Author: Marge Piercy
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: female
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1980-03-12
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0394738594
ISBN-13: 9780394738598

Her seventh and most wide ranging collection. In the 1st of 2 sections, the poems move from the amusingly elegiac to the erotic, the classical to the funny. The 2nd section is a series of 15 poems for a calendar based on lunar rather than solar divisions

Author: Marge Piercy
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: new, york, gilded, novel, wars, sex
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0060789875
ISBN-13: 9780060789879

Post–Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In this era of free love, emerging rights of women, and brutal sexual repression, Freydeh, a spirited young Jewish immigrant, toils at different jobs to earn passage to America for her family. Learning that her younger sister is adrift somewhere in the city, she begins a determined search that carries her from tenement to brothel to prison—as her story interweaves with those of some of the epoch’s most notorious figures: Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Susan B. Anthony; sexual freedom activist Victoria Woodhull, the firs

Author: Marge Piercy
Publisher: Fawcett
Keywords:
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1993-01-23
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0449220605
ISBN-13: 9780449220603

"A triumph of the imagination. Rich, complex, impossible to put down."Alice HoffmanIn the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman’s marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed by Malkah, the brilliant grandmother who raised her, and meets an extraordinary man who is not a man at all, but a unique cyborg implanted with intelligence, emotions--and the ability to kill....From the imagi

Author: Marge Piercy
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: memoir, cats, sleeping
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0060936045
ISBN-13: 9780060936044

Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. She pays tribute to the one loving constant that has offered her comfort and meaning even as the faces and events in her life have changed -- her beloved cats.With searing honesty, Piercy tells of her strained childhood growing up in a religiously split, working-class family in Detroit. She examines her myriad friendships and relationships, including two painful early marriages, and reveals their effects on her

Author: Marge Cambre
Publisher: ScarecrowEducation
Keywords: challenges, technology, teachers, amp, tools, toys
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2004-11-15
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1578861640
ISBN-13: 9781578861644

Cambre and Hawkes offer a framework for thinking about technology as it impacts teaching and learning today. We look at technology through a trifocal lense: technology as teaching aid, technology as threat, and technology as progress. We trace the evolution of school technology briefly, leading up to the computer as the point convergence. From the toys they play with to the tools they learn with, we see that students are bombarded with things technological. This mushrooming of technology and how it is to be integrated into the classroom presents challenges that must be confronted so that, inde

Author: Marge Poore
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: recipes, mexican
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2001-09-29
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0764564870
ISBN-13: 9780764564871

Author: Marge E. Landsberg
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Keywords: studies, anthropological, linguistics, dimension, human, iconicity, linguistic, freezes, syntactic
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 1995-06
List price: $218.00
ISBN-10: 3110142279
ISBN-13: 9783110142273