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Landslides and Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions
Understanding the relationship between landslides and climate change is crucially important in planning a proactive approach to hazard and risk management. Advances in geohazard modelling and prediction enable us to be better prepared for the impacts of climate change, but there is still a need for effective risk management and informed plann
The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony
During the Gilded Age, Jekyll Island, Georgia, was one of the most exclusive resort destinations in the United States. Owned by the most elite and inaccessible social club in America, a group whose members included Rockefellers, Pulitzers, Vanderbilts, Goulds, and Morgans, this quiet refuge in the Golden Isles was the perfect winter getaway for the wealthy new industrial class of the snowbound North. In this delightful book, a companion volume to The Jekyll Island Club: Southern Haven for America's Millionaires, June Hall McCash focuses on the social club's members and the "cottages" they built near the clubhouse between 1888 and 1928. Illustrated with hundreds of never-before-published phot...
The Selected Papers of Jane Addams
In 1889 an unknown but determined Jane Addams arrived in the immigrant-burdened, politically corrupt, and environmentally challenged Chicago with a vision for achieving a more secure, satisfying, and hopeful life for all. Eleven years later, her “scheme,” as she called it, had become Hull-House and stood as the template for the creation of the American settlement house movement while Addams’s writings and speeches attracted a growing audience to her ideas and work. The third volume in this acclaimed series documents Addams’s creation of Hull-House and her rise to worldwide fame as the acknowledged female leader of progressive reform. It also provides evidence of her growing commitmen...
Lifting Women's Voices
A collection of prayers from around the worldwide Anglican Communion that makes connections between women's personal lives and global concerns of women around the globe. It shows the connection, for example, between a woman's prayers for her child in the West and the plight of child labour in the third world.
Women Building Chicago 1790-1990
A path breaking reference work that features biographies of more than 400 women who helped build modern day Chicago. 158 photos.
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Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and His Descendants
Isaac Stearns (d.1671) and his family immigrated from England to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Charles Stearns (d.1695) immigrated from England to Watertown, Massachusetts and married twice. Nathanial Stearns immigrated from England to Dedham, Massachusetts, married twice, and died after 1690. Descendants of the three immigrants lived throughout the United States.
