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Woman Culture and Society - HOME Woman Culture and Society Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women by Margaret Finnegan, Margaret Finnegan's pathbreaking study of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals how activists came to identify with consumer culture and employ its methods of publicity to win popular support through carefully crafted images of enfranchised women as "personable, likable, and modern." Drawing on organization records, suffragists' papers and memoirs, and newspapers and magazines, Finnegan shows how women found it in their political interest to ally themselves with the rise of ...

Society Lifestyle Choice - HOME Society Lifestyle Choice Successful Aging by John Wallis Rowe, Here at last is a compelling and inspiring presentation of what determines how well we age--the results of the MacArthur Foundation Study of Aging in America, which show how to maintain optimum physical and mental strength throughout later life. Research into aging has been revolutionized in the past ten years largely due to the MacArthur Study, which under the leadership of Drs. John W. Rowe and Robert L. Kahn created a network of leading research scientists from key fields to determine what aging actually involves. Rejecting the established approach of studying aging in terms of anticipated decline, these scientists set out to identify the factors that were enabling vast numbers of people to preserve and even enhance their mental and physical vitality in later life. "Successful Aging brings together the remarkable results of the study for the first time. They explode the myths about aging that have long shaped individual and institutional attitudes toward growing older, including ...

Ordinary People - HOME Ordinary People An Army of Ordinary People ..."they could see that they were ordinary men who had no special training... They recognized them as men who had been with Jesus." In the first century, those ordinary men and women-people just like you-came face-to-face with Jesus and became a force that turned the world upside down. In this powerful collection of stories, Felicity Dale shines the light on the same kind of Holy Spirit activity sweeping the U.S. today...God is mobilizing an army of ordinary people to ...

Career - HOME Career Strategic Career Management for the 21st Century Physician by Gigi Hirsch, Expert Guidance for Physicians Facing the Challenges of Change More and more physicians are feeling dissatisfied with their careers -- not only with their roles in the health care system, but also with medical practice itself. Yet many lack the skills or confidence they need to make the transition to new careers that use their talents in productive, fulfilling ways. Strategic Career Management for the 21st Century Physician, by Gigi Hirsch, MD, can help those physicians who have already begun preparations ...

Career Communication Mass - HOME Career Communication Mass Media and Society: The Production of Culture in the Mass Media by John Ryan, In this large-scale, postindustrial society, the mass media has become deeply embedded into the lifestyles of everyday citizens. People are lured by television ratings, celebrity-sponsored products, and high-profile crimes and scandals, all finding their way into living rooms across America by satellites, cable wires, and modems. This book examines the real, imagined, and potential effects of the mass media on individuals and society. The book explores the processes through which the mass ...

Homeless People - HOME Homeless People Young Homeless People by Suzanne Fitzpatrick, "Young Homeless People takes a broad approach to the distressing phenomenon of youth homelessness. While politicians, researchers and the media focus on the more visibly homeless--those sleeping in city streets and shelters--this book also considers the young homeless hidden in local communities. It places young people's experiences of homelessness in the context of their biographies as a whole and makes policy and practice recommendations based on the views and preferences of young homeless people themselves. Tell Them Who I Am: The ...

Dermatology Career - HOME Dermatology Career Strategic Career Management for the 21st Century Physician by Gigi Hirsch, Expert Guidance for Physicians Facing the Challenges of Change More and more physicians are feeling dissatisfied with their careers -- not only with their roles in the health care system, but also with medical practice itself. Yet many lack the skills or confidence they need to make the transition to new careers that use their talents in productive, fulfilling ways. Strategic Career Management for the 21st Century Physician, by Gigi Hirsch, MD, can help those physicians who have already begun ...

13 Women - HOME 13 Women The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America's first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys' club at NASA and on Capitol Hill. The USSR sent its first woman into space in 1963; the United States did ...

Alternative Career Health - HOME Alternative Career Health Careers in Focus Alternative Healthcare by Ferguson Publishing, Describes the job, requirements, employment options, advancement and salary possibilities, work environment, outlook, and ways to find out more about eighteen careers in alternative health care. Healthy Living: Exercise, Nutrition and Other Healthy Habits by Caroline M. Levchuck, This three-volume set covers a wide range of health-related topics and lifestyle issues for the young adult. Fifteen chapters cover nutrition, personal care and hygiene, sexuality, physical fitness, environmental health, health care systems and careers, preventive care, over-the-counter drugs, ...

Career Link - HOME Career Link New Guide for Occupational Exploration: Linking Interests, Learning and Careers This book is a helpful resource for career-path planning. Readers are able to quickly filter through their interests to find their ideal career with the easy-to-use format. This unique career reference focuses on matching interests to both job and learning options, which encompasses the entire career journey. Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique by Jack Boozer, Achieving the American Dream became inextricably linked with career/business success after World War II, as an increasingly consumerist ...

Society of Financial Service Professional - HOME Society of Financial Service Professional Domestic Violence and Maternal and Child Health Winner of the 2004 Society for the Study of Social Problems, Crime & Delinquency Division Outstanding Scholar Book Award! Domestic Violence and Maternal and Child Health evaluates the impact of intimate partner abuse on maternal and child health. The main focus is on the conditions that increase pregnant women's vulnerability to abuse, the factors that reduce the impact of partner violence, and how professionals and the criminal justice and social services systems can effectively respond to violence. Stephen J. Morewitz ...

Biology Career - HOME Biology Career Opportunities in Biological Science Careers Author: Winter ISBN: 007143187X Category: Careers Trim Size: 5 3/8 x 7 5/8 UPC: 639785385479 Price: $12.95 Your passport to a successful and rewarding career Are you looking to open the door to the career of your dreams? The nation's largest career books series, VGM's Opportunities in . . . gives you the inside scoop on more than 100 professions, as well as on all the essential aspects of your potential career. From the latest training requirements to current salary statistics, each book ...

Culture Early Nomadic Pastoral Society Society - HOME Culture Early Nomadic Pastoral Society Society Mongols from Country to City: Floating Boundaries, Pastorialism and City Life in the Mongol Lands Mongols from Country to City examines the process of cultural change in Mongol societies since the early twentieth century by considering: the interaction of the basic structural features of pastoral nomadism in Mongolia with larger economies, both communist and capitalist; the effect of deliberate cultural reconstruction (ranging from changes to the education system to purges and outright cultural destruction) on the conduct of the pastoral economy; and the efforts of Mongols ...

American Health Education - HOME American Health Education African American Women and Poverty: Can Education Alone Change the Status Quo? by Catherine M. Casserly, Health care policy and proposals for national health care reform have become some of the most contentious political issues of the decade. Garland Publishing announces a new series addressing the most significant issues in the area of health care policy and the business of health care in the United States. books in this multidisciplinary series will include studies of health care practice, the health care business, the implications of multicultural perspectives on health care ... insurance on health care, and debates over national health care policy, including health care reform. This collection of timely works will offer significant scholarly perspectives on one of the most important issues in public policy. An unfulfilled promise This book examines why educational investments by African American women, the group in American society that is most susceptible to being poor, have not reduced poverty as expected. In the United States, public policies rely heavily on education as the powerful mechanism by which economic opportunity will be provided. However, although African American women followed ...

Home in Nation Nationalism State Woman - HOME Home in Nation Nationalism State Woman A Bluestocking in Charleston: The Life and Career of Laura Bragg by Louise Anderson Allen, In early twentieth-century Charleston, Laura Bragg was called a woman ahead of her time, a fresh drink of water in a cultural desert -- but never a "proper Southern lady". Bragg was a Massachusetts-born bluestocking, a New Woman of the Progressive Era who changed not only the cultural face of Charleston but also the nation's approach to museum education. In this biography of a most remarkable visionary, Louise Anderson Allen reveals how Bragg also achieved the objective of early feminists: full political, social, and economic equality on her own terms. Highlighting Bragg's work with museums from 1909 to 1939, Allen examines the life and career of the first woman in the United States to lead a publicly supported museum -- and the oldest such institution in the country -- the Charleston Museum. Bragg used the facility to provide educational services to both black and white South Carolinians and broke new ground with ...

Benefit Care Chiropractic - ... Can Stop Your Pain and Help You Regain Your Healthwithout Drugs or Surgery by Michael Lenarz, Chiropractic has become America's most popular form of alternative health care, offering lasting relief from pain--and many other health benefits--to more than 25 million patients annually. Yet many people still wonder exactly how chiropractic heals, and even experienced patients may be able to get more from their treatments. In this accessible and fascinating book, Dr. Michael Lenarz illuminates the basic principles of spinal health, showing how the body naturally lets go of stored pain and ... political party in Hultsfred, Sweden. The party is led by GÃ¶ran Berglund. Elderly care - Elderly care or elder care is a broad term encompassing such services as assisted living, adult day care, long term care, nursing homes, hospice care, and Alzheimer's care. benefitcarechiropractic Fraternal Benefit Society - Fraternal Benefit Society The Exercise-Health Connection SHIPPING INCLUDED Most people realize that physical activity can help them look fraternal benefit society and feel good. But with so much hype fraternal benefit society and so many false claims about exercise today, itâ€™s difficult to ...

Pursuing Career - HOME Pursuing Career Opportunities in Biological Science Careers Author: Winter ISBN: 007143187X Category: Careers Trim Size: 5 3/8 x 7 5/8 UPC: 639785385479 Price: $12.95 Your passport to a successful and rewarding career Are you looking to open the door to the career of your dreams? The nation's largest career books series, VGM's Opportunities in . . . gives you the inside scoop on more than 100 professions, as well as on all the essential aspects of your potential career. From the latest training requirements to current salary statistics, each book ...

Career Salary - HOME Career Salary Careers for Sports Nuts & Other Athletic Types category] Careers Careers for Sports Nuts & Other Athletic Types Behind every superstar is a team of people getting paid to do what they love. The world of sports is a wide-open playing field for people of various talents looking for rewarding, fulfilling careers. If you can't get enough sports and want to earn a lucrative salary doing what you love, this practical guide is for you. In Careers for Sports Nuts, you'll learn how the sports obsessed like yourself can ...

Career Computer Engineering Information Ï¿½ - HOME Career Computer Engineering Information Ï¿½ Directory of Jobs & Careers Abroad by Jonathan Packer, This revised eleventh edition of the comprehensive guide to all kinds of work abroad provides essential information on permanent career opportunities around the world for people of all walks of life from school leavers to fully qualified professionals. There are opportunities overseas for teachers, doctors, nurses, journalists, computer operators, translators, engineers, secretaries, and many more. The Directory of Jobs and Careers Abroad lists the professions and trades in demand overseas and gives all the facts on over 35 different ...

Ancient Roman Architecture - HOME Ancient Roman Architecture Roman Architecture and Society by Anderson, James C., Jr., Focusing primarily on Rome and other cities of central Italy, James C. Anderson, jr., describes the training, career path, and social status of both architects and builders. He explains how the construction industry was organized -- from marble and timber suppliers to bricklayers and carpenters. He examines the political, legal, and economic factors that determined what would be built, and where. And he shows how the various types of public and private Roman buildings relate to the urban space as a ...

American Cancer Card Holiday Shopping Society - HOME American Cancer Card Holiday Shopping Society Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity by Marilyn Halter, In America today, you can connect to your ethnic heritage in dozens of ways, or adopt an identity just for an evening. Our society is not a melting pot but a salad bar--a bazaar in which the purveyors of goods and services spend close to $2 billion a year marketing the foods, clothing, objects, vacations, and events that help people express their (and others') ethnic identities. This is a huge business, whose target groups are ...

Career Transition - HOME Career Transition Strategic Career Management for the 21st Century Physician by Gigi Hirsch, Expert Guidance for Physicians Facing the Challenges of Change More and more physicians are feeling dissatisfied with their careers -- not only with their roles in the health care system, but also with medical practice itself. Yet many lack the skills or confidence they need to make the transition to new careers that use their talents in productive, fulfilling ways. Strategic Career Management for the 21st Century Physician, by Gigi Hirsch, MD, can help those physicians who have already begun ...

Arts Bob H Hoskins People - HOME Arts Bob H Hoskins People Partial to Home: A Memoir of a Charmed Life by Bob Timberlake, Bob Timberlake was 28, married, with three children and a good job in his family's propane gas business, when he came home from work one night and sat down to browse through Life magazine. In it, he came across an article about the painter Andrew Wyeth that was to change his life. Although he'd never had an art lesson or set foot in an art gallery or museum, he was suddenly certain that he ... that in just a few years would see him become one of America's most successful realist painters, his works fetching high prices and exhibited in prestigious museums. His art not only led him to know presidents, movie stars, the future king of England, and other powerful people but pushed him to become one the world's top 10 designers, creating the most successful furniture line in history as well as many other products, including a new line of Timberlake homes. Yet Timberlake never felt responsible for his successes. He was certain that ...

Womens Health Fitness Magazine - HOME Womens Health Fitness Magazine Pregnancy Fitness by Fitness Magazine, Pregnancy Fitness, by the experts at Fitness Magazine, provides expectant mothers with all the information they need to exercise safely and effectively throughout their pregnancy. Whether you're a hard-core triathlete or just starting a fitness program for the first time, proper exercise can ensure a healthier pregnancy, an easier delivery, and a faster recovery. Pregnancy Fitness guides you carefully through every trimester, covering the physical changes and common complaints for each one, from shortness of breath to dizziness to morning sickness. In ... book cover specific concerns: Can I continue running in the second trimester? Can I lift more than ten pounds? And How to Cope sidebars address common conditions from swollen joints and sleep problems to cravings and gestational diabetes. Based on the latest medical research and designed for women of every fitness level, Pregnancy Fitness is the ideal and essential exercise resource for every mother-to-be. Endometriosis: The Complete Reference for Taking Charge of Your Health by Mary Lou Ballweg, The definitive guide to living with endometriosis Some eighty-nine million women worldwide ...

Lanark Animal Welfare Society - HOME Lanark Animal Welfare Society Animal Welfare by Colin Spedding, Public concern over the use of animals by human society is deepening. Still this awareness is dogged by the lack of a clear and objective exposition of the issues involved as well as a sense of possible conflict between human and animal welfare.Animal Welfare addresses these dilemmas - what is the actual scale of the animal welfare problem; where does responsibility begin; what positive steps are actually being taken to alleviate animal suffering; can a rational and compelling argument be given for the ...

Beautiful Black Female Model Pic - HOME Beautiful Black Female Model Pic Vogue Women by Georgina Howell, Since 1916, Vogue has defined the essence of glamour and style. Distinguished, notorious, beautiful, sexy or striking, the singular women featured throughout the twentieth century in Vogue's glossy pages set exceptional standards of taste and fashion. In ten inspiring essays on themes such as Royals, Muses, Models, Stars, and Society Girls, the significant influences of many remarkable women are charted, and pertinent questions regarding beauty and the female form are considered. With expert analysis the author explores the contrasting representations of ...

Medieval Renaissance Tradition - HOME Medieval Renaissance Tradition Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition by Barbara K. Gold, Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century. This collection reclaims a vast body of long-neglected Latin texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and examines how they represent the feminine and the female body. The authors explore the ideological values explicitly encoded ...