Carla Emery (1939–2005)
Auteur van The Encyclopedia of Country Living:
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Carla Emery calls herself a mother, speaker, and writer, especially of encyclopedias. She is the author of The Encyclopedia of Country Living, which is a resource for people going back to the basics of life. It is a reference that contains such varied tips on how to cultivate a garden, buy land, toon meer bake bread, make candles, raise farm animals (as well as slaughter them and utilize them for food), grow herbs, catch a pig, and more invaluable information for farmers in the country and folks in the city. She spent twenty-five years researching, revising, updating, and expanding this one-volume compendium of helpful hints for all areas of basic living. Born in 1939, Emery recounts that her idea for this book came about when her mother-in-law gave her husband Mike a gift subscription to Organic Gardening in 1969. She began working on her encyclopedia, initially called Old Fashioned Recipe Book, in 1970. Since its humble beginnings, there are over 400,000 copies in print. Emery continues to write and research and she remains active in speaking out on world events that affect our environment and health. She is known for her down-to-earth humor and easy speaking style. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Canning and Preserving Your Own Harvest: An Encyclopedia of Country Living Guide (2009) 42 exemplaren
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- 1939-01-19
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2005-10-11
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- USA
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- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Odessa, Texas, USA
- Opleiding
- Roosevelt University (BA|Political Science)
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The gist of it was that the best part of this book is the material about the Danish psychiatrist who proved, rather satisfactorily, I think, that you can hypnotize somebody to make them do something they wouldn't ordinarily do--exactly opposite what most hypnotists will have you believe. (Actually, I had already learned this 25 years ago from the hypnotist Michael Zanoni.)
However, Ms. Emery thinks that NSA agents are running around America hypnotizing people with electronic influencing machines. At that point Emery sounds like somebody who would have given the psychoanalyst Viktor Tausk a field day.
I also looked up some of Emery's references and discovered that in some cases she has seriously distorted what her sources said. For example, she claims that one writer has said that the military commissioned a large number of studies on the use of hypnotism as a weapon; in fact, the cited author said that the studies were about wider aspects of psychological warfare with only one or two that focused on hypnotism. Deliberate mistake or carelessness or something else? I do not know.
I gave the book a good rating, though, because it is a trip to read, and I think the Danish shrink's point of view needs exposure but is not presented elsewhere.… (meer)