Authors:Brooks, Mary Hays, Marilyn Brooks, Marilyn L.,
Publisher: Broadview Press
Keywords: literary, texts, broadview, courtney, emma, memoirs
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2000-01-25
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1551111551
ISBN-13: 9781551111551

In November of 1795, after William Godwin requested a sketch of Mary Hays life, she arrived at the idea of Memoirs of Emma Courtney. Godwin followed up his request with a "hint" that a fictional exploration of the painful experience she had undergone in her relationship with William Frend might help her to come to terms with it. It was to be an "instructive rather that self indulgent" work. The resulting novel is one of the most interesting and important explorations of gender-related issues of the time. Emma is exposed to a series of situations -- motherlessness, orphanhood, poverty, depe

Author: Mary Brooks
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: rules, transport, multimodal
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997-01-29
List price: $181.00
ISBN-10: 9041103600
ISBN-13: 9789041103604

Multimodal operations has become a major means of transport in international trade. Yet surprisingly, its risks and responsibilities are not well understood in the business and legal communities. This book offers insight into the complex legal regimes governing multimodal transport and the equally subtle commercial influences operating in the market for multimodal services. Since 1973, the international community has fashioned three sets of Multimodal Rules. In Multimodal Transport Rules, the authors analyse their application and compare their operation in a variety of typical situat

Author: Mary R. Brooks
Publisher: ASEAN Economic Research Unit, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in collaboration with Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University and Oceans Institute of Canada
Keywords: region, asean, seafarers
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 1989-12
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 9813035137
ISBN-13: 9789813035133

Author: Mary Brooks Picken
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: dover, craft, books, flowers, trimmings, fashioned, ribbon, old
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1993-12-22
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0486275213
ISBN-13: 9780486275215

Profusely illustrated how-to book describes over 30 ways to add decorative touches to clothing, household accessories and more. Easy instructions for folding and sewing strips of ribbon into dramatic bows, ruffles and bands; and fashioning them into daisies, grapes, chrysanthemums, rosebuds, violets, petunias, dahlias, sunflowers and more.

Author: Mary Brooks Picken
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: modern, historic, fashion, costume, dictionary
Number of Pages: 446
Published: 1998-06-15
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0486402940
ISBN-13: 9780486402949

Fascinating, fact-filled compendium defines over 10,000 words associated with wearing apparel and fashion. From bateau necklines to trilbys and vamps, individual terms are assembled alphabetically in groups according to dress parts, fabrics, and other style categories. Enhanced with over 750 clearly detailed illustrations, this comprehensive guide will be welcomed by fashion writers, designers, and anyone interested in the history of fashion trends.

Authors:Mary Ann Irwin, James F. Brooks,
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: west, american, gender, women
Number of Pages: 447
Published: 2004-10-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0826335993
ISBN-13: 9780826335999

In 1990 the Coalition for Western Women’s History inaugurated the Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize to recognize outstanding scholarship on gender and the experiences of women in the North American West. Since then, the Jensen-Miller Prize committees have considered nearly two hundred submissions, and chosen thirteen for the skill and imagination with which the authors conducted research in original materials or reinterpreted a major problem in the field. Each piece was done with grace and style, and shaped the field for future historians. Women and Gender in the American West collects the

Authors:Mary Jo Deegan, Nancy A. Brooks,
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: handicap, double, disability, women
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1984-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0887380174
ISBN-13: 9780887380174