An interesting guide to clothing worn on a day-to-day basis in Pharaonic Egypt. It provides information about the basic garment types from loincloths to headgear using actual examples and numerous illustrations based on ancient Egyptian representations.
This text discusses the development of the Women's Co-operative Guild from the 1880s to World War II. Charting the rise and fall of a feminist organization, the author assesses its political significance and examines the causes of its demise.
Florence Nightingale was for a time the most famous woman in Britain–if not the world. We know her today primarily as a saintly character, perhaps as a heroic reformer of Britain’s health-care system. The reality is more involved and far more fascinating. In an utterly beguiling narrative that reads like the best Victorian fiction, acclaimed author Gillian Gill tells the story of this richly complex woman and her extraordinary family. Born to an adoring wealthy, cultivated father and a mother whose conventional facade concealed a surprisingly unfettered intelligence, Florence was connected by kinship or friendship to the cream of Victorian England’s intellectual aristocracy. Though moving in a world of ease and privilege, the Nightingales came from solidly middle-class stock with deep traditions of hard work, natural curiosity, and moral clarity. So it should have come as no surprise to William Edward and Fanny Nightingale when their younger daughter, Florence, showed an early passion for helping others combined with a precocious bent for power. Far more problematic was Florence’s inexplicable refusal to marry the well-connected Richard Monckton Milnes. As Gill so brilliantly shows, this matrimonial refusal was at once an act of religious dedication and a cry for her freedom–as a woman and as a leader. Florence’s later insistence on traveling to the Crimea at the height of war to tend to wounded soldiers was all but incendiary–especially for her older sister, Parthenope, whose frustration at being in the shade of her more charismatic sibling often led to illness. Florence succeeded beyond her wildest dreams. But at the height of her celebrity, at the age of thirty-seven, she retired to her bedroom and remained there for most of the rest of her life, allowing visitors only by appointment. Combining biography, politics, social history, and consummate storytelling, Nightingales is a dazzling portrait of an amazing woman, her difficult but loving family, and the high Victorian era they so perfectly epitomized. Beautifully written, witty, and irresistible, Nightingales is truly a tour de force.
A time capsule, which had been buried under the cornerstone of the Greene County Courthouse in 1901 ... was opened at the courthouse centennial celebrations in 2001 ... [This book] contains many of the pictures and documents enclosed in [the] time capsule, with interesting supplemental photographs provided by local historical institutions of the people and places described in those documents."--P. [4] of cover.
With NetObjects Fusion, designers need not mess with direct HTML coding; instead, everything a Web builder needs is available through intuitive graphic toolbars and menu selections. NetObjects Fusion 2 is a visual program, which fits the easy-to-learn approach taken by this guide. The book moves beyond application-specific discussion to include planning structure, designing look and feel, creating content, and managing a site.
For courses covering the Internet/World Wide Web and HTML. SELECT: Internet provides introductory level students with skill-building, hands-on exercises that will get them up and running on the Internet in no time! The focus is on a spiraled development approach that integrates all features of the Internet into a powerful resource package, rather than focusing on each component as a separate entity. Concepts learned from the first project on are extended in subsequent projects. An accompanying Internet Website is provided and constantly updated and mail robots are set up to automatically respond to students' practice e-mail messages. SELECT: Internet is not browser specific so anyone can use it! SELECT: Internet Explorer 4.0 focuses on the essentials of this browser from Microsoft using a non-technical, non-jargon approach. This text teaches students how to use the global network to communicate in real time across the planet and includes coverage of bundled mail and news programs. SELECT: Internet Explorer 4.0 is perfect for any multi applications or concepts plus applications course in which hands-on coverage of the Internet is included using the most recent Internet Explorer browser. The SELECT Lab Series is beautifully illustrated with an easy-to-follow, class tested pedagogical design incorporated in a series of skill-building, hands-on projects enhanced by numerous full-color screen captures. SELECT: Netscape Communicator 4.0 covers basic through more intermediate skills including searching the Web and using Internet phone, collaboration, and conferencing tools. It is also quick and easy to create a custom Right PHIT package and take advantage of deep discounts by combining titles from Prentice Hall's SELECT Lab Series and Computer Information Systems List.
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