This 1861 classic of social realism - the first book to be reprinted by "The Feminist Press" in its series of rediscovered women writers - remains a powerful evocation of what Davis herself called "thwarted, wasted lives...mighty hungers...and unawakened powers." "The New York Times Book Review" said of the novella: "You must read this book and ...
When Beth Carruthers is invited to join a knitting circle, her first impulse is to hide under her bed. But it turns out learning to knit is fun, and she feels a connection to her new companions. But the new man in her life harbors a secret that could destroy the best group of friends she's ever had.
This edition reprints the text of Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the Iron Mills" together with a broad selection of thematically arranged historical and cultural documents that open up the novella to the consideration of a range of social and cultural issues vital to Davis's ninteenth century. Special attention is given to nineteenth century ...
Part of the "Eyewitness Guide" series, this visual encyclopaedia identifies the many different crystals that exist, from the rare to the more common, together with the properties they hold. The illustrations show how crystals are mined and the book follows their path to the jewellers window.
In Harding's hilarious debut, charming, unique, and habitually unlucky Kerry keeps a hilarious journal to help her cope with a troublesome love life and dead-end job.
As we move further into a new century, the two most populous nations on earth, China and India, continue a long and tangled relationship. Given their contested border, their nuclear rivalry, their competition for influence in Asia, their growing economic relations, and their internal problems, interaction between these two powers will deeply ...
A book of valuable information for growers as well as collectors of medicinal roots, barks, leaves, etc. Partial Contents: medicinal value, wild plants, diseases, marketing and prices, medicinal qualities, China, Michigan mint farm, Golden Seal, Snakeroot, Pokeweed, Mayapple, Seneca Snakeroot, Lady's Slipper, Forest roots and plants, Thicket ...
"Headlessness", the feeling of no self that mystics of all times have aspired to, is an instantaneous way of "waking up" and becoming more aware of oneself and the world. Douglas Harding's description of his first experience of headlessness, a work first published in 1961, has now been revised. Describing the technique and placing it within the ...
Richard Harding Davis was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist who covered the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis was a managing editor of "Harper's Weekly" at the time of the Second Boer War in South Africa. As an American, he was able to cover the war first-hand from both the British and ...
The Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble has long been recognised as an extraordinary resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. Outlawed and persecuted in the late colonial and imperial period, Candomble nevertheless developed as one of the major religious expressions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. ...
Gemstones have been a source of delight and fascination for many thousands of years. This revised edition explores the nature of gems, their beauty, rarity and durability, and the mineral properties that govern these qualities. It describes the most popular gemstones in detail and looks at how gem minerals form, where they are found and mined, and ...
A definitive edition of this ground-breaking, classic American industrial and feminist novel. As well as the complete text of the novel, the volume includes a range of primary documents on the themes of work and class, art and industry, social reform and women and writing.
Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, a managing editor of Harper's Weekly, was one of the world's leading war correspondents at the time of the Second Boer War in South Africa. As an ...
An extensively revised edition of Harding's classic work, which conveys the immediacy, simplicity, and practicality of Zen, here formulated in terms which are easily accessible to the Western reader.
In 1896 William Randolph Hearst sent journalist Richard Harding Davis to Cuba to observe the guerrilla warfare being waged against Spain and to inquire into reports of atrocities. Hearst wanted to boost circulation of his recently purchased New York Journal by filling his paper with accounts of rapine and brutality. Initially, Davis noted in his ...
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
In the stifling jungles of a small South American country, Robert Clay works as a civil engineer at a mine. But he also has a secret history as a mercenary, fighting for whichever side will pay him most. Clay finds himself in love with Alice Langham, the daughter of the wealthy American owner of the mine. His rival is Reggie King, also from a ...
1905. With illustrations by Frederic Remington, Walter Appleton Clark, Howard Chandler Christy, E.M. Ashe and F. Dorr Steele. American journalist and novelist who covered wars all over the world. His vivid accounts made him one of the leading reporters of his day. Ranson's Folly begins: The junior officers of Fort Crockett had organized a mess at ...
We had had so many office-boys before Gallegher came among us that they had begun to lose the characteristics of individuals, and became merged in a composite photograph of small boys, to whom we applied the generic title of "Here, you"; or "You, boy." We had had sleepy boys, and lazy boys, and bright, "smart" boys, who became so familiar on so ...
What role will China play in world affairs during the 1980s, now that it has normalized relations with the United States and opened wider its economic doors? In this thoughtful and important book, six respected scholars analyze the major factors that shape the foreign policies of China today. The book begins with an essay by Michael Hunt that ...
Breathtaking color photos capture the glistening beauty of gemstones from around the world--stones used for jewelry and magical rites as far back as 20,000 years ago. Published in cooperation with the British Museum of Natural History.
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