Becoming Financially Sound in an Unsound World

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Becoming Financially Sound in an Unsound World
Richard Caron Greg Roy
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Becoming Financially Sound in an Unsound World
Greg Roy , and Richard Caron
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Retired staff sergeant Hi Holt\'s Amazing story of survival of B-36 crash, capture, and pentagon cover-up via 35 year vow of silence. Join Hi in his quest for "veterans rights" and justice.

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A Vindication of Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Policial and Moral SUBJECTs (Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft)
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and Portual (Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 2 Volumes)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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A Vindication of the Rights of men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke (Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft)
Mary Wollstonecraft
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read Professor Sherwood's - " Vindication - a Novel"

A frustrating biography

Disappointing account of a great life

Vindication

A Revolutionary Life

Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
Lyndall Gordon
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Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Release Date: 2005-05-03

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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the founder of modern feminism -- in her time,the most famous woman in Europe and America. In this exciting new biography, Lyndall Gordon proposes that at each stage of a passionate and courageous life -- as teacher, writer, lover, and traveler -- Mary Woll-stonecraft was an original. She had advanced ideas on education, and her views on single motherhood, family responsibilities, working life, domestic affections, friendships, and sexual relationships now look astonishingly modern. She tested new ways a man and a woman might come to know each other and live together. "Imagination must lead the senses, not the senses the imagination," she told her American lover, Gilbert Imlay, and repeated to her husband, William Godwin.

Vindication is the first biography to show this remarkable woman at full strength and bring out the range as well as the reverberations of her genius in the following and subsequent generations. Here is the drama of Wollstonecraft's life as a governess in an aristocratic family in Ireland, as an independent writer in London, as an on-the-scene observer of the French Revolution, and as a daring traveler to Scandinavia on the trail of an unsolved crime. Although she died young, her spirit and unconventional ideas lived on in the lives of her daughter, Mary Shelley, and three other heirs who had to contend with a counter-revolutionary age. Vindication offers new evidence for the influence of early American political thought in England and demonstrates for the first time the profound effect of Mary Wollstonecraft's own writing, especially her Vindication of the Rights of Woman, on American figures of the day, among them John and Abigail Adams. This groundbreaking biography follows the colorful wheelings and dealings of young American adventurers like Joel Barlowand the elusive frontiersman Imlay, who sought their fortunes amid the tumultuous events of late-eighteenth-century Europe and whose clandestine service to the fledglingAmerican government is newly explored.

This is a brilliantly told story, moving on from the issue of rights to larger questions that still lie beyond us: What is woman's nature? What will she contribute to civilization? Lyndall Gordon mounts a spirited defense of Mary Wollstonecraft, whose previous biographers have often doubted her integrity, her stability, and the exhilarating experiment that was her life. Vindication probes these doubts, measures Wollstonecraft's life against her own strengths instead of the weakness that sometimes held her back, and reinterprets her for the twenty-first century.

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read Professor Sherwood's - " Vindication - a Novel".......2007-04-05

In my opinion a better conceptualization Of Mary Wollstonecraft's
Life, Ideas, and Experinences is author: Frances Sherwood
Tile: Vindication.

However the Gordon book is an adequate read

A frustrating biography.......2006-09-25

While I respect Gordon's decision to stick closely to journals and letters in writing her biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, I wondered why she offered so little in the way of the broader political world Mary was a part of it in the late 18th century, especial since she responded to it in her writings. The author offers little in regard to the meetings that were most intriguing, like the dinner parties hosted by her publisher, Joseph Johnson, that included leading revolutionary figures like Thomas Paine and her eventual husband, William Godwin. Gordon does talk about the revolutionary ferment in Britain at the time, but doesn't expand it into a broader discussion on how Mary's writings reflected these concerns, and how she managed to effectively escape censure, unlike Thomas Paine, who found himself being tried for sedition in absentia. What we get is a set of very intriguing stories, such as her long affair with Gilbert Imlay that took her to France and Scandinavia, that wet one's appetite but fails to satisfies one interest in her as a revolutionary figure.

Mary Wollstonecraft reached a broad audience with her writings, in particular A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which was in response to the new French government's Rights of Man. She, like other women who were part of the revolution, felt left out when the new government essentially turned its back on the rights of women. Mary avoided house arrest by secretly marrying Gilbert Imlay, an American in Paris. Gordon sets up many of the situations that befell Mary in Paris and her frustrating relationship with Imlay that came for nought after a long voyage to Scandinavia trying to recover his losses in regard to an ill-fated shipping venture. As with her brothers and sisters, Mary felt a strong responsibility to the man she loved, but this feeling was never fully reciprocated.

Gordon shows in detail how Mary had to deal with the paternalistic world of the late 18th century, from her good-for-nothing father, to her miserly elder brother, and the varoious relationships of her friends and family. All this is well and good, but Mary was a political writer, and we get so little of her actual thoughts on government, which were the focus of her many writings.

After all, Mary was one of the early suffragettes, and her writings form the cornerstone of feminist writings in the 19th century. Gordon alludes to Jane Austin and Virginia Woolf and other writers she felt were influenced by Mary in one way or another. Gordon had a pension for comparing Mary's real life to the fictional lives Austin had created in her novels. Time and time again, we read about what Mary suffered through, lending emotional weight to her writings, but there wasn't any real attempt to probe the intellectual origins of these writings. Mary may have saw herself as a new genus of woman, but her writings didn't come out of an intellectual void, and that is what is missing in this biography.

Disappointing account of a great life.......2005-12-25

This book is not the place to begin if you are not already convinced of Mary Wollstonecraft's genius. I began reading to find the author referring to Wollstonecraft as a genius without any preface for this claim. I was immediately thrown out of the narrative by this assumption. The author describes each of the books that Wollstonecraft wrote without bothering to asses their merit for the reader, are we to take for granted that they were great literary works? I found this lack of any sort of judgment of the subject strange. The book similarly failed to engage me in the narrative. The author leaves her subject for long discussions of the history of the family that she was a governess for. This subject did not have enough baring on Wollstonecraft's life to make it worth including. That such a unique and groundbreaking woman should have her life reduced to so dull a narrative, with so many assumption about her life disappointed me. The book itself failed to hold my interest.

Vindication.......2005-08-22

This is a beautifully written biography about a fascinating woman. While she was a serious thinker in advance of her times, her life was of the stuff that would make a good romantic novel. The backdrop is not only England and Ireland, but the French Revolution and includes the machinations of various representatives of the fledgling United States stationed in Europe. No less interesting are the chapters on the women who were her biologic and ideological heirs including her second daughter who married Shelley and wrote Frankenstein.

A Revolutionary Life.......2005-07-20

It was the philosopher Hegel who first saw the enigmatic significnce of the generation of the French Revolution, calling it a birth time. Something new was coming into existence, something more than the failed revolutions that rode the tide. For reasons that almost demand the insights of the philosophy of history, that generation was one of the most innovative in world history, and the case of Mary Wollstonecraft is a perfect example of the sudden appearance of a creative individual steeping into history to break the frozen mould of mechanical culture. Thus, almost two centuries before its time, we see the prophetic birth of feminism and the gestating protest against the place of women in society. This short biography is an excellent snapshot of someone appearing as if from nowhere, not unlike Thomas Paine, to proclaim the new age of women. The portrait of the life of Wollstonecraft, from the early sufferings and explotations in a patriarchal family, to her involvement as an oberver of the French Revolution, concluding with her brief life with Godwin(and this account concludes with some material on her later descendants) is crisply told, and leaves one wondering at the symphony of effects that so suddenly gave birth to modern freedoms. We see that while feminism seems to exist currently in a postmodern context, its primordial onset is deeply braided with the dawn of modernity.

The Frankenstein Notebooks: A Facsimile Edition of Mary Shelley's Manuscript Novel, 1816-17 (Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics)

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The Choice: A Poem on Shelley's Death
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History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, with Letters descriptive of a Sail round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of Chamouni (Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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Rambles in Germany and italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843 (Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 2 volumes)

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Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters

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Wonderful Piece of Literary Criticism
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Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters
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An innovative, beautifully written analysis of Mary Shelley's life and works which draws on unpublished archival material as well as Frankenstein and examines her relationship with her husband and other key personalities.

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Wonderful Piece of Literary Criticism.......2000-11-14

This book captures every aspect of Mary Shelley's life that evolved into her fictive imagination. The readers are introduced to much less popular works such as The Last Man, Lodore and Mathilda which actually give a unique perspective to Frankenstein. For myself there were some places I felt I was given too many examples, I had already figured out Mellor's point several paragraphs before, but the book makes every possible attempt to explain the novels so that everyone understands.

Excellent resource on Mary Shelley and Frankenstein.......1996-06-22

This book is an excellent text for the study of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein. It will fascinate those interested in the life of Mary Shelley, students studying Frankenstein, and those interested in learning about an 19th Century woman writer, who wrote a novel about a monster that has since become a universal archetype of isolation and societal rejection. In this text, it is demonstrated how events in Mary Shelley's life, her fears of motherhood, and her study of current philosophic and scientific theories all contributed to the development of the novel. Mary Shelley is proven to be an intelligent and complex woman writer of the Romantic Literary tradition

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Fiduciary responsibilities and related court-imposed liabilities have forced investors to assess market conditions beyond gut level, resulting in the development of sophisticated decision-making tools. Roger Brown's use of historical real estate data enables him to develop tools for gauging the impact of circumstances on relative risk. His application of higher level statistical modeling to various aspects of real estate makes this book an essential partner in real estate research. Offering tools to enhance decision-making for consumers and researchers in market economies of any country interested in land use and real estate investment, his book will improve real estate market efficiency. With property the world's biggest asset class, timely data on housing prices just got easier to find and use.

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One long-time problem for investors in residential real estate has been calculating risk. While commercial real estate investors have had access to broad and deep sets of transaction data, those interested in residential buildings have not. The recent availability of private real estate investment data has made possible new empirical risk analysis tools and conclusions. This is the first book to offer a highly mathematical approach to calculating the risks associated with real estate transactions. By means of data sets and intuitive models, Roger Brown shows readers how to frame real estate problems from mathematical and financial perspectives, with exciting and useful results. Non-US readers will find the book valuable because its conclusions are relevant and useful in other markets, and its techniques can be applied to existing data.

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An Elegant Introduction to Real Estate.......2006-03-01

I work as an analyst at a small real estate development and finance firm, and I am always on the lookout for good texts. As a person with a mathematics background, I hate how most real estate books go to great lengths to avoid "hard math". In the end, many of these so-called "advanced" texts leave out important parts, or end up trying to reduce mathematical relationships to mere words. In so doing, they make what should be simple ideas into an impenetrable mess.

Roger Brown's book nicely sidesteps this problem, and immediately gets into non-trivial ideas that one would be hard-pressed to find in a standard textbook. Typical of this is his Chapter 3, "The Rules of Thumb". Instead of simply defining terms such as "cap rate," and maybe discussing some of the limitations of this tool, Brown brings up the real world: cap rates can easily be distorted, and it is your job as an analyst to determine if the cap rate you are using is an "honest one". Brown shows just how one can systematically do this using a corpus of transaction data, which can be found on sites such as costar.com.

There are numerous other innovative ideas in the book. My feeling is that if you have good access to data, and are smart and diligent, you could make a lot of money using some of these ideas .

Private Real Estate Investment : Data Analysis and Decision Making (Academic Press Advanced Finance Series)

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Hank Williams was country music's greatest star and songwriter. This is the story of Hank and his wife, Audrey, his rise to fame, their stormy marriage, and the alcoholism that destroyed them both. Illustrated and indexed.

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A good natured Outlook........2007-04-28

Of the 10 or so major contributions in book form regarding Hank and Audrey that have sifted down and settled thru the gravel of time, I found this book to be the most important as far as really getting an intimate feel on what it was like to see these two alive, in love, in anger and in all their glory. One cant help but root Lycrecia on as she obviousley loved her mother and her stepfather, despite their many flaws. After completing this book (and I have read it several times) I finished with a sense that Lycrecia is a good natured person, who made her peace with a situation that she could have just have easily chosen to be bitter and disgruntled over. This woman appears to have hidden nothing. And their are some ugly bits in here, I assure you. But she also doesnt hide that she loved her mother, and father....but Midway thru the book you can sense that she had to detach from her mother and and her mother's sad spiral downwards into a narciscist's dismal finale of lonesomeness and discontent. The pleasure of this book, to me, was in the details....from birthday serenades to the color of the wallpaper in the homes she grew up in. History is so heavily buried in accounts Of Hanks tragic, suffering and misery that the reader has to regroup here and there and realize that Ol'HAnk had fun and family and horses and ailments and good times. To Lycrecia he was and will always be "Daddy" and I liked how that made me feel.

HANK WILLIAMS HAD MORE THEN MISERY....some might not want that to part of the picture, but its there and personally I will forever be grateful to Mrs. Lycrecia for that.

As a woman, I read this book and it felt like a letter from an old freind. Partly because a Southern Woman seems to be born with this endearing quality, usually complimented by a grit-eating grin.

THis book is one of my favoritemosts! An absolute MUST have for any Hank and/or AUdrey enthusiast.

IF you are just starting to consume the information about Hank's life ....go for Escott's Bio and the Snapshots from a lost HIghway.....and then, because its a sweet and satisfying read, have this book for dessert.

The Other Side Of The Story.......2000-01-11

This book is kind of an oddity in the world of Hank Williams oriented literature. The earlier chapters (the ones about Hank Williams) are sketchy, in places, and though one senses a real affection for Mr. Williams in Lycretia's narrative, there are few new details to surprise the more than casual reader. Where this book comes to life and becomes a good read is in the second two-thirds, as the focus shifts to Audrey. Audrey has generally gotten a bad deal, both in life and in print, and this is the first book that has even attempted to humanise her. That it succeeds in doing so makes it all the more likeable, although the picture it paints of her final ten years is a bleak and depressing one, and the comment that it makes about Nashville and the music establishment deserves to be expanded to book length. Although only the most "completist" of Hank Williams collectors (or masochists) would want to hear Audrey's "greatest hits collection" (formerly available on Bear Family Records), most would do well to read this book, to get the full story of the oft-maligned "first" Mrs. Williams, and the horrible sad turn her life took.

I am looking for Dale Vinicur, the contributor of this book.......1999-11-19

I am looking for the contributor of this book, Dale Vinicur...Does anyone know how to reach her?

STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU THE STORY OF HANK AND AUDREY WILLIAMS

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STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU THE STORY OF HANK AND AUDREY WILLIAMS
Lycrecia and Dale Vinicur Williams
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