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Ida B. Wells-Barnett began her career at sixteen as a teacher and went on to become a lecturer, investigative journalist, and advocate for social justice. As the first journalist to research and document lynching, she battled racial injustice through her writing and public speaking. She was also a women's rights activist who helped organize women's clubs to work toward suffrage and urban reform. Through historical photographs, educational sidebars,
...14504) Christmas: Cook It in a Cup!
Just in time for the holiday season, Christmas: Cook It in a Cup! brings delicious holiday spirit to kids eager to cook up holiday cheer! This spirited, Christmas-themed sequel to Cook It in a Cup! and Party in a Cup! serves up more than twenty mouthwatering recipes, from breakfast...
Despite the profound significance that religion holds in believers' lives, most teachers of religion are volunteers or amateurs with no formal training in instructional methods. This comprehensive guide provides basic and advanced techniques for religious instruction geared for every age group and level of comprehension.
These days, millions of people around the world suffer from debilitating anxiety, and despite precipitous increases in the number of prescriptions issued for these types of troubling psychological symptoms, the prevalence of the problem seems only to worsen. In this back-to-basics approach to the problem, physician Thomas Clark Hinkle presents the details of a carefully developed nutritional program designed to help readers suffering from nervousness
...14509) The Plain Man and His Wife
In this engaging volume of essays written in a style that evokes the classic parable, Arnold Bennett brings to bear the folksy voice he developed in his popular Five Towns series in discussions of practical matters such as budgeting, business dealings, and choosing one's profession.
Though you might not suspect it from its misleadingly dry title, Fruits of Philosophy caused quite a stir in its day. Rather than being an august treatise on the works of Aristotle and Socrates, this slim volume produced by a renegade Massachusetts physician in the early 1830s compiled the most up-to-date information then known about sex, conception, and birth control. The author was later convicted of indecency and sentenced to a term of
...The "official" account of the Civil War is well known by many, but this sweeping narrative often overlooks the experiences and impressions of individuals. Life in Dixie During the War offers up a fascinating first-hand account of what it was like to actually live through this tumultuous period in American history. According to some, this book was part of the inspiration for Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone With the Wind.
How much stress are you putting on your body and mind by bottling up all of your anger, fear, and resentment? Have you ever wondered how your life might change for the better if you made a practice of freely expressing your feelings, positive and negative? In How to Add Ten Years to Your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions, author S.S. Curry expounds on the virtues of self-expression and gives readers valuable advice on how best to communicate
...A remarkable writer and intellectual in her own right, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley first encountered the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was only a teenager. After fathering three of her children, Shelley drowned during a storm. In this volume of essays and annotations, Mary Shelley provides unique insight into Shelley's body of poetic work.
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