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Mother Teresa
A biography of a nun who founded the Missionaires of Charity to work with the destitute and dying, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Everything You Need to Know About Your Parents' Divorce
A guide for teenagers to view divorce as the beginning of a different kind of family life, to understand what happens to parents in their lives, and to understand the feelings of everyone inv.
Reader's Guide to Women's Studies
The Reader's Guide to Women's Studies is a searching and analytical description of the most prominent and influential works written in the now universal field of women's studies. Some 200 scholars have contributed to the project which adopts a multi-layered approach allowing for comprehensive treatment of its subject matter. Entries range from very broad themes such as "Health: General Works" to entries on specific individuals or more focused topics such as "Doctors."
Rain Forests
There are many plant and animal species living in tropical rain forests that have yet to be discovered. However, cattle ranching and development projects are destroying rain forests at such an alarming rate that they could be gone in fifty years. Who owns the rain forests? Do they belong to indigenous peoples, the governments of rain forest countries, or everyone on the planet since their impact is worldwide? Author Linda Johnson explores this question and also what the future holds for this rapidly diminishing resource.
The Missionary Position
Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians, the Church and the world's media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta appears to be on the fast track to sainthood. But what makes Mother Teresa so divine? In this frank and damning exposé of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman's mission to help the world's poor. He probes the source of the heroic status bestowed upon an Albanian nun whose only declared wish was to serve God. He asks whether Mother Teresa's good works answered any higher purpose than the need of the world's privileged to see someone, somewhere, doing something for the Third World. He unmasks pseudo-miracles, questions Mother Teresa's fitness to...
Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities
This study of minorities involves the difficult issues of rights, justice, equality, dignity, identity, autonomy, political liberties, and cultural freedoms. The A-Z Encyclopedia presents the facts, arguments, and areas of contention in over 560 entries in a clear, objective manner. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities website.
A to Z of American Women Leaders and Activists
Presents biographical profiles of American women leaders and activists, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.
Tempest-Tossed
The “fascinating, forgotten story” of a daughter of a renowned American family—a suffragette and spiritualist who shocked New England society (Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher). Older sister Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Brother Henry Ward Beecher was one of the nation’s most influential ministers. Their sibling Catharine Beecher wrote pivotal works on women’s rights and educational reform. And then there was Isabella Beecher Hooker— “a curiously modern nineteenth-century figure.” Tempest-Tossed is the first full biography of the passionate, fascinating younge...
Guide to Books on Black Americans
This book presents 2322 full citations of books from 1990-1993 including subject headings of books dealing with Black Americans. Full author and subject indexes are provided for easy access to this compilation. Entries cover topics as diverse as: civil war history, sports figures, literature, civil rights, movies and television, religion, culture, politics and government, social life and customs, arts and artists, philosophy.
