This Moleskine is just like all the others. Well made. I purchased a Volant because it’s smaller than, and I thought easier to carry (due to it’s soft cover). While it is great for writing, it’s a little difficult unless you have a table to put it on. The hard cover notebooks are easier to use on-the-fly.

As a plus, it’s less than half the thickness of the hardcover notebook.

Moleskine Volant Notebook Ruled, Black Pocket: Set of 2 Overview

These new colorful notebooks come packaged in sets of two, with a lighter and darker shade to suit your mood and are ideal for everyday notes and thoughts. The last 16 pages are detachable. Each set comes with acid free ruled paper and includes the Moleskine history.

Moleskine Volant Notebook Ruled, Black Pocket: Set of 2 Specifications

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Smart Women Put It in Writing Journal Overview

For smart women, no ordinary journal will do. With plenty of space to write, sketch, and doodle, this journal comes with four different colors of pencils inscribed with “Smart Women Lead Colorful Lives” and three other slogans. Catchy phrases sprinkled throughout the journal inspire women to tell it like it is.

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Author William Anderson edited this book on the journals of former Tigers’ manager Red Rolfe for the same reason I read the book. He was 12 years old when his father took him and his brother to his first game in 1950 to see the Tigers, and he became hooked on Hoot Evers. As an 8 year old I was just becoming a Tiger fan in 1952 listening to the games on the radio with my grandfather when I became hooked on Johnny Groth. Unfortunately, this time period has been pretty much ignored in covering the team’s history. The Bengals finished a respectable 4th in 1949 with Rolfe the Red at the helm, and made a run at the American League pennant in 1950 before finishing three games behind the New York Yankees. Unfortunately, with the exception of George Kell, the big bats of Wertz, Groth, and Evers were silenced in 1951 compared to the previous year. The pitching suffered as well with the loss of Art Houtteman to the army. Determined to add power to the lineup in 1952 Charley Gehringer, who had replaced Billy Evans as general manager, swung a big trade sending Kell, Evers, Johnny Lipon, and Paul “Dizzy” Trout to Boston in exchange for Walt Dropo, Fred Hatfield, Johnny Pesky, Don Lenhardt, and Bill Wight. Fred Hutchinson replaced Rolfe as manager, and the team actually played slightly worse under Hutch than it did for Rolfe as the team finished in last place for the first time in its history. This book was of special interest to me because it brought to life Red Rolfe’s comments for the games he managed in Detroit at the time period I became interested in following them. Rolfe’s wife faithfully kept score of the games to make it easier for him to have the time to write a journal. An important piece of Detroit Tigers’ baseball history has been preserved for us thanks to Red Rolfe, his wife, and editor William Anderson. My only regret is that I wish my boyhood hero, Johnny Groth, had agreed to be interviewed by William Anderson.

The View from the Dugout: The Journals of Red Rolfe Overview

Baseball players as a rule aren’t known for documenting their experiences on the diamond. During his time as manager of the Detroit Tigers from 1949 to 1951, Red Rolfe, however, recorded daily accounts of each game, including candid observations about his team’s performance, and the strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies of opposing players and managers, and he used these observations to coach his players and to gain an advantage. Rolfe’s journals carry added value considering his own career as an All-Star Yankee third baseman on numerous world champion teams, where he was a teammate of Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio. Today, in the era of televised broadcasts, networks often wire a manager so viewers can listen to his spontaneous comments throughout the game. Red Rolfe’s journals offer an opportunity to find out what a manager is thinking when no one is around to hear.

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Diary of Samuel Pepys, April May 1664. Overview

April 1st. Up and to my office, where busy till noon, and then to the
‘Change, where I found all the merchants concerned with the presenting
their complaints to the Committee of Parliament appointed to receive them
this afternoon against the Dutch. So home to dinner, and thence by coach,
setting my wife down at the New Exchange, I to White Hall; and coming too
soon for the Tangier Committee walked to Mr. Blagrave for a song. I left
long ago there, and here I spoke with his kinswoman, he not being within,
but did not hear her sing, being not enough acquainted with her, but would
be glad to have her, to come and be at my house a week now and then. Back
to White Hall, and in the Gallery met the Duke of Yorke (I also saw the
Queene going to the Parke, and her Mayds of Honour: she herself looks ill,
and methinks Mrs. Stewart is grown fatter, and not so fair as she was);
and he called me to him, and discoursed a good while with me; and after he
was gone, twice or thrice staid and called me again to him, the whole
length of the house: and at last talked of the Dutch; and I perceive do
much wish that the Parliament will find reason to fall out with them. He
gone, I by and by found that the Committee of Tangier met at the Duke of
Albemarle’s, and so I have lost my labour. So with Creed to the ‘Change,
and there took up my wife and left him, and we two home, and I to walk in
the garden with W. Howe, whom we took up, he having been to see us, he
tells me how Creed has been questioned before the Council about a letter
that has been met with, wherein he is mentioned by some fanatiques as a
serviceable friend to them, but he says he acquitted himself well in it,
but, however, something sticks against him, he says, with my Lord, at
which I am not very sorry, for I believe he is a false fellow. I walked
with him to Paul’s, he telling me how my Lord is little at home, minds his
carding and little else, takes little notice of any body; but that he do
not think he is displeased, as I fear, with me, but is strange to all,
which makes me the less troubled. So walked back home, and late at the
office. So home and to bed. This day Mrs. Turner did lend me, as a
rarity, a manuscript of one Mr. Wells, writ long ago, teaching the method
of building a ship, which pleases me mightily. I was at it to-night, but

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The European Travel Diaries of Albert Brisbane, 1830-1832: Discovering Fourierism for America Overview

In the past half-century, scholars of many different disciplines have produced an expansive body of literature on utopianism in America, Albert Brisbane, as the original propagandist of Fourierism in nineteenth century America, owns a significant place in this literature. Brisbane’s 1830-1832 travel diaries offer a useful contribution at several levels. First, the diaries furnish us with a picture of the society in which Saint-Simonianism and Fourierism took shape. Second, the diaries further our understanding of the impact and dissemination of these ideas – where they were discussed and how they were discussed. Finally, and perhaps most intriguingly, the diaries offer us an opportunity to “listen in” on the thinking of an impressionable young man as he came to be attracted to utopian theories while moving in elite European intellectual society. Brisbane made strong personal friendships within this intellectual community, and continued to correspond with several significant individuals while in Europe and following his return to America. Brisbane was an earnest and precocious young man – and very human. Beside his intellectual wonderings, the diaries give us a sense of his adolescent sensibility and openness to new experiences and ideas. In the end, we have a much better picture of who this person was who brought the complex social model of the Phalanx to America.

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Diary of Samuel Pepys, April 1668. Overview

April 1st. Up, and to dress myself, and call as I use Deb. to brush and
dress me . . . , and I to my office, where busy till noon, and then out
to bespeak some things against my wife’s going into the country to-morrow,
and so home to dinner, my wife and I alone, she being mighty busy getting
her things ready for her journey, I all the afternoon with her looking
after things on the same account, and then in the afternoon out and all
alone to the King’s house, and there sat in an upper box, to hide myself,
and saw “The Black Prince,” a very good play; but only the fancy, most of
it, the same as in the rest of my Lord Orrery’s plays; but the dance very
stately; but it was pretty to see how coming after dinner and with no
company with me to talk to, and at a play that I had seen, and went to now
not for curiosity but only idleness, I did fall asleep the former part of
the play, but afterward did mind it and like it very well. Thence called
at my bookseller’s, and took Mr. Boyle’s Book of Formes, newly reprinted,
and sent my brother my old one. So home, and there to my chamber till
anon comes Mr. Turner and his wife and daughter, and Pelting, to sup with
us and talk of my wife’s journey to-morrow, her daughter going with my
wife; and after supper to talk with her husband about the Office, and his
place, which, by Sir J. Minnes’s age and inability, is very uncomfortable
to him, as well as without profit, or certainty what he shall do, when Sir
J. Minnes dies, which is a sad condition for a man that hath lived so long
in the Office as Mr. Turner hath done. But he aymes, and I advise him to
it, to look for Mr. Ackworth’s place, in case he should be removed. His
wife afterwards did take me into my closet, and give me a cellar

[A box to hold bottles. "Run for the cellar of strong waters
quickly"
--Ben Jonson, Magnetic Lady, act iii., sc. r.]

of waters of her own distilling for my father, to be carried down with my
wife and her daughter to-morrow, which was very handsome. So broke up and
to bed.

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From muse to author: romantic rhetoric in Camilla Collett’s diary from the 1830s.(Critical Essay): An article from: Scandinavian Studies Overview

This digital document is an article from Scandinavian Studies, published by Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 7661 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: From muse to author: romantic rhetoric in Camilla Collett’s diary from the 1830s.(Critical Essay)
Author: Kristin Orjasaeter
Publication:Scandinavian Studies (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2004
Publisher: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Volume: 76 Issue: 2 Page: 121(16)

Article Type: Critical Essay

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Journal, Volume 3 Overview

From 1837 to 1861 Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer’s notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. The source of much of his published writing, the Journal is also a record of both his interior life and his monumental studies of the natural history of his native Concord, Massachusetts. In contrast to earlier editions, the Princeton Edition reproduces the Journal in its original and complete form, in a reading text that is free of editorial interpolations but keyed to a comprehensive scholarly apparatus.

This volume spans a period of rapid change in Thoreau’s life and literary career, including the publication of his first book and a crisis in his friendship with Emerson, during which the Journal assumes its mature form as the extensive, regular, and dated record of his studies of and reflections on the natural and human life of the Concord region.

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Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India (2 Vols.) Overview

These two volumes chronicle the travels and adventures of the Late Bengal Lt.-Colonel of Engineers, C.J.C. Davidson from Bareilly, in Rohilcund, to Hurdwar, and Nahun, in the Himmalaya Mountains, with a tour in Bundelcund, a sporting excursion in the Kingdom of Oude, and a voyage down the Ganges.

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Diary of Samuel Pepys January 1659 1660. Overview

[The year did not legally begin in England before the 25th March
until the act for altering the style fixed the 1st of January as the
first day of the year, and previous to 1752 the year extended from
March 25th to the following March 24th. Thus since 1752 we have
been in the habit of putting the two dates for the months of January
and February and March 1 to 24--in all years previous to 1752.
Practically, however, many persons considered the year to commence
with January 1st, as it will be seen Pepys did. The 1st of January
was considered as New Year's day long before Pepys's time. The
fiscal year has not been altered; and the national accounts are
still reckoned from old Lady Day, which falls on the 6th of April.]

Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health,
without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold.

[Pepys was successfully cut for the stone on March 26th, 1658. See
March 26th below. Although not suffering from this cause again
until the end of his life, there are frequent references in the
Diary to pain whenever he caught cold. In a letter from Pepys to
his nephew Jackson, April 8th, 1700, there is a reference to the
breaking out three years before his death of the wound caused by the
cutting for the stone: "It has been my calamity for much the
greatest part of this time to have been kept bedrid, under an evil
so rarely known as to have had it matter of universal surprise and
with little less general opinion of its dangerousness; namely, that
the cicatrice of a wound occasioned upon my cutting for the stone,
without hearing anything of it in all this time, should after more
than 40 years' perfect cure, break out again." At the post-mortem
examination a nest of seven stones, weighing four and a half ounces,
was found in the left kidney, which was entirely ulcerated.]

I lived in Axe Yard,

[Pepys's house was on the south side of King Street, Westminster;
it is singular that when he removed to a residence in the city, he
should have settled close to another Axe Yard. Fludyer Street
stands on the site of Axe Yard, which derived its name from a great
messuage or brewhouse on the west side of King Street, called "The
Axe," and referred to in a document of the 23rd of Henry VIII--B.]

having my wife, and servant Jane, and no more in family than us three. My
wife . . . . gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day

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