savitri's ideas and their historical context and influence.

Devi was nuts but wrote some good stuff and lived an interesting life.......2007-03-21

Devi was more or less completely insane, especially her wacky ideas about Hitler being an incarnation of the Hindu God Vishnu but if your smart enough to weed out the psychosis she did write some good stuff. Her anti-monotheism, ecological and animal rights stuff in particular is very good.

So much about her reflects how nutty and contradictry she was. For example she was obsessed with Nazism and Aryan racial purity but she married a man of Indian ancestry. She had a genius level IQ and a phd in a hard science but had her strange ideas about Hitler being a Hindu God. This book is worth reading because, whether you like her or not, she did live an interesting life. For what it was worth at least she was an original thinker.

An unecessary book, but great if you're really into the subject.......2006-12-16

Since this book has been well reviewed by others, I'll refrain from writing much about the content of the book. I've started to notice a tendency from the author to repeat himself a LOT in his books. Large parts of the various chapters are word for word taken from other places. My point is that if you buy the "Black Sun" book by the same author, you'll get everything about Devi you need to know in a condensed form, AND you get some bonus chapters. That being said, I did enjoy the book, but that is because I'm into the subject at hand, but I don't think most people will need to read a whole book about her, the chapter in "Black Sun" is quite enough, and the words are exactly the same, so.

All in all, recommended but unecessary.

not worth the paper it's printed on!.......2003-12-24

The back cover claims this book to be a study, but information is only given and not analyzed or "studied", the information given, if concerning Savitri Devi (SD) is taken directly from her own books or does only very indirectly, around many corners, concern her.
The author keeps calling her pagan beliefs "amoral" (of course they are, i.e. not fitting Christianity), SD's religious beliefs are portraied as only serving political ends, and the last chapter is a general, rough summary of all the bad things that various left/green/right/ufo/new age/satanist etc. groups have perpetrated, or tried to, over the last 30 years.
Conclusion: Information given can easily be obtained freely by using an internet search enginge, and money spent on this book is lost money.

Savitri Devi: Hindu Nationalism and Esoteric Hitlerism.......2003-07-18

_Savitri Devi_ by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke is an extremely bizarre read on one of the more mystical figures in the neo-Nazi movement. Devi was born Maximiani Portas of Greek and English heritage in the south of France, and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics. She grew up feeling disillusioned with Western liberalism, and set out to India in the 1920's to study India's caste system as an example of racial segregation and the Hindu scriptures, in particular the Vedas and the Bhagavad Gita, which she considered the most ancient examples of Aryan wisdom. She found India, the world's last Aryan pagan nation, to be a place poor but with an unbroken spirit, especially among the high caste Brahmins. She also viewed it as being under cultural assault by British colonization and its growing Muslim population. She joined the ant-British, anti-Muslim Hindu Mission (to spread Hinduism) and the Hindu Nationalist movement in India (groups which were to the right of Gandhi and favored militancy) which was under the leadership of V. D. Savarkar. Devi married a Brahmin, Asit Krishna Mukherji, who was well traveled in Europe and published a racialist and pro-Nazi magazine under the auspices of the German Consulate in India. Following the defeat of Germany in WWII, Devi went on three Nazi propaganda missions in Germany and even spent time in prison for subversive activities. During this time and the 1950s and 60s, Devi made contact with well known British and American neo-Nazis, among whom were George Lincoln Rockwell, Colin Jordan and John Tyndall. She also became aquainted with ex-Nazis such as the ace Hans Ulrich-Rudel and Leon Degrelle and others who had fled Germany and set up a networks in Spain, Latin America and the Middle East. She returned to India in 1971 and corresponded with Holocaust revisionist Ernst Zundel and the South American Nazi occultist Miguel Serrano. Devi published a number of books popular among the far-right and and also far-left environmentalist groups: _The Impeachment of Man_ (an argument for animal rights against a human-centered outlook), _A Warning to the Hindus_ (some of the aims of the Hindu Nationalist movement), _Pilgrimage_ (her reflections on her visit to post-WWII Germany), _Son of the Son_ (a study of Akhnaton who initiated the solar cult in Egypt, which Devi considered to be a forerunner of Nazism), and _The Lightning and the Sun_. _The Lightning and the Sun_ is Devi's most notorious book, in which she argues that Hitler is an incarnation of the god Vishnu the
Preserver, a "Man Against Time" who intervened and fought against the process of decay in today's modern world, which is known as the Kali Yuga of the Hindus. Thus Savitri Devi managed to provide a theological justification for outright Hitler-worship in the context of an Aryan/pagan revival. Altogether, this is an even-handed book on a highly controversial and eccentric woman.

Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism. (Reviews: general and international). (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism. (Reviews: general and international). (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Richard Steigmann-Gall
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He who smelt it, dealt it.......2005-12-03

Anyone who actually reads Steigmann-Gall's review, which apparently Colorado Chris has not done, will read a lengthy four page examination of every part of Goodrick-Clarke's book. Apparently Locke will stoop to false accusations to support his otherwise untenable assertions. Steigmann-Gall has done a very thorough job. Chrissie, you can like the book without defaming a reviewer who doesn't. By the way, you should read Steigmann-Gall's book to see just how "jealous" of Goodrick-Clark he is. Either that, or pass judgment on a subject you actually know something about -- like UFOs.

misrepresents the work under review.......2005-11-29

Steigmann-Gall seriously misrepresents the book. "The reader is strongly encouraged," he writes, "to believe that Nazism had more to do with 'the occult, Green issues, vegetarianism, and the New Age' (p. 92), all cast as eastern in inspiration."

What Goodrick-Clarke actually wrote on page 92 -- regarding Savitri Devi's A Son of God (1946) and Impeachment of Man (1959) -- was this: "Mindful as she was of the general opprobrium attaching to the Third Reich in the postwar years, these books make only coded references to her idol Hitler and National Socialism. Free of any obvious Nazi taint, both books have been recently republished for new audiences interested in mysticism and the occult, Green issues, vegetarianism, and the New Age."

That's called reporting, not a la Steigmann-Gall, something we are "strongly encouraged to believe." That this was the opportunistic enticement Savitri Devi's neo-Nazi publisher pitched to a New Age audience was also explained at some length on page 3. Perhaps Steigmann-Gall's clear error on this point can be simply written off as one more reviewer who never read the book. Or, less simply, as one more jealous academic trashing a more competent colleague.

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Makers of Music: Biographical Sketches of Great Composers
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Makers of music: Biographical sketches of the great composers, with chronological summaries of their works, portraits, facsimiles of their compositions, and a general chronological table
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Makers of music;: Biographical sketches of the great composers, with chronological summaries of their works, facsimiles of their compositions and a general chronological table,
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What’s your favorite fairy tale? Whether it’s “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Hansel and Gretel,” or another story, your answer reveals something significant about you, your experiences, and your soul. In this penetrating book, Joan Gould brings to the surface the hidden meanings in fairy tales and myths, and illuminates what they can tell you about the stages in your own life. As Gould explores the transformations that women go through from youth to old age–leaving home and mother, the first experience of sexuality, the surprising ambivalence of marriage, the spiritual work required by menopause and aging–her keen observations will enrich your awareness of your inner life.
Full of archetypal figures known to us all, Spinning Straw into Gold also includes stories from the lives of ordinary women that clarify the insights to be gained from the beloved tales that have been handed down from one generation to the next.

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The best of tis kind........2007-07-23

An amazing exploration of fairy tales, what they mean and how they affect us. I learned so much. If you love fairy tales, grab this book and don't put it down.

Great book for every women of all ages.......2007-05-14

I didn't want the book to end! I felt like I was in therapy. Verey cathartic.

I wouldn't have missed a page of it........2005-10-02

I am on page 316 and don't want it to end. I have written reference notes to be able to get back to those pages I want to read over and over. Born in 1940 in midwest farm country, most of my teen age years was spent wishing I would have been born a boy; I saw a man's world out there. Now as mother, and grandmother I am loving myself as crone, savoring every word Joan Gould has written on her pages in Part Three, my life is as she writes. Learning about the sexual meaning of the shoe from the Cinderella pages and The Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe nursery rhyme was so evident when I was watching the film Spanglish by James L. Brooks. The young wife is getting ready to leave the house to have an affair, and the camera is focused on her changing to a new pair of shoes as her mother (obviously a crone) focuses on her feet. What an aha moment for me. Gould adds very personal thoughts from her life between her interpretations of the stories. From the fear of falling down the stairs as we live alone, wondering who would find us, to handling every item we have accumulated over our lifetime and visualizing where we got it and what memory goes with it and to knowing our adult children don't need us anymore. Our lives are records that were passed to us from our mothers and grandmothers and we pass these records on to our children. Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell gave us the understanding of the collective consciousness and Joan Gould interpreted in depth what spinning straw into gold really means for us females. What a great read. Thank You Joan Gould

Gold vs. Silver, which do you prefer?.......2005-09-05

As we saw in the movie, 'The Brothers Grimm, fairy tales are not about sweetness and light but scary things and the dark side of humanity. In 1850, the brother were still alive in Vienna where children were abandoned on a steady basis. Many of the sad stories were about motherless girls who suffer heartache for lact of female guidance, like Madam Bovary, Mary Lennox in 'The Secret Garden,' and Hester Prynne.

There is prevalent in many fairytales the nightmare projection of female fears: an old woman living alone, humpbacked. The myth of Demeter and Persephone was about the final stage of a woman's life, a spirit in old age. This book is about women, the metamorphoses at each stage of a woman's life, the changes in biology which propel woman from one level of being to another. The last stage (old) restores her to the first (young).

There are personal stories in this book about 'Sleeping Beauties' who fell asleep in puberty and awoke ten years later to find themselves married to the wrong man. That also happens in real life. After I married an older man, I lost a whole decade, the '60s.

This books shows the magic of fairtales. It is a song of praise for life itself. Myths are falsehoods, complete lies. There are hidden meanings in beloved stories and what they reveal. 'The Seal Wife' had a demanding husband and a demeaning life. Wisdom learned from experience in each of the phases women grow through is shown in some of the stories. In others, it is the opposite. There is no wisdom. Choices, demands, and changes a woman must face each day shows recognizable truths about women's lives.

Some people haven't the ability to articulate for themselves. In 'The Ash Girl' ('Cinderella') she has the help of turtledoves and pigeons as two guardian doves protect her from the nasty step-sisters. The pigeons point out the way things are not going well, and the cook chases a goose to prepare for supper. The pigeons sleep in the gutter as they are now allowed to do their mess on the buildings to corrode the fancy ornamental dogwoods, according to GSA. Whitt even told me that the excrement from one pigeon, if you touch it and rub your eye, will cause blindness. How low can you go!?

Your favorite fairy tale conveys a significant something about you, your soul, and your experiences in life. It shows the public roles each woman must face in her life. Mine was 'Little Red Riding Hood' as she was concerned about her grandmother enough to follow a scary trail where she encounters a wolf. Rape is subjecting herself to the man's control. But innocent Little Red Riding Hood picks flowers on the primrose path where the starveling wolf is hiding. Children, especially girls, should never talk to strangers. The conclusion is that the wolf (guess that's why a man sometimes is called a wolf on the make) satisfies both of his appetites: gobbling up little girls and getting them into bed. The brothers Grimm movie showed the wolf to turn into a tall werewolf (actually the father of the girl) who swallows her whole. It's strange that the girl screamed for her father rather than her mother, showing the power of the male, but hoped to see her mother again. So much for fairy tales.

A hawk tore off her cloak. In Knox, falcons are roaming the downtown skies in search of pigeons and other birds they can consume. When they finish them off, I guess they will go after human babies and small persons like myself. All courtesy of GSA. The women in fairy tales wouldn't have the ending any other way, as they waited too long for what they got. Maybe, the old adage is true, you get what you deserve. And, the awful truth of the matter is, fairytales are written for children.

Maiden, Mother, Crone.......2005-05-25

For the record, my answer to Joan Gould's first question--"What's your favorite fairy tale?"--is "Beauty and the Beast".

This question begins a beautiful, lyrical exploration of many fairy tales, both famous and obscure, and how they relate to the different stages of women's lives. In the Sleeping Beauty chapter, for example, she delves into the psyche of a young woman just awakening into sexuality; for Beauty and the Beast she explores a woman's experience with courtship and the beginning of marriage, and for the tale of Demeter she talks about being an older woman, watching one's child choose her own path. These are just a few examples. For every tale Gould draws parallels to other, more modern novels and movies that contain fairy-tale archetypes, like Jane Eyre, Pretty Woman, The Story of O, Harry Potter, and Wuthering Heights. I saw myself reflected over and over in these pages, both in the chapter that best fit my current circumstances and in all those that preceded it. I concur with the reviewer who says she wished she'd had this book when she was 18. It just "clicks" so well with things I'd experienced but not known how to name, and ties them in with the stories I've always loved, revealing to me just why those stories never lose their resonance with me.

My only quibble is that Gould focuses more on the biological aspects of womanhood--menstruation, sex, childbirth, menopause--than on other sorts of choices women make, like career and creativity. She does mention these things, but they are not given as much emphasis.

Spinning Tales, Weaving Hope: Stories, Storytelling and Activities for Peace, Justice and the Environment

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Power Rangers, take a rest. Cartoons, television, and comic books for children are all more focused on violence than in the past. New Society Publishers offers a collection of stories that teach problem-solving, cooperation, and creative thinking about social issues such as tolerance, understanding other ethnic groups, and how to handle controversy diplomatically. The authors' introduction explains the difference that stories can make, as well as how to use storytelling as a model for patterning positive behavior. Combined with each story are creative activities, cooperative games, and related reading lists. This wise book is a must for every school library, every educator, and every home with children.

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The second edition of this much-loved storytelling sourcebook features 29 wondrous children's stories from around the world. From the mythic and the fantastic, to the silly and the serious, these timeless tales encourage conflict resolution, compassion, and sensitivity to the Earth and all living things. An incredible sourcebook for storytellers, teachers, parents and healers, each story is followed by suggested activities and exercises, storytelling tips, and resources, all designed to deepen the storytelling experience. Includes an Age Suitability Index, a Thematic Index, and a Directory of Contributors. A new introduction focuses on storytelling in education.

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SOLID GOLD
Napoli is likely the genre's best
A book of gold with an ending of straw
Good, leaves you wanting a different ending.

Spinners
Donna Jo Napoli , and Richard Tchen
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Fairy tales touch something deep within us, and Donna Jo Napoli is a master at bringing those primal feelings to light. Her retellings of ancient tales such as The Magic Circle (based on "Hansel and Gretel"), Zel (based on "Rapunzel"), and Crazy Jack (based on "Jack and the Beanstalk") flesh out the age-old stories in unexpected ways, imbuing them with psychological resonance for contemporary teens. One of the marks of Napoli's skill is that her stories draw us into the characters' predicaments long before we figure out their original source in folklore. In Spinners, she and coauthor Richard Tchen weave a tale of a young tailor who cripples himself while spinning gold thread on a magic wheel to win his beloved's hand. Spurned for his ugliness, he watches her marry the miller and die giving birth to the child he knows is his own. The girl grows up to become a master spinner, but only when the cruel young king commands her to spin straw into gold do we begin to sense a creeping familiarity. When a deformed man demands her firstborn child as a return for spinning the gold, we are almost sure. But not until the very last, when to save her baby the young mother must guess her unknown father's secret name, do we, like her, know that this is Rumpelstiltskin, of whom we've heard tell long ago. In Napoli's story-spinning hands, however, Rumpelstiltskin is not a spiteful dwarf but a lonely outcast yearning for the love of his grandchild; rather than a hand- wringing victim, the young queen shows herself to be a strong and resourceful survivor given to imaginative solutions. (Ages 12 to 16) --Patty Campbell

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Yeasors!!!.......2007-07-11

This is one of Napoli's best, I think. I really enjoyed the two different sides of the classic Rumpelstiltskin--I found myself "rooting" for the spinner as much as his daughter. This book does contain some scenes that are only appropriate for the mature 12-year-old and up.

SOLID GOLD.......2007-02-03

this book was enchanting...the basis was a story we have all heard a dozen times over but Napoli gives it a new life so different to anything you've ever heard before it will leave you stunned.

ill put it simply. READ IT FOR YOURSELF.

Napoli is likely the genre's best.......2006-09-06

I've read most of Donna Jo Napoli's work and have ultimately been satisfied with her stories. They each have great tone, characterizations and perfect placement in the periods she chooses. And if there is no distinct period distinguished (as it was in Spinners) then you're lead away into a fantastical place of tales that many adults remember growing up with.

Spinners is obviously the tale of a young girl who is threatened by the king to spin straw into gold or she will be executed. We all remember this tale, and like me, loved it. This tale begins before the familiar fairy tale to let readers in on how the antagonist became evil. Napoli brings in a new and welcome persepective from the spinner's side and you see what drove the man into bitter evil. Then as the story progresses with the pretty maiden Saskia being taken to the castle to spin gold, the two meet and eventually make the pact for Saskia to give her first born to the spinner. He'll not take her child if she can guess his name...

Characters, especially the spinner Rumpelstiltskin, is someone you come to understand and empathize with and Napoli develops them into faceted and believable people. I loved how the plot developed in this and how well the story was told. But there was one downfall. The romance from previous works such as Sirena and Zel were missing in this one, and (with my own romanticism) wanted it to be present for Saskia. The only character which seemed more of a prop than an actual use to the plot was the king himself, who married Saskia. It would have done the last chapters of the book a great service if he had been fleshed out more.

Nonetheless, this is still and good and entertaining read and recommended for ages 12 and up. My other recomendations are Napoli's work, Patricia Wrede's Dragon series, and Robin McKinley's Beauty...the orginial, that is

A book of gold with an ending of straw.......2006-03-07

This is another book I read as a kid and still love now. In fact, I love pretty much everything this author writes.

As you can probably guess from the title, this is Rumpelstilzken, Donna Joe Napoli style. A young man makes a foolish boast so he can wed his sweetheart (with whom he has already been intimate) and steals a spinning wheel from an old woman so he can attempt to spin straw into gold. It works, but maims him, and the woman must marry another because she's pregnant with his child. She dies in childbirth, hating the evil little man she thinks he's become, he wanders off alone, and their daughter is left to be raised by her stepfather (who thinks he's her father.)

Anyway, you know how the story goes and how it ends. This is a tale of pride, of love misplaced or trust gone wrong and deep loneliness. My only complaint with the whole book is that the ending is way too abrupt-and that knocks it down to a still respectably four star rating.

Good, leaves you wanting a different ending........2006-02-25

I saw this book at the bookstore, and put down the book i was previously going to buy in exchange for this one. As i started reading it I found that i couldnt put it down. I read it in like less than a week, but upon coming to the last chapter, found the ending somewhat disapointing. It leaves you wanting something else, perhaps more, or something different alltogether. It leaves you hanging, i personally would like to find out what happened to the spinner, but even if i did, the story would still lack something. I still give this book a VERY good rating, i loved it altogeter. I would recomend it, but would like to warn you that the ending leaves something to be desired....So, if you are looking for a good book, with mystery, magic, romance, and sadness, read SPINNERS, a great read, and a magical story in the full.

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A lovely, literary collection which will make the perfect gift for that 'knitter who has everything

Knitting Yarns And Spinning Tales
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""Knitting Yarns and Spinning Tales"" brings to life the unique and universal experiences of knitters from a variety of backgrounds. This exceptional collection combines lighthearted essays with more philosophical pieces from authors and experts such as Meg Swansen, Perri Klass, Lily Chin, Teva Durham, Lela Nargi, Susan Gordon Lydon, Suzyn Jackson, Amy Singer, Greta Cunningham, Laura Billings, Kay Dorn, Betty Christiansen, and Jennifer Hansen, who put down their needles long enough to share their thoughts and musings about the popular pastime. In these entertaining yarns, the authors provide insight into the warmth and enjoyment of knitting and crocheting. Join one writer as she shares a poignant Sunday afternoon in March shearing sheep with her father; travel to Sant ’Arsenio, Italy, where women gather on their door steps to knit, crochet, embroider, and chat; laugh at one woman’s memories of learning to knit in an uncomfortable classroom chair beside a World War II vet named Max; and smile at the essays that delve into the psyche of the knitter. If you live to knit, enjoy the companionship of other knitters, or appreciate the intricate handiwork of a handmade sweater, ""Knitting Yarns and Spinning Tales"" is a must-read!

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A lovely, literary collection which will make the perfect gift for that 'knitter who has everything.......2006-01-09

Universal experiences of knitters from a range of backgrounds are provided in twenty-three short essays and stories about knitted items, knitting, and crocheting. Here's a blend of philosophy and insights from knitting ranging from a woman who found solace in knitting after a miscarriage to sheep shearing reflections. Knitting Yarns And Spinning Tales is a lovely, literary collection which will make the perfect gift for that 'knitter who has everything'.

Spinning tales, weaving hope: Stories of peace, justice & the environment

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Circle spinning: Jewish turning and returning tales

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Circle spinning: Jewish turning and returning tales
Cherie Karo Schwartz
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Every wheel that turns: Spinning true tales of California rails

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The Golden Spinning Wheel An Old Bohemian Folk Tale with Music By Antonin Dvorak, Music Adapted By David Shapiro

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The Golden Spinning Wheel An Old Bohemian Folk Tale with Music By Antonin Dvorak, Music Adapted By David Shapiro

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Golden Spinning Wheel...an Old Bohemian Folk Tale
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The Golden Spinning Wheel: An Old Bohemian Folk Tale With Music By Antonin Dvora

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Lisl Weil
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