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Paperback / softback. New. In 2013, the New York Times identified Nashville as America's "it" city-a leading hub of music, culture, technology, food, and business. … Mehr…

Paperback / softback. New. In 2013, the New York Times identified Nashville as America's &quot;it&quot; city-a leading hub of music, culture, technology, food, and business. But long before, the Tennessee capital was known as the &quot;Athens of the South,&quot; as a reflection of the city's reputation for and investment in its institutions of higher education, which especially blossomed after the end of the Civil War and through the New South Era from 1865 to 1930.This wide-ranging book chronicles the founding and growth of Nashville's institutions of higher education and their impressive impact on the city, region, and nation at large. Local colleges and universities also heavily influenced Nashville's brand of modernity as evidenced by the construction of a Parthenon replica, the centerpiece of the 1897 Centennial Exposition. By the turn of the twentieth century, Vanderbilt University had become one of the country's premier private schools, while nearby Peabody College was a leading teacher-training institution. Across the racial divide-Fisk University joined the ranks of the nation's most prestigious black liberal-arts universities, while Meharry Medical College emerged as one of the country's few training centers for African American medical professionals. Following the agricultural-industrial model, Tennessee A&amp;I became the state's first black public college. Meanwhile, various other schools- Ward-Belmont, a junior college for women; David Lipscomb College, the instructional arm of the Church of Christ; and Roger Williams University, which trained black men and women as teachers and preachers-made important contributions to the higher educational landscape. In sum, Nashville was distinguished not only by the quantity of its schools but by their quality.Linking these institutions to the progressive and educational reforms of the era, Mary Ellen Pethel also explores their impact in shaping Nashville's expansion, on changing gender roles, and on leisure activity in the city, which included the rise and popularity of collegiate sports. In her conclusion, she shows that Nashville's present-day reputation as a dynamic place to live, learn, and work is due in no small part to the role that higher education continues to play in the city's growth and development., 6, New. So central was labor in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to the type of work that slaves did and the circumstances surrounding it. Cultivation and Culture brings together leading scholars of slavery - historians, anthropologists, and sociologists - to explore when, where, and how slaves labored in growing the New World's great staples and how this work shaped the institution of slavery and the lives of African-American slaves. Selected from a conference on comparative slavery at the University of Maryland that set the agenda for the next decades' research in this field, the essays focus on the inter-relationship between the demands of particular crops, the organisation of labour, the nature of the labour force and the character of agricultural technology. They reveal the full complexity of the institution of chattel bondage in the New World and suggest why and how slavery varied from place to place and time to time. What these scholars show is that although work in the slave owners' fields accounted for most of the slaves' labouring time, slaves also worked for themselves and their independent economic activities had far reaching consequences. By producing food for themselves and others, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing finished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds, and bequething property to their descendents, slaves took control of a large part of their lives. In many ways their independent economic endeavours offered a foundation for their domestic and commuity life, determining the social structure of slave society and providing a material basis for their distinctive culture. In exploring both the work that slaves performed for their owners and the work they did for themselves, Cultivation and Culture sheds new light on the origins and development of African-American culture and provides a new understanding of the African-American experience in slavery., 6, Los Angeles, CA: Warner Bros. Records, Inc. : Rhino Entertainment Co, 2000. Hardcover. All components (box, sleeves, booklet, etc) fine to near fine+.. Nince CDs in original box; includes: 1 book (76 pages : illustrations, photographs). Classic comedy routines by the African American comedian Richard Pryor, plus 90 minutes of previously unreleased material from the Warner Bros. vaults and Pryor's private collection. Contents: Disc 1. Richard Pryor: Super nigger--Girls--Farting--Prison play--T.V. panel show--Smells--Army life--Frankenstein. -- Disc 2. That nigger's crazy: I hope I'm funny--Nigger with a seizure--Have your ass home by 11:00--Black & white life styles--Exorcist--Wino dealing with Dracula--Flying saucers--Back down--Black man/white woman--Niggers vs. the police--Wino & Junkie. -- Disc 3. Is it something I said?: Eulogy--Shortage of white people--New niggers--Cocaine--Just us--Mudbone--When your woman leaves you--Goodnight kiss--Women are beautiful--Our text for today--Ali. -- Disc 4. Bicentennial nigger: Hillbilly--Black & white women--Our gang--Bicentennial prayer--Black Hollywood--Mudbone goes to Hollywood--Chinese restaurant--Acid--Bicentiannial nigger. -- Disc 5 and 6: Wanted/Richard Pryor, Live in concert: New Year's eve--White and Black people--Black funerals--Discipline--Heart attacks--Ali--Keeping in shape--Leon Spinks--Dogs and horses--Jim Brown--Monkeys--Kids--Nature--Things in the woods--Deer hunter--Chinese food--Being sensitive. -- Disc 7: Live on the Sunset Strip: Women--Prison--Africa--Mafia Club--Mudbone--Freebase--Hospital. -- Disc 8. Here and now: Southern hospitality--Slavery--Motherland--I met the president--Fire exit--Mudbone--Inebriated--One night stands--One day at a time--I like women--Being famous--I remember. -- Disc 9. That "African-American" is still crazy: Good shit from the faults: Mudbone goes to Washington--Fame--Black messiah--Life--Death--My funeral--Acid--Patty Hearst--Fighting--Law--History lesson--I don't give a fuck--Fame--Therapy--WASPS--Getting older--God--Dog--M.S. || American wit and humor -- 20th century. African American comedians -- Performances. Comedians -- Performances -- United States. African American comedians. American wit and humor. Comedians. Pryor, Richard, 1940-2005 -- Performances., Warner Bros. Records, Inc. : Rhino Entertainment Co, 2000, 4.5, Hardback. New. The Archaeology in Annapolis project has been one of the most important undertaken by historical archaeologists. Notable for its emphasis on public education and its use of citywide research, it has carried out an innovative analysis of material culture to show how a wide range of social and economic classes residing in Maryland's capital responded over time to a changing world.Annapolis Pasts offers a close look at the trend-setting project. Drawing on more than a decade of study, it provides a cross-section of the substantive and theoretical issues that Archaeology in Annapolis has explored. The volume gathers the work of some of the most innovative authorities in historical archaeology along with that of younger scholars who participated in the project, all of whom demonstrate the cutting-edge approaches that have won it wide respect. And despite differences in theoretical orientations, all the contributors have used Annapolis's archaeological data to interpret the emergence of capitalism as both a dynamic market force and an equally dynamic body of social rules. In studies of sites ranging from eighteenth-century formal gardens to nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American neighborhoods, the book explores the development of modern society as reflected in such examples of material culture as food, printer's type, tableware, and landscape architecture, showing how these features of everyday life were used to reproduce, modify, and resist capitalist society over three centuries. It also investigates subordinated groups in Annapolis -- African Americans, women, the working class -- to provide insight into racism, class structure, and consumer society in the early years of theindustrial revolution.Annapolis Pasts clearly demonstrates that traditional objects of study like Georgian mansions and colonial crafts cannot be understood without considering their complete social and economic milieu. It presents a fascinating mosaic of human activity that shows how archaeologists can interpret the different social, temporal, and theoretical pieces of a city's history, and it provides anthropologists, economists, and historians with an example of the multifaceted effects of capitalism and industrialization in one corner of America., 6, New. This paper seeks to inform discussions on possible relief measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the African continent. The paper argues that applying a &quot;&quot;multiple water use&quot;&quot; approach, where water from the same source or infrastructure has multiple uses and functions, would contribute to fighting the pandemic while ensuring basic needs relating to food security in rural communities. Uncertainties tied to the impacts of COVID-19 on daily life are growing. These impacts go beyond the well-defined sphere of health risks and have affected livelihoods and food security in several countries. Irrigation has an important role in improving crop productivity and ensuring food security, but expanding irrigation can affect the availability of water for sanitation and hygiene (WASH), which has a central role in slowing the spread of the disease. For this reason, irrigation development has to comply with increasingly critical WASH requirements. In line with the concept of multiple water use, the &quot;&quot;SMART irrigation - SMART wash&quot;&quot; initiative proposes corporate solutions to enhance both irrigation and the provision of water for sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities to vulnerable communities, thereby responding to critical needs in times of pandemic., 6, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Publisher's cloth, faded and stained; hinges loose, endpapers with additional publisher's advertisements. First edition in English, translated from the German by J.R. Johnston. German diplomat and explorer Werne (1800-1874) recounts his travels in Africa during a time when that part of the world was primarily unexplored by white people. The author studied the social habits and characteristics of the various peoples inhabiting many regions of the Continent. His work describes life in Africa from a European perspective, with the author noting all the fascinating customs and rituals of the different tribes, languages, religions, and way of life for the African people in the mid-nineteenth century. Topics include, among many, food preparation, army rituals, medical practice in Arab villages, religion, use of tobacco, slavery, and living in extreme weather conditions. The appendix contains a list of the birds, animals and reptiles he encountered., Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852, 0, Hardback. New. Religious Studies and Rabbinics have overlapping yet distinct interests, subject matter, and methods. Religious Studies is committed to the study of religion writ large. It develops theories and methods intended to apply across religious traditions. Rabbinics, by contrast, is dedicated to a defined set of texts produced by the rabbinic movement of late antiquity. Religious Studies and Rabbinics represents the first sustained effort to create a conversation between these two academic fields. In one trajectory of argument, the book shows what is gained when each field sees how the other engages the same questions: When did the concept of &quot;religion&quot; arise? How should a scholar's normative commitments interact with their scholarship? The book argues that if scholars from Religious Studies and Rabbinics do not realize they are addressing the same problems, they will not benefit from each other's solutions. A second line of argument brings research methods, theoretical claims, and data associated with one field into contact with those of the other. When Religious Studies categories such as &quot;ritual&quot; or &quot;the sacred&quot; are applied to data from Rabbinics and, conversely, when text-reading strategies distinctive to Rabbinics are employed for texts from other traditions, both Religious Studies and Rabbinics enlarge their scope. The chapters range across such themes as ritual failure; rabbinic conceptions of scripture, ethics, food, time, and everyday life; problems of definition and normativity in the study of religion; J.Z. Smith's writings; and the preaching of the African-American Christian evangelical social justice activist John Perkins. With chapters written by world-class theorists of Religious Studies and prominent text scholars of Rabbinics, the book provides a unique opportunity to expand the conceptual reach and scholarly audience of both Religious Studies and Jewish Studies., 6, Time Life Education, 1999. First Edition. 1st Printing.. Paperback. New. 12 x 9.5 x 5.5. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Time Life Education, 1999. First Edition. 1st Printing. Crisp Firm Clean copy ! Includes 30 copies each of 4 newspapers. Size: 12 x 9.5 x 5.5. Grades 4-9. Offering students an adventure into discovery of times past, this all-in-one integrated kit covers key topics for the study of Africa. Components: a 28-minute introductory VHS video; four editions of The African Voice, an 11' x 17' 'news' tabloid with lively subject matter and activities on history, culture, society, art, and architecture; 12 double-sided project cards for hands-on exercises; four transparencies that reinforce tabloid topics; a Teacher's guide with lesson ideas, extra things to do, and resources for each component. The video, Africa: A History Rediscovered, introduces African geography, history, and culture from Ancient times through the 16th century. Each edition of The African Voice focuses on one of four themes: the Northern Edition (Kush and Egypt on the Nile, major rulers, grand construction projects, politics, commerce, and contributions to science, art, and culture), the Eastern Edition (Swahili, Buganda, Aksum, the impact of Islam, and trade with Arabia and Asia), the Western Edition (Ghana, Mali, Songhay, Ife, Benin, Nok, Jenne, Timbuktu, Mansa Musa, Sundiata, and oral history), and the Southern Edition (Mapungubwe, Great Zimbabwe, Shona, Esikongo, Zulu, and the role of migrations). Four transparencies present historical geography, a timeline, ancient Timbuktu, and the modern world's African legacy. Project card activities deal with Nubian rulers, Egyptian toys, papyrus, Swahili traditions, Great Zimbabwe, and African trade, food, ancestors, jewelry, masks, pottery, and textiles. History::Africa Ware Ware, Time Life Education, 1999, 6, 1979. Original poster promoting the release of the 1979 album, the band's second collaborative effort with Brian Eno. Like its predecessor, "More Songs about Buildings and Food," "Fear of Music" accomplished several things at once. A rollicking (and today classic) single, "Life During Wartime" put the record immediately in the black, but at the same time the band took major stylistic steps forward, evidenced the most by the leading track, "I Zimbra," incorporating loops and African grooves appropriated and/or created by Eno and Byrne (the two also worked that year on the now-classic ambient record, "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"). In 1979, the idea of sampling was new and not in the least trivial, as bits of magnetic tape had to literally be cut and spliced by hand in order to overlay sounds from other sources onto new material, and both this record and "Ghosts" were time-intensive, groundbreaking efforts not just in pop music, but in the world of textured and forward-looking music in general. 35 x 23 inches. Rolled, on archival linen. Fine. Pitchfork 100., 1979, 0, Western Pacific, 1946. Handmade Album. Very good.This 54-page handmade scrapbook measures approximately 9" x 12" and was assembled by T/4 (Technician 4th Grade) Fred B. Metcalf using rattan twine and manila file folders probably obtained from a unit office. It documents the deployment of the 1889th Engineer Aviation Battalion (Colored) to the Philippines, Guam, and Okinawa where it built and repaired some of the most important Army Air Force airfields crucial to the advance on Japan. It contains nearly 120 items: photographs, clippings from service magazines and newspaper, cartoons, broadsides, documents, currency and fiscal items, and a handwritten page of numeric translations. All of the items, except one, have been pasted on the album pages. The album shows some wear, especially around the edges, and the rattan twine has snapped.Most items in this scrapbook are ephemeral and clippings from service newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets that were distributed to the troops. Interestingly, Although there are a number of photographs, Metcalf included none of himself and only two are of his unit constructing an airfield; instead his photos are of things he found to be interesting.Some of the contents include:Clippings: A small campaign map titled "Okinawa Finale" which Metcalf has captioned "The Route of the 1889thA small image of Okinawans captioned, "Most Okies wear Jap costume"A large image of the Guam Police Department with two native Guamanian guardsSeveral images of black soldiers (not necessarily from the 1889th) engaged in activities like ordnance disposal, beachhead construction, food inspection, etc.A B-29 bomber on GuamEleven images of attractive, young Guamanian women from a pamphlet titled, "Glamour on Guam"A five-panel image titled, "This Is The Engineers", that appears to show African-American soldier performing in a talent show or unit band concertA small uncaptioned image of a naked, but coyly posed, black womanTwo risqué cartoon two which Metcalf added his own suggestive captionsPhotographs:Two photos from Okinawa of a shrine that Metcalf has captioned, "Where they do Hari Kari [seppuku] / The mobile go here to pay for a mistake with their life. This is done in order to keep disgrace off the family name"One photo of Okinawan horse cartsTwo photos of the 1889th working on the Naha airfield and Route #5 on OkinawaA photo of the Japanese surrender document to the Tenth ArmyTwo photos of destruction caused by a typhoon that Metcalf captioned, "Boy it was rough as hell a 150 mile per hour wind / Typhoon"One photo of four attractive "Comfort Women" that Metcalf captioned, "They were left behind by the Japs / Husel was their Trade"EphemeraA broadside titled "Attention Colored Servicemen" announcing a special Thanksgiving Night "Barn Dance" with "real oriental barbeque 'pigs' and state side liquors' at the "B-29 Bar & Nite Club" in Pasay, Philippines, that featured "the colored Old Timers," "Snake 'hipped' Jerry and Mary Carmen a South Sea Island Dancer," and "a famous GI orchestra . . . to furnish . . . imported romantic music that we've missed during the terrible Jap occupation days. . .."An Okinawan money order and ration bookA Japanese war bond and a variety of Japanese and American occupation currencyThe last issue of The Flying Dozer newsletter published on 31 January 1946 by the 933rd Engineer Aviation Regiment (the higher headquarters of the 1889th and three other Engineer Aviation BattalionsA broadsheet "Award of Merit" certificate presented to the four battalions of the 933rd on which Metcalf has identified the 1889th as a "colored" unit with a proud caption, "The first Negro Battalion in the Pacific to get this Award"A document authorizing Metcalf to take home a "Jap Bayonet".As the Army Air Corps watched the European war expand in 1940 and 1941, it developed a unit, an Engineer Aviation Battalion, that would be capable of occupying and repairing enemy captured airfield should the United States be drawn into the conflict. It was designed as a self-contained organization that could repair, rebuild, or construct airfields, even in inhospitable combat zones. It was manned by 27 Engineer officers and 761 enlisted soldiers and equipped with146 tractors, bulldozers, scrapers, graders, gas shovels, rollers, and an assortment of mixers, compressors, drills, asphalting and concreting equipment, rock crushers, draglines, and pumps. When these units activated, men with construction experience were steered toward these billets. 30 Engineer Aviation Battalions were deployed to the China-India-Burma and Pacific Theaters; as the army was segregated at the time, 13 of the units were manned by white soldiers and 17 by "colored" men. The 1889th was organized at Davis-Monthan Field in Arizona in April of 1943, deployed to the Pacific in May of 1944, and inactivated at Okinawa in February of 1946.Technicians Fourth Grade, like Metcalf, were specialists and not combat arms non-commissioned officers. They were equivalent to and addressed as "sergeants."Comfort Women, or Ianfu, were young women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army. Throughout the war, the Japanese officially and systematically seized young woman and girls in occupied territories and enslaved them in "comfort station" brothels where they were forced to provide sexual satisfaction for the "comfort" of Japanese soldiers.(For more information see, Craven and Cate's Aviation Engineers in Europe, Africa, and the War with Japan in The Army Air Forces in World War II, "CBI Order of Battle; Corps of Engineer Units" at cbi-history.com, "TME Looks Back: African-American Engineering Battalions in the Pacific Theater" at the Society of American Military Engineers website, and "Japanese Military and Comfort Women" at the Asian Women's Fund website.)A terrific scrapbook documenting an often overlooked, but exceptionally important, facet of the Pacific War from the viewpoint of an African-American soldier.Very scarce. At the time of listing, no other similar Engineer Aviation Battalion scrapbooks (black or white) are for sale in the trade. None have appeared at auction per the Rare Book Hub. OCLC identifies two personal papers collections held by the Army War College with Engineer Aviation Battalion publications and ephemera; they may possibly include a similar scrapbook.., 1946, 3, [East Orange, New Jersey: Samuel Copp Worthen, 1928]. Octavo: [i], 89, [iii] p. on the rectos only. Period blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. From the library of the New Jersey Historical Society, with a presentation inscription by Samuel Copp Worthen on the front flyleaf, a bookplate (stamped "deaccessioned") to the front pastedown, and the remnants of a small paper accession label to the spine heel. The front hinge is cracked, with some minor edgewear to the boards. Scarce, no copies in commerce and only three located by OCLC (New York Historical Society, New York Public Library, and Connecticut State Library). Typescript of a series which ran in the Saturday Chronicle of New Haven, Connecticut from June 28 to August 23, 1902, under the title "The Great Slave Conspiracy Delusion: A Sketch of the Crowning Judicial Atrocity of American History." The author, Walter Franklin Prince, held a PhD in History from Yale and was an ordained minister who later in life devoted himself to psychic research. He is primarily remembered as a parapsychologist and the founder of the Boston Society for Psychical Research. In 1741, New York had a population of around 10,000 people, some 2,000 of whom were enslaved persons. Amidst harsh weather, food shortages, and difficult economic times, worries about attacks on the Province by the Catholic countries of France and Spain abounded. Reports of slave revolts in other colonies only added to the tension. So, when a series of thirteen fires broke out in March and April, English colonists suspected a "Negro plot" involving poor whites. Much as in the Salem witch trials a half century before, panic and hysteria gripped the population and soon New York City's jails were filled to overflowing. Despite grave concerns about the veracity of the suspected conspiracy, 34 defendants were executed and 70 others were sold into the backbreaking slavery of the Caribbean. In the aftermath, the New York Assembly expanded its night watch, passed a restriction on enslaved persons fetching water at any but the nearest pump, and decided to import its slaves no longer from the Caribbean, which had previously supplied New York with nearly three-fourths of its slave population, but from Africa instead as the colonists believed that African enslaved people were less likely to organize than the enslaved from the Caribbean. Prince chose to write on this subject because he felt, up to this point, it had not been given enough focus, particularly as compared with the Salem Witch Trials. "We might go on, probably, and show, not only that the trials of 1741 in the city of Manhattan Island exceed in frenzy, cruelty, and horror, those of Massachusetts in 1692, but that they even constitute the crowing perversion of criminal justice in the annals of American history."., 0, Washington, District of Columbia, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine. Oblong Folio measuring 14 "x 11". String tied, cream paper boards with dark green stamped designs. Contains 213 black and white or sepia toned photographs measuring between 3" x 2" and 8" x 6" with some captions. Some small tears and chips thus near fine. An African-American family photo album from 1950 through 1957 showing the family's daily life and vacations including a trip to Washington, District of Columbia. Many of the pictures in the album are centered on the family's time at home with their children and friends. There are a lot of birthdays, picnics, and dinner parties pictured in the album showing off the food and décor. Also accompanied are several group pictures filled with hugs, laughing, and smiles. There are also pictures of the family outside and around their home. This is mostly during the winter time and there are landscape pictures of woods and houses covered in snow. One picture is of a young man holding up a large piece of ice with one hand. A majority of the photographs are of automobiles, some of which belong to the family. There are several pages full of car pictures as well as some pictures taken of the road from the perspective of a passenger riding in the automobile. Sedans, station wagons, and some convertibles are all pictured in the album, presumably the photographer was a car enthusiast. A sizable chunk of the album also features pictures from the family traveling to Washington, D.C. to visit the city specifically taking a picture with the Lincoln Memorial. An interesting family photo album of an African-American family including travel, time with family, and car images., 1957, 4, LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA CA. Very Good. 2001. On offer is a fascinating, original early 21st Century manuscript diary handwritten by a very open, very revealing unidentified 25 year old African American woman in Los Angeles California. Using a very chic Italian Il Papiro leather journal book the author details her intimate life with few holds barred. Dated October 11, 2001 through to March 7, 2003 she writes 115 full pages making no secret of this woman's intimate relations and sometimes predatory approach sex making for a treasure for researchers and historians of gender relations and sexual mores of the early 21st century. Here are some snippets: "October 11, 2001 - Its been awhile since last I wrote. I had to go out and buy this nifty new diary. Going a few days w/out being able to write made me realize how much I rely on it to express feelings. John and I are well. He and I have been spending more time with each other. Tuesday he came over at 2am and greeted me w/warm hugs and next thing I knew we were on my piano getting it on. Then on the floor. John is sexy and fun but often I go w/out an orgasm. I wonder sometimes if I still have "Y" on the brain? I still think of him and occasionally I think of calling him for "old times sake" but I don't and I won't. I want something lasting and I think I have that w/John. I just have to tutor him a little more about what really turns me on. Recently I had to speak to John about ..." "October 19, 2001 - At around 2:30am ear-lee this morning John showed up at my door completely in the buff. I had been expecting him and he called and told me I didn't even consider that it might be true. That's what I like about John, his self-deprecating humor. I had set up my rooms w/candles and soft music. I also wore the lingerie that "P" got me for the first time. John seemed to really like it and even more so when I danced for him. Sorry to say, however that I never c__. John is good in bed but perhaps I need to get more use to him. I really like it on the side and this morning I did c___ w/ a little help from my trusty vibrator. I also cooked eggs w/cheese, sausage and french toast for him. I had been wanting to fix a meal for him for a long time and I'm pretty happy with the results. John behaved as if it were good and cleaned his entire plate. Told me how good it was and thanked me. .." "November 27, 2001 - John has gone off to Vegas for the weekend. I was a little upset at first because it was so last minute and done in a way that seemed to show little consideration for me. He was supposed to call me once he and his boys had arrived but I haven't heard a word and I refuse to call him. Alls I know is that if he can run off w/his crew on his four-day, then he can do the same w/me. Personally, CB and I think John was trying to beat me to the punch since we had already told him that we were going next month for the Maxwell Concert. Anyway , Michael D. called me the other night and after John's act I decided to go out with him to dinner. So first of all I made sure I looked good. My hair, nails, and clothing were hooked. Looking good and smelling good I showed up at the door in N. Hollywood (Car was in shop). I know I looked good and so did he. Could not take his eyes off of me. We had dinner at Gladstones at Universal City Walk. Michael looked the same which is not necessarily good. IN fact, he didn't look good at all. He could not even hold a candle to my John. He was the same ole talker and further disappointed me by asking me if we could "pick up where we left off." I gave him flat out NO! I mean he could have tried to woo me. He thought I was that same chick he knew from a year and a half ago. But, I played it cool, displaying little or no emotion. He'd put his hands on me and I..." "...October 30, 2001 - ...I walked into a dark house w/him standing behind the door. He pushed up against the door and it got hot. The big show even had us in a vertical 69. John really gets my blood ...and juices flowing. It's interesting because Terence came over Sunday, part of me wanted to see if there was something left. And from all indications, it is. I mean Terence still desires me but I don't look at him the same. The kisses were ..." "December 19, 2001 - John finally came over last night for his dinner a whole 2 weeks after his b-day...I put candles in John's cookies n cream ice cream cake and he blew them out. What was curious is that when he got down on his knees to blow out the candles he was down there for so long I thought he was praying but he eventually blew them out. I wonder what he was wishing for? Anyway, I wore one of my best dresses and underneath I wore black bra, panties and garter. Very sexy, right? While John certainly admired his woman's..." "January 4, 2002 - Happy New year ! Well at least I hope so. SO far its under way w/enrollment in the certification program at UCLA and a vigorous job search. Anyway, last week I had my first informal dinner party which included John, George, and CB. Everyone was late despite me setting an open time and telling folks that I was cooking. Dinner was salad, chicken, and rice. John was the latest and when he finally showed u at least bore gifts. HE left again and brought back tons of games. Dinner was cool and then we played games and got drunk. John was feeling extra randy, following me and mouthing the words "I want you." Before the guest could leave he had my pants ..." "November 25, 2001- ...I waited & 3 hours later he still had not called. So I called and let him know what I thought. He called later & apologized and we talked. He made up for it and we rode around together looking for my car. He then took me to the movies. Afterwards we went to the market and bought junk. John and I ate our junk food while watching "Seven" and held me. He continued to hold me and we kissed and eventually I fell asleep in his arms. It's interesting because the next night we were cuddling and he pulls me on top of him and starts..." The diary itself is in excellent condition made in Italy of beautiful soft leather with quality paper. VG.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF, AFRICAN AMERICAN, BLACK STUDIES, NEGRO AMERICANA, NEGRESS, WOMEN'S STUDIES, GENDER STUDIES, SEXUAL REVOLUTION, FREE SEX, PROMISCUITY, FEMINISM, CONTEMPORARY SEXUAL ATTITUDES AND MORES OF THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY, SEXUALITY, SEXUAL FREEDOM, SLUTS, WHORES, GENDER RELATIONS, SEXUALITY, LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA, AMERICANA, HANDWRITTEN, MANUSCRIPT, AUTOGRAPHED, AUTHORS, DOCUMENT, LETTER, AUTOGRAPH, KEEPSAKE, WRITER, HAND WRITTEN, DOCUMENTS, SIGNED, LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, HISTORICAL, HOLOGRAPH, WRITERS, AUTOGRAPHS, PERSONAL, MEMOIR, MEMORIAL, PERSONAL HISTORY, ARCHIVE, DIARY, DIARIES, JOURNAL, LOG, PRIMARY SOURCE, FIRST HAND ACCOUNT, SOCIAL HISTORY, PERSONAL STORIES, LIVING HISTORY, ANTIQUITÉ, CONTRAT, VÉLIN, DOCUMENT, MANUSCRIT, PAPIER ANTIKE, BRIEF, PERGAMENT, DOKUMENT, MANUSKRIPT, PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO, ATTO, VELINA, DOCUMENTO, MANOSCRITTO, CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD, HECHO, VITELA, DOCUMENTO, MANUSCRITO, PAPEL,BIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERSONAL NARRATIVES ., 2001, 3, ASEA ABOARD THE USS MOCCASIN. Good+. 1918. On offer is a super, original ship board manuscript diary handwritten by, as inscribed, 'George W. Oliphant S. S. Moccasin for formerly the German passenger liner "Prinz Joachim." Father: Charles H. Oliphant 169 Danforth St. Portland Maine." George does a great job as a diarist if a little sporadic at times, bringing the action aboard ship to startling reality in his descriptive entries. The page a day style diary has 100 or so entries, most of those dated February 7th through April 26th with few other entries before and after, starts upon enlistment but before he can join he is trying to get some kind of license and having to go through the courts to do so. Likely regarding his rating in the Navy. The diary goes a long way to show the danger and at times dire hours for the ships and men at sea who served in support of the fighting elements and the people suffering the War in Europe. To that end this ship was a refrigerated cargo ship delivering frozen food to Bordeaux France and the very first trip out there is trouble for the crew and ship which while makes for exciting reading the reality for these brave sailors near fatal. Here are some snippets: 1918 "January 18th, Called on Inspectors who agreed to give me my license. My argument evidently worked." "January 30th, Went to New York and enrolled as officer in Naval Reserve as Ensign. Ordered uniform and returned on night train." "February 7th, Called on Mr. _____and with whom had lunch. Advised him that I could not consider Montpelier job without notifying firm. Decided to drop entire matter until my return from war……Took three o'clock for NY. Arriving late. Staid at Saint George Brooklyn…..Reported for duty at 4:30 P.M. at N. A. K. to Captain Beckwith. Moved to Hunt's for night and went to theatre with them where we saw Wm Gillette." "February 16th, Called on Bowman and advised him that for T.'s sake an my families, I would drop the matter (about the license), tho I felt that I should, in justice to myself, clear my name of any imputation of impropriety, in case such an opinion had been given credence by the Bureau owing to Wilson's jealousy and circulation of false stories about my school. Went out with York of Coast Trans. Line with whom I hope to go across…." "February 17th, Called on Capt. Thompson and among other things insisted either that he tell Cap. Beckwith of the status of my license or that I do so. He said I might be disenrolled. I told him that I would prefer to be disenrolled to holding a commission under my misunderstanding as to my qualifications. He finally agreed to tell B. himself tomorrow. I advised him that I intended to carry my appeal to Kedfried (?) which he seemed glad to hear." "February 20th, 9:00 A.M. Reported on board S. S. Moccasin, Captain Powers commanding and then took 24 hours liberty. Went to Anderson and ordered coat. That night with Em. To Kenney's Vaudeville and home to Hunt's at 2 A.M." "February 25th & 26th, Mr. Sullivan Executive officer (Lieut) reported and assigned to me duties of assistant to Executive….Stood 24 hour watch, 12 P.M. S. S. Moccasin went into commission. John A. Meagler (Ensign) reported for duty from USS Jupiter, Trenton N. J." "March 4th, On duty all day rigging booms, etc. etc. 4:10 P.M. Called Police Headquarters reg. theft of pitcher and having found finger prints on saloon rail. Detective appeared an hour later but could do nothing. 8 P.M. Lieut. Goodphile came aboard (finger print expert from Police Headquarters) and "fixed" prints which were to be photographed tomorrow. Stood watch of Meagler from 6-12 midnight (sick). Rain, snow, warm." "March 11th, 9:20 A.M. got under way, 4 tugs assisting for trial trip to adjust compasses, etc. Stood out 5 miles E. of Ambrose Channel L. S. I was on duty on bridge from 9:20 to 4:30 when we docked South side pier 6, Bush G Terminal. Hit telegraph on head first time after watching old man. Evening Murdock and I took in sights. Flying sign "S" and recognition signal." "March 23rd, 1:30 P.M. We left Bush Docks about 9:30 and made way for Ambrose Ch. L. V. the pt. of departure for the convoy to consist of 39 vessels. Formation made at 4 o'clock, beautiful day, cool but clear. 39 vessels in 6 columns stretching for miles with cruiser De Monies in lead of No. 3. Col. and we 2nd in No. 2 Col. Frenchman leading, F'chman dropped out leaving us in lead. Captain gave me 4 to 8 watch, Murdock 1 -4, Hennesey and Ryan 8-12." "March 26th, On duty at 4 A.M. All alone on the bridge of a 7,000 ton ship and the Atlantic for, so far as we could tell, not a ship was near us. Weather cleared and at 5 I discerned two lights one forward, one aft. Whether tramps or neutrals or part of convoy, I could not tell. Called old man. Held course and at 5:30 the clouds lifted and scattered all over horizon, 20 miles away. I picked up 12 ships. A welcome sight. I took my first sight for Longitude and came within 4 miles of old ____." (In the morning 20 ships were with them but they also discovered a leak and had to work hard to repair it. Said it was 15 feet below water line and this is when all the excitement begins.) "March 30th, Water gaining. A seam is also spreading and you hear the water rushing in and falling in that below. An awful sound to one who realizes its seriousness. A storm might prove fatal to the safety of the ship. Captain suggested the Azores as a possibility." EDITOR'S NOTES: The Captain asked him to keep quiet about the seriousness of the leak but it was very distressing and the storm was getting worse. And he's still standing watch alone. They find out in the morning that they are now 3 miles off course and still in danger, he writes: "Wind howling, shrieking, seas up to bridge, 33 feet, not a ship in sight. I went to supper when half way there we took a terrific roll (50 degrees) and I was thrown clear of my chair for 15 feet, hitting the dining table on my back in middle of room. As I passed made a grab for Exec's chair which came up by the roots. I landed on my shoulder beyond the table with another injury than a smashed thumb which the doc. fixed up. Just as I was returning to the bridge, a boy came running up from engine room for doctor….." A 300 pound structure tore loose and flew across the engine room floor hurting several men and one was yelling that all the life boats were breaking loose. One man came near to going overboard. He says, "We worked four hours griping in boats, forty cowards shuddering and praying and 15 men doing the work." He goes on to say that the seas were enormous and towered above the bridge 15 feet. Says, "It was the most awful experience of my life. I have seen storms and seas but none that compared with this." Finally on April 5th the wind dies down and they meet up with their convoy but not before they end up in the "Submarine Zone" with two messages received, "War Warnings." "April 6th, Nothing of note today, tho the constant vigil and increasing strain is telling on everyone. The least bit of good news by wireless and there is good news only by comparison…." "April 7th, The Des Moines still missing and in the heart of danger zone, 300 miles from land. No lights for two nights, no wireless, no news." The next day he gets called to the bridge to send an SOS because the ship Cadillac was torpedoed and needs help. Thirty three ships now remained in the convoy. "April 14th, The Cadillac ___to be one of our own convoy. Tanker, whose position was first in sixth column. She was in sight of Northern ships in convoy when torpedoed and her guns were seen and heard working. 6 P.M. eight more destroyers joined us and by dark there were a total of ten circling around us shooting at their target, suddenly stopping ready to blast off here or there whenever she might detect anything suspicious. They were like bloodhounds, use to the wind, poised, ready to spring, sniffing and listening for prey. Great stuff." The 4 x 6 inch diary is overall G+. HISTORICAL NOTES: "USS Moccasin (ID-1322) was a United States Navy refrigerated cargo ship in commission from 1918-1919. She was the third ship to carry her name. Moccasin was built as the German commercial passenger-cargo ship SS Prinz Joachim in 1903 at Flensburg, Germany, by Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft for the Hamburg America Line. When the United States entered World War I on the side of the Allied in April 1917, the United States Government seized her and placed her under the control of the United States Shipping Board for use during World War I. Renamed SS Moccasin, she entered service as an American civilian cargo ship. Late in 1917, the United States Army chartered her. The U.S. Navy acquired Moccasin at New York City on 19 February 1918 for World War I use as a refrigerated cargo ship. She was assigned the naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 1322 and commissioned as USS Moccasin on 26 February 1918. SERVICE HISTORY: Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, Moccasin departed New York City on 14 March 1918 with a convoy for Europe, arriving at Bordeaux, France on 13 April to unload her cargo of frozen food. Moccasin continued to operate as a refrigerator ship, making cross?Atlantic runs to Europe from New York, until she decommissioned on 2 June 1919. She was transferred to the United States Shipping Board the same day. She returned to commercial service as SS Moccasin, later in her career being renamed SS Porto Rico."; Manuscript; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF, GEORGE W. OLIPHANT, USS MOCCASIN, WWI, WW1, WORLD WAR ONE, WORLD WAR 1, PRINZ JOACHIM, PORTLAND MAINE, NORTH ATLANTIC, NAVY, NAVAL, MARINE, MARINERS, SUPPORT VESSELS IN THE WAR EFFORT, CARGO SHIPS, USN, UNITED STATES NAVY, AMERICANA,HANDWRITTEN, MANUSCRIPT, AUTOGRAPHED, AUTHORS, DOCUMENT, LETTER, AUTOGRAPH, KEEPSAKE, WRITER, HAND WRITTEN, DOCUMENTS, SIGNED, LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, HISTORICAL, HOLOGRAPH, WRITERS, AUTOGRAPHS, PERSONAL, MEMOIR, MEMORIAL, PERSONAL HISTORY, ARCHIVE, DIARY, DIARIES, JOURNAL, LOG, PRIMARY SOURCE, FIRST HAND ACCOUNT, SOCIAL HISTORY, PERSONAL STORIES, LIVING HISTORY, ANTIQUITÉ, CONTRAT, VÉLIN, DOCUMENT, MANUSCRIT, PAPIER ANTIKE, BRIEF, PERGAMENT, DOKUMENT, MANUSKRIPT, PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO, ATTO, VELINA, DOCUMENTO, MANOSCRITTO, CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD, HECHO, VITELA, DOCUMENTO, MANUSCRITO, PAPEL,BIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERSONAL NARRATIVES ., 1918, 2.5, Independence, Kentucky, U.S.A.: Routledge. New. 2002. Hardcover. 0415927226 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, NEVER OPENED -- 384 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- DESCRIPTION: Caffeine is the world's most popular drug! Almost all of us start our day with a jolt of caffeine from coffee, tea or cola. And many of us crave chocolate when we're stressed or depressed. Without it we're lethargic, head-achy and miserable. Why? Why do we crave caffeine? How much do we really know about our number one drug of choice? Here is the first natural, cultural, and artistic history of our favorite mood enhancer--how it was discovered, its early uses, and the unexpected parts it has played in medicine, religion, painting, poetry, learning, and love. Weinberg and Bealer tell an intriguing story of a remarkable substance that has figured prominently in the exchanges of trade and intelligence among nations and whose most common sources, coffee, tea, and chocolate, have been both promoted as productive of health and creativity and banned as corrupters of the body and mind or subverters of social order. Some Highlights From the World of Caffeine Balzac's addiction to caffeine drove him to eat coffee, as some schizophrenic patients are observed to do today, and may have killed him Mary Tuke breaks the male monopoly on tea in England in 1725 The ways caffeine functions as a "smart pill" Goethe's responsibility for the discovery of caffeine Did a mini Ice Age help bring coffee, tea and chocolate to popularity in Europe? What is the mystery of coffee's origin? As good as gold: the stories of how caffeine, in its various forms, was used as cash in China, Africa, Central America and Egypt What does the civet cat have to do with the most costly coffee on earth today? The World of Caffeine is a captivating tale of art and society -- from India to Balzac to cybercafes -- and the ultimate caffeine resource. -- REVIEW: New England Journal of Medicine, April 19, 2001 "This book covers the history and social effects of the principal beverages that contain caffeine, notably coffee and tea. Products of cacao, chocolate that is eaten and drunk, and the soft drinks that contain caffeine (principally colas) are also covered. The historical origins of coffee, tea, and cacao are described, as are the various fascinating ways they made their way into world culture. Some of the main features of this story are told with a theme of geographic spread and with a description of effects of the arrival of "the drug," as the authors often refer to caffeine, on existing cultures. How the different beverages were received (or rejected) by different cultures and by different strata and segments of each culture makes a rich and exciting story. Insights emerge as to how the various civilizations worked. The pleasure of reading is enhanced by the authors' eye for beauty and the many appropriate half-tone illustrations. The scholarship is impressive; many of the most famous figures of the past 500 and more years make brief appearances. Among them are Chinese emperors, Zen Buddhist monks in Japan, nameless Olmecs of Mesoamerica, and then Cortes and Montezuma and Charles V. The conquest of Europe by the drug from Turkish and African sources is also covered. The familiar names of great historical figures appear on almost every page, tying this account in with our knowledge of history and making it more real. The text is rich with information, yet it is easy and pleasant to read. Social factors are discussed. For example, there are comparisons of the tea culture of England with that of Japan and comparisons of both with the coffee culture of the United States. The duality of the culture of coffee (as in coffee houses) and the culture of tea (as in tea shops, tea gardens, and afternoon tea) is emphasized and illustrated with a list of more than 30 word pairs. One word in each pair is labeled the "coffee aspect" and the other the "tea aspect." The list of coffee aspects starts with "male," "boisterous," and "bohemian" and ends with "Balzac," whereas the list of tea aspects starts with "female," "decorous," and "conventional" and ends with "Proust." Cola beverages are said not to have a long enough history to have features as well differentiated as these, but they do have distinctive associations, such as "youth, high energy, America, pop culture, and `good clean fun." ' Although the authors emphasize that all these popular beverages contain the drug caffeine, the diversity of the cultures associated with the different beverages suggests that caffeine is only one factor leading to their consumption. True to its title, the book has little to say about alcohol, but the authors do make the important point that, at least in Europe and North America and at least in the large towns, raw water was not fit to drink until late in the 19th century. The increase in tea and coffee drinking offered an alternative to the usual beverages: beer, gin, and rum. The authors credibly associate this shift with a decrease in alcohol intake, to the benefit of society. In the second half of the book, the nature of the story changes. The urbane historical perspective gives way to more recent concerns, including a discussion of what might be called huckstering by purveyors of caffeine products. Almost the final third of the book is devoted to the chemistry, pharmacology, and medical aspects of caffeine. I do not think that in a book of this size it is possible to present enough of an understanding for readers to reach their own conclusions on adequate grounds about the health and safety aspects of caffeine, and in many instances the original sources must be scrutinized for the adequacy of the evidence. In addition, there are errors. For example, a woman is said to have had a serum caffeine concentration of almost 300 mg per milliliter, which is many times the solubility of caffeine. Readers can remain confused, they can accept the often implicit conclusions of the writers, or they can opt out and simply trust the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A number of minor matters follow. Pure caffeine is variously described as "highly toxic" or "extremely toxic." An agent that can be ingested in amounts of several grams with relative impunity would not customarily be considered very toxic. A number of common foods -- dry mustard, horseradish, or cayenne pepper, for instance -- would not go down well as boluses of several grams. The poison of the puffer fish, whose flesh is eaten in Japan, is highly toxic, being hazardous in quantities thousands of times smaller than ordinarily consumed quantities of caffeine. Finally, the authors aver that the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) was founded to help forestall efforts to regulate caffeine. But the FDA was regulating caffeine long before the ILSI was formed. The Caffeine Technical Committee of the ILSI was formed by interested companies to sponsor research on questions on caffeine raised by the FDA and others. It is prohibited from lobbying." -Peter B. Dews, M. B. , Ch. B. , Ph. D. -- with a bonus offer-- ., Routledge, 2002, 6<

2002, ISBN: 9780415927222

[Kyoto 1887, Nishimura]. A color woodblock print, vertical format, sheet: 24 x 37 cm., print: 22.5 x 32 cm., excellent registry, impression, no flaws, bright, clean & solid copy, #16 … Mehr…

[Kyoto 1887, Nishimura]. A color woodblock print, vertical format, sheet: 24 x 37 cm., print: 22.5 x 32 cm., excellent registry, impression, no flaws, bright, clean & solid copy, #16 in top right margin, verso clean. * RARE FIRST EDITION * . *** **** *** . . . A STUNNING IMAGE OF THE FINGERED CITRON & A BIRD . . . EXECUTED IN SUPERB, SUBTLE PASTELS . . . ONE OF THE RAREST EXAMPLES IN THE SERIES . * The full set was issued in 4 volumes: Haru [Spring], Natsu [Summer], Aki [Autumn], Fuyu [Winter]. Each page shows a lovely composition of birds in natural floral & botanical settings, including fruit trees and water examples. The double-page examples are grand size [2 Oban] prints, 46 x 32 cm. Stunningly large examples ! . This print was extracted from that set. It shows a sparrow [?] perched on a branch of the "Fingered Citron [citrus medica var. sarcodactylis], a plant in full bloom with one superb ripe fruit, and another immature green fruit. . This plant has been revered since time immoral by the Chinese, Vietnamese & Koreans, among others in Asia and S.E. Asia. . It usually fruits around the Chinese Lunar New Year, and is coveted for display, invoking "Good Luck" for the New Year. This fruit is auspiciously place on the altar with fruit, food, wine offerings to the ancestors. Without this fruit, the altar is incomplete, and will probably yield nothing but "Bad Luck" for the New Year ! It is highly part of the Asian suspicion norm. . *** THE ARTIST, IMAO KEENAN [1845-1924]: . He was a Japanese painter and print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the Shin-hangar ["New Prints"]movement. In 1904 he was appointed as an Imperial Household Artist. . He was a celebrated, prize-winning Kyoto artist. He studied under Megara and a later pupil of Suzuki Hyakunen. See Roberts below. . NOTE OF INTEREST ABOUT THIS PRINT SERIES: Commonly the below statement was inside of the front covers: "Imported Japanese Print made from cherry wood blocks on mulberry paper Published by Shima Art Co., New York-Tokyo." And a label: "Imported Oriental Woodblock Prints Made by Hand on Genuine Rice Paper from Cherry Woodblocks." . The above is strictly an example of what is found in the original volume covers, this is not found on the print, for your information only. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** CONDITION: This is in superb condition, with excellent impression and registry, printed in subdued pastels, except for the throat of the bird which has the only outstanding color of oxidized red-brown, after 100 years of aging and gaining a lovely patina. . The verso is blank, no marks, by and large a superb example without any detractions. . Seldom found on the market, this particular print remains of of the most sought after in the whole series. It is coveted and eagerly displayed on or above the altar. . Far and above the average example, superb, finely executed. About as good as it can get ! . *** REFERENCES: . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imao_Keinen * L. Roberts: DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE ARTISTS, p.53-54, for biographical information. . *** The references below list or discuss other prints by Keinen which contribute to the overall knowledge and insight to this print and its subject: . * Harley H. Bartlett & Hide Shohara: JAPANESE BOTANY DURING THE PERIOD OF WOOD-BLOCK PRINTING, p.239-240, exhibit 99, figure 91. * C. Mitchell: THE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE NANGA, MARUYAMA, SHIJO AND OTHER RELATED SCHOOLS OF JAPAN: A Bibliography: pages 354-355. * L. Brown: BLOCK PRINTING AND BOOK ILLUSTRATION IN JAPAN, states: "Perhaps the most beautiful work of this kind ever printed in Japan." Page 201.. * [SMITH, Lawrence]. et al.: FLOWERS AND BIRDS FROM IMAO KEINEN'S ALBUMS. * IMAO, Keinen. : KEINEN KACHO GAFU: Haru, Natsu, Aki, Fuyu. KEINEN'S BIRD AND FLOWER ILLUSTRATIONS: SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER, Taipei 1979. . * Visit our website for copies of the above reference books. . * ., 0, Independence, Kentucky, U.S.A.: Routledge. New. 2002. Hardcover. 0415927226 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, NEVER OPENED -- 384 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- DESCRIPTION: Caffeine is the world's most popular drug! Almost all of us start our day with a jolt of caffeine from coffee, tea or cola. And many of us crave chocolate when we're stressed or depressed. Without it we're lethargic, head-achy and miserable. Why? Why do we crave caffeine? How much do we really know about our number one drug of choice? Here is the first natural, cultural, and artistic history of our favorite mood enhancer--how it was discovered, its early uses, and the unexpected parts it has played in medicine, religion, painting, poetry, learning, and love. Weinberg and Bealer tell an intriguing story of a remarkable substance that has figured prominently in the exchanges of trade and intelligence among nations and whose most common sources, coffee, tea, and chocolate, have been both promoted as productive of health and creativity and banned as corrupters of the body and mind or subverters of social order. Some Highlights From the World of Caffeine Balzac's addiction to caffeine drove him to eat coffee, as some schizophrenic patients are observed to do today, and may have killed him Mary Tuke breaks the male monopoly on tea in England in 1725 The ways caffeine functions as a "smart pill" Goethe's responsibility for the discovery of caffeine Did a mini Ice Age help bring coffee, tea and chocolate to popularity in Europe? What is the mystery of coffee's origin? As good as gold: the stories of how caffeine, in its various forms, was used as cash in China, Africa, Central America and Egypt What does the civet cat have to do with the most costly coffee on earth today? The World of Caffeine is a captivating tale of art and society -- from India to Balzac to cybercafes -- and the ultimate caffeine resource. -- REVIEW: New England Journal of Medicine, April 19, 2001 "This book covers the history and social effects of the principal beverages that contain caffeine, notably coffee and tea. Products of cacao, chocolate that is eaten and drunk, and the soft drinks that contain caffeine (principally colas) are also covered. The historical origins of coffee, tea, and cacao are described, as are the various fascinating ways they made their way into world culture. Some of the main features of this story are told with a theme of geographic spread and with a description of effects of the arrival of "the drug," as the authors often refer to caffeine, on existing cultures. How the different beverages were received (or rejected) by different cultures and by different strata and segments of each culture makes a rich and exciting story. Insights emerge as to how the various civilizations worked. The pleasure of reading is enhanced by the authors' eye for beauty and the many appropriate half-tone illustrations. The scholarship is impressive; many of the most famous figures of the past 500 and more years make brief appearances. Among them are Chinese emperors, Zen Buddhist monks in Japan, nameless Olmecs of Mesoamerica, and then Cortes and Montezuma and Charles V. The conquest of Europe by the drug from Turkish and African sources is also covered. The familiar names of great historical figures appear on almost every page, tying this account in with our knowledge of history and making it more real. The text is rich with information, yet it is easy and pleasant to read. Social factors are discussed. For example, there are comparisons of the tea culture of England with that of Japan and comparisons of both with the coffee culture of the United States. The duality of the culture of coffee (as in coffee houses) and the culture of tea (as in tea shops, tea gardens, and afternoon tea) is emphasized and illustrated with a list of more than 30 word pairs. One word in each pair is labeled the "coffee aspect" and the other the "tea aspect." The list of coffee aspects starts with "male," "boisterous," and "bohemian" and ends with "Balzac," whereas the list of tea aspects starts with "female," "decorous," and "conventional" and ends with "Proust." Cola beverages are said not to have a long enough history to have features as well differentiated as these, but they do have distinctive associations, such as "youth, high energy, America, pop culture, and `good clean fun." ' Although the authors emphasize that all these popular beverages contain the drug caffeine, the diversity of the cultures associated with the different beverages suggests that caffeine is only one factor leading to their consumption. True to its title, the book has little to say about alcohol, but the authors do make the important point that, at least in Europe and North America and at least in the large towns, raw water was not fit to drink until late in the 19th century. The increase in tea and coffee drinking offered an alternative to the usual beverages: beer, gin, and rum. The authors credibly associate this shift with a decrease in alcohol intake, to the benefit of society. In the second half of the book, the nature of the story changes. The urbane historical perspective gives way to more recent concerns, including a discussion of what might be called huckstering by purveyors of caffeine products. Almost the final third of the book is devoted to the chemistry, pharmacology, and medical aspects of caffeine. I do not think that in a book of this size it is possible to present enough of an understanding for readers to reach their own conclusions on adequate grounds about the health and safety aspects of caffeine, and in many instances the original sources must be scrutinized for the adequacy of the evidence. In addition, there are errors. For example, a woman is said to have had a serum caffeine concentration of almost 300 mg per milliliter, which is many times the solubility of caffeine. Readers can remain confused, they can accept the often implicit conclusions of the writers, or they can opt out and simply trust the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A number of minor matters follow. Pure caffeine is variously described as "highly toxic" or "extremely toxic." An agent that can be ingested in amounts of several grams with relative impunity would not customarily be considered very toxic. A number of common foods -- dry mustard, horseradish, or cayenne pepper, for instance -- would not go down well as boluses of several grams. The poison of the puffer fish, whose flesh is eaten in Japan, is highly toxic, being hazardous in quantities thousands of times smaller than ordinarily consumed quantities of caffeine. Finally, the authors aver that the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) was founded to help forestall efforts to regulate caffeine. But the FDA was regulating caffeine long before the ILSI was formed. The Caffeine Technical Committee of the ILSI was formed by interested companies to sponsor research on questions on caffeine raised by the FDA and others. It is prohibited from lobbying." -Peter B. Dews, M. B. , Ch. B. , Ph. D. -- with a bonus offer-- ., Routledge, 2002, 6<

2002, ISBN: 9780415927222

Independence, Kentucky, U.S.A.: Routledge. New. 2002. Hardcover. 0415927226 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIAT… Mehr…

Independence, Kentucky, U.S.A.: Routledge. New. 2002. Hardcover. 0415927226 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, NEVER OPENED -- 384 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- DESCRIPTION: Caffeine is the world's most popular drug! Almost all of us start our day with a jolt of caffeine from coffee, tea or cola. And many of us crave chocolate when we're stressed or depressed. Without it we're lethargic, head-achy and miserable. Why? Why do we crave caffeine? How much do we really know about our number one drug of choice? Here is the first natural, cultural, and artistic history of our favorite mood enhancer--how it was discovered, its early uses, and the unexpected parts it has played in medicine, religion, painting, poetry, learning, and love. Weinberg and Bealer tell an intriguing story of a remarkable substance that has figured prominently in the exchanges of trade and intelligence among nations and whose most common sources, coffee, tea, and chocolate, have been both promoted as productive of health and creativity and banned as corrupters of the body and mind or subverters of social order. Some Highlights From the World of Caffeine Balzac's addiction to caffeine drove him to eat coffee, as some schizophrenic patients are observed to do today, and may have killed him Mary Tuke breaks the male monopoly on tea in England in 1725 The ways caffeine functions as a "smart pill" Goethe's responsibility for the discovery of caffeine Did a mini Ice Age help bring coffee, tea and chocolate to popularity in Europe? What is the mystery of coffee's origin? As good as gold: the stories of how caffeine, in its various forms, was used as cash in China, Africa, Central America and Egypt What does the civet cat have to do with the most costly coffee on earth today? The World of Caffeine is a captivating tale of art and society -- from India to Balzac to cybercafes -- and the ultimate caffeine resource. -- REVIEW: New England Journal of Medicine, April 19, 2001 "This book covers the history and social effects of the principal beverages that contain caffeine, notably coffee and tea. Products of cacao, chocolate that is eaten and drunk, and the soft drinks that contain caffeine (principally colas) are also covered. The historical origins of coffee, tea, and cacao are described, as are the various fascinating ways they made their way into world culture. Some of the main features of this story are told with a theme of geographic spread and with a description of effects of the arrival of "the drug," as the authors often refer to caffeine, on existing cultures. How the different beverages were received (or rejected) by different cultures and by different strata and segments of each culture makes a rich and exciting story. Insights emerge as to how the various civilizations worked. The pleasure of reading is enhanced by the authors' eye for beauty and the many appropriate half-tone illustrations. The scholarship is impressive; many of the most famous figures of the past 500 and more years make brief appearances. Among them are Chinese emperors, Zen Buddhist monks in Japan, nameless Olmecs of Mesoamerica, and then Cortes and Montezuma and Charles V. The conquest of Europe by the drug from Turkish and African sources is also covered. The familiar names of great historical figures appear on almost every page, tying this account in with our knowledge of history and making it more real. The text is rich with information, yet it is easy and pleasant to read. Social factors are discussed. For example, there are comparisons of the tea culture of England with that of Japan and comparisons of both with the coffee culture of the United States. The duality of the culture of coffee (as in coffee houses) and the culture of tea (as in tea shops, tea gardens, and afternoon tea) is emphasized and illustrated with a list of more than 30 word pairs. One word in each pair is labeled the "coffee aspect" and the other the "tea aspect." The list of coffee aspects starts with "male," "boisterous," and "bohemian" and ends with "Balzac," whereas the list of tea aspects starts with "female," "decorous," and "conventional" and ends with "Proust." Cola beverages are said not to have a long enough history to have features as well differentiated as these, but they do have distinctive associations, such as "youth, high energy, America, pop culture, and `good clean fun." ' Although the authors emphasize that all these popular beverages contain the drug caffeine, the diversity of the cultures associated with the different beverages suggests that caffeine is only one factor leading to their consumption. True to its title, the book has little to say about alcohol, but the authors do make the important point that, at least in Europe and North America and at least in the large towns, raw water was not fit to drink until late in the 19th century. The increase in tea and coffee drinking offered an alternative to the usual beverages: beer, gin, and rum. The authors credibly associate this shift with a decrease in alcohol intake, to the benefit of society. In the second half of the book, the nature of the story changes. The urbane historical perspective gives way to more recent concerns, including a discussion of what might be called huckstering by purveyors of caffeine products. Almost the final third of the book is devoted to the chemistry, pharmacology, and medical aspects of caffeine. I do not think that in a book of this size it is possible to present enough of an understanding for readers to reach their own conclusions on adequate grounds about the health and safety aspects of caffeine, and in many instances the original sources must be scrutinized for the adequacy of the evidence. In addition, there are errors. For example, a woman is said to have had a serum caffeine concentration of almost 300 mg per milliliter, which is many times the solubility of caffeine. Readers can remain confused, they can accept the often implicit conclusions of the writers, or they can opt out and simply trust the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A number of minor matters follow. Pure caffeine is variously described as "highly toxic" or "extremely toxic." An agent that can be ingested in amounts of several grams with relative impunity would not customarily be considered very toxic. A number of common foods -- dry mustard, horseradish, or cayenne pepper, for instance -- would not go down well as boluses of several grams. The poison of the puffer fish, whose flesh is eaten in Japan, is highly toxic, being hazardous in quantities thousands of times smaller than ordinarily consumed quantities of caffeine. Finally, the authors aver that the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) was founded to help forestall efforts to regulate caffeine. But the FDA was regulating caffeine long before the ILSI was formed. The Caffeine Technical Committee of the ILSI was formed by interested companies to sponsor research on questions on caffeine raised by the FDA and others. It is prohibited from lobbying." -Peter B. Dews, M. B. , Ch. B. , Ph. 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The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Routledge], Routledge, 2000