A popular mother/daughter team, incorporating insights and quotes from interviews with 100 more mother/daughter pairs, shows us how to handle those testy times that follow when around age 11 daughter
Silver Dreams is the story of advertising executive Leigh Meredith, who finds herself jilted and alone on Christmas Eve. Devastated, she deserts the plush boardrooms of Manhattan for life in the Virgi
In this moving ethnographic portrait of Hindu renouncers -- sadhus or ascetics -- in northern India and Nepal, Sondra L. Hausner considers a paradox that shapes their lives: while ostensibly defined
Combining critical analysis with personal history and poetry, Dancing Identity presents a series of interconnected essays composed over a period of fifteen years. Taken as a whole, these meditative re
Dancing Into Darkness is Sondra Horton Fraleigh's chronological diary of her deepening understanding of and appreciation for this art form, as she moves from a position of aesthetic response as an aud
Hammon (1711-179?), a slave, is considered the first black writer in America. His works four poems, two essays, and a sermon are here reprinted with modernized text and critical interpretation. O'Neal
This book shows writers of all ages how to find and develop nonfiction topics that matter to them--in ways that make readers care too. It emphasizes writing for discovery, not just writing what one kn
Traces the history of the famous Harlem hotel between 1940 and 1970, sharing first-hand accounts that document the patronages of such individuals as Langston Hughes, Fidel Castro, and Josephine Baker.
Europeanization has generated a galaxy of regimes, laws, organizations, new actors, and networks that have diluted institutional barriers to interaction across national borders. Many nation-based poli
In this book, gifted preacher Sondra Willobee shows how to enliven sermons by using the techniques of great writers. With clarity and wit, Willobee explores the joyful process of crafting effective se
Although women have been teaching and performing music for centuries, their stories are often missing from traditional accounts of the history of music education. In Women Music Educators in the Unite
(Educational Piano Library). Pianists and audiences alike will find these imaginative duets immediately appealing. With Poulenc-like playfulness, 3+3+4 combines groups of eighth notes in a rhythmica
