Author: Karen Hesse
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545517125
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma. Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.
Author: Carl Rollyson
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496826876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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In her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening to bring down the House of Hughes. Drawing on recently available court records, archives, and interviews, and reevaluating the memoirs of the formidable Hughes contingent who treated Plath as a female hysteric, Carl Rollyson rehabilitates the image of a woman too often viewed solely within the confines of what Hughes and his collaborators wanted to be written. Rollyson is the first biographer to gain access to the papers of Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse at Smith College, a key figure in the poet’s final days. Barnhouse was a therapist who may have been the only person to whom Plath believed she could reveal her whole self. Barnhouse went beyond the protocols of her profession, serving more as Plath’s ally, seeking a way out of the imprisoning charisma of Ted Hughes and friends he counted on to support a regime of antipathy against her. The Last Days of Sylvia Plath focuses on the train of events that plagued Plath’s last seven months when she tried to recover her own life in the midst of Hughes’s alternating threats and reassurances. In a siege-like atmosphere a tormented Plath continued to write, reach out to friends, and care for her two children. Why Barnhouse seemed, in Hughes’s malign view, his wife’s undoing, and how biographers, Hughes, and his cohort parsed the events that led to the poet’s death, form the charged and contentious story this book has to tell.
Author: Donald S. Aultman
Publisher: Pathway Press
ISBN: 1596848146
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 397
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Dr. Donald Aultman brings together in one volume leaders from the Church of God to reveal the Faith of Our Mothers - stories of faithful women who valued, nourished, and trained their children, sometimes against all odds. These are women of virtue and godly character whose faith, patience, sacrifice, and humor forever shaped the sons and daughters now walking in their footsteps. In a culture where Christianity is increasingly marginalized and children are pulled away from faith...in a world that's cold, raw, and harsh...in a society built on high achievement, self-serving goals, and shortsighted pursuits...may God continue to raise up women of faith who will minister the Word of God, love their families, and show us the way home. -Mark L. Williams Church of God Overseer
Author: Charles Graham
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0323149715
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Reproductive Biology of the Great Apes: Comparative and Biomedical Perspectives discusses the great ape reproduction. The book opens with the menstrual cycle of apes as a good foundation for the subject areas that follow. Accordingly, Chapter 2 focuses on the endocrine changes during the stage of pregnancy among apes, specifically the hormonal changes in chimpanzee. Chapter 3 deals mainly on the condition postpartum amenorrhea. In Chapter 4, the reproductive and endocrine development – from fetal development, infancy, juvenile, to puberty – is discussed. Chapters 5 and 6 thoroughly discuss the female and male ape's genital tract and their secretions. The sole topic of Chapter 7 deals mainly with the comparative aspects of ape steroid hormone metabolism. Meanwhile, Chapter 8 tackles laboratory research on apes' sexual behavior. The succeeding chapters talk about the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan reproduction in the wild. Chapters 12 and 13 basically look upon the behaviors of the great apes, specifically intermale competition and sexual selection. The next chapters (14 and 15) look at the necessity of breeding and managing apes in captivity to ensure their continued survival. Lastly, Chapter 16 highlights the significance and great value of apes as models and comparative study in human reproduction. This book will be of great use to human physiologists, comparative anatomists and zoologists, primatologists, ape breeders, and biomedical scientists.
Author: Walther Dr. Friesen
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3759776477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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There are five publications in issue 8, II-2024 of "Journal of Ethnic Microhistory". 1. Dr. Winfrid Halder comments in his essay "The Burden of Memory" on the biographical novel "I was a Wolf Kid from Königsberg" (original title in German: "Ich war ein Wolfskind aus Königsberg") by Ursula Dorn. She describes her experiences that cover mainly the period between the summer of 1944 and October 1948. 2. The editorial board has decided to publish the first chapters of the biographical novel "I was a Wolf Kid from Königsberg" by Ursula Dorn to illustrate to some extent the essay "The Burden of Memory" by Dr. Winfrid Halder. This would be continued in the coming issues of the journal. 3. The article "Germany should be Fit for War" by the historian Alex Dreger is devoted to the comparative analyses of the publication dated October 7, 1894, in "Dortmund Newspaper" (Dortmunder Zeitung) that critically examined Wilhelm Liebknecht's speech in the Reichstag, in which one of the leaders of the SPD introduced a proposal for an army reform in accordance with the political views of Marxists on the armed forces. 4. The article "Do the Soviet Germans Have a Future?" is based on the presentation made on 8 October 1989 in Bonn by the leader of the Russia-German movement Hugo Wormsbecher at the congress of the Association for Germanness Abroad (Verein für das Deutschtum im Ausland - VDA). The original text is in German with a preceding English abstract. 5. The analytical treatise "Moscow is Burning, Moscow is Raging" by Robert Korn is devoted to the anti-German Pogroms in Moscow in May 1915. "Economic measures against Russia-Germans, i.e. the destruction of their enterprises and the deprivation of their property led to an acute aggravation of the social situation, first of all, of the Russian people. The deportation of Russia-Germans, who had been ruined and socially humiliated by the authorities, to the overcrowded central and eastern provinces led to a food supplies' crisis." The paper is written in Russian and preceded by an extended English abstract.
Author: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359370519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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A genealogical compilation of the descendants of Henry & Margareth Crook and their seven children. The couple was married circa 1812 in South Carolina and by 1828 could be found in Rankin County, Mississippi. Many of the descendants are traced to the present, including biographies and photographs when available.
Author: Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1782191585
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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In this hard-hitting collection, acclaimed author Nigel Cawthorne examines ten of the most sickeningly twisted men who are still alive today. Some of them, like serial killer Dennis Nilsen and cult leader Charles Manson, are thankfully behind bars. Others, including the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, are still at large. Unbelievably, one of them, Robert Mugabe, is still clinging to the reins of power and continues to inflict suffering and economic mayhem on the desperate people of Zimbabwe. Inside this book is the gut-twisting story of Charles Taylor, the blood-soaked African general who has 'recruited' thousands of child soldiers, and one of the most shocking cases of recent years: that of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who imprisoned and sexually abused his own daughter for almost a quarter of a century. This collection is a terrifying reminder that monsters really do exist.
Author: Carl Rollyson
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250023157
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, a startling new vision of Plath—the first to draw from the recently-opened Ted Hughes archive The life and work of Sylvia Plath has taken on the proportions of myth. Educated at Smith, she had an epically conflict-filled relationship with her mother, Aurelia. She then married the poet Ted Hughes and plunged into the sturm and drang of married life in the full glare of the world of English and American letters. Her poems were fought over, rejected, accepted and, ultimately, embraced by readers everywhere. Dead at thirty, she committed suicide by putting her head in an oven while her children slept. Her poetry collection titled Ariel became a modern classic. Her novel The Bell Jar has a fixed place on student reading lists. American Isis will be the first Plath bio benefitting from the new Ted Hughes archive at the British Library which includes forty one letters between Plath and Hughes as well as a host of unpublished papers. The Sylvia Plath Carl Rollyson brings to us in American Isis is no shrinking Violet overshadowed by Ted Hughes, she is a modern day Isis, a powerful force that embraced high and low culture to establish herself in the literary firmament.
Author: Londre, Felicia Hardison
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809388585
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Author: Marc Aronson
Publisher: Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 0805098356
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Packed with dramatic photos, posters, and maps, this compelling book captures the fascinating story of photojournalism in modern times.
