Author: Hattie Ellis File Type: epub From Publishers WeeklyFor anyone whos wondered about how humans first started eating honeyafter all, bees guard it jealouslyElliss charming history will be a treat. Apis mellifera is the most studied creature on the planet after man, she writes, although even so, it turns out that the honeybees biological ancestry isnt quite clear. There is some evidence that their relatives existed 200 million years ago or moreearlier than the earliest known flower, in other words, which would mean that they were eating something other than nectar. British food writer Ellis (_Tea_) leaves the tedious details of bee taxonomy to the experts, but satisfies readers with the fact that bees probably evolved from an ancestor of the carnivorous wasp. She then reveals the state of modern beekeeping by visiting apiarists and letting them talk about their bees, which they do, quite happily, relating tales of the delightful symbiosis of human and bee. Ultimately, its all about the honey, and those who prefer to think of the sweet stuff as something that comes from jars might cringe at Ellliss description of how bees make it the phrase sucked and pumped, sucked and pumped, sucked and pumped is queasily accurate. Entrancing anecdotes, accurate details and meticulous research add up to a sweetly satisfying read. 20 b&w photos. br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. FromAs Ellis points out, wherever bees are, whether jungle, tundra, or forest, they find nectar to turn into honey, honey that tastes of mint, or grapes, or oranges, depending on the flowers the bees have visited. Ellis, a columnist and food writer, has created a marvelous combination of natural history and social science as she explores the ways of bees, honey, and humans. The history of bees and flowers are inexorably intertwined--flowers need bees for pollination bees need flowers for nectar. And as shown in Paleolithic art, humans have stolen honey from bees for millennia, and as early as the ancient Egyptians began to create homes for bees to encourage them to live nearby. Ellis follows the course of beekeeping, even visiting modern beekeepers on Manhattan rooftops. Nancy Bentbr American Library Association. lt

Author: Nicola Kay Beisel File Type: pdf Moral reform movements claiming to protect children began to emerge in the United States over a century ago, most notably when Anthony Comstock and his supporters crusaded to restrict the circulation of contraception, information on the sexual rights of women, and obscene art and literature. Much of their rhetoric influences debates on issues surrounding children and sexuality today. Drawing on Victorian accounts of pregnant girls, prostitutes, Free Lovers, and others deemed immoral, Nicola Beisel argues that rhetoric about the moral corruption of children speaks to an ongoing parental concern that children will fail to replicate or exceed their parents social position. The rhetoric of morality, she maintains, is more than symbolic and goes beyond efforts to control mass behavior. For the Victorians, it tapped into the fear that their own children could fall prey to vice and ultimately live in disgrace.In a rare analysis of Anthony Comstocks crusade with the New York and New England Societies for the Suppression of Vice, Beisel examines how the reformer worked on the anxieties of the upper classes. One tactic was to link moral corruption with the flood of immigrants, which succeeded in New York and Boston, where minorities posed a political threat to the upper classes. Showing how a moral crusade can bring a societys diffuse anxieties to focus on specific sources, Beisel offers a fresh theoretical approach to moral reform movements.**From Library JournalBeisel (sociology, Northwestern Univ.) examines the antivice campaigns of Comstock and others in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia during the late 19th century. She believes reformers were successful in New York and Boston because they were able to gain support from the wealthy by emphasizing pornography as a threat to upper-class childrens chances of maintaining their parents status in the community. By tying vice and corruption to the immigrant populations in these cities, reformers reinforced existing fears. Reformers in Philadelphia were unable to gain support because the upper class did not feel their status was threatened. Beisel also notes some similarities between Comstock and moral reform efforts today. Although this is a reworked dissertation, well researched from a few primary and many secondary sources, it will still interest lay readers as well as scholars.?Linda L. McEwan, Elgin Community Coll., Ill. 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. ReviewWinner of the 1998 Distinguished Scholarship Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movement Section of the American Sociological Association An exemplary work of cultural analysis--as well as a delightful read.... Imperiled Innocents persuasively demonstrates the empirical power of cultural analysis and its significance for at least one core theoretical question in the discipline, the production and reproduction of class.... Beisel has constructed both an elegant work of cultural analysis and a powerful theoretical lens through which to reconsider the moral controversies of our own time.--Elisabeth S. Clemens, *American Journal of Sociology* This provocative, clearly written addition to the literature on comparative urban reform illustrates the insights that a historical sociologist can bring to a familiar topic.... Challenging conventional interpretations of comstockery, it sheds new light on the process of upper-class formation and the role of gender and sexuality in reform.--Steven Mintz, *Journal of American History* A thoughtfully provocative work of analysis.--*Choice*

Author: May Sarton File Type: epub Finalist for the National Book Award May Sarton at her evocative and contemplative bestThe title poem of this entrancing collection compares love to salt for its ability both to dissolve and to crystallize into a presence. At once philosophical and fiercely corporeal, this work presents emotion as a sensory experience. Written with Sartons characteristic concision, these deeply felt poems will delight readers.**

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky File Type: epub A new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. This acclaimed new English version of Dostoevskys last novel does justice to all its levels of artistry and intention.Review[Dostoevsky is] at once the most literary and compulsively readable of novelists we continue to regard as great . . . The Brothers Karamazov stands as the culmination of his arthis last, longest, richest, and most capacious book. [This] scrupulous rendition can only be welcomed. It returns us to a work we thought we knew, subtly altered and so made new again. Washington Post Book WorldA miracle . . . Every page of the new Karamazov is a permanent standard, and an inspiration. The Times (London)One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevskys original. New York Times Book ReviewAbsolutely faithful . . . Fulfills in remarkable measure most of the criteria for an ideal translation . . . The stylistic accuracy and versatility of registers used . . . bring out the richness and depth of the original in a way similar to a faithful and sensitive restoration of a painting. The IndependentIt may well be that Dostoevskys [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only nowand through the medium of [this] new translationbeginning to come home to the English-speaking reader. New York Review of BooksHeartily recommended to any reader who wishes to come as close to Dostoevskys Russian as it is possible. Joseph Frank, Princeton UniversityWith an Introduction by Malcolm V. JonesFrom the Hardcover edition.Language NotesText English (translation)Original Language Russian