Jan 22, 2020 Book of the Week — Woman’s Work and Woman’s Culture: A Series of Essays

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Jan 15, 2020 Book of the Week — Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“We have waited here long in the dust; we are tired and hungry; but the triumphal procession must appear at last.” -- Margaret Fuller Woman in the Nineteenth Century… Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845 First edition HG1154 O8 1845 From the preface: “A reproduction, modified and expanded,...

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Jan 07, 2020 Book of the week — Arkhangel’ skoe evanglie, 1092 goda

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Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the...

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Dec 23, 2019 BOOK OF THE WEEK — OTIOT (SACRED SIGNS)

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“When the Holy One, blessed be He, was about to make the world,  all the letters of the Alphabet were still embryonic,  and for two thousand years the Holy One, blessed be He, had contemplated them and toyed with them.  When He came to create the world,...

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Nov 15, 2019 Book of the week — Tychonis Brahe Mathim: eminent: Dani Opera omnia, sive Astronomiae instavratae progymnasta…

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"On the 11th day of November in the evening after sunset, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky. I noticed that a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy, was shining almost directly above my head; and since I had,...

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Nov 04, 2019 Children’s Book Week: Un Gorrión en la Guerra de las Fieras

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"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." — Groucho Marx Un Gorrión en la Guerra de las Fieras Antoniorrobles (1895 - 1983) México: Secretario de Educación Pública, 1942 PQ6633 O2 S62 1942 Established in 1919, Children’s Book Week is...

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Nov 01, 2019 Book of the Week — Your Weapon!

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These are YOUR ENEMIES! YOUR JOB is to KEEP OUT OF...

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Oct 29, 2019 BLACK TUESDAY — THE ANVIL, PROLETARIAN FICTION MAGAZINE

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“I live on a park bench.  You, Park Avenue.  Hell of a distance Between us two...

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Oct 28, 2019 Book of the Week — Moscow

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“Somewhere within their walls shall all that forwards perfect human life be started, Tried, taught, advanced, visibly exhibited. Not only all the world of works, trade, products, But all the workmen of the world here to be represented.” — “Song of the Exposition,” Walt Whitman Moscow Alexander Rodchenko (1891 - 1956) Moscow...

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Oct 14, 2019 Book of the Week — De solaribus horologiis…

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Virescit vulnere virtus (Virtue grows stronger from being wounded) Orontii finei delphinatis, regii mathematicarvm professoris, de solaribus horologiis… Oronce Fine (1494-1555) Parisiis: apud Gulielmum Cauellat, 1560 First edition QB215 F55 1560 Oronce Fine was the son of a physician who drew, in part, upon astrology for his medicine, as was the...

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