Susanna Wesley, Mother of John and Charles (The Sowers)

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The story of Susanna Wesley, mother of Charles and John Wesley, founders of the Methodist Church. A bright, beautiful woman whose life was turbulent but whose faith never wavered.

Susanna, Mother of the Wesleys (Abingdon Classics)

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Sheds light on 18th century English family customs.

Susanna, Mother of the Wesleys (Abingdon Classics)
Rebecca Lamar Harmon
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Sheds light on 18th century English family customs........1998-10-08

Susanna Wesley(1669-1742) was beautiful and indomitable. Samuel, her husband, an Anglican divine, was scholarly and, at times, impractical. Together they had nineteen children, only nine of whom survived to adulthood. Best known were the boys: Samuel, Jr., Charles, and, of course, the founder of Methodism, John. Virtually unknown were the girls: Emilia, Susanna, Mary, Mehetabel, Martha, and Kezziah. Altogether they formed one of the most remarkable families of the eighteenth century.

Rebecca Harmon does a creditable job telling the story of the family as well as describing Susanna Wesley's influence. From the day she and her husband moved into the Epworth parsonage until her death, Susanna is portrayed as a woman of uncommon spiritual, intellectual, and physical strength, albeit within what must have been for her the sometimes confining social constraints of 18th century England. Read about Susanna's novel approach to home schooling, and how she and Samuel provided for the family on a country parson's penurious income. Read, too, of the differences between Samuel and Susanna concerning the raising of their daughters. In short, Susanna: Mother of the Wesleys is a splendid book deserving to be read as much for the light it sheds on 18th century family customs as for its contribution to Methodist history.

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Susanna Wesley - a real woman

Susanna Wesley
Arnold A. Dallimore
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Release Date: 1993-02-01

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The fascinating story of Susanna Wesley, carefully documented, reveals an intelligent, strong-willed woman who suffered much in a male-dominated world but who prepared her children well.

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Susanna Wesley - a real woman.......2000-08-28

Mr. Dallimore presents Susanna as a real person. Her faults and her struggles come alive, and yet she is an inspiration. She was obviously highly educated for her time. The book educates us about history and society in her era, as well as religion. But there are no flat characters. Very informative. Nice and short, also.

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Susanna
Glen Williamson
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The Women of Methodism: memoirs of its three foundresses, Susanna Wesley, the Countess of Huntingdon, and Barbara Heck; with sketches of their female associates, etc.

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The Women of Methodism: memoirs of its three foundresses, Susanna Wesley, the Countess of Huntingdon, and Barbara Heck; with sketches of their female associates, etc.
Abel Stevens
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Release Date: 2000-12-04

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1876 edition by Willam Tegg and Co., London.

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Susanna Wesley (Women of Faith)
Kathy McReynolds
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The story of one of Church History's most revered women.

In a period of twenty-one years, Susanna Wesley (1669-1742) bore nineteen children. Ten survived infancy. Two grew up to be influential church leaders whose legacies live on almost three centuries later.

This biography recounts the story of a woman who used her strong leadership and faith to raise well-educated and spiritually disciplined children. Her unwavering devotion to God and family in the face of grief, poverty, and a sometimes difficult marriage is a tremendous inspiration. Adam Clarke wrote of her, "I have been aquatinted with many pious females-Susanna Wesley has excelled them all."

Meet the godly mother of John and Charles Wesley.

The Prayers of Susanna Wesley (Clarion Classics)

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The Prayers of Susanna Wesley (Clarion Classics)
Susanna Wesley , and W. L. Doughty
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Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings
Susanna Wesley
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Susanna Wesley, long celebrated in Methodist mythology as mother of the movement's founders, now takes place as a practical theologian in her own right. This collection of her letters, spiritual diary, and longer treatises (only one of which was published in her lifetime) shows her to be more than the nurturing mother of Wesleyan legend. It also reveals her to be a well-educated woman in conversation with contemporary theological, philosophical, and literary works. Her quotations and allusions include Locke, Pascal, and Herbert, as well as a number of now forgotten theologians. In some of her work, one can distinguish doctrinal and spiritual leanings, such as Arminianism and Christian perfection, that would later find wide expression in the spread of Methodism. Further, her writings demonstrate her readiness, for conscience's sake, to stand up to the men in her life--father, husband, and sons---and the three incarnations of English Protestantism they represented: respectively, Puritanism, the Established Church, and the new Methodist movement. Tracing these incidents in her letters and diaries, a reader can begin to understand how spirituality, even an otherwise conservative one in rather restrictive times, can serve to empower the voice of women.

Such a woman: The story of Susanna Wesley

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Such a woman: The story of Susanna Wesley
Rita Frances Snowden
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Following the widely celebrated Seeds of Change (1985) comes Seeds of Wealth, a collection of four elegant essays focusing on the economic and cultural consequences of the exploitation of timber, tobacco, rubber, and the wine grape. These cash crops have bound together trade relations for the past three centuries and have had a profound if little noted effect on our world. As early as Shakespeare's time, timber quantities in England had become deficient, promoting the use of coal and leading to the industrial revolution. Conversely, the abundance of timber and excellent growing conditions for tobacco in the United States led to great wealth and power for the young nation. The cultivation of the rubber tree and its importance in modern society helped to create the nations of Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. And good wine, Hobhouse observes, makes people wealthy as well as mellow and wise. These four plants enormously increased the wealth of those who dealt with them, created new industries, shaped destinies, and changed the course of history.

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An exciting history which surveys the plant's evolution.......2005-03-06

Gardening history and trivia enthusiasts will welcome Henry Hobhouse's gorgeous Seeds Of Wealth: Four Plants That Made Men Rich, presenting four essays examining the social consequences of exploiting timber, tobacco, rubber and the wine grape. These are cash crops central to world interests for centuries: all have had a major impact on the world - and all have been largely ignored. Each essay provides an exciting history which surveys the plant's evolution in human affairs. Hobhouse has long been a reporter and Seeds Of Wealth is scholarly yet accessible and highly recommended for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in agriculture and its role in creating prosperity.

Random Facts to Enjoy.......2005-02-07

According to this book's dust jacket, the author, Henry Hobhouse, quit the news business and returned to his farm in Somerset in 1954. For these past 50 years he has been assembling random facts on every subject imaginable. When it came time to write this book, he evidently stuck those facts in a blender and pushed puree. Beyond the four plants in question, this book seems to have no organizing principle beyond "we've got to stick everything in somewhere." In one three page tour de force, for example, he manages to discuss the differences between British and Dutch estates in Asia, the use of ships for Haj pilgrims, the key players of WWII, the League of Nations collapse, the problems with American bankers, how the U.S. caused the dismemberment of the British empire (which he still pines for), and the Irish troubles. I was left pining myself -- for an editor.
None of this is to say you should pass by this book. You may enjoy it (as I did) and will learn all sorts of remarkable things that could come in handy should you, say, end up on Jeopardy some day. Just don't buy it if you expect your books to have a linear narrative on some finite set of topics.

Plants, Wealth and History.......2004-09-28

This fascinating book looks at the causative role of plants in history. The cultivation of and trade in these plants created enormous wealth and changed the history of the world in many ways.

The chapter on timber is titled The Essential Carpet. In it, Hobhouse discusses how the shortage of timber in the United Kingdom led to the use of coal, which led to scientific advances and ultimately to the industrial revolution. On the other hand, the abundance of timber in the USA spurred the westward march of the country during the 1800s.

In The Grape's Bid For Immortality, the author discusses the growing of vines and making of wine from 600BC to the present. Wine has an enormous potential for the creation of wealth, multiplying nett profits wherever it is successful.

In the chapter Wheels Shod For Speed, he tells the story of rubber and how it changed the economies of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and indeed the world. More Than A Smoke is a fascinating account of how the colony and ultimately state of Virginia owes it wealth to tobacco. Initially this area had a monopoly on tobacco by decree of the king of England. This industry created a landlord class, which amongst them counted certain signatories of the Declaration of Independence, like Washington and Jefferson.

The book is full of fascinating facts and observations, for example that the original alkaline tobacco might not be harmful and that the acidity of modern cigarettes might be the root cause of the harmful effects of smoking on health.

Seeds Of Health is a truly engrossing book as it deals with politics, economics, global history and more particularly Anglo-American relations, and the role of nature in creating wealth and economic growth. The text contains black and white illustrations and the book concludes with a bibliography and an index.

SEEDS OF WEALTH Four Plants that made Men Rich.

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SEEDS OF WEALTH Four Plants that made Men Rich.
Hobhouse Henry
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Terrence Deacon's The Symbolic Species begins with a question posed by a 7-year-old child: Why can't animals talk? Or, as Deacon puts it, if animals have simpler brains, why can't they develop a simpler form of language to go with them? Thus begins the basic line of inquiry for this breathtakingly ambitious work, which attempts to describe the origins of human language and consciousness.

What separates humans from animals, Deacon writes, is our capacity for symbolic representation. Animals can easily learn to link a sound with an object or an effect with a cause. But symbolic thinking assumes the ability to associate things that might only rarely have a physical correlation; think of the word "unicorn," for instance, or the idea of the future. Language is only the outward expression of this symbolic ability, which lays the foundation for everything from human laughter to our compulsive search for meaning.

The final section of The Symbolic Species posits that human brains and human language have coevolved over millions of years, leading Deacon to the remarkable conclusion that many modern human traits were actually caused by ideas. Deacon's background in biological anthropology and neuroscience makes him a reliable companion through this complicated multidisciplinary turf. Rigorously researched and argued in dense but lively prose, The Symbolic Species is that rare animal, a book of serious science that's accessible to layman and scientist alike.

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This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions. Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.

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Excellent introduction to neuroscience, linguistics and evolution.......2007-03-28

This is an important book, from many perspectives. I read it in order to try to understand the way our intelligence works. It is certainly one of the best books out there on that subject.

What the book is really about, however, is how the mind and language co-evolved. In linguistics, the dominant theory is that of Noam Chomsky (yes, the same guy who is a rabidly anti-American writer on foreign policy issues.) Chomsky's theory is that all human languages share the same deep structure, which is "hard-wired" into the brain. He argues, in essence, that the language hardware of the brain never changes, and it determines how language works. Chomsky himself, for his own odd reasons, rejects Darwin. He just asserts that there is a "language module" in the brain which contains this hardware, and that it is the underlying cause of everything in linquistics. For those interested in his theory it is explained in simpler language, and brought into compliance with conventional Darwinian theory, by Steven Pinker in his book, The Lanuage Instinct.

Deacon puts Chomsky on his head. Whereas Chomsky says that the structure of language is hard-wired into the brain, Deacon says that the structure which the brain already has, for other reasons, determines the rules of language. His argument is based upon a very deep understanding of neuroscience, linguistics and evolutionary theory. The book is very much worth reading for the general reader with an interest in these things.

Exciting on the nature of language, but misses the boat at the end........2005-10-31

A bit slow going, but full of fascinating information and well-argued. But the evo-psych claptrap at the end undermines the quality of the book. Deacon also lacks knowledge of Girard's mimetic theory, which would make his discussion of language evolution much better.

Provocative but for the wrong reasons........2003-09-29

This one is a peculiar mix of populist polemic and third rate scientific argument. Deacon's approach to argument is endless repetition and obfuscation with detail. The initial chapters on indexical,iconic and symolic representation and language acquisition are hardly original and here needlessly complicated. Thick knotted prose, sweeping unsupported statements and carelessly "constructed" arguments abound. It is astounding and intensely disappointing to read the gushing uncritical reviews as well. In short, this book is a menace to critical thinking on this subject.

some interesting content, slow going.......2003-02-23

Most of what I choose to read is non-fiction on cognition, education, memetics, and language. That said, I found this book hard to read. It has some interesting content, but it's broken up by so much detail it's hard to see the big picture. I finally got through it by skimming most of the chapters and doing a close read on bits that were interesting to me.

His premise is that physical evolution of human brains and cultural evolution of language have proceeded together, shaping one another, so that languages evolved to be more learnable by humans at the same time humans evolved to be better at language. This kind of interaction is categorized as "Baldwinian selection", which is an elaboration of Darwinian selection (not a conflicting view).

Deacon draws evidence from a wide range of sources including paleontology, live brain scans, electrode experiments, and animal behavior.

Great.......2003-02-22

This is ambitious stuff. Deacon wants to explain the origins of language, underlying neural dynamics, explain symbolic reference and to show why Chomsky is wrong on his ideas on language. The result is a highly readable and complex text that somehow Deacon manages to maintain coherent. Many interesting ideas and insights can be found in the pages of this book. However it is not at all clear to me to what extent all of this is groundbreaking stuff. For example, darwinian processes in neural dynamics and development are not new ideas, as Deacon admits. Edelman, Calvin, Changeaux all got there first. The role Deacon gives to the prefrontal cortex is not new either. His explanation of symbolic reference as a collection of indexical and iconical relationships, and further symbo-symbolical higher orther relationships, is philosophically questionable to say the least. Why would symbolic abilities arise out of adding levels of non-symbolic relationships, in the way Deacon proposes?. Surely, symbolic abilities must depend on non symbolic mechanisms at some level, but it is not clear at which.

But Deacon also has moments of genius. His attack on Chomskian innate universal grammar frameworks is brilliant. Language evolved to adapt to the cognitive abilities of humans and therefore it seems it is learned too easilly. It is not that children have a grammar module, but that their general modules are enough when most of the adaptive work was done by language itself by evolving. Deacon also shows why grammars are not things that can become innate in the first place too. They cannot be invariant enough for selection to work on the brain to aquire them. Deacon also shows what did happen in the brain for there to be language. The relationship between brain-size and cognitive ability is more complex than we thought, and Deacon shows us why and how.
Also quite good is Deacons explanation of why language evolved in the first place. It evolved as a means to deal witht he changing social and sexual organization of hominid groups, that started to form pair-bonding while being foragers. Language acted as the glue that kept these dynamics stable.

This is very good stuff, and it is bold and plausible. Deacon did not solve the mystery of intentionality or language, but his insights might show the way towards doing exactly this. There are few other books on language and the brain as thought provoking as this one.

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The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Human Brain (Allen Lane Science S.)

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