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A thoughtful, multigenerational story of contested motherhood, equal parts biography, oral history, history, and memoir
Author : Kim Heikkila
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Page : pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681341903
A thoughtful, multigenerational story of contested motherhood, equal parts biography, oral history, history, and memoir
Author : Rowe Wright
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 15,88 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : Rosemary O'Day
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1441134433
Charles Booth's pioneering survey, Life and Labour of the People in London, published in 17 volumes between 1889 and 1903, was a landmark in empirical social investigation. His panorama of London life has dominated all subsequent accounts: its scope, precision and detail make it an unrivalled source for the period. Mr. Charles Booth's Inquiry is the first systematic account of the making of the survey, based upon an intensive examination of the huge Booth archive. This contains far more material than was eventually published, in particular on women, work, religion, education, housing and social relations, as well as on poverty. While the book acknowledges the leading role of Booth himself, it highlights the significance of the contributions of his associates, including Beatrice Potter (Webb), Octavia Hill, Llewellyn Smith and G.H. Duckworth. Life and Labour of the People in London is a founding text of both social history and modern sociology. It has however commonly been misunderstood and frequently misused. Mr. Charles Booth's Inquiry sets the survey in perspective and demonstrates the richness of the Booth archive and its potential for modern scholarship in both history and the social sciences.
Author : Eleanor Atkinson
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 1908
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Page : 534 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Child welfare
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Page : 708 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 1944
Category : African Americans
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Author : Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593331451
Best Book of the Year Real Simple • AARP • USA Today • NPR • Virginia Living Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth—breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor, and master of the house in more ways than one—is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive, as year by year, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. As the tenor of the world shifts, the Booths emerge from their hidden lives to cement their place as one of the country’s leading theatrical families. But behind the curtains of the many stages they have graced, multiple scandals, family triumphs, and criminal disasters begin to take their toll, and the solemn siblings of John Wilkes Booth are left to reckon with the truth behind the destructively specious promise of an early prophecy. Booth is a startling portrait of a country in the throes of change and a vivid exploration of the ties that make, and break, a family.
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Page : 502 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Cooking
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Page : 946 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Theater
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Author : Larry D. Flora
Publisher : Author House
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1467865621
The Author has had an exciting life. This work is a summation of Larry's many exciting adventures:In actual contacts (conflicts) with our police and highway patrol; In the Jungles of Africa; In College; As a salesman; Life in General; and as Santa Claus. The stories are true, and when there is an occasional variation from the truth for the sake of excitement, Larry will give you the honest facts. The stories share exciting experiences that are worth sharing; Morals that are worth re-telling; and numerous events that you will enjoy reading more than once. Many readers willl find this book a special gift to pass along to relatives and friends. Because Larry loves to tell jokes, many of his favorites (clean jokes) are found betweenthe chapters of his life.