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To be a woman is to be half the world’s population but, in many countries, unfortunately still now and for most of history, women were decidedly second class, normally no more than chattels and the bearers and nurturers of children. As society involved into a complex and overlapping system where education and equality begin to seek space things began to change. In this volume our authors describe and reveal how life actually felt for almost all women before the recent past.

In this second edition of We Can't Talk about That at Work!, bestselling author Mary-Frances Winters and new coauthor Mareisha N. Reese of The Winters Group, Inc., provide fresh examples, updated research, and compelling insights. Featuring a new chapter on how two organizations have actualized the model for Bold, Inclusive Conversations as well as a discussion guide, this modern classic offers step-by-step guidance for conducting structured conversations around polarizing topics.

Told through the eyes of a witty, outgoing, and curious little girl, Francie beautifully weaves together personal narratives and historical information about the ever-present American tragedy known as Appalachia. She peels back layers of her early life while walking us through the patches where coal miners and their families once lived, the impact of surviving in a contaminated environment, and the everyday threat of pollution, addiction, toothlessness, chronic depression, and abuse. An area where drugs and alcohol numb the pain of reality.

In the wake of the Roman conquest, the Celtic Gauls embraced Roman culture and language, setting the stage for a transformative era. Mary Duclauxs engaging narrative explores the evolution of France into a Catholic feudal society amid Germanic invasions. Journey through time as we witness the rise of towns, the ascent of the French monarchy, and the tumultuous events of the Hundred Years War and the Wars of Religion. Meet iconic figures like Joan of Arc, Charles VII, the valiant Henry IV, and the Sun King, Louis XIV, whose reign pushed France to the edge of financial ruin. The second half ...

In this groundbreaking biography, Mary Frances Phillips immerses listeners in the life and legacy of Ericka Huggins, a revered Black Panther Party member, as well as a mother, widow, educator, poet, and former political prisoner. In 1969, the police arrested Ericka Huggins along with Bobby Seale and fellow Black Panther Party members, who were accused of murdering Alex Rackley. This marked the beginning of her ordeal, as she became the subject of political persecution and a well-planned FBI COINTELPRO plot.

This book contains the following works: 1. Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum 2. William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream 3. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden 4. Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man 5. Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island 6. H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness 7. Jack London: The Call of the Wild 8. Mary W. Shelley: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus 9. Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human (Confessions of a Faulty Man) 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Explore the extraordinary life of Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre (Marguerite de Navarre), who lived from 1492 to 1549. As the sister of Francis I, King of France, Margaret was a woman of remarkable intellect, once pursued by the future Henry VIII of England. Yet, at just seventeen, she found herself wed to the unrefined Charles IV of Alençon by royal decree. After his untimely death, she married Henry II of Navarre, with whom she had a daughter—who would become the mother of the future Henry IV of France—and a son who tragically passed away in infancy. Journey ...

Immerse yourself in the poignant life story of Emily Brontë, the revered author of Wuthering Heights. Born in 1818 in Yorkshire, England, Brontës life was marred by tragedy from a young age, with the loss of her mother to cancer when she was just three years old. Her experience at the Clergy Daughters School, where she faced harsh conditions and witnessed the death of two of her sisters, deeply affected her, an experience that her sister Charlotte echoed in Jane Eyre. Emilys artistic prowess emerged in 1846 when she published her poetry under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, shortly followed ...

Mysterious happenings to a small handicapped boy in a little Somerset village, way back in the 1930s, suddenly repeat themselves in the 21st Century. At the first event the villagers kept quiet about what they thought was either hallucination, witchcraft or a little boy’s mischief. They suspected, quite rightly, that they wouldn’t be believed. However, silence turns out to be impossible in the present media and online culture, with the result that the lives of two families are disrupted and changed forever.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of American women authors whose time has now come again.

In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country. There are times when love is not a revelation and a calling from one soul to another but a carefully navigated path, or maybe a badly chosen path that decimates happiness. Which way will our literary leviathans take us? Inevitably it will be more than one.

An orphan girl raising her brother in the back alleys of London in the years prior to the American Revolution has only one goal in mind: to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. But the government and fate have different plans.