Full Circles describes the very different lives and expectations of women in post-industrial and developing countries from childhood to old age. Analysing how class, ethnicity, nationality and individual values intersect with the experience of the life course, the book explores the futures open to women in diverse and changing locations.

Full Circles describes the very different lives and expectations of women in post-industrial and developing countries from childhood to old age. Analysing how class, ethnicity, nationality and individual values intersect with the experience of the life course, the book explores the futures open to women in diverse and changing locations.

Whether you are just beginning as a major, taking classes toward a GIS certificate, working on an advanced degree, or considering a career change at a different point in your life, geography can lead to exceptional career opportunities. Practicing Geography: Careers for Enhancing Society and the Environment is a comprehensive new resource from the Association of American Geographers (AAG) and Pearson, designed to prepare students for careers in business, government, and non-profit organizations. Funded by the National Science Foundation, this project brings together members of the geography community to author different chapters that discuss workforce needs, expectations, and core competencies in professional geography, profiling the professional applications of and opportunities in geography today.

Janice Monk Glass was destined to write when she was born into deeply rooted East Texas families of farmers, educators and authors. Her first works were published in a national magazine when she was nine-years-old. Education included English, Elementary Education, and Library Science at East Texas State University; Psychology at Vanderbilt University, and Belmont School of Music. She holds certificates in paralegal law, accounting, and abstracting. This latest book, The Departing Spirits, is a fifteen story collection of romance, humor, mass murder, deceit, mystery and downright fun.

This collection contains stories of a favorite dog, space ships, love lost and found, mysterious creatures, strange relatives, bad dreams, and things that go bump in the night.

"Shaking the Apple Trees" was created when Jake, Jim Bob, and Jesse began intruding into another novel I was writing. They were hardworking, fun loving, endearing characters with families, friends, and stories which deserved a book of their own. The folks portrayed, and the Benson Community located in southwest Arkansas are fictional. Their escapades are real and were gleaned over a lifetime from other good folks who laugh and declare their innocence of the events. I hope you enjoy reading their stories as much as I enjoyed hearing them.

Professor Myres gives frontier women a voice they never had. She uses extensive new material by and about women--letters, journals, and reminiscences from over 400 collections-- to study the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West. She offers a major reinterpretation of the experience of pioneer women, including that of Indian, Mexican, French, black, and Anglo-American women. The account recreates in detail the frontier experience of all these women, beginning with their physical and intellectual responses to the trek West, and concluding with their struggle for political suffrage and economic opportunity.

Women moved from civilization to the frontier encumbered by more than baggage. They also had to overcome literary and social stereotypes. We learn their views on wilderness, Indians, race, and religion as well as how they reacted to the daily challenges of keeping house, raising a family, and gaining a measure of equality.

"A strikingly original, highly readable, and informative history that will be used by scholars and lay readers alike."--Howard Lamar, from the Foreword