Autobiography of Mark Twain - 100th Anniversary Edition
by Mark Twain, Samuel, Clemens, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Lessons Learned?: Reflecting on forty years in childcare. A Memoir by John Fitzgerald
by John Fitzgerald
Brothers Ben and Damien are shockingly quiet when they arrive on Maggie's doorstep. They don't shout or play like normal three and four year olds. They hardly dare make a sound, so much have they been conditioned to be 'seen and not heard' by their mother and controlling stepfather.More disturbingly, their little baby half-brother Noah is completely unresponsive. He doesn't play, he doesn't smile, he doesn't crawl - he doesn't even cry. In a state of blankness brought about by emotional neglect,...
The only pocket-size reference on supervising psychological testing and assessment
by Josephine Kling
“Ilyasah Shabazz has written a compelling and lyrical coming-of-age story as well as a candid and heart-warming tribute to her parents. Growing Up X is destined to become a classic.” –SPIKE LEE February 21, 1965: Malcolm X is assassinated in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. June 23, 1997: After surviving for a remarkable twenty-two days, his widow, Betty Shabazz, dies of burns suffered in a fire. In the years between, their six daughters reach adulthood, forged by the memory of their parents’ love, t...
Stanley J. Tambiah discusses the life of Edmund Leach (1910–1989), one of Britain's foremost social and cultural anthropologists, and a man of extraordinary versatility, originality and intellectual breadth. His substantial contributions to anthropology deal with topics including kinship and social organization, hill tribes and valley peoples, tenure and peasant economy, aesthetics, British structural-functional methodology, the structuralism of Levi-Strauss, biblical narratives and the myths of...
A mixture of biography, love story, intellectual history and political analysis, this fascinating book focuses on the life of novelist, political activist and thinker, Ruth Schechter, and those of her friends and associates in Cape Town in the first three decades of the 20th century. Her friendships and correspondents embraced Gandhi, Olive Schreiner, Laurens van der Post, Lancelot Hogben, much of the Cape Town revolutionary left and parliamentarian colleagues of her first husband, Morris Alexan...
Author Charlotte Abrams presents this proud family sketch early on in her memoir of life in Chicago with her sister and her deaf parents. Hers is a loving portrayal of how a close Jewish family survived the Depression and the home front hardships of World War II with the added complications of communication for her mother and father. Rich episodes detail history from a particularly acute point of view that entertain as they subtly inform. Her father, a former prizefighter, considered the gift of...
Before They Could Vote
The life narratives in this collection are by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambition - some well known, some forgotten over generations - who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sexual difference as they pursued or adapted to adventurous new lives in a rapidly changing America. The engaging selections - from captivity narratives to letters, manifestos, criminal confessions, and childhood sketches - span a hundred years in which women increasingly asserted themselves publicly...
The inspiring story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, her fight for equal rights in the workplace, and how her determination became a victory for the nation Lilly Ledbetter always knew that she was destined for something more than what she was born into: a house with no running water or electricity in the small town of Possum Trot, Alabama. In 1979, when Lilly applied for her dream job at the Goodye...
Max Weber (Bio-Bibliographies in Sociology)
by Peter Kivisto and William H. Swatos
Max Weber is surpassed only by Karl Marx in the breadth of his influence as a social scientist. This bio-bibliography presents a complete listing of printed translations of Weber's works into English and a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of the secondary literature in English about Weber and his work. The first part contains chapter-length biographies of Weber, an overview of Weber's reception in Anglo-America, and a brief discussion of archival holdings for those interested in primary sou...
Available here for the first time in English, this eyewitness account by one of Freud's earliest students has been rediscovered for twenty-first-century readers. Isidor Sadger's recollections provide a unique window into the early days of the psychoanalytic movement - the internecine and ideological conflicts of Freud's disciples. They also illuminate Freud's own struggles: his delight in wit, his attitudes toward Judaism, and his strong opinions concerning lay, nonmedical analysts. As a student...
Love is a many splendoured thing, a diverse jewel, and nowhere is that more evident than in this unique publication. Offering a most distinctive take on its subject, Love lets us walk hand in hand through the twentieth century with some of its most famous couples. Their desire might have been to make a private world together, but they are also among those who have reformulated our ideas of what relationships could be, who have found equal status as independent but supportive partners, both makin...
Franz Boas is one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century. In "Franz Boas: The Early Years", 1858-1906, Douglas Cole provides a personal and intellectual biography of Boas from his childhood in Germany to his resignation from the American Museum of Natural History in 1906. This account of the development of Boas's thought is unprecedented in drawing extensively from the vast collection of Boas papers at Philadelphia's American Philosophical Society. The Boas family's lif...
The career of Stefanie Powers is one of so many stage, screen, and television credits that her name alone recalls memories as varied as her roles--on screen and off. From movie roles including John Wayne's daughter in "McLintock! "and Lana Turner's rival in "Love Has Many Faces," to being terrorized by Tallulah Bankhead in "Die, Die My Darling "and befriending a Volkswagen in "Herbie Rides Again," she stepped onto the television screen as the sexy secret agent April Dancer in "The Girl from U.N....
Memoirs of an Indian Woman
by Shudha Mazumdar and Geraldine Hancock Forbes
This vivid memoir recounts the experience of Shudha Mazumdar, a woman born at the turn of the century to Indian parents whose ideas on child rearing differed greatly. Her father, a wealthy Europeanized Zamindar, tried to instill Western values, while Shudha's mother emphasized the traditional, even going as far as arranging a marriage for her daughter when she was thirteen. Although true to Indian traditions, Shudha eventually manifested her father's influence by becoming a published writer, by...
From Oedipus to Moses (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
by Marthe Robert
Winner of the Gulliver Prize in the original French edition, this book offers a fascinating account of the relationship between Freud's Jewish background and the genesis of his theory of psychoanalysis.