Author: Amanda Vickery
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: yale, nota, bene, england, georgian, daughter, women, lives, gentleman
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 2003-08-11
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0300102224
ISBN-13: 9780300102222

Eighteenth-century women have long been presented as the heroines of traditional biographies, or as the faceless victims of vast historical processes, but rarely have they been deemed worthy of rigorous historical enquiry. Based on a close examination of letters, diaries and account books, this study offers an insight into the intimate and everyday lives of genteel women and transforms our understanding of the position of women in this period.

Author: Amanda Paul
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, cumberland
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003-10-27
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738514985
ISBN-13: 9780738514987

Settled on the banks of the Potomac, Cumberland has watched time and progress stream through since its days as a fort in the colonial wilderness. Ascending the throne as the ìQueen of the Alleghenies,î the town became an essential transportation and industrial hub throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Serving as the starting point for the National Road, the western terminus of the C&O Canal, and an important link along the B&O and Western Maryland Railroads, Cumberland attracted dozens of industries that churned out glass, textiles, tires, and even local brews. Prosperity and growt

Author: Amanda E Lewis
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: rutgers, series, childhood, studies, communities, classrooms, schoolyard, negotiating, color, line, race
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2003-03-18
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0813532256
ISBN-13: 9780813532257

Could your kids be learning a fourth R at school: reading, writing, ’rithmatic, and race? Race in the Schoolyard takes us to a place most of us seldom get to see in action¾our children’s classrooms¾ and reveals the lessons about race that are communicated there. Amanda E. Lewis spent a year observing classes at three elementary schools, two multiracial urban and one white suburban. While race of course is not officially taught like multiplication and punctuation, she finds that it nonetheless insinuates itself into everyday life in schools. Lewis explains how the curriculum, both

Author: Amanda Rondeau
Publisher: SandCastle
Keywords: vital, vegetables
Number of Pages: 23
Published: 2002-06
List price: $19.93
ISBN-10: 1577658353
ISBN-13: 9781577658351

Author: Amanda S. Barusch
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Keywords: social, perspective, human, policy, foundations, justice
Number of Pages: 555
Published: 2008-07-03
List price: $141.95
ISBN-10: 0495507164
ISBN-13: 9780495507161

Reflecting an emerging consensus that social justice is a primary mission of the social work profession, this innovative text provides a thorough grounding in policy analysis with extensive coverage of policy practice and a unique emphasis on the broad issues and human dilemmas inherent in the pursuit of social justice. Organized in four parts, the book introduces several philosophical perspectives on what constitutes social justice, and identifies the values and assumptions reflected in contemporary policy debates. Part I provides a framework for policy analysis and policy practice, as well a

Author: Amanda Davis
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, miss, wonder
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-03
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0060534265
ISBN-13: 9780060534264

At fifteen, Faith Duckle was lured under the bleachers by a bunch of boys and brutally attacked. Now, almost a year later, a newly thin Faith is haunted by her past and by the flippant, cruel ghost of her formerly fat self who is bent on revenge. Faith eventually turns to violence for retribution, forcing her to flee home in search of the only friend she has -- a troubled but caring busboy who is the lover of a sideshow performer -- and to tumble into the colorful, transient world of the circus. But as she dives headfirst into a world of adult passions and dreams, mercurial allegiances, and ex

Author: Amanda Porterfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: christianity, history, healing
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2009-08-28
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0199729948
ISBN-13: 9780199729944

Amanda Porterfield offers a survey of ideas, rituals, and experiences of healing in Christian history. Jesus himself performed many miracles of healing, and Christians down the ages have seen this as a prominent feature of their faith. Indeed, healing is one of the most constant themes in the long and sprawling history of Christianity. Changes in healing beliefs and practices offer a window into changes in religious authority, church structure, and ideas about sanctity, history, resurrection, and the kingdom of God. Porterfield chronicles these changes, at the same time shedding important new