Examines the history of the nation from the perspective of women and knitting, tracing the changes in day-to-day life and in women's roles in society from colonial times to the present

No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting

History

MacDonald, Anne

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Ballantine Books

"Written with clarity and a lively eye both for detail and for the progress of feminism in the United States." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE In this fascinating study of American women inventors, historian Anne Macdonald shows how creative, resourceful, and entrepreneurial women helped to shatter the ancient stereotypes of mechanically inept womanhood. In presenting their stories, Anne Macdonald's thorough research in patent archives and her engaging use of period magazine, journals, lectures, records from major fairs and expositions, and interviews, have made her book nothing less than an overall history of the women's movement in America. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention in America

Americas

From the Esk and the Usk: Out East and Back Home: A Family History: from Scotland and Wales to the Colonies and back to England. Extraordinary tales

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

UK Book Publishing

The Prasannapada is one of Candrakirti's most important compositions. Of its twenty-seven chapters commenting on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika, the first, which would influence the later course of the Madhyamaka school, is the longest and most wide-ranging. It is here that Candrakirti, in addition to elucidating Nagarjuna's refutation of the real existence of causes and conditions, defends his own views on critical issues of ontology and epistemology against those of prominent Buddhist scholars such as the M?dhyamika Bhaviveka and the founder of the logical-epistemological school, i. e., Dignaga, as well as non-Buddhist adversaries such as the Naiyayikas. His detailed defense of the earlier Mulamadhyamakakarika commentator Buddhapalita from Bhaviveka's critique became a topic of intense debate for Tibetan exegetes, and is often pinpointed as the source of the bifurcation of the Madhya¼maka school into discrete streams and as holding the key to the controversial Prasangika-Svatantrika distinction. Of utmost importance for the correct understanding of the philosophical views presented in Candrakirti's works are reliably edited texts of the original Sanskrit. In the century since the publication of Louis de La Vallée Poussin's edition of the Prasannapada, a number of old Sanskrit manuscripts of the work have been discovered, and Anne MacDonald has harvested their riches for this new edition of its first chapter. Her accompanying copiously annotated English translation makes accessible in all their complexity and brilliance Candrakirti's arguments against his opponents, and significantly enhances our understanding of seminal aspects of his Madhyamaka vision.

In Clear Words The Prasannapada, Chapter One: Volume I: Introduction, Manuscript Description, Sanskrit Text Volume II: Prasannapada, Tibetan Text ... Der Philosophisch-historischen Klasse)

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press

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