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Telepathy: The Respectable Phenomenon

2 reviews
Sybil Leek

Macmillan Publishing Company, 1971

Sybil Leek's "Telepathy: The Respectable Phenomenon"
I searched for this book forever after having read Leek's "Diary of a Witch". I finally found it and she certainly didn't let me down. Her writing is so warm and matter-of-fact. She explains telepathy in a way that takes all the misunderstanding out of the way. She also explains that mysterious period in time when Russia was investigating telepathy in laboratory settings as a possible ...

A Respectable Army: The Military Origins Of The Republic, 1763-1789 (American History Series)

1 review
James Kirby Martin, Mark Edward Lender, ...

Harlan Davidson, 2006

The Respectable Continental Army
James Martin and co-author Mark Lender demonstrate that the Continental Army--more so than the militia--won the Revolutionary War. After the battle of Breed's Hill (AKA Bunker Hill) in which the militia surprised the British Regulars, the Continental Army became increasingly important to the revolutionary cause. Without a decisive victory against Washington and the Continental Army the British ...

A Respectable Woman: The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York
Jane Dabel

NYU Press, 2008

“A valuable, insightful study that will change minds about how black women are viewed in nineteenth-century urban society. [Dabel] is the first to analyze fully the neglected fact that New York City’s black population was predominately female for much of its history.” —Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Colgate University In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by European immigration, the ...

Respectable Sins: Discussion Guide: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate

1 review
Stephen Sorenson, Jerry Bridges

NavPress Publishing Group, 2007

Love It!
This study guide and the book that goes with it is truly a great find. It got me form the first chapter and couldn't stop reading! It really makes you think and is food for the mind and spirit!Don't forget the book that goes with it..

Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900

1 review
F. M. L. Thompson

Harvard University Press, 1990

valuable overview of Victorian culture
The Rise of Respectable Society is one of the best recent scholarly overviews of Victorian culture and society. Thompson argues persuasively that there was a unified value system-- the cult of respectablity-- to which the majority of both middle-class and working-class Victorians subscribed. This book is a good antidote to sensationalist accounts of Victorian England that focus exclusively on ...

Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate

14 reviews
Jerry Bridges

NavPress Publishing Group, 2007

Respectable Sins
"Sin is sin. Even those sins that I call `the acceptable sins of the saints' - those sins that we tolerate in our lives - are serious in God's eyes. Our religious pride, our critical attitudes, our unkind speech about others, our impatience and anger, even our anxiety (see Philippians 4:6); all of these are serious in the sight of God." (pg. 21) In his new book, Respectable Sins: Confronting ...

A Respectable Trade

29 reviews
Philippa Gregory

Touchstone, 2007

Not the bst, but very enjoyable!
I am a huge fan of Philippa Gregory. I happened to find this book a few years ago, before it got the revamped cover and such. Maybe it was because I read it soon after The Virgin's Lover, which bored me to tears, but I really enjoyed this one! I applaud Gregory's effort in such a difficult topic. And yet I felt it was very real and accurate. I tend to stay away from the topic of slavery, but I ...

A Respectable Trade

10 reviews
Philippa Gregory

HarperCollins Publishers, 1996

A historical novel depicts a human tragedy ...
This is one of my favorite books. In addition to being an enjoable read,, one would learn well-researched historical facts about slave trade that deprived Africa of its sons and daughters of talents. Its consequences could be seen even today. This book lends a human dimension to this historical tragedy. We hear the slaves telling their stories around the kitchen table of their masters. We hear ...

The Defiant Miss Foster and A Highly Respectable Widow (Signet Regency Romance)

1 review
Melinda McRae

Signet, 2003

The new and the old
In "The Defiant Miss Foster", Valentine Debenham (Baron of Newkirk) just received the surprise of his life. His father was the guardian of several children... and now Val himself is their guardian! He travels to the rundown Foster estate to find 3 unruly boys, one eager young man, and the boyish Kat Foster (who he originally mistakes for a boy). Val, a former officer in the British army, ...

A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to ...

6 reviews
Clancy Sigal

Da Capo Press, 2006

Do yourself a favor and discover this provocative author
Clancy Sigal made me fall in love with his mother Jennie in his unsentimental memoir of a sometimes violent and crazy life. She's the mother I wish I had: passionate, irreverent, protective and smart. The pain and love Sigal feels for his mom hits you like a punch in the gut. Dynamite scenes of young, street-tough Clancy's roller coaster life with his mysterious and powerful mother are ...

The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family (The Thackeray Edition)
William Thackeray

University of Michigan Press, 1996

The Newcomes is Thackeray's most "Victorian" novel, generous in its proportions, sharp in its criticism of the morality of the age, and encyclopedic in its reference. Set in the 1830s and 1840s, a period of rapid change and of political and economic development, the novel considers the fortunes and misfortunes of a respectable extended middle-class family. At its center is Thomas Newcome, whose distinctive but old-fashioned gentlemanliness ...

Gentleman's Agreement: The World-Famous Novel About Antisemitism in "Respectable America"

2 reviews
Laura, Z Hobson-

Cherokee Publishing Company, 2007

A good book that is, sadly, not dated
Although the book takes place in 1946 and concerns rampant anti-semitism, both overt and subtle, it's a book that trancends time. The book's anti-semitism could easily be replaced by any other kind of racism and feel right at home in 2005. The story concerns a liberal Christian writer who takes on a magazine assignment to write about anti-semitism and his angle is to pose as a Jew so he can find ...

A Highly Respectable Widow (Signet)
Melinda McRae

Signet, 1992

The Great New England Sea Serpent: An Account of Unknown Creatures Sighted by Many Respectable Persons ...

14 reviews
J. P. O'Neill

Paraview Special Editions, 2003

One of the best of its kind
June O'Neill has pulled off the very difficult feat of writing a book on a cryptozoological subject and making that book balanced, readable, and highly entertaining. This thoroughly researched examination of the New England "sea serpent" story - not just the celebrated events of 1817, but all sightings, from Colonial times through the present day - is enough to make even the most hardened ...

Workaholics: The Respectable Addicts

4 reviews
Barbara Killinger

Firefly Books, 1997

Just wish she could tell us the cure . . .
Barbara gives an excellent description of the causes and gradual breakdown of workaholism. She discusses the various types of workaholics and their behavior. The symptoms are fully detailed. Just wish she could give us some more hope for a cure

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