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This national bestseller, now in paperback, reveals how all humans are descended from seven prehistoric women--the Seven Daughters of Eve.
Author : Bryan Sykes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 2002-05-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393323146
This national bestseller, now in paperback, reveals how all humans are descended from seven prehistoric women--the Seven Daughters of Eve.
Author : Barbara Cohen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 1994-10-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0688135633
In an ancient Arab nation, one woman dares to be different.Buran cannot -- Buran will not-sit quietly at home and wait to be married to the man her father chooses. Determined to use her skills and earn a fortune, she instead disguises herself as a boy and travels by camel caravan to a distant city. There, she maintains her masculine disguise and establishes a successful business. The city's crown prince comes often to her shop, and soon Buran finds herself falling in love. But if she reveals to Mahmud that she is a woman, she will lose everything she has worked for.
Author : Mark Russ Federman
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0805243119
The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal herring, and silken chopped liver” (The New York Times Magazine). When Joel Russ started peddling herring from a barrel shortly after his arrival in America from Poland, he could not have imagined that he was giving birth to a gastronomic legend. Here is the story of this “Louvre of lox” (The Sunday Times, London): its humble beginnings, the struggle to keep it going during the Great Depression, the food rationing of World War II, the passing of the torch to the next generation as the flight from the Lower East Side was beginning, the heartbreaking years of neighborhood blight, and the almost miraculous renaissance of an area from which hundreds of other family-owned stores had fled. Filled with delightful anecdotes about how a ferociously hardworking family turned a passion for selling perfectly smoked and pickled fish into an institution with a devoted national clientele, Mark Russ Federman’s reminiscences combine a heartwarming and triumphant immigrant saga with a panoramic history of twentieth-century New York, a meditation on the creation and selling of gourmet food by a family that has mastered this art, and an enchanting behind-the-scenes look at four generations of people who are just a little bit crazy on the subject of fish. Color photographs © Matthew Hranek
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Karen L. Cox
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0813063892
Wall Street Journal’s Five Best Books on the Confederates’ Lost Cause Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South—all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen Cox traces the history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause. In this edition, with a new preface, Cox acknowledges the deadly riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, showing why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure. The Daughters, as UDC members were popularly known, were daughters of the Confederate generation. While southern women had long been leaders in efforts to memorialize the Confederacy, UDC members made the Lost Cause a movement about vindication as well as memorialization. They erected monuments, monitored history for "truthfulness," and sought to educate coming generations of white southerners about an idyllic past and a just cause—states' rights. Soldiers' and widows' homes, perpetuation of the mythology of the antebellum South, and pro-southern textbooks in the region's white public schools were all integral to their mission of creating the New South in the image of the Old. UDC members aspired to transform military defeat into a political and cultural victory, in which states' rights and white supremacy remained intact. To the extent they were successful, the Daughters helped to preserve and perpetuate an agenda for the New South that included maintaining the social status quo. Placing the organization's activities in the context of the postwar and Progressive-Era South, Cox describes in detail the UDC's origins and early development, its efforts to collect and preserve manuscripts and artifacts and to build monuments, and its later role in the peace movement and World War I. This remarkable history of the organization presents a portrait of two generations of southern women whose efforts helped shape the social and political culture of the New South. It also offers a new historical perspective on the subject of Confederate memory and the role southern women played in its development.
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Dairy cattle
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Author : George Meredith Jemison
Publisher :
Page : 1258 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Forest fires
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Agriculture
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Set includes revised editions of some issues.
Author : Clarice Louisba Scott
Publisher :
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Lauren Cowen
Publisher : Courage Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2001-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780762411092
The relationship between daughters and mothers is revealed in this collection of essays and photographs. The women in these pages share their thoughts and discover universal truths about family ties and the roles of women in life.