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This beautiful, giftable collection celebrates both the wisdom and
tenacity of courageous women who defied society’s expectations
and gifted the world with literary treasures through unparalleled
fiction and poetry. We know many of their names--Austen and Alcott,
Brontë and Browning, Wheatley, and Woolf--though some may be less
familiar. They are here, waiting to introduce themselves.Â
They wrote against all odds. Some wrote defiantly; some wrote
desperately. Some wrote while trapped within the confines of status
and wealth. Some wrote hand-to-mouth in abject poverty. Some wrote
trapped in a room of their father’s house, and some went in
search of a room of their own. They had lovers and families. They
were sometimes lonely. Many wrote anonymously or under a pseudonym
for a world not yet ready for their genius and talent. The Women
Who Wrote softcover edition offers: Stories from Jane Austen,
Katherine Mansfield, Willa Cather, Louisa May Alcott, Edith
Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, and Virginia Woolf. Poems from Emily
Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë,
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, Dorothy Parker, and Phillis Wheatley. These women
wrote to change the world. They marched through the world one
by one or in small sisterhoods, speaking to one another and to us
over distances of place and time. Pushing back against the
boundaries meant to keep us in our place, they carved enough space
for themselves to write. They made space for us to follow. Here
they are gathered together, an army of women who wrote an arsenal
of words to inspire us. They walk with us as we forge our own paths
forward.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
People with dementia are uniquely qualified to discuss the
challenges of their condition and the features of effective
support, but their voices are all too often drowned out in research
and debates about policy. It's time for that to change. Dementia
Enquirers is an ambitious and novel programme of work which has
tested out what it means for people with dementia to lead research
and has developed a new 'driving seat' approach to co-research.
This ground-breaking book features 26 research projects led by
groups of people with dementia, supported by group facilitators and
academics, to make their voices heard. Topics include giving up
driving, GP dementia reviews, living alone with dementia, and using
AI platforms such as Amazon Alexa. The book also describes how
people with dementia shaped the entire programme, and addressed
head-on issues such as ethics approval processes and complex
research language. A key read for anyone involved in dementia
support, this research brings the voices of people with dementia to
the fore to explore their experiences of researching the condition.
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The currency of social capital serves as an important function
given the capacity to generate external access (getting to) and
internal accountability (getting through) for individuals and
institutions alike. Pierre Bourdieu (1986) defines social capital
as "the aggregate of the actual or potential resources which are
linked to possession of a durable network of more or less
institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance and
recognition or in other words, to membership in a group" (p. 251).
Social capital contains embedded resources as a tool for
manifesting opportunities and options among individuals and groups.
Inevitably, the aforementioned opportunities and options become
reflective of the depth and breadth of access and accountability
experienced by the individual and institution. As educational
stakeholders, we must consistently challenge ourselves with the
question, "How do K-12 schools and colleges and universities
accomplish shared, egalitarian goals of achieving access and
accountability?" Such goals become fundamental toward ensuring
students matriculating through K-12 and higher education,
irrespective of background, are provided the caliber of education
and schooling experience to prepare them for economic mobility and
social stability. To that end, the volume, Contemporary
Perspectives on Social Capital in Educational Contexts (2019), as
part of the book series, Contemporary Perspectives on Capital in
Educational Contexts, offers a unique opportunity to explore social
capital as a currency conduit for creating external access and
internal accountability for K-12 and higher education. The
commonalities of social capital emerging within the 12 chapters of
the volume include the following: 1) Social Capital as Human
Connectedness; 2) Social Capital as Strategic Advocacy; 3) Social
Capital as Intentional Engagement; and 4) Social Capital as
Culturally-Responsive Leadership. Thus, it becomes important for
institutions of education (i.e. secondary, postsecondary,
continuing) and individuals to assume efforts with intentionality
and deliberateness to promote access and accountability.
Industrial production is one of the most basic human activities
indispensable to the economic activity. Due to its complexity,
production is not very well understood and modeled as opposed to
traditional fields of inquiry such as physics. This book aims at
enhancing rigorous understanding of a particular area of
production, that of analysis and optimization of production lines
and networks using discrete event models and simulation. To our
knowledge, this is the first book treating this subject from the
point of view mentioned above. We have arrived at the realization
that discrete event models and simulation provide perhaps the best
tools to model production lines and networks for a number of
reasons. Analysis is precise but demands enormous computational
resources, usually unavailable in practical situations. Brute force
simulation is also precise but slow when quick decisions are to be
made. Approximate analytical models are fast but often unreliable
as far as accuracy is concerned. The approach of the book, on the
other hand, combines speed and accuracy to an exceptional degree in
most practical applications.
In 1773, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral became the
first book of poetry by an African-American author to be published.
At the tender age of seven, Phillis had been brought to
Massachusetts as a slave and sold to the well-to-do Wheatley
family. There, she threw herself into education, and soon she was
devouring the classics and writing verse with whatever she had to
hand - odes in chalk on the walls of the house. Once her talent
became known, there was uproar, and in 1772 she was interrogated by
a panel of 'the most respectable characters in Boston' and forced
to defend the ownership of her own words, since many believed that
it was an impossible that she, an African-American slave, could
write poetry of such high quality. As related in the 1834 memoir by
an outspoken proponent of antislavery, B.B. Thatcher, also included
in this volume, the road to publication was not straight, and while
it became clear that such a volume could not be published in
America at the time, Phillis was recommended to a London publisher,
who brought out the book - albeit with an attestation as to her
authorship, as well as a 'letter from her master' and a short
preface asking the reader's indulgence. This edition includes the
attestation, the 'letter from her master' and notes from the
original publishers as an appendix, so that the
twenty-first-century reader can discover Phillis Wheatley as she
should have been read - as a poet, not property.
In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley. Struck by Phillis' extraordinary precociousness, the Wheatleys provided her with an education that was unusual for a woman of the time and astonishing for a slave. After studying English and classical literature, geography, the Bible, and Latin, Phillis published her first poem in 1767 at the age of 14, winning much public attention and considerable fame. When Boston publishers who doubted its authenticity rejected an initial collection of her poetry, Wheatley sailed to London in 1773 and found a publisher there for Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. This volume collects both Wheatley's letters and her poetry: hymns, elegies, translations, philosophical poems, tales, and epyllions-including a poignant plea to the Earl of Dartmouth urging freedom for America and comparing the country's condition to her own. With her contemplative elegies and her use of the poetic imagination to escape an unsatisfactory world, Wheatley anticipated the Romantic Movement of the following century. The appendices to this edition include poems of Wheatley's contemporary African-American poets: Lucy Terry, Jupiter Harmon, and Francis Williams.
This book presents vintage, often whimsical, and one-of-a-kind
wooden figurine carvings by ANRI, the world-renowned company
founded in 1912 in the Dolomite Mountains of northern Italy. Among
the more than 2,500 carvings featured are bottle stoppers, bottle
openers and corkscrews, bar sets, calendars, letter openers,
bookends, humidors, ashtrays, lighters, cigarette boxes, pipe
rests, salt and pepper sets, pepper mills, napkin rings, timers,
toothpick holders, brushes, salt and serving spoons, spoon and key
racks, door knockers, and figurines, including monks and characters
from novels by Charles Dickens. Collectors with a wide range of
interests will be delighted with the amazing number of woodcarvings
shown. This book will amuse and inspire today's woodcarvers and
collectors, novices and experienced devotees alike.
This moving collection of poems by Phillis Wheatley is intended to
inspire Christians and tribute various believers who had recently
been deceased. Published in 1773, this collection brings together
many of Wheatley's finest writings addressed to figures of the day.
She writes evocative verse to academic establishments, military
officers and even the King of England, with other verses discussing
various subjects in verse form, offering condolences and verse
commemorating recent events, or the death of a recent loved one.
Recognized as one of the first black poets to be widely appreciated
in the Western world, Phillis Wheatley was a devoted Christian
whose talent with the English language impressed and awed her
peers. Wheatley took plenty of influence from past works of poetry,
such as Ovid's Metamorphosis. Several of the poems in this
collection mention or allude to such masterpieces, the voracious
absorption of which helped Phillis Wheatley to learn and hone her
creative abilities.
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