This is a comparative, interdisciplinary book which explores the responses of the women's movement to World War I in all of the major belligerent nations. Working in the fields of gender studies and women's history, the contributors cover key topics including women's relationship with the state and with the nation, the status of women's war service, women's role as mothers in wartime, women's suffrage, peace and the aftermath of war, and women's guilt and responsibility.

In the decades bracketing the turn of the twentieth century, Charles M. Russell depicted the American West in a fresh, personal, and deeply moving way. To this day, Russell is celebrated for his paintings and sculptures of cowboys at work and play, his sensitive portrayals of American Indians, and his superlative representations of landscape and wildlife. This handsome book--a companion volume to the acclaimed "Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonne," edited by B. Byron Price--showcases many of the artist's best-known works and chronicles the sources and evolution of his style.

Here are iconic images that have defined the West in the popular imagination for more than a century. The volume boasts reproductions, most in full color, of more than 150 of Russell's finest works in oil, bronze, and mixed media. Select examples of his drawings, watercolors, and illustrated letters as well as archival photographs place Russell's paintings and sculpture in historic and artistic context.

This sumptuous volume is an essential addition to the library of every aficionado of American western art. In its pages readers will discover the work of a man whose ideal vision of the American experience continues to stir the spirit nearly a century after his death.

This comparative, interdisciplinary book explores the responses of the women's movement to World War I in all of the major belligerent nations. The contributors cover key topics including women's relationship with the state, women's war service, mothers in wartime, suffrage, peace and the aftermath of war, and women's guilt and responsibility.

IF you are frustrated with the way your life has gone, If your version of the American dream is not all you expected it to be, maybe now is the time to re-evaluate your expectations. Mark Sharp Author of Dare to Believe has written A Perfect World. He examines our desire for the perfect life and how that relates to what we actually get.Marks life has been drastically altered after having been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at the age of 29.A Perfect World is a refreshing upbeat approach to living no matter what obstacle you might face. The message of this book will hopefully be a big help as you make your way through this world and into the next

In a time of great transition, change, and upgrades, Bishop Van I. Sharpe has written a book that will help you upgrade yourself spiritually. He will excite and ignite your passion to take charge of the spiritual side of your life and move others to do the same. The fresh insights in this book will move you to see the importance of not just upgrading your cell phone, television, computers, GPS navigational system and other things but your spiritual life also. Bishop Van I. Sharpe blows the trumpet and sounds the alarm so you can eat in plenty, be satisfied, praise the name of your God, and never be ashamed. Through these truths you will understand when you upgrade your spiritual life that God will upgrade your natural life. Bishop Van Irvin Shape is the founder and pastor of Newness of Life Christian Center currently located in Tarboro, N. C. He has been pastoring for approximately 25 years and evangelizing in various states. His ministry also includes overseeing several pastors. He is the founder of "Pastors in Covenant," which consists of pastors and their wives who are determined to stay encouraged, strengthened, and fulfill their calling in the Lord with joy. Bishop Van Sharpe's ministry includes radio outreach and television ministry. He is the producer of the Newness of Life Christian Center radio program aired on WGTM Radio and on WCPS Radio. He is also the producer of the "God is Able" Television Broadcast aired on several television stations. He has also authored five other books entitled: How To Overpower Discouragement, Seeking God Makes You Prosper, Sheep Taming Wolves, Don't Lose Yours Trying To Save Theirs, and The Blessings Of Rejection. He is indeed making a mark for the kingdom of God!

Charles Deas (1818-67), an enigmatic figure on the edge of mainstream artistic circles in mid-nineteenth-century New York, went west to explore new opportunities and subjects in 1840. From his adopted hometown of St. Louis, Deas sent his iconic paintings of fur trappers and Indians back east for exhibition and sale, briefly winning the recognition that had earlier eluded him.

This handsome volume--featuring more than 150 illustrations, 70 in color--is the first book exclusively devoted to Deas. In two major essays, Carol Clark presents Deas's haunting biography and complex art--works that embodied Americans' uncertainty about the future of their rapidly expanding nation, especially in the contested spaces of the West. Ranging from Indian genre scenes to more violent and bizarre themes drawn from literature and his own imagination, Deas's images reverberate with the racial tensions and cut-throat economic competition of the period. Three additional essayists examine the historical, political, and social context of Deas's art and discuss in detail two of his major paintings, "Walking the Chalk and Long Jakes, "the Rocky Mountain Man.""

The volume also includes Clark's catalogue of Deas's paintings, watercolors, and drawings--the most extensive recovery and documentation to date of the work of this important but little-known artist. "Charles Deas and 1840s America" will constitute the definitive reference on the painter for years to come.