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Anne LaBastille wrote her best-selling book Woodswoman about the peace and solitude she found in the log cabin she built at Black Bear Lake. Eventually, however, the outside world intruded. Woodswoman II is the equally engrossing story of the author's decision to build a tiny cabin retreat fashioned after Thoreau's Walden, of her life with two German shepherds as companions, and of her renewed bond with nature. Originally published under the title Beyond Black Bear Lake. Over 200,000 copies of the Woodswoman series have been sold.
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The Woods in Anne's Eyes.......2001-07-09
With the Adirondack setting, Woodswoman II, by Anne Labastille, captures a way of life most people will never know about. The way Anne talks about her life as a woodswoman pulls the reader into her world and life. There are also many good details. While building her second house, Anne faces many difficulties including temporary blindness when she gets cement dust in her eyes, and dropping a large spruce on her leg, injuring herself so she cannot walk for two months. As she chooses her dog, the decision becomes the reader's and the excitement is on them. Around Anne her beautiful world is disappearing to acid rain and people. As the reader progresses through this story he or she will find the true meaning of the woods. The setting and unusual way of writing brings this book together to make a fabulous story of Anne's life. Her unique way of writing shows who she is. She talks about smaller details in great detail, talking about the general one a small mystery. When Anne was building her house, she talks about when her boat flipped when carrying supplies to her cabin. She also talks about her feelings a lot in her autobiography. She explains how she likes her doctor more then why she was temporarily blind when she gets some cement dust in her eyes. Another reason I give this book five stars is the way she decries her surroundings and her land. When Anne is on a walk she Comes upon a cliff and transfer you there in to the fog and wet green moss. She plants a photograph in the reader's mind so that the reader can find every thing in Anne's cabin. As you see there are reasons to like this book. There is one and only one reason why I would not recommend this book is that it skips from one topic to another for example, she talks about building her house, she suddenly starts the next chapter talking about acid rain and polluting. This also happened when she got hurt and talked that in the middle of a chapter about her house. This reason is not bad enough to make this book a book I would not recommend. This book is a wonderful Adironacks story about a young woman and her dogs.
The Honeymoon Is Over; The Love Deepens.......2001-06-14
This second installment of the 'Woodswoman' trilogy is a step up in maturity for Dr. LaBastille. "Woodswoman" (one), dealt largely with the purchase of land and the building of a dream cabin on a remote lake. This books becomes more real, as Dr. LaBastille begins to have to worry about trespassing intruders, acid rain and the real threat that the government can pose in this unique environment. Determined not to let these new problems destroy her outlook or her life, Dr. LaBastille begins to build a second cabin - further into the wilderness. Encompassing both the new thrill of building a more isloated respite along with some freinds, brings another insight into Anne LaBastille's life ten years later. Numerous elderly Adirondack guides become great friends, sharing their own stories of the wilderness. A new romance evolves and the author has to deal with the reality of having to deal with both worlds. This book speaks not only of the wilderness, but the grand people that make and keep it unique. Of course, Dr. LaBastille's dogs are always given star treatment and her love of these animals is heartfelt. More refined and a little less naive, this second 'woodswoman' book will break and warm your heart at the same time.
Recommended for city folk yearning for wilderness living........2000-09-07
Woodswoman II is the continuing biography of author Anne LaBastille, who found peace and solitude in the log cabin she built for herself at Black Bear Lake, in the Adirondack Park of upstate New York. This is the engaging, compelling, sometimes inspiring story of how Anne decided to retreat a half-mile father into the wilderness behind her main cabin and build a second, tiny cabin (fashioned after the one in Thoreau's "Walden") in which she could write and contemplate. Woodswoman II focuses on her renewed bond with nature, her companionship with two German shepherd dogs; and her sustained and sustaining relationship with a man fully as independent as herself. Highly recommended reading for anyone who has ever contemplating leaving the stress of urban life behind for the contemplative isolation of the wilderness.
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Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world -- from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500
B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in
A.D. 476. In
Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome.
In this fascinating and comprehensive analysis, the author explores social and cultural history, as well as the political and economic aspects of his narrative. He explains leading themes in religion and philosophy and discusses the environment, population, and public health. With his signature authority and insight, Cantor highlights the great books and ideas of antiquity that continue to influence culture today.
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Not an academic book but, interesting read.......2007-08-25
I picked up the paperback for a trip overseas. I enjoyed the book. While not a classicist I am an academic. I think some of the reasonable criticism are correct but, I find it very odd that not one of the one stars or any negative reviews mention alternatives to this book. How about it negative reviewers? Please list one or more alternatives.
Regardless, it is certainly not an academic text and I never thought it was. It does have some questionable commentary. But it brings the readers mind back to glimpse at ancient ideas and Dr. Cantors views of those ideas. Since none of us were alive in ancient times, I think it far more brash for some of the reviewers to say some of the things they have said in contrast to any opinions of the author.
Here is one quote from page 174 of the book that I found very interesting:
"The most pervasive and enduring Roman legacy was the aristocratic way of life. Ruling classes in Western civilization have imitated this Roman model up to the present day. Drawing in part upon the Greek and Hellenistic sources, the Roman elite created a way of living that we still think of as the way to live well--it is, at least, the way the rich still live. It is a distinctive mixture, this aristocratic mode, a combination of the intellectual and material, a blending of power and high culture. The town house and the country villa; servants, lavish entertaining, and feasting; frank enjoyment of sex; a careful education in a purely nonscientific curriculum; patronage of the arts; religion marked by formal ritual but totally lacking in spiritual calling; intense devotion to the family as an institution; reverence for old men but no regard for children as individuals; patriotism and public service; travel and games; endowment of municipal buildings and services; this is the way of life that the Latin classics describe and extol; this is the mode that subsequent European aristocracies and their imitators, the upper-middle class, cherishes. Its effect on Western society and culture, for better or for worse, has been incalculable."
A Very Readable Overview of Western Civilization.......2007-01-05
As Norman Cantor points out in his book, Antiquity, it is sometimes difficult nowadays to find good overviews of historical topics. Many of today's academics have discovered the Scientific Method and the importance of data rather than pure argumentation for testing competing hypotheses. These researchers poured over never before examined archives and exhaustively reviewed every word ever published on their subject, and you, the reader, are going to hear about every data point available. But, you know, sometimes I want to get the gist of a subject without being taken to the cutting edge. I bought Cantor's book because it was on sale and because my personal library is light on Classical topics, and I read it because I wanted to learn something new. What I like are entertaining and informative surveys of complex topics.
Antiquity is just such a survey of the evolution of Western Civilization, beginning with chimps coming down from the trees and concluding with the rise of nation-states and Christianity and their influence on European culture -- obviously, the first two-million-some years go by very quickly: homonids, blah blah blah, agricultural societies in the Nile and Tigris-Euphrates basins. The text is organized into two parts. The first gives a brief summary of the rise and fall of the various nations of antiquity (Egypt, Israel, Greece, Rome and Christian Europe) in about 50 pages. The second part then returns to each of those topics in more detail. There are also a numbers of maps and a useful index.
I found Cantor's writing style to be thoroughly readable and entertaining. In trying to distill the highlights of 6000 years of human history into 200+ pages, the author has chosen to focus on the major players, as judged by their impact on modern civilization. Cantor also aggressively debunks myths as they come up, providing a modern perspective on some very old stories. I got a smile from the numerous other reviews on this site criticizing Norman Cantor and Antiquity as being "dumbed-down" -- and this from trained historians no less. They have leveled some interesting and accurate criticisms at the book (and the author), but they also seem to miss the point that Antiquity wasn't written for them. As a scholar myself (but as a scientist rather than in the humanities), those reviewers have reinforced a valuable lesson: it is an irritating, elitist paradox to both complain of the ignorance of the masses and then criticize an author for writing an entry-level text.
Promising approach, subject but some sloppy editing undermine book.......2006-07-10
The blurb on the back of the book states; "Cantor offers a splendid and accessible portrait of the cultures of the ancient world". Sort of. While it has a breezy style and certainly covers a lot of ground within its meager 227 pages of text ANTIQUITY also is riddled with factual errors, opinions/judgments that are questionable. Cantor's chief accomplishment here is to make a often stodgy subject interesting to the average person. That's good news. The bad is that someone will come away with the opinion that Cantor's word is gospel.
While I appreciate the effort that went into writing and editing the volume, I'm a bit surprised that some of the factual errors escaped the review of a solid editor. Certainly the subject matter and general approach is promising but applied to a book with better accuracy and less opinionated observations (and, shall we say, a certain level of objectivity)ANTIQUITY could have been a magnificent volume. As it is Cantor's book might interest someone with little knowledge on the subject to dig deeper. For that we can truly thank Mr. Cantor and his book.
A Folly and Embarrassment.......2006-05-28
This book is partitioned into two sections: "Basic Narrative," which is a summary of antiquity from the agararian communities of the ancient Near East (Mesopotamia and Egypt) to the fall of the Roman Empire and the emergence of the Christian community and; "Societies and Cultures," which is a more detailed look at those societies and cultures that fall within the book's qualifications and, to a certain extent, the relevance of those cultures to contemporary, Western society/culture. Every sentence if not every paragraph of the first section is a bold, arguable statement that begs further exposition, discussion or reading. Actually, it appears from the "Guide for Further Reading" at the end of the book, that the first section of this book may be a derivative summary of Cantor's readings of those materials. One might be better off reading those materials for oneself rather than relying on Mr. Cantor's syncretic book reports. Mr. Cantor's use of informal, laymen language makes this book further unsuitable for use as a reference or quotation within a thesis or other scholarly endeavor. The second section of the book loses some of the somewhat cavalier arrogance (which Mr. Cantor may have meant to come across as wit) of the first section but the disjunct writing styles within the section is perplexing. The created interview with St. Augustine is clever but the section on Civil Law lacks clarity and overall what has been cited as "authoritative insight" appears to be Mr. Cantor's ruminations or opinions. While the attempt to cover the breadth of the topic within a couple of hundred pages could be construed as either laudable or [a] folly, the result in this case is an embarrassing attribution to Mr. Cantor's erudition.
Should Stick to Sid Caesar.......2006-05-17
Why does this man enjoy a reputation as a medievalist? Why does he have tenure at a prestigious university? If I were to try to write a book about ancient history, I couldn't dumb it down enough to compete with this "professor's" endeavors. Read the first chapter and decide for yourself. I guess that Tom Wolfe is right about the current state of American college classrooms, if this Cantor is any indicator of what is being taught on campuses these days (I am Charlotte Simmons).
Then again, to the people who glean their inspiration from Dan Brown % co when it comes to history and learning, I suppose that Cantor seems a sage by comparison. If you haven't studied ancient societies one iota, this book will serve you well as an introduction. For anyobe else I would suggest about a dozen other books by way of introduction. Try your hand at Fernand Braudel's HISTORY OF CIVILAZATION, HG Wells' HISTORY OF THE WORLD, and of the Cambridge or Oxford World Hisories, etc. Just put this claptrap out of your mind and don't even bother perusing it, as I made the mistake in doing.
This is the second book from this "medievalist" I've reviewed. All I can say is that it must be a very easy task to get an A in a course he teaches at NYU. So if you you have a son or daughter taking courses there, make sure they sign up for one of his classes. No problem when it comes to outwitting the "professor." Sorry to be so mean, but when it comes to medieval and ancient history, I'm a nudge. I happen to be a big fan of both Herodotus and Gibbon. Professor Cantor is bush league in comparison. No excuses for shoddy scholarship in a field you are supposed to excell in.
BEK
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In 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear reactor melted down, 135,000 people were evacuated. Almost twenty years later, the area remains a no-man's land, with radiation too intense for people to live there safely. Amazingly, though, it is nevertheless home to a unique and extraordinary new ecosystem.
When the explosion ripped through the Number Four reactor complex that fateful day, spewing flames and chunks of burning, radioactive material into the air, one of the world's worst nightmares was realized. As the news gradually seeped out of the USSR and the extent of the disaster was confirmed, it became clear how horribly wrong things had gone. Dozens died - two from the explosion and many more from radiation illness over the following months - while scores of additional people became ill with acute radiation sickness. The prognosis for Chernobyl and its environs - succinctly dubbed the Zone of Alienation - was grim.
But if fears of the Apocalypse and a lifeless, barren radioactive future have been constant companions of the nuclear age, twenty years later Chernobyl shows us a different view of the future. Not only have pockets of defiant local residents remained behind to survive and make a life in the Zone, the area surrounding Chernobyl has become Europe's largest wildlife sanctuary, a flourishing - at times unearthly - wilderness teeming with large animals, many of them members of rare and endangered species. Like the forests, fields, and swamps of their unexpectedly inviting habitat, both the people and the animals are all radioactive. Cesium-137 is packed in their muscles and strontium-90 in their bones. But quite astonishingly, they are also thriving.
Donning dosimeter and protective gear, intrepid journalist Mary Mycio explored the world's only radioactive wilderness to report on the long-term effects of the disaster. A vivid blend of reportage, popular science, and illuminating encounters that explode the myths of Chernobyl with facts that are at once beautiful and horrible, Wormwood Forest brings a remarkable land - and its people and animals - to life to tell a unique story of science, surprise, and suspense.
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Fascinating book that should be required for biology classes!.......2006-11-05
I came across this book when I made friends with someone from the Ukraine... the book grew and grew on me as I read it; I did not realize until towards the end that the author had deftly taken us through the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, and then through a gestalt of the land and people. (I like the casual way she would check her radiation meter to see how much radiation she was getting at a given pond, bog or town). So we kind of weave our way through the history, then the air, plants, ground, water,animals, people, and towns affected by Chernobyl. There's a lot of science but Mary Mycio makes you feel like, hey, you too understand all the bits and pieces about leftover radiation. So two things happen as you read the book; you feel like are in the car with her and her guides. And then to you see how nature has come back in an awesome way and taken over what is still a nuclear wasteland.(The wildlife has thrived and rebounded since people are gone from their radioactive world). Amazing book; all science majors should read this!
Informative, Entertaining, Well-Written.......2006-05-28
This book works on several levels. The initial premise is that the Chenobyl disaster did not create a barren wasteland, as we might have anticipated. Rather, the "Zone of Alienation", from which nearly all humans have been removed, has become a flourishing nature preserve. Working from that point, the author explores the disaster and its consequences from a number of perspectives. There is a discussion of the accident itself, of the initial efforts to deal with it, and then with the long term effects, not only upon the plants and animals of the Zone, but also upon people - who continue to work and even live inside the Zone.
The writing is clear, perhaps due to Ms. Mycio's journalistic background. It is also very engaging, because she is intensely interested in the subject, and shares the reasons for her interest with the reader. For those of us who will never have the opportunity to visit the Zone, this book is really the next best thing.
The author has a website which makes a terrific supplement to the book, with generous photo galleries organized according in parallel to the book: www.chernobyl.in.ua
Disappointed........2006-04-13
The author's lackluster story-telling left me dizzy. There was no glue to hold together what should have been a phenomenal story---especially considering her background. And the attempt at explaining the math, physics, chemistry, and nuclear science was inept at best.
A shame.
A fascinating tale of life in the forbidden zone.......2006-03-21
Displaying remarkable courage, Mary Mycio set out to examine what has become of that forbidden, virtually unpeopled realm around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, one of the greatest ecological catastrophes of modern times. Her findings are surprising and intriguing, and will keep readers turning pages at night. A fascinating tale!
Out of Nuclear Ashes, springs hope.......2005-10-26
There is a popular song in Ukrainian Folk culture, "Two Colors". Black, that is sadness and Red that is joy. These two colors often are used in the famous Ukrainian Embroidered shirts and blouses. My reading of Mary Mycio's fabulous book, "Wormwood Forest" reminded me of this song. There is so much pain in this book, yet there is joy at coming to know some truths about a modern day cover-up. Mycio writes about complicated technical things regarding nuclear energy and the horrible accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine in such away that you don't need to have a scientific background to understand the picture. Yet, those with a scientific background will find this book informative. Want to find out what happened at Chernobyl, and what's happening now - then read this book!
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A Disappointing Look at the "Green Wing" of Fascism........2007-08-09
_Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience_, published by the anarchist AK Press, is a book consisting of two essays by supposed ecological activists Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier. Unfortunately, I found this book to be a major disappointment. To begin with the book is exceedingly small and while the essays do cover interesting material, they do so in such a limited manner that not much can be really learned. But, even worse are the authors' biases. The authors claim that ecological ideas have been used for "fascist" ends, particularly by the Nazis in Germany. However, they then proceed to promote an ideological leftism and denounce all those who adhere to a different opinion regarding certain matters as "fascist". This sort of behavior is all-too-typical of leftists. Thus, the book amounts to little more than a paean to the worst sort of political correctness and a denunciation of "right wing fascists" within the ecological movement. The authors themselves seem to have little genuine interest in ecological ideas and seem to be more caught up in opposing such things as "anti-immigrant sentiment" and "anti-abortion activism" rather than attempting to genuinely understand the ecological rationale for such ideas. The fact is that the original Volkish movements that sprang up in Germany in the 1920s have much to offer the world, particularly in their emphasis on ecological ideas, organic farming, conservation, radical localism, and spirituality, in spite of the fact that such movements were perverted for Nazi ends. Later generations of hippies of environmentalists, who sprang up in the 1960s, incorporated many of these same ideas into their own movements without full recognition of where they came from. In particular, the works of Anna Bramwell are to be commended for revealing this connection and I highly recommend her solid research over this book. (I should add that the authors' attempts to link Bramwell herself with fascism are indeed truthfully pathetic and represent nothing more than the typical response of leftist radicals when encountering ideas outside their firmly held ideological beliefs.) Another difficulty I have with this book is the author's attempts to attribute any sort of ecological idea that smacks of mysticism to fascism and thus to maintain that only a rationalistic ecology should be tolerated. In fact, the situation is just the opposite, in that an excessive emphasis on rationalism is precisely what has led to the totalitarian ideologies of our age and indeed that infiltrated the Nazi movement and led to its destructive purpose. Nevertheless, despite these criticisms the book does have some redeeming features, in that the essays show some of the ecological ideas that have persisted from their origin during the 1920s in the German Volkish movement to the modern day. Ecological ideas remain difficult to categorize in that they can appear as part of a "soft right" and equally well as part of a "soft left" (as Bramwell explains in her books), and perhaps this is one of the problems that the authors of this book cannot get their head around.
The first essay in this book is by Peter Staundemaier and entitled "Fascist Ecology: The "Green Wing" of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents". In this essay, the author attempts to show how various Volkish ideas merged into a "blood and soil mystique" which eventually entered into the Nazi party. The author notes that Germany remains the central birthplace of ecological ideas and has seen the Green party's rise to prominence. The author traces such ideas from such figures as Ernst Moritz Arndt and Wilhelm Heinrich Reich (who he unfortunately describes as "fanatical nationalists") to Ernst Haeckel founder of the Monist League. The author also repeats the theories of Daniel Gasman concerning the zoologist Haeckel's fundamental significance for Nazism. Following this the author turns to the youth movement or Wandervogel and the Weimar era. The author maintains that such movements arose out of neo-Romanticism and were developed by such individuals as Ludwig Klages. The author also mentions the role of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger on the deep ecology movement. Finally, the author turns his attention to National Socialism, showing the emphasis placed on nature by such figures as Rosenberg and Himmler. The author also devotes a substantial section of this essay to discussing Walther Darre, who served as a minister of agriculture under Hitler. Bramwell's work has similarly focused on Darre; however, instead of making note of her painstaking research, the author simply relies heavily on it and then chooses to denigrate it. The author also notes the German quest for Lebensraum and worship of the peasant. The author ends by maintaining that such quasi-mystical ecological notions must be opposed while a rationalistic ecology must be furthered.
The second essay in this book is by Janet Biehl and is entitled ""Ecology" and the Mobilization of Fascism in the German Ultra-Right". This essay attempts to show that the German ultra-right and fascism generally have made use of ecological ideas and attempts to show how such ideas persist to the modern day. The author begins by railing against the "New" Right which she attempts to link to fascism and Nazi precursors. Then, she turns her attention to neofascist ecology, noting the role of fascist ideologies in such movements as the National Revolutionaries, the Freedom German Worker's Party, the Republicans, the National Democratic Party, and the German People's Union. Unfortunately, she maintains that any sort of anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-abortion activism constitutes "fascist ideology". Following this, the author turns to the Anthroposophy of Rudolph Steiner and the World League for the Protection of Life. The author mentions the educational methods and ecological ideas (including ideas for organic farming) of such figures as Steiner and his protégé Werner Georg Haverbeck. Unfortunately, the author attempts to smear Steiner with the fascist label based on some pretty absurd reasoning and tenuous links to Haverbeck. The author also attempts to link Anthroposophy with the Hitlerjugend. Following this the author turns to the Volkish spirituality of Rudolf Bahro. The rightward turn of Bahro who began as a leftist seems to particularly annoy the author as well as his calls for a future "Green Adolf". The author shows the conflict between the anarchist libertarian Murray Bookchin and Bahro. Following this, the author turns to such Social Darwinist ideas as those of Herbert Gruhl and their role in ecology. The author ends with a call for a "social ecology of freedom".
While this book does include some interesting material, it is indeed truly unfortunate that the authors have let their biases interfere with the presentation of this material and thus label anything that they disagree with as "fascist". Further, many of the authors' claims and their attempts to denigrate such important individuals as Rudolph Steiner and Anna Bramwell are despicable. While many of the movements and ideas presented may have certain unsavory elements within them, the fact is that they cannot all be painted with such a broad brush. But, such contentions are all-too-typical of the radical ideological left.
Left wingers fretting over green Nazis .......2006-07-03
This is a short book that consist of two essays on the "green" elements in Germany, before, during and after the Nazi regime. If you can get beyond the authors warnings of the"dangers" of "right wing" (why do so many morons keep calling Nazis right wing? Do these idiots even know what right wing is?) environmentalists co-opting the ecology movement you actually get some good historical stuff about the Pagan Volkish movement as well as other environmental idealogues who did not toe the line of political correctness over the years in Germany.
The biggest problem in the environmental movement is that more or less all the well known groups toe the politically correct line and refuse to confront the fact that the biggest cause of the environmental crisis is due to human overpopulation, especially in third world countries, and they refuse to deal with the devastating effects that immigration has on the ecology of countries where there is an excess of it going on.
Conservation of forests and nature, eating healthy, animal rights, organic farming, living away from society, not having an uptight attitude about sex, worshipping your own ancestral gods instead of the gods of semites, localized socialism and self sufficency, these were all common themes and practices in the early days and origins of the nazi party. Most of these things were not practiced or even thought about at that time in history until the Volkish movement in Germany popped up. The hippies and environmentalists picked up on a lot of these ideas, although 99% were totally clueless of their origins.
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