An accessible one-volume encyclopedia, this addition to the Literary Movements series is a comprehensive reference guide to the history and development of feminist literature, from early fairy tales to works by great women writers of today. Hundred
Community projects often falter after the interviews are completed. This final book of the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit explains the importance of processing and archiving oral histories and takes the reader through all the steps required for good archiving and for concluding the oral history project so that it is preserved and accessible for future generations. The authors give special attention to record-keeping systems and repositories, and provide several examples from actual projects to ground the information in practical terms. Charts, checklists, and sample forms also help the reader apply concepts to practice. Volume 5 finishes with examples of creative ways community projects have used oral histories, such as performances, exhibitions, celebrations, websites, and more, in order to promote history and engage the community.
The third book in the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit leads project managers through the management of people, money, technology, publicity, and administrative tasks from the beginning to the end of the project.
A writer’s life is upended by her destructive ex-husband in this intensely personal novel by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Group. Former actress and budding playwright Martha Sinnott longs to recapture the “charmed life” she abandoned when she divorced her first husband. So she returns to her beloved New England artists’ colony with her second husband—and discovers that little has changed. The same people make up the same tightly knit society. Nevertheless, her eagerly anticipated homecoming does include some rude awakenings. Martha’s arrogant ex, Miles, is dangerously close by, living with his new wife. The people Martha once counted among her closest friends have become also-rans and never-weres, unhappy and often resentful. And in this pervasive atmosphere of falsehoods and self-delusions, the biggest lie of all is Martha’s belief that her reunion with Miles won’t somehow wreak terrible havoc on all she holds dear. A New York Times bestseller by an author with “an icily honest eye and a glacial wit that make her portraits stingingly memorable,” A Charmed Life is a smart, mesmerizing portrait of love, marriage, and deception (The New York Times). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author’s estate.
Attended the Ohio Library Councils Trade Show on Sept. 12, 2008. Over 380 Librarians stopped by my booth. After reading the reveiws and excerpts from the books the general comment was: You are the author Librarians have been looking for! *** BOOK REVIEW*** January 3, 2008 Arizona Daily Star J.C. Martin Special to the Arizona Daily Star On the other hand for a romantic, upbeat story of good luck rewarding hard work, try "Woman of the Wind" (Xlibris, $22.99) by Mary Katherine Arensberg, in which Idaho rancher Sarah Jane Pettigrew triumphs in a mans world to become the wealthiest woman in turn-of-the-20th-century Idaho(and to snag a British peer).****** READER EMAIL: Just wanted you to know I received you book (Woman of the Wind). I finished reading it last night. I really liked it, it was sad for it to end, it was a book that I wanted to keep going. I felt like I was losing a friend when I got to the end. I told my mom about it and she is so looking forward to borrowing it. I cant wait for your next one. Terry W. Minnesota******* A riveting story of passion, promise and triumph Meet Sarah Jane Pettigrew, Woman of the Wind and see how her steadfast devotion has brought forth the desires of her heart. A committed and strong willed woman, unbreakable; cannot be defeated by adversities in life. To reach her goals she at times runs with wind and other times stands against it. Passionate describes Woman of The Wind, in author Mary Katherine Arensbergs riveting story of love, adventure, humor, determination.
Even the most explicitly political contemporary approaches to Shakespeare have been uninterested by his tyrants as such. But for Shakespeare, rather than a historical curiosity or psychological aberration, tyranny is a perpetual political and human problem. Mary Ann McGrail's recovery of the playwright's perspective challenges the grounds of this modern critical silence. She locates Shakespeare's expansive definition of tyranny between the definitions accepted by classical and modern political philosophy. Is tyranny always the worst of all possible political regimes, as Aristotle argues in his Politics? Or is disguised tyranny, as Machiavelli proposes, potentially the best regime possible? These competing conceptions were practiced and debated in Renaissance thought, given expression by such political actors and thinkers as Elizabeth I, James I, Henrie Bullinger, Bodin, and others. McGrail focuses on Shakespeare's exploration of the conflicting and contradictory passions that make up the tyrant and finds that Shakespeare's dramas of tyranny rest somewhere between Aristotle's reticence and Machiavelli's forthrightness. Literature and politics intersect in Tyranny in Shakespeare, which will fascinate students and scholars of both.
The interview is the anchor of an oral history project. The fourth book in the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit guides the interviewer through all the steps from interview preparation through follow-up. It includes guidance on selecting interviewees, training interviewers, using recording equipment, and ethical issues concerning the interviewer-interviewee relationship. Packed with instructive case studies, Volume 4 offers concrete practical examples and advice for issues such as pre-interview research, developing interview questions and points for guiding discussion, ideal interview settings and conditions, strategies for stimulating interviewees’ memories, acceptable communication techniques and behavior throughout the interview process, and rounding out interview documentation with supplementary materials and contextual information.
In Women and Narrative Identity Green demonstrates that the "national text" has at times functioned to constrain women's literary expression, while in other cases it has empowered the feminine voice, endowing it with a unique identitary power. She shows that writers such as Laure Conan, Germaine Guèvremont, Gabrielle Roy, Anne Hébert, and Marie-Claire Blais have been recognized as important because they have been widely perceived as speaking to and about the people of Quebec. The Quebec identity narrative has offered women writers a framework within which they are able not only to make their voices heard but to tell a story of feminine dispossession and desire that often questions central cultural values. Green shows that while women writers in Europe and America have subtly altered the form of the novel, in Quebec women have, in rewriting the narratives of Quebec identity, also redefined the terms of the nation itself.
Each Novelette recalls life in the early nineteen hundreds. The characters become very real as you empathize with them anxiously awaiting the unexpected. With a Dickensonian feel, these small town country stories, in a Midwest setting, are a compelling read. These four novelettes are all set in a historic time frame. Bridges to Hope is a must read! In today's fast paced world, it is good for the soul to pull up a chair and a cup of tea with Mary Jean Roberts writings! I could not put it down. I just loved that book. It was fantastic, the writing, the script. I can't say enough about it. -Bridget Elwart
Passive House in Different Climates introduces the seven Passive House principles, to help you create super-insulated, airtight buildings that require minimal energy use to heat, cool, dehumidify, and ventilate, with superior indoor air quality and year-round comfort. Seventeen case studies in four climate zones---marine, cold and very cold, mixed-dry and hot-dry, and mixed-humid and hot-humid---and in ten countries, show you how to achieve net-zero energy regardless of where you’re building or what type of building is required. Includes more than 150 color illustrations.
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