Four Stories By American Women
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Author |
: Various |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 1990-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101174081 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101174080 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Four Stories by American Women by : Various
Representing four prominent American women writers who flourished in the period following the Civil War, this collection includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Country of the Pointed Firs" by Sarah Orne Jewett, and "Souls Belated" by Edith Wharton. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author |
: Various |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1990-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0140390766 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780140390766 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Four Stories by American Women by : Various
Representing four prominent American women writers who flourished in the period following the Civil War, this collection includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Country of the Pointed Firs" by Sarah Orne Jewett, and "Souls Belated" by Edith Wharton. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author |
: Rachel Monroe |
Publisher |
: Scribner |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2020-07-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501188893 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501188895 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Savage Appetites by : Rachel Monroe
A “necessary and brilliant” (NPR) exploration of our cultural fascination with true crime told through four “enthralling” (The New York Times Book Review) narratives of obsession. In Savage Appetites, Rachel Monroe links four criminal roles—Detective, Victim, Defender, and Killer—to four true stories about women driven by obsession. From a frustrated and brilliant heiress crafting crime-scene dollhouses to a young woman who became part of a Manson victim’s family, from a landscape architect in love with a convicted murderer to a Columbine fangirl who planned her own mass shooting, these women are alternately mesmerizing, horrifying, and sympathetic. A revealing study of women’s complicated relationship with true crime and the fear and desire it can inspire, together these stories provide a window into why many women are drawn to crime narratives—even as they also recoil from them. Monroe uses these four cases to trace the history of American crime through the growth of forensic science, the evolving role of victims, the Satanic Panic, the rise of online detectives, and the long shadow of the Columbine shooting. Combining personal narrative, reportage, and a sociological examination of violence and media in the 20th and 21st centuries, Savage Appetites is a “corrective to the genre it interrogates” (The New Statesman), scrupulously exploring empathy, justice, and the persistent appeal of crime.
Author |
: Gail Collins |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 602 |
Release |
: 2009-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780061739224 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0061739227 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis America's Women by : Gail Collins
Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-century In this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over the past 300 years. As she traces the role of females from their arrival on the Mayflower through the 19th century to the feminist movement of the 1970s and today, she demonstrates a boomerang pattern of participation and retreat. In some periods, women were expected to work in the fields and behind the barricades—to colonize the nation, pioneer the West, and run the defense industries of World War II. In the decades between, economic forces and cultural attitudes shunted them back into the home, confining them to the role of moral beacon and domestic goddess. Told chronologically through the compelling true stories of individuals whose lives, linked together, provide a complete picture of the American woman’s experience, Untitled is a landmark work and major contribution for us all.
Author |
: Terry Tempest Williams |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2013-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250024114 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250024110 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis When Women Were Birds by : Terry Tempest Williams
In 54 chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother's journals in a book that keeps turning around the question, "What does it mean to have a voice?"
Author |
: John D. Hogan |
Publisher |
: SAGE Publications |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2019-08-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781506378244 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1506378242 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Twenty-Four Stories From Psychology by : John D. Hogan
A good story sets the stage for engaged learning. Nowhere is this more important than in foundational courses, such as Introductory or History of Psychology. By weaving foundational and modern characters across a historical landscape, John Hogan’s Twenty-Four Stories from Psychology captivates readers with the rich stories- the who, what, where, why and how- for many of the major theories and colorful characters who have shaped the development of Psychology as a field.
Author |
: Margot Lee Shetterly |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 43 |
Release |
: 2018-05-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062881885 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062881884 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hidden Figures by : Margot Lee Shetterly
Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award–nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award winner Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men into space to picture book readers! Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math…really good. They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a woman limited what they could do. But they worked hard. They persisted. And they used their genius minds to change the world. In this beautifully illustrated picture book edition, we explore the story of four female African American mathematicians at NASA, known as "colored computers," and how they overcame gender and racial barriers to succeed in a highly challenging STEM-based career. "Finally, the extraordinary lives of four African American women who helped NASA put the first men in space is available for picture book readers," proclaims Brightly in their article "18 Must-Read Picture Books of 2018." "Will inspire girls and boys alike to love math, believe in themselves, and reach for the stars."
Author |
: Martha Gellhorn |
Publisher |
: Eland Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1906011621 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781906011628 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Trouble I've Seen by : Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn was the youngest of 16 handpicked reporters who filed accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelt's White House.
Author |
: Sadie Hoagland |
Publisher |
: West Virginia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 2019-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1949199215 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781949199215 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Grief in Four Stages by : Sadie Hoagland
American Grief in Four Stages is a collection of stories that imagines trauma as a space in which language fails us and narrative escapes us. These stories play with form and explore the impossibility of elegy and the inability of our culture to communicate grief, or sympathy, outside of cliché. One narrator, for example, tries to understand her brother's suicide by excavating his use of idioms. Other stories construe grief and trauma in much subtler ways--the passing of an era or of a daughter's childhood, the seduction of a neighbor, the inability to have children. From a dinner party with Aztecs to an elderly shut-in's recollection of her role in the Salem witch trials, these are stories that defy expectations and enrich the imagination. As a whole, this collection asks the reader to envisage the ways in which we suffer as both unbearably painful and unbearably American.
Author |
: E. T. A. Hoffmann |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2003-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0486426963 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780486426969 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Four Stories by : E. T. A. Hoffmann
The 4 tales of this collection embody their author's skills as a humorist and a master of irony as well as his visions of supernatural elements amid ordinary settings. Contents include "Rat Krespel," "Die Bergwerke zu Falun," "Das Fräulein von Scuderi" and "Des Vetters Eckfenster," Hoffmann's last work and the pinnacle of his literary achievements.