Mothers Can't Be Everywhere, but God Is: A Liberating Look at Motherhood

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Contrary to the old adage that "God couldn't be everywhere, so He made mothers." The truth is, Mothers can't be everywhere for their kids, but God is. Written with a fresh, far-reaching grasp of God's plan for motherhood, this book will revolutionize the way Christian mothers view their role, release them from trying to live by untenable tenets, and validate them as first and foremost women in Christ, while offering the hope of being an even better mother. The author writes from years of accrued wisdom as a mother and grandmother, and relies on the Word of God to substantiate her claims and convictions.

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Elisabeth Wood's account of insurgent collective action in El Salvador is based on oral histories gathered from peasants who supported the insurgency and those who did not, as well as on interviews with military commanders from both sides. She explains how widespread support among rural people for the leftist insurgency during the civil war in El Salvador challenges conventional interpretations of collective action. Those who supplied tortillas, information, and other aid to guerillas took mortal risks and yet stood to gain no more than those who did not.

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From genetically modified food to weapons of mass destruction, we live in an age of intense debate about technology's place in our culture. While the technologies have changed, these debates go back hundreds of years, and their assumptions have become deeply entrenched in our culture.

Culture + Technology is an essential guide to the fascinating history of these debates, and offers new perspectives that give readers the tools they need to make informed decisions about the role of technology in our lives. In clear and compelling language, Slack and Wise untangle and expose the cultural assumptions that underlie our thinking about technology, stories so deeply held we often don't recognize their influence. The book considers the perceived inevitability of technological advance and our myths about progress. It also looks at sources of resistance to these stories from the Luddites of the 19th century to the Unabomber in our own time. Slack and Wise help readers sift through the confusions about culture and technology that arise in their own everyday lives.

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A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Lebanese coast, placed in the context of the culture, literature, and religion of this ancient Semitic culture. The Ugaritic language and literature was a precursor to Canaanite and serves as one of our most important resources for understanding the Old Testament and the Hebrew language. Special emphasis is placed on contextualization of the Ugartic language and comparison to ancient Hebrew as well as Akkadian.

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Wait for the revised/corrected edition.......2007-10-09

The praise for this book from other reviewers may very well be applicable, but I for one cannot recommend it. For a book produced by Cambridge Univ Press (a publisher of scholarly works) and Schniedewind and Hunt (respectable scholars), this book has an astonishing number of typographical errors, clumsy wording of English sentences, and poor graphics.

I will not attempt a list of typographical errors here, but suffice it to say, this work looks like unedited classroom notes in this respect. As for writing clarity, try this out: "Ugaritic school texts (see § 2.4.2; Figure 2.1), which were discovered after Ugaritic scholars had established the above order, which follows the Hebrew alphabet apart from the additional letters, used a slightly different order" (p. 149). Most English readers will not tolerate having the subject and verb of a sentence separated by over 20 word in two subordinate clauses. This is a good example of the impenetrable wording often found in this book. As for graphics, the map on p. 6 is simply inexcusable--it is illegible and out of focus, and the pixel clean-up work for the map on p. 7 is sloppy and incomplete.

This book has the potential to be a useful introductory work for Ugaritic students, but it needs to go through a proper editing process first. My recommendation is to wait for the second corrected edition.

More than a grammar.......2007-09-24

The discovery that this work is available was exciting, as a group here in Sydney Australia has been working on aspects of Ugaritic. This book is ideal from several points of view. First is the use of the Ugaritic font, so that texts can be read in the original script. A second involves the range of texts included. A third element derives from the use of photos and drawings in the text, and a fourth the presentation of grammatical aspects including more recent findings about the structure of Ugaritic.
This is certainly a valuable addition to the wide range of works on Ugarit and associated studies, since it is well planned for students in both degree and graduate programs.

Ugaritic for the masses.......2007-09-15

Introductory books on obscure subjects are usually themselves abstruse and enigmatic. However, "A Primer on Ugaritic Language, Culture, and Literature" is at the same time both erudite and accessible. This book should serve as a model for all introductory texts on ancient languages.

I was a graduate student of Dr. Schniedewind's late predecessor at UCLA, Dr. Stanislav Segert, and I have read at lease a half a dozen Ugaritic textbooks cover to cover over the years. This is by far the best from a student perspective. Scholars can debate whether 'adrt really is derived from *
Yes, $80 is a great deal of money for a book, but keep in mind that during my graduate studies at UCLA I remember spending about $1,500 one quarter for textbooks for one language class. This book is extremely well designed with the student and the pedagogical process in mind. Professors can assign the book with assurance that this single volume is all that is necessary for the instructor and the students for the duration of the introductory class.

No modern English as a second language class would start students with Ginsburg, Keats, Shakespeare, or Chaucer to learn beginning English. No beginning French class would start with La Disparition (Georges Perec's famous French novel that doesn't contain a single letter "E" in any of its 300 pages!). Why should students of ancient languages like Ugaritic start learning with the Aqhat or Keret epics? Schniedewind and Hunt's choice to start students with school texts followed by letters, administrative, legal, and only then literary texts is an extremely logical and pedagogically sound approach.

For students of the bible, semitic languages, ancient near eastern history, or literature, this primer is especially useful because of its diversity of subject matter. At some point in their academic career, students of semitic languages will have to learn that words that had the "th" sound in ancient times (so called "proto-semitic") use the letter or sign "sh" in Hebrew, Phoenician, and Akkadian; but "th" in Ugaritic, Arabic, and Aramaic. Therefore, "shad" in Hebrew could very well be the same as the word "thad" in Ugaritic, but "thad" in Hebrew would never be "shad" in Ugaritic etc. There are very consistent "rules" that every serious student of semitics must know. These and other linguistic rules are covered in a solid introductory way in this primer (e.g. pp. 150ff).

For students of the Hebrew bible, Ugaritic is the most important language after Hebrew itself. A century ago, serious students of Hebrew and the semitic languages studied Arabic as a second language because Arabic has a fairly conservatively evolved grammar and supposedly reflected a much older stage of the semitic languages. However, our primary corpus of "ancient" Arabic, the Koran, is from approximately 1,500 years after the literary origins of the Bible and it is about 3,000 years after Hebrew was evolving into the form that developed into "Biblical" Hebrew. However, Ugaritic is a language for which we have actual, physical texts from the very time that the stories in the Bible were evolving. Furthermore, these texts were written just a few miles from the lands of the Hebrew bible by a people with a similar culture and language to the writers of the Bible itself.

For students of ancient religious history, this book will help them to understand the ancient northwest semitic pantheon in early and pre-biblical times. For students of literature, the book will serve as a excellent introduction to ancient genres likely to be encountered in later studies. For an introductory text both the diversity and depth are impressive.

The publishers are to be commended for letting the authors show alphabetic texts in their original scripts rather than transliteration. Seeing Hebrew texts in Hebrew characters (E.g. pg. 113 and the glossary) and Ugaritic texts in Ugaritic characters makes learning easier over time because one doesn't have to jump through the mental hoops of transliterating before translating each word. The addition of photographs of actual texts (e.g. Zuckerman's photos of the MRZHU text on pages 109-110) help the student learn to recognize texts in context. This is an important skill. (It is shocking to see senior Hebrew scholars who read hebrew fluently but couldn't make sense of a real manuscript because they have never read anything but modern printed editions of texts!) On the other hand, the choice to transliterate Akkadian is also logical and pedagogically sound because, unlike Ugaritic and Hebrew, Akkadian has no alphabet and the writing system takes far longer to master than the language itself! It is unlikely that students would be able to recognize Akkadian signs and give then accurate interpretation independently of context so transliteration is an appropriate choice here.

For serious students of the Bible, I would recommend the study of Hebrew and Greek first. For students of the Hebrew bible, Ugaritic is the most important language after Hebrew itself. For students who choose (or are required) to learn Ugaritic, Schniedewind and Hunt's primer is currently the best available choice for a solid start in learning the language, texts, and culture. For $80, that's a bargin in my opinion....

About Time!.......2007-08-23

Finally! An actual introductory textbook on Ugaritic that is accessible and user-friendly. There isabsolutely nothing else like it available to introductory students. Now is we could only have a paperback INEXPENSIVE collection of Ugaritic texts we would be in business! I particularly like the fact that some of the readings are in the cuneiform script and provides great practice for reading this. It is very much worth the money!

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Filling the gap between High School and College

A Civilization Primer
Edward M. Anson
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This proven supplement for the introductory Western civilization course is designed to help history students develop their knowledge of core social science concepts and terminology. This text defines and clarifies the basics of history, culture, religion, government, economics, and geography.

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Filling the gap between High School and College.......1998-10-10

Most of the primer covers what a student ought to have learned in high school History or social studies classes. Unfortunately, most high schools tend to neglect these basic concepts.

Therefore the primer can prove helpful to the College Freshman dreading his or her World Civilization classes. Likewise, faculty could avoid many headaches and sighs by recommending this book for their courses.

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Useful introduction.......2003-08-29

The premise of this book is fantastic: it aims to be an introduction to New Zealand culture geared toward the educated but non-specialist American. By explaining dominant trends in NZ literature, describing some of this literature's historical context, and relating it to American culture, William Schafer outlines some answers to the questions of what it means to live in New Zealand, and how that nation has structured its unique identity. On a more basic level, this book gives its readers a sense of what NZ lit and film is available, and thus provides a spring board for an independent exploration of NZ culture. Schafer's quotes and discussion of the fiction of Witi Imihaera (author of the novel The Whale Rider, upon which the 2003 film is based), for instance, were particularly attractive to me and, as a result, I have since read several of his works. Mapping the Godzone opened a new world to me, and I look forward to continuing to explore NZ culture under its guidance.
While the book's aims are laudable, its execution is not quite as impressive. Schafer tries to avoid the jargon and heavily theoretical analysis of contemporary literary criticism, but at times he slips up and his prose drags. At other times, he is somewhat too summary in his discussions--particularly when he relies on series of lengthy quotes by other critics. The quotes from literary sources should be well appreciated, since they provide a window into the style of many authors; the quotes from scholars simply seem to point to laziness on the part of the author. Could he not sum up the material himself? Besides these (not too grave) issues of style, the content of the book could have been improved. Clearly Schafer (an English professor) was mostly interested in the literary achievements of New Zealand. However, he does intend his book to be a primer on culture as well, and to achieve this end he would have done well to include more of popular and visual culture in hi
s book. He does write a short section on film, but it consists mostly of a list of movies that the reader might find interesting.
Despite its flaws and shortcomings, Mapping the Godzone is a unique resource for the American reader curious about New Zealand, and it seems to be an excellent overview of that country's literature. I am glad to have found it.

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This is the first volume in English to focus upon Fichte's most celebrated and influential philosophical text, his "Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre" (Foundation of the Entire Doctrine of Scientific Knowledge)--an audaciously original effort to recast the Kantian philosophy into a full-blown system of "transcendental idealism." Rejecting all reference to "things in themselves," Fichte described his work as "the first philosophy of human freedom" and as a faithful expression of the true "spirit" of Kant's critical philosophy. For all its deficiencies, the Grundlage played an absolutely pivotal role in the development of German idealism after Kant.

The thirteen essays in this collection address the themes of imagination, time, representation, reflection, deduction, transcendental methodology, the relationship of Fichte's philosophy to Kant's, and the influence of the Grundlage upon Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Friedrich Schelling, and G.W.F. Hegel. Collectively, these essays will be indispensable to scholars and will provide students with an ideal introduction to the reading of Fichte's notoriously difficult but deeply rewarding work.

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