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Presents thirty-nine full-text addresses by women who spoke out while the struggle for civil rights was at its most intense. Many are published or transcribed from audio tape for the first time. Each speech is preceded by an introduction of the speaker and occasion that highlights key biographical and background details. The collection also provides a general introduction that places these public addresses in context.
This book of rhymes includes twenty-two different kinds of popular pets with pictures, descriptions, characteristics, needs, foods, likes, and dislikes of pets .Pets included in the book are dogs; cats; gold fish; hamsters; gerbils; Guinea pigs; rabbits; squirrels; ferrets; parrots; canaries; ducks; tarantula spiders; corn snakes; geckos; chameleons; iguanas; bearded dragons; water turtles and land turtles; and tree frogs and water frogs.
Upshur County, West Virginia was created in 1851 from Randolph, Barbour, and Lewis counties. Upshur's early history and the lives of its more prominent pioneers and nineteenth-century Native Sons are ably captured in this tripartite volume. Part I, a condensed history of the state prepared by Hu Maxwell, ranges over everything from the first explorations of the Blue Ridge, the French and Indian War, and the Revolution to West Virginia geography and geology, formation of the state, and the Civil War in West Virginia. In Part II, Mr. Cutright lays out the history of the county, with emphasis on the Indian Wars, religious life, geography, formation of the county and its political and government...
The life and work of a scientist who spent his career crossing disciplinary boundaries—from experimental neurology to psychiatry to cybernetics to engineering. Warren S. McCulloch (1898–1969) adopted many identities in his scientific life—among them philosopher, poet, neurologist, neurophysiologist, neuropsychiatrist, collaborator, theorist, cybernetician, mentor, engineer. He was, writes Tara Abraham in this account of McCulloch's life and work, “an intellectual showman,” and performed this part throughout his career. While McCulloch claimed a common thread in his work was the problem of mind and its relationship to the brain, there was much more to him than that. In Rebel Genius,...
Ernie Tennyson, a southern Georgia farm boy, is on the verge of becoming a mana dangerous time for a teenager in 1967. Before he knows it, he has been drafted and is on his way to serve his country in Vietnam. On his first mission, he is brutally stabbed by the Viet Cong and left to die in the jungle, where a young woman named Anna Ming finds him and rescues him. Despite her best efforts to conceal his presence and their growing love from her father, Ernie is captured by the North Vietnamese and imprisoned. His time in the camp is so traumatic that he returns home to the United States a profoundly wounded man. Stripped of his memory, the soldier fights to readjust to civilian life. Promised ...
When Cody Campbell hires migrant workers for his shipping business, he has no idea how much trouble he's just brought upon himself. Even so, Ricardo Lopez is hard working, as is his crew?including the beautiful Anita Lopez. Although Cody already has a relationship with his secretary, he quickly drops her for his exotic new employee. When Ricardo Lopez's brother is murdered, he and Anita return to Mexico for his burial rites. They return a few months later and Anita is pregnant with Cody's child. Their happy reunion is interrupted when she and Ricardo are arrested for bank robbery. All is not as it seems as the trial commences. Everyone is a suspect as the bodies pile up?even Cody, who struggles to care for his newborn son with Anita in prison. Are the migrant workers behind all the crime in Cody's small town, or is someone more nefarious at the reigns? Hopefully, the case will be closed ? before they all end up dead. Thanks to my family and friends who believed in me and encouraged me to publish my work.
From a Grain of Mustard Seed is the history of the first 125 years of one of the first Protestant churches in Albuquerque, NM as told through the words of those who worshipped there.