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What Nostalgia Was
In What Nostalgia Was, historian Thomas Dodman traces the history of clinical "nostalgia" from when it was first coined in 1688 to describe deadly homesickness until the late nineteenth century, when it morphed into the benign yearning for a lost past we are all familiar with today. Dodman explores how people, both doctors and sufferers, understood nostalgia in late seventeenth-century Swiss cantons (where the first cases were reported) to the Napoleonic wars and to the French colonization of North Africa in the latter 1800s. A work of transnational scope over the longue duree, the book is an intellectual biography of a "transient mental illness" that was successively reframed according to prevailing notions of medicine, romanticism, and climatic and racial determinism. At the same time, Dodman adopts an ethnographic sensitivity to understand the everyday experience of living with nostalgia. In so doing, he explains why nostalgia was such a compelling diagnosis for war neuroses and generalized socioemotional disembeddedness at the dawn of the capitalist era and how it can be understood as a powerful bellwether of the psychological effects of living in the modern age.
Levels of Energy
This is a book on Spectral Consciousness, Reality Creation, Levels of Energy and Emotion and your Relationship to Infinity. It is dedicated to the Spiritual Development of mankind. The premise of this book is that there are clearly definable, perceivable and achievable qualities or "levels" of energy and that each level corresponds with specific physical, mental and emotional realities.
American Adventures: Thomas in Danger
Thomas Bowden hates the Tories, the colonists who have sided with the English during the Revolutionary War. He especially hates their Native American allies who tortured and killed many of his neighbors in a terrible massacre.still, he and his mother, sister, and baby brother have reached the safety of Philadelphia-but not for long. When Thomas recognizes a Tory spy, he is kidnapped, made to join a wagon train bringing arms and supplies to the enemy, and then turned over to a group of Mohawk fighters.Thomas fears the worst. Instead, over a winter spent in the Mohawk village, he discovers that truth in his wartime world is far more complicated than he ever imagined.Thomas is back, in an exciting and thought-provoking American Adventure!
Life Writing in the Anthropocene
Life Writing in the Anthropocene is a collection of timely and original approaches to the question of what constitutes a life, how that life is narrated, and what lives matter in autobiography studies in the Anthropocene. This era is characterised by the geoengineering impact of humans, which is shaping the planet’s biophysical systems through the combustion of fossil fuels, production of carbon, unprecedented population growth, and mass extinction. These developments threaten the rights of humans and other-than-humans to just and sustainable lives. In exploring ways of representing life in the Anthropocene, this work articulates innovative literary forms such as ecobiography (the represen...
The Registers of North Farnham Parish, 1663-1814, and Lunenburg Parish, 1783-1800, Richmond County, Virginia
BY: George Harrison Stafford King, Pub. 1966, reprinted 2021, 236 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-580-4 Richmond County was created in 1692 from Old Rappahannock County. This is a very important research tool when working in Richmond County as it contains: Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Death records as recorded in their original order with a complete index.
Beautiful Madness
Accounts of the Philadelphia Flower Show and the Chelsea Garden Show reveal what the author learned about some of the Western world's most influential gardens and gardeners and describe some of the more exotic plants presented at the shows.
30 Under 30
30 stories from 30 of the top young writers under the age of 30 writing today.
The Dewsweepers
The bestselling author of A Golfer's Life tells the story of an eclectic, eccentric group of men--the Dewsweepers--who literally sweep the dew from the golf course during early morning play. Through laughter and tears, he reveals intimate details and finds that each Dewsweeper needs golf and friendship at the core of his life.
The Way Life Works
In the tradition of David Macaulay's The Way Things Work, this popular-science book--a unique collaboration between a world-renowned molecular biologist and an equally talented artist--explains how life grows, develops, reproduces, and gets by. Full color. From the Hardcover edition.
Fear Busters
Studies indicate that 74% of the population is afraid of public speaking and 68% fear dying. Certainly fear is an emotion that many struggle to overcome. The paradox of life is that what we fear, we eventually magnetize straight into our lives. What we don't understand is that fear is often a pre-programmed response that roots back to childhood. Through repetition in a fear-based environment, our subconscious mind can actually be programmed to initiate a fear-based response to virtually any situation. Then, we basically run on autopilot, and often fears of various sorts dominate our behavior. We may fear losing money, and eventually do. We may fear losing a relationship, and eventually jealo...
