Book Description
An extraordinary story about the adventure of faith and the power of persevering prayer…
On a summer's day in 1727 a community of Moravians started praying and didn't stop for more than 100 years. Throughout history God has mobilised such movements and moments of 24/7 prayer - from the Upper Room of Pentecost to Azusa Street in Los Angeles, through ancient Celtic saints and extraordinary characters like Alexander the Sleepless.
This is the story of a movement of the Spirit in our time, a move as ancient as it is modern.
As young people desert the church and AIDS orphans Africa, a new generation is learning to pray and obey like never before. From Communist China to Washington DC and from the ranks of the Salvation Army to anarchic German punks, the 24-7 Prayer movement has been interceding continually, night and day, since 1999 in more than fifty countries. This is their extraordinary story; an honest account of pain and perseverance alongside pioneering mission and miraculous answers to prayer.
Customer Reviews:
Best book ever.......2007-02-21
THIS book is life-changing and one of the most impacting books I've ever read. After reading that book, I was so fired up about prayer and especially 24/7 prayer that I got a lot of different visions for prayer rooms. We are right now in the process of planning a prayer room and for having an awesome time with the Lord!!!! Everybody should read it who needs to get fired up about prayer!
It shows you how God still changes the World in an freakin awesome way!!!
a must read.......2007-02-12
If you have a heart for the lost, this book is a must read. This book, if implemented could change the heart of any nation. All pastors and certainly interecessors should read it for sure. It gets top rateing from me and was recommended by Bill Johnson's school in Redding.
Heart Encounter.......2007-01-20
An excellent book that changes your whole perspective on prayer, evangelism, and "doing business as usual". Our young people have hope and a future and they are embracing it world wide.
Red Moon Rising.......2006-11-10
This is an excellent book, I would encourage everybody to read it. It's uplifting and challenging, specially for young adults wanting to change the world for Christ.
I highly recommend this book.
Powerful Prayer.......2006-09-28
For every reader who's ever wanted to dig deeper into prayer; for every reader who wanted to learn about the huge Christian movement going on in Europe in recent years; for every reader who wants to grow closer to God through prayer, this book is for you.
I highly recommend it to any and every one. As a person who recently discovered the true meaning of prayer and how powerful it really is, I know that people can learn so much about themselves and God and the purpose of their lives through prayer. For those struggling with this issue or just want to learn more about real, 24/7 prayer and the Europeans behind the recent movement, this book is worth every penny.
Product Description
Pete Greig, the acclaimed author of Red Moon Rising, has written his most intensely personal and honest account yet in God on Mute, a book born out of his wife Samie s fight for her life and diagnosis of a debilitating brain tumor. Greig asks the timeless questions of what it means to suffer and to pray and to suffer through the silence because your prayers seem unanswered. This silence, Greig relates, is the hardest thing. The world collapses. Then all goes quiet. Words can t explain, don t fit, won t work. People avoid you and don t know what to say. So you turn to Him and you pray. You need Him more than ever before. But somehow...even God Himself seems on mute. In this heart-searching, honest and deeply profound book, Pete Greig looks at the hard side of prayer, how to respond when there seem to be no answers and how to cope with those who seek to interpret our experience for us. Here is a story of faith, hope and love beyond all understanding.
Customer Reviews:
Is God on mute?.......2007-09-23
At Hope College, I train ministry students in Effective Prayer Skills. Does God answer every prayer? The author outlines times when it appears as if God is on mute, when we feel as if our prayers are simply bouncing off the ceiling, yet God is still listening and God is still on the job. With scripture, experience and obvious painful insight the author provides a needed balanced to applying the biblical approach to prayer. Highly recommended!
A better view on who God is.......2007-07-30
I've read quite a few books about prayer. I'm always one that wants a stronger prayer life and I think that is true of those who honestly are seeking the Lord. But sometimes, we get stuck and it feels like our prayers are hitting the ceiling and bouncing right back to us, making us stumble back and fall flat on our backs. That's ok for it to happen if we have a realistic outlook on who God is and what He desires.
With having read so many books on prayer, even by highly esteemed believers and authors like Andrew Murray and Elmer Towns, I always walked away from their books on prayer feeling like there was something really missing in their message and their outlook on Biblical prayer. It would aggravate me, because I couldn't put my finger on it at all of what was missing.
I've been following Pete Greig and the 24/7 prayer movement for about 5 years and I've read the books that he's written. Each time I've been encouraged by his books, but would walk away knowing that something was still missing.
When I saw "God On Mute" in the store, it's subtitle intrigued me and after 3 weeks of fighting it, I gave into buying it and let it sit in my place for about 2 months. I picked it about 4 weeks ago and read it and finally that "missing something" that had been so nagging my mind was filled.
Pete wrote straight from the gut and heart and laid his heart out for all to see even with his struggle in praying to God. He pulls no punches and just tells it like it is and is very realistic in giving reasons why God may not answer prayers. And amazingly, they all make sense. He's speaking from experience, and man, this book is really refreshing.
Anyone who is struggling with the concept of prayer should get ahold of a copy of this book. I think you'll find a great deal to chew on and even find peace about situations that you are going through. I know I did and so I highly recommend this book to anyone who is dealing with the heartache of unanswered prayer.
This is the first book I've ever read that really dealt with the most diffult topic of engaging the silence of unanswered prayer. Too many want to skim over it and not face it head on, but Pete Greig took hold of it and grappled with it and wrote a great book right from his heart.
Asking The Questions People Rarely Ask About Prayer.......2007-04-22
From Maundy Thursday to Good Friday to Silent Saturday and then Easter Sunday, Pete and Samie Greig use the blessing of their Life's story to share the same with the reader. God on Mute - Engaging The Silence of Unanswered Prayer is a very important topic, relevant to our times as people seek the precarious and shallow certainty in various forms of fundamentalism --- in a number of faith persuasions that populate this planet...not only the Christian faith. Thus, this is a book I would recommend to Muslims, Hindus, Jews -- whatever the favor of your faith is today.
Been "burned" by "unanswered prayer? Be honest. Have questions about unanswered prayer? Buy this book and savor the reality of the life story of two people who's feet are planted firmly in the earth of the reality of daily living --- no matter what country or culture you might presently reside in.
Listen to Samie and Pete in a few quotes below:
Samie - p. 260 "I don't always understand God's ways in my life, but I'm absolutely certain that He can be trusted."
Pete - p. 23 - "It seems to me thst those of us who spend our time encouraging people to pray and share the amazing stories of unanswered prayer also have a sworn duty to care for those whose prayers appear not to be working."
Pete - p.211 "Life's great trials invariably make us bitter or make us better. They never leave us unchanged."
Pete - p. 67 "It is ultimately not comforting to abandon all hope of miracles by shrinking our view of God's power to the size of our own pain."
Pete p. 19 - "Christians are quick to spread glory stories, but disappointments tend to be brushed under the carpet because we don't want to discourage anyone at church or be a bad commercial at work. But God isn't like us. He doesn't get insecure about His performance, and He never asks us to cover up for Him."
Pete p.55 - "The God of the cosmos thinks you are amazing. You! Not just some heavenly, idealized version you might one day become. You --- the person who does such stupid things. You --- thje one with bad hair, bad breath and bad desires."
Finally, Pete p. 125 - "In spite of all the increases in technology and increased life expectancy, there is an extraordinary fragility to our generation. We collapse easily, our marriages fall apart, and we are quick to take offence. In our celebrity obsessed world that is cosseted away from death and anesthesized against pain, we need to be reminded that it's normal to have problems, get sick, experience financial challenges and face relational breakdown. Jesus promises us, "You will have trouble" (John 16:33), but not many of us stick that verse on the fridge."
I adored this book. It's a lesson that can only be taught by those who have lived it and had the courage and disciplne to share it with us. Read it. You'll be sorry if you don't.
Thank you very much Pete and Samie.
Bill Dahl
Thumbs-up!.......2007-04-21
Fabulous book! Very real, very raw... really helpful. -The sort you'd like to give to everyone you know because everyone can relate to the topic of unanswered prayer. Thanks Pete Greig for avoiding cliche, for digging deep and sharing some real treasures. It's the sort of book that makes you cry and gives you hope at the same time. It's about time someone wrote something for this generation on suffering.
Eye opening!.......2007-03-30
God on Mute is an eye-opener book! recomended to everyone no mater what their religious views are.
Book Description
In the early 18th century, a Christian named Count Zinzendorf formed a secret society called the Honorable Order of the Grain of Mustard. Members wore a ring inscribed with the words "No man liveth unto himself" and took a solemn vow to be true to Christ, to be kind to people and to take the Gospel to the nations. Zinzendorf's vow to live unselfishly is as challenging today as ever. Through these principles, Pete Greig offers a "rule of life" for a generation looking for guidance through a chaotic culture. Included is a 40-day devotional to dig deeper into biblical principles, plus a full-color bonus section featuring a visual interpretation of "The Vision," a prayerful manifesto written by Greig that's become a rallying cry of a generation.
Customer Reviews:
Life-Changing.......2007-07-19
This book has helped me to see my Christian walk in a way I never saw it before. I have been challenged and changed by the words of this book. It is time to start living the Vision for Christ instead of playing church. Don't read the Vision and the Vow if you're not ready to be challenged for Christ.
Worthy Sequel to "Red Moon Rising".......2006-07-08
I have ordered over 20 copies of "Red Moon Rising" to distribute to Christian friends--all responses have been positive. I purchased "The Vision and the Vow" just to see what Pete Grieg was currently thinking. I found it powerful and persuasive--count me in. It is the rare book I want to give to a very gifted, capable, unconventional non-Christian who understandably can't get interested in "normal" Christianity.
An Excellent Book.......2006-06-06
This is an excellent book exploring what it means to be fully committed to Jesus Christ in our current world. It explores everything from grace to holiness to our commission to take the gospel to the world. The call to prayer and intimate relationship with God is set in line with the call to be outward meeting the practial and spiritual needs of the hurting. This book is definitely worth the time. It actually surprised me how good it is. Pete Greig writes in a very natural and honest style and is very easy to read and identify with.
a review of vision and the vow by matt gregor from cardiff.......2005-05-26
The vision and the vow - pete greig
Not being someone who's been into the whole 24-7 thing massively I haven't read any of pete grieg's stuff before. I've been amazed and impacted by some of the truths of coming back to a life of sacrifice and love for God.
The book is not a natural contender for a recommendation on the ignite web site because towards the end it suggests you think about taking a vow of commitment to love Jesus, be kind to others and spread the gospel in other nations. It's not miles away from our own ignite declaration we encourage you to take but in all honesty we're into building God's kingdom and want to recommend this one to you because we believe it may inspire you.
The book has roughly five sections, firstly a fabulous chapter about Jesus that I've loved and that the vision, from the 247 stuff is actually Jesus and then some of how that works out in real life for us people living in the 21st century. The Vision in these pages connected somewhere in my heart with a desire that longs to live "dangerously, obsessively and undeniably" for Jesus. My favourite part of the book is called "summon the losers", identifying that no one is too bad, broken or boring to be used by God. I've used it as a great framework for some talks I've been doing in Christian unions across Cardiff. Those chapters, and in fact the whole book is packed with great stories and illustrations about us growing up into maturity with our relationship with God, a call to discipleship and some of the "how to" help that is most valuable.
The Vision And The Vow is a joy and a challenge to read.......2005-04-04
In reading The Vision and the Vow by Pete Greig, you are taken beyound comfortable boundaries, beyond the "easy-does-it Christianity" that the modern church has gotten drunk on. Pete Greig challenges those who claim Christ as Savior to also embrace him as Lord. We cannot divorce the two, and therefore we must submit to His authority with our whole lives. Greig takes us through his vision of where the Church is headed, and how Christians needs to rise above mediocrity and start becoming revolutionary.
We are to be disciples, not converts. Greig points out that all to often Christians are letting themselves become complacent in their faith instead of being whole-life disciples. It is not an easy call to be a disciple of Christ, but it is a worthy one.
Book Description
Today's 24 7 prayer movement is an international, interdenominational network of prayer which has grown unexpectedly from one prayer-room in England to impact 60 nations in just six years. This phenomenal movement is putting Christ-centered, mission-minded prayer back at the heart of communities all over the world. Now you can be part of it.
Hundreds of North American churches and universities have established night-and-day prayer rooms. The 24 7 Prayer Manual describes step-by-step how you can experience the power and release the potential of 24 7 prayer in your community. There are no rules and mdash;only principles that help create an environment conducive to prayer. Let your church become a vital link in this international prayer movement.
Customer Reviews:
Jeffreyh.......2007-07-04
24-7 Prayer Manual should be Essential reading for Anyone who endeavors to Endure & Persevere through the upheavals that society today bombards us with. This is an easily interpretive instruction manual which can be easily put into practice and immediately changes attitudes of despair into venues of Hope. Read it if You are Serious about making a Real Positive & Divenely-charged Difference in yourself, mentally, psychologically, spiritually, and even physically (because a healthy mind overflowes into how we treat our bodies as well), and circumspectly you will also begin to make positive impacts upon others as well. Just don't be surprised when people start asking you Why You Seem Different, Achieving a more Contented complexion.
How to create a community prayer room.......2006-03-04
Have you heard of the 24-7 prayer movement? If so, you will want to grab a copy of this book-24-7 Prayer Manual, subtitled Creating and Sustaining Holy Space in the Real World. If not, you need to read this book by Pete Greig and David Blackwell to learn what it is all about. The book delivers what its cover promises in simple, well-organized format, with no illustrations or complicated charts. It tells how to create a prayer room in your church building or community and how to hold a 24-7 prayer week.
The big idea presented in this book is to develop individual growth and strength in Christians through the preparation of a special room where people can go to prayer at any hour. Greig's initial plan was to have his congregation pray in shifts twenty-four hours a day for seven days. They prepared a room and found that the people showed up, relished the prayer time, and in the process were changed.
The book has four main parts: (1) five chapters on discovering the 24-7 prayer; (2) five steps to building a successful prayer room; (3) five keys to the movement; and (4) five perspectives on 24-7 prayer. The most interesting sections to me were those on setting up a prayer room to be conducive to prayer, and those encouraging art and music as expressions of prayer. Can a young man use a bongo drum to help him express his prayer to God? Can a person express a prayer through art or graffiti? I had not thought of using art in prayer.
Pete Greig was the instigator of the first 24-7 prayer community. David Blackwell is a leader in the 24-7 Prayer USA movement and is the co-director and co-founder of 24-7 Transit-a nine-month discipleship school in Kansas City, Missouri. These men decry the lack of prayer in America and present a workable plan to reestablish the lost discipline. I recommend the book to community and church leaders who want to see real change in the lives and hearts of the people they love and lead. It also can provide guidance and inspiration for parents who want to establish prayer in their homes. - Elece Hollis, Christian Book Previews.com
Book Description
Digital Play is a major study of the video and computer game industry, from its origins as a minor spin-off of the military-industrial complex to its contemporary position as a major global media business as big as Hollywood. It discusses how interactive games affect theoretical debates about the information society, gives an historical account of the rise and fall of companies such as Atari, Nintendo, and Sega and of today's savage competition between Microsoft and Sony, and offers critical analysis of gender and violence in games, the marketing strategies of game companies, intellectual property and work in the game industry, and the problems and possibilities of on-line games. Digital Play is a book for anyone interested in the cutting edge of virtual culture, or in a digital business that is transforming everyday life.
Customer Reviews:
Critical postmodern analysis.......2003-08-06
"Digital Play" critically analyzes the video and computer game industry and theorizes about its significance in contemporary society. The book is somewhat unusual in that it is the collaborative product of three authors, but the writing seems to blend perfectly and makes for a consistent and high-quality read. The end product is an accessible and entertaining book that could serve to introduce a wide audience to critical postmodern analysis.
Nick Dyer-Witheford of "Cyber-Marx" fame is one of the authors. Mr. Dyer-Witheford's influence is discernable in at least several sections where the post-Marxist themes of corporate control versus freedom that are evident in "Cyber-Marx" are used to very good effect. First, he deflates the wildly optimistic claims of techno-utopians such as Alvin Toffler, reminding us that technology remains in service to corporate profits and therefore narrows and limits the possibility of "choice, interactivity and empowerment" that digital games purportedly offer. Second, Mr. Dyer-Witheford points to piracy and hacking as evidence that freedom from corporate control and a return to "play" in its purest sense may yet remain possible.
The authors contend that video games are worthy of serious study because they represent the "ideal-type" postmodern commodity. So whereas the automobile is closely associated with the "industrial capitalism" of the Fordist era, the video game embodies the "information capitalism" of today's "perpetual innovation" society.
The ideal-type commodity does not mean that it avoids crisis, however. The authors posit that the accelerating "circuits" of technology, culture and marketing that drive postmodern society in general and the video game business in particular "can be broken or come into contradiction" in numerous ways. The authors go on to critique each of these three circuits and produce many pages of very thoughtful analysis.
For example, an interesting aspect of the industry that is often overlooked is manufacturing and the international division of labor. Electronic game equipment is often produced by proletariat labor in the poor countries of the South for the benefit of relatively wealthy consumers in the North. The authors point out that the game industry, like most capitalist enterprises that exploit the so-called free trade system in search of higher profits, will find it difficult to develop new markets for its products until it is willing to pay its third-world factory workers enough money to stimulate demand. In fact, the authors state that corporate managers should not be too surprised when intellectual property gets pirated by people who feel that they have been cheated by the economic system.
But probably the most stinging criticism concerns the close connection of games with Cold War research and development. The "militarized masculinity" that characterizes so many games originated here and has been perpetuated by corporate marketing in pursuit of profits. But the authors point out that if the industry fails to find successful alternative game genres and graphic violence continues to escalate, future interest in gaming may be jeopardized even as the potential damage to children exposed to such psychic intensity remains unknown.
In short, "Digital Play" is highly recommended to everyone interested in deconstructing the multi-faceted and increasingly fantastical world that has been brought to us by the "military and entertainment" complex.
A clever look at the global industry of interactive gaming.......2003-07-31
Books on electronic gaming and video game culture predominantly concentrate on the history of the industry or on nostalgic returns to retro gaming, often punctuated with coloured photos and screenshots. Digital Play is one of the few books currently available that provides an insightful look into the social, cultural, and economic relationships between game players, and the engaging game texts, technologies, and market forces of the information age. As interactive gaming continues to establish itself as a major global media business, it becomes increasingly important for us to employ a critical perspective of the blossoming industry. Kline, Witheford, and Peuter's Digital Play couldn't have arrived at a better time.
Digital Play is cleverly divided into three segments, each focusing on different bearings of interactive gaming but effectively converging into a single conclusive "coda." Discussion begins with a theoretical approach to analyzing gaming and its industry as it relates to circuits of interactivity including culture, technology, and marketing. Theoretical concepts collected from media theorists Marshall McLuhan and Raymond Williams, are successfully transferred to the medium of the videogame. What follows is a look at the existence of interactive gaming in a post-Fordist, and postmodern society of information technology and hyper-reality. This facilitates the understanding of historical circumstances of developing circuits of interactivity outlined in earlier chapters. While the first segment may seem theoretically and linguistically intense, it remains deeply involving and is ever mindful of the topic at hand: video games.
The second segment of Digital Play covers the historical background of games from their early beginnings in the military-industrial complex to the relentless corporate firefight known to many as the "console wars." However, unlike previous electronic gaming texts, the historical accounts are retold stressing the importance of technology, culture, and marketing. Digital Play thus provides a fresh and extremely entertaining parade through electronic gaming's past. What readers may find most absorbing in this stretch are the political-economic struggles endured by the gaming companies (Atari for example) who pioneered the industry only to meet with fierce competition and an unstable market for interactive entertainment.
The initial chapters of Digital Play concentrated on technology and communication studies, and the following chapters zeroed-in on history and marketing practices. However, this theoretical triad could not be complete without the presence of one more area of study: game culture as an industry and practice. In a chapter entitled "Workers and Warez" the authors examine gaming technologies on global levels of production and consumption, such as the exploitation of off-shore labourers and increasing levels of hacking, console "modding", and software piracy. Subsequent chapters provide studies in branding and licensing, violence and gender, and my personal favourite...political economy. Chapter 12 assembles the major themes of Digital Play, suggesting that Electronic Arts' best-selling game "The Sims" can be viewed as a microcosm of our own capitalist society, wrought with consumerist ideology. While we manipulate the digital Barbie dolls of our virtual technology, so too does a system of communication technologies, global enterprise, and postmodern digital culture manipulate our symbolic relationship with the logic of a capitalist system.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Digital Play and wouldn't hesitate to purchase any game-related books that any of the authors might publish in the future. Digital Play offers an engaging critical look at the gaming world's industry, technology, and culture, and should not be ignored by those looking to study interactive games from an academic viewpoint or by those simply looking for enjoyable reading.
Customer Reviews:
Everything you always thought you knew.......2006-03-14
Come on, admit it, you always thought you knew exactly what caused the tides, and why the Bay of Fundy has such a large tidal range! Hah! You only thought you knew. Now, thanks to Dr. Jim McCully's easy to read treatise, you will soon be able to impress all of your friends with great knowledge. Who knows, you might win some trivia contest!
No, seriously, this is a readable and witty explanation of all of the many factors that go into the tidal process. This book patiently explains why tides come and go, why some areas have more than two tides per day, and where the water goes when it goes. Dr. McCully is a knowledgeable researcher and an entertaining writer who makes all the physics and astronomy easy to understand. If you have curiosity about all things natural, if you are a yachtsman or woman, or if you love to fish (as does the author), you will find this book incredibly interesting and helpful.
Book Description
The book entitled How Golf Clubs Really Work and How to Optimize Their Design, is the first book published that focuses on the golf club and the way that golfers can utilize their specific clubs to achieve better shot control, leading to lower scores for all golfers. The book is the end result of a 10-year, full-time dedicated research effort for co-authors Frank D. Werner and Richard C. Grieg. Both have advanced degrees in aerospace engineering and together have over 90 patents.
The authors have discussed many issues relevant to the game of golf and analyzed the way that different factors play a part in shot making. Chapters are included on optimal face curvature (bulge and roll may be extinct), shaft length and head weight to maximize distance, and the effects of wind drag on club head speed (less than you would expect). In addition, the authors have developed new aiming and shot control techniques that could allow golfers to have better control, hit more fairways and greens, and lower their scores.
The book will provide useful insights for a broad spectrum of golfers from touring pros and teaching professionals to struggling beginners and serious golfers looking to shave a few strokes off their game. By providing an analysis of all that happens from impact until the ball stops, the authors have de-mystified one of the world's greatest games.
Customer Reviews:
Out of date and poor scientific methods.......2003-06-11
Golf club components have changed considerably since this book was published. Many of the conclusions are arrived at through small sample testing (three different lengths of ideal shafts and concluding one of them is ideal) and are inaccurate for today's components. I would recommend anything by Dave Pelz or Tom Wishon rather than this book.
Finally, facts over opinion........2001-09-14
This is a terrific book for those who have been searching for truth about golf clubs. The authors have developed a mathematical model of the golf club and have used computers to analyze innumerable combinations of head speed, center or gravity, club loft, club length, etc. They have come up with an analysis of what is important and what doesn't matter in golf club design. Here's what works for a driver: long (46 inches), low center of gravity, huge club face, unique bulge and roll, and very stiff light shaft. All the other stuff is of no importance, so forget about it. Outstanding.
How golf clubs work, in great detail.......2000-09-19
Werner and Greig have written an excellent book on club design that is suprisingly practical. Each chapter is short and readable.The subject matter is directly applicable to playing golf. Golfers who have read Pelz and Hogan will enjoy the combination of analysis and golfing tips. The graphs and technical information can be difficult to interpert, but aren't essential to understanding the key points.
Book Description
Despite what most people may think, American women have always worn pants. Featuring an unusual collection of vintage photographs from the 1850s to the 1920s, Women in Pants documents an almost forgotten revolution in clothing. Defying convention, Victorian dress reformers as well as farmers, laborers, miners, cowgirls, and sportswomen openly wore trousers, while other women disguised themselves in men's attire to get good jobs, go to combat, engage in relationships with other women, or experiment with gender identity.
Candid, often humorous quotes from contemporary newspapers and magazines complement the photographs and enhance our understanding of the culture and time in which these women lived. For some, wearing pants was a necessity; for others, it was an act of defiance; for still others, it was just fun.
Customer Reviews:
VOYA - Cynthia Winfield.......2004-11-12
Could you add this review please (Catherine Smith, Author):
[T]his book provides an eloquent photo study of women wearing pants across the globe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using 150 period photographs . . . the authors document an oft-unexplored side of these women's lives. Harem pants . . . common wear outside U.S. society, are explored in the chapter "Multicultural Influences: 'Very Peculiar Garb.'" A chapter on "Working Women: 'Do me a mess o' work . . . jes like a man'" includes painters, carpenters, ranchers, fisherwomen, miners, lumberjacks, factory workers. . . . [C]hapters cover cyclists, actresses, cowgirls, and other adventurous women. High quality . . . photographs illustrate every page spread of the text. . . . Chapters on romantic women and college women reveal Victorian expectations allowed for passionate female relationships as different from today's. . . . From the reform costume of the late-nineteenth century through working women and mock weddings, this book explores the lot. This fascinating compilation should be useful for period studies and in history classrooms. It is recommended for library collections reaching secondary students and the general public. . . . (Hard to imagine it being any better written. . . .) . . . Ages 11-18.
A fascinating, must-read for all.......2003-11-10
Women in Pants is a wonderfully illustrated book chronicling the almost forgotten history of women who not only had the audacious pluck to dress like men but who demanded the same rights, freedoms and jobs as men during a time when society made sure women had few opportunities outside the home. The book is well written and amply illustrated with many beautiful reproductions of vintage photos showing not only notable 19th-century "bloomerites," cowgirls and cross-dressing actresses, but female farmers, soldiers, miners, lumberjacks and mountain climbers! Not to mention the amusing photos of school girls dressed up in tuxedos and top hats for a school play or to attend an all-girl dance where sometimes a same sex romance blossomed. This amazing book offers compelling proof that there were plenty of 19th-century women who didn't fit the stereotypical image of the wasp-waisted feeble Victorian (still perpetuated by Hollywood), and who instead assumed the symbolic power of men's trousers to lay claim to their own equality and self worth. There's something absolutely brilliant about seeing a group of late 19th-century ladies smiling, even laughing while decked out in men's suits and smoking cigars, acting decidely macho with almost reckless abandon (by Victorian standards at least). The photo illustrations and the text serve as powerful reminders of the many battles women have had to fight in order to gain the freedoms we now have and take for granted. An inspiring, must-read for all .
A real eye-opener.......2003-05-02
This is an incredibly compelling collection of photographs. It is exactly what it says it is: photographs of women wearing pants, starting from the beginnings of photography in the mid-1800s and ending about a hundred years later.
Intellectually, we all know that people have worn all sorts of clothing at all times in history. But in fact almost every image of women before the 1930s and '40s portrays women in skirts. It's as if women were shaped like bells until then.
You won't realize how deeply ingrained this assumption can be until you look at this collection. It's a real eye-opener.
Many of the pictures are matter-of-fact recordings of women in unusual situations for that time, like women doing tough jobs that demanded trousers. Others show women who would never wish to be caught dead wearing pants in public. Yet there they are, playacting with their sorority sisters, some shamefaced, others defiant, but all are bravely facing the camera.
The collection contains broad range of photographic technologies and a mix of amateur and professional work. This mixture lends an interesting touch of realism to the collection. In a way, this collection suggests a novel way of studying the past: collect the photographs and see what they really show.
Clothes oft proclaim the man/woman??.......2003-04-26
I found this book to be very well concieved. The photos are well reproduced. The text clear and not foreboding or pedantic. The most interesting idea exposed in a factual easy reading, clear style was the concept of the domination of a person's role in a closed society by something so ubiquitous as a garment. This reminds me of the situation faced in some Eastern countries today! I wonder what hidden else in our present time needs change? I recommend this book to all who are interested in fashion history, social history, and the status of a free & open society.
Book Description
Utopian Pedagogy is a critical exploration of educational struggles within and against neoliberalism. Editors Mark Coté, Richard J.F. Day, and Greig de Peuter, along with a number of innovative voices from a variety of different academic fields and political movements, examine three key themes: the university as a contested institution, the role of the politically engaged intellectual, and experiments in alternative education. The collection contributes to the debates on the neoliberal transformation of higher education, and to the diffusion of social movements that insist it is possible to create workable alternatives to the current world order.
This critical examination of the educational dimension of social and political struggles is presented by both professional academics and activists, many of whom are directly involved in the very experiments they discuss. Rescuing and revaluing the concept of utopia, the editors and their international contributors propose that utopian theory and practice acquire a new relevance in light of the hyper-inclusive logic of neoliberalism. Utopian Pedagogy is a challenge to the developing world order that will stimulate debate in the fields of education and beyond, and encourage the development of socially sustainable alternatives.
Contributors:
Michael Albert
Brian Alleyne
Ian Angus
Allan Antliff
Franco Berardi
MarkEdelman Boren
Guido Borio
Edna Brophy
Colectivo Situaciones
Mark Coté
Mariarosa DallaCosta
Richard J.F. Day
Greig de Peuter
Nick DyerWitheford
Henry Giroux
Stuart Hall
Kelly HarrisMartin
Imran Munir
Francesca Pozzi
Gigi Roggero
Shveta Sarda
Sarita Srivastava
Richard Toews
Carlos Alberto Torres
Sebastian Touza
Jerry Zaslove
Books:
- Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot Collection: Box Set (Books 1-4)
- Shostakovich: A Life
- SIGN with your BABY Complete Learning Kit: US DVD Version, Book, Training Video (DVD), Quick Reference Guide
- Simple Chinese Cooking
- "Sit and Get" Won't Grow Dentrites: 20 Professional Learning Strategies That Engage the Adult Brain
- Solo Guitar Playing/Book 1 with CD (Classical Guitar)
- Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History's Greatest Speakers
- The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969
- The Awakening
- The Awakening and Selected Stories (Penguin Classics)
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- God Is a Woman: Dating Disasters
- Tom Brown's Field Guide to the Forgotten Wilderness
- Ada and the Doc: An Account of the Ada Leboeuf-Thomas Dreher Murder Case
- Public Records Online: The National Guide to Private & Government Online Sources of Public Recor
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24/7 Prayer Manual: A Guide To Creating and Sustaining Holy Space in the real World
The Vision And The Vow: Re-Discovering Life and Grace
God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
