A landmark work of womens history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerners best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimk explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for womens rights.
When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Empire worshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Inca queens, as founders of female dynasties.
A Child-Centred New World Order: People Power for Justice, Inclusion, and Equity presents a compelling vision for a more just and peaceful world—one built around the rights, dignity, and well-being of children.
A debut contemporary memoir about a young woman struggling to understand her identity as the daughter of a Jewish mother and Christian Palestinian father, coming of age in Colombia as increasing violence and the instability of the 1980s engulf her country.
The is the tale of a cheeky little sod from Salford called Jason growing up surrounded by his properly funny and most definitely shameless family and his discovery that being funny might actually get him somewhere.
A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics.
Fresh out of college, hating her job, and searching for meaning, Meghan Tschanz left everything to join a mission trip around the globe, and quickly witnessed oppression experienced by women that she never thought possible.
Before he was President, before the atomic bomb, before the Berlin Airlift and the Truman Doctrine, and before the defining crises of the American century, Harry S.
A fascinating journey through the Lone Star States unruly pastwith maps, photos, and moreTexas rightfully claims a celebrated place in the wildest West of both myth and realitywhich makes it truly stranger than fiction that The Crime Buffs Guide to Outlaw Texas is the first-ever travel guide to the many sites related to the Lone Star States renowned rambunctious past, complete with GPS coordinates that put you at the scene of the action.
Abenteurer, Aktivist und Vater – Ein neuer Blick auf Bestseller-Autor und Survival-Legende Rüdiger Nehberg, alias »Sir Vival«»Vermutlich kennen Sie meinen Vater Rüdiger Nehberg: den Bäcker, Survival-Experten und Aktivisten für Menschenrechte.
Volume 3 of A History of the Book in America narrates the emergence of a national book trade in the nineteenth century, as changes in manufacturing, distribution, and publishing conditioned, and were conditioned by, the evolving practices of authors and readers.
A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics.
After a promising start as a prosperous and liberal democratic nation at the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina descended into instability and crisis.
Celebrated as new consumers and condemned for their growing delinquencies, teenage girls emerged as one of the most visible segments of American society during and after World War II.
Shedding new light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute deadbeat dads, Wives without Husbands traces the efforts of Progressive reformers to make runaway husbands support their families.
According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as doers of the word.
The intense urbanization and industrialization of Americas largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual practices, and gender roles.
In 1942 Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline Ware, one of the nations leading historians.
